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How much do you wanna bet the first Matoran to be rebuilt got to fuck with the others who weren’t yet.

Like, imagine the smallest Matoran going in first and coming out a whole head taller than the others. They may not have stay the tallest for long, but I’m willing to bet they got to play around and do tall person things to all their new short friends waiting in line. Picking them up bridal style, using their heads as armrests, etc. 

The second Jaller comes out, he’s got an air of command and dominance even stronger than he previously had. The Guard has more respect (and fear) of him than they ever had. 

Macku and Hali got to see how fast they could swim in their new forms. Previously a couple Takea Sharks had been giving the fishers a hard time, stealing catches right out of their nets, but now Macku and Kota can speed right up to them and fight them off with ease. 

Onepu and Taipu were pretty close to the front of the line, and the second they both were rebuilt they found the nearest pile of boulders and started hefting them. The other Onu-Matoran know this kind of stuff isn’t hard for them (even if their new forms make it a bit easier,) but all the other Matoran are in awe, and think their rebuilt forms will give them the strength of a Toa. 

Tamaru immediately darts into the forest. He had been trying for quite some time to wrestle with one particularly wild Kahu bird into domestication, to little avail. When the other Le-Matoran returned, Tamaru had captured the bird and named her Neverfall. 

Hafu and Hewkii have to change some rules of their new stick and net Kohlii variant to accommodate the players’ new size and speed. 

Kopeke is the first Ko-matoran to be rebuilt. The others ask “Did it hurt?” He did not answer, and the others were left to anxiously anticipate a painful transformation. Fun enough, it wasn’t.  

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I know the general consensus is that Steven Universe would make a good archetype for a new Bionicle gen, but consider: Legend of Korra. Actually, that would make a good archtype for a continuation of gen 1's story, I digress. The way LOK introduced all the previous characters in the same universe just 70 years later was incredibly good, so just picture with me: It's some decades after Greg dropped the story. The Toa Nuva are now Turaga. Spherus Magna is threatened by some new evil (literally lego could pull a badguy out of a hat at this point and it would be just the same idgaf as long as they're equally as powerful as the Makuta or more,) and it's time for a new group of Toa to take the center stage. Imagine the chosen to-be Toa of Water coming up to Gali and saying "Turaga Gali, I've read all about your adventures in the library scrolls; whatever happened to Toa Tuyet and the other Velika attacked?" "Well it's a very interesting story child, but one for another time." Seriously Gen 1 is almost perfectly equivalent to Avatar: the Last Airbender in terms of Universe building and cliffhangers. It would literally fit perfectly against a continuation if they modelled it after how they continued ATLA in LOK. But seriously where is my Gen 1 continuation wtf Greg.

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You know what’s really interesting in Bionicle?

Mortality. 

This world is full of beings that put frankly, can’t die. Unless slain or injured of course. Their mortality is not necessarily a certainty, more a possibility. A potential. But in the same way, they have the potential to live on forever. But still, there is the inescapable possibility of death. Everyone, every being in the universe could die. It didn’t matter if you controlled a planet-sized robotic body and wielded infinite cosmic power, you were just one shove into a moon away from being destroyed forever. 

It’s so fascinating. It makes me wonder if Makuta was actually just terribly afraid of death and though the Great Spirit Robot would make him immortal; and it almost did. He probably wouldn’t have been counting on Mata Nui jump starting the prototype to face him, or losing the fight for that matter. 

It’s almost pitiful how his life ended. So close to achieving his will, cut just short. Sad really. 

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So idea I'm playing with: Spherus Magna becomes too boring a place for many matoran to live. Nuparu, being the genius boi he is, discovers more information about the Red Star, and it's strange properties. He can't explain most of it's mysteries but something he can grasp and learn to control is the teleportation of matter. (This will eventually be a tie-in to the rescue of the red-star ressurectees.) Eventually, he groes confident enough to transport beings to the other side of this Red star portal, and they find another planet formerly inhabited by the Great Beings. A lush, beautiful paradise, the tropical planet is hauntingly void of any intelligent life. Citied islands and vast jungled continents are inhabited only by Rahi. They name this world Sola-Magna, because it is somewhat closer to the system's sun than Spherus-Magna. After a while, Toa, Matoran, and Turaga alike migrate to this new and exciting world, as well as many other beings. Glatorians and Agori create new Sport Arenas with which to carry on their Glatorian culture competitively. Dark hunters and Skakdi migrate as well, setting up settlements to keep away from the Order and the Toa's vigilant gaze. Some matoran even grow into toa, (The Voyatoran,) and some toa into turaga (The Toa Nuva.) 1,100 years pass and Sola-Magna becomes a brilliant place where peace and order reign mercifully. But then one dark night, the stars change their course. The Ko-matoran prophets grow anxious from what they see. There is an awakening that changes everything in the worlds. The time of peace is over, and now, a time spelled out in the stars as "Doom" has come. (This is where things get a bit less develped, so bear with me.) As fate would have it, the Great Beings are in no way an extict race. They are merely slumbering in their tomb, deep at the core of Sola-Magna. And it is time for them to arise. Quickly this ancient race discovers their creations, the Matoran, Agori, Glatorian, Skakdi, Vortixx, all of them, have grown far past what they intended them to become. Destiny has proved a futile thing to try and overcome, even for them. The Great Spirit had served it's purpose a Millenia ago, and the Great Spirits found they could not support their creations and survive on their own. And so, the Great Beings began the process of destroying their creations. And thus begins the war in which the Toa fought their gods for the right to live.

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You know what's absolutely crazy to think about? The scale of time some toa or turaga were toa or turaga. Lhikan was a toa for THOUSANDS of years, same with Dume being a Turaga. But the Toa Metru? They were only toa for a mere blink of that time, just long enough to rescue some Matoran, go to Mata-Nui and back, get the rest, and then became Turaga. That's incredibly small compared to the thousands of years they spent as Matoran. It boggles the mind the kind of immense timelines in play in this franchise sometimes.

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In the tags, put what rahi beast you relate to most based on your personality.

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I kinda always wanted to see the Voya Nui Matoran as Toa. Sure they’d have the same masks as the toa Metru, but I’m alright with that. They’ve mutated toa and changed matoran’s masks before, so it’s not like they’d have to be the same exact masks as the toa Metru. Anyways I’m 100% here for a Toa Voya verse where all the Toa Mahri died retrieving the mask, and the Voya Nui matoran get transformed to finish what they started. 

It would be especially kickass to see Dalu break the “Feminine” type casting of Toa of Water, seeing as she had anger issues and was the warrior of the resistance. In fact, pretty much all of the Voya Nui matoran broke the mold of their predecessors; we had an Onu-Matoran as the leader, a tinkerer ta-matoran (who was best friends with an Onu-matoran mind you,) a nervous and gloomy Le-Matoran spy, a down to earth and realistic Ko-matoran, and a riddle speaking Po-Matoran. That’s like, the coolest idea for a Toa team yet.

Plus, can you imagine the kind of incomplete, misshapen Toa that Matoran repaired by Karzahni would’ve become? Those would be some cool sets if you ask me. 

And speaking of Velika (the Po-matoran,) how crazy would it have been to realize, uh-oh, that little matoran from 2006 who is now a toa was secretly a great being the whole time and is now going on a murderous rampage all over Spherus Magna!! Because, outside the toa part of course, Velika did all of that. It would have been a beautiful tie-in to having the Great Beings return to the universe as the new bad guys. And just think if Velika did manage to kill Axxon, Brutaka, Miserix, Helryx, Artahka, and any one of the others as a Toa. Heck, he already killed Tren Krom and Karzahni. Crazy shit, that Velika.

tldr; The Voya-Nui matoran more than deserved Toafication. A lot of us were getting tired of seeing the same 6 Toa, be it the Mahri or Nuva. The resistance fighters should’ve been toa.