#vahi

[thelegendrebuilt]

The Death of Time

Toa Vahi…. Remembered.

For the first moment in endless millennia, he remember who he was. He remembered his life before the mask. And he understood.

The turnings of the universe… everything that had happened to him and his brothers, all those who had suffered and died… all because the Great Beings could not save their world. Instead, they built another to suffer and die in darkness and ignorance, all to fix their mistake. Lhikan… Matau… Jaller, and the one called Matoro… all sacrificed because of their makers’ arrogance.

No more. The power of the Vahi was limited to the confines of the Great Spirit’s body… but that body was made of minerals extracted long ago from the old world of Spherus Magna. Summoning all the strength of the mask and every ounce of his willpower, the Toa once known as Vakama pulled history apart second by second, stepped through the barriers of time and space…

And found himself alone in the dark, so deep underground he could never dream to escape. In an instant, he understood his folly… but an instant was all it took for the mask to turn black as coal, its power utterly spent. Without it, the centuries of Vakama’s strange second life took hold of his body and mind, and his muscles and armor began to rapidly decay.

And yet, in his last moments, Vakama knew no fear. The strange second-sight he had always possessed allowed him to peer into the years to come, and he saw his salvation… a miner, breaking through the walls of stone to find him waiting here. He would be long dead before that miner was even born, but it didn’t matter… he would find the mask. He would take it to the Great Beings. They would study it for years and years, and through the strange twistings of time, through a thousand choices both conscious and unconscious… his history would be rewritten. Time would be mended. And life would endure.

Forgotten Warriors: Epilogue/Prelude

[toacody]

Bionicle Moc: Ghost, The Toa of Time

Time is a lonely path to walk.

Source

Creator: Muskat5

[chroniclerofaquamagna]

Character Profile: Vahi, Toa of Time

She/her

The mask of time fell into the waters surrounding Metru Nui, and something happened, instead of sinking yellow energy surrounded it, and life was given to the mask. Washing ashore the mask, now matoran, was found by other matoran, eventually Vahi would see a Toa in action, wanting to embody the heroic nature of the Toa it slipped away and reformatted its body into that of a Toa protecting their new home from a small force of dark hunters.

[bioniclechicken]

Obligatory because of course

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[sepublic]

The Vahi's orange coloration being retconned as rust is low key kinda funny. Like I perfectly understand why, it was originally orange, but they made the Vahi golden in 2004 because it's a more dramatic color, and Greg had to once again provide a Watsonian explanation for someone else's Doylist decisions.

But it's also making me imagine Vakama solemnly present a chunk of rust to Tahu and warning him that it could destroy the universe and is low key a bigger threat than Makuta himself. And meanwhile Tahu's just staring at this thing that's been overgrown with corrosion and looks like it's been dragged up from the bottom of a river, and is like "I am... NOT putting that on my face."

Vakama concurs because of how dangerous Time is, and Tahu clarifies it's because it's really grody (I imagine rust is particularly visceral to beings made of metal) and might give him an infection. They should give the Vahi a restoration video. Vakama declares that if the rust will make Tahu hesitate, then he's even more motivated to keep it that way.

There should be more fanart of the Vahi depicting it as completely covered in an obnoxious shade of orange crust, and not just a sleek, glistening orange. The Mask of Time suitably looks as old as time (despite being fairly young in the grand scheme of things). Voporak opts to give the Vahi its long-awaited restoration as he waits out G1’s infinite hiatus and hopes to use the Vahi to skip past it.

[rahiwatching]

One big missed opportunity in Bionicle in my opinion is that they didn’t explore Vakama’s connection to the Vahi more. I mean, he has visions of the future! And he forged the mask of time! Surely there was something there about maybe the mask was reaching out to him his whole life, helping him, guiding its creator down the right path that led to its own forging.

I remember reading once that Greg said that Vakama had visions due to “a glitch in his programming” which never sat right with me, he has a clear connection to the very embodyment of the concept of time right there, why not use it if you are going to give a source for the visions?

This kind of connection would also help with the feeling that the Vahi is strangely underpowered compared to the other legendary kanohi. I’m not saying the Vahi needed to be sentient like the mask of life, but it’s powerset does seem limited compared to the others.

The mask of creation can create pretty much anything that isn’t alive, and the mask of life can manipulate life to a massive degree, and yet there are normal great masks lying around that can do things with time that the mask of time itself can’t do.

There are masks that can give visions of the past or the future, there is a mask that can literally pull a past version of the user to the present, and yet the mask of time can only slow down or speed up time around a target? That just doesn’t seem right. I think a connection to Vakama, an ability to gift time related powers to beings before it was even created, these could show that this was truly a legendary kanohi, not just an unusually powerful great mask that it feels like now.

[venoblade-bionicles]

I think that the legendary masks should be the 3 main metallic shades.

Time: copper

Creation: silver

Life: gold

Time should be copper like a mask of victory because it was Vakama's victory to even make it, the mask of creation should be silver because before a mask is worn it's silver, representing all the possibilities of creation, and life is gold because Mata Nui is alive.

[xtarart]

i know im slightly late on this but... HAPPY 810NICLE DAY!!! To celebrate i decided to continue my Bionicle G3 system mini figure concepts! This time with the Great Spirits who were sent by the great beings to create the world the Matoran call their home, and the one who was cast aside and now seeks retribution.