#xfirecorex

[wildhapaka]

AFTERMAN PROJECT: Tetsujin by Faybos

A surprise rough character sketch for @xfirecorex  's bionicle successor project: AFTERMAN An ancient metal monolith said to reside within the great temple located within the centre of the archipelago; Watching over the beloved Kokei in his steely gaze, Tetsujin only appears when its inhabitants need him most. After thousands of years in absence, only few believe of his existence. Are the tales told of him speaking the truth -or is he truly just that: a legend? ------------------- For more info, please visit the main page at @project-afterman

[bioniscribbles]

You have the power to get rid of either nuva tits OR Bionicle politics forever (not both). Which do you choose?

The politics have comedic value in their sheer absurdity, so let’s save those.

[bioniscribbles]

Bad news my dude. The Bionicle Netflix series is being split up into two parts. The first two episodes will air in March (not February) and the last two episodes will air in June.

Well, the knowing helps, at least. And on the bright side, we’ll at least be getting something soon-ish.

[minotaursauce]

Point to me anywhere in that post where I said "people who make Bionicle boobs should stop". Because I never said that. Did you actually read the original post, or did you just see a bunch of people getting mad and figured you'd join in?

oh my godare you still going on about this

no, i didn’t see you say those exact words, but generally people who complain at length about something existing and how it makes them uncomfortable and that they don’t like the people who make it, would rather it not be thereidk, maybe you don’t mind people making things with boobs, but you’ve got a really peculiar way of showing it

[just-rube]

Chunga bunga

[shinnomew]

There's a LOT of Star Wars material out there. My personal favorites are the Clones Wars TV series and the Dark Forces and Knights of the Old Republic video games, so I'd highly recommend them.

thank you ♥

i really want to play the video games if i can get my hand on them..

and i remember seeing a lot on tv about the clone wars serious but i never actually watched them at the time although i saw one clip that was pretty funny

[bioniscribbles]

I know most of your hero factory bashing is a joke, but it still bothers me when people say HF "killed Bionicle". It absolutely did not. Lego was always planning to bring Bionicle back, but they had to test whether buildable figures could be successful when separated from the branding of Bionicle. HF was not trying to emulate Bionicle. It was not meant to be a mythic, epic story. It was deliberately simple/ episodic. It did what it needed to do, it didn't try to be anything more then that.

Oh yeah. I’ll bash Hero Factory for what I perceive as creative and moral bankruptcy in the story department, but definitely not for “killing Bionicle”, which was sadly inevitable at that point. I think the biggest tragedy of Hero Factory is that it never did try to be anything more than a bit of filler to pass the time before this reboot. At least we got some good sets and ccbs out of it.

[bioniscribbles]

On the subject of trans Bionicle headcanons, since @xfirecorex recently posted their personal reasons for not liking them:

I personally think that it’s a fundamentally positive thing for people to be able to find ways to see themselves in fiction, and seeing as thematically speaking Bionicle can be argued to reflect trans issues, there are some valid arguments to be had for interpretations of trans characters. Yes, Matoran are innately asexual beings designed to not have any gender dysphoria or the like. But one of the driving points of later Bionicle, and one of the most interesting ideas it had to offer, was that the Great Beings got it wrong (apparently we can blame Velika for that, I guess Velika is Bionicle’s Prometheus). The Matoran, Makuta, Karzahni, and all the rest were created to just be soulless cyborgs fulfilling a purpose, but they developed identities of their own, often contradictory to their arbitrarily assigned roles. And though sex in the Matoran universe does not exist as such, gender roles clearly do, assigned by element. In that way, I can easily see how characters like Midak or Tamaru, who deviate from the assigned characteristics for their element, can be argued to be trans or to represent trans issues.

As for the points about demanding female characters while doing nothing to contact Lego and improve things, yeah, fair enough, you’ve got most of us pegged there. Sad but true, it’s easier to speak than to take action, and I know I personally have certainly been lacking on the action front.