Matoran - Blog Posts
oh yeah and heres the rest of the pre-HRT(Heckin stRuck by lighTning) gang
them <3
Some dark variants based on a black light pic, figured they glow cuz they’re an av-matoran
I know they're not everyone's favorite, but I really like the Vahki. And I know that in lore they're supposed to be police drones, but looking at them as much as I do, I can't help but feel like they were originally designed to be labor drones.
Their staffs look like tools for handling heavy and dangerous material, cutting debri and so on. The flexible nature of their designs, and the fact that they can speak and understand Matoran speak, their speech is just sped up to be distorted.
It seems like that in their development they were changed to be enforcers, with disc launchers added.
Whether this change was made by Dume or Teridax, or seemed necessary with the City's lack of Toa, I think it's infinitely more interesting if tools to help Matoran were turned into tools of oppression rather than simply built for that sole purpose.
Been in the works for a while, fanart of Dead Domain on YouTube as one of their fav bionicle characters, Kongu.
A little theory that I wanna share here: the matoran of light and shadow we got in Phantoka/Mistika years have the wrong color scheme.
'What do you mean, you crazy person?'
I'm glad you asked.
Takua was the only Av-matoran we knew of (even before they had a name) and his color was very much an outlier amongst the Ta-matoran, red and blue (and yellow) in a sea of reds, yellows and orange.
You know what has ties to the light matoran and a blue and red color scheme? Bohrok. A blue kraana inside of a red and orange shell. I don't know if that was intentional or just a design choice, but that got me thinking...
Theory: the matoran of light had similar color schemes to matoran of other elements, with a contrasting colored mask.
But how could this be a theory if I could only draw on one example? So I searched the other matoran of light sets. Blue and black, red and black, Grey and black, green and gray, orange and gray, white and gray. No, no, no, no, no, no. There had to be at least one other matoran to boost the believability of my theory...
Then it hit me. Vican. Black and like green. Just like his supposed Bohrok counterpart.
Of course the lime green wasn't exclusively on his mask but it was something!
Not only that, but when you think about it, Vican could easily have been one of the first shadow matoran, and was definitely the first to start reversing the corruption. So, his color, his light, was returning.
In summary, the matoran of light should have different colored masks.
