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You are awesome.

 

But I must ask, though. What do you suppose the innate matoran power would be like? Since Ta-toran have a resistance against heat, Po-toran are naturally tough, etc...?

Would there be sugar crystals involved?

 

~EW~

I have a personal liking to the crystal element, and I like your concept of color for them. The rainbow scheme is very intriguing, and it would look excellent over the ebon body. I once tried to pull off a MOC like this, but I failed in the attempt. It would be sweet if someone could pull it off though. I may give it another try

 

In terms of powers, I had based my character’s powers off classic crystal powers like refracting light and beam-based weaponry. Of course the crystal powers could shatter if exposed to sufficiently strong sonic vibrations or if smashed against a tough object with immense power.

 

I would have liked to see it instead of Psionics. The Shadowed One’s blade could unleash a crystal element. It would have been cool for them to bring back a power like that.

 

-BD

Man, I wish Mr. Greg canonized this instead of that other element. I like the other I think, solely because it was a girl element--but this would had been amazing.

 

Like another person said sometime before, ToM might as well be an element too. You're amazing dear.

Their natural Matoran ability could be something along the lines of their armor being altogether stronger than the other races', or somesuch.

So how would a Toa of Crystal use their power? Also, any idea what the prefix would be?

 

But other than that, it's very interesting. Personally, I think white or trans-white would be better than black, but I do like the idea of the rainbow colors.

 

Perhaps we will see an MOC or story based of this?

 

Maybe the Matoran have a natural affinity towards finding the point at which rocks/crystals/gems shatter perfectly? An affinity towards seeing in the dark? Or a resistance to high pressured areas, since some gems are formed through immense pressure?

 

Just trying to help. And this makes so much more sense than psionics.

When God said let there be light, ToM was sent down from the heavens.

-P

Pardon me for saying this, but your idea for the Crystal village sounds awfully like the Av-Toran village. Even some of the Matoran points, like them being few and far between, and being able to change color.

Pardon me for saying this, but your idea for the Crystal village sounds awfully like the Av-Toran village. Even some of the Matoran points, like them being few and far between, and being able to change color.

Yes, but this is so much more awesome.

 

Transparent Toa = yayyyyy

 

Also, trans-glitter-clear Avohkii. There's a thought.

 

-Seran

For the Matoran ability, I'm thinking along the lines of what DV said; they innately know how and where to strike a crystal so it breaks the way they want it to (instead of shattering into a million pieces). Though that's not to say that a certain unusual hardness in their armor and a degree of night vision wouldn't be present as well, the latter just from living underground all the time...

 

As for the Toa's power, they'd be able to conjure crystal out of thin air, and an expert Toa could make really complex and detailed objects with just a thought (I can't help but think of Dumbledore and his crystal goblets); then they could make crystal bend and warp without shattering; and I imagine that a Toa of Crystal's armor would itself be diamond-hard just by nature. And, of course, they'd use the ability to create crystal to make swords and stuff or hurl crystal daggers at an opponent and create blasts of crystal shards... and as BD said, from refraction it would make sense if they could do something with that ability of crystal. Maybe to conceal themselves or confuse opponents?

 

This idea just occured to me too – what if they could change solid objects into crystal? Maybe limited to stone objects, perhaps...

 

The idea of doing something with lasers is one I'm less fond of, just because I think lasers and Bionicle should never mix. Lasers are pretty much the standard for sci-fi weaponry, and once you bring them into a story it gets thrown into the science fiction camp, rather than walking the line between that and fantasy as Bionicle does. (Did. Should. Sigh.)

 

Perhaps we will see an MOC or story based of this?

MOCs, definitely. Story if an idea strikes me...

 

Pardon me for saying this, but your idea for the Crystal village sounds awfully like the Av-Toran village. Even some of the Matoran points, like them being few and far between, and being able to change color.

Who said anything about being able to change color? A Matoran's armor looking different colors from different angles and her being able to physically change her color are two completely different things. And is it so bad if they are a bit similar, even excluding that? The idea of an isolated village with few Matoran outside it is a given if the element is rare, and it's not like the Crystal Matoran in the outside world are in hiding like the Avo-Matoran are.

 

Also, trans-glitter-clear Avohkii. There's a thought.

A fabulous thought, dear, but there's technically supposed to be only one of those...

A fabulous thought, dear, but there's technically supposed to be only one of those...

Well, Matoran masks are just powerless duplicates of mask shapes that are currently in. Why not have a Matoran of Crystal, maybe a former trader who met Takanuva or met an Artahkan worker that helped with the mask wear the glittery Avohkii as one of those powerless Matoran masks?

 

Or maybe they heard of Takanuva from customers or travelers? It's a stretch, but it's not like that mask is the easiest to use anyway.

I would like to think that they'd at least have immense resistance to high pressures, due to their natural element being formed under pressure. That way they could search the depths and live deep under everything else they desire to live under.

 

Also, possibly they can do something similar to alchemy with that aforementioned rock-to-crystal conversion? Such as, minerals that are likely to form into or grow some sort of crystal on it are able to be changed into crystals. That way, it avoids the inevitable "I turn your armor into crystal and control you now!" god-modding that would result. I somehow doubt Matoran armor can grow crystals.

 

And I love the Crystal Avohkii idea. <3

Very cool idea. Sounds like a refined or specialized version of the Earth and Stone elements, though.

 

Interestingly, one of my new characters happens to be

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a female Toa of Earth with translucent white armour, like quartz crystal, over black.

 

I agree about using a lighter color than black. If something transparent was on top of something black, it would be hard to appreciate the surface color.

I agree about using a lighter color than black. If something transparent was on top of something black, it would be hard to appreciate the surface color.

Actually, not so. These are Lego pieces, after all, so there's lots of structural stuff going on inside any armor piece that a Toa might use, which brings out the color very clearly. Look at, say, a transparent socket or the transparent Kaukaus. Put any of them over black and their color is very clear – often more so than it would be over another color, because of the contrast between them.

 

Very cool idea. Sounds like a refined or specialized version of the Earth and Stone elements, though.

But separate from the two of them distinctly, much like how Water and Ice are separate. Ice is Water in a different state; a Crystal forms from melted Stone as it cools deep under the Earth.

 

Also, possibly they can do something similar to alchemy with that aforementioned rock-to-crystal conversion? Such as, minerals that are likely to form into or grow some sort of crystal on it are able to be changed into crystals. That way, it avoids the inevitable "I turn your armor into crystal and control you now!" god-modding that would result. I somehow doubt Matoran armor can grow crystals.

Well, it would obviously be limited to inorganic material, and I imagine it would be a pretty concentration-intensive process. A Toa would have to actually focus her will on the object and understand its structure for her to turn it into crystal.

 

But I like the idea of the crystal it turns into being determined by the minerals in the original (stone) object. Having taken an Earth Science class last semester is making me pay more attention to the geology of this element than I probably otherwise would.

 

Well, Matoran masks are just powerless duplicates of mask shapes that are currently in. Why not have a Matoran of Crystal, maybe a former trader who met Takanuva or met an Artahkan worker that helped with the mask wear the glittery Avohkii as one of those powerless Matoran masks?

Good point. I'm leaning away from the clear Avohkii at the moment, because, one, it's a different opacity than the solid plastic of most bricks that exist in clear white, and two, it does have gold sparkles in it. We'll see. But I actually like the idea of them having just heard of it, given how famous a mask it is...

When I was a young little child I made up and element like this, I think the colors were lavander and purple.

Anyway, I think this would be a sweet element. Perhaps, the would be more durable that other toaa/matoran/turaga of other elements?