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Firstly, I'd like to apologise if this point has already been addressed or covered -- it's something that has been nagging my mind for a while now, and which I wish to find the answer to. I scoured the old forums including the bygone Official Kanohi Guide in search of answers but I got mixed and mostly inconclusive results. I looked on BS01 but the Kanohi guide didn't do much to explain aspects of the masks apart from known types and the process of mask forging. I also looked on BS01 for Suva functions but since the page is null currently, I didn't get any results.My question is this: how exactly are Toa able to "switch" what Kanohi they are wearing on their face? I was always under the impression that they needed to be linked (in spirit?) to a designated Suva where other Kanohi were stored and they could swap -- send the Kanohi on their face back into the Suva over distance in favour of another one in storage. To me, for the longest time, this seemed like a fairly solid theory.But I've been out of touch with the in-depth BIONICLE media for a while now, it's been ages since I've picked up a book and the deeper intricacies of its universe are beginning to elude me. Leafing through my older comics, though, I noticed something. In the very first Mata Nui set comic, when Kopaka is depicted as arriving from his Toa canister, he sets off on a quest to the "place of far seeing" on Mount Ihu to find one of the Kanohi. He finds a Hau, and he puts it on directly over his Akaku, which seems to morph away, and he says something along the lines of, "I can feel the Mask of Shielding protecting me, but the powers of the Mask of Vision are still mine to command." So he was successfully accessing two Kanohi, both on his face, with only one physically apparent, without any help from a Suva. :???:This is continued in the subsequent Mata Nui comics, such as when Gali makes a speedy grab of the Kanohi Miru and saves herself from a deadly fall by immediately snapping it on over her Kaukau and hovering, or when Lewa does the same with a Kakama and speed-kicks his way out from underwater.So are Toa able to wear more than one Kanohi at a time without help from a Suva? Do they even need a Suva in the first place? And if they don't, how many Kanohi are they able to wear on their face at one time without the magic backpack that swallows up all of them but one becoming full?Again, I apologise if this question has already been addressed.P.S. On an unrelated note, I also have a really quick question about Kanohi colour -- do they retain colour after being removed from a Toa/Matoran/Turaga/etc face, or do they become grey?Thank you for reading!
