Orange, Round 3
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So at this point I'm rather out of the loop when it comes to less-than-major storyline developments (among them anything at all from the serials). I happened to see the other day that the color scheme for Lighting had been revealed – blue and white – to which my response was "wha — when was this decided — why isn't it yellow—". Since lightining had seemed to me one of the simpler Kal elements to assign a color to, given that bright yellow (Jala yellow, if you will) is the color pretty much universally associated with electricity.
Not that white and blue are bad or illogical, they just seemed to be missing the obvious answer, especially since bright yellow has only ever been used as a tertiary color, making it rather unused as far as elemental colors go, thus making it a prime candidate for having its own element. Whereas blue-and-white is a combination of two of the primary colors of Bionicle.
Anyway, that's not the subject of this entry. Well, I guess it is, but we'll get to it later. Basically, having seen this, I saw that there was a poll about the secondary color for Plasma and immediately began dreading finding out what it would be. Something like "oh dear gods what strange colors are they going to chose this time why can't we just leave these in peace rather than assigning weird combinations to things that are never going to have set forms now"
See, a very long time ago, I decided that the color scheme for Plasma in my version of things – if I ever needed a Toa of Plasma – would be orange and white. Since Plasma is obviously white-hot, rather than having a specific color (hence, white), I went for the non-primary Bionicle color that best conveyed heat: orange. Thus, orange would be Plasma's main color, white its secondary.
So you'll imagine my surprise when I clicked on the poll in immense trepidation to find out what the canon color for Plasma was and found out it was, in fact, orange. And then I dared to vote in the poll and, lo and behold, the leading secondary color was white.
Wow. Whoever you are, congratulations on being logical for once.
This led me to look around BS01 a little tonight, seeing what other Kal-and-post elements had been doomed to weird color schemes, upon which I found that Magnetism had indeed been canonized as grey and black (unsurprising given Jovan, but a little disappointing since they're already the dominant colors of Earth) and Sonics' primary color was grey (again unsusprising, given Krakua).
And then I looked at Iron and was utterly flabbergasted to see that its color scheme was – wait for it – iron grey and dark orange. As anyone who read The Iron Ghost will recall, that was exactly the color scheme I assigned Toa Angara. So to see it canonized as the color scheme for Iron was more than a bit incredible. Ladies and gentlefolk who follow these matters, would you be so kind as to tell me when and by whom this was decided?
Anyway. Since I've alluded to these a few times already, I might as well just list the color schemes I've come up with for the Kal and later elements. One thing to be noted is that I did base a lot of them on the Kal's color associations; i.e., Tahnok-Kal, who controlled Lightning, was a Ta-set, so I took Lightning's color from the Fire column.
In order of primary color, secondary color, and tertiary color:
Lightning :: Yellow, white, light blue – Yellow and white are explained above, and also the colors of Toa Ingyé from Hunger. I think the specific origin of light blue was an MOC by Toromaga some time ago of a light blue Turaga of Lightning next to a yellow Toa of Lightning.
Magnetism :: not sure. I'd be okay with dark grey as the primary color if it were specifically dark bluish grey from post-2004 rather than the basic dark grey of 2003 and before. Since then it would have both a blue tint (for Gahlok-Kal) and the association with metal inherent to Magnetism. Maybe dark bluish grey, black, and sand blue...
Plasma :: Orange, white – as explained above.
Gravity :: Purple, black – again both taken from the Onu-column because of Nuhvok-Kal. Though I could never see a Toa of Gravity being solid purple with black joints; it would have to be restricted to smaller amounts of purple over a largely black/some other color body.
Sonics :: Light grey – and that's all I've got. Also taken from the Ko-column. Maybe light grey, dark grey, and lime... For my remake of 2009 I contemplated throwing lime into Krakua's set, and now that I think about it, that would make a nice link between Sonics and Air, the medium they travel in.
The Green :: All shades of green that there are. I don't care if Air has those already; plants are green, my dears.
Iron :: Iron grey, dark orange
I reject the element of Psionics, since that's hardly a force of the natural world.
That was longer than I was planning to write. Oops.
~ ToM
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