Seltz

"Really.  This is why you summoned me?"


These dudes, trained and given elemental powers by the big man Pohatu himself, protect Po-Koto while he's off on business.



Skinny Asymmentry over there has a sword.  He stabs.  Bigmin Mac Widensteen on the other hand, has striker eureka capabilities in his chest and a big glove.

We're safe.

kopaka with a hat.  kinda lame but your name is the best

IN THE NAME OF KING GHIDORAH

Taho toaur of firr

eyy yo roly i loved your art so much i made a setmod of pohatu in your style

how well did i capture it in your opinion?

http://www.bzpower.com/board/topic/16526-pohatu-2015-revamp-inspired-by-rolys-art/

i think he's like an aboriginal shogun landsknecht, which is one heck of a combo

more pics here >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/114035403@N02/sets/72157649926605422/

crits please!  when I get more rust brown pieces i'm gonna do him over again in a more competent manner

Yo GSR I see you lurking here.  I don't know what forums you're under but is there anything you can do about Seltz's bait?

love you babe

 

About the "assuming a character is cis is by default is hurtful and marginalizing" thing.

 

"Cis" people are the default. Less than 1% of the world's population is transgender.

 

It's just not something that occurs to most people when creating characters, and you can't blame someone for forgetting to include gender-variant characters. Statistics back it up.

Why is people headcanon Gali as trans so offensive to you that you have to speak up against it?

Also lol cis is default and terrible wording and language.

 

cis, straight, asian, and male is the default mate

that's the largest demographic on earth

it's life man you shouldn't tell others to speak differently because MUH FEELANS

be a vertebrate!

if she's not trans that is oppression and i'm gonna be reeeeeaaaaaallllyyyyy loud on tumblr if she's not!!!!

by the power invested in me by the state of maryland i close this thread

this silly silly thread

ps gali is a girl

 

spoiler alert i'm the winner everyone go home

Yeah. Definitely.

 

 

you'll see

you ALL will see

spoiler alert i'm the winner everyone go home

I really like their broken-down look, the po matoran slum itself is a nice touch. A bit tall and skinny, but I think you managed to capture the aesthetic well.

Thanks!  I worked hard on the slum. 

Those are some beefy matoran.

I really hated how all matoran were portrayed as children all throughout Bionicle's first generation.  Too idyllic.  I came up with a way to make them "grow" from a childlike form to an adult form, explained here in this excerpt from the story I plugged in the OP.

 

“As you know, when the great spirit Mata Nui lends his soul to one of the machines in a sleep shell floating beyond the barrier reef, they exit the shell living and sentient, once the shell beaches itself. Wherever they land dictates whether they become of water, earth, air, fire, stone, or ice. They are then given a mask to ward off the Makuta’s influence once they reach a village, and thus become a Matoran.  They’re smaller at that time, but they quickly grow, like you did.  But time does not make one an upper-class, artisan Tuakana like you are, action does.”

By "grow", I mean they reach a certain level of maturity after an unstated period of time, and then are given the opportunity to rebuild themselves as they see fit for their life, shedding their "post cryoshell" body and becoming a sort of parallel to an adult. 

They look a little big for Matoran, but I guess I'm just used to seeing smaller builds for that category.  The build looks simple, and I like the hunched look.

 

Although, since these are all photo edits and not basic, clear images of the MOCs themselves, perhaps this would be better served over in General Art. I say this because it looks like one of them has a very unique upper-arm design, but the photo quality makes it hard to see. This can stay here, but you may want to consider taking some more detailed pictures and having these current ones as "bonus images."

 

Still, nice work.

Thanks!  Here are some still gritty but less abstract pictures, hopefully you can make out the builds with these.

*florp*

I went out and took some pictures of the two protagonists of my story, Sacred Profane, and edited them to look like they were taken with a primitive Po-Koroan silver plate camera.  Not much else to it.

And some less *artsy* ones so you can make out the construction. 

ok i was trapped in an oil painting for a while but now i'm back, gonna update the story soon

oh and i changed "toanga" to "tuakana" because toanga sounds dumb and tuakana is maori for "upper", and it's supposed to mean "upper-class"

some of them are a tad chunky but your level of artistic prowess is evident here

it's breddy good

Yeah, after reading some comics here and subsequently contracting ebola via sprite comics, I challenged myself to make a quick, coherent story.  Tell me if I was successful, please.  Also, tell me if you want more!  It was really fun to make this.

Deacon

Idle

Defensive Posture

Tamed by Shaman

Dondo's Fanged Tuonisar, an old inhabitant of Mata Nui, is a sub-species of tuonisar.  It is the only purely land-dwelling tuonisar, yet along evolution's path it has retained its long neck and tail, formerly used to cling to trees.  Males, like the one pictured, are endowed with a tangle of wires and cables around the torso that carry healing protodermis that it uses to heal itself, its young, and its mate.  Young, and female fanged tuonisars are unable to heal quickly.  Only the male has that ability, as it is expected to fight for food and protect its den.

"Sar" is an ancient Matoran word for "Serpent", with "tuo" and "ni" meaning fanged and double respectively (ni's direct translation is "a multiple of two").  It was discovered by one of the first founding Turaga, Dondo.

On rare occasions, they can be trained to follow and protect you, as demonstrated by the shaman in picture three.

//headcanon dump

So, what do you think?

Hey, I experimented with some cloth and wire, and ended up with some rather striking ponchos for my beefed up Po-Matoran.  Then I went out in the desert and took some pictures of them amidst the creosote and dirt.

More pics:
http://imgur.com/a/Hqkr1

I've got an idea I wanna run by y'all.  I've always found the whole single-gender tribe thing kind of a silly decision, and I'm writing a story that changes a whole load of stuff just because of muh headcanon.

So basically, should I make all tribes dual-gender? 

Crelt looks really, really good.  Mainly because I love orange and that mask, but yeah.

 

Pillaged some old Rakshi for some black pins, the difference is amazing

I acquired several '01 sets rather recently, and there's no telling how many black pins I have.

 

I really like the way the MOCs look, though I feel that the torsos are too short, and the legs too long.

 

Well I wanted some gangly, almost cartoonish proportions for the po/onu/ko-matoran.  Others, like the Ta, Ga, and Le, matoran will have more humanoid forms.

I see what you mean about the scale, but it's more my style.  I like building detailed things, and with scale comes detail.  My toa are at least a head taller than the matoran, some that I have planned are as big as titans. 

My headcanon has diverged quite a bit from Greg's fanfic-tier cave scribblings.

Also, I chose the white because, well, White Dune Sea, and the sword is that color because I never bought OG Kopaka, and orange is kiiiiinda like brown so I thought I could get away with it.  Yeah I ran out of black pins ;-;

Pillaged some old Rakshi for some black pins, the difference is amazing

Also, nicer, more somber-toned sword.

Love them!  Would elaborate but its been a long day and I'm too tired to.  But 9/10, it's ok.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/114035403@N02/sets/72157647895428888/

Going by the alias Garuda, this young Vortixx woman is a pit fighter, dark hunter, mercenary, and recent deserter of the previously mentioned dark hunters. This lady is not one to mess with.