Voxumo

*Casually checks the topic after two+ years of inactivity*

Huh... this arc has ended. Neato. Looking forward to the next one and hopefully getting some of my characters back up and running.

Will there be a summary for the finale of the arc posted at somepoint?

Hmm. I'm digging the more muscular build she has here. Also really digging your adaptation of those silver arm bits.

shame, no deaths yet!

 

i demand bloodshed

You know what the easiest way to guarantee you get what you want is? By joining in. 

It's cool that we've gotten 100 LBR stores in the States!

But at an average of 2 stores per state, it's unfortunate that some states don't have any.

Amen to that.

 

winter is here folks

 

feeling nostalgic and finally started reading asoiaf, might watch some of this go down

 

u should play

 

 

I second this. Join Pulse Vatten and Voxumo Ash on their crazy adventures in Campaign 2.

Dang, both mocs I voted for made it to the final poll...

I love this little guy, and would love to even build this for myself one day.

Can it still fold up at all out of curiosity?

Well while I'm disappointed to see this come to a premature close, I can't say it wasn't fun while it was going on. But ultimately your own well being is more important than some game.

Firstly, that is one heck of steal. Secondly, I had never heard of Five Below until now. Given the name I assume it's some variety of dollar store offshoot?

Makes sense, and feels like a nice half-way point for the battles to end off on, at least for po-koro's battle that is.

*Rubs hands evilly together*

Yess... The moment I have been waiting for... Oh god the excitement is real.

Nah, Ko-koro as we know it is just an illusion put up by mata-nui after Ellitra actually burned/melted the entirety of the village to the ground.

Ko-Koro was very... Quiet.

 

On the flip-side, Po-koro was Crackalackin!

Approves of Thicc Onua

i bet it's burnmad's fault

*Squints eyes* What has summoned you?

So I started this moc over a month ago, in an attempt to create a last-minute entry for BS01's contest, but I eventually gave up on finishing it for the contest. Instead I've spent the last month working on it, a large portion of that time spent being stuck on the legs.
But it's been a long month, but I've finally finished it. I've finally finished my reimagining of Nocturn. I could have been done alot sooner, but all prior versions I just wasn't satisfied with.
 

Unaltered Version
 
This has been such a fun, yet challenging build for myself. I went into this moc with the desire to build something in the classic style of Bionicle, particularly without using CCBS. I managed to do that, minus a single ccbs bone in Nocturn's neck.
 
Now you might be asking yourself why have I removed lime green from Nocturn's color scheme, and that has a somewhat complicated answer. See it always bothered me that Nocturn's tentacle was silver, yet that silver didn't really show up anywhere else aside from his weapons and teeth, yet if we assume the tentacle is a natural part of him, then by all rights silver should have been more prevalent in his color scheme. And so I took that complaint and ran with it.
My headcanon explanation is that the silver on Nocturn is his unarmored, fleshy bits, with the blue sections being parts of his body that have grown carapace with age, creating natural armor. This also explains why his upper-right arm is all silver, as in canon he lost it in a fight with Pridak, which remains true in my reimagining, and his species is able to regrow limbs. As such this is just a limb that he's regrown, that hasn't had time to regrow the carapace, and as such is a bit weaker, hence the smaller weapon. Shrugs
Makes sense in my mind. 
 



You might ask what the heck is going on with Nocturn's head, and that is a valid question that doesn't have a valid answer. I never liked Nocturn's set head, so instead I sought to give him a better head that still kept the "bestial" appearance. I like to think I succeeded in that goal. Also you might notice a bit of red "inside" the mouth in some pics, and that is there just to give some realism. Maybe it's a tongue, or maybe it's the inside? Could be either, as I added it with no real intent other than I thought it looked good.
 
As for Nocturn's choice in weapons? Well I personally view axes as very noble weapons, and more importantly a defensive weapon best suited for protecting. So in my mind, You'd have the Knights who go off to find and fight the "Evil", wielding swords and spears, fast weapons if you will. However you would never leave the homeland undefended, so you have the Knights who remain behind to act as protectors, wielding large, slow weapons, ready to fight off the "Evil" when it strikes the homeland.
Shrugs
Again this is just my view of such things.
 


The theme of BS01's contest originally was to take a character that is normally good or bad and flip it. So that is what I tried to do with Nocturn. While this version of Nocturn was still banished to the Pit for destroying his homeland, his imprisonment saw self-reflection, and a desire to change, to do good. To protect.
Fast forward to Mahri-Nui sinking, and after the Barraki started harassing the Matoran, you saw Nocturn become an ally, a protector of Mahri-Nui, seeing it as a way to redeem himself. 
He's still not the brightest of light bulbs, but he's more of a gentle giant at this point. If canonically he's smart enough to realize he isn't wanted in the Matoran Universe, he's smart enough to change his ways.

Nocturn could have left the Pit due to his amphibious nature, but chose not to, as he recognized that his presence was unwanted anywhere else. - via Biosector01

Quite amazed I was able to pull off this pose.
 
So yeah, not really much more to say on this. It was a fun process, and is perhaps my favorite moc I've built to date. You can find some more angles of the moc in the Flickr album.
Aside from that, have some additional photos of Nocturn I took.

Spooky
 

 

 

You will all be saved

 

 

We will guide you along the holiest of paths

 

Talk to the remains of Makuta in a one on one setting, and then get back to me about guiding anyone on any path.

Hey Nato, you gonna be creating pms for the villages that are full already?

To those of us in Po-Koro, I nominate we either keep Po-koro the same name, or we rename it to The Oasis, given it's in the middle of a massive desert, yet is able to support a surprising amount of life.

To be frank, "roll out" has a much better ring to it.

It does, but that's the autobots unfortunately. Decepticons really don't have a good catchphrase.

Thanks to Onaku, Kaathe shall have a catchphrase whenever ordering around his Kohrak "Kohrak, Mobilize!"

If you want cool, why don't you chill out in ice cold Ko-Koro?

Po-koro has Kohrak... Can't get much cooler than that.

If it's all right, please consider me signed up, I'm just clarifying some stuff with Nato before I post a character sheet. Namely, where I need to be villagewise so I can get in on the Makuta-resurrecting action. I want to befriend Makuta and hang out with him.

Honestly, po-koro might be a good bet given my actions last season, which I fully intend on continuing forward with that plot point.

As I've said again and again, I just want Bionicle to stay dead... I think a spiritual successor would not be wrong, but rehashing Bionicle yet again would only end in failure.