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# Difference from the main reality: the toa mata's canisters malfunction, but launch too early instead of not completing their journey. as the toa metru are learning what it means to be toa, 6 airborne objects (toa canisters) streak across the metru nui sky and crash in various parts of the city.
# Difference from the main reality: the toa mata's canisters malfunction, but launch too early instead of not completing their journey. as the toa metru are learning what it means to be toa, 6 airborne objects (toa canisters) streak across the metru nui sky and crash in various parts of the city.
# Difference from the main reality: the toa mata's canisters launch even earlier, before lhikan even creates the toa metru. as a result, the metru never transform from matoran, and lhikan (and maybe some of the other mangai, depending on the timing) work with the mata to... save the day? yeah, that sounds right.
# Difference from the main reality: the toa mata's canisters launch even earlier, before lhikan even creates the toa metru. as a result, the metru never transform from matoran, and lhikan (and maybe some of the other mangai, depending on the timing) work with the mata to... save the day? yeah, that sounds right.
# When Jovan's team revived mata nui, they had to have done so in the codrex, or at least in karda nui, and then they escaped the energy storm via a kanohi olmak. What if, when they were inside the codrex, they saw the toa mata's canisters? and since mata nui was more or less down and out, that could have triggered the toa mata to awaken, and jovan's team to take them back with them.
# Difference from main reality: The toa mata don't go into their toa canisters. they either escape karda nui before the energy storms start, or figure out how to launch their toa canisters from the codrex before using them, and serve as a regular toa team in the universe for a while before they're hunted down by the order of mata nui - either forced into toa canisters and put to sleep as planned in a different location (likely daxia or artahka) or kept on one of those islands awake, serving the Order in secret.

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Headcanons

  1. Way too many elements/ice and water are the same thing: Ice is just really cold water. stone and earth are pretty much the same thing in terms of having power over one or the other. gravity isn't really an "element" that composes our world, nor is magnetism, sound, or psionics. (more to the point, any of the other toa could probably control sound, given that sound is just a compression wave through a given medium: a toa of air should be able to make noises with his power, and a water toa should be able to do the same under water. we've certainly seen le-toa create silence before.) plasma is just really hot fire (i'm not getting into the physics/material science on that one - too much to explain. if you really want to hear more about that though, feel free to message me :) ). The only differences between the ko/ga tribes (and the onu/po or ta/su ones for that matter) are purely cultural; they have the exact same powers. Ko/Ga-toa powers work mostly like those of waterbenders from "Avatar: The Last Airbender", if you're familiar. (if you're not, it's a pretty good show if you like elemental powers. just keep in mind that all the Avatars are actually the same person haha.) Ditto for Onu/Po-toa, but I haven't decided if metal should be a separate element - but they can totally control lava, which is just melted rock/earth.
  2. The elemental-sex affiliation is bogus: Come on, are there really no toa of water that are surfer dudes? Someone write a fanfic about a toa of water whose catchphrase is "surf's up, man!" or something like that. I'm sure there are females of the other elements as well - otherwise the matoran universe would be a giant sausage fest. (yup, i just went there. i'll look back at that sentence and cringe later.)
a. on a tangentially related note, romance is (head)canon.
  1. Matoran Anatomy: Kanohi: This one might actually be canon (look at some of the characters' face bits that are visible through their masks in the movies), but since MUian anatomy was never discussed in great detail, we'll never know for sure. Anyway, matoran have totally organic faces. The rest of their head has a mechanical/metal skullcasing however (again, look at the movies). This factors into the reason that the matoran species are compulsory kanohi wearers: their entire bodies have a mechanical exoskeleton, except their face, which is totally organic, so their kanohi serve as the mechanical part there.
a. Furthermore, Kanohi don't attach to their faces via magnetism (that would be so/too easy to just make everyone's mask fall off) but instead attach with some sort of mechanical coupling/clip/whatever. Remember Pohatu once said that he wonders if Kopaka's mask isn't on too tight?
  1. Matoran Anatomy/Physiology: They eat. Just like we do. Skakdi aren't considered barbaric for putting their food in their mouths, but the fact that they generally make much more of a mess, closer to wild animals than civilized citizens.
  2. The timeline is much shorter than 100,000 years: I mean, really, that's just excessive. Not to mention there's so much time in the middle of all that that we know basically nothing about, and events at the beginningish and endish that are so much more closely connected than 100,000 years could ever separate them. Not to mention a 400 year long civil war? no way, jose. In my headcanon, the whole thing took place over 100 years, and everything is scaled down accordingly, (basically everything took 1000 times less time than it did in canon) with the exception of the Dark Times on the island of Mata Nui since that held so much story relevance - instead of only taking the scaled one year, it took up a full 10 years. As i'm writing this, that seems a bit short however, so perhaps the whole thing took 1000 or 500 years. Anything longer than 1000 years though is just pushing the limits of belivability. This also helps to scale/make more realistic (ha, "realistic") the timeline on Bara Magna as well.
  3. Kanohi Hau mechanism of ambush: This one's totally canon. The mask of shielding can not protect its user from attacks from ambush. Why? the reason is because the mask has to be manually activated. it's not always on, like the mask of accuracy, waiting to shield its user from an attack. the wearer has to consciously activate the shield, which means that if someone attacks by ambush, and the user doesn't get the shield up in time, (s)he's screwed, and the mask can't protect its user from attacks from ambush. We saw that the mask is activated manually in Birth of a Dark Hunter, (i think that was it) when lhikan activated his mask when he was on patrol and heard someone on the rooftop above him.
  4. Brutaka's species is the precursor for the Makuta species: we know that Brutaka's species interacts in a funny way with antidermis. What if that's how the Makuta were made? By dipping Brukata's species in antidermis, the substance causes them to transform into makuta after a period of strange symptoms that include floating off the floor, organic muscle hypertrophy, and glowing green.
a. also on a tangent, has anyone seen ABC's "Once Upon A Time"? what if the maktua are like the dark one, and they have some bionicle equivalent of the dark one's dagger that can be used to control them? that would work as a pretty good foil to the fact that they're so over-powered.

Alternate Realities

I distinctly remember somewhere in the back of one of the 2006 comics there was a blurb on the Olmak, and it said that the mask could open portals to other places in this dimension, or go to other dimensions, but it couldn't go to alternate realities. Lo and behold, that's exactly what the mask ended up doing later in the story. Given that there's an infinite number of these alternate realities out there, the following are more or less... well, canon, i suppose. These scenarios would have been neat to explore more in the actual story line, if for no other reason than fanservice.

  1. Difference from the main reality: the toa mata's canisters don't malfunction. Result: the toa mata land on the island of mata nui at roughly the same time the toa metru do after BA5.
  2. Difference from the main reality: the toa mata's canisters malfunction, but launch too early instead of not completing their journey. as the toa metru are learning what it means to be toa, 6 airborne objects (toa canisters) streak across the metru nui sky and crash in various parts of the city.
  3. Difference from the main reality: the toa mata's canisters launch even earlier, before lhikan even creates the toa metru. as a result, the metru never transform from matoran, and lhikan (and maybe some of the other mangai, depending on the timing) work with the mata to... save the day? yeah, that sounds right.
  4. When Jovan's team revived mata nui, they had to have done so in the codrex, or at least in karda nui, and then they escaped the energy storm via a kanohi olmak. What if, when they were inside the codrex, they saw the toa mata's canisters? and since mata nui was more or less down and out, that could have triggered the toa mata to awaken, and jovan's team to take them back with them.
  5. Difference from main reality: The toa mata don't go into their toa canisters. they either escape karda nui before the energy storms start, or figure out how to launch their toa canisters from the codrex before using them, and serve as a regular toa team in the universe for a while before they're hunted down by the order of mata nui - either forced into toa canisters and put to sleep as planned in a different location (likely daxia or artahka) or kept on one of those islands awake, serving the Order in secret.