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Honestly I need to appreciate the Voya-Nui resistance team more.

-The Piraka are absurdly overpowered and way too eager to kill, so trying to take one on directly is suicide and trying to take one out through subterfuge is still an abjectly unfair proposal.

-There are six of them, so even with their constant power-jockeying, even if the resistance did manage to take one down, the other five would immediately crack down hard.

-Also just. Zaktan. Protodites. There's jack shit anyone can do about that.

-Also they have all the mind-controlled matoran as hostage collateral who would be punished for even lesser forms of resistance.

-The Piraka broke their trust in Toa, and then with the Nuva, in the ability of real Toa to meaningfully help them. The Inika do show up and win eventually, but for the most part the Resistance team is operating on the assumption that they're not getting any help, they can only do this themselves.

Like, they were objectively fucked six ways from sunday no matter what, but they still decided yeah, fuckit, we're not gonna stand for this shit. Dying free is still better than a life in chains, and we won't run away and leave the rest behind, either. And I have to really respect that.

Woke diner

"Aye tony lemme get some pronouns with extra she/her"

painful to think about how Nuju and to some degree all the Turaga and even the Toa Mata fostered an expectation in Matoro that there are some things that can't be shared with anyone and that he needs to handle enormous responsibilities on his own. but we don't talk as much about how Ko-Matoran culture in general does this to all the Ko-Matoran as well as Nuju and Kopaka. in Ko-Metru and Ko-Koro, the idea is that you should be intensely independent, that the most quiet and dedicated scholars are the most highly valued members of the society, and that sharing with others is an annoyance. in their isolation, I figure a lot of them even lack the social skills to know how to share something or ask for help that would be expected in other cultures, and likewise, they might not know how to support a friend in need.

this is part of why Kopaka always seems so taken aback by Pohatu wanting to help him so much and Gali expecting him to be able to express himself and have deep conversations with her. it's also related to Nuju being so unwilling to rely on his siblings. those aren't things that Ko-Matoran do.

I'm sure there are other Matoran in Ko-Koro who would have done exactly as Matoro did if they were in his situation. we talk a lot about Nuju teaching Matoro to act that way, but less about how the whole culture revolves around that isolation and how Nuju also learned this from his peers and no doubt his Toa too. it's interesting to me because I believe Lhikan picked Nuju for his ferocity as well as his cleverness, but did Nuju ever know that? or did he just think Lhikan chose a competent scholar with a reputation for his independence? anyway, the point is Matoro wasn't the only Ko-Matoran who needed to hear the message that he didn't have to do everything on his own and should ask for help and support sometimes, and Nuju wasn't the only one who taught him otherwise

Just wanted to draw how I always saw Keetongu's "face". Every time I'm reminded of his movie redesign that gave him a shrunken head, I think to myself "No, that's not what he looks like."

LEAVE ME ALONE

Jfc that kitty parade music justmakes it hilarious

When you like the attention, but your sister doesn’t:

Lewa was stopped by some Le-Matoran Paparazzi.

Gali is annoyed by their excitable nature.

Lewa looooooooooves it.

(Oh, and here’s the traditional version)

on this lovely bionicle day, I offer you an assortment of matorans 🤲

A Bohrok-Va is a kind of maid that helps you with Krana