>>10582932What was the point of the inika having organic masks? What was the point of them having electric powers? Barely becomes relevant in the lore aside from their origin of the whole red star thing, it feels like they were wasted potential. Voya nui online game wasn’t canon, when it really, really should have been. They were only toa inika for a day:
>become toa inika>test out powers>fight Vezok>unbrainwash some metoran>storm the piraka base>go down the secret stairs to the mask of life, fight Vezok and get the mask of light>go down to Mahri nui through another set of stairs, with all of the makuta possession and Zyglak shenanigans (unpublished, unreadable)That’s all their actions as toa inika, might seem a fair bit maybe but it was literally all in one day. All the promo material and bionicle heroes gave this image of this ongoing struggle between the inika and the piraka on voya-nui, which would have been cool to see in like at least one book (but that book went to expanding the background of the piraka, despite two other books of just piraka, and the books featuring inika were still heavily piraka in terms of their screentime), it felt like Gregg and the writers really didn’t want to have the inika and they were just there for the sake of being there, and they would rather just feature more piraka stuff.
This section implies that there was like half a month or something between the inika and the mahri, which is something I don’t see in the books. I like to head cannon that the events of voya-nui online were partially canon at the very least, and the situation of freeing the matoran was a longer deal than it was implied to be.
I really feel like voya nui online should have been canon, like it was literally supposed to be but the devs bailed, if we got an inika movie and invasion maybe I would feel different
