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The Rookie
His Name Was Martin
810 full version, no cuts, 48 mins.
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810: idyid
[PT: 810: idyid /end PT]
DEFINITION ⦂⠀A relationship dynamic for those who, generally, are and/or want to be the [identity] in a relationship with [identity] in all or most relationships.
This is intended as an alternate for romantic, platonic, and such relationship dynamics, especially for those who want more than two individuals in a dynamic. The first identity is meant for what the one identifying with this identifies with/as, while the secondary identity is, though only one, for a general “(mostly) everyone else”.
I chose “Y” since the common letter for ship tags is “X”, and “y” is Spanish for “and”. I think this makes the definition vary per relationship, letting whoever identifies with this maintain any type of relationship without having to specify it, AND it states it is “wanted” rather than something current.
ADDITIONAL ⦂⠀Coined on the 10th of February, 2026.
TAGGING ⦂⠀@c1rcus-of-silliness @dearestchild @goregender @radiomogai
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BIONICLE Retrospective
2002: The Bohrok Swarms
Part 1.6: Divided We Fall
Happy 810! It’s been…holy hell it’s been over a year since I last tried one of these, okay. Huh. Well we’re going again because I want to contribute to the festivities and don’t have a lot else going on so here we go!
[[MORE]]Last time I stopped doing these it was for a few reasons. Largely general burnout due to not particularly enjoying 2002 as a story year and also unrelated irl issues that I was not dealing with very well. But another part of it is that I didn’t really know what to say about this comic, because it’s weird. In a phrase, it shouldn’t be here. Or at least it doesn’t feel like it should be.
Originally, the Bionicle comics were included with issues of the Lego Club magazine, a new comic accompanying each new magazine every two months or so. But starting in 2008, the comics were re-released in the form of graphic novels published by Papercutz. Each graphic novel compiled all the comics of a particular story year, with the exception of the very first, which included the comics from both 2001 and 2002, likely because 2001 only had three comics in total, in contrast to the ~6 that would become standard going forward, thus not quite justifying its own separate book.
The reason I bring this up is because that first graphic novel, Coming of the Toa, ends with the previous issue I covered, number 5/6, The End of the Toa? This issue, Divided We Fall is actually included as the beginning of the next graphic novel, which includes the comic renditions of the battles against the Bohrok-Kal and Rahkshi. And I have to say, it works much better there!
Beware the Bohrok in 2003 took the same approach, ending immediately after the Toa Nuva escape the collapsing Bohrok Nest, looking forward into the future. It’s such a clean, natural ending, the main threat is defeated, the status quo has shifted but has achieved a new equilibrium, nothing else needs to be said before moving on to the next arc.
Which is why this issue being here, officially included in the 2002 story, really rubs me the wrong way, because it takes that perfect ending and tacks the beginning of the next arc onto it. If I had to guess, the reason it’s here is that the Toa Nuva sets were realeased in summer 2002, but did not feature in the main story, only appearing briefly at the end. So this comic is here to show them doing something for kids to play along with instead of waiting until the following year to get any kind of story content at all prominently featuring their new toys. In that respect, the comic is perfectly serviceable, all the Toa Nuva get a chance to show off a bit, I just wish that it had been a different story, maybe have them cleaning up the last remnants of the Bohrok, or show them around the island helping with rebuilding or even just testing their powers on their own. Something that leads into the upcoming Kal arc without actually diving straight into it.
I’ll take a moment to say the comic itself is mostly fine, my issue is more with its placement than the story itself. The Toa Nuva’s mock battle is fun, I love how it doesn’t tell the reader what’s actually going on at first, so there’s a moment where all that marketing suggesting the Toa Nuva might be evil or corrupted or dangerous somehow could have been right, but then the dialogue between the Toa makes it clear they’re not actually fighting. Well up until Tahu and Kopaka ruin it for everyone by getting too serious anyway.
I do kind of have a love-hate relationship with this scene though, because on the one hand it’s really good characterization for everyone, Gali in particular, but on the other it’s really kind of stupid? And I don’t mean the characters are being stupid, or rather they are but that’s a good thing because it’s in character for them to act this way. I mean the scene itself just feels really weird and pointless. The team breaking up and going their separate ways feels like it’s supposed to be this big terrible thing, but like it just isn’t? If they were all departing for parts unknown, it would be bad, but they’re not, they’re just going back to their own villages, where they live anyway. If they split up on particularly bad terms with each other that would make it hard for them to work together again, that would be bad, but aside from Tahu and Kopaka, who have their whole rivalry anyway, everyone is fine. There is nothing stopping them from joining back up to stop a new threat when the time comes, and in fact they do just that like the very next day.
Which makes Gali’s reaction to it feel really weird. Like what did she expect, that the Toa would build a big hut next to Kini-Nui and all live together? It wouldn’t last a day! On the one hand I actually like this characterization for Gali, she is right, but she’s still a bit naive about it, not quite getting to the heart of the matter, which is that the Toa can still be united even while separated and are still refusing to be. But on the other, the way the scene is written makes it feel like she’s overreacting. The intention, I’m pretty sure, is that this split is meant to be permanent, and she’s objecting to that, but the actual scene just feels like everyone’s going home for the night and Gali is a kid upset her friends are all leaving instead of staying for a sleepover. So while I actually really like the Gali-as-the-team’s-little-sister angle (hearkens back to the scrapped age order for the Toa that would have had Gali as being the second-youngest, only older than Lewa), I don’t think that was supposed to be the takeaway here.
And then ultimately none of it means anything anyway! Yes, the scene does establish the Nuva’s inflated pride, but the team disbanding ultimately goes nowhere, because they get right back together like nothing happened, and them splitting up doesn’t even contribute to the coming threat. The Kal would have stolen the Nuva symbols anyway. The Toa lacking Unity worked much better in 2001, and will work better again in the Mask of Light saga. Here it just feels like recycled conflict for the sake of having conflict.
Anyway, getting back on track, we get our teaser for the Kal, suspiciously roman alphabet and all, the Nuva symbols get introduced (kinda), and then the 2003 story begins with the theft of the Toa Nuva’s powers. Great. To be honest, I don’t think we needed to actually see the symbols be stolen? The Kal being menacing in their cave is more than enough as an end point, if we absolutely had to have the Toa Nuva breakup at the end of 2002, then if it had then cut off here, I think that would have been just fine. As is it feels like we just go a little too far into 2003 for my liking.
We even get an early start on one of the Kal arc’s biggest problems: complete inconsistency regarding which one does what! Does Kohrak-Kal have Gravity powers for no explicable reason? Or does Nuhvok-Kal just have Kohrak-Kal’s shield here? Obviously this is an error one way or the other, and normally I’d just joke about it and let it go, but this is unfortunately a sign of things to come. It will get worse.
I really want to be fair to Divided We Fall. It does have problems, but most of those problems are not its own fault, if that makes sense. It’s not perfect, the Toa splitting up does not feel like it was written with the weight it was intended to have, but the scene that does exist is still solid. The characters are true to themselves, conflicts are set up well, the Toa get to show off, it’s all good. It’s an excellent start to the 2003 story. So it just really should have come out in 2003, that’s all.
Next Up: McDonald’s comics
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not watching live rn but everyone tagging the old posts I’m rbing as spoilers has me 👀👀👀🫀📈📈📈📈🫨
