User blog comment:BIONICLEToa/New Year, New Attempts (plus MOCs!)/@comment-31586508-20190103200847

Welcome back, dudebro!

I like that you've decided to do some work on your storyline. What caught my attention the most out of this blog was your conundrum about whether to put your stories in an alternate universe or not, because I went through the same thing about a year-and-a-half ago. With lots of help of DarknessApogee, I made the decision to put my storyline in the Core Universe and isolate it from the main canon BIONICLE storyline to avoid conflicting things. Since then, I've been in many a situation where the only thing standing between me and mass revision of backstory has been a vague sentence or two on BioSector01. Going along with what Chalk said, having an AU can make it easy to simply change or delete a canon fact that would be a thorn in your side if your storyline were in the Core Universe.

What DarknessApogee told me, however, is that alternate universes and timelines compose a considerable portion of the content on this wiki. While that's to be expected for a site for fan content, most AUs on this wiki have drastic changes from the Core Universe. Others, like Vorred's Remains Alternate Universe, don't differ from the canon very much, however... although he does have his reasoning behind creating his AU.

I'd really hate to say "it's up to you" seeing as you said you need help with this. So for the sake of that, I'd say go with an alternate universe: although much might not change, you will have the power to just remove or reshape any canon thing that gets in the way of your storyline. Plus, you won't have to do any work removing mention of the Splinters Alternate Universe from your pages. The only reason I haven't put my storyline in an alternate universe, in fact, is due to the work of having to revise basically all of my pages and because I've already sort of molded my storyline around the Core Universe.

With that wall of text out of the way, I'll get to the mocs. The Toa are definite improvements over their previous versions and each has a distinct silhouette. The mix of G1 Bionicle pieces and CCBS is effective, as well. I also really like Quiller's Rahi compadre. Anyway, a nice and exciting blog! Keep it up!