Ekidna

"She's not hideous. Sure she fell down the ugly tree, hitting a few branches along the way, but she rebounded off the ground all the way back up to adorable."

- Accel Ekidna is a Toa Hordika in the Great Culling Alternate Universe, and member of the Misfits.

Early Life
In an alternate universe, much like the core one, Ekidna was created 100,000 years ago by the Great Beings to inhabit the Matoran Universe. Ekidna was placed in the southern region of the Northern Continent, where she worked with other Ga-Matoran in a small outpost near the shore.

Shortly after the successful launch of the Matoran Universe, due to Velika's tampering, the Matoran gained true sentience. Though she continued to carry out her original tasks, Ekidna was imbued with emotions and became self-aware. Shortly after this, the entity Baelzebus invented the soul, and traveled the Matoran universe giving souls to the denizens of the universe; as a result of this, Ekidna was imbued with a sense of right and wrong, and the capacity to care for and even love other organisms.

Ekidna would become a guard of the small outpost she called home, but was quite inept at it. She often required the assistance of other, more experienced guards to keep dangers at bay, and found herself frequently getting into all kinds of trouble that greatly inconvenienced the rest of the outpost. Out of pity, the rest of the guard refused to tell her about the problems she caused them, leaving Ekidna blissfully unaware that she was a burden to anyone.

At some point, Ekidna received a Toa Stone and became a Toa, alongside 5 others, forming the Toa Zor. Ekidna's inexperience transferred over to her new role, but she remained optimistic, becoming something of a moral support for the rest of the team. However, one of her Toa partners, Rellek, remembering her incompetence as a guard, developed an intolerance of her, secretly wishing she wasn't part of the team.

After the Matoran Civil War, Makuta Aerther was assigned to the southern portion of the Northern Continent. He quickly established himself as a cruel overseer, forming a secret police to infiltrate the Matoran population in the region and quietly deal with interlopers. The Toa Zor, disgusted with Aerther's behavior, came to him with a complaint. Aerther agreed to letting the Toa have more influence, but secretly was offended by their objections to his rule, and began engineering an "accident" for them. He sent them on a fool's errand to apprehend a Matoran fugitive, only to have the team ambushed by a group of Visoark. Though the other five team members were able to escape, Ekidna was captured and dragged back to their lair, where she was cocooned. Injected with Visorak venom, she was mutated into a Toa Hordika.

Life as a Toa Hordika
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Personality and Traits
As a Matoran, Ekidna was somewhat happy-go-lucky; she had few cares in the world, and simply focused on life one day at a time, enjoying it to the best of her capabilities. Unfortunately, she was also a bit of a ditz, making terrible errors in judgement that got her and those who worked with her in a lot of trouble. Because they often pitied her, the grievances of the Matoran Guard against her were never really made known to her, so Ekidna remained ignorant of how they really felt; this lead her to believe that she was friends with the rest of the Matoran Guard, when in actuality, many of them couldn't stand her. Despite all this, Ekidna possessed a purity of heart and endless compassion and optimism, qualities that made her selected to become a Toa.

Tools and Abilities
As a Toa, Ekidna an Aqua Axe, through which she could channel her elemental Water powers. She also wore a Great Mask of Rebounding, which which allowed her to cause non-exploding or non-fragmenting projectiles to come back to her after the object had been thrown at and hit a target. After being mutated into a Toa Hordika, her Aqua Axe became a Flash Sabre, which could generate a blinding flash of light, and her mask became fused to her face and powerless.

Before her mutation, Ekidna had access to Elemental Water powers. This was lost after becoming a Toa Hordika, and was replaced with a Rhotuka launcher, which could fire Explosion Rhotuka.

Trivia

 * Ekidna's creation as a MOC and character was largely spur of the moment after reading about BobtheDoctor27's Toa Hordika character Gorta.
 * The Matoran Mithril was originally supposed to be Ekidna's Matoran form, but this was changed later on.