Tekan


 * "I-I know I'm not exactly your standard... 'Toa', the opposite in that aspect realy, but I'm sure I can do just as well!"


 * -Tekan's opinion of himself, Mata-Nui


 * "I never deserved to be called a hero, I just hoped to distract myself from thinking of what I was made to be, a monster. Until the day came I no longer could."


 * -Tekan's opinion of himself, wandering the world


 * "I may not be a hero, a being worthy of called more than a mosnter, much less a Toa, but that doesn't mean I'm evil, all my actions are good, if a selfish one. That is enough for me."


 * -Tekan's opinion of himself, unknown

Tekan is a Toa-of-Shadows. He's a heavy hitter, one more likely to charge head-on rather than choose stealth.

He no longer follows the Toa code, choosing instead to kill, or at least injure most enemies he fights, especially Makuta, who he actively hunts for. yet despite this he is highly protective of those he travels and/or partners up with, from the point of near self-sacrifice in keeping them safe to blaming himself for injuries they sustain, or plans gone awry even if there was literally othing he could've done.

Since his first... emergence as a Toa his opinion of himself has been in constant flux, changing from both external-aspects and his own mental aspects.

A tales beginning
''"Shadows have always been a force to reckon with, as long as there is light there are shadows, but with that much power there is a price, no one being can control it all or at least none that has been created. The power of shadows has always been one that cannot be fully wielded by one being, there have been many masks that give some form of control but none like the Kraahkan, a mask of such power only a being with a will greater than nigh all can wield it, that has always been a mask that no other exists and so far only two have wield, or has it? The Kraahkan has always been known as the ultimate mask of shadows yet abilities are missing, abilities that have been seen in lesser versions, why? Why would this mask have such control yet still be missing powers? What if it wasn't the only? What if there had had been a brother mask? One that had the missing powers yet still required the same amount of will? Whatever happened to it and its wielder? Why did they not stand with Teridax as the rulers of the Makuta's? Many myths have been told but none proven true, until now. Listen as I tell you of the tale of the second Kraahkan, the Makuta who wielded it and what to reveal their tale, let me tell you the tale of the second wielder, let me tell you the tale of Tekan."''

Tekans story stretches back farther than one would guess or ever believe, it streches back farther than the fall of metru-nui, farther than mata-nui's fall, farther than when he was a matoran, even farther than before the bionicle truly came around, but that is a story for another, possible time.

Beginnings
Tekan first appeared at the same time as Takua, back when Metru-nui was still in peace and Lhikan had yet to fall. His arrival while like any matorans, appearing near the edge of metru-nui, near the sea (going with a mild theory/popular comic idea), was also quite different, while it was not strange for matoran to appear at the same time it was very rare for them to show up in the same spot or at least very close to another, that for him wasnt even the strangest, no his was what he looked like, all matoran are different, no two perfectly alike always with some difference, yet with him he was almost a perfect copy of Takua, just with slightly darker colours, green eyes, something never before seen in a matoran of fire and taller, even if not by to much, yet all matoran were of the same height, or around while he passed it by enough to be visibly taller.

He and Takua hit it off and quickly became friends. Mainly over their similar love of expoloration. while takua did it to find new stories Tekan, back then known as Tek, alwyas did it for the adventure, adoring being able to find new, exciting and possibly unknown things. He was also quite an inventor, always making tools and items that made exploring easier.

Unlike Takua he was much, much more of a trouble maker, going out of his way to pester the vahi and help other matoran escape from them, being nearly permanently on the run himself, he found himself in trouble with Dume quite a lot but he never cared. He was always an active enough worker to not be reasonably considered  in need of 'repairs'.

The start of his fall
One day when he had been exploring he found a ruined temple with a massive hidden tunnel within, leading deep straight down. While he trried to convince Takua to come with him he was busy at the time and couldn’t so Tek went by himself. After he reached the bottom he found what appeared to be an altar with a black mask attached to it. As he saw the mask he could hear shadowy voices telling him, influencing him to pick it up and put it on. As he removced the mask from the altar the tunnel suddenly started to shake, collapsing around him, the last thing he saw was a large stone falling on him before he felt a surge of energy, then nothing.

Later he woke up to find himself entrapped underground, somehow alive and in a mildly spacious, stone encased bubble basically, while he panicked over being stuck and wonderd how he was alive he heard a voice start speaking to him. As he listened to it, after his initial surprise, he learned that the mask he had found was a second Kraahkan mata-nui had made for Makuta Xadiret (pronoucned Za-Dur-Et) essentially makuta Teridax's 'brother'.

As he listened he learned about the Makuta's betrayal of mata-nui, and that Xadiret had been one of the few that hadn't betrayed mata-nui and had had his essence sealed away within his mask, which was then hidden, as punishment, seeing as how two Kraahkan's had to be active at all times (makuta teridaxs mask kind if became infused with him from what I can tell and in this world he still exists) or else the other would essentially destroy the other wearers mind, and no others had the will to wield his, or at least not without his mental strength added to theirs..

Due to him being a matoran he could not use all of the Kraahkans powers, in truth he could barely use any and even then at the cost of immense weakness, but managed to shadow warp himself out of the hole, at the cost of greatly weakening him for a time. Once he emerged he discovered that his form had been changed by the mask, his body now a shadowy black and his mask changed, he also learned he had been gone for years and many had forgotten him or believed dead.

The time he emerged was after Makuta had taken over dume, a short time before Lihkan fell, the vahi discreetly spiriting away matoran for years. While he tried to help, doing so he caught Makuta's attention, resulting in him being captured by Teridax who was interested to see a matoran who could wield his brothers mask.

He experimented on Tek until he was taken down by the toa-metru, trying to make him into the perfect servant and to see how he had the will to use a great mask. He partially succeeded in the servant part, managing to infect Tekan with a virus/infection that forced him to obey Teridax's commands, what Teridax didnt know was that Tek still had some free will, enough to be able to use any loopholes he could find in the commands he was given.

An arachnid filled time of existence
After Teridax fell Tekan was stuck on Metru-nui until roodaka and Sidorak took over, later capturing him and roodaka managing to get a working command from Teridax that forced him to obey her. He did try to help the toa-Hordika when he met them but he couldnt do much but give them advice whe he could, roodaka bein much better at avoiding loophole commands.

A monsters arrival upon new lands
After Teridax was released he captured Tekan and brought him to Mata-nui, forcing him to lead attacks on villages with masked rahi, spawning many rumors of a strange shadwed matoran rahi-master, luckily he had yet to notice Tekan's free will, allowing for an 'unreasonable' amount of said raids to end with little to no casualties, or just fail.

After one of his failures Teridax swatted him across his lair, nearly slamming him head first into one of the rhahkshi pillars, and landing him near the pool of energized protodermis. The head trauma damaged the virus installed within Tek, but left him woozy, and dizzy enough that he ended up stumbling into one of the pools.Teridax didn't care despite losing his servant but did want to see what he turned into, when Tek didnt emerge he assumed him drowned and left him for dead, leaving to check on one of his experiments. If he had stayed for just a little longer he would have seen Tek drag himself out by a large clawed hand, emerging from the pool as a changed being. The energized protodermis having managed to give him the energy needed to become a toa.

After he escaped he wandered around, helping the villages and matoran when he could until he later met the toa, who he convinced he wasn’t evil and teamed up with, later meeting Takanuva, who he knew as his best friend, yet who no longer recognized him and distrusted him the most. He was a friend of theirs and helped them fight Teridax's remaining problems and such until a later date when he suffered a terrible, if justified in part, betrayal at the hands of all of them, led by Takanuva. After that he wandered the islands, meeting new toa and matoran as he did, even forming team for a bit until the cataclysm happened.

Appearance
Tekan is a large Toa, standing at a good feat taller than the average Toa, even some of the less-than average ones, but still at a height much smaller than the Titans.

His form is rough, armour scratched and jagged, both from spiked shoulders, the years tolls upon it and his clawed hands and spiked feet. Made less so for look than for defense, and with a near constant aura of shadows lingering upon it.

Colouration wise he is pitch black, designed to allow for nearly his entire form, to easily blend into the shadows, his eyes remaining the exception, both of which are of a dark green colour, the same as his matoran form

He wears a secondary Kraahkan, shaped reminiscently to that of the Avohkii.

This is all usually covered by a large tattered cloak he usually wears, both for minor protection from the elements, and to keep himself partially hidden. ==Abilities and Traits ==

Personality
When Tekan is around others he doesn't know he tends to stay in a very blank, neutral state, facial and emotional wise. When hes with people he does know he Is generally happy, sad or angry dependet on the situation, he rarely shows a different one other than amusement. He has a tendency to blame himself if he hurts a close friend or fails to protect one, sometimes to the point of self-inflicted damage (punching items had enough to crack armour, etc. Nothing to crazy) or becoming even more reckless in his protective nature.

He has a more animalstic side that will come out if someone hurts one of his friends or him greatly enough, be that mental or physical. In that state he has trouble differentiating friend from foe, going into what's essentially a blind, adrenaline

rage. He usually manages to avoid attacking those he's partners with, but at the same time he will attempt to kill whoever it is he's fighting unless he either manages to stop himself or someone else does.

Tekan carries a great hate for makuta, Teridax especially, and will kill them if given the chance, despite the toa code saying otherwise, he does follow it somewhat, mainly out of respect, but not all of it due to past betrayals and his own belief that he does not deserve the title of toa.

He carries many mental and physical scars from his years of being experimented on and servitude to Teridax, his armour following suit, yet still remaining surprisingly strong and intact.

He has a great dislike of loud, piercing sounds, to the point that he will leave an area unless the sound is stopped, from a time when Teridax experimented on him to see how long a matoran could survive in a bohrok-va's sound bubble before they succumbed to unconsciousness. It wasn't long.

His other main fears are of drowning and vhisorak/other spider like rahi.

Fighting style
He mainly fights with his scythe, even being able to direct shadow energy through it. His typically fighting strategies are either low sweeps with his scythe to disable legs or large swipes to cause long injuries across whatever part he hits.

He has been known to be able to cut a rahkshi in half, vertically but that required both a lucky hit get it at the correct angle and a good porition of his strength (and irritation). His main use of shadow energy is either loading it into the scythes blade which he then slams into the ground, sending out a small shockwave of darkness, or moving through shadows to avoid attacks.

While these are not all of the abilities he can use they are the ones he's best trained in.

Abilities/powers
shadows, known abilities so far are: being able to move through any shadows, of any size, in the world but the distance he can move is limited and he can't see through them like Teridax so any shifts he does will be blind basically unless he knows of the area he's going to, has gone there, and the shadows he knows about are still there. This is the main reason he wears a cloak, allowing him to move parts of his body from inside the cloaks shadowed interior avoiding attacks, he can still be hit and this is not a perfect defence, it is not an immediate shift and this reveals his inner bits to attacks. Being able to charge his scythes blade with shadow energy and release it, creating shadow shockwaves.

Being able to form shadow balls which he can throw and shoot.

Being able to form basic physical, weapons/items from shadows but they are released when he lets them go. He could possibly make controllable shadow tentacles from this ability but it would be very draining.

His mask contains Makuta Xadiret who can talk to him and through him if he allows for it.

Trivia/Bonus knowledge

 * Tekan himself is largely based off of the Titan Takanuva set.


 * Tekan's AU is basically a modification of the canon AU based around enlarging the world and universe and adding more details to both.


 * It is also canon that Tekan is nearsighted and needs glasses, he just has no idea what those are.


 * Tekan is my third self-moc by date of build but first by concept and character creation.

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