Thode (Fractures Alternate Universe)

Thode was a Matoran of Plasma who became a Toa of Plasma and later a freelancing bounty hunter, in the Fractures universe.

Early Life
Like most other Toa of Plasma, Thode began his life as a Matoran of Plasma on Spherus Magna, where he aided in the construction of the Matoran Universe and was placed on an unnamed island, along with a number of other Matoran.

Life as a Toa
At some point in his life, Thode was transformed into a Toa. Though details of his home island and actions in this period remain largely unclear, it is also known that he was part of Toa Kualus and Gorta's original Toa Team.

Varis
Early in his days as a Toa, Thode was held himself responsible for training a Matoran of Plasma named Varis and played a significant role in the Matoran's interest in mechanics and, more specifically, projectile weaponry. During this period, there was talk that Thode intended to train Varis to succeed him as the island's Toa of Plasma. However, as these rumours began to spread, Thode was forced to distance himself from the Matoran and eventually stopped training him. This led to Varis feeling he had disappointed his mentor and leaving the island to train elsewhere in shame.

Corruption of Gorta
Early on in his life as a Toa, around 60,000,000 years ago, the team was informed of a disturbance on an island in the Southern Island Chains. Unwilling to leave their island unprotected, two of Thode's teammates - a novice Toa of Water named Gorta and a Toa of Sonics - were sent to investigate the situation. However, they soon discovered that the island had been overrun by Visorak and were swiftly ambushed by a patrol. Gorta was captured and mutated while her partner was killed on the spot.

Although she survived the transformation into a Toa, Gorta turned sour and blamed her fellow Toa for her mutation, convincing herself that they had betrayed her. Enraged, she returned to her home island and began to terrorize her former team mates.

Fortunately, by this point, Thode had approached the island's local Turaga and had a "disagreement," which led to him leaving the island. Hence, Gorta was unable to track him down and kill him.

Life as a Bounty Hunter
Having left his home island, Thode situated himself on Stelt, where he protected the island for a brief period of time between 55,000 and 52,000 years ago.

However, the Toa swiftly became bored of the righteous, moral ways of the Toa Code. Whilst travelling through Xia, Thode played a part in designing and developing a revolutionary long-distance firearm whilst working closely with a group of Vortixx weapons designers.

Early Missions
On several occasions, Thode shadowed Dark Hunters on interrogation missions and assassinated their victims prior to the interrogation, purely to annoy them.

Additionally, at one point, Makuta Antroz attempted to hire Thode to retrieve the Kanohi Ignika from Voya Nui, though his mission proved unsuccessful, though he later claimed he had assassinated an Av-Matoran whilst on the island to justify his failure.

Later Experience
Later into his career, having gained more experience, Thode began to swiftly ascend from his amateur bounty hunter status to one of the Matoran Universe's most unique, exite assassins.

Thode was responsible for assassinating the original Makuta of Stelt and his two successors until the point where Makuta Miserix decided not to bother assigning the island another Makuta guardian.

Thode was also hired to assassinate a number of Brotherhood servants situated in Stelt. Sidorak was one such victim.

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Final Push
Despite the Brotherhood spilling out onto Spherus Magna and invading the Agori villages, members of the Cult of Darkness were ordered to remain in the Matoran Universe to fight off the Final Push, where Gorta encountered several Toa. During this battle she was able to impale a particularly militant Ta-Matoran named Sarda and was responsible for the murder of Toa Zaria.

Gorta survived the Final Push and regrouped with the other servants. However, unlike the majority of the group, she - and a handful of other Cult members - was sent to Stelt whilst the others launched an attack on Metru-Nui in an attempt to cripple the city, something that irritated Gorta as she felt she was missing out and that her talents were not seen as important.

Abilities and Traits
Cold, callous, cruel and sadistic, Thode is a lone wolf. He despises teams though rarely expresses emotional attatchment towards others.

As a Matoran, Thode possessed a minuscule amount of Elemental Plasma energy, which he could manifest through means of weak heat resistance.

Upon becoming a Toa he gained full control over his element, allowing him to create, control, and absorb Plasma energy.



Mask and Tools
As a Matoran, Gorta wore a powerless Kanohi Kiril. As a Toa this mask was transformed into a Great Kiril, granting her the power to regrow parts of inorganic substances. However, her ability to access her Kanohi was disabled as a consequence of her mutation into a Toa Hordika. Currently, her Kanohi Kiril is fused to her face and cannot be utilized.

Gorta's weapon prior to her transformation remains unknown. Upon becoming a Toa Hordika, however, her weapon was altered into her current Tidal Sword, a broadsword laced with Protosteel.

Quotes
"Life is just nature's way of keeping meat fresh."

- Toa Thode

"If you continue stating the obvious I shall have to administer a slapping."

- Toa Thode

Trivia

 * Originally, Matoro1 intended to feature Thode as a Turaga of Plasma and write a short extract at the end of Whispers in the Dark where he was murdered by Toa Gorta, leaving her intent on tracking down Kualus. However, this idea was scrapped as it required too much planning of Thode's character for such a minor part.
 * Chicken Bond is currently working on a short sub serial for the Fractures Universe saga, which will feature Thode's debut.
 * In the main BIONICLE Universe, Thode continued to operate in Stelt. However, he was eventually tracked down and killed by the Brotherhood of Makuta in retaliation of him assassination of Makuta Ison.

Appearances

 * Over Your Shoulder - First Appearance; to be written
 * Over Your Shoulder Preview
 * Perspectives - To be Written