User blog comment:BobTheDoctor27/New MOCs: 03/@comment-5174759-20130617120444/@comment-958607-20130617150528

I love in-depth responses like this. :D

I'm very pleased that the Zero Hour Toa met your expectations, and I think you're the first person to have noticed the traditional color switching. :D Personally, I think my decisions for each color conveyed a message for each character. Salu has the brightest, lushest, most child-friendly color scheme that could be expected of the old Toa Nuva, but he has the most sinister personality. Merra has the grey, which I associate with a darker, cooler contrast yet her character is sweet and caring. Similarly Jekkai's color scheme and body design is simpler and more sleek, which is suggestive of more basic blend. However, blue and white are the colors of a Toa of Lightning and, at one point in Zero Hour, he actually gets mistaken for a Toa of Lightning. XD

Back in 2003, when I first came into BIONICLE consciously, I was fascinated by the Matoran. :D They were the everyday villagers who made up this plastic universe and their world seemed infinity stranger than the constant fighting that the Toa seemed to represent. I want to present Zero Hour in a similar fashion. :P BIONICLE seemed to establish that the Turaga were leaders of the villages and that the Matoran were beneath them, with the Toa re-enforcing the Turaga and protecting the village. I want to create some role reversal in the later chapters with weak Toa, muddled old and embittered Turaga who no longer know how to lead, and youthful, charismatic Matoran. :P It should be fun and I'm interested to see how my idea pans out.

I'm extremely touched that you find the simple build of Nordix to be appealing. :D He's based off of an old creation and I was worried that his simple build wouldn't give him much weight as a character. He's a bit of a wimp to be honest, but I'm glad that he can still command respect from at least one person. :D

I'm also pleased that you like Leontes and Caliga. :D Both are some of my more interesting characters and I'm extremely pleased with the way that they both turned out. :D They're representative of my more recent storyline and I just wish I'd thought of them earlier. Leontes would've been an awesome villain in my 2011 story. XD

...I knew something was missing out of this blog. :S I couldn't think of a name for the character so I kept leaving his inclusion in the blog until later and I think I've just forgotten. :S I'll upload the photos as soon as I can and I'll put them on this blog, just below Inrye's section. :P

Anyway, I'm very sorry that I forgot to include the character in this blog, I'll get right onto correcting that mistake. :S Thank you very much for your incredibly focused, meaningful comment. :D I'm very grateful.