do u think the Turaga brought Takanuva to the Rahaga when they reached Metru Nui and before Vakama could even be like “and this is Takanuva, Toa of Light :)” the Rahaga all see that mask that they risked their lives to steal hundreds of years ago in the desperate hope that one day there really would be a Toa who could use it to defeat the Makuta they used to serve. and they realize here he is, a kind-looking young Toa dressed all in gold just like the legends said, with a smile on his face and the power of light in his palms and people who love him and a great destiny before him and they all just
[Image ID: a reaction image of Jim from the Office. He is smiling with tears in his eyes.]
One big missed opportunity in Bionicle in my opinion is that they didn’t explore Vakama’s connection to the Vahi more. I mean, he has visions of the future! And he forged the mask of time! Surely there was something there about maybe the mask was reaching out to him his whole life, helping him, guiding its creator down the right path that led to its own forging.
I remember reading once that Greg said that Vakama had visions due to “a glitch in his programming” which never sat right with me, he has a clear connection to the very embodyment of the concept of time right there, why not use it if you are going to give a source for the visions?
This kind of connection would also help with the feeling that the Vahi is strangely underpowered compared to the other legendary kanohi. I’m not saying the Vahi needed to be sentient like the mask of life, but it’s powerset does seem limited compared to the others.
The mask of creation can create pretty much anything that isn’t alive, and the mask of life can manipulate life to a massive degree, and yet there are normal great masks lying around that can do things with time that the mask of time itself can’t do.
There are masks that can give visions of the past or the future, there is a mask that can literally pull a past version of the user to the present, and yet the mask of time can only slow down or speed up time around a target? That just doesn’t seem right. I think a connection to Vakama, an ability to gift time related powers to beings before it was even created, these could show that this was truly a legendary kanohi, not just an unusually powerful great mask that it feels like now.