Kopaka, but Make Him GOTHIC 

The camera's light makes it look even better, cause it looks like he have sand blue, and metallic blue parts.Also those wings look like they are frozen, works well(he could use cold winds to flight, so not a problem). So yeah, It's pretty much perfect, the only thing I don't like are those blades used as a hilt, they are making the sword too big, and I never like it when a character has a huge sword(like those anime girls, or warcraft characters), that's goofy to me.But if you put the blades on the shield, they could make the shield like a crossbow.Also just a suggestion: the sword have 2 parts that look like exhaust pipes on the middle, and those have 2 system pin connections, if you want to put something on the sword piece itself(blue lightsaber bars as icycles for example).

This is your best revamp yet.

You really have a knack for making cool shields for this guy! I feel like silver bohrok teeth or something would make for a more elegant crossguard than the bayonet pieces would, and then you could keep them as skis and either use them as a spike pommel of some sort or just store them on the back perhaps. The Gothic angle for the Toa Phantoka never occured to me, but I can kind of see that being the intention now that you mention it. Good stuff!

Awesome design! That's the first time I hear about the gothic inspiration for 2008, but I kinda see it

that kopaka looks awesome, your phantoka/mistika versions are awesome

First the chainsaw nynrah blaster, now the shield blaster. You're going to have to keep the unique blaster ideas

The chest looks incredible 🤩

I love this design! Normally, the thinness of inika builds annoys me, even in sets that I otherwise like, but here, the extravagance of gothic architecture somehow makes it make sense.

This Kopaka Is FANTASTIC , really beautiful

this has my mind racing. what about pohatu with a jetpack and flails? or Lewa with the propellers instead as a logical conclusion to his air blades? Tahu with incense burner traits and Gali with a halberd and a more regal, almost clerical vibe? also Onua with a massive edged club/updated chainsaw that he could surf on?

I swear you need to give that camera a scud on the lug, or like a decent jiggle, the white balance is so outta wack, brilliant build though.

honestly, if they really tried to go for that "gothic" design, it actually almost completely flew over my head, since i rather saw a dark but less gothic theme in play with the vampire design of the makuta and a more brighter, machine/turbine themed design with the toa phantoka, which carried on for the toa mistika, but with more silver instead...

Kopaka's mask made me realize that your videos are mirrored

I...think the first half villains more than the second half, and more kinda coincidentally than anything conscious? Gothic is a really broad term, and if you're doing anything metallic spiky it'll probably be gothic fashion, even if it's hedgehog kinda spiky outwards rather than uppy downy, which the architecture wasn't, anything black is probably gothic fashion, and horror but as long as it's not superdy duperdy gory, but, even then that is goth to a niche, just, generally low gore horror is general goth. And, yeah, Antroz is like some lamprey thing for the mask I think, got kind of an evil imp, demon kind of energy I think, pit fiend. Vamprah, riddle me ree, wonder what the inspiration for that was, is bat and vampire like more than the rest, though they're bat-like, and Chirox, has the chitinous smooth mask, looking spidery, and those long, leggy blades. Yeah, kinda hard to say, course, since not only do I not know the exact parameters of the definition of Goth circa 2008, what Goth/Gothic meant before that is integral to the conversation too since we're talking about what influences it had on the designers, some, what, 30-something year olds, were they? Circa 2008? 40? And we're looking back into when Gothic subculture arose at that point. And it did originate with those fantasy elements, course, and old horror, but I do think the populist understanding of Goth, at least in not modern but recent times had become disconnected from the high fantasy aspects based on Tolkien and dungeons and dragons, and of course from DND traces a myriad of religions, too, mm. I do not think of chainsaws as Goth, personally. I think of chains as Goth, but not Chainsaws, except at the tangential level where it's just B movie schlock gorefest horror, but that's also because I think, and this is from a basic, observationalist, much like many I've never fought before in my life, outside perspective it's that difference between, stabby, and slicey damage perceived of knives and spears, and even of the most goth animals, spiders, bats, scorpions, snakes, ravens, wolves, cats, only one, the wolf has a 'tearing-style' motion of its attacks, and three are perceived as using venom, and rarely in most popular media, likely to do with mass market appeal of course and sanitisation, do even wolves get shown shearing off the meat of a living, sapient target. However, other damage means, tearing and impact, aren't conventionally Goth, much as they're not conventionally 'pretty'. See, I think it's to do with empathy and drama. Impact tends to be one and done, you get conked, you're out, or you don't see a wound, or you're conversely turned to a fine mush, or the affected area is at least. With tearing, it's probably too much. You see a lot of blood, you go, internally, subconsciously, there's a lot of blood there but I don't identify beyond that blood that there's a person, just a big splotch of problem, and that problem means that there's a problem, redact any empathy for now. And any of those are bad for making viewers empathise. They've not lost a limb, they don't know how it feels. During the loss, or afterwards, without one. So, they don't try, they go, oh, that's bad, I'll disengage now. If the damage is internal, they don't see it, so it has to have a lot more time in the media spent to demonstrating the effects to get the point across. Lacerations and impalements, eh, less so but still there, are less bloody, so less of that analytical response kicks in. Especially cuts, the less lethally implying a wound is, the more the relatively unwounded audience relates with them amidst their own paper cuts, ingrown nails, picked at scabs, nosebleeds. The less likely a character is to die, the more we don't disavow ourselves from emotional attachment as a protection instinct. And this is why cuts are pretty and a hit and run isn't. Additionally, the use of melee weapons versus projectile weapons has a long-known thematic difference, of emotion, and personhood, getting up close and personal means risking to achieve your goal, it means emotion, and this is also how crime novels and stories are popular, also, is they speak of forethought, and attention, which is emotion, it's not the humdrum banality of firearms in real use which only deal in mathematics. And, yeah, melee means you're within fluid-spewing distance, much as I suppose the act of impalation has thematic allusions, I saw a Devil May Cry analysis video about that, and fluid sharing has long been an emotional experience at that, too, which is another reason for vampire popularity, mm. And, uh, yeah, guns are Goth, y'know, Matrix and all, Blade, but knives are much more accessibly and widespread amidst Goth not just because of the personability, nor because a gun is just a plain win button with no risk or drama, but because through whittling, and the long history of elaborate design among many cultures, amongst other formats of self expression one can achieve with a knife that might be synonymous with outwards expression of internal emotions that can't be expressed by those typically known as disenfranchised, lonely or socially awkward, whereas rifles you can't do much with but hunt and buy new parts for, and are associated with war, and large scale organised institutions with a profit for death, they don't quite hold the same appeal, especially amidst those many young Goths, teens to 20s, who are still grasping the implications of death and want it paid its due reverence, less lethal meaning a more gradient approach means more space to conceptualise it within a safe...r, perceived-as non-final environment. Course, I'm not an expert, on anything, so do look up other sources and other discussion before you form your own opinions on how things developed, especially when it's respecting their formation around certain topics that are better grasped with lots of thought and especially clarity of mind.

This would look better on tahu ,in my opinion , something about this design to me looks like sonething of a fire toa would look like. Also , l never liked the og 08 tahu , because he seemed more aquatic & more of a toa of air , and to me l think that he looked way too slim , l'd swap his body design with either Lewa or Gali .

I see the idea as someone that's into gothic design and so forth the theme and your moc here I can see the concept but they 2008 didn't nail the gothic look with the toa the armors should be more muted cause the white marble isn't 100% white so being back the marble looking armor that came with piraka thok are the dark gray is fine some Gothic buildings is dark gray and can be light as tan bricks kopaka,onua and pohato would been the 3 to give it self to the gothic but when I look at 2008 I don't see gothic in the toa re colors and new molds make them look like gothic slayer's , hunter's are knights going against these vampire makita. Instead of based off vehicle

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