Line #35 FanFic/Klaanon


1	This brainchild of a Finnish Bionicle forum originated as a text based role playing game, but quickly cascaded into a massive multi-author fanfiction epic with a complex plot, an enormous cast of characters and a tight update schedule. The story is unfortunately only currently available in Finnish. It can be read [[http://klaanon.bioklaani.fi on its own website]].
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3	Klaanon tells the story of an organization called Bio-Clan, a group of war refugees, retired adventurers and all sorts of outcasts. Led by Toa Tawa, the members of Bio-Clan seek to live in peace, but their island is attacked by the evil Alliance. Once so beautiful forests are turning into battle zone, as the Alliance, a coalition of united enemies of Bio-Clan start conquering the island. But the plot thickens as mysterious Avde enters the playing field, and the chase for the fragments of an AncientArtifact and a powerful weapon called Nimda begins.
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5	!!''Klaanon'' provides examples of:
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7	* ActionDuo: Most obviously Same and Bladis, with Same handling the close quarters and Bladis the cover fire. To an extent, also Matoro and Umbra.
8	* AffablyEvil:
9	** ZMA may be vile and despicable, but unmannered he certainly isn't.
10	** Avde. He is manipulative and devilish, but hasn't spoken a single lie, ''probably''.
11	* AffectionateParody: The story never gives up an opportunity to poke fun of some of the more weirder aspects of Bionicle, although sometimes occasional [[TakeThat Take Thats]] are thrown around.
12	* AncientTomb: Many of Nimda shards have been hidden into ancient tombs.
13	%% * AnotherMansTerror: Happened on Temple of Delta with Puppets.
14	* AlienGeometries: The insides of the Workshop don't work with basic Earth logic. Or any logic, actually.
15	* AllThereInTheManual: When the Klaanon Wiki started, some of its pages were mostly knowledge that wasn't addressed within the story itself, like characters' backgrounds, equipment etc.
16	* AnachronicOrder: While the timeline is mostly rather straightforward, flashbacks and time jumps are very constant and common.
17	* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: The POV of the story changes a whole lot, as there is no clear main protagonist.
18	%% * ApocalypticLog: "Diary" of Tarip the Rusteye in Temple of Delta.
19	* ArcNumber: The repeating appearances of 6 were initially parodic in nature, as every group in the Bionicle universe seems to automatically have six members. However, recent events considered there might be something more sinister behind this.
20	* ArcWords: "The mind is the most powerful weapon."
21	* ArtificialLimbs: They're everywhere. Everywhere!
22	* AuthorAvatar: Given how it started as a text-RPG, it's kind of inevitable to have these. However, most of the self-inserts seem to be limited to the creator's username and a few similar characteristics. Some have barely any resemblance.
23	%% * BattleInTheRain: Happened in Xia.
24	* TheBlank: The Marionette has no face. Neither do Makuta Abzumo's engineers.
25	* BondOneLiner: More than we can count.
26	** ''"Time to seal the grave, iron bastard."''
27	** Lampshaded with Guardian, who couldn't come up with one.
28	** Done again with Matoro and Suga, who mock each other's one-liners.
29	* BeneathTheEarth: The Workshop
30	* BigDamnHeroes
31	* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Ath-Koro, anyone? "NIMDA! NIMDA!"
32	* BreatherEpisode: While most of the characters are fighting dark forces Snowie and Kepe walk around the island of Bio-Clan and gather information from the island's past.
33	* CanonImmigrant: Killjoy's characterization was created well before Klaanon started.
34	** Some of the Amates' characterizations were based on their author's chilhood Bionicle mocs.
35	* CapturedByCannibals: Snowie and Kepe. Or actually captured to be fed to the cannibals.
36	* CerebusSyndrome: Given the number of writers with their own styles, this happens quite often. Most of them are generally minded on switching between comendy and drama.
37	* CeilingCling: Matoro and the harpoon.
38	* TheChessmaster: There are some examples on both sides.
39	* ChessMotif: In the game Avde and Zorak are playing, it would appear that white represents Bio-Clan and black the Alliance. Some characters have specific confirmed roles.
40	* ColdBloodedTorture: Makuta Abzumo enjoys this way too much. Most notably with Gekko.
41	** Also, what appeared to be scientific research by ZMA on Makuta Nui turns swiftly into this.
42	* CombatMedic: Kupe, a Toa-warrior who is also a surgeon. And a magic healer.
43	* CoolBoat: SS Ironwing, the flagship of the Nazorak Empire is a floating fortress.
44	* CoolPlane: Bio-Clan's very own Fleet consists of steampunk planes and [[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld zeppelins]] armed with machineguns.
45	* CoolOldGuy: So much that almost every Turaga in the story is one. Turaga Niddi and Turaga Bakmei are very straight examples, and The Oracle is by description quite old for a Matoran, but still an effective warrior monk.
46	* CliffHanger: The story is told with separately published chapters. Cliffhangers ensue.
47	* CloudCuckooLander: '''Goddamn everyone.''' You'd be hard-pressed to find even one character that doesn't have an outlandish quirk.
48	* CurbStompBattle: Anything with Turaga Bakmei. That man gives no mercy.
49	* DarkerAndEdgier: Bionicle had the restriction of being a children's series. Klaanon doesn't. The violence is much more brutal, the universe is portrayed in darker, more realistic ways and veterans of the Zakazian Civil War can be seen drinking to their misery. Luckily the story doesn't go all the way into grimdark and still manages to retain a sense of humor and lightheartedness.
50	* DarkIsEvil: Both played straight and completely subverted. There are evil and completely despicable characters with Shadow as their element, but [[NobleDemon Makuta Nui]] [[DarkIsNotEvil is right in the dark and one of the heroes.]]
51	* DeadlyGas: In Zorak's factory; but the gas breaks the doors to save the heroes.
52	* DeathSeeker: Colonel 437's greatest wish is to die in the glory of battle.
53	* {{Deconstruction}}: This to Bionicle itself. When it's not a {{Reconstruction}} or an AffectionateParody. For example, The story examines how Skakdis' genetic alterations to bloodthirsty warriors and centuries spanning conflict would do to its society, the after-effects of Toa-Dark Hunter war, how something as evil and eldritch as the Makuta would affect people and why Zyglaks hate Matorans (and pretty much everyone else) as much as they do. All of this tend to paint Skakdis and Zyglaks a more sympathetic light, in contrast to how the canon portrays them as AlwaysChaoticEvil.
54	%% * DemonicPossession: Snowie and the creepy parasite.
55	%% * DiscOneFinalBoss: First Lieutenant 955.
56	* DoesntLikeGuns: Considering the high level of technology, this seems to be the only Watsionian reason why so many of the characters fight with swords and spears instead of firearms.
57	* EldritchAbomination: The writers love this. Avde's true form is very much portrayed as one. The Makuta are this under all of their charming chessmaster facade, and there's even a rare heroic example in the form of Makuta Nui.
58	** And to drive this really, really home, some of the Zyglak worship Rhak'elakk, which is basically a tentacled Elder God with a single truth-seeing eye.
59	%% * EveryoneChasingYou: The whole Metru Nui plot.
60	* EveryScarHasAStory: Or more like every prosthethic bodypart has a story.
61	%% * FateWorseThanDeath: The Puppets.
62	* FauxAffablyEvil: Makuta Abzumo may be the biggest monster in-story, but he also gets some of the best lines.
63	* FedToTheBeast: Tongu and Suga in an obscure scene at the Nazorak hives. Also the Troller at one of the temples of Nimda.
64	* FlamethrowerBackfire: Guardian shoots plasma ray right into Purifier's flamethrower cannon arm.
65	* GambitPileup: Avde and ZMA are manipulating both the Alliance and the Clan's leaders to do their dirty bidding, but meanwhile Avde is also manipulating ZMA and ZMA is manipulating Avde. Avde apparently has some kind of a deal with Ämkoo, but so does General 001. Several Alliance leaders are also using each other, as Gagegudder is working with Avde behind General 001's back and Abzumo is manipulating 001 himself by withholding information. But none of the other Alliance leaders actually know what General 001 wants by conquering the Clan's island - so it's possible he's manipulating them back! Meanwhile Zairyh has manipulated Makuta Abzumo to hand over the shard of Nimda so he may manipulate Kapura to help him kill Jouera, the Dark Hunter Purifier has manipulated Saraji to betray the Clan and join his side, the Oracle is spinning his own web on the behalf of the Holy Mother and the unseen traitor in Clan's ranks might just be manipulating all of the moderators and other traitor candidates in a big old game of cat and mouse.
66	* TheGhost: Avde's mysterious employer hasn't been seen yet. [[WildMassGuessing Or they have, but we just failed to notice them.]]
67	%% * GladiatorGames: In the Nazorak hives. Speculated to be retconned.
68	* FourPhilosophyEnsemble: The admins fill this exceptionally well.
69	** The Cynic: Guardian
70	** The Optimist: Tawa
71	** The Realist: Visokki
72	** The Apathetic: Ämkoo
73	** Also the Metru Nui team after ''Black Hand II'':
74	*** The Cynic: Kapura
75	*** The Optimist: Matoro
76	*** The Realist: Deleva
77	*** The Conflicted: Umbra
78	* GottaCatchThemAll
79	** The entirety of the main plot that centers around the hunt for the six shards of Nimda, around the universe.
80	** Purifier and the hunt for the Arch Krana.
81	* GloryDays: Matoro and Umbra seem to miss their advenurous pasts. And Metorak about his own action and murder-packed past...
82	* GrimUpNorth: The Island of Bio-Clan is harsher and colder in the north. That is also from where the invasion of the Alliance begins.
83	* GuardingThePortal: The Workshop is not only a storage, but also a mysterious dimension under the Bio-Clan fortress.
84	%% * {{Hallucinations}}: Kredipselleeni, maaaan.
85	* HealingFactor: Matoro has a healing stone in his armor.
86	** This is also one of Make's natural abilities.
87	* HellIsThatNoise: Ravens...
88	* HiddenInPlainSight: Nimda is [[spoiler:a Kanohi.]]
89	* ICallItVera: Old Turaga Niddi has a shotgun with nickname. It's Verak.
90	** Gattas's assault rifle is called Mr. Shell.
91	* IncrediblyLamePun: The Christmas episode was a cascade of these, but even it trembles in front of the unending arm and hand puns of the battle against the Blue Hands.
92	--> [[color:#008282:Bladis: [=A hand as a gun will never beat... A ''HAND''GUN!=]]]
93	* IndyPloy: Matoro's basic plan of action is usually to fire a harpoon at a direction and hope something good happens.
94	* InstantKnots: Matoro's harpoon again, and every single time.
95	* JigsawPuzzlePlot: There are always three to six, often completely unrelated plotlines unfolding in front of the reader at the exact same time. Any plot may influence any other plot without much warning, and the timeline isn't completely linear. And a lot of times the significance of a long-running side-plot is only revealed in its finale. When combined with the fact that the story is ''absurdly'' huge, keeping up with the plot can be a bit challenging at times.
96	* KickTheDog:
97	** First Lieutenant 955 did kill an island folks whose only action in the story wast to host a karaoke contest. He also nearly killed Snowie and Kepe, pretty much the only good guys who don't fight.
98	** Makuta Abzumo: Goddamn everyone.
99	* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: First Lieutenant 955, the old General Lieutenant 003, Zyxax, Alinnel]]
100	* KnightOfCerebus: When characters like Avde, Puppets, Feterras, Purifier, or Abzumo make an appearance, stuff usually gets very chilling.
101	* LaResistance: The Zyglak's might count as this for the Bio-Clan. They are the comrades in arms being all guerilla and stuff. It's their island also.
102	* LateArrivalSpoiler: Suprisingly well and interestingly averted. Given how much inside hype there is within the project's writers these days, promotional material, mostly posters, created for single or bigger chapters tend to be kept well restrained, not including any info about them outside of slight hints, but anything that gives even a slight hint about chaters' stories themselves are usually kept hidden until good part of readers have read them.
103	* LavaPit: The temple of Epsilon, one of the fragments of Nimda, was filled with lava.
104	* LeaveNoWitnesses: First Lieutenant 955 had been ordered to kill everyone in Ath-Koro.
105	* LighterAndSofter: Where it counts. It's very, very rare when something can be both this and DarkerAndEdgier. Some of Klaanon's trademark goofy humor and silliness like riding a biomechanical tapir into battle could never have made it into the main Bionicle storyline.
106	* MexicanStandoff: When a bunch of Bio-Clan members are taken to the Nazorak's flagship SS Ironwing, everybody starts pointing guns at everybody. The BarBrawl in the Dead Ruki also starts as one of these.
107	* MonumentalDamage: Zorak's factory at Nynrah is exploded with a sea mine.
108	* MustHaveCaffeine:
109	** Ämkoo, the mysterious and super powerful shadowy katana warrior, is a coffee addict.
110	** Manu, the insane demi-god and brilliant scientist, sure enjoys his cup of tea and some nice organ music.
111	* NeckSnap: Moderator Same does this to a pilot of a crashlanded Nazorak bomber.
112	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Ämkoo and Snowie only found a fragment of Nimda so that The Marionette could steal it.
113	* NoodleIncident:
114	** Snowie's flashbacks with torture and Guardian, argument and Domek, and evil Skakdi and a cigar do leave some questions to be answered.
115	** Turaga Niddi is a living and breathing Noodle Incident.
116	* ObviouslyEvil: The Nazorak Empire. Fascist roaches are not the good guys.
117	** Which part of "The Crimson Man" or "Deep Laughter" sounds exceptionally trustworthy?
118	* OlderThanTheyLook: Or whatever is the case with half-robot lego warriors. But you can't really tell how old somebody is by just looking at then, or that is the case with most of the characters, at least.
119	* OpeningNarration
120	* OurAngelsAreDifferent: The story takes the already present angelic motif of the [[EldritchAbomination Makuta race]] and runs with it. More than once they are described as "Mata Nui's fallen angels". Makuta Abzumo's terrifying airship of doom is even called "The Archangel".
121	* PlayingWithSyringes: The Nazoraks are trying to create a better version of themselves.
122	* PlotIrrelevantVillain: Multiple examples. Some Nazorak officers, namely Colonel 437, are there just for the action sequences, and then there are the personal nemeses of some characters. But considering that the whole purpose of Klaanon was to create something huge from separate fanfics, it is only natural. Considering that, it is rather marvelous how the many, many characters, including villains, have been incorporated into the main plot, and you can never know which character will go from irrelevant to very, very important.
123	* PutOnABus: When the project was more of free-for-all role playing game, there were even more writers with their own OC:s, but after they left, some of those characters were retaken into the story by it's current crew, while other characters were just given this treatment.
124	* PuttingOnTheReich: The Nazorak Empire is humanoid cockroaches following Nazi creed. Let's put that on the table right now.
125	* PoliteVillainsRudeHeroes: Multiple examples, most obviously Guardian, who can be rather rough around the edges, and extremely polite Zorak von Maxitrillian Arstein VIII.
126	%% * PortmanteauCoupleName: Xentoro.
127	%% ** Also: Deltoro. Deitoro. Catoro. [[LauncherOfAThousandShips Yes, all of them involve Matoro.]]
128	* TheReveal: What ''is'' Nimda, after all? Answer: [[spoiler:A Kanohi mask.]]
129	%% * ResearchInc: The Selecius Foundation.
130	* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Tawa's pet Ussal Crab, Nöpö, is possibly the most innocent little thing imaginable.
131	* RuleOfDrama: BIONICLE has been portrayed as a story with creatures who can bend elements to their will and some that have power to [[StoryBreakerPower BLOW UP WHOLE ISLANDS]], and has also included lots of it's own in-universe firearms. In Klaanon, however, all that stuff has been toned down greatly, because with stuff like that a conflict of militaristic humanoid cockroaches trying to siege contor of a small island from an organization which have more than one of aforementioned walking nuclear bombs at their troops would probably be kinda boring, woudn't it?
132	* RunningGag:
133	** First and foremost: '''Why is it always six?'''
134	** The nazorak bomb team who's been waiting 'forever' for that one bomb to explode.
135	** Killjoy's television got broken by Matoro [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten and he's sure as hell not going to stop reminding about that]].
136	** The narrator doesn't seem to get enough of Harkel's moustache.
137	** Guardian's hopeless inability with oneliners.
138	** The increasingly ridiculous war birds of the Brotherhood of Ämkoo.
139	** Captain Notfun and his storyline don't make any goddamn sense no matter how drunk the reader is.
140	** The Tapir. (Snork.)
141	* ScareChord: All over Aft-Amana.
142	* SkyPirate: Ghekula and Taku.
143	* SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror: Like, all the time.
144	* SlidingScaleOfFreeWillVsFate: A big theme around Nimda.
145	* SuperpowerLottery: Toa Kapura's mask is an unstable activator of basically random elemental powers.
146	* StuffBlowingUp: Whenever Killjoy, Bladis, or Gagegudder's troops are present, this is almost guaranteed,
147	* TalkingInYourDreams: Avde has a habit of getting into other people's heads, mostly during dreams. Sometimes, it's just literal head-getting.
148	%% * TechnologyPorn: Killjoy is like walking porn magazine in this regard.
149	* TempleOfDoom: The temple of at least two fragments of Nimda have been totally unpleasant to visit.
150	* TrainingThePeacefulVillagers: Bladis is trying to make an army out of ordinary Bio-Clan members.
151	%% * TrashTheSet: The attack of the Feterras, the nightly bombing raid.
152	%% * TheUnreveal: What's inside a Feterra.
153	%% * UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Order of Mata Nui is more or less this in the official canon. In Klaanon, they are what happens when the inquisition meets CIA.
154	* WeHaveReserves: Pretty much the ultimate example with the Nazorak Empire. Many of their battle strategies are really suicidal. What makes this especially sickening is that the backbone of their army consist of children, even if they are quickly matured.
155	* WhamEpisode: The Night Horror arc is widely regarded to be ''the'' moment when everything took a turn to hell. Later, [[spoiler:The Zyglak's revolution in red, the reveal of Nimda's true form, Ämkoo's FaceHeelTurn.]]
156	** ''The Prophet's Realm'' and ''Black Hand II'', FULL FUCKING STOP.
157	** The long-awaited ''Aft-Amana'', and of course the Metru Nui plotline's finale, [[spoiler:''The White Hand'' trilogy]].
158	** ''Red Shift'', especially its part three, ''Setheus''.
159	* WhamLine: Again, numerous, but probably the first one came from Makuta Abzumo.
160	-->Didn't little Manu tell you that we are old buddies? Didn't little Manu tell you that we created the Nazork? Didn't he tell you... anything?
161	* WhatMeasureIsANonhuman: A very central theme, with multiple characters representing anomalies and freaks in the Matoran Universe.
162	* WillNotTellALie: Avde never lies, or at least he keeps claiming that.
163	%% * WorthyOpponent: Ämkoo and the Marionette.
164	%% ** ZMA and Guardian.

Context FanFic / Klaanon