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Alex-Darkrai — Bionicle MOC - Byorak - Main Deviation
Published: 2012-05-20 21:08:22 +0000 UTC; Views: 6222; Favourites: 61; Downloads: 160
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Byorak is my favorite MOC and my longest project on which I'm still working.I CAN'T say much about Byorak, because there's too much to talk about.
Byorak is a Dark Hunter, who desires to find the rarest materials in order to create strong weapons. He's a pure blooded blacksmith, who creates weapons only for himself, but sometimes gives them away to the ones he considers to be more fit for a weapon than himself.
Here's the gallery of Byoraks history:
Byorak 1.0
Byorak 2.0
Byorak 2.2
Byorak 3.0
Byorak 3.2
For any additional picture, here's the whole gallery: [link]
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Comments: 41
Byorak was the first ever MOC I had seen from Alex. I remember that I wasn't expecting much when he first asked me to take a look, but I was pleasantly surprised when I clicked on the link and the page loaded.
Byorak has come a long ways. Alex followed some advice from me I believe, and that was to keep working on the designs and improve. And in doing so Byorak has grown, literally in size and figuratively.
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Conceptually, Byorak is a Dark Hunter, a type of character established in the bionicle lore. So nothing all that unique there. I often root my MOCs in bionicle lore as well. But Originality isn't everything in my book, so I find it to not be a big deal.
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The color scheme has been greatly improved over the different versions, now the dark green is isolated to Byorak's limbs and head, black on the inner side of his arms and silver filling in the rest.
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Alex has put a lot of effort into Byorak, upgrading him, acquiring just the right parts or the parts in the right color to make this MOC exactly what he want it to be. Its paid off. This is still his best MOC to date in my opinion.
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I'm totally satisfied with this critique xD
It pretty much points out all important facts about Byoraks history as MOC since the time he came to dA. It's very nice of you to have done this for me, thank you very much
And thanks for the five
I don't know if it was a mistake or an intended joke, but it's just too good, so we're gonna leave it like this
I totally go along with your critique, I myself would have given Byorak
Is there any specific MOC you'd like me to write a critique for?
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Good, I'm glad...Now go critique some of my lesser loved by the critique MOCs. 
FUCK I didn't notice that. Oops. Yes I gave you five stares for technique. It was a mistake. Though I noticed I did "stare" earlier and fixed it, but I guess I didn't get em all. I thought about doing them all as Stares to be funny. I should have done it.
That's exactly what Byorak is, a full-blooded bionicle MOC. And that's what his brother, Ryakk will always be. 
Well I made a journal with five MOCs that haven't exactly gotten much love with critiques. But if I had to get just one from you, I'm leaning towards Matteo. Kuro critiqued him but as my self MOC I feel like he should get a little more attention. 
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That's true. You have some time, because I still have some work to finish ...
YAY, Byorak and Ryakk are brothers!
It's somehow an amazing thing to hear from you xD
But okay, I'm gonna take look on that journal ^^
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Okie dokie. Well better get that done.
Didn't we talk about this? I was wanting to connect their back stories. Since Ryakk and Byorak have similar features, as well as their names being similar, I figured it'd be fitting that they be related.
Cool.
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You can do that ^^
I don't have too many plans for Byoraks backstory. If yo ever write something about Ryakk, you can include Byorak if you'd like. But I'd really like to find a way to show that they're related
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2 things
1: He looks like a green Avalanche (you remember rahiden right?)
2: Why is his crotch glow-in-the-dark?
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1: Well, they have similar body structures.
2: This parts doesn't glow in the dark, but I get your point, it was corrected in a later version: alex-darkrai.deviantart.com/ar…
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If I were able to write a critique about how awesome this moc is, I would. I love how well the armor fits together, and how fully custom it is! If I were to go in detail about everything this would be a super long comment! Well done, you've earned yourself a llama!!! 0w0
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Your bio for him reminded me. I think a certain warrior of mine that he might find worth needs a weapon, cause he's just using secondary weapons. I've needed to design a new weapon for this warrior, but I'm not nearly as good at it as you are. Maybe Byorak could help.
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Are you talking about Ryakk? xD
Or didn't you want to give Mototaur an axe once?
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Mototaur has his flail. He's good. So yes. I am.
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Cool, what kind of weapon should it be?
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Hmmm...dunno. Something I could replicate obviously, less you feel like sending me parts. haha. So not too much greebling/system lego fanciness. But as for what kind of weapon, I dunno, what do you think would suit Ryakk?
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My first impression when seeing him was always 'spear' or 'lance'
He's not the sword, axe or hammer type in my opinion. Are guns an option, anyways?
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Hmmm well he had that drill axe thingy, which worked, but it was too flimsy for him. It wobbled and bent too much, so I did away with it. Since then he hasn't really had a weapon. I think a spear or lance would be kind of neat yeah. As for guns...You know, I don't really know. None of those guys have guns. I've always seen Ryakk as more of the hand to hand combat kind of fighter.
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My idea as well, I just wanted to ask for your opinion.
Anyways, did you get my message with the link for the picture of Zero?
Also, could you take a picture of all the parts you could use for that weapon? A pile picture like this [link] is enough for me to get an idea of what you have to spare. But I still may come back at you when it come to the amounts of certain technic pieces.
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Yes I got that. 
Okay. I've taken those pictures. [link] this is a rough idea of what I've got to work with. I would say to avoid using ++ pieces as I don't have many of those. You can kinda see what weapon pieces I've got...I think. Maybe as you design something, send me progress pictures and I can let you know if I have those parts or the quantity used?
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Of course, but remember, I'm only able to work on the weekends. Next weekend I'm gonna spend sometime with a friend, he starts MOCng now and wants some help
But I'm gonna try to make a prototype of the weapon if I can ^^
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That's fine. Ryakk isn't going anywhere.
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Cool but it's a bit weird that the light green is on the crotch, that's the first thing I see on the moc itself 0_0
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I really do envy your skill in armour layering, you know 
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Yeah, the size gave me a hard time. Armoring something big is huge load of work.
I better at working on titan size. Colossus is not my favorite.
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Yeah, it took quite some time xD
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I love Byorak so much. It's utter brillinace how all the parts fit together so neatly. He looks great, I can't praise this MOC enough.
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I Dont want to offend any of you but i hope none of you are over 15 cos these are toys, If you want to be genuinely creative and original, Go learn 3D modelling or somthing similar. This is just toys and yet it is cool how you guys mix and match peices to get what you want. But unless your designing and building the parts your self its just a toy and your just playing with a toy.
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You've got to be kidding me.
Firstly, it's 'you're'.
Secondly, how dare you accuse us of not being 'genuinely creative'. MOCing is an art form. There's even a category in deviantart for it.
I could go on but I will allow others to do so. I've had enough of dealing with people like you.
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