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A vicious and deadly rahi created from a very strange melting pot of inspiration, including Pokemon's Mewtwo, BIONICLE's Muaka, A. E. Van Vogt's Coeurl (and by extension the Displacer Beast) and the Kettenkrad. Like the Coeurl, Jarrokh can consume the "Id" of its victims, though in its case this takes the form of elemental energy from toa and the like, along with a hefty dose of arsenic poisoning.

Jarrokh would have been an entry for Toa Phosphorus' Elemental Bionicles Contest 2013 had the build not become so large, complicated and time consuming. His element is Arsenic, hence the colouration, including the pink eyes! My thinking was along the lines of classic Arsenic poisoning cases, where it's always done by someone the victim trusts, and would never suspect... while everyone shouts "The Butler did it!" the sweet and innocent housecat is the real culprit. Of course, Jarrokh here is more like a panther than a housecat, highly intelligent, and a powerful Dark Hunter. 

I wanted something similar to the other existing feline rahi like the Muaka and the Shallows Cat, which only led to finding these other disparate sources of inspiration. The build features a transformable lower section to switch between feline (by BIONICLE standards) and humanoid modes, petrol engine-like greebles like on the Kettenkrad and long, sinuous tentacles and tail like on the Displacer Beast and Mewtwo.

This picture by `arvalis was the reasoning behind the tubes wrapping around the tentacles and tail as well as a fair bit of the shaping around the torso and head.

The full backstory and more photos can be found on the original post on MOCpages! :)

Alas, Jarrokh's shape didn't lend well to making a good looking deviation this time around. Ah well. :/
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Nice Job Gringat. I can definitely see that MewTwo reference in there. Those lower legs seem starkly simple compared to the rest of the MOC but I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. They look really cool despite the simplicity. And after seeing how it rolls on the tracks in its other form it adds that level of functionality.  Interesting tibit, Mototaur's first form had caterpillar tracks instead of wheels, but he out grew them so to speak. Those additional photos really lend to a better appreciation of why the lower legs are like that.

I don't know why you say the Deviation looks bad. I disagree I just think you spaced the photos too close together. It makes it a little confusing of which part belongs to which version. DA's size restriction is pretty high so I also don't know why you didn't make it bigger or add more photos. Just didn't have the time?