Scryptorek

Scryptorek (スクルプトレック Sukuruyputorekku) is the main villain of Bionic Fantasy, and founder of the Dai-Shinra sect of the Shinra Electric Power Company.

Story
Scryptorek is one of the first Makuta, and their personal Chronicler, meaning he may be older than Teridax and Miserix, if marginally. Despite sharing most of their views, he is not truly loyal to neither Miserix nor Teridax, but simply lived his life under the belief that history is written by the "winners", as he bided his time with the latter after he usurped the former. After the Great Cataclysm, Scryptorek took Teridax's putting Mata Nui to sleep, somewhat rendering the idea of godhood redundant, as a sign that what he believes is right, and began to desire controlling more than just Metru Nui or even Aqua Magna. He found the Kanohi Vahi at the bottom of the Silver Sea, siphoning an amount of energy leaking out of the mask at the time, rather than take it for himself, and tried to go far enough into the past to usurp the Great Beings and rule Spherus Magna, but he couldn't control his new ability well enough to go to whatever time period he wanted, until he appeared in Spherus Magna restored after Teridax's death in the distant future and took the Vahi off the Dark Hunter Voporak's hands. His time traveling abilities then grew to the point where he can not only freely travel the timespace continuum, but also warp to other worlds unknown to the peoples of Aqua Magna.

Scryptorek appeared on the Planet Gaia, where he tried to assist Jenova in eradicating the Cetra, but though she was defeated, Scryptorek managed to integrate some of her genetic material into his being, increasing his new powers further and then traveled to another planet(the setting of Final Fantasy VIII, long before the game's events) which he refers to "Sorcentra", where he took much of the Centra civilization's technology and killed all those who tried to stop him or knew of him. He later ended up on Spira, where he discovered Shinra's theory of harnessing energy from the Farplane and gave him the financial aid, indirectly through Rin, to conduct this research. When the system is perfected 1000 years later, Scryptorek led the descendants of Shinra who continued his work in his stead to Gaia, where the Shinra Electric Power Company would be founded. In return for his guidance to the planet and helping them rediscover Jenova, the Shinra Corporation gave Scryptorek hired help and resources for him to establish his own division of Shinra on the planet he would colonize and name Ankoku Nui. This sect of Shinra quickly surpassed the main branch on Gaia, thanks in part to the Matoran Universe technology and other sciences Scryptorek had access to, and became the Dai-Shinra organization that supports and worships the Makuta as a god-king.

Some time later, the people of Ankoku Nui and even the Dai-Shinra members began to see the hypocrisy behind the supposed "historical validity" of Scryptorek's actions, as well as the damage they were causing to Ankoku Nui, and rebelled against him, but the Makuta exterminates all the humans on the planet, building the Vahkshi robots to help him run the company while he turns the native Genjuu hostile as an additional measure to keep any potential intruders at bay while Scryptorek continues with his time altering experiments. But those experiments were not without unwanted side-effects, including those that ultimately brought the Toa Metru and Toa Luminus to Ankoku Nui. Realizing their presence could jeopardize his work, Scryptorek disguised himself as "Toa Jikanmu" to keep an eye on them, helping them destroy the Genjuu to earn their trust while manipulating them into helping his scheme along. After bringing them to his lair, Jikanmu reveals himself to be Scryptorek, uses Ankoku Nui's stolen life energies to create Kardahamut, and fought the Toa. Though the dragon Genjuu is finally defeated, the Makuta continues to deride the heroes and unveils his wing, a sign that he injected himself with Jenova's cells, unleashing a time field before draining all their mana. But before he can kill them, Scryptorek is struck by a Great Gospel rain which weakens him significantly and kills every trace of Jenova in him, as well as healing the heroes so they can defeat him. Despite his disbelief at being defeated by the humans and Toa Metru's combined strength, he condemns them one last time before they are spirited away, leading him to believe they perished, and that Ankoku Nui will never recover. But Scryptorek ultimately dies in vain, never knowing that the heroes not only saved the planet, but they also survived and returned safely home.

Powers and Abilities
According to Jikanmu, Scryptorek can travel through time and space, eventually learning how to appear in other worlds, including Spira. He is also capable of creating Genjuu himself, such as the Liche through human experimentation, and Kardahamut through stolen energy from the Lifestream. He also has traces of Jenova's genetic makeup in his body, allowing him to sprout a black wing like Sephiroth did, but the full extent of this "One-Winged Angel" state's abilities are never shown, thankfully, due to Aerith's intervention and his presumably incomplete understanding of the Lifestream. The Makuta can also stop time through the incantation, "ZAWARUDO".

He once wore the Kanohi Farusei, the Mask of False Divinity, which was mysteriously destroyed or otherwise lost through unknown circumstances.

Personality
Scryptorek is a cold, calculating, lying, spiteful, derisive, arrogant, self-important, intimidating Makuta who despises his intellectual inferiors for their simplistic morals and verbally tortures anyone who disagrees with his opinion, that only the strongest and corrupt powerful should be the writers of history and rulers of the universe, in which case, he makes no distinction between mortals or any divine beings, only judging them by their ability to abide by his beliefs and enforce them to the masses. For these reasons, he is an age-elitist who desires eternal life by any means necessary. He is also an insane, megalomaniacal hypocrite who staunchly believes only he can decide who or what is truly "good" or "evil", and brutally accuses his enemies of disrespecting the past, despite his own meddling with the timelines of various worlds and desire to rewrite history for his own selfish reasons.

Quotes

 * "You were unfit to be a Toa then, you're not fit to be one ever!" to Vakama
 * "An open mind like the sea, yet still none the wiser." to Nokama
 * "There's no talking your way out of this one, boy." to Matau
 * "I'll shatter you and your meaningless resolve to pieces!" to Onewa
 * "Return to dust from whence you came!" to Whenua
 * "Never before have you faced a colder truth." to Nuju
 * "It all comes down to this, your final failure!" to Cloud
 * "The fruits of your training shall avail you not!" to Tifa
 * "Feeble lion cub, your final lesson is at hand!" to Squall
 * "So much wasted potential for a sorceress!" to Rinoa
 * "The dream for which you stand must end!" to Tidus
 * "Your father awaits you in the Farplane, summoner." to Yuna
 * "The collected energies of Ankoku Nui are now the source of life for this, the most powerful Genjuu ever created! It shall wipe you fools off the face of history's weave forever, and I will destroy all others like you! None shall be safe from the wrath of Scryptorek!!"
 * "When Teridax put Mata Nui to sleep, a great truth dawned upon me: It doesn't matter whether the ruler of an island, a city, a country, a planet, or even an entire galaxy is a god or a mortal!"
 * "No one must question their elders or the historical validity of their actions, but you fools chose to defy the writers of history, and you all paid dearly for it!"
 * "Jenova cells, boy! I know all of Shinra's secrets, remember?"
 * "May no one remember your names. Face your judgement...!"
 * "You liberal minded, sacrilegious, ignorant fools deserve to be without power, without hope!"
 * "I may be defeated, but the history of Ankoku Nui... will never change...! Of any falsehood, my thesis is free... Of my life, I've no regrets... " - last lines.

Etymology and symbolism
Scryptorek's name comes from "scriptor", meaning "writer" in Latin, and "rekishi(歴史)", meaning "history" in Japanese, so his name means "writer of history", in reference to his desire to control every facet of Ankoku Nui's history, and his messing around with the time-space continuum to his own liking.

Allusions to:
Teridax: Sephiroth: Ultimecia: Yu Yevon:
 * Both hid their true selves behind a literal and figurative mask the Toa Metru could "trust", though Teridax posed as Turaga Dume, a pre-existing being, while Jikanmu was nothing more than an empty shell used by Scryptorek to keep a close eye on the Toa Metru and Toa Luminus.
 * They both say, "Accept your doom!"
 * Both are connected to Shinra and have Jenova cells in them.
 * Both are quite sadistic and mentally torture their opponents; Sephiroth was calm and collected, focusing mainly on Cloud, while Scryptorek is more spiteful, more overconfident, easily angered, and shamelessly insults anyone and everyone who opposes him and his beliefs.
 * Both sprout a black wing from their right shoulders, and are left handed in juxtaposition to Cloud, who is right handed.
 * Both had plans involving absorbing energy from a specific planet to achieve some degree of godhood.
 * Ironically, whereas Sephiroth turned on Shinra after learning his origins, the majority of Dai-Shinra rebelled against Scryptorek after seeing what they were doing to Ankoku Nui's lifestream.
 * Both have the power to control time and space to varying degrees.
 * Scryptorek's desire to rule Ankoku Nui forever and extend his beliefs to all generations can be comparable to Ultimecia's scheme to compress all time into a single moment.
 * Both are Summoners, though Scryptorek only summons Kardahamut once, and Yu Yevon's summoning ability, prior to creating Sin, is relatively unknown.
 * Both wanted to keep the memory of something alive forever. Yu Yevon is described as "neither good or evil", and wanted to preserve Dream Zanarkand, but had to be stopped because his means of protecting it, Sin, went out of control; Scryptorek was already evil and wants to ensure the continued survival of the evils the Shinra Company had created.

Voice

 * English: Abubakar Salim
 * Japanese: Haruhiko Jo (壤 晴彦)

Trivia

 * His english voice actor is known for Bayek, the main protagonist of Assassin's Creed: Origins.


 * His "Jenova cells, boy!" quote is an allusion to "Nanomachines, son!", a similar quote of Senator Armstrong's in Metal Gear Rising, which has become an internet meme.


 * The fact that Scryptorek fights much like a Dragoon (especially when disguised as Jikanmu) is a subtle foreshadowing to his summoning of Kardahamut.
 * Scryptorek's manner of fighting also bears similarities with Gongora from Lost Odyssey, as well as Rodrigo Borgia's use of the Staff of Eden, with or without the Apple of Eden, in Assassin's Creed II.
 * Scryptorek's last words are similar to Raoh's own.
 * He was originally planned to be voiced by Unshou Ishizuka until his passing on August 13, 2018.
 * His preferred method of stopping time is the same as Dio Brando from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
 * Scryptorek is the one who ordered Kojol to steal the Mask of Light, just to force the Order of Mata Nui to commit morally dubious actions to keep the Great Refuge a secret.