Asked by Anonymous

oh boy, oh boy, this one is a tie between “fight for the te fifi’s heart“ and “broke off because of Tama’s gold craze going too far“ for reasons about the friendship ending/leg rip, so yeah, unpopular opinion from ThisMighty, really really don’t like any of those hc for that explanation

for the frist one, is that I feel it would be too easy making tamatoa the guilty one for the separation becuase well, he already is a villanious character that tried eating moana and laughing about sensible matters like eating his grandma and following your heart being garbage, so obviusly if someone is at fault of a broken friendship is the arrogant selfish asshat crab monster

but the deal is….Maui technically is also an arrogant selfish asshat, like yeah, not as amoral as tamatoa, but then again, crab lives on the land of monsters, not a place to be kindhearted really, also, half the point of the movie from maui’s side was about how big problems become when you run away from them, problems YOU MADE HAPPEN

so I really can’t see tamatoas as the one that ruined the things according to this motif of the story, and I not saying my hc about the leg rip is the best one, becuase I just want it to be an unrelated accidentbut because and maui runned away in places of confronting, it ruined everything

now about the gold craze stuff, this one comes form the fact that basically any tamatoa official info always carry small fragments about how he “use his shiny exterior to hide his insecurities“, and yeah maybe is copy and paste type of info, but this always make me thing that while tamatoa started collecting treasures when adventuring with maui, but he only got 100% focuses on it after the leg insident and maui leaving just like it, so tama kind of adopted a mentality of “love fades away but things? things are forever“

thats why I just can’t get on any of those hc, maui’s reason to get the heart wasn’t actually deep or particular, was just for more fame, so I don’t see why the friendship fall out need a more bitter or bad reason to happend bsides accidentally, and just becuase tama is shiny obsesses right now, doesn’t mean that 1000 years ago he have to be exactly the same, that don’t really make sense