I posted a B/W version of this one long ago but never end up posting the color version here, so here you go!

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Teen-semi-demi-mini-god recruit anxious juvenile crab monster as bff and sidekick for adventures and possible illegal activities

I wanted to draw how I imagine young!tamatoa, basically just the crab version of the design I made for my crabman here, I like to think tama used conch shells at first for protection and then as part of look, he probably started stashing stuff inside and over it

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When you decide killing two birds with one stone by making up for the lost time of adventures with your crab bf but also helping him to get some shinies on the way too!

Color version at my patreon for $1!

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I just can’t stop thinking about @quere crabman!tamatoa…..I just…..I CAN’T, there is just something on it, something that calls me…!!!

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70% of why I made the modern human au is because of maui on a skirt full time

Maui probably use any excuse to lose the shirt and the sandals, but who cares he thinks his green skirt is all the high fashion he needs

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the point is that I feel the heart isn’t need at all for the fall out, the heart add a bunch of layers of heaviness it doesn’t actually need

liek I said, Maui reasons of doing things are very simple, just impressing humans so they like him more, so I feel the leg ripping should work in the same way, an acident that just happened, but maui felt so nervious about this that he just though of leaving without more

and actually I use the te fifi’s heart as part of my headcanon, in the way that after the incident, maui deciding to go for the heart becuase one, he knew this deed would be basically worth of years of attention from the humans, and two, he had ripped teh leg of his best friend, he fucked up so hard here, so maybe would be okey to be some dozen of years apart, you know? to could down things

but of course, if you would hear that yoru best friend, that just ruined one of your legs and not even said sorry, is back at his daily routine of adventure and idol stuff, that of course is just gonna feed your bitterness and anger, not so much at humans, but at him

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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

I not saying sometimes I’m not already sicklish sappy, but sometimes I want to be ANOTHER LEVEL of sappy, sappier and bigger…the ultimate sappiness

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Well, Tamatoa hasn’t always been this glam
I was a drab little crab once

TEEN TAMA ft teen Maui

I basically imagine him being a complete mess teen back in the day, since I imagine Lalotai as this society with concious monsters not just tamatoa, but also still as savage as when everybody was trying to eat Moana, so lil’ Tama probably acted more aggresive and wild on that age, is no easy growing up in the realm of the monsters

Maui eventually teached him style and how to brush his hair

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Look, I like tiny/baby tama as much as the next guy, but each time I think of him, I can’t stop remembering that scene of otgw, and it’s kills meeee

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