Moana
Dec 20, 2016 22:30:14 GMT -5
Post by Moana on Dec 20, 2016 22:30:14 GMT -5
MOANA would like to become part of the magic!
Who am I? Just a conscience!
Introduce yourself
Hey, howdy, hey! The name's MAGGIE, and I wished upon a star from ADS. My other imaginary friends include THE TRIPLETS AND CO. MOANA and I are so very eager to join the Worlds of Disney circle of life!
I'm wishing, I'm wishing
Character basics
Character name: Moana Waialiki
Age: 16
Species: Human
Birthplace: Motunui
Movie: Moana
Custom title: Curly Haired Non-Princess
Why: Why'd you pick this character?
I loved the movie but even after watching it didn't figure I'd pick up Moana or anyone from the movie but then the more I pondered over her the more I figured I could give her a try. She's heroic in the traditional princess sense and then not so and doesn't claim the title even Who's the fairest of them all?
Character appearance (try to get at least 2 or 3 sentences for each section)
Hair description: Black, wavy and thick, slightly curly perhaps (not enough for Maui's nick naming perhaps she would say ^^). Comes past her shoulders and ends just above her waist. Often left unbound.
Facial description/mood/expressions: Moana's two most natural states, on her round but still slender face, are happy or determined. Prior her adventure, conflicted too and often trying to find the balance between all she feels. Her eyebrows are thick, same as her hair, and due to her island's culture not trimming them as part of grooming.
Clothing style: Though she's worn many varying shades growing up and as she grew, Moana now wears a deep pink top adorned with sea shells and tan thread skirt that comes down to just past her knees.
Body build: Of a slender build, Moana gives off the impression she may be unequal to tasks of climbing and other athletic feats, but she is muscular enough to be a good runner and climber also, her island having plenty of terrain to build this up.
Any unique traits (optional): What might actually set her apart from the others of her tribe, is that Moana has no tattoos herself.
Curiouser and curiouser about..
Original character analysis (In your own words and please be thorough)
Personality:
History:
Heightened perhaps by the ocean's picking her to be the Chosen One to restore the heart of Te Fiti (just viewed as a pretty and interesting rock to the toddler who saw it) which the Demi-God Maui had stolen, and save both Motunui and all the other islands; a story her Grandmother Tala told as destined to become true even before Moana herself was chosen for the later task.
Of course Chief Tui was not so convinced, feeling it just a legend, and Motunui a perfect paradise that would sustain them forever. It had for many many years, after all. He instead focused on guiding his people...and keeping his daughter from her ever prevelant attempts to get on the water. Even just watching the fishermen come back from the edge of the reef sounded enticing, but Tui knew it was just the first step in his daughter falling into the same trouble he had experienced out on the unforgiving waves.
The trouble didn't subside with time, Moana, despite a deep love of her people, was always drawn to the sea, and only Tui being yet older and larger than the young girl to physically carry her back to Mortunui stopped Moana from trying sailing then.
Her grandmother only encouraged this passion, and for the girl to openly seek and find who she was.
That was the question the young Chief in training struggled with, feeling that to love the sea, she abandoned and would let down her people.
At sixteen, and in an effort to curb her wanderlusting, her father showed her their island's great mound of stones stacked by Chieftains of old, and destined and awaiting her own. Moana took what he said to heart, and threw her attentions into helping her people and not letting down her parents. She made a good leader, in training at least, until the two conflicting issues collided again over an issue of lack of fish. Moana knew what she was suggesting, but also meant it for the good of the people, suggesting looking beyond the reef for fish and thus undoing all the work she'd done in proving herself ready to take the position her people expected and which she wanted all in all...for the most part.
Really Moana wanted her two worlds to mesh seamlessly, or atleast to have some peace about it all.
Proven when she went out on her own past the reef and only ended up wrecking the boat. In front of her grandmother she declared her father was right and she should just focus on being a leader...expecting Tala to stop her and tell the girl what she was already telling herself of how that was not what she was destined to do.
Her grandmother did do this in a sense, showing Moana the cavern of boats their ancestors had used and telling the tale of the Heart of Te Fiti, only different this time and pointing to Moana as the one the ocean chose to find Maui and return it! Darkness creeping to Mortunui as an added incentive.
Still a bit hesitant, Moana went seeking her father and the others help with her quest, but her plea was shot down, most notably by Tui, who declared it all nonsense. They were distracted from this discussion, and it solved in a way, by Tala passing and in her final moments telling Moana to go ahead with the quest the ocean had chosen her for.
With her grandmother's spirit sting ray guiding her, and the ocean, Moana set off to find Maui at the bottom of his fishhook constellation. It was along this sailing, or learning to point the boat in the right direction, trip that she discovered she had a stow away, her sort of pet chicken Heihei! After spending some bits of the trip trying to keep the chicken from drowning...and/or freaking out about the water, and more than a few wrong turns, the duo encountered a storm which washed them up on a beach, which Moana thought was a step back until realizing it was Maui's island, where he'd been stranded, fishookless, for a thousand years.
Her encounter, and proud words her grandmother had told her to say, did not have an affect on the Demi-God though. He simply distracted her with (very good) song and dance and locked her in a cave to steal her boat to escape!
Proving her determination though, Moana clambered out (Maui's ego atleast good enough to have caused him to make a statue to unintentionally aid her with this) and with much of the ocean's help of her own tenacity got Maui to...atleast stall long enough for Kakamora coconut pirates to steal Heihei (and the heart when he swallowed the jewel like item) and aid her enough with escaping after she rescued the chicken and heart with him.
During this her lack of ability to sail without the ocean guiding was evident when she didn't know a thing about Maui's directions, and, after boosting his ego enough to get a promise from him to help restore the heart after they got his fishhook, the Demi-God gave some...begrudging lessons in sailing for her, and their, benefit.
A thousand years of a lost fishook meant it had time to make its way to Lalotai, the Realm of Monsters, and a hoarding crab named Tamatoa. Moana proved her resourcefulness after distracting the crab long enough for Maui to get his fishhook only proved he was too out of practice to use it properly meant another plan was needed, which she came up with, distracting him again with a fake barnacle and luminicent alge from his cave so she and Maui could escape with the real one.
All the trouble with this though, only proved how hard (and Maui said impossible) it would be to defeat Te Kā. Yet, ever tenacious, Moana didn't give up, not either with convincing Maui to share why he was so eager to please the humans (as Tamatoa had pointed out). It turned out it was for acceptance where he'd never gotten it, even from the start. Maui put all his worth in the god's taking him in after his human parents abandoned him and who he was with his magical fishhook they have given. Moana convinced him he was still Maui even without his fishhook. She also helped him get a better handle on his shapshifting and he her a better handle on sailing, or Wayfinding.
Finally they felt ready to face Te Kā, yet when they tried to sail in closer so Maui could put the heart back, Moana noticed both an opening between Te Kā and the island, and that the lava monster couldn't go in the water. In another pattern of her bad habit, she pushed forward even after Maui told her to turn back. Maui rushed to face Te Kā and save both of them, but in the process cracked his fishhook.
After Te Kā's attack had knocked them both away from Te Fiti's lost island, Maui gave up the mission, seeing Moana's recklessness, and his fishhook in danger of cracking forever. The girl, feeling her whole mission was failed, gave the heart back up to the ocean, telling it it had chosen the wrong person. Her grandmother's spirit came to her then to encourage and lift her up again, showing her that the balance of her love of the ocean and her people was good and waht she'd been seeking all along was inside.
Reinvigorated, Moana set off to restore the heart herself! Yet she didn't quite have to do this, though even she would have forgotten about it, she had Heihei with her and the chicken proved his worth by saving the heart before it dropped off the boat once...and the action was probably intentional...eitherway he was a big help.
An arguably bigger help was Maui returning, after his odd Mini-Maui tattoo knocked sense into him. Maui bravely tried to face Te Kā now, sacrificing his hook for it, and give Moana time to return the heart, but after seeing that the island was gone, and another glance to Te Kā, pieces fell into place. In the end, Moana showed the heart to Te Kā, who had only been seeking it so tenaciously because it was his, hers, Te Fiti's! Te Kā was Te Fiti, only without her heart. Moana restored it, finally, and also defeated a lave monster at the same time and easie than she would have bet.
Being a godess, Te Fiti was forgiving of course and gave Maui another after he apologized for stealing the heart in the first place. She also fixed Moana's boat and sent her back to Mortunui both a grand leader who had saved her people and a Master Wayfinder; well that was Maui's part and though they parted ways, the Demi-God still followed Moana's people as they sought new lands and to pull them from the sea for them.
Only someting must have gone wrong...because Moana found herself on a very strange island, not even an island at all really.
Ambitions: Keep her people safe still, find friends, find her way back to the islands surrounded by the sea more so than this park, make the most of being there, explore, take care of Pua and Heihei (and Maui 
)
Strengths & abilities: Vigerous prowess, i.e. Running and Jumping. Surefooted, desterous climber. Compassionate. Good head and leadership qualities. Kind. Sees the good in seemingly useless things (Heihei). Determined.
Flaws: Otherside of determined, strong willed and strong headed. Impulsive when thinking she's right. Tennaged dismissive at times.
Likes: The Ocean. Wayfinding. Her people. Her family. Maui. Heihei. Pua. Smooth currents and strong winds.
Dislikes: Maui's ego. Being restricted. Being chastised. Feeling she failed. Letting others down. Tamatoa
Fears: Drowing. Harm to Motunui or her people. Droughts and Plagues in line with the last even if she stopped the last. Storms or winds she can't control, though this became less risk with Maui's guidance.
Anything to add?:
RP SAMPLE:
"SEE TRIPLETS"
