#human!tamatoa

[tamatoatalks]

Made a comic and was like "You know what? I'mma put the audio"

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Scarf snuggles with Tamatoa while he is polishing his shell

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Individual piece underneath

Some parts from the movie

[tamatoatalks]

It's true, so eh

[theshiniest]

How would you describe the best humanization of Tamatoa?

it’s mostly about his essence for me, i can overlook facial/bodily features just for the sake of seeing that man who has transformed himself completely into the best (according to his worldview) version of himself. a walking masterpiece. he’s bright, sparkly, bold, dramatic - eye-catching in general. give me a boy that gets ALL the looks when he walks in/by because of how flashy and over the top he is.

as for the physical features there’s already plenty of human-like things in his canon look, so just… add a nose to that, give him a more human skintone(or don’t! purple man! stunning!), slap on some hair and that’s pretty much it?

things ive personally been able to catch after looking at him for four years

obvious: those big round bulging eyes. i’m seeing so many humanizations who opt for that deepset narrow “hot boy” look… please don’t. his eyes are wonderful as they are.

big mouth. big, uneven, yellow teeth. people have a tendency to just draw this perfect hollywood smile, add a little gap and move on. like c’mon.

also teeth decorations. his barnacles have so much potential: switch them up for anything. gems, crystals, grillz, tooth piercings

his underbite aka the reason why he smiles with both rows of teeth showing

dark fluffy lashes. listen. if they decide to give a CRAB lashes - those lashes are important

the chub. his chin almost blending in with his neck. his full soft cheeks. man is fat

also goes for his body

note: with that, we kind of do have the canon reference for his body build - early concept art

and you can see that it’s not just fat, it’s muscle+fat. that good solid tummy. those arms.

his bioluminescent markings:

i did a rendition of them for a human face (+ added something to the eyes).

and by the way, the human face in question is my early artbreeder human!tamatoa attempt

artbreeder doesn’t really allow you to go into extremes with jewelry or makeup (as well as change the skintone without changing hair and eye color, so this is about as dark as I could possibly get him to be). and no underbite here as well :(

but i was really going for that ugly pretty feeling. like… he’s attractive to the point of being repulsive with his big blue eyes and everything, but he’s also repulsive to the point of being attractive. i feel like this constant confusion from the beholder’s point of view is what would make human!him captivating. the “hold on something isn’t right” or “hold on something in him is so cute”

also my next point

androgyny. tamatoa is androgynous on some level. even in canon form he’s got this combination of “strong/masculine” (physical size, deep voice, dominant presence, big heavy chin, his little barnacle beard) and “feminine” (big eyes, soft features, flamboyance). he’s based off david bowie, the androgynous icon, and HEAVILY queercoded.

adding to the queercoding bit. we kinda established the “flamboyant mlm”, but there’s another aspect to him that the fandom seems to miss

“story of shifting shape”.

his whole “i changed myself completely to fit what i thought of myself and now despise who i used to be”… this feels like SUCH a trans metaphor to me.

he never goes into detail about his “drab little crab” life and i’m pretty sure we figured out “l’histoire” is just a story moana made up to tell the kids - there’s no way she could know any of that.

considering this, i would really love to see some transmasculine human!tamatoas with their wonderful barnacle beards and inexplainable gender envy towards a certain demigod

his missing leg would be a WAY bigger deal in human form. ripping off a human(oid)’s leg would mean that maui makes him fall to the ground, which is pretty much a certain win. why didn’t he kill tamatoa? even if maui couldn’t for some reason/decided to be merciful, why didn’t tamatoa die from excessive bleeding/pain shock? in modern aus with both of them fully human, how does one man even cut/rip off another man’s limb physically? this requires sitting there and carefully cutting through flesh, muscle, bone (with no magic fishhook that could potentially slice it off in one hit) - let’s be real, maui can’t do that even to the worst person in the world. so, option 1: tamatoa’s missing a leg in general, not because of maui (or INDIRECTLY because of maui). born without one. car accident. any accident. bonus points if he believes maui’s at FAULT for that. pretty much the canon way. or, option 2: missing finger. 10 fingers of a human. 10 legs of a coconut crab. see the parallel? a finger can potentially be lost in a physical fight. not having a finger is a relatively small injury, but it interferes with your daily life just enough to absolutely bloody hate the person who did this to you. the leg missing is better character design potential though. just imagine how intricate and stunning his prosthetics would be.

and remember! tamatoa’s the best no matter which form he chooses to take on, guiding the hand of an artist 😌

[gecko1011010]

I was bored a few weeks ago, so I drew this hooman.

[tornrose24]

What kind of drawing app did you use to create that picture of human Tamatoa for the Wothout a Voice fanfic? It looked really good.

I used photoshop. I WAS using it for a lot of my art until my tablet decided to not work (and I still need to get a new one). Also it’s ‘Only a voice’ but I see why you thought it was called the other thing. ^_^ Drawing a human version of Tamatoa was a lot of fun. However there were so many human!Tamatoas out there and I deliberately avoided giving too many details about his appearance in the fic so that everyone could imagine their favorite version of human!Tamatoa.

[its-the-sa]

So ... the new godzilla movie has completely taken over my life. Lmao. I stood no chance, I am sorry. I just heckin love kaiju.

But, I still love tama and maui too! So I will very probably be coming back to the moana fandom at some point, I just dunno when. Hyperfixation is a bitch, u know

If anybody here likes godzilla though, my main blog is @its-the-sa and Im gonna be posting art there now. Thank you for ur time and Please accept a parting gift of gijinka crack nonsense,

(Meanwhile)