#matangi moana 2

[ienchanted]

Meet Matangi, the new Moana 2 vilan.🌊🐚

[ifthesewings--couldfly]

Matangi Concept Art by Kevin Nelson

[child--ish]

they'd be good friends

[agent-oo-z]

Finding out that it’s not even really vampires I love so much as characters tied to bats visually isn’t that wild. It’s kinda wild it happened because of a character in Moana 2 tho

[fishfrommars]

Y'all I need HELP. I can't draw Matangi from Moana 2 to save my life and I need more of her. How draw? How illustrate? I fell instantly in love with her and ai need to aee her rn

[nimi-mi-li-suli-ala]

too bad matangi is trapped in clam prison she would have loved Chappell Roan

[dracarishit]

i don't think i made myself clear... I NEED MORE OF THEM TOGETHER!

[dragonerd8224]

Having been thinking about Moana 2 since I left the theater yesterday, I have come to a few conclusions

-most of Moana’s crew are gay

-Matangi is also gay

-I really like both Loto and Matangi

-why the fuck not ship them?

so yeah I’m now #1 Lotangi fan (on account of having made it up)

if you like this idea please please let me know

[jmr-observingfromafar]

ngl Matangi in Moana 2 was kinda gay. like just a little gay. i mean my girl is a "crazy cat bat lady", calls Moana "babe" twice in her song (the way i audibly gasped in the theater when i heard it lol), and is like sooooo queer coded i love it sm. she just gives off the vibes of sapphic-coded older woman who's played as suave and confident and makes the mc just go "haguphuk" and we all know if this was old disney they would've leaned so hard into that. but i could not have been the only one to keep catching Matangi poking her buttons, the hand on her chin in one scene, just being a total fucking vibe like please i know what you are. that whole scene felt real gay and don't think im leaving Moana out of this one. she is gay, i don't make the rules. i'm stickin with this hc no one can stop me from making Matangi the cool lesbian aunt and NO ONE will stop me from turning Moana gay (Auli'i Cravalho knows what she's doing)

ok im gonna be so real for a second i was simping HARD over Moana's character design in this movie.... like even more than baby me was dying during the first one... like this girl is just- oh my gosh. baby-gay me from 8 years ago would have actually DIED if she'd seen this Moana. it's almost embarrassing how down bad i was during that movie like she's so fucking pretty i wasn't ready for her design. like girls are just too much sometimes, i cant cope .

also side tangent but the lazy ass rewrite of Moana 2 from its planned version as a Disney+ series into a freaking MOVIE was just- so painfully obvious. like they didn't even try reworking it. the structure of the whole movie is painfully episodic and it was just so blatantly shoved into movie format without any care for the integrity of basic movie versus tv structure, so the char dev and pacing was just so rough. like what were the writers even thinkingggg. pretty disappointing but that's ok i have the fandom to make me feel better (moana fan art save me....)

[cartoonjessie]

"Do not fear, you have been rescued!"

[randomnoteforfuturereference]

Appropriate to have Matangi's animal motif be fruit bats. Not just because what initially appears to be a menacing villain actually turns out to be benevolent if a bit chaotic (related how when we first see them from Maui's pov they are a menacing swarm; then when Moana actually meets one up close, it's just a goofy little shit).

But, even if it's leaning towards Eurasian motifs here, there's also the fact that flying foxes (and Matangi by extension) look like... well... foxes. Which fits in with how foxes are known to be wily and cunning tricksters.

[lazulcatt]

*exiting the movie theatre*

Friend: What was your favourite part of the movie?

Me: …the plot?

The plot in question

[snw-faatuatua]

𝙈𝙖𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙞

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I’ve had this idea burning in my mind and I finally brought it to fruition- I simply cannot wait to see Matangi on the big screen!!

With the little amount of ref photos I improvised some details, like her malu tatau (tattoos on thighs)— I’m actually so happy with the result wowowow

[top-shelf-tender]

{{Just got home from seeing Moana 2. Alright ya’ll, what are we calling Moana x Matangi? Right now, I’m voting on Echo Locator~}}

[word-broker]

Just watched Moana 2 and...

It's not just me that can see the romantic/sexual tension between Maui/Moni and Moana/Matangi right??

[kitab00m101]

(Warning: Moana 2 spoiler-ish)

I swear if I don't ramble about this absolute life altering experience, I'll pull a Miles Morales and say "what's up danger?"

I saw the Moana 2 movie, I liked it, but I'm not here to talk about the movie. I'm here to talk about how my GAY FREAKIN ASS nearly went red, squealed, and fainted when I saw this woman.

Y'all. I was SWOONING.

The pure insanity. The CHARISMATIC AURA. She so damn fine, and I can't explain it. It was PAINFUL to remain quiet in the theater, because all I wanted to do was rant to myself about how GAY she was making me feel.

I kid you not, I couldn't fully enjoy the rest of the movie because my heart was aching to see her back on screen.

I am ill.