12 Building A Boat~! [OPEN MINGLE]

[chosenbytheocean]

WHO: Moana
WHERE: 7i Beach Area [Also around the 7i Boat House & Town looking for stuff]
WHEN: Month of September
OPEN TO: EVERYONE [Feel free to make top posts if you'd like as well. Moana will hit everyone up but this is open to whatever people want.]
WARNINGS: None

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Throughout the month, Moana was at the beachfront assembling different parts of a boat. She had the design sketched on few pieces of paper though the sketches were not very good.

She had spoken to a lot of people about building a boat and will accept everyone's help with its construction. They needed pieces of wood, someone to build the hull, stronger materials for the sail, which meant that Moana was back to collecting reeds and stalks that wouldn't absorb the water as it sprayed up from the ocean. She really needed a better drawing of the boat and its design, even if she was bad at trying to explain what she wanted to build. The hull needed to be shaped from a single piece of wood to avoid leaks. As well as the side-canoe that would help keep the craft balanced on rocky waves.

Everything had to be collected from the new parts of the island since it would take too much effort and time to try to carry all the pieces through the now small breach between the canyon walls. When Moana wasn't working the boat she'd watch others work and encourage those around her to join. It was something like an event. If there were enough people come night fall Moana would start a large bone fire and cook fish. She would welcome others to lend a hand in any part of any process. Much like her home, she wanted to build a community of people working together and helping.

She could be spotted around the 7i boathouse looking for any useful materials, as well as rummaging through the other houses on the way back to the beach. She also brought a handful of tools from the inn, including a grappling hook that she had found in the inn's storage closet. Moana wasn't sure how anyone might use it but it looked useful enough to take with her.


Image References: Moana's Boat, Boat One, Boat Two, Drawing One, Drawing Two, Drawing Three, Drawing Four.

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[chosenbytheocean]

Moana's lips tugged into a soft frown. "Not here." She didn't want to admit that he was right or that there was a bit of doubt nagging at the back of her mind.

"I am the decedent of voyagers. It's in my blood."

[chirrutsluck]

"This is not a place for voyaging," Baze points out. "It is a place created to trap us and watch us. That--" He points at the waves. "--is not really an ocean, and they will not let you get far. You should not go alone so that there is someone to help you when they force you to turn back." Or worse, try to drown her.

[chosenbytheocean]

"No." Moana was past the point of reason and now to the point of stubborn defiance. She didn't want to take anyone with her because she knew if she was alone she'd come back. She didn't want to put someone else's life into her hand. It was her idea and it'd be her responsible.

"I need to get back to work." She gestured towards the pieces of boat around them.

[chirrutsluck]

"Why not?" Baze demands, now, critical of her stubbornness. It reminds him of Chirrut, right down to the idiotic risking of her life for no good reason. Even Chirrut sometimes had a reason, even if that reason never seemed like enough to Baze. "Why do you turn down bringing someone with you? It won't hurt you to have help."

I wanted to use this icon so badly but I ran outta paid time

[chosenbytheocean]

Moana turned on him, desperation, stubbornness and annoyance flaring in her large dark brown eyes. "Because it might hurt them. I am not going to take anyone else to their deaths when I can't promise they'll be safe. It's my job to protect people and I know that this isn't my village but the people here are my family and I won't let them get hurt."

She inhaled a staggering breath as she stood facing Baze, her chin held defiantly high.

HA nice icon choice, yes XD

[chirrutsluck]

Baze considers that for a moment, before softening. Slightly. It's a noble thought, but also a stupid one. "Moana. The people here are adults, and if they make the choice to help you, that is their choice, not yours. You are not responsible for the choices of others."

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[chosenbytheocean]

"Being an adult or child doesn't matter." She exhaled a slow breath, trying to reign in her frustration. He didn't understand and Moana didn't think he could. She had been responsible for everyone in her village, it didn't matter how old they were.

This was how she saw the world.

"There isn't room on the boat and I'm better off without someone in the way." It was a rather small boat with room for Moana, a blanket and food.

[chirrutsluck]

"That is not a way to make friends, by acting as if you are the only one who can do anything," says the person who really hasn't made much in the way of friends in years, because he hasn't cared to try. "Try not to die out there alone." And with that, he'll turn and leave her to work on her boat by herself. If she isn't going to be sensible about anything, he's not going to help her go out there to get herself drowned.

[chosenbytheocean]

Moana paused and watch him go, her mouth falling into a frown. She hadn't wanted him to walk away but she also wanted to go out alone. She continued to tell herself that it was easier this way but she couldn't help but feel lonely as Baze walked away.

She hoped that he had at least enjoyed seeing the ocean...