Board Thread:Clean up Concerns/@comment-2059440-20160822192203/@comment-366087-20161220151942

Basically the dialog went:
 * Maui
 * I was not born a demigod. I had human parents. They, uh… took one look, and decided they, ahh… did not want me. They threw me into the sea. Like I was… nothing. Somehow I was found by the gods. They gave me the (fish)hook. They made me… Maui.


 * Then I went back to the humans. I gave them fire […etc demigod feats etc…] …it was never enough.

The problem with that canon-narrative is it is *subjective to the one character*. How does *he* know why his parents did not want him and threw him away? He was a baby at the time.

See, all we know about Maui's parents are what *he* tells us, and his perspective is only what he knows, or at least what he THINKS he knows. And/or presumably what the gods which found him told him. But we don't even know *that* much about his story. He did not say he was told what happened, he did not say years later he tracked them down and asked them (like the blended source myths say).

And even our knowing the source material for his character is disconnected from the movie. Myths relate that Maui was UGLY, something that Disney changed for his design. (and he's NOT FAT. He's large and heavy-set, grrrr, that bugs me Internets, that bugs me…)