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Impact Subplot Setup #1 (Warrior Moko)

Scene Purpose:
-Main Character and impact disagree over their basic nature/way of doing things.
-Ingo tries to manipulate Kō to his point of view about Duty
-Explain Kō’s new shoulder moko

Mōhio and Aroha are with Kō in the hut.

Mōhio tells Kō that he needs to change her bandages. While she was passed out, he wrapped wet seaweed over the burns on her shoulders.

Mō unwraps the bandages very carefully. He unwraps toward the camera, so he can see what’s underneath, but the viewer cannot.

Mō and Aroha gasp at the same time.

Ingo: Impossible!

Alarmed, Kō sits up. Camera switches to front view of Kō, sitting up in bed, looking down at her shoulders. They are covered in intricate moko.
Mō: you have been marked, my child!

Kō: What is it?

Aroha: Whaitere! The manta, Kō, do you remember? Our love gave you these!

Ingo: You’re wrong, these are not for love.

Kō: What then?

Ingo: … These are the marks of war. Of warriors. There must be a mistake.

Mō: your tahonga knows of these things. We shoul–

Ingo: No, he will not know.

Mō: But, he’s a great lore master and seer, this–

Ingo: I said he doesn’t know! I know the one who will.

Kō: Who then?

Ingo: The one called Mataora. He will know what this moko means.

Ingo knows these are the marks of a chosen warrior, and he knows his tahonga will understand them, but he’s embarrassed that Kō has them while he doesn’t. Also, he’s jealous of Aroha, and wants to prove to Kō that her crush will not work out of the best–he happens to know that Mataora and his wife are miserable together.
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