Or, the Queeshmael/Moana crossover fic that I definitely wanted.
Summary:
Maui was flooded with relief when he saw the man paddling, or rather trying and failing to paddle.
(A thousand-year-old friendship brings a demigod out to save a harpooneer, and one less canonical death results.)
Or, Queequeg is a descendant of Moana a thousand years down the line, and Maui keeps his promises.
In the Same Manner – seashadows – Moby Dick – Herman Melville [Archive of Our Own]
Death By Catchphrase 