Another child!spider with a kuru au
Kid spider gets into either a) an argument with another kid b) overhears a really hurtful conversation abt him or c) is walking home when a sudden storm comes around and sweeps him away
Any way it happens he ends up in a really fast and deep river where he manages to grab onto a log/branch large enough to keep him afloat
The log also happens to be holding up an atokirina >:)
Spider cant really get off the branch so he pulls himself up and holds his hands over the spirit (to make sure it doesnt fall into the water) while he makes small talk with it
At some point spider manages to fall asleep or is knocked out and when he comes to he’s in the goddamn ocean and he is scared as hell but at least his little buddy stayed with him so eywa must be watching over him
This is where his battery finally starts to run out of power
Usually he would panic and he kind of is except there is really nothing he can do atp.
Well, nothing he can do to live
He figures if he’s gonna die anyways he’s gonna do it while looking at pandora without a mask on. So he tells his little buddy and wishes the spirit luck in finding her way back to land bc spider cant help her from here
He takes off his mask and lays down on the branch and he doesnt notice the dark ocean that bursts to light under him. Almost as if there’s a path to him
(There is. A pod of tulkun take notice, and they follow eywa to where she leads them. A small pink boy on a large branch who isn’t breathing with glowing tendrils growing out of his nose and mouth)
One of the female tulkun gets him into her mouth, and then its a race to the cove of the ancestors (which they were suspiciously close to, looking at u eywa)
Anyways, after they put him into the tree and it connects to him, spider wakes up in the spirit world, except he’s not in the forest, he’s on a beach and there’s an old woman with a stern face looking through him
She seems to find something she can at least agree with in this tiny, wet dog looking, pink child, because she holds out a hand to him and tells him that he doesn’t have much time to choose.
‘Do you want to die, or do you want to live?’
Spider chooses to live. So the woman leads him through the eye of eywa, and he wakes up underwater while surrounded by tulkun. One of which takes him into her mouth which he is def confused by but also he is tired af and just kinda goes back to sleep😭
The tulkun (who i say is Roa, couldnt fit it in but its her) take spider to the metkayina who r by now gathered on the beaches bc the tulkun are ahead of schedule and sounded worried
Roa gets as close to the shore as she can while the others hang back a bit- to show that now isnt the time for a visit- and calls out for Ronal
Ronal who shows up and is horrified when her spirit sister pushes a tiny pink thing into her arms from inside her mouth. Before Ronal can even begin to think abt wtf is going on roa reaches out for tsehaylu, bc there is no WAY she can explain it all in words
Ronal sees all that her sister has seen and is still confused but at least she isnt hostile anymore. When they disconnect, Roa tells ronal that the tulkun guided him to eywa. Now it’s her turn to guide the boy to the People
She takes him and then it can go a few different ways
1) when the wind traders come around they ask them to ask around the forest clans for a missing human boy named spider. When word reaches jake and norm they get there as fast as possible and either they leave him be, or the custody battle of the decade starts
2) they keep him and raise him and eventually the sullys come asking for uturu and are SHOCKED bc uh that is spider- spider without a mask- spider with a kuru- spider as the Tsahiks son- spider as blessed by eywa
I personally like option two better. I especially like it with spider with memory loss. Either from the time his brain was without oxygen or because somewhere along the line he managed to hit his head hard as hell
Yeah. Thats all i have on this for now. Might brew up some more ideas later but idk
This got to be really long. Also, sorry abt any spelling mistakes 😔💔
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