"That is certainly the most eye-catching ikran I think he could have found though," Gaia muttered amusedly. "Like a bag of melted Skittles…"
BOOM THE OFFICIAL REFERENCE SHEET FOR 🔥TSAWTXEP🔥 this is yet another piece for @slowwolverine Stardust series "Orionis" but this unique Ikran was claimed by none other than Tsu'tey's brother ✨️Arvok te Rongloa Ateyitan✨️ Mottled with the colours of blood and fire, she was a true warrior of the skies. The largest female Arvok was sure he had ever seen. Her hide boasted rich shades of burgundy, red, orange, and yellow, highlighted with fine rivers of acid green along her back, her wings and neural whips tipped with burnished purple. Those eyes of hers were a warning, four glowing beacons of death.
Add your friends or feel free to join in even without a tag! Answer the following questions:
1) What's your favourite Avatar Movie?
2) Who's your favourite character?
3) Who's your least favourite character?
4) If you could change one thing about the movies, what would you change?
5) When and why did you join the fandom?
6) Which character is the best written in your opinion?
7) Any hot takes to share with us ;)
8) Which tribe/clan would you like to be a part of?
9) Human, Dreamwalker or Na'vi?
10) What's the weirdest theory you've got or have heard about the franchise?
11) Got a favourite piece of merch if you have any?
12) Something you wish would happen in A4:
13) Something you hope will NOT happen in A4:
14) Warrior, Hunter or Healer?
15) What would your chosen weapon look like if you were a Na'vi?
In the movies? Scoresby. 😡 In the entire franchise including games? Mercer. 🤬
4) If you could change one thing about the movies, what would you change?
More scenes of Spider’s captivity in ATWOW and how the recoms adapted to the feral teen. That had to be a hell of an adjustment for everyone. 😆
5) When and why did you join the fandom?
I always liked the Avatar movies from day one, but I didn’t become obsessed until ATWOW. 💙
6) Which character is the best written in your opinion?
This is tough…and while I do think there are many characters written well, I’m actually going to say I was most surprised by how much I loved Payakan’s character in ATWOW. His story was very well fleshed out and his impact on major plot points in ATWOW are undeniable. 🐋 #payakanistherealhero
7) Any hot takes to share with us ;)
Not sure if this is a hot take, but I think AFAA would’ve done better with fans if it wasn’t advertised as “Lo’ak’s movie”. Interviews made it seem like this was Lo’ak’s coming of age moment but, while he was still important at times, AFAA was not about him. If anything, ATWOW was Lo’ak’s movie…AFAA was more about the relationships between Jake and Quaritch, Spider and Kiri, and a touch of Spider and Quaritch (but anything more from the minimal interactions we saw in ATWOW is awesome.) ❤️🔥
8) Which tribe/clan would you like to be a part of?
Ta’unui 🏝️
9) Human, Dreamwalker or Na'vi?
Na’vi 🩵
10) What's the weirdest theory you've got or have heard about the franchise?
I heard (and still do) that Spider will eventually betray the Na’vi and become a villain…I really just don’t see it happening… 🫣
11) Got a favourite piece of merch if you have any?
Hmmm…I’ve gotten more since AFAA came out but I’ll go with a wallet inspired by toruk. 🐦🔥
12) Something you wish would happen in A4:
Quaritch continues to be obsessed with getting his son back. 🦅 I know it’s not what Spider wants but it was fun to see the colonel thrown off so much by a teenager…
13) Something you hope will NOT happen in A4:
Varang gets pregnant…sorry, I don’t think her character arc needs that… 😑
14) Warrior, Hunter or Healer?
Healer ❤️🩹
15) What would your chosen weapon look like if you were a Na'vi?
You knew when the Dog Tag Warrior lost some of his trophies making a hasty retreat that his hunter would come to you…
Wukula would use any advantage, even Kalintu’s ability to see the hands an object passed from, if it meant getting closer to finding So’lek…
Oh, my poor sweet psychic Kalintu. 🧿 His gift of foresight and unexplainable understanding of all things mysterious is quite advantageous for the Mangkwan. Even if he doesn’t want to aid in the terror and violence…
It’s an especially bad day when Wukula comes knocking. 🔥 Please ignore that he looks like Nosferatu.
So, what do you think…? Did Kalintu tell Wukula where So’lek was…? I need the draw him with other Mangkwan now… 🔥😈
Edit: I completely forgot the scarification on both of them…I’m so mad. 😭
if I had a nickel for every time a sci-fi movie featured a scientist named Grace who became teacher to a class of alien kids on another planet, I would have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice
just a heads-up that any Avatar bashing in the notes will just be blocked/deleted so don't bother 😌
After much delay and recovery, I’m finally in a place that physically and mentally to get back into finishing what I started. Love you all, my internet darlings! 💙🐞
Trigger Warnings:
Past Child Abuse
Description of Injury
Blood/Gore per usual
🕸️🕷️ Weaving the Web 🕷️🕸️
Chapter 34: Let The Rain Fall
“Green wire, dumbass!” Zdinarsk snapped when she got a decent jolt from the generator she was trying to get started. Squeezed underneath the platform of an abandoned field outpost in muddy undergrowth she had to burrow through, the last thing she needed was an electric shock after everything the recoms had just pulled.
“I’m still fucking colorblind!” Lopez hissed back from the electrical panel on the other side of the open research area. How Lopez still carried this genetic trait from his human self? Not important at the moment...
While getting power to the whole outpost would be great, the first goal was to kickstart the air filtration system for the shack. When Zdinarsk and Lopez scouted it during the time Quaritch made his way to Devin, they only scoped it from the outside. The sealed part of the outpost had the living quarter basics, or so it looked through the mossy windows. Cramped sleeping quarters and minimal kitchen necessities, but it had solid, uncracked windows and a working filtration system for its previous human inhabitants. When it had power, of course.
Wainfleet watched Zdinarsk’s and Lopez’s banter while Ja was causing a ruckus clearing space inside the open lab. He pressed thumb and forefinger to his throat comm, “No dying, brothers.”
A crackle of static then silence as he pulled the earpiece out and turned off the communication device completely.
Radio silence. The recoms had no choice. They’d done more than deserted their point; they’d commited downright treason.
And yet...
Here they were. The 1st Recom Unit had seen Earth and the RDA as unworthy of their service.
All because of one human kid with a heart of gold tarnished by human cruelty.
If there was anything the recoms found worth protecting in their second life, it was sitting barely alive in a rusted outpost left abandoned by other humans who recognized what was and was not worth protecting long ago...
“You’re ok...nice and easy...real slow...” Ja repeated softly as he moved Spider’s arm like it was made of glass. He used medical sheers to cut off the sleeve of the once white lab coat Devin had offered the kid in the last bit of kindness he’d experienced before the daring rescue attempt. He repeated himself but it was more like he was talking to himself the way the teenage boy didn’t respond.
No words. No winces. No reactions whatsoever.
The doc could slit his throat slow and methodically with a scalpel, and Spider wouldn’t budge.
It had started raining hard by the time the recoms reached the abandoned field lab. It was crazy how many of these little metal structures, most taken over by nature from years of abandonment, the recoms had found in their missions. Quaritch thought it was a waste of resources back then, but now? A lifeline for his boy. Breadcrumbs for them to follow to get further and further away from Bridgehead and the RDA...
He’d scooped Spider up in both arms as soon as Cupcake landed and sprinted into the open-air research space, vaulting up all the metal grate steps at once.
“I got you, tiger, papa’s got you.” Quaritch said as he held him close for a few seconds before hearing more footsteps behind him. He cleared his throat and immediately followed Ja’s lead as he dropped a large medical bag on a dusty workbench. The medic swiped his arm across to clear off old tools and dirt for the Colonel to place his son down.
Quaritch didn’t want to at first...but knew he had to let go for Spider’s injuries to be assessed and treated.
He would let go...for now.
“Sir, I’m going to need you to sit down before you fall down.” Ja said firmly as he didn’t stop tending to Spider.
Adrenaline and pure stubbornness gave Quaritch the willpower to put any weight on his right leg. He would’ve congratulated whoever the marksman was that turned his kneecap into a jigsaw puzzle if they weren’t aiming at him. And if they’d survived the completely reckless and barely planned coordinated attack with the Mangkwan.
‘Barely and ‘coordinated’ were an exaggeration; ‘planned’ was an outright lie.
Quaritch knew very little about the Na’vi clans beyond the fertile Pandoran forests. When he was human and in charge, he didn’t care able the barren lands and what crawled out of it. ‘Mangkwan’ was just another clan to them that they would shoot on sight.
It wasn’t until his second life, listening to the ramblings of his son and his life among the Na’vi, that he learned how truly different the clans of Pandora were. Without even realizing it, Spider had planted a seed in Quaritch’s mind to learn more about his enemy. Not just how to kill them...
Ja’s sighed when he heard the shuffling of Wainfleet scrambling up the metal grate steps to catch Quaritch when he did finally fall. As much as he did want to tend to his superior, the good doctor had to prioritize one patient at a time and the screeching reprimand he would get from the colonel wasn’t worth it. Besides, he could only see the surface damage of the teen. And it was bad...
There was so little natural-colored flesh on Spider’s body that Ja was stunned the boy was able to disassociate enough to be touched. Dark bruising, almost black in some places, marred his chest and his arms. Open cuts and burns from fast contact with something long striped his skin in the worst way possible. Ja managed to remove all that remained of the soiled lab coat and had to suppress his gag reflex at the full sight of the crazy kid he’d learned to love like a little brother.
Quaritch was breathing heavily after crashing back into a workbench, knocking dusty glassware and tools to the ground with shattering and clatters. Wainfleet caught his best friend by the arm before he completely collapsed and helped him to the floor.
“Easy, Miles.” Wainfleet managed to say, purposefully looking at his friend over the kid. He might not be able to contain himself if he looked at Spider...
“My boy...” Quaritch huffed as the own pain in his body burned his senses as the adrenaline receded like floodwaters. He didn’t realize he was starting to hurt all over and drip with sweat from a cold chill.
“Left forearm broken in two places.” Ja said as quietly as he could, but loud enough for the recorder in his vest to pick up. Everyone’s hands were too busy to take notes for him and both of his were needed to inspect the teen’s body while keeping him upright.
Quaritch growled. A terrible kind of strained rumble from his throat. His fury was spiraling, but his body was failing. Blood oozed through his heavily blood-soaked camo pants and continued to drip slowly from a through and through gunshot wound in his left bicep. He may have been hit more than twice, but it didn’t matter.
Quaritch would face a firing squad a hundred times over to save his son from any more pain.
“Lyle, sedation and tourniquet.” Ja said, managing to find rifling through his bag without looking. He tossed them over to where Wainfleet attempted to restrain and console the colonel.
Quaritch thought both were for the boy until they bounced across the floor.
“NO!”, Quaritch roared, “I NEED TO SEE MY BOY! FUCKING STAND DOWN, LYLE!”
“Not following your fucking orders today, Miles.” Wainfleet said, grabbing the syringe and stabbing it into Quaritch’s right thigh as fast as possible.
The impact of Wainfleet’s fist coming down had Quaritch seeing stars and screaming in pain. The air left his lungs, and he couldn’t inhale from the agony. But he did feel strong hands jerk him forward into a powerful embrace of arms around his shoulders. He managed to start breathing again, though hyperventilating was a better way to describe the wheezing from his nostrils as he clenched his jaw tight against the quick-acting sedative.
In those brief microseconds before unconsciousness, Quaritch stared over Wainfleet’s shoulder as his Spider. His sweet boy; the only thing that mattered.
If he didn’t wake up from whatever happened next, Quaritch would be sure to come back a third time just to see his son one last time...
I meant to have this done by Mother’s Day (for obvious reasons 🤭), but time is a construct I don’t seem to follow anymore.
Of all the things Rey’akina became, the last she expected was sa’nok! 🥰
Her first child is born and his name is Ta’tsy. Taken from the Na’vi words taw meaning “sky” and tsyìl meaning “climb”, Rey’akina’s first son’s name is inspired by her journey with the help of her found brother, Spider.
How did Spider feel about Rey’akina's pregnancy? Probably shocked speechless and then excited. Like, his big sister is pregnant! It's such a big deal, and the reality settles in, and Spider just looks at her...then at Mansk...then at her...and then back at Mansk...then at her belly...and then he's happy and gives her a big hug! It's such great news!
Sorry for the delay! 🫠
Spider would DEFINITELY be shocked…and Rey’akina’s mood is just so infectious, he can’t help but be happy for his sister. ☺️
But then his protective little brother side kicks in and he lowkey gets mad at Mansk. 🤣
Like…Spider knows Mansk is on their side and loves his sister more than anything in two lives…but also, this dude knocked up his sister. He mean mugs him every time Rey’akina isn’t looking and gets protective like he did when Mansk and Wainfleet first started showing interest in her way back when.
Of course Spider gets over it and is quickly ecstatic at the idea of being an uncle. As soon as Rey’akina starts getting a little bump, Spider can’t help but stare in wonder. And then get protective in the way he worries anything and everything will stress her and the baby. It takes at least two pregnancies for Spider to realize being pregnant doesn’t mean she’s made of glass. 😂
FIRST Spider of course then @varangx Spider from his 🔥FIRE🔥 fic "We Overcome It" THIRD @jeanniebug623 Ash Spider design I really liked so had to add him (NGL he looks like Kratos LOL😂) finally of course Trr'ong from @sandiavolo fic "As The Ash Cloud Passes Over" also have to mention @anka-partizanka-from-pandora alas FIRST person brought Trr'ong to life making the very first fanart of the character 👏👏👏
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