Ao3 Fic Recommendations - Avatar
A/N: Most of the fics here are Miles Quaritch x Reader/OC (Human/Recombinant/Na'vi) works since i might've become a bit obsessed with him prior to Avatar Fire & Ash movie. NONE OF THE FICS MENTIONED ARE BEING RATED IN ANY FORM BY ME, I simply like them and wanted to share them with everyone. I will keep updating this list whenever I can. Happy Reading!
A/N2: If you guys find the tumblr of any of the authors mentioned, DO comment so that I may tag them.
Extra Note: I tend to misread 'Quaritch' as 'Quiditch' from time to time, so if i tag any fic as Quiditch, do take it in humour.
Note: Fics marked with * are completed works.
♱ 'anla (Miles Quaritch x OC) by gardenofizabo
After his near brush with death—courtesy of Jake Sully—Miles Quaritch and his banshee are stranded out in the Pandoran wilderness with no way to get back to Bridgehead. Much like his number one enemy, he is approached by a curious female Na’vi who offers her help, but only on her terms.
For the first time in both of his lives, Miles is able to see Pandora for what she really is, and that includes the Na'vi.
♱ 'awstengyem (Miles Quaritch x OC, Recombinant Polycule) by @cheshawrites
'awstengyem definition: bind / bring two or more things together
It would be easier, then, if he were one of the Sky People. If he did not look like eywr brothers and sisters. If it were his first, and only life, perhaps Owsiupät would not be so kind, but eyw looks at him as he is, knowing he has been born into the world with a set purpose, and feels sadness. The sorrow of knowing the Sky People toyed so easily with life that they were willing to force a dead man’s memories into a new soul often gave way to ire. A burning, bloody toothed sort of ire that wants to break something and scream until eywr throat is raw. But Owsiupät must remain composed and gentle, so eyw visits Eywa and those who have left the physical earth for solace.
♱ A New Mission: Ash to Fire (Recombinant Miles Quaritch x OC)* by @xenomorphee3
Miles Quaritch failed his first mission to kill Jake Sully, the leader of the Na’vi insurgency. Now, the RDA and Bridgehead Command have a new mission for him and his surviving recoms, Wainfleet and Mansk—a mission to gather intel and make an alliance with the newly contacted Ash People, a Na'vi clan endemic to a volcanic archipelago. What’s at first just orders will slowly come to change the young Colonel’s life and his relationship with Pandora, his son, and the RDA forever.
♱ A New Mission: Happiness is Simple (Recombinant Miles Quaritch x OC)* by @xenomorphee3
Sequel to A New Mission: Ash to Fire
Many years after peace has been reached on Pandora, former RDA recombinants Miles Quaritch, Lyle Wainfleet, and Devin Mansk have created fulfilling lives for themselves among the Ash Na’vi. Miles leads the people as Olo'eyktan with the love and support of his fierce Ash Na'vi mate, Zukriyä. On their paradise volcanic archipelago, the three recoms contend with a great new mission—raising their families. However, such may prove to be the most difficult mission they’ve ever had, as the actions and decisions of their adolescent children will force their parents to contend with the dangers of Pandora, their relationships with their kids, and rivalries thought to be buried long ago.
♱ Constellation Cancer (Recombinant Miles Quaritch x OC) by Lilbhaalbabe
Colonel Quaritch returns from his defeat at the Battle of Three Brothers Rock battered, bruised, and barely alive. Berated by Ardmore and patched up by the RDA medics, he and his team are sent in again with a different approach: a specialist in all things Pandora to truly teach them and give them the homefield advantage.
Quaritch wants nothing to do with this "psy-chick" scientist, but at this point he's willing to do anything to avoid failure again.
♱ eye to eye (i see you) (Recombinant Miles Quaritch x OC)* by @rickydickyd0dagrimes
Tirea'kip and her younger sister were orphaned upon the destruction of the Omatikaya Hometree in 2154, leaving them in the care of the Tsahìk and her daughter. Nearly sixteen years later in the midst of the war between the Omatikaya and the RDA, Tirea'kip and the Sully family encounter the RDA's new recombinant team. When Tirea is kidnapped by the reborn Miles Quaritch, she begins to lose sight of who she is and her future, until given signs by Eywa, causing her to have to decide between all she has ever known and the will of the Great Mother.
♱ Fickle Fate & Cruel Coincidence (Miles Quaritch x Reader) by @quvritch
Your relationship with Miles Quaritch had been rocky from the very start, but your love for him overpowered any hardships. You were committed to each other, and to working through any difficult situations that arose.
However, when war breaks out between the humans and the Na'vi, you end up on opposite sides of the fight. Life as you knew it fell apart, and when the smoke cleared you found yourself alone. With nothing left of the man you loved but grief. You came to terms with the fact that you'd never see him again.
But then, over a decade later, he's brought back into your life. Only this time, he's younger, a hell of a lot bluer, and oblivious to the fallout you'd had in his past life.
♱ In the Light of the Flames (Recombinant Miles Quaritch x OC x Recombinant Mansk) by We_All_Sin
Spark thought he had died a long time ago and had been trying to figure out how to let go. Even if he was kind and caring to her as a child, to everyone she cared for, he was a bad man.
She was doing well enough with that until a chance encounter in the forest with the reincarnation of the man she once knew turned her world upside down.
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Colonel Quaritch hadn't expected to come across the young woman he used to care for all those years ago. He had honestly hoped that after everything happened in the past that she might have been sent to Earth. But seeing the way she looked at him made him relieved she hadn't.
Quickly jumping on the second chance he never thought he'd get, he started trying to rebuild the bond they used to share, all while trying to complete the mission. Soon though he began to realize that there was far more to the girl than he ever thought possible.
♱ Is There Hope For Us? (Recombinant Miles Quaritch x OC) by Ur_Local_Neek
Reka, widow of the late and reviled Miles Quaritch and friend of the murdered Grace Augustine, lived on in his absence, taking Paz Socorro's son for her own and finding some measure of peace. Though no good things last, and the RDA returned . . . and so too did her husband, stealing away her son and sending Jake Sully scampering.
But Reka wants her son back, and will stop at nothing to find him...
♱ Let It Be Enough (Recombinant Miles Quaritch x OC)* by @kaspavanlortsyal
More than a decade after the Na’vi repelled the human invasion, the sky people have returned and they’re here to stay. Miles Quaritch has awoken with the size, strength, and speed of a recombinant avatar body and his sights are set on Jake Sully, leader of the Na’vi insurgency. He only needs to find him.
Petra Hart interned at Hell’s Gate fifteen years ago, a prodigy of Dr. Augustine who was one of the few humans chosen to stay on Pandora. Determined to defend her home, she will stop at nothing to make up for being locked in a jail cell during the last war, unable to fight.
When Petra is taken by the recombinants of Project Phoenix while desperately defending Sully’s children, Quaritch convinces her to ride along with them in search of the Sully family. He wields an ultimatum she never knew existed: her avatar, brought from earth. That, of course, and threat of death. Petra agrees. She can buy Sully time. She only hopes it is enough.
Completed. This is an enemies-to-lovers romance between OC Petra Hart and recombinant Miles Quaritch that sprinkles in a redemption arc.
♱ Ma Miles (Miles Quaritch x Reader) by @mechformers
When your son is taken, left behind by your Toruk Makto, you desperately go on the hunt for your boy. Knowing who took him, knowing that nothing good awaits him, you search high and low through the battlefield of Pandora, praying that Eywa will guide your way.
♱ Make the Bond (Miles Quaritch x Reader) by @ecriter
Unexpectedly, your life is flipped upside down when a waterlogged stranger washes ashore in your village. Hostile, nasty, and unable to speak the language, he makes for a headache of a combo. But something inside tells you not to give up on him, that he's capable of learning and change. But how are you supposed to trust this yellow-eyed stranger when you suspect there's more to him than he's letting on? Not to mention the rumors of a dangerous avatar on the loose....
♱ our shallow graves (Miles Quaritch x Reader) by @tojisun
You do not understand why you are so drawn to the Colonel, almost like this — the growing miasma of your conflicting feelings — has happened before. Like you have liked him before.
♱ Pinky Promise (Recombinant Miles Quaritch x OC) by @plaidamoosette
You had spent most of your life studying to be a part of the Avatar Program on Pandora. You were happy to be behind the scenes, monitoring the pilots and making new discoveries on this vast scientific frontier. That is until everything you thought you knew is shattered before your very eyes and your life is cut tragically short.
But when you wake up 16 years later in a new Recombinant body, what do you do with your second chance at life? Do you continue to fight for the resistance that you helped start, all those years ago? Or do you let your heart run away with you again? Would you even be able to survive it a second time, if you did?
Will history repeat itself, or can you finally help put an end to this war?
♱ Promises to Keep (Miles Quaritch x OC) by @outstandingblue
Based on the events of Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)Jiniraa has never been able to find her place in the world. She was a child when the Na'vi first fought back against the human insurgents. The war was a success, but she lost everything that mattered. Her home. Her dreams. The two people she cared about most.Fifteen years later, she found herself defending the Sully children - she was no warrior, but she was going to do everything in her power to keep them safe. She'd fight or die trying.Miles Quaritch could never expected how one singular pinky promise could change the course of his life and mission.
♱ Saviors (Recombinant Miles Quaritch x OC) by skamper0302
Samantha Lake is transported to a whole new world to save her life. She soon discovers that same life is about to change forever.
♱ Second Chances (Recombinant Miles Quaritch x OC)* by readdictNani38
When Ela'yu noticed Neytiri flying off on her ikran in panic, she couldn't have predicted her whole world was about to be turned upside down. When her Olo'eyktan showed up to annouce Spider had been taken by the reincarnation of the monster that ruined her clan and home, she got an inkling. It wasn't until she found herself captive of the recombinant unit, alongside her son, forced into spending every waking moment around that demon Quaritch, that Ela'yu realized without doubt there was no going back to the life she used to know.
♱ Right Choices (Recombinant Miles Quaritch x OC)* by readdictNani38
Sequel to Second Chances
After leaving Quaritch behind with the humans in the archipelago, Ela'yu and Spider tried to get back on track with life as it were before him, life as it should be. When an unknown menace started disturbing the mostly-peaceful life in the forest again, Ela'yu wanted to pretend she didn't naively hope the demon was back but the truth was - this was the biggest dilemma she had faced. That is, dealing, on one hand, with her heart's desire and her son's need of a father, and what was right in the eyes of her people and for her family, on the other.
♱ Strong Heart, Same Soul (Recombinant Miles Quaritch x OC)* by @rickydickyd0dagrimes
After an encounter with humanity's new attempt at taming Pandora, Iraya, the twin sister of Neteyam, finds herself in the hands of the RDA, forced to serve as their soldier after managing to not give up any information about her father, Jake Sully. The recombinant Miles Quaritch wishes he had left her to die in the forest instead of bringing her back, especially when her presence alone makes him start to question why he's working for the RDA in the first place.
♱ Sweet like cherry (Recombinant Miles Quaritch x OC)* by @pandoraslxna
Miles has a secret admirer and apparently, she has a thing for photography.
♱ The Edge of Redemption (Recombinant Miles Quaritch x OC) by @kaspavanlortsyal
The Sky People have returned to Pandora with no intention losing the same war again. Miles Quaritch has awoken with the size, strength, and speed of a recombinant avatar body and his sights are set on Jake Sully, leader of the Na’vi insurgency. He only needs to find him.Xenoecologist Petra Hart was one of few humans chosen to remain on Pandora, and she is no longer the naive girl who interned for Dr. Grace Augustine fourteen years prior.When Petra is kidnapped by the RDA, she is offered the ultimatum to accompany the recoms of Project Phoenix on their hunt for Jake Sully in exchange for her life. So long as she cooperates, her mind remains intact.As the fires of grief and hatred threaten to overwhelm the Great Balance, one truth remains: there is always a choice.
♱ The Only Flower (Miles Quaritch x OC) by rainbiows
What if the existence of one person was enough to change the course of a story?
Melinoe was sent to Pandora to take over as Grace Augustine's intern, and even though she had a traumatic experience in her early days there, she didn't allow herself to give up. Pandora brought many challenges and many feelings, dividing the young biologist between reason and emotion.
With many goals to accomplish, she allowed herself to do her best as a student and assistant, and allowed the friendly moments and smiles shared between her and Colonel Miles Quaritch to become something more.
Even though pressure from the RDA made Quaritch make decisions that could put their well-being at risk.
♱ The Dead Garden (Miles Quaritch x OC) by rainbiows
Sequel to The Only Flower
Almost sixteen years after the fall of the RDA on Pandora, life was almost back to the simple things. But everything turns upside down again with the return of the sky people. Being Spider's adoptive mother brought many challenges to Melinoe's life, but none of them would compare to keeping him safe in a place with recombinants everywhere.
Especially his father's clone.
The last person Miles expected to see in the middle of the forest was his ex-girlfriend, and, caught between her decisions and her fate, Mel, in the company of her son, has to travel across Pandora teaching the First Recom Squad how to speak and act like Na'vi. But she needs to remember the dangers of having Miles around and the feelings and destruction he always brings with him.
♱ The Way of Water & Fire (Recombinant Miles Quaritch x OC) by Tirison
She's survived the first war. He’s lived from of a past mistake. Now, between what was and what must be, they fight on—one as a mother, one as a father, all for peace. [QuaritchxOC. Set in The Way of Water]
Honorable Mentions because these ones are unlike any other Avatar story I've read so far
♱ Orphic (Miles Quaritch x Reader) by @kxnxrki
You're a lone Na'vi out and about when boom! Suddenly your world is flipped upside-down. Literally.
♱ The Bond (Miles Quaritch x Neteyam te Suli Tsyeyk'itan)* by orphan_account
“Marriage is just another form of diplomacy, Colonel.”
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Recom Miles Quaritch, technically only a few months old, has the body of a 20-year-old and the memories and military rank of a man in his 50’s. A grown-ass baby—and he's just made the dumbest mistake of his new life.
After an interrogation-gone-wrong, he suddenly finds himself saddled with a 15-year-old mate, the eldest son of someone he’s been told is his sworn enemy. And every day it becomes harder to justify why the hell he’s toeing the company line.
♱ The Memory of Stars (Miles Quaritch x OC) by @kaspavanlortsyal
The Knights of Eywa have one mission: kidnap the human princess of Terra and return home so the Na’vi Council can carry out a ritual to restore their connection to the Mother.When the alchemist’s apprentice Petra Hart is taken instead, tricking Commander Miles Quaritch into believing she is who they seek, they set out on a fantastical journey across legendary lands to the heart of Pandora.As Eywa’s light fades and two worlds collide, Miles and Petra must work together to overcome the powers working to destroy everything they love… or be torn apart forever.
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