Avatar but make it a superhero AU. What kinda powers/abilities do you think the different characters would have?
UHHhh loveee the idea!!! Imma go on and say then that superpowers are hereditary and that the world has such things as "supervillains" for plot purposes!
QUARITCH + SPIDER
Now for these two, I'm thinking something like death/destruction powers! Quaritch in this world would probably be the main and most powerful villain. With Paz having been a fellow villain and remaining the mother of his child. Spider, I imagine, was left orphaned after Jake and Neytiri managed to take him down. He grew up in an orphanage for powers children that Jake founded under the close watch of his allies, in no small part due to the similarities the two have both in appearance and powers. It works pretty simply, tbh. If a think or person is in their line of sight? Spider and Quaritch can kill it. Perhaps we can make it more interesting by saying they're able to create a kind of black "rot" protruding outward, which then corrodes these things. It calls back to how in canon Quaritch is mostly known for destroying stuff. Settling Spider with the same horrid powers as his dad keeps with the whole "sins of your father" situation. Everyone is just waiting for this kid who dreams of being a hero like Jake Sully to fuck it all up and become the bad guy they all think he'll be.
THE SULLY FAMILY
FOREST THEME. Neytiri's power is that as long as she made her arrows herself, she's able to guide them however and wherever she wants. Master archer pretty much!! Meanwhile, Jake is able to accelerate to great speeds It really makes it hit all the harder for him when he loses the ability to walk to the point of turning to villainy for a little bit before switching sides back to the good guys for Neytiri. I like to think that Eywa in this world is just some great cosmic force giving out these powers, with some more attuned to her (the Na'vi) and others not so much (powered humans). Mo'at and Neytiri being especially attuned to her for example. Mo'at in this case prolly had healing powers she used for Jake. Neteyam, I think, inherited Neytiri's powers of master archery while Lo'ak got Jake's superspeed to mirror their respective arcs of "golden child" and "Jake parallel". Tuk would be too young to have grown into hers properly yet, but maybe she inherited her grandmother's healing? With the gift skipping a generation?? As for Kiri- obviously, plant and nature control. She's able to grow all kinds of things out of nothing while also being able to communicate with animals absurdly well. Her powers are unusually strong owing to the fact of her birth (still an incarnation of Eywa done via Grace, though this time it wasn't her avatar but she herself who ended up pregnant. Dying on an attack of Quaritch in the hospital she gave birth in before Jake and Neytiri took in her newly orphaned child). It gives us a really cool dynamic with Spider, they're life-and-death. Kiri could have a draw back that while she can create nature, she can't destroy it. So when she uses her powers it needs to be manualle removed- smth that is obviously an issue if she does so in a large scale. Spider, despite hating his powers, often uses them to help Kiri with that clean up. Just how old needs to decay so new can grow once more. One can't exist without the other, both figuratively and literally.
AWA'ATLU GANG
Ronal and Tonowari would props have smth like enhanced intelligence and strength, respectively. They've got that Ocean Theme nailed DOWN. Tsireya? Either water control OR being able to create illusions with her singing, similar to a siren. Alternatively- she's able to feel the thoughts/emotions of those she touches. Aonung meanwhile, inherited his father's strength. No one can say what Pril will get her mother's intelligence OR smth like seeing the memories of others replay for herself. Roxto had the ability to to create shields for himself and others. He always protected his friends, to the point of being unable to shield himself when time came.
VARANG
Fire powers, next.
















