alright going off of this post of mine, i'm going to keep rambling.
quaritch, when talking to spider, says "i'm not your father" and "i'm not that man" meaning that quite literally human quaritch's (referring to him at H!quaritch) memories were placed inside his head. this would also see true to all the other recoms.
now again, we note that quaritch seem sensitive to not only spider's emotions but to that of the tulkun when we see it gunned down.
this being said, i highly believe that the recoms' memories were messed with before they awoke. hear me out.
it wouldn't be unexpected for the RDA to do this. they already modified the recoms' ears (as also seen in another post that i probably don't have saved somewhere) so what would stop them from altering their memories to make their superweapons kill the biggest thing stopping their total domination of pandora?
also, when H!quaritch says "that's not going to happen" and recom quaritch sort of shrugs and plays it off, it's clear that, initially, doesn't care about H!quaritch. what i mean is that if the memories were purely H!quaritch then he'd have some sort of other reaction to his death than shrugging it off. yes, he's might've been thinking "i'm stronger now" and like it doesn't matter but it seems sort of out of character for H!quaritch, at least for me.
therefore, i think the fact that quaritch was grown from H!quaritch's dna would've influenced his personality, his biggest traits that is, but not entirely his ability to hold a grudge against jake. he does however, feel fear when he sees neytiri attacking and at the arrows.
this doesn't make sense!
quaritch was being grown before H!quaritch died which means they implanted some sort of fake fear into quartich. this means that the RDA would have also modified his memories to be bitter or vengeful towards jake but... he isn't vengeful towards him, not at first.
he slowly becomes that way but i feel like he's being conditioned to and he doesn't necessarily feel hate towards jake. but when we do first see quaritch talking about jake, he seems more curious than actually angry.
my conclusion?
recom quaritch is a lighter, younger version of H!quaritch, who's been bittered with age. i feel that he learned to hate jake and the na'vi but he, if given his own space to think, wouldn't have felt that way. yes, jake did technically go rouge, but if quaritch were given the time to fall in love with pandora like he was, then he would've gone rouge too.
as for the other recoms, they too are younger versions of their human selves. not completely, but a younger version and they were just following orders when it came to quaritch who was following his orders.
just saying, it doesn't make sense how quaritch is afraid of neytiri when when he was being grown, he didn't have any recollection of her. my best guess is they put the video from H!quaritch's mech suit into recom quaritch's head so naturally, he would fear an obviously skilled warrior.
thank you for coming to my ted talk, feel free to leave questions <3
