when peop le are going to understand that the bond with the Pa'li IS TEMPORARY. You bond, walk with it and unbond, everyone can bond any Pa'li. They are NOT a forever bond!!!!!!!!
Please stop costumising Pa'li's to be a forever bond with an oc.....
Think about it. Across every movie, comic, and game, we never once see two Na'vi kiss each other. The only other kiss we've seen is when Kiri kisses Spider! Something she likely learned from her parents! The only kiss in the entire franchise is the one Jake initiates with Neytiri in the first film.
My head canon: Neytiri had no idea what kissing even was. It's a concept Jake brought with him — a human thing.
And the films actually back this up. When they first form Tsaheylu and she rushes at him, she doesn't kiss him — she rubs her face against his. That's her language of closeness: nuzzling, scent, contact. It's the gesture her culture actually has. The kiss only happens because Jake initiates it!
It makes sense, too. The Na'vi bond through Tsaheylu — they literally link nervous systems. Why would a culture that connects that deeply ever develop something as small as pressing mouths together? A kiss would feel almost primitive next to what they already have.
Which makes the kiss one of the only human things Jake gives her that's purely tender. Not the Sky People's ways, not something taken — just something soft he hands to her. And she leans into it without even knowing what it is. 💙
He took SO LONG to learn how to kiss he gets embarrassed just to think of it.
He is fucking competitive and tend to learn fast, but when Wulì tried to show him he just didn't catch the key to do it. He got obsessed with it and wanted to kiss her all the time to exercise it and try to get better. Everytime that this happens she needs to stop the kiss to cry out laughing cus he just doesn't do it right. Is not a passionate kiss or sm like that, is more of a funny kissing .... thing. He took almost an year to learn the "whole thing"
Just saw a fanfic abt one of the male characters replacing their mates, and guys, I don't want to be the one telling someone what is wrong or right, but it's confirmed that Na'vi once mated, they don't mate again. The mating with that one person is for life and beyond....