An apprentice garment shouldn't be touched carelessly because it's a symbol of devotion to the Prime. Thus, to let others touch it is to say "I'm devoted to you too"
the saigans seem so lovely! what are the most common scale/hair colors among them?
Light colors, mostly whites and off whites with black hair! ^^ The Saigans are also the only Varanar ethnicity that can display a pearlescent/mother of pearl effect on their scales.
There are lot of thunderstorms in Saigan territory, and one of their customs is to cut and sand their horns so they can wear fake antler-like racks made out of fulgurite their collect from the wilderness.
It's a common tradition to pass fulgurite racks from generation to generation, from parent to child. Also common for husbands to collect fulgurite pieces and add to their wives bridal racks.
You think the spirits of the humans who died in the final battle in Avatar 1 haunt the forests of Pandora? Especially in the area where Quaritch and Jake fought?
During the day the sunshine, the songs of the birds and animals fill the air, but there is always a bit of a chill in the area. You are warn to never go there but of course sometimes you brave it.
As the darkness descends and it reaches the late night the world goes quite and no Na'vi would walk that land. If you go there....you might catch a glimpse of something from the corner of your eye. Don't turn too fast to look because it will disappear. But if you slowly look towards it you will see a spectre with three bright scars on the right side of it's head. The air goes cold. It's too quite. And you hope it doesn't see you.
So I see some folks disappointed that the recoms were killed off so quickly since the concept is both extremely interesting (albeit extremely fucked) but I'll like to expand on some of my thoughts.
Do y'all think the RDA would bring the recoms back? They failed their mission not once, but twice. The first time as humans... But they saw them as a worthy enough investment to suck out their memories from their heads and copy/store it for the purpose of growing an avatar in case of the event of their death. Would they do this again?? Would it be worth it to a corporation like them?
Another thing, nothing in canon seems to indicate that they can't just keep bringing the recoms back again and again. They have their memories. Who's to say they can't just do another 6 years of lab growth and boom, put them back on?
And yet another thought: I wonder if each time they come back, they come back a little less like themselves?? The memories in storage degrading, each time it's copied and put into the avatar body, things are forgotten or rearranged. Either intentionally or unintentionally. And they come back just a little bit more unhinged
The Quaritch-Socorro household has money. They are firmly upper middle class. You wouldn’t know it though from how the family looks and acts.
They are cheap asses. Not like extreme cheapskate levels of penny pinching but if they can save a buck they will.
Clothes from Goodwill with a few holes that Paz can easily patch up? Hell yeah she got three bags of “new” clothes for her family for $7!
Miles is taking his family for a “fancy” night out? They’re going to the all you can eat Chinese buffet in the Walmart strip mall. Adults eat for $10, kids $6.
If you think Paz is disappointed that this is what her husband considers fancy then think again. For her this is the lap of luxury
They don’t leave until everyone’s had at least three plates because the kids grow like weeds and “mama and papa are getting our money’s worth”
Miles goes hunting with his squad mates and loads up their deep freezer with deer meat.
Paz gardens not as a hobby but because growing food yourself is cheaper than buying it.
She cuts everyone’s hair too, including her own because “why the hell would I pay for that. I can cut a straight line.” (She’s completely unaware that her own curly hair would look like a hack job if she ever straightened it out. Luckily curly hair can hide a lot of mistakes)
Miles has her cut his at the end of every month like clockwork but one time they skipped it.
One of their kids had been born a few days earlier so Miles just let it go for the first time in years.
He was on leave too and helping his wife manage the household so what did he care.
He grew a beard during that time too and Paz was shook.
She didn’t even know her man could look that good, with his curls starting to come in and his mountain man beard.
She pouted for days when Miles went back to work and had to be all “clean cut” again.
We all already know that Spider likes to keep his hair long.
His mom doesn’t care but his dad isn’t a fan.
He blames his wife for it.
When Spider was a toddler, with his long blond curls, he started getting mistaken for a girl
Miles didn’t like that so he started insisting that his wife cut it.
Paz couldn’t bring herself to do it though. Spider’s curls were so pretty. Just like her’s and Miles’ if he’d ever let it grow out just a little.
“It’s not like it won’t grow back”
“Yeah but it’s baby’s first haircut”
“So what! We’re having another baby right now.”
“But he’s my first baby!”
Miles eventually convinces her and they get all set up in the kitchen only for Paz to not be able to go through with it.
She was five months pregnant and overly emotional so can you blame her.
Miles rolled his eyes, took the scissors and just started cutting away himself
Spider was completely unbothered until mama started crying
“He looks like a little man!” Miles just ignored her
But then Spider started crying because mama was crying, which made papa get frustrated, which made them both cry harder.
Miles told Paz to just leave, which she did because she could see how she was affecting her son.
But that only made things even worse because Spider screamed for his mama, trying to wiggle out of his seat, making grabby hands in the direction she’d gone.
Until Spider was five getting his haircut would result in a tantrum.
“It’s because you traumatized him,” Miles would half jokingly half seriously tell Paz. She’d just roll her eyes because yeah he was right but it’s not like she was going to admit that.
No matter how old Spider got he just didn’t like getting his haircut for some reason. He wasn’t sure why. He just liked it long.
To Miles' chagrin his other sons emulated their big brother.
So he’s this gruff clean cut military man, with a wife who despite being ex-military herself wears her curly hair long and wild, dressing like a hippy (loose flowy, comfortable clothes, in fun colors because she had to wear neutrals for too long in the military) his oldest son dresses similarly to his mom, but more skater style. When he gets a little older he starts doing his hair in impressively elaborate braids. Spider's younger brothers more or less copy his style (they also don’t have much of a choice because they get Spider’s hand me downs) and his little sister is mommy and daddy’s little princess and dresses kinda like a nature fairy, all flower patterns, pinks, greens, blues and glitter. So much glitter.
All this to say Miles looks boring while his family looks kinda excentrique.
Some of Miles' work colleagues have caught him out and about with his family a couple of times and if they weren’t scared shitless of the man then they’d probably roast him for having such a “sloppy looking” family.
Miles has more or less made his piece with it though. He might tisk disapprovingly at one of his children's styling choices every once in a while when he’s in a bad mood but after four kids you learn to be less of a control freak
Paz and Miles are low key doomsday preppers
It’s not that they believe the world is actually going to end in some biblical plague or something.
They are just extremely prepared for natural disasters (and terrorist attacks, or World War III)
There basement is loaded with enough food rations and bottled water to keep the entire family going for about twenty years give or take
They run preparedness drills for every scenario they can think of once every three months
The kids hate it
Mom and Dad even ran one while Spider was in school, picking up the ten year old in the middle of the day and taking the entire family on a “camping trip” to a cabin in the woods six hours away
When he was twelve his dad told him that was practice for what they’d do if there was a nuclear attack on major cities.
When Spider was four and really started climbing on things Miles took it upon himself to build his son a “jungle gym” in the backyard
It was really a baby version of an American ninja warrior obstacle course.
Low key Miles was doing military training on his son but Spider fucking loved that obstacle course so it was really a win win.
Miles has a lot of way of “low key” instilling his kids with a military mindset and physical prowess
As a punishment he’ll make the kids do things like fifty push-ups or ten laps around the house
Both parents run the house on a fairly strict schedule, breakfast at 7, dinner at 6, then all the kids do their homework, twenty minutes of the kids cleaning up after themselves, then it’s off to bed.
On the weekends Miles and Paz teach their kids “practical skills” which are really just survivalist skills
During the summer the kids go to “wilderness camp”
Which is really just a rotating cast of their parents' old squad mates taking them into the woods and showing them stuff.
Miles joins in on the weekends or if he can take the days off to teach his kids things like hunting, tracking, fishing all that jazz
Needless to say the Quaritch-Socorro kids are kinda scary because of this.
When Spider was like seven he told a classmate in detail how to shoot and skin a squirrel with a sunny smile on his face. As if he was talking about a cool dinosaur fact or something
The kid cried, the teacher got involved, Spider was sent to the office and his parents were called.
Paz was basically like “yeah his dad taught him that. So what? It’s a good skill to have.”
When dad picked him up from school that day he took Spider out for ice cream as a reward for remembering everything so well.
@recom-week Hey, guys! I am the author of fan fiction Eyktan Tsaheylu If I may, I would like to participate in the recom week. This illustration was created to order by the artist AnXis especially for my fan fiction.
Miles Quaritch and Laura Asadi (my Original Character).
I’m not done with any of my drabbles yet so here’s a cute headcannon and a wholesome idea that had been marinating in my brain.
Ok HEAR ME OUT
What if Quaritch comes from a line of failed artists?
Like, people in his family have historically been very artistic but bc of capitalism and other modern issues none of them ever succeed in art. Miles himself used to be a painter in high-school but ultimately gave up on that dream because it made no money/it was too hard to compete with AI or smth idk.
So anyway, Miles dies, his clone is born, he captured Spider, they spend weeks together, blah blah blah, they visit Bridgehead regularly to report on their mission progress and are staying in a special, recom sized dormitory building. The walls are so plain it drives Spider insane because he is not used to such lack of visual stimulation and he BEGS Quaritch to get him paints so he could make at least one room into something pretty. The colonel considers this and decides to give his son something to do because at least then he won’t be getting on everyone’s nerves.
He gets the paints and Spider starts working on a wall in the main corridor. Turns out he’s an artist himself, has a good feeling for color and it was definitely not his first project. Quaritch tries to play it cool but watches closely and eventually begins nagging the kid with unsolicited advice.
“If you’re so goddamn smart why don’t you do it yourself? Hm?” He snaps towards Miles and pushes him closer to the wall.
Miles takes a look at what Spider did so far.
He looks at buckets of different paints, it’s been decades since he saw these in person. Some sort of switch deep within him turns and he snaps.
He picks green, puts his big wrist into the bucket and leaves a trace on the white surface with his hand, then picks another color and does the same thing, an idea forming in his head and Spider watches in shock and then excitement as his bio father’s artistic side shows itself. He ditches the brushes and stains the walls in color, following recom’s fashion.
The two run around the corridor like maniacs, possessed by a muse so strong the rest of the world faded to the background as they laughed like children, drawing bright shapes, leaving handprints or straight up splashing the paint onto the wall until it looked like a beautiful, wild fever dream.
The two stepped back, still chuckling, looking at their work.
“Awesome..” Spider whispered and raised his palm for a high five.
Quaritch gave it to him, smiling widely for the first time in years. He’d never admit that he had fun giggling like a middle-schooler for the past hour.
He’d love to do it again though. With Spider.
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