Ooh Okay Now I Understand. Wow, The Room For Angst With Lo'ak And Spider... From Spider's Pov, Lo'ak

ooh okay now I understand. Wow, the room for angst with Lo'ak and Spider... from Spider's pov, Lo'ak has thrown away this amazing life he's always wanted, so no wonder he's in a bad mood. And from Lo'ak's pov, Spider's always had the freedom and lack of pressure and expectations he's always wanted, so Lo'ak's finally run away and gotten what he always wanted with Quaritch and the recoms since he couldn't get it with the Sullies.

I can definitely see Spider and Leo butting heads over their differences! A Na'vi who sees Na'vi as evil vs a human who sees humans as evil is interesting. And I guess Kai would be more wary of Spider if Leo butts heads with him... and poor Leo will always think of sweet little baby MJ when he looks at Spider awww.

This is your au, you do whatever you want with it, but I think it would be a really interesting story if Spider finds a way to escape (since Quaritch is less evil in this au, maybe he wouldn't put a tracker in Spider's mask so Spider finds an opportunity to slip away when they're distracted) and makes his way back to Jake and co. And Jake, maybe losing Lo'ak made him reflect on his parenting and he regrets the way he treated Spider so he officially takes Spider in. So we have Jake adopting Quaritch's son and Quaritch adopting Jake's son. And whenever Jake and Quaritch run into each other they're like:

"You stole my son!"

"No, YOU stole my son!"

wait I have another question!

so I understand Kai and Leo are adopted by Quaritch when they're young, and Lo'ak runs away from home because of problems with Jake and then Quaritch takes him in after he gets injured. But what's Spider's deal?

In all of your art, Spider looks like he's not happy to be there, while the other boys all seem happy. Why is Spider still acting like he's a prisoner? Wouldn't Spider be happy that Lo'ak is there since they're best friends? And you described Kai as being like "mowgli" and since Spider is like "tarzan" wouldn't they get along since they're similar?

sorry for so many questions this au is so interesting!

I explained about Leo and Kai in previous post

About Spider

He gets captured almost like in canon. The difference is that of all the recoms, only Warren dies in the process (I can do anything I want in my au and I want recoms to live😌)

So he behaves pretty much like in the movie. About Lo’ak - Spider just genuinely doesn’t understand why would Lo’ak leave his family and everything else (everything Spider ever wanted) and join the “bad guys”. And seeing Lo’ak admiring Quaritch and craving his approval is weird to him. He doesn’t understand it’s literally what he was like around Jake - and that in turn was weird for Lo’ak

The only difference between their cases is that Quaritch is really starting to treat Lo’ak like a son, while Spider has never been anything more than a stray cat to Jake (angst yeah)

Leo and Spider also mirror each other, but in a different way (a human boy raised among the na’vi and a na’vi boy raised by humans). They will have a few problems becoming friends at first, mostly because their very different views of na’vi and humans

Also for Leo the villain is Sully because he’s the reason his father and so many people he cares about are gone. Na’vi - they abandoned him. Quaritch, on the other hand, is a hero to him. He saved Leo when he was a baby and he's been taking care of him ever since

It’s all a matter of perspective

Kai is… different. Spider is Tarzan because he has dreadlocks and climbs trees and I guess you can say he lived in the forest, but Kai is Mowgl because he was literally raised by animals. He behaves more like an animal than like na’vi or human

So he’s close to nature and animals, but not to na’vi culture or Eywa (though he can speak na’vi and he knows other stuff, how to use a bow for example - his father taught him before he died). Also Kai is… you can say weird? wild?… He doesn’t talk much. And he only cares about what Leo cares about.

But after all eventually all the kids gradually get along and become good friends

It’s ok I’m really happy you’re interested😖💙💙💙

This au is so interesting! For anyone too lazy to use a translator, basically lo'ak runs away from home bc of family issues before the events of Avatar 2. Spider is kidnapped by the recoms like in canon, and Lo'ak is later found by the recoms after getting injured by a thanator and goes with them willingly bc he feels abandoned by his family. (idk if they're still hunting Jake in this au cause i have a hard time picturing loak joining up with people trying to kill his dad no matter how bad his daddy issues got)

I love the detail how Lo'ak, the na'vi, is more interested in human culture while Spider, the actual human, clings to the na'vi way and wants nothing to do with the human stuff! I think it's a really interesting interpretation of their characters. They both feel extremely out of place, like they're torn between two worlds and they cope differently. Spider's spent his whole life being told humans are evil, especially his father, so he tries to reject anything human in an attempt to distance himself from his heritage. Lo'ak's spent his whole life feeling outcast, even within his own family, so when he gets the opportunity to explore a new identity he embraces it even though it goes against everything he's been taught.

Is there a fic for this? I'd love to read it!

RDA Ло’ак ау

Устав быть изгоем в клане и в собственной семье, Ло’ак сбегает из дома, взяв с собой только несколько вещей и своего икрана. Салли обеспокоены, но Джейк говорит, что это просто подростковый бунт и что через некоторое время Ло’ак сам вернётся. Несмотря на это его все ищут, Нетейам каждый день летает всё дальше в надежде заметить икрана Ло’ака. Через две недели происходит столкновение Салли с рекомами и похищение Паука, после чего Салли покидают Оматикайа, попросив Макса и Норма продолжать поиски Ло’ака и сообщить им, как только он найдётся.

Проходит ещё две недели, и Ло’ак натыкается на следы ботинок размером с на’ви (сцена как в фильме). Он идёт по следу, не замечая, что заходит на территорию танатора

Не буду дальше вдаваться в подробности) но в общем происходит стычка с танатором, которая заканчивается тем, что танатор ранит Ло’ака (несильно), а самого танатора убивает Куоритч

Ло’ака перевязывают, и хотя поначалу Куоритч хочет взять его в заложники, в конце получается что Ло’ак идёт с ним добровольно (после того как оба понимают что Салли оставили Ло’ака и ушли без него)

Вот как-то так

Среди рекомов Ло’ак не чувствует себя изгоем. Лео и Кай становятся его друзьями (и может быть в Лео он видит более понимающего старшего брата). С реком Джейком после первоначальной неловкости тоже находит общий язык и общую неприязнь к другому Джейку. Свою потребность в одобрении же он переключает на Куоритча (и о чудо он его получает). С Пауком появляются некоторые недопонимания, но они всё ещё бро

А ещё Ло’аку очень нравятся всякие человеческие штучки. От фильмов и видеоигр до еды и одежды - ему всё это интересно (в отличие от Паука)

«-Хей! Хорошо выглядишь! Тебя девчонки одели?

-Ага

-И Паук! Ты выглядишь…»

«-Голым. Ну, по крайней мере тебя вымыли. А то ты уже начинал вонять»

sketch on a ride home

uni/college Spider version (he's literally me rn)

"… You're serious?" Miles says, smile giving way to puzzlement.

Lyle shrugs.

"Couldn't figure out which sounded worse; gettin' shot up, or wasting away in some packing plant. Was sick of thinking about it. So ..."

"So you went to war on a coin toss?"

"Hey—it's not like I had a lot of options. Figured I could at least get some stories out of this," Lyle's eyes flash. "I'd say I succeeded. Wouldn't you?"

Quick and dirty scene painting from next chap bc I havent painted in ages and it shows lmao. I can't render skin don't @ me

Reblogs appreciated

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working on Beasts of Burden today if my damn house doesn't blow over 🌪️ smfh BUT here's some misc fankid AU Spider stuff I jotted down last night:

Idk who or where it was said but someone in [discord server] at some point was like "quaritch with a daughter would be too easy [ofc he'd adore her.] Sons are where the drama is at" and I agree which is why this au is my fluffy dopamine Minecraft generator bdjdjdk

Anyway I'm also a drama-loving bitch Quaritch and Spider are both Mutually Uncomfortable with each other throughout this whole situation and equally unsure what to do about it or how to progress

on one hand the recoms don't get around to doing anything worse than the incident in the woods but on the other hand, Seadragon fight never happens so:

1. knife confrontation accidental feelings reveal also never happens

2. they don't grow quite as close as canon since quaritch's attention during that period is also split between lyle, the pregnancy, and defection

Spider wants so badly to just hate or be ambivalent towards his father. He moves in w the sullies to no pushback from Q (although he's a lil disappointed/huffy about it). On the other side of the coin, now he's not even trying to kill them or anything. He's just living his domestic-ass house arrest life next door and deep down he wants to get closer—he just doesn't want to get closer to *Quaritch.*

Q is admittedly Very busy with new parent chaos even after the defection debacle calms down, but mainly he just feels vague guilt re: his son.

He knows he loves him, but not at all in the same way he loves Ellie. He's acutely aware that while spider is his kid, he's not his baby. There's a small, yet important distinction there—which makes him feel bad even if he can't word it. He nearly gives up his life for Ellie before she's even born, and he didn't even stay alive for his son's sake, let alone surrender. it's all just really uncomfortable for him to think about, but it's not exactly something he can undo. He thinks Spider is at-best neutral towards him, so his best idea is to just leave it be (aka never talk about it ever out of Man Fright)

Spider feels a conflicting mix of comraderie and envy towards Ellie. He's glad she's not going through what he went though, but at the same time he just. Can't stand being around her for very long—at least not if Quaritch is there. It's too hard to watch him be all soft and sappy, even if spider doesn't want that kind of affection from quaritch. He doesn't feel as strong of a connection with her as he does the sullies, but he likes her. They grow closer as the years pass

Lyle only attempts to mediate once or twice. Neither of them pretend to have any true relationship to each other; Spider doesn't particularly like Lyle and Lyle doesn't particularly dislike Spider, and it just kinda cancels out.

Like several people, Spider doesn't know what his dad sees in him. They've had Very few 1:1 conversations before, but that doesn't stop Lyle—mainly bc he thinks them making up will help quaritch's mental state and because holy fuck their hands are full and working towards any amount of help is smth he's def interested in. At least, at the start. Spider watches her sometimes, but only when Q gets enough of his strength back to resume swimming/breath training (and even then it's rare that Lyle isn't watching her or bringing her along with Q so).

Mini comic

Мини комикс по моей ау

- Эй! Спускайся вниз, сейчас же!

- Заставь меня

!

(Чёрт! На’ви? Здесь не должно быть никакого племени)

- Уходи! Скорее, беги! Пока они тебя не заметили (шёпотом, на на’ви)

Они тебя убьют!

- Паук! Я начинаю терять терпение!

- Чт..!

Нет!

- Ну наконец

Давай ка кое-что проясним

Когда я говорю теб..!

- Не двигаться!

- Ха

- Руки вверх!

- Что это у нас тут…

- Я… полковник?

Это… это я

- Постой…

Лео?

- Что?

- Лео?

- Стой!

Не трогай его, пожалуйста!

- Папа!

- Что?

- Чего?!

- Лео? Это правда он?

- Я скучал по тебе…

- Хей, не плачь, львёнок. Всё в порядке, я здесь

- Что во имя Эйвы тут происходит?!

- Чшшш! Не прерывай их

- Ага, у них тут момент

- Дядя Лайл? Файк?

- Привет мелочь!

- Почему это он дядя Лайл а я просто Файк?

- Я думал вы все мертвы

- Ну в каком-то смысле да. Помнишь я рассказывал тебе о том проекте Феникс?

- То есть вы…

- Мы теперь большие синие зомбаки

- Я… не думал об этом в таком ключе

- И теперь вы все выше меня… опять. Супер

- Ну хватит о нас. Как ты? Что с тобой случилось после битвы?

Ты явно не выглядишь на 26

- Меня поместили в крио, но 4 года назад кое-кто меня разморозил. Так что

Мне теперь 15

- Совсем взрослый, а?

И кто же этот загадочный «кое-кто»? Я надеюсь не один из тех предателей…

- Не, его мама была одной из учёных, но они даже не знают о его существовании. И оба его родителя умерли до того как он меня нашёл так что… Нас было только двое, я и Кай

- И вы вдвоём выживали тут в одиночку на протяжении 4 лет? Как?

- Ну, Кай жил в лесу всю жизнь. Он знает всё. Он даже научил меня стрелять из лука

Кстати… Что случилось с ЭмДжеем?

- Он… теперь зовётся Пауком

- Что… Он?

- Он вырос здесь. С Салли

- Оу. Мне жаль…

- Жаль? О чём?

- Я имею ввиду, я рад что с ним всё в порядке, но…

Он наверное рос, слушая о том, какой ты плохой

- «Он» вообще-то прямо здесь

- Они все видят в тебе только какого-то монстра

- Демона, как они тебя называют

- Ну и в чём они неправы?!

…

- Эмм

Эй, пап?

- М?

- Пойдём со мной. Я хочу познакомить вас с Каем

- Конечно, малыш

Давайте, парни, вперёд. Мы должны вернуться до затмения

- Да, сэр!

- Сюда

- Что ж, расскажи мне обо всём что я пропустил. И про этого Кая. Сколько ему вообще?

…

- Эй! Не отставай, Тарзан

- Ага

- Леоооо! Как насчёт обнимашек с дядей Лайлом?