#Also why isn't there more people using eartquakes as a plot device?

[stresseddinopotato]

Afaik there's no earthquakes on Pandora (I don't remember where I read this so I'm likely mistaken) but I live right besides the Nazca plate and the pacific ring of fire so I may as well indulge a little bit.

Just imagine on a random night there's an eartquake, one strong and long enough to force the people out of their mauries. Once the Metkayina evacuated they notice that there's no trace of the Sully family, which means they had to still be at the village. And people are confused because what the actual fuck can these people not feel the ground doing the cha-cha??

But then, alas, there comes three of the older Sully kids followed by their mother who's carrying a, clearly terrified, crying little Tuk. Finally, Toruk Makto appears, carrying the limp form of his son over his shoulder like a sack of the-pandorean-equivalent-of-potatoes, and the people go from being confused to deeply worried cause it looks like this child just had a heart attack and died and for a moment they think that's why the youngest was crying.

The eartquake stops at some point and Ronal appears to check on the child and Tonowari follows looking at Jake like "What the fUCK, BROTHER? DID YOUR BOY JUST DIE?"

But Jake it's just "OHH, don't worry, he's fine. He's just a REALLY heavy sleeper. Did you guys know he actually slept during most of the journey here? he's THAT heavy of a sleeper. He's FINe."

And Ronal confirms it, the boy's heart is beating and he's breathing just fine. He's fine. He just hasn't woken up after a long ass quake or after all her poking and prodding to confirm his state as part of the living.

Ultimately, it is the middle of the night, and the people are tired. So after some of the kids confirm hearing the other Sully brothers tease Spider about his sleeping habits they leave it as just another instance of the family's natural weirdness and let them go back home.

But Ao'nung is not convinced. And he wants answers.

Guys hold on, I've got another absolute banger of a Spider fic idea for all you Spider fic writers to use and then praise me for thinking of.

Consider this: Spider goes to Awa'atlu with the Sully's as their son in the first place, and he's been raised by them his whole life. But, he's got an avatar. He comes looking like hybrid like Kiri and Lo'ak. They decide, in order to best keep him safe, they won't say anything about his human half. I think most likely his human self stays with the Omaticaya, for his safety and for the logistics of sneaking a fucking lab onto the island secretly.

BUT JUST IMAGINE, imagine Spider having to pretend to be a bio child of Jake and Neytiri's and even though he's been supported and loved his entire life, the complicated emotions that would bring. He's being treated as entirely Na'vi, and even though he's getting bullied like his siblings, it's for reasons he'd much prefer to the usual comments he gets, even if most of the Omaticaya and humans love him. He also gets more attention than usual, because his avatar is a little more similar to his human body shape than to the Omaticaya. Shorter and stockier and more muscular than lean. Usually he'd get teased for it but now it helps him excel in the water. He's pulling long hours in the link, his human body is suffering and his parents, Norm, Max, and Mo'at are concerned but there isn't much to be done to keep up the ruse.

WHAT IF SOMETHING HAPPENS AT NIGHT AND SPIDER ISN'T IN HIS BODY? Lol, Jake carrying him out of the Mauri like "he's a rEALLY heavy sleeper, guys, it's crazy right?" And Lo'ak and Neteyam have been crafting that ruse for weeks now, commenting on how hard it is to wake up Spider, about how Tuk always sleeps by him because she kicks, about how he slept through the bombing of Hometree the second time aND the first time? Laying the groundwork for someone trying to wake him up when he isn't in his body lol.

But detective Ao'nung is on the fucking case, something is sus with that short (he's like two inches taller than Tuk) Na'vi. Tsireya refuses to be involved and Rotxo thinks he's crazy but is tagging along begrudgingly on his investigations.