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Theory Avatar : Hexapede (20 theories)

Theory n°1: Hexapedes have mainly binocular vision, as well as peripheral vision provided by auxiliary eyes that enable them to detect aerial predators and survey their surroundings when feeding.

When Jake is hunting a hexapede in the first film, you can see him raise his head for a moment. In this scene, there are some notable features…

First, the position of the eyes:

If you observe terrestrial herbivores on Earth, you'll quickly notice that they almost all have eyes on the sides of their heads. This gives them better peripheral vision and enables them to spot predators attacking from behind or to the sides. Carnivores, on the other hand, have their eyes far forward, for better distance perception.

But hexapeds are not predators. They don't have claws, and they don't have fangs either. So why do they have eyes on the front of their heads?

I think this binocular vision exists to better assess the distances and obstacles separating them from their predators. In addition, the Avatar wiki also explains that hexapeds are very agile and their main strategy is to avoid obstacles, which would make pursuit by a predator very difficult. In this case, binocular vision would enable hexapeds to better assess distances between obstacles, reducing the risk of falling and dying.

However, as I said earlier, the vision of herbivores is not useless, since it enables them to spot predators from almost any angle. A considerable asset for a small herbivore like the hexaped.

So, what ensures peripheral vision?

Well, as I see it, peripheral vision is provided entirely by the secondary eyes.

According to the wiki, banshees' second pair of eyes enables them to detect infrared. At first, I thought this was also the case for most of the animals on Pandora, but when I looked again at the eyes of the hexapeds, I realized that their eyes were very different from those of the banshees.

I therefore concluded that the auxiliary eyes of hexapeds function exactly like their main eyes. They are also always used for peripheral vision, with the advantage, thanks to their position on the top of the skull, that they can be used for eating and detecting aerial predators like the banshees mentioned above.

Theory n°2: Hexapedes are more prevalent in low-light areas.

For this theory, I'll stick to hexapede vision.

When observing hexapede eyes, one of the first things you notice is their size. Indeed, the eyes of hexapedes each occupy a more than decent place in the animal's skull.

I've based this theory on three animals in particular. Squids, night raptors and tarsiers. Each of these animals has two things in common. Their eyes are huge and they are active in dark environments, since squids most often stay at the bottom of the water, where very little light reaches them, while tarsiers and night raptors are both awake at night.

As it seems to be daylight in all the scenes in the film where the hexapedes are visible and active, I think the large size of their eyes is an adaptation to life in the rainforest. In this type of environment, there are so many plants that the canopy is extremely dense, making it very dark both day and night.

The large size of the pupil should also be emphasized. In the film, the pupil of the hexapede hunted by Jake is so large that the rest of the eye is barely visible. Such a large pupil makes it easier to capture light in dark environments. Environments which, as I said, include the rainforest floor.

Finally, the hexapede's iris is a very dark yellow. At first, I thought this was an adaptation to see better, like barn owls. But on closer inspection, I learned that the black eyes don't serve that purpose at all. Their real purpose would be to avoid reflecting light, thus preventing the raptor from being spotted by its prey. In the case of the hexapede, I think this adaptation allows it to be less visible to its predators. Namely, as indicated on the wiki, bats and viper wolves. Banshees would not be affected, as they have infrared vision.

Theory n°3: Their frills are used to intimidate predators and to communicate between individuals. They do not redirect sound.

The hexapede's frill has several distinctive features. It's large, located behind the animal's head on its neck, and features circular patterns and bright colors.

The sources I've drawn on are frilled lizards, common buckeyes, peacock butterflies and butterflyfish, as well as peacocks to a lesser extent. I also used some information from the wiki.

Hexapede ocelli are much too close to their true eyes to be used as decoys by predators, unlike butterflyfish ocelli, which are located on their tails. So, if a predator is attracted by the ocelli, it will be prepared for the fish to swim in the opposite direction to its escape.

I then turned my attention to common buckeye and peacock butterflies. In both cases, the ocelli serve to scare off their predators, who see in the ocelli the gaze of their predators. Frilled lizards are also known to use their frills to appear more imposing. It therefore seems logical that hexapedes should do the same.

I then turned my attention to the tail of male peacocks. It's very wide and has many eye-spots. Peacocks use them mainly for communication, and as the hexapede's frill is located close to its head and therefore close to the eyes, I think it's pretty reasonable to consider that the frill has an intraspecific communication role.

The wiki is therefore 100% right on this point. However, where I disagree with the wiki is when it explains that the hexapede's frill enables them to redirect sound to their ears.

In nature, there is no animal with the equivalent of such a frill. The only animal I can think of is the frilled lizard. However, until proven otherwise, this lizard's frill is in no way used to redirect sound. As I said earlier, it only serves to intimidate predators.

On the other hand, there's another organ used to redirect sound in almost all animals�� the ears! And here, we need to look at mammals and nocturnal birds of prey, both of which have characteristics that enable them to redirect sound. In the case of mammals, almost all have a conical structure of the outer ear. As for nocturnal birds of prey, the majority have a "facial disk". This is the name given to the parabola-shaped structure on an owl's head. This facial disk also redirects sound.

Conclusion: In both cases, the animal has a conical structure to guide sound. The hexapede's frill, on the other hand, is flat… so it doesn't redirect sound.

Theory n°4: The membrane they have on their throats is used exclusively for communication between individuals. It is also extensible.

Hexapedes also have a membrane of skin over their throat. This membrane is very similar to the gular dewlap of lizards, so that's what I've based this theory on.

The gular dewlap is an extension of the animal's throat skin. In lizards, it is often colored. It's present in both males and females, but males have much more colorful and imposing dewlaps. It is used both for courtship and to repel intruders.

Thanks to the Frontier of Pandora game trailer, you can also see the difference between a male and a female hexapede. The male has a much more colorful gular dewlap than the female, since it's dark orange, unlike the female's light yellow.

I think hexapedes use their gular baleen for the same functions as lizards. Males use them mainly for sexual displays or to chase away intruders, while females use them to communicate information between themselves and their young.

Theory n°5: The stripes on its body play a role in identification as well as camouflage.

This theory is quite simple. The hexapede has yellow stripes on its body. I think these stripes help females to camouflage themselves in forests where light only reaches the empty spaces left by the dense foliage. The stripes imitate the surrounding light.

The male hexapede seen in Frontiers of Pandora also has many more stripes, indicating a possible reproductive interest. The parallel would be birds of paradise, whose males are often very colorful to appeal to females.

Zebras also have similar stripes, which they use to identify individuals. Hexapedes probably use their stripes in the same way.

The trailer also shows that the stripes of male and female hexapedes are much brighter in the light. This could provide further support for the identification and camouflage reasoning. The brighter colors would mimic the more intense light of clearings.

Theory n°6: Hexapede teeth are white because they are covered with lips.

I think this is an interesting theory, as it explains one of the many criticisms levelled at Avatar's fauna. When we talk about the film's fauna, one of the first things that comes to mind is the difference between the Na'vi and the rest of the animals. One of these differences is often the difference in their teeth.

For example, the animals of Pandora all seem to have black teeth, whereas the Na'vi have white teeth. The problem is that other animals, including hexapedes, have white teeth!

So the question is no longer why do the Na'vi have white teeth and the rest of the fauna black teeth, but why do some animal species have white teeth and others black?

The answer lies on the lips.

What all these "white-toothed" animals have in common is that they have lips. For those who don't know, the teeth we have are considered teeth because they are mainly made of enamel. Elephant tusks, on the other hand, are mainly dentine. The reason for this is that enamel impedes tooth growth. For example, if a human loses a tooth, it will never grow back.

On the other hand, if an elephant breaks one of its tusks, it can grow back because it is not covered in enamel. The evolutionary advantage of this situation is that tusks are often used as tools by their wearers. If a broken tusk did not grow back, it would be very detrimental to the animal. In the case of elephants, for example, this would be tantamount to depriving a human being of one of his hands!

Hexapedes have white teeth because the use they make of their teeth rarely damages them permanently. Their teeth are covered with enamel and are therefore white.

Theory n°7: The fur on the back of hexapedes is a vestige and serves to protect them from the rain. It has a slight communication function, bristling to indicate aggression.

This theory again goes against the "scientifically correct na'vi" since it talks about hexapede fur, which is present in very few Pandorian animals.

I tried to use my brain to come up with an explanation that was plausible enough given the information available. Given that fur is found specifically on the back and not elsewhere, I think we can already assume a slight protective role. As thermal protection is useless in the rainforest, we can already rule out this theory. That leaves mechanical protection. By this I mean protection against the elements (wind, rain, sun, etc.) and protection against predators.

As a predator would be more likely to target vital areas such as the neck and belly, this hypothesis must also be ruled out. Indeed, if this hypothesis had been correct, the fur would have ended up in these vital zones.

The last theory therefore seems to be the last valid one. The fur would offer the animal a minimum of protection against rain or sun when it is present. Perhaps fur is even waterproof? Who knows.

However, mere protection against the elements seems weak to me. So I think this hexapede characteristic is actually a vestige in the making. In other words, in the absence of a major interest in the survival of individuals, animals with abundant fur would no longer be favored by natural selection. As a result, individuals with only fur on their backs would be sufficiently advantaged to survive longer than individuals with abundant fur, and would therefore be more likely to have offspring. In this way, the mutation responsible for the fur on the back would have gradually spread through the population.

Another advantage of vestigial fur is the ability to communicate. Cat fur is an excellent example. We know that a cat that ruffles its fur means it wants to be left alone. I think the same applies to hexapedes, even if the meaning isn't necessarily "leave me alone".

As for the furless mutation, it would seem that it hasn't appeared, or only in a few individuals.

Theory n°8: The first pair of legs is used to control steering and perform auxiliary tasks, while the second absorbs impact and provides traction on the ground. The third pair is used for propulsion.

In the film, when Jake kills his hexapede, the animal is clearly visible.

We can then see that the secondary forelegs of hexapedes have broader shoulders than the primary forelegs.

This feature, combined with the density of the air and Pandora's weaker gravity, led me to believe that these legs probably have hypertrophied muscles, as their main function is to ensure sufficiently powerful traction in the ground to enable rapid running.

As a result, the primary front legs are no longer needed for traction, but for auxiliary tasks such as foraging or fighting between males. They also serve to control the animal's direction, as they are undoubtedly the first legs to land when jumping.

The hind legs are essentially used to propel the animal when jumping.

The combined action of all six legs gives the animal the speed and agility for which it is renowned.

Theory n°9: Hexapedes have a highly developed sense of taste and smell. They have a Jacobson's organ connected to their jugal appendages, which serves to capture odorous molecules. Smell is their most important sense.

The hexapede wiki page indicates that the animal's sense of smell is highly developed. I decided to follow this theory since, as I said above, its frill is not used to redirect sound and its vision is mainly binocular.

Consequently, I think that its hearing is not very well developed and that it is its sense of smell that enables the hexapede to locate the various information essential to its survival, such as the presence of predators or other hexapedes.

For Jacobson's organ, I based myself on the "flehmen". This expression, used by many animals, consists of stretching the neck, raising the head and finally lifting the upper lip. Thanks to the flehmen, animals that use it make it easier for odors to reach the Jacobson's organ located near the palate.

Admittedly, hexapedes only lift their lip and don't extend their neck or head, but I believe that the purpose of this expression remains the same and allows, among other things, odors to be guided towards an organ that would be the equivalent of the Jacobson's organ thanks to a phenomenon of evolutionary convergence.

The wiki also informs us that the excrescences on the cheeks of hexapedes also serve the sense of smell. I therefore believe that these "jugal appendages" can pick up odorous molecules and transmit the corresponding information to the Jacobson's organ, which in turn transmits it to the brain.

Theory n°10: Hexapedes first try to intimidate predators when they spot them, as they are often attacked by predators in small groups such as viper wolves and bats. That's why the one attacked by Jake Sully didn't flee immediately.

I had a hard time explaining this theory because, in nature, the behavior of stopping and intimidating when detecting a predator is rarely used. Nevertheless, I tried to explain the scene and remembered a land animal that uses tactics more or less similar to those used by hexapedes. These are, perhaps to the surprise of some, donkeys.

Indeed, because of their lower agility and speed than horses, donkeys have tended to adopt a strategy of blocking in front of the predator and, eventually, charging. This behavior has the advantage of catching the predator off-guard, which may lead it to abandon the hunt.

Given the hexapede's colorful frill and its ability to spread out, not to mention the fact that it opens its frill when the hexapede spots Jake in the film, I think it's safe to say that the aim is to scare off the predator.

It's even possible to add to this theory since, knowing that the hexapede's two known predators are group animals, we can also assume that the extra time given to the hexapede by the deployment of its frill may be sufficient to allow it to assess the terrain and find the safest escape route to take.

Theory n°11: Raising the upper lip not only enables hexapedes to smell better, but also to intimidate predators and rivals by emitting a distinctive sound that also serves as an alarm signal.

Still in the film's hunting scene, the bellowing emitted by the hexapede is only audible when it raises its lip. I think that this action allows him not only to make a flehmen as explained above, but also to bellow. It's a good bet that this also helps to scare off predators.

The use of such a loud growl also enables the animal to alert other deer when it senses danger nearby.

As male deer use grunts extensively to communicate during mating season and to protect their territory, I suspect the same is true of male hexapedes. Although, in these circumstances, the call is probably different.

Theory n°12: Hexapedes are intermediate evolutionary strategists. They can have up to 4 young at the same time. These young are integrated into the family herd and learn to survive by observing their mother, who takes little care of them. The young thus form strong social bonds. Sexual maturity arrives early, and both male and female young leave the herd at an early age. They stay together thanks to the bonds they forged in their youth.

Evolutionary strategies are complicated expressions that mean something simple. There are two types: the "r" strategist, who favors a large number of offspring with little parental care to ensure survival, and the "K" strategist, who favors long growth and lots of parental care. For example, flies can be described as "r" strategists, while horses are "K" strategists.

The term is a bit of a misnomer, but I'm going to use it anyway, as it sums up pretty well how I think hexapedes work. This is especially true since the wiki explains that the hexapede's survival relies primarily on its high reproduction rate.

However, hexapedes are quite large animals that still need a minimum of parental care to survive when they are young. So I think hexapedes pretty much fit both categories, having 4 or 5 young born at the same time.

These youngsters are very small, but can move around and use their senses within minutes of birth. They are quickly integrated into the mother's herd to benefit from her protection. Apart from this protection, the mother takes very little care of the young, who learn mainly by observing the adults. Young from the same litter will always stay together and never mix with young from another female.

As hexapedes are more preoccupied with reproduction than caring for their young, adult females don't form a real bond with their young and drive them away as soon as they reach sexual maturity. The siblings then form a new herd that remains united.

Theory n°13: Siblings form a herd, all from the same family. They stay together all the time, except during the rut.

For this reasoning, I turned to deer. In particular, roe deer, which closely resemble hexapedes from a physical point of view. Since roe deer live in small groups of several females with their fawns, I think hexapedes work in the same way. According to the previous theory, the young born together will also leave at the same time and stay together for the rest of their lives.

To avoid competition, adult males that come to mate with females during the rut probably chase away the young already present. As explained in the previous theory, females probably follow their brothers, with whom they have more social ties. By being hunted in this way, the young males themselves go in search of a herd of females.

Young hexapedes are also always chased away from their siblings if they try to impregnate their sisters. This prevents inbreeding.

At the end of the rut, the males find their original siblings thanks to the scents left by the females, which they smell with their jugal appendages.

Like roe deer, hexapedes also establish a territory of their own when they have just been driven out of their herds. Females stay on the same territory as their brothers, who remain relatively close to the group outside the rutting season.

Theory n°14: Subarctic subspecies gather in herds of a few hundred to several thousand individuals and migrate. Males become aggressive during the breeding season.

Knowing that Avatar's hexapedes are largely based on terrestrial forest deer, I used the other deer species to determine the gregarious behavior of the hexapede subspecies mentioned in the wiki.

As far as the subarctic subspecies are concerned, the reasoning was quick since there is only one cervid known to live on the tundra, and that's the caribou. This animal is very gregarious and, when not on islands like the Peary caribou, can travel in herds of several thousand individuals.

I therefore believe that Arctic hexapedes behave in a similar way.

Theory n°15: Savannah subspecies live in herds of several dozen individuals, mainly females and young. Males live in separate groups. During the breeding season, many herds, including males, come together. They then fight amongst themselves, the dominant one having access to most of the females.

I based this theory on gazelles and antelopes. In particular, the gerenuk and Thompson's gazelle, which physically resemble hexapedes. In both these animals, males live far from females and remain in small bachelor herds.

However, like their terrestrial counterparts, savannah hexapedes of both sexes gather at rutting time. At this time, the males fight amongst themselves, and the dominant one succeeds in impregnating the majority of the females.

Theory n°16: Mountain subspecies gather in herds ranging from half a dozen to several dozen individuals. Herds are made up almost exclusively of unrelated females and their young, plus a few young males. During the mating season, the males fight to establish a hierarchy and gain access to the females.

For this subspecies, I based myself on the species closest to the cervids that I could find in the mountains. This reasoning is essentially based on the social behavior of mouflons and chamois.

These two species have the particularity of forming herds essentially made up of females, but where the presence of a few males is tolerated. Female mouflons are quick to expel unwanted males, while male chamois fight to establish a hierarchy of access to females during the rut. In both cases, the only family ties present in the herd are those between the females and their young.

Mountain hexapedes probably behave in much the same way.

Theory n°17: When it comes to fighting, males prefer to try and intimidate each other by ruffling their fur and raising their chops to bellow. In real combat, they fight by kicking with their front paws and lunging.

This reasoning is based on theories 7, 8 and 11. When male deer enter the rutting season, they try to fight off potential competitors to secure access to females.

As male hexapedes are strongly inspired by terrestrial cervids, it is very likely that they will fight each other during the mating season. However, as their morphology is slightly different, I've established three different behaviors they can use during fights.

In the wild, fights, when they can be avoided, are always avoided. This rule is essential, as it enables individuals to avoid a potentially lethal situation. As theory 7 suggests, one use of the vestigial fur on the backs of hexapedes would be to indicate a willingness to fight a competitor.

The grunting that hexapedes can utter and the flehmen, which are mentioned in theory 8, may also support the same purpose. However, they could also have a more pronounced reproductive function, as flehmen could be used to detect female pheromones. The bark, meanwhile, would add a sonic dimension and warn foreign females and males that the hexapede is in rut.

Finally, if they had to fight, hexapedes would also be more inclined to strike with their primary front legs or to kick. Indeed, due to the hexapod nature of the animal and the hypertrophy of the shoulders of the secondary legs, the animal would prefer postures where it is more stable and less likely to fall. In the case of the kick, this is a posture that is more stable and less likely to fall.

Theory n°18: Hexapedes are more agile than fast, which gives them an advantage in forests with many obstacles. They are more likely to be found in areas with few clearings and many obstacles that hinder predators.

As I explained in theory 8, the first pair of legs is mainly used for steering control when running. The second and third pairs of legs are used for propulsion and traction on the ground.

In the wild, gazelles and deer use their great agility as an escape tactic against predators, who are often unable to follow them on such complicated courses. Hexapedes certainly function in the same way. What's more, according to theory 1, they are more frequently found in dark areas of forests.

Such a dark zone indicates extensive leaf cover, in order to benefit from maximum light. This highly developed leaf cover indicates that there has been a "race for light". In other words, plants sought to grow as fast and as high as possible to benefit from the light necessary for photosynthesis.

As a result, the environment would be very cluttered, making it more difficult to pursue prey. Hexapedes, on the other hand, could be at an advantage, as their small size and agility enable them to zigzag between obstacles and outrun predators more easily.

Theory n°19: Hexapede peak speeds are probably around 120 kilometers per hour, but they can only maintain this speed for 200 to 300 meters. Their average speed in the forest varies between 60 and 70 kilometers per hour.

This theory does have a terrestrial reference, but the values I'm giving are given with a ladle, so they're not very precise.

Deer, fallow deer, springbok, and gerenuks are all cervids and antelopes that strongly resemble the hexapede. All have running speeds approaching 100 kilometers per hour, but can only keep up for a few hundred meters.

Since hexapedes are hexapods that live on Pandora, a planet with lower gravity and higher air density than Earth, their third pair of legs was originally designed to counteract these differences (information given by Wiki). Since then, however, the shoulders of the secondary front legs have hypertrophied and the primary front legs still have a slight traction role. The problem of air density has thus been resolved. But there's still the weaker gravity that has led the hexapede to become relatively large (about the size of an adult male Elaphe deer).

All this information put together leads me to believe that hexapedes can run at a speed only slightly faster than that of modern deer and antelopes. Probably between 100 and 120 kilometers per hour. This is their maximum speed, and they can't keep up for more than a few hundred meters, in the same way as their terrestrial counterparts.

When not at top speed, as in the forest where they would be hampered by the various obstacles even with their great agility, they stay between 60 and 70 kilometers per hour like roe deer and fallow deer.

Theory n°20: Hexapedes feed mainly on herbaceous plants and fruit that have fallen to the ground. They also dig up roots and tubers.

For the diet, I focused on the bongo. The bongo is an antilopine living in tropical forests. Antilopines are closely related to cervids, and the environment corresponds to that of hexapeds. The animal is the closest equivalent I've been able to find in terms of diet.

Hexapedes have a U-shaped jaw. Terrestrial cervids have a similar jaw.

It's worth noting that jaw shape, particularly in herbivores, can tell us a great deal about their diet. For example, a U-shaped jaw is better suited to cutting grass on the ground, while a beak-like jaw (like ceratopsians) is more effective at eating tall vegetation such as tree branches and bushes.

In this case, the bongo is an animal that will feed solely on leaves, young shoots, and grass.

In fact, with all this information put together, I think the hexapede will feed on the same vegetation as the bongo since these are present all year round in the rainforest.

That's it! The hexapede is finally finished. Phew!

For all those who have read it all, thank you. The idea for these theories came from "WhispertheWolfie" on DeviantArt, who did the same thing for HTTYD.

I noticed that my few ideas about Eywa as a super-organism were more or less appreciated and personally I've always preferred the xenobiologist side of Avatar so… Gift! For anyone who's interested at least.

#avatar the way of water #avatar 2 #avatar #hexapede #yerik #biology #zoology #xenobiology #theories #avatar 2009 #avatar movie #speculative biology #speculative zoology #world building #avatar theory #please reblog

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Eetu x Sarentu!Reader (Romancing Pandora 2024 Day 4 - Predator/Prey)

A/N: I'm so sorry I feel like this sucks ass, I love Eetu like he might genuinely be my favourite rn but I could not get flowing with this

Tagging: @eywaite @neteyamsyawntu

Synopsis: After you help Eetu give his Ikran, Zomey, the heartfelt goodbye she deserved he feels a bond with you that can't be compared to the members of his own clan. He offers you whatever he can including hunting and tracking lessons to help you in your fight with the resistance against the RDA.

Fic Includes: NSFW so MDNI! Eetu being a little shit, teacher/student dynamics as well as predator/prey dynamics, brief dry humping, fingering, squirting, Eetu being kind of condescending but in a sexy way, minor breeding kink mention, minor male masturbation, 2.9k words

You’d been on a constant journey of relearning since being broken out of the RDA facility you were raised in by So’lek and his team from the Resistance. Relearning your instincts, your clan’s history, your home and yourself.

Becoming close with Aranahe was one of the things that really helped you on this journey, mostly because the Aranahe introduced you to Eetu.

Eetu was complex and exciting, he thrived in the forest in a way that you only wished you could grow to emulate and taught you more in your brief time together than you could have imagined. His energy was infectious, bored by the traditional and seeking action through every action with his Ikran Zomey. You found that to really get along with Eetu, to break through his walls and become, dare you say, friends, you had to find a game to play with him and if you did that and if he liked the way you played.. He would open up.

You suppose that’s why when he was ready to say goodbye to Zomey, the one person he wanted to be there with him was you. To this day you still feel nauseous at the smell of fortune’s fruit, a guilt that you can’t shake making your stomach turn despite the reassurance from Eetu that you had nothing to feel guilty about.

It was later that day over a shared meal of some spiced hexapede meat hunting and prepared by himself that Eetu had offered his help to improve your hunting and tracking skills, something he’d expressed boredom about previously as a stranger but now as a friend he was eager to propose. You had accepted his help more than eagerly, knowing deep in your heart that you needed his help more than anyone else’s.

Sweat beaded on your forehead as your light steps drifted along the forest floor, Eetu had taught you quickly how to lighten the impact of your feet on the ground to make your approach borderline undetectable on hunts. It wasn’t a particularly hot day on Pandora but the pressure of wanting to succeed and even more to impress Eetu made your skin burn hot. The small, loose hairs that escaped your tied back hair clung to whatever damp skin they touched instantly and made your skin itch with the tickle of constant contact.

As you crouched over the last remaining footprint in the trail Eetu had left you, on purpose to make tracking him easier, you resigned yourself to attempting to pick up his scent in the air. It seemed your Karyu was playing games today, trying to make the hunt more challenging. You quickly caught his scent in the air, he always smelled like a mix of sweat from the physical exertion of hunting and the nectar from swamp hives, something he used in the polish he made for his bows and knives.

Following the scent trail of your Karyu proved easy enough once you caught it but before long you came to a riverbank where the scent began to dissipate. Suspecting Eetu had used the cover of water to hide his scent, you approach the edge and crouch down to search for signs of disruption in the mud. There’s a heavy silence in the air only broken by the flowing river, running your fingers along an odd break in the mud of the river bank you try to look for a matching disturbance across the water when a sudden, sharp tug on your kuru makes a choked gasp escape your throat and the unmistakable feeling of a cool blade pressed against the delicate skin of your neck causes your back to tense with the tension of a well strung bow string.

“If I were RDA, you would be dead already taronyutsyìp”, the sound of Eetu’s voice immediately put you at ease despite the blade still pressed against your skin but it also caused irritation to prickle along your spine. He had tricked you. You hadn’t heard any sign of his approach until it was too late. That damn show off.

“You played unfairly, Karyu, purposefully making yourself harder to track.. the RDA are not that smart”, Eetu’s deep chuckle sent a shiver down your spine and a flush began to creep up on your cheeks from his remaining grip on your kuru, he was the only one other than yourself to touch that part of your body in a way that wasn’t meant to cause pain and every time it happened you felt shame at the yearning that stewed in your gut.

You feel the heat from Eetu’s body surrounding your own as he crouches behind you, the muscles of his chest barely brushing against your back when he leans close to rest his chin on your shoulder. “You were doing well, I have to say, I was almost worried” the grip he has on your kuru is dropped and the knife against your throat is sheathed in his knife holder as he continues speaking “Almost, taronyutsyìp, until you turned your back and didn’t pick up me approaching you. Then I knew I had won, once again” the smirk on his face is unbearable and it makes you shake your head in annoyance.

“You cheated”

“Ah, Sarentu, your words wound me” you feel Eetu move away from you, leaving a chill from his lack of warmth. Quickly getting to your feet you watch as he makes his way back into the cover of the trees, his tail swaying with satisfaction that forces your next words out of your mouth uncontrollably.

“Let me try again, I want to win this time”

Eetu’s ears twitch with interest as his feet stop their path ahead instead moving to turn his body towards you once again. His eyes roam your body from head to toe, taking the time to look you over as he thinks about your words before a large grin stretches across his face.

“Eetu, what-”

“10.. 9..”

He approaches you slowly, like a stalking thanator approaching its prey and it makes an unexpected thrill shoot up your spine. Your ears and tail betray you by standing straight up, showing straight away how intrigued you are by this little game and yet your feet remain stuck in place. Eetu’s brown raised, surprised at you standing your ground and he takes a purposefully large step towards you.

“8.. 7..”

You stare him down the closer he gets, a sudden confidence taking over you and a great need to make Eetu look as stupid as he makes you feel half the time.

“6.. 5.. 4.. 3..”

He’s close enough now that he could reach out and grab you if he wanted to, but you know him well enough by now to know that he won’t take the easy way out.

“2.. 1..”

Eetu lunges towards you, intending surely to push you into the river but you avoid him at the last second, crouching close to the ground and snarling at him in a playful take on an aggressive display. His grin widens as he nods to the forest, giving you the time to begin running before he can get to you.

You take off with a sprint, running as fast as your feet can carry you yet you can still hear Eetu close behind you. Your heart pounds in your ears and when you chance a glimpse back to see how much breathing space you have a startled yet amused scream bursts from your lips at the sight of Eetu so close.

The impact of his body hitting your own makes your head spin almost as much as the sudden tumble you both take down the hill that you were trying to avoid while running away. Eetu quickly pulls you against him, pressing your face against his muscular chest as his thick arms circle you to protect you from as much impact as he can.

Eetu lands on top of you at the bottom and you’re thankfully cushioned in the plush foliage of the forest as well as the soft muscular coils of his arms. You’re both panting from the exertion and the thrill of the chase, you can’t help but laugh at how ridiculous this is.

You look up at Eetu, his hair is ruffled and despite the tumble a grin is still present on his handsome face. His eyes are gentle as they gaze into yours and he can’t hold back the fond thoughts that plague his brain about your beauty.

“You lose again, taronyutsyìp” You roll your eyes as you attempt to sit up, ready to bite back at him once again. This is your usual song and dance, tease, tease and tease some more until one of you ends it and you both return to hometree to eat together by the warmth of the fire.

You shift underneath Eetu, hindered by the weight of him on top of you as he refuses to move.

“Eetu, get off you skxawng-” A sudden groan startles you and you freeze in place, looking up at Eetu with wide eyes full of concern at the thought of accidentally hurting him.

Eetu fights a losing battle with himself, his attraction to you combined with the adrenaline of chasing you like he was hunting a nimble arrow deer had his cock harder than it had been since his teenage years and your cute little thighs unknowingly brushing it every time you tried to get more comfortable under him wasn’t helping in the slightest. Etuwa told him that he was a skxawng, that he should just say something to you and express his interest in you the normal way. But the adolescent rebelliousness still lingered in his brain and he knew that wouldn’t satisfy him, so he settled for teasing, being stupid with you and hiding his feelings behind condescension and sarcasm.

Your ears pin back in concern, hands reaching for his face to smooth back his hair as your eyes flick over every inch of him you can see in this position. A concerned whine rips from your throat before you can stop it and the desperation in the sound is enough to break Eetu’s strength entirely. May Eywa strike him down during the next thunderstorm for his selfishness.

Before he could talk himself out of it, Eetu kisses you with all the force he has, hands cradling your body so delicately that he could swear they weren’t even his own, unable to remember the last time his hands were used so gently. He waits for a bite, scratch, kick.. something that expresses your disgust at his actions but instead he feels your hands in his hair, encouraging him closer until his chest is pressed against yours and his arms are flexing with the effort of keeping his full weight off of you.

You have no time to worry about your kissing talents, your only experience with kissing being with Nor when you were still in your early teens. Eetu grips you like you’re the only thing keeping him present on the planet and you grip him just as tenderly. Every teasing moment, every grip and hit and stupid comment has been leading you both directly here. Eywa was clearly playing a game with you both, pulling your strings while you pulled each other’s.

Eetu pulls back as little as he can to allow you both breathing space and his head falls to your neck, the ache of his hard cock getting more painful the longer it’s forced to be confined in his tewng. His hot breath warms the skin of your neck and for a brief moment you feel the sting of tears filling your eyes, overwhelmed by how incredibly intimate this all feels.

You feel his breathing match your own as you bask in each other’s presence and you think twice before breaking the silence.

“Thank you.. for making me feel like a normal na’vi”

“You’re welcome.. but you aren’t a normal na’vi”

An offended gasp escapes you and your hand comes down with a dull smack against the back of his head. His snickers fill the air as he pulls back to meet your eyes.

“You are not a normal na’vi” His eyes search your own, full of something you try hard to convince yourself isn’t love for fear that would make you delusional. “A normal na’vi would not make me feel like this.. make my heart pump with all the vigor of hunting a wild thanator, make my brain so clouded that all I can do is act like a skxawng..” A shaky breath rattles through your chest as Eetu drops his hips into your own, the unmistakable outline of his covered cock settling against your covered cunt, embarrassingly damp from his kiss.

“I would never desire a normal na’vi the way I desire you”

Your ears ring at his admission and you gape up at him like a fish out of water desperately trying to find the words to express your feelings and match the intensity of his own confession but all your brain can seem to muster is a shaky gasp of his name and a roll of your hips to meet his own.

Eetu groans at the pressure your movement causes, rolling his hips in return to be rewarded with a moan of your own. He rises onto his knees, pulling you with him to settle in his lap as he holds you. He feels the warmth of your cunt through both of your coverings, slick beginning to seep through and wet his thick cock where it sits inside his tewng.

You feel Eetu’s fingers pressing into the skin of your hips and your own scramble for somewhere to hold as he begins forcing your hips to move against his own. Settling your hands on his shoulders, your sharp little nails dig into his hot skin leaving marks that you have no time to worry about at the current time. The feeling of his hard cock catching your swollen clit forces a sob of pleasure and frustration to rip from your throat, desperate to feel his burning skin against your own.

Eetu, sensing your frustration, quickly works to remove your tewng. Laying you back on the ground once again as soon as you're uncovered from the waist down. He double checks your comfort, looking you up and down as you lay back in the grass and he’s disappointed that this encounter won’t last as long as he’d like purely because of the location. He would love to play with the plump set of tits you hide behind carefully crafted chest coverings and he yearns to spend from sunrise to sunset with his tongue buried as deep as it can reach inside your flushed, dripping cunt.

Your swollen clit peeks out from between your pussy lips, your entire cunt covered in a shining film of your slick that continues to flow under Eetu’s wandering eyes. His rough hands grip onto your thighs, forcing your legs wider and squeezing the fat of them tighter when he hears the sweet little sound of your wet pussy slickly spreading for him.

He keeps your left thigh in his grip as he brings his right to your pussy, two fingers tracing your entrance and collecting your slick to help ease them inside of you, immediately curling to press against the swell of your g-spot and his thumb rubs delicate circles into your clit.

The pleasure is overwhelming, almost causing your legs to snap shut if it wasn’t for Eetu’s grip keeping them spread. His fingers hammer into your g-spot causing you to see stars, this was a feeling you had never been able to give yourself and you’re sure you could never replicate.

Soon Eetu’s third finger slips in amongst his others without much resistance at all, you’d never been so soaked in your life and the squelching noises coming from your cunt was so obscene that it caused your face to burn from the noise of it.

With a particularly rough rub of Eetu’s thumb against your clit you feel your mind go completely blank, your legs trembling as your hand slapped against your mouth to try and contain the high scream coming from you. Clear liquid sprays from your clenching cunt as you cum around Eetu’s fingers, wetting the length of his straining forearm with obscenely loud splashes. The string of moans each hit against your g-spot forced out was totally uncontrollable, his fingers seemingly moving lightning fast to keep you cumming until there was nothing left to force from your pussy.

Dragging his fingers from your pulsing walls he brings them straight to his mouth and sucks your wetness off with a feral groan. Cock twitching from neglect and interest at how incredible it would feel to have that same pulsing of your walls against him, he presses his hand against his covered cock to try and give himself some relief. The thought of emptying his heavy, full balls into your sweet cunt combined with the taste of your slick on his tongue is enough to make his eyes roll back in his head as his hand dips under his waistband and begins jerking himself to completion.

“Eetu..” His head snaps down and his eyes meet yours, his spit slick digits slipping from his mouth as he groans your name and his large rough hand strokes his hard cock as well as it can behind the constriction of his tewng. You’re stuck in place at the debauched sight, cunt still twitching with the aftershocks of such an intense orgasm.

“Want you inside me Eetu, please..”

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