#peyam sully

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“Were you lonely, Uncle Payakan?”

“I was. I’m not anymore.”

Ziri and Pey Pey learn why Payakan lives with them and was outcast. 🥹🥹🥹

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Random Lo’ak x Tsireya children!

As I was making this I realized that Metkayina society due to its sign language would be an interesting place for a deaf na’vi. I don’t know of hearing about an na’vi that are mute or deaf, but thought what if Lo’ak’s son was? Of course Lo’ak would at first worry his mixed Avatar genes caused his son to be deaf but ofc Tsireya would set him straight and reassure him that their is nothing wrong with their son and that he will be just as strong and loved by the people as if he could hear. Idk just a thought I had.

might be typos get over it by now you know I can’t spell

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What's this? A hunting trip with Uncle Payakan goes wrong when Ziri, Pey-Pey and Payakan stumble upon the aftermath of an RDA attack on a Metkayina village.

To be finished soon

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hi, um I saw your adult Ziri’mey art, and was wondering if you ever thought about making one of Pey’am?

Sneak peak Lo’akxTsireya fam photo……. Pey Pey inherited Tonowari’s height.

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Uncle Payakan and small Pey Pey and Ziri coming up.

in which Ziri and Pey Pey learn that Payakan lives with them because he was outcasted from his own clan and Ziri at 11 is ready to start a war.

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Ziri is translating for some punk who doesn’t know sign. She’s paraphrasing. Pey’am is 12 here and Ziri is 16.

Ziri loves curse words and grandpa definitely taught her a few. Her favorite is ‘candy-ass bitch’ but that don’t translate well in na’vi.

Ziri takes a lot of style influence from her grandmother. I feel like she really wants to connect to her Omaticaya culture.

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Last post had me thinking about Pe'yam and Ziri shenanigans. WIP

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I'm absolutely in love with your AU (⁠つ⁠✧⁠ω⁠✧⁠)⁠つ

can I ask of some more hc s?

how did the family react when they found out Pey pey was deaf?

How does Lo'ak act with his kids? What do they do together? <3

Family's reaction to Pe'yam being deaf:

The Sully's were more alarmed at Pey Pey being deaf than his Metkayina family. In fact I think Tsireya, Ao'nung, Ronal and Tonowari would be completely unphased. In fact I like the idea that Metkayina have had deaf members in the past - maybe its some mutation that shows up time to time? Idk. I can see sound being less important than touch. Like feeling the movement of the water being more important than lets say, listening to movement in trees in Omaticaya forest.

I think because the Metkayina spend so much time using sign language and underwater, the idea of communicating without sound is just easier to grasp.

Neytiri, as we've learned, does not like change and does not like being unprepared. I think she would just worry for Pey Pey's safety. Neytiri has lost so many people - I think she would easily become paranoid.

I can see Kiri being really unphased. As long as he can connect with Eywa, she thinks he'll be fine.

Tuk is curious and caring so I think she would be hesitant but eager to learn and navigate communicating with her nephew. 

I think Jake also would be unalarmed. He dealt with losing the ability to walk, so he can empathise with this idea of people thinking that the loss of a common ability makes you weak. He knows that people might look down on Pey Pey, but he doesn't want his grandson to think that he's lesser. He can run and walk - Jake sees that as a win. Jake's not much of a talker anyhow so I think when he needs chill time he appreciates hanging out with his grandson.

I can see Lo'ak and Neytiri being the most concerned. Lo'ak because I think he already feels like with him being mixed his kids are at a disadvantage. He knows what it was like growing up different. Also Lo'ak I think becomes more nervous and protective since the death of Neteyam so he would become a mother hen.

As for Lo'ak and his daughter Ziri, he would come to understand his fathers parenting more. I think Lo'ak would be very strict with his daughter just because she gets in so much trouble. He dishes out the punishments while Tsireya would be the one to play good cop and sooth both his and their daughters tempers. I think Lo'ak would get scared and blow up at Ziri for doing something stupid(something that he would have done at her age) and instantly regret it afterwards. 

I think it's one of those generational cycles, as Lo'ak would also in the midst of yelling at Ziri for putting herself and Pe'yam in danger (I imagine she wanted to go and check out a nearby Skypeople boat wreck and scavenge for thingamabobs.), he calls Pe'yam 'Neteyam' on accident. Like most of the family, he is seeing a resemblance in Ziri and Pe'yam to his and Neteyam's relationship as children. He's terrified of a repeat. Also it seems to be a Sully/Neytiri family curse that a sibling dies each generation.

Tsireya obviously nips this in the bud and gets on his ass to apologies and make it right and not to project his own guilt on his daughter. I think Ziri would be angry at her father until she meets her Uncle at the Spirit tree and learned a bit more about their relationship growing up. 

The two of them need to have some sort of heart to heart healing journey IDK I need to write it. Jake in their because *generational trauma* *cycle of pain*

As for Pey Pey and Ziri together. It consists of Pey Pey following Ziri and being the witness to her shenanigans. Ziriis also an avid talker, but while talking alot she never overwhelms or disregards her brother. In fact she's very quick at interpreting her brothers thoughts and wishes. I have this idea of whenever they meet new people who can't sign she speaks for him. Sometimes she's a bit more blunt than Pe'yam wishes.

You guys know that one Key & Peel Obama translator sketch? Yeah that them.

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How did you come up with the names for the OC kids? Do they have a specific meaning? I've been mulling over how to turn a couple of my OCs into Navi but I'm uncertain what to do for their names. (I can pretty much use their original names but they mean nothing in Navi language, just sentence fragments and stuff, so idk)

Originally I had named Ziri after Neteyam (Netera), and Pe'yam after Payakan(Paya'tey).

But fundamentally I realised that was wrong(even though I really liked that idea originally). For one, we don't really see Na'vi naming kids after preexisting people. Naming kids after already existing people is a very... human idea(specifically western). And very prideful at that.

Na'vi see each person as a beloved child of Eywa so I think giving them a name copying another would be strange.

Plus I didn't like the idea of Neteyam and Payakan being thought of as comparable or equal in Lo'ak's eyes. His love for each of them is different.

I then decided to think of the sounds and common name structures. For one, 'iri' seems to be used in females commonly. (Neytiri, Kiri) so I liked the idea of using it again in Ziri, almost like it was a traditional family name structure. I decided to add 'mey' because it felt like a repeating sound that would be easy to fit into their language.

I watched the Avatar Behind the Scenes documentary on youtube and the linguist who designed the Na'vin language talks about how the sounds need to feel cohesive, he designed the language with an idea of how the use vowels and move their mouths. 'Mey' is very similar to 'Tey' which is a common suffix.

So Ziri'mey became her name.

Pey'am actually was sort of inspired by my original conundrum with their names being inspired by Payakan and Neteyam. I really liked the 'yam' structure in Neteyams name because it just feels soft and lovely - which is what I wanted Pey'am to feel like, a wee babe. Then the P just snuck in there, with 'ey' because I liked Ziri'mey structure and liked the sound of the names together. And I guess in a way his name did become a mix of Payakan and Neteyam? Whoops.

But they got no meaning to my knowledge other than they sound pretty.

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Adult Lo'ak with Pey Pey ON THE WAY

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IK THIS IS ANGSTY (and it is) BUT. PAYAKAN’S HAIR UP HAS ME FEELIN SOME TYPE OF WAY😩😩

What's this? A hunting trip with Uncle Payakan goes wrong when Ziri, Pey-Pey and Payakan stumble upon the aftermath of an RDA attack on a Metkayina village.

To be finished soon