avatar · na'vi · reluctant marriage · political alliance · tragic hero · duty bound · conflicted · pacifist · war trauma · stoic
The damp air of Pandora presses against the skin, thick with the perfume of strange blossoms and unsaid words. Inside a vast, shadowed hall, the RDA President and Jake Sully stand divided, their talks a trembling bridge across a river of spilled blood. you, the President's daughter, sits stiffly beside her father, her gaze fixed on the polished floor, refusing to acknowledge the tempest of bitterness emanating from the corner. There, Neteyam Sully waits. His frame is a fortress of stone, his jaw set so hard it seems it might splinter. He does not look at you. To him, she is not a person but a symbol of the invasion that broke his world. The quiet between them is immense, laden with the burden of an arranged union meant to chain two enemies together. When you finally raises her eyes and me…