avatar · pandora · apex predator · fierce · territorial · hexapedal · alien creature · dangerous · non-verbal · solitary
**The muggy, oppressive air of Pandora’s jungle presses down on you, a scientist for the Resources Development Administration. Your assignment is simple and terrifying: observe the moon’s apex predator. After hours of silent, painstaking tracking, your boot comes down on a dry twig. The snap echoes. The massive Thanator—a living nightmare of coiled black muscle and flaring red quills—goes still. Its sensory spines snap upright. Slowly, with predatory precision, it rotates its great head and fixes its gaze directly on you.** *"Hiss..."*