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thank uou for showing me your little white boy i do not like him can you put him away please

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Kind of tangentially related, but I've had this plot bunny bouncing around in my head for a long time which I unfortunately will probably never get to write because I'm focusing on Prisoner of War and would need a long break after.

It would basically be an Alternate Universe where Jake succeeded in forcing Spider to turn himself in to the RDA after Spider helped his kids escape. Upon his surrender, Spider is branded a traitor for helping three high value hostages escape, and he's punished accordingly, but they can't get away with outright executing him or sending him back to Earth due to his age, at least not without causing a big stink thats more trouble than Spider's worth. The story would follow Spider for the next year or so as he tries to survive Bridgehead as a "traitor" while struggling with some physical disability and brain damage courtesy of the RDA's torture.

Eventually, Quaritch comes back and intervenes on Spider's behalf, basically giving him the same deal as in canon, getting him out of Bridgehead and some proper medical care in return for his knowledge of Pandora. Spider begrudgingly helps the recom squad out and all goes well for a few months. He even starts bonding with them. Then things get more complicated when Spider's brain damage symptoms worsen. The RDA doctors warn that since Spider went into the neurosect so many times and didn't get proper medical attention until months later, he's suffered irreparable brain damage and doesn't have much longer to live. At this point, Quaritch has gotten very attached to Spider and can't accept that outcome. Out of desperation, he puts Spider in cryosleep to buy some time and makes a deal with Ardmore to get Spider an avatar on the condition that Spider will become a military asset for the RDA just like the other recoms (with built in failsafes to ensure he doesn't get any Sully-like ideas).

Two years later, Spider is successfully transferred from his dying human body into his new avatar body, and its his wildest fantasy and worst nightmare rolled into one: he got the ability to physically connect with Pandora, only to lose the last few scraps of freedom and identity he had left. He's essentially RDA property now. His dad selfishly bought him a new life by selling him into slavery. And Spider's first mission? He's tasked with helping Quaritch hunt down and kill Jake Sully... and deep, deep down, there's an ugly little part of Spider that actually wants to do it.

Your monthly reminder that if Spider wasn’t a baby that couldn’t survive cryosleep, Jake would have sent him back to Earth to live in poverty and choke on poisoned air. Your monthly reminder that Jake and Nash ALSO almost forced Spider into going to Bridgehead, which would have spelled doom for him as he’s close to the Sully family and would definitely be grilled for information. Your monthly reminder that Jake tried to tell Spider to go BACK to Hell’s gate and give himself over to RDA after he and the Sully kids barely escaped it.

Your monthly reminder that Spider has been almost pawned off to a cruel mega-corp with no regard to how it would affect him or if he’d even survive THREE separate times. “Spider betrayed the Sullies” my ass.

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yooooo I never thought about that scene beyond "oh its supposed to show Quaritch is tough and doesn't care about appearances" and I bet thats exactly what Q was thinking too: "Let me show the greenhorn how tough I am so he knows he can trust me out here." But you're right that it shows a huge inequity between them, and so casually too that most people don't pick up on it. So casually that Quaritch himself probably thought he was connecting with Jake rather than showing how different their lives are. Of course, cosmetic facial surgery is likely much cheaper than spinal surgery, but still...

A subtler detail that showcases the unfairness of human society in Avatar 1 is Quaritch’s and Jake’s conversation when they meet one on one for the first time. Until that point, the movie establishes that Jake is dirt poor in spite of giving his spine in a war zone. An abandoned war veteran.

Meanwhile Miles goes on to explain the origin of his scars and whether he should pretty up his face when he rotates home. The old man ends up deciding, with a smirk, that he’ll keep the face scarring as a status symbol, which shows us that not only is Quaritch uber privileged, he’s also filthy rich. He looks a young man dead in the eye, a man who will forever live in poverty because of his disability, thrown to the curb, about whether he should dunk his money into a plastic surgery purely for cosmetic reasons. He’s so far up his ass he can’t even recognise that this casual show of wealth might be inappropriate with this particular person.

We are very lucky that Miles from A1 didn’t raise Spider.

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I had another thought about Chaos is A Ladder

What would happen if one of Spider's missions just went wrong? Say, someone realized he wasn't one of them and he got captured. What would happen?

Would he be interrogated and/or tortured? Would he find a way to escape? Could he talk his way out? How long would it take the Sullies and co to realize something had gone wrong, and when they did, what would they do? Would they try to rescue him? Would the kids want to rescue him, but the adults say its too risky and try to shut down any rescue attempts?

You mentioned you don't really like Quaritch, but if you care to factor him in, how would his presence effect this situation? Would he try to intervene for Spider like he did canonically, or would he leave Spider to his fate? Or if not Quaritch, are there any other RDA characters who would feel conflicted about harming Spider since he's only a teenager?

This was a lot to type, but your questions made me think about the possibilities of Spider's capture and inevitable meeting with his "father," or rather, the echo of his father. It's like looking at a distorted reflection of himself when he sees his "father" for the first time ever.

Spider’s mission is meant to be another clean strike. He infiltrates a remote RDA base under the alias Alec Stone, posing as a green, fresh-faced recruit rotated in from Earth. He wears the uniform. He eats the food. He flinches at gunfire just enough to seem green.

It’s been three days, and he’s already found the pressure points to make this place erupt into chaos: An affair between two officers, a missing shipment of arms blamed on a third, a young soldier who saw something suspicious but hasn’t reported it, and is considering blackmail. This place is rife with corruption and incompetence. Spider had already begun spinning his web and spreading rumors. It's only a matter of time before fingers are pointed and accusations are flung around.

But there’s a mistake. A small one.

A face from a different outpost, a security technician named Harlan Reese, recognizes him. Not entirely. Just enough to ask questions.

“You… I’ve seen your face before…”

Spider plays dumb. Blinks dumbly. Shrugs it off. But Harlan, competent weasel that he is, checks the system, trying to verify Alec Stone’s ID. He finds a ghost. No real transfer. No medicals. No origin.

Spider is fucked and he doesn’t realize he's been made.

Tranquilizer darts hit him in the chest. Three to bring him down.

He wakes chained to a steel chair in a dim interrogation chamber, stripped naked. There's no talking himself out of this, and it's only a matter of time before these clowns figure that he's been sabotaging outposts and turning everyone against each other. The walls are damp. There’s a camera above. A drain in the floor.

They leave him alone for hours. Long enough for the chill to set in. This prison was specifically designed to be as uncomfortable and dirty as possible. Too bad for them, he's lived in filth before. This is nothing.

They torture him.

First, it’s sleep deprivation. Then cold water. Then a shock collar. When Spider doesn't talk, his brain gets damn near turned into mush and still, he resists them. Obviously, the Sullies don't save him. They don't even know that he's here. Spider always leaves High Camp randomly to go on long missions of sabotage. This has sparked more than one argument between him and Jake for leaving without telling anyone, but as long as he keeps coming back after a job well done, Jake just lets him do his own thing.

Luckily for him, Quaritch does intervene in hopes that a change in scenery will get the kid to relax and open up. Also, he might just have a soft spot for the brat. He sees Paz in his eyes, and if the old man's memories are correct, this little stray might just be his son. After some wheeling and dealing, Spider is released into his care for more personal interrogation. Maybe some one-on-one "gentle parenting" will make him talk.

Big mistake.

Before he got found out by Harlan, Spider had planted a fabricated “leak” implicating two officers in some serious shady dealings. The soldiers here are already overworked, and the humidity is so uncomfortable that it makes them more short-tempered than usual.

One minute, Quaritch is pulling some slop together from the cafeteria for the kid to eat, the next, the fire alarms go off, soldiers are fighting each other, and an explosion sweeps Quaritch off his feet. Spider is gone, the entire base is on fire, almost everyone is dead, and Quaritch is deaf in one ear and half his face is a burnt mess from the explosion. He's limping around in search of the kid, but Spider is long gone and this place is fucked to hell. Whatever the little shit did, he got away with it and what little intel they had is gone with the wind.

So, yeah, Spider had a little oopsie, but he learned his lesson. The whole time he was with Quaritch, he was counting down the minutes to slip out of sight and start a fire in the labs...which triggered a chemical explosion. Even worse, his fabricated "leak" triggered a riot...so, yeah, he wasn't interested in sticking around with daddy dearest. Quaritch is strangely proud of the little shit, but resents him for causing so much destruction against his "own kind" and causing the explosion that re-arranged half of his face and deaf in one ear.

Next time they meet, he's going to beat the kid's ass with a switch and then ruffle his hair for a job well done. Apple doesn't fall too far from the tree after all.

As for Spider, he returns to Hell's Gate with enough intel to keep Jake happy and doesn't breathe a word about what happened and what he went through. Mistakes were made. Lessons were learned. He simply wants to lie down and let Kiri reapply his stripes until the next infiltration.

And if he's a little relieved that Quaritch is still alive...then that's his secret to keep.

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Finished raffle artwork for @jeanniebug623 💜It was alot of fun drawing your OC! I hope you like it ^^ I will upload soon a speedpainting video, how I drew this, on youtube! Also want to stream how I draw more in the fute :)

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do you know when frakrr say is coming out? I want to see lyle get the shit beat out of him hehehee

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Tuk being Neytiri's mini me is important to me

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Prisoner of War, Ch 21: Rosetta Stone

Read chapter 21 on Ao3 HERE!

Spider looked down at his limp hands in his lap. “I wish it didn’t have to be like this.”

“What do you mean?”

“You know, like this,” Spider gestured vaguely in the direction of where Hell’s Gate and the other human bases lay. “The fighting, and the killing, and everything.”

Kiri pulled her hands away from her face so they could look each other in the eye. “The RDA started this war, not us. You understand that, right?”

It hurt to admit it, but Spider had to face the truth. “Yeah. This is all on them. You guys were telling me the truth this whole time. I was just too stupid to understand.”

“Not stupid. It was the only thing you knew. But now that you understand and you’ve had time to think about it…” Kiri took his hand and squeezed it hopefully. “You want to stay here now, right? With us? With me?”

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Hi I was wondering if we could get a snippet of the next chapter. I look forward to it every Saturday

Of course! Here's a little snippet of Spider about five seconds before he absolutely crashes out! Next chapter will be posted tomorrow!

“You said this fungus in my body is similar to the tslengsopi,” Spider said apprehensively, “and that stuff turns mudcrawlers into zombies. I’m not gonna turn into a zombie, am I?”

Jake put a comforting arm around Spider’s shoulders. “No, of course not, buddy.”

It almost made Spider feel a little better until Max decided to chime in. “Well, we really can’t say anything for sure, right now—“ his voice halted when he caught a furious look from Jake and he quickly changed his tune. “But if anything bad were going to happen, it probably would’ve happened already! I’m sure you’ll be fine!”

Spider realized Jake still had an arm around him and shoved it away. Thankfully, Jake took the hint and gave him space. He rubbed at his temples in an attempt to drive away the last of his headache as he thought about what to say next.

“So how do we get it out of me?”

The room went quiet. Eventually, Jake asked, “what do you mean?”

“That’s what we’re gonna do next, right?” Spider chuckled nervously, wondering why everyone was staring at him as if he’d said something wrong. “I mean, we can’t just leave this stuff inside me.”

Max clutched his tablet to his chest before hesitantly saying, “Spider, didn’t you understand what I told you? This stuff is fully integrated with your respiratory system and nervous system.”

“Yeah, I get that, but there’s gotta be a way to get it out, right? Like, surgery or something?”

“Surgery?” Max echoed, shaking his head in disbelief. “These filaments are as thin as hair, and they’re wrapped around your most important nerves and bronchi. The amount of precision it would take to remove them without damaging any of your systems… it’s just not possible!”

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Avatar: The Way of Water | 2022

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from a writer's perspective I would love this to happen for all the important narrative reasons OP described above. It would be so perfect for his character development and be an emotionally powerful moment to push him into leaving the RDA.

but as a fan CUPCAKE NOOOOOOOOOOO 😭😭😭

thinking about Q and Cupcake and their potential future arc 😔

baby girls gonna have to die. for his development. she is his purest connection, purer then even his relationship with Spider. she is entirely of Pandora

one of the only thing of which he cares outside of his son. their minds are one. they're bonded. she's the thing that made him decidedly less human. even in the recom body.

she is the one creature that truly knows him. inside and out. good and bad. and loves him unconditionally regardless. she's always by his side. always there to lift him up or defend him or croon softly. to treat him like he is something worth while. like she sees the good in him he doesn't think exists. they are bonded. soulmates. life partners. their minds interwoven.

she came into his life and now he doesn't know how to imagine her not being in it. not having her as part of his mind. he can hardly tolerate separating from her for too long. doesn't like it. she's the only thing he truly loves outside of Spider

so of course she has to die. he needs to experience loss. needs to see the value of connection. of the sanctity of her existence and the connections of Pandora and tsahaylu. needs to see what he once destroyed, what he continues to destroy. the pain it causes. the cost of it all.

I think it would rock his perception of Pandora. he wants to pretend he doesn't care. and when he can't do that, he wants to pretend he doesn't care that much.

but feeling a part of you, an extension of your mind, a creature who knew you inside and out, die. and never feeling that same connection again? it might. maybe not fix, but... it'd do something.

(and the potential for a Neytiri parallel is right there and I feel like as he drifts away from being the main villain to... whatever he's heading towards {not quite a redemption arc, but not not a redemption arc. it's. he's doing his own thing}. he'll start to parallel her more and more. even if it's just going through a similar trauma.)

I don't like it. I've gotten so attached to her. but it's necessary

and ignoring how it's gonna kill me. it needs to be slower. like Zomey from AFOP. he needs to experience it and not be able to forget. he needs to reflect in the moment. needs to be forced into softness with a creature from a world he previously despised. none of him can pretend to not care by the end. it's impossible.

maybe at first, when she falls, he tries to force her up. half out of mania and assholeness and all of that. he makes the bond intending to command her, voice sharp, mind sharp, trying to force it. but the other half... the other half doesn't want to accept she's down.

and it's when he does make the bond and she tries to get up and just. can't. she tries so hard, even though it hurts, and he can feel it, her pain is his, and he tries his best to shoulder it for her, but she's hurt bad and she just can't. that all his attempts at not falling for her, not loving her, not bonding with her beyond surface level, at pretending her doesn't care fall through in instant.

he just sits next to her. maybe asks her one more time. gently. softly. no longer a command. before sighing and rubbing the top of her head and just. accepting it.

"alright... it's alright. you're... at ease." and he's just gently rubbing her neck. her head's on his lap. and he feels her go.

bonus points if he has the time to take off her tack so she could be free from the RDA in the end (once again symbolizing how he is pulling away, his loyalty waning. not for Pandora as a whole, but for those he loves. he wants her to be free in the way he longs to be)

double bonus points if the RDA is a more direct cause of her death then the Na'vi are (he's gonna be given every reason to leave them as the movies progress). especially cause he didn't kill Seze, Lyle did, so it feels more full circle to have "his own" put him through that pain

I think it boils down to the fact that, story and plot and character development wise, he needs to direct his very fragile and minuscule humanity at someone that isn't Spider for 3 seconds.

and after that? when part of his mind is just... missing. eternally. after he probably never thought he wanted, needed, or could make such a meaningful connection? I need to see that type of unwell from him.

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What would prisoner of war be like if spider had a twin(boy or girl) who enlisted with spider and happened to not be captured by loak. Probably was assigned to a different base. And some how ended up in the same position as spider in the poster boy au with the additional promise of “rescuing” spider and bringing him back. Would he or she bond more with Quaritch since “saving” spider would be a mutual goal? Would this twin be further indoctrinated into RDA propaganda? How would spider handle the situation? Would he view it as more of a reason to get back to the RDA?

ooh this is a really interesting scenario...

First of all, if Spider had a sibling waiting for him back at Outpost Echo he would be WAY more motivated to try and escape the Sullies. He wouldn't go along with what the Sullies asked him to do, he would constantly fight them (unsuccessfully of course), and try to run off any chance he got (also unsuccessfully lol). He'd act just how he did when he was first captured by Quaritch in canon, with the constant kicking and screaming. Since Spider is a lot less compliant, the Sullies keep him on a much shorter leash (which is really more for his own safety cause he keeps trying to pick fights with na'vi who are quickly losing their patience for him and trying to run away when he'd have no chance of survival out there). So Spider has a much less fun time because he's miserable worried about his sibling.

Meanwhile, the sibling, let's say she's a girl who goes by cricket, is also miserable, and she fully believes Spider was killed by the na'vi so she vows revenge. She never really cared so much about Quaritch and Paz the way Spider did, so wasn't interested in revenge, but now that she believes Spider was killed by them, she goes full on vengeance mode and throws herself into training, vowing to kill as many navi as she can. Maverick is completely wracked by guilt and blames himself for not exposing the twins' real ages, so he confesses the truth to the higher ups. This results in Cricket going through the "poster girl" au like in my other ask, where instead of being sent back to earth she's turned into a sort of mascot for the rda and advertised as Quaritch's daughter.

A few months later, Quaritch comes back and is surprised to meet his now teenage daughter and learn his son was tragically killed in the forest. Quaritch, unlike how he would be with Spider, isn't really comfortable with his daughter being a soldier. Yes, he has female soldiers like Zdog who he respects and acknowledges as equal to his male soldiers, but Cricket is HIS little girl and she looks so much like her mother, so he tries to shut down her plans of being a soldier and avenging her brother, which Cricket is not thrilled about in the slightest. The two of them do not get along so well and constantly get into fights.

Meanwhile, Spider goes through his shenanigans with the sully kids adjacent to what happens in my fic, slowly building up affection and learning the truth about the rda. Eventually, there comes the breaking point, similar to the Outpost Echo plotline, where Spider agrees to help the adults infiltrate an RDA base without knowing that Quaritch and Cricket will be there. When Spider and Cricket run into each other, they're literally like

Cricket nearly has a mental breakdown upon realizing, A) her brother is still alive, and B) he's seemingly turned traitor. Spider is just happy to see Cricket alive and healthy. He tries to hug her but she punches him in the gut and yells at him. Just like Maverick and Spider in the fic, the two get separated by the plot before either of them can really explain anything to each other. They go back to their respective home bases to regroup.

Unlike in the fic where Spider still holds onto some loyalty to the RDA, Spider completely commits to the navi side after this incident and decides he's not going to let his sister go down the same path. He comes up with the genius idea to kidnap his sister, who is now the poster girl for anti-navi propaganda.

Meanwhile, Cricket, confused and angry, comes up with the equally genius idea to strike out on her own and try to get her brother back, since the RDA won't risk sending soldiers for some asshole kid who's gone traitor, even if its quaritch's kid.

Cue some ridiculous adventure of Cricket going off on her own, running into Spider and the Sully kids, and getting her dumbass captured and brought back to High Camp.

Jake is not thrilled with this new development. It's like when you let your kids keep a stray cat and then it brings home another stray cat. Cricket is even less pleased with the situation. If the Sullies thought Spider was rude and belligerent when they first caught him, Cricket is somehow even worse. She's especially bad to Spider. Ironically, she ends up bonding with Kiri and Neteyam purely to spite Spider and be like "see, I hate YOU so much I'm hanging out with THEM instead!" Spider keeps trying to talk her around to his point of view, but Cricket is convinced Spider's been brainwashed. She spent more time around Quaritch, so his views really sunk into her, even though she denies she's anything like her dad at all. All of Spider and Cricket's interactions are basically just them bitching at each other.

Maybe eventually Cricket will come around, or maybe she'll find a way to escape or contact their dad, who knows. I feel like this is enough for now ha ha, want to keep it open ended!

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Prisoner of War, Ch 20: Firebird

Read chapter 20 on Ao3 HERE!

“Spider?” Kiri cried, but he couldn’t have answered her even if he wanted to.

Spider fumbled for his exopack and wiped some of the mud away. He felt it long before he saw it: a crack in the mask, steadily leaking his precious oxygen. He would’ve cursed if he had the breath to do so.

Kiri grabbed onto his mask and wiped frantically until it was fully visible; an ugly, jagged break in the plexiglass just above his cheekbone. It was less than three inches long. Strange to think his life would be ended by something so small.

ANNOUNCEMENT!

I made a small change to my outline and decided to add one more chapter to part 2 to give the story some room to breathe. Next Saturday, I will post chapter 21 Rosetta Stone, the real final chapter of part 2, and then I will take a hiatus to give myself time to work on part 3 and get buffer chapters written.

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Link to tiktok: Link

Another video finished 🤭 The idea was way to cute to not draw it 💜 I love how cute Spider as a big brother is 🥺🫂

OCs: Ava and Stella Maris. Canoon OCs: Recom Quaritch and Spider (the content label is a bug from Tumblr, I did not add it)

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Daily sketches - 2025 by sathish kumar

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“Hi, Spider! Welcome to the resistance!” Chapter 11 is OUTTTT!

Fic summary: After getting caught in the woods by Quaritch and his recombinant squad, Spider is brought to an extraction site on the edges of the eastern territory of Pandora. He’s never been so far from home, and when a mysterious young Na’vi with a legendary mark rescues him it brings Socorro even further into the unknown lands.

RDA, akin to hungry locusts, have spread there as well, polluting the soil and massacring Pandorian life for profit, so the boy takes it upon himself to stay, help unite the clans and perhaps teach the four confused Sarentu children the way of the Na’vi while he’s at it, but will the resistance succeed in keeping his freedom now that Miles Quaritch has arrived to the western frontier searching for his captive?

Read chapter 11

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hey! I love your fanfic Peisoner of War. I’ve been tuning in every Saturday noon to read the latest chapter.

I have a question. I discovered your tumblr page and found out you draw really good avatar fan art. Is there any chance of you making illustrations from Prisoner of War? No pressure since it’s your descison but it would be interesting.

Thank you! I've been so consumed by writing POW that I just haven't had the time to draw between everything else going on in my life. But I'm planning to take a hiatus after I post chapter 20, which is the last chapter of part 2 of my story. Maybe I'll make time for myself to make some POW art then!

Is there anything specific for Prisoner of War you'd like to see?