She/He/They 20 Expect literally anything I have an ungodly amount of obsessions. So basically multi-fandom but I'm (still) obsessed with the avatar recoms (#1 Warren enjoyer). I post gifs mostly.
Hi everyone! 💙 It's been a minute and I hope y'all are ok. I took a little break because my cat of 15 years passed away last month and it's been a little tough, but I feel comfortable enough to start posting again. I recently started to analyze Lopez's face, specifically his left side as I could've sworn there was a tattoo there, but it was just hard to see. While looking through the 4K screenshots taken by @muhomora, I found something.
The scene where Lopez cheers the Colonel, shows the left side of his face the clearest. While I'm not 100% confident, I can vaguely make out a 1 and 4. Here it is again.
But at the same time, it also looks like the tattoo is actually 114, especially in this frame.
While I can't tell for certain which one it is, all I can say for now is that it definitely has the numbers one and four on it. It sucks that these interesting and diverse group of characters were given the NPC cannon fodder treatment, but I still love them all regardless. Feel free to give your thoughts on what you think the tattoo on the left side of his face is or if you find something!
There’s a possibility, that somewhere in another universe… you could have lived to see the morning.
You can’t tell me that the recombinant’s deaths didn’t affect Lyle and Quaritch at all. Quaritch must feel responsible and guilty for their death in a way because he’s their Colonel. They probably weren’t as close as we imagine, but there is no way they don’t think about it. I also feel like them being the first Recom Team in Avatars brought them closer (trauma bonding). Which is why I feel like they both decided to give them a small funeral-like goodbye ceremony. They had to leave their dead bodies behind, so they decided to put them to peace like this.
May their paper boats float until they reach the horizon,
For their eyes have never seen it,
May they last longer than their bodies,
Because their creators have demeaned it,
Let them live within the stars and far from the scene,
Their lives should have been their own,
And not foreseen.
Damn, getting all emotional and shit. This poor excuse of a poem basically means that they should have lived longer and not under the command of the RDA. The RDA treated them like lab rats to see if things would work out and didn’t properly value their lives because to them the recoms were ‘just Avatars’. In many parts of ATWOW you could see that the recoms weren’t sure what they were doing and why. They just followed orders because that mission was their life purpose. They deserved a chance to properly live like Jake but their time was cut short too quickly. And of course, I miss them.
I got the visual dictionary for Christmas and found details about Warren I didn't catch before. I feel like Warren gets too little attention or just blatantly ignored altogether. I personally really like Warren so here's a small analysis of his tattoos. The screenshots from the film below were taken by @muhomora. I was actually inspired by her analysis of Lopez, Lyle, and Zhang.
I could never tell what the tattoo on his neck was. I always thought it was "RDA", but after getting my hands on the book, it most definitely says "KIA" which is short for "killed in action". It makes a lot of sense considering the context. I now like to think Warren enjoyed boasting about the fact that he was killed in action and got revived.
Warren also seems to sport tattoos on both his forearms. Due to his very unfortunate limited screentime, we never really get a good look at them. Those are the only tattoos that were visible as far as I'm aware during his time in the movie. Feel free to let me know if you guys find something new or if I made a mistake!
Why do you guys think McFarlane didn't make figures of Recom Quaritch or any of the Recoms or Ronal? (Ronal has a tiny one but I wouldn't really count that tbh). I'd love to have more characters on my shelf besides Jake, Neytiri, Tonowari, and Human Quaritch.