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#making titanothere the tulkun of the forest
dirtytransmasc · 1 year
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Recoms having to deal with weird Eywa blessed Spider is one thing, but recoms having to deal with weird Eywa blessed Spider AND one of the Sully kids, who just goes 'yea, that's normal' whenever Spider does anything weird.
they have spider, who makes friends with the most dangerous, temperamental, and downright vicious animals of the forest; playing with viperwolves, racing with thanators, walking with a herd of titanothere with no fear. not only did he initiate these bouts of play and the animals allow it, but he was often sought out. older viperwolves looking for a babysitter to wear out their pups. a particular thantator that supposedly took a liking to the little human looking for their friend, curling up next to him like a ginormous glorified house cat. the younger titanothere calfs jesting him while there mothers looked on amusingly, the older of the herd seeking spider out, seemingly having conversations with the boy (it reminded the squad of elephants, there wise, down right gentle behavior with this boy who was nothing more than a speck to them).
it was terrifying from an outsider perspective, but spider was perfectly content, he even has names for most of the creatures he met, how he told them apart no one really knew, and he seemed to enjoy their company more then his siblings or the recoms at times.
spider also didn't use a mask, claimed he found he didn;t need one when he was little when it came off while wrestling with his brothers, and that in itself gave miles a heart attack everytime he looked to spider and found his very human son out in the open pandora air, forgetting for a split second how weird his fucking kid was.
then there was the tree, the tree and its vines and roots that spider would fall asleep against only to get swaddled up in its grasp like something out of a horror movie. spiders sibling had to keep the recoms from cutting him out on numerous occassions, explaining that this was in fact, very normal for spider, that with his lack of queue he found another way to connect with The Great Mother.
in fact, all of this was normal. the recoms didn't anticipate sitting in front of a cook fire while they listened to a sully kid give them an extensive run down of all the shit that spider does, that he shouldn't be able to do, and how its just normal now.
not only are the joined forces of both kids a literal nightmare, cause they are chaos incarnate, but every. single. day. the recoms find themselves baffled by spider only to hear the quip of a sully kid saying "I told you so,"
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dirtytransmasc · 1 year
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Weird Eywa Blessed Spider™️ is a mood.
He can, and will, make friends with anything, including a Toruk. (Not the same as Jake's.)
Miles really just wishes it didn't follow them around so much. The Thanator was bad enough, but at least it was stuck on the ground.
more Weird Eywa Blessed Spider things
our boy likes to just lay down in a field of titanothere and take a nap, cause he trusts them not to step on him and he thinks the booming of their feet is soothing. him taking a nap typically causes all the little calves to lay down with him till there's just a big old pile of sleeping babies in the middle of the forest.
spider's met jakes toruk, they 'got along' but he thinks that he's an asshole. so he found another toruk to befriend. it wasn't reely hard, for him at least, and while he's never ridden it (he totally has, he just doesn't care to steal jakes thunder, he just likes his alone time so he never lets anyone see him ride) she comes on command and is like a big guard dog. this is in fact much to miles's displeasure, as he has to explain to ardmore why is won't stop circling bridgehead when the kids inside.
catnap's next to slinths, thinks they're pretty, totally tried to race one, lost horribly, still hangs out with it. almost convinced it to sting him, it wasn't gonna eat him but he wanted to see what its neurotoxin felt like, neteyam luckily stopped him (he was like 8 and 75 pounds soaking wet, it would have killed him in a heartbeat, literally)
pali tamer, he can gather a scattered herd of pali with ease, they just trust him even if spooked, so he's normally the one who's gotta track them all down. he watched this documentery one time about ancient herding and learned about kulning, and he just uses the herding calls to bring them in. (motherfucker really is snow white, singing the animals back in)
'stampede surfs' aka, rides on top of stampeding sturmbeast.
feeds tetrapteron like old ladies feed pigeons. has never been stung by a stingbat or hellfire wasp. rides turtapedes like rafts, cause he feels like it.
not techincally animals, but that boy is constantly getting harrased by ato'kirina, like they're always in his face, guiding him place, and he just sorta floats along.
overall he's just a total wild with complete trust in his surroundings, so he seems to the untrained eye, to have no sense of self preservation (maybe that's a little true). he kinda just goes with the flow in what miles and the recoms describe as a 'hippie stoner' sort of way, and are convinced spider is smoking something cause his level of chill is sorta astronomical. and thats not to say he doesn't have a spontaneous side or a serious side, its just that even then he's just chill for lack of a batter term.
he greets every living thing he meets, hand gesture and all.
names trees, cause he feels like it.
sets every tsahik and tiretu in a five mile radius off, they can just feel him coming, and he throws them off like a magnet to a compass.
as they start exploring the reef he makes friends with schools of fish, akula, anything really, cause y'know, thats just what he does.
he didn't let the tulkun hunt happen, that was a no go, and his toruk friend (tswal'zize' or big hellfire wasp, cause sue him, he thinks that the wasps are pretty and she's pretty, he just calls her zizzy for short) is a big help with that one.
he glows at night, its hard to see his little spots during the day cause they blend in really well, but at night he has sparkles, eywa bedazzled him cause she felt like it.
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