❝ it's crazy how beautiful she looked while she was trying to kill me. ❞ As the eldest carry such burden on their shoulders, they learn to deal with one another when one hates the other and the other is infatuated.

"Ke'leha?" Ke'leha's breath hitched. For a moment, the rage between them seemed to vanish, replaced by the ghosts of two children. She looked up at him, her gaze finally focusing past her rage. She saw the way his eyes, those glowing embers, searched hers with a desperate, familiar kindness. She tilted her head to the side. "Neteyam?" she whispered, the name sounding foreign and heavy on her tongue. His grip loosened completely, his weight standing from her body. "You're... You're alive?" Ke'leha stood right after, her hand clutching her side. "Why do you have to ruin everything?" she hissed, leaning back against a rock to catch her breath. Neteyam looked at her, to the burn marks that were now visible beneath the smudged paint, to the way her shoulder bled from his arrow, to her face that he couldn't recognise. "You're alive." he stated again, grabbing his broken bow and sitting down on his heels on another rock. The silence that followed was heavier than the humid air of the ravine. ~~~ Ashes and Absence' takes place in the world of Avatar, but diverges from the canon storyline. While it borrows elements from the original setting, it follows its own path and focuses primarily on the journey of the Original Character (Ke'leha). Notes: This story explores an enemies-to-lovers dynamic between the two characters presented. Canon characters are portrayed with minor to major deviations. Content Warning: This fic is intended for mature audiences and may contain gore, smut, depictions of war, and other sensitive themes. Specific trigger warnings (TW) will be provided at the beginning of each relevant chapter, or scene. ⏾ Art Credit: The artwork used for this story's cover belongs entirely to its original artist. All rights are reserved by them. Please do not use, repost, or edit the artwork without the artist's explicit permission. Artist: @anna4uxa on Tiktok.

You are the daughter of the Chief of the Ash People who reside in the volcanoes. As you struggle with a troubled future, your life takes an unexpected turn, leading you to someone who will ignite your emotions and change your life forever... Rankings: #1 pandora #1 fire #1 neteyam - forbidden love

"I hate you." "No you don't." "Shut up." Enemies to lovers Aonung x oc

Small and HUGE imagines of Lo'ak and Neteyam

❝ Had he died, he wouldn't have felt it. His heart was kept in the chest of his beloved. ❞ Neteyam is traversing his teenage years with his family in the forest, it's his sixteenth birthday when the sky people come back to their world. The last year had been littered with blood and fire. Neteyam along with his brother are ready to prove their worth to their strict father, but after an old enemy that was supposed to be dead comes back for revenge they leave their home. The Sully family ends up in the islands of the metkayina, reef na'vi that live on the ground, complete opposite to them. But as their days grow longer and they become familiar with the way of the water, Neteyam grows closer to one of the sons of the Metkayina Olo'eyktan. ━━━━━ ~ Neteyam x male oc ~ Neteyam POV ~ very fast burn ~ all canon warnings apply + sexual content ~ possible typos and grammatical mistakes

The way of water has no beginning and no end. Our hearts beat in the womb of the world. Water connects all things, life to death, darkness to light. The sea gives and the sea takes.

𝑴𝒀 𝑭𝑰𝑹𝑺𝑻 𝑭𝑨𝑵-𝑭𝑰𝑪𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵 She was born for the forest. He was raised to survive anything. Forced to flee with the Sully family to the Metkayina reefs, Szàrae finds the ocean to be her greatest trial. Every misstep marks her as an outsider, drawing quiet scrutiny-especially from Neteyam Sully. As the eldest, Neteyam demands precision. His corrections are relentless, never cruel, never soft-because survival leaves no room for failure. Distance becomes impossible as discipline blurs into something neither of them is prepared to face. Because the ocean does not forgive weakness- and falling for the one who challenges you most may be the most dangerous mistake of all. 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞: 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫! ૮ • ﻌ - ა

"... ⁿᵒ ˢˡᵉᵉᵖ, ᵍᵒᵗ ᵃⁿᵒᵗʰᵉʳ ⁿᵒˢᵉᵇˡᵉᵉᵈ; ⁱ ᶜᵃⁿ'ᵗ ᶠᵉᵉˡ ᵐʸ ᶠᵃᶜᵉ!" > On the glowing reefs of Pandora, survival is a language all its own. Lo'ak Sully has spent his life being too much of everything - too reckless, too loud, too different to ever fully belong. When his family seeks refuge among the ocean clans, he expects the same cold stares and whispered judgments he's always known. What he doesn't expect is I'än. Adopted into the Metkayina and carrying a past that doesn't quite fit the body he lives in, I'än walks the line between two worlds with quiet resilience and a fragility the reef seems to sense. Where Lo'ak crashes forward, I'än holds back. Where Lo'ak burns, I'än endures. Their friendship begins in defiance - against clan rules, against expectations, against the unspoken boundaries that say some connections are never meant to exist. But as war stirs beneath the surface of the sea and old wounds resurface in new forms, their bond deepens into something more dangerous than rebellion. Because on Pandora, love is not always welcomed; And being seen can be as risky as being hunted. *** [Lo'ak Sully x Male!OC] [ATWoW & AFaA | MLM] Written: 01.30.26 Published: 01.31.26 Completed: ?

A lot happened since Neteyam laid there on that rock, bleeding out. He remembered how reliable, steady, and collected he was before everything happened. But now, he felt different, he felt like a ghost of his former self. Then he meets a girl who was carried to him by the wind, maybe, just maybe, she can teach him how to be alive again.