summary: When Quaritch attacks the Ta'unui water clan looking for Jake Sully, the clan's Tsahik forces her younger sister, Y/N, to escape and seek refuge from the Metkayina clan. As Y/N deals with the trauma of losing her home, she discovers that she isn't the only outlander in the village. She develops conflicted feelings for Neteyam but the tensions grow when Y/N finds out that Neteyam is the son of Jake Sully - the man she hates.
genres/tropes: angst, romance, enemies to lovers, friends to lovers, grumpy x sunshine, slowburn
other pairings: Loak x Tsireya, Kiri x Ao'nung, platonic relationships (Y/N x Kiri x Tsireya, Y/N x Jake, Y/N x Neytiri)
warnings: war, mentions of blood, PTSD, trauma, survivor guilt, character near-death experience, slightly aged up neteyam, dialogues are supposed to be in na'vi, not english, lots of side eyes, braids swaying, and neteyam appearing out of nowhere like the batman lol
word count: 30,2k (ik this is insane)
Räya is a member the Metkayina clan.Since she can remember the water has been her home, her being the daughter of the clan leaders puts pressure upon her to be perfect and to constantly Live under strict rules.
Until...
One particular forest boy appears seeking refuge from the war along with his family.
One "perfect" daughter
and
One "trouble maker" son.
Read to find out if Lo'ak and Räya, different in not so many ways,can find a bond between themselves whilst having to live up to their parent's expectations and fight in a war that made it's way to them.
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I do not own any of the characters within this story apart from, Räya. All rights go to James Cameron.
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Please note:
My aims for this story is to not make it to cleché or cringy..Within this story Roxto is going to be brothers with Tsireya.
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#14 - Magical
Started: (19/12/2022)
Finished:(~/~/~)