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)
❝ 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.
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~ Neteyam x male oc
~ Neteyam POV
~ very fast burn
~ all canon warnings apply + sexual content
~ possible typos and grammatical mistakes