Winn Augustine isn't quite the legend her aunt Grace is, but she's determined to be someday. Idealizing her aunt's work since she was young is what makes Winn decide to join her on Pandora, despite never having actually met her. She's quickly accepted into her Avatar program, which is where she meets her two best friends, Norm Spellman and Tom Sully. Norm and Winn are at a loss when Tom is murdered just days before their departure, and is replaced by his twin brother, Jake, in the program instead. When Winn arrives on Pandora and begins working for her aunt, she begins getting to know Jake, the twin brother Tommy never shut up about. He's no Tommy, but Winn still finds herself drawn to him. When Winn and Jake are separated from their group one day out in the forest and brought to the Omaticaya clan, they never expect to be accepted into the village and allowed to learn to be one of them. And they certainly don't expect to grow close not only with each other but with Neytiri, their teacher who also happens to be the daughter of Olo'eyktan and betrothed to Tsu'tey.