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2009-December-31: Tirea Na'vi created a Twitter account with the name Shey'bu and the twitter handle naviotherkin.

2009-December-31: A person going by the username Tirea Na'vi joined the forum Otherkin.com and created an introduction thread just hours later on the 1st of January 2010 titled "Hello, Na'vi Otherkin here. " On the forum, Tirea Na'vi stated having previously identified as an elf with a tail but came to identify as an Na'vi after watching the movie Avatar by James Cameron. He was active on the forum for several weeks before being banned due to the forum staff being critical of fictionkin and not taking him seriously. (This is followed by footnotes.)

2010-January-1: Tirea Na'vi created the Livejournal community, We are Na'vi [Na'vi Reborn]. The community's url was tothehometree. The groups description, stated, "A community for all those who identify with the Na'vi race in some way - people who are Na'vi on a spiritual or mental level, people who are reincarnated Na'vi, Na'vi souls trapped in human forms, people who worship the great Eywa, etcetera. A community for such people to talk and commune."

2010-January-12 to 31: The appearance of one Na'vi fictionkin who created a Livejournal for Na'vi fictionkin garnered swift reaction from not only the therian and otherkin communities but also even outside of it to. On multiple otherkin and therian forums at the time (such as Werelist and The Otherkin Community Forum, among others) word spread of the Na'vi fictionkin and debate arose over if the person was simply a troll or not along with a general rise of discussion of the existence of fictionkin in general.

Outside of the otherkin communities, news of their being a Na'vi fictionkin was also swift. Multiple instances of non-kin across the internet learning of and reacting to the Livejournal community and backlash to the idea of Na'vikin can be found all just within the month of January 2010 alone. The existence of there being a na'vi' fictionkin soon became infamous though, quickly, the event became falsely attributed to their being a massive surge of many people na'vi fictionkin who then all disappeared once the pop culture hype of Avatar died down when in truth the number of known na'vi fictionkin at the time only consisted on one individual. So widespread was this event, that mention of Na'vi fictionkin has continued to crop up on occasion for years to come.

2010-January-28: Joseph Laycock posted a short article titled "The Pandora's Box of James Cameron" for Divinity School from The University of Chicago's website. The article focused on the religious motifs of James Cameron's movie, Avatar and their real-life influences. At one point, Laycock states how people are coming away from the movie feeling a sort of depression over desiring to go back to Pandora by watching the movie again or wanting Pandora to a real place. He then states, "And a growing community comprises individuals who feel that they are Na'vi who have somehow been incarnated as human beings. Websites like 'We Are Na'vi' feature discussions of how James Cameron managed to get so many details of the Na'vi home world correct." He does not dwell on the community's existence any more than that, however.