Tswayon nìltsan!

I’m probably swinging a bat at a hornet’s nest here, but it’s been bugging me for long enough I gotta say it (and I will preface that this is not vaguing any one specific person; I’ve seen this multiple separate times): I do think that if you’re going out of your way to make a Na’vi OC or entire fan clan that’s pale skinned, blonde/white-haired, European features, etc you really should maybe stop and think about why you feel comfortable whitewashing the most blatantly Indigenous-coded people I’ve ever seen in a piece of fiction. Like, why is this the path you’re taking? There are so many ways to make a unique-looking Na’vi that are Not This. There are so many ways to do a polar/tundra clan (usually the excuse I see people using as to why their Na’vi is white) that are not whitewashing. I’m sure it can be done in a non-racist way if you’re very careful and thoughtful and making a clan based on, say, the Sámi people or a similar group who often do have pale skin and hair but remain an Indigenous minority group, but most of the time I see it it’s just white Na’vi in clothes based on non-white Indigenous cultures and I just - bluntly, I think people are maybe not thinking the internalized racism of this one through enough. It rings of wanting to play with the fictional aspects of it while still only drawing white people.