𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭

so you guys see the tears too?

also , he’s blinking a lot. ppl do that sometimes trying to blink tears away

Reblog if you’re part of it.

His adoptive family (with the exceptions of Kiri and Lo’ak) not only treated him like an outsider, but he was referred to as a stray cat. A pet. Neytiri purposely left him behind with the enemy without knowing (or caring) if he would be killed or tortured.

When Quaritch (while a clone, he has his real father’s memories) shows him respect and affection, Spider was obviously going to feel more comfortable with him and the squad. They’re technically the same species! Plus Quaritch saved Spider, multiple times, and chose him over an easy win (having Kiri as a hostage to force Jake to surrender). Neytiri was going to kill him.

Spider owed Quaritch.

That’s the reason why he saves Quaritch at the end, he owed him. I thought that was clear when Spider looks conflicted and literally yells “fuck!” before going to save him.

It’s only at the end of the movie that Jake accepts Spider as a real son and, honestly, it’s because Neteyam died. “A son for a son.”

Spider Socorro’s actions were realistic and justified.

Sure, they weren’t his official family, none of them were— which makes it all the more heartbreaking.

But he loved them either way, thought the world of them. He wanted to be like them for god’s sake. Spider’s just a kid that wants to belong. I understand Neytiri’s dislike of humans for all the pain and suffering they’ve caused her people, but Spider is not guilty of his father’s sins.

(Nor is Recombinant Miles, but that’s something that will be explored in the next film.)

Call him the neighbor’s kid, a stray cat or whatever, but the Sully kids love him like their own. Again, I understand the threat of the RDA and that they couldn’t outright go after them, but they didn’t even try at any point. None of them did.

“He’s a tough kid.” Spider was literally being tortured, his brain liquefying inside his skull, and still didn’t give them anything on the family or the clan.

He spent months with the Recoms, teaching them to See. They treated him fairly, not like a prisoner, and he had time to bond with the closest person he has to a father. Yes, Recom Miles eventually followed his orders and brought more suffering to the People, but he chose his son over victory.

Spider’s a good kid that doesn’t want anyone to get hurt, specially the people he’s grown to care for. Maybe he felt indebted, maybe he grew to love Recom Miles. Either answer is completely understandable. Still, he chose to go back to the Sully’s. Viewers are angry because they’re watching from an outside point of view, but this kid lived through a lot during those months. I can’t even begin to imagine the guilt that haunts him for saving Recom Miles and not telling anyone.