Cry With Me

I don’t believe any sentient society wouldn’t develop weapons against their own species no matter how idyllic Erid is usually portrayed as. They’ve gotta have their own version of murders and such at the least.

Discussion and WIP link

Attempt 1 was a bust, I was overly cautious and stuffed the bead holes too much before I could get all his legs on.

Attempt 2 was also a bust in that I ran out of “thread” while attempting to attach legs and what I’m using to create him is not conducive with easily adding more material.

Spent 2 hours on the combined attempts (as in total 2 hours, not total 4 hours) before giving up for now to take care of actual responsibilities. If I get a successful Rocky I will add pictures.

To add an extra layer, imagine soulmates can be strictly platonic, so even those who never feel romantic love can have a soulmate. Now, imagine an outcast from his peers, pre-Stratt, Dr. Ryland Grace who has whispers in his former academic circles about having a red string that goes to the stars. Grace refuses to talk about it with anyone, making him even more of an outcast. Stratt doesn’t give a shit, for all she cares Grace could have a red string with Pluto. So Dr. Grace with the rumored cosmic soulmate, works with Stratt to cut a cosmic red string. I imagine Grace eventually opens up to Stratt willingly about his string, admitting it does go off into the sky most of the time. He admits it was part of his thesis on non-water based life. He talks about how it makes him feel like a freak, but he can’t help but hope they’ll one day come to Earth so he can meet. Stratt is vague in responding but she’s well aware of the implications of Grace’s string. It all the more settles her decision to send Grace to the stars when things go wrong, even as he pleads not to and that he’s scared.

Like you think of all the times you’ve been close to that person, their warmth, their skin, their movement and it’s all just… Gone. Their hand is cold, waxy, and unfamiliar in a way you never expected from the last time you’d touch them. It’s a final stake to the heart saying you’ll never see them again.

I know I’m not the only one to experience the death of a loved one, but to see an experience that still haunts me to this day reflected in a piece of media I’m invested in hit me in a way I didn’t expect. If I had the will to write a story about something so painfully close to my own experience, I would, but it’s a line I can’t seem to will myself to cross.

I think if you’re making an avatar OC that isn’t human you shouldn’t be giving them any hair but black or dark brown unless they’re meant to be leucistic/albinistic/have vitiligo OR unless they have their version of “bleached”/dyed hair. Light hair like blond or red is a mutation in humans (one specifically coming from Europe at that) and since we operate on melanin and na’vi operate on cyanin their hair mutations would likely not include blond or red in the same manner. If there is a mutation, it likely will be to one clan alone and likely not the entirety of the clan.

I think if you’re creating a whole clan, you have to keep in mind the UV impact. I can let snowy and alpine avatar skin get away with being lighter if they’re mostly covered up cause of the cold, they wouldn’t tan much that way, BUT their eyes wouldn’t be able to be something less pigmented. Less pigment means a harder time seeing in the light, and you’re telling me that the little to no pigment is fighting snow blindness? Granted, if we don’t exactly know what “less pigment” is in the eyes (I personally think it’s red and white/silver), then that’s okay, but don’t SPECIFY less eye pigment.

I think if you’re creating a cave clan, think of animals and plants that live there. Color is unneeded in darkness and usually doesn’t happen, unless there’s another source of UV/radiation like the Chernobyl mushroom that’s black cause of the radiation. If they’re not full time cave dwellers or if they have a ton of bioluminescent plants it might stop them from being translucent but they’re not gonna have as much pigment. I’d LOVE to see a clan of translucent cave na’vi honestly, bring a whole new meaning to “I see you.”

I think there’s weird colorism that goes into a lot of the bright white OCs, like people want them perceived not as indigenous or black like the movies are based off of but instead more euro-centric with that “the whiter the better” sentiment. Granted NOT ALL of the white avatar OCs are that, playing with albinism, leucism, and vitiligo can be fun on characters and if you only feel like creating one character and that’s it so be it, character creation can be hard! But I sideeye those bright white AI avatar pics I stumble across.

Dog is basically wearing a bike helmet istg why are you so funnily shaped you single father of one

Not my Sampo Koski™️ smh

This isn’t to say sampo never uses just his first name, but it’s significantly rarer and even the mission Masquerade Duet had me more convinced than Sparkle as Sampo, though I was suspicious of Masquerade Duet Sampo because of the Sparkle as Sampo reveal in the Firefly main mission.

Mans only changes his skin for lore these days smh. (Ignore the poor quality of the screenshot I just grabbed the first proof I could find from mcc15)

Like a fanart of Wilbur showing up like

Wilbur: yo what’s poppin

Teammates: where’s your fit?

Wilbur: I forgot

Teammates: Wilbur we’ve been planning this for over a week

Wilbur: whoops