#aswpolls

Vote for the oneshot you want next. Winner gets written next week. All stories are Jake/Neytiri unless stated otherwise.

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⟡ The Choosing — Before they were leaders, they were young. The night Mo'at chose Eytukan — not as duty, not as the clan's arrangement, but as a person. First tsaheylu, and the terror of being that known. She has to choose him over duty. He has to let himself be chosen by someone the whole clan reveres. Contains: Eytukan/Mo'at pairing, first tsaheylu

⟡ The Shame She Carried Alone — Neytiri & Lo'ak. After a brutal fight with Jake, Neytiri says something about her children she can never take back. No one hears it. Lo'ak never will. But she heard it — and the shame drives her out into the dark to find her son, carrying a guilt she cannot confess, because confessing it would only hand him the wound she's trying to spare him from. So she loves him instead. Contains: mother-son, hurt/comfort, Neteyam grief

⟡ What the People Never Leave Them — Neytiri is pregnant, starving for her mate, and the whole clan has a claim on him. He's Olo'eyktan. He's Toruk Makto. He's everything she helped make him — and she keeps sending him back to them, because she believes in his duty as fiercely as he does. Then Mo'at, who remembers her own hungry years and a husband just as bound, quietly arranges the one thing the People never give them: a night alone. Contains: pregnancy, explicit

⟡ Ugly — To a visiting clan, the Omatikaya's new Olo'eyktan is uncanny. Wide brow. Small eyes. Five fingers. A face that sits just wrong enough that children shy away. Jake stopped caring what his body looks like a long time ago. Neytiri hasn't. Cornered by a woman who cannot fathom how she could possibly want him, Neytiri turns the question over — and answers it for herself, in the quiet, in the body, one loved thing at a time. Contains: devotion, body worship

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This poll ends on Friday and the winner will be announced on Saturday! Get your vote in here or on my Ko-fi and Patreon.

Vote for the oneshot you want next. All Jake/Neytiri unless stated.

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⟡ Ugly — To a visiting clan, the Omatikaya's new Olo'eyktan is uncanny. Jake stopped caring long ago. Neytiri hasn't. Asked how she could possibly want him, she answers it for herself — one loved thing at a time.

⟡ First Blood — Jake's first rut as a Na'vi, and he has no idea what's happening to him. Neytiri does. She's entering heat at the same time, and she guides him through it with patience — and a need every bit as desperate as his. Contains: Explicit, heat/rut, primal ⟡ Empty Mouth — The RDA can't catch Neytiri, so they build something that can: a recombinant wearing Jake's face, his voice, his hands. A flawless copy with nothing behind the eyes, built to lure her in with the one face she'd never run from. The horror is being hunted by the person she trusts most. The cure is everything the copy can never fake. Contains: Horror, psychological, uncanny

⟡ Salt and Breath — Neytiri can swim; she grew up in the deep lakes of the forest. But the Metkayina's ocean feels like it has no bottom, and she's kept her distance, quietly, so she won't make a fool of herself. Jake notices, of course he does. So he offers her something small: a swim together, while the rest of the village sleeps.

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Poll closes Saturday. 💙

A member asked whether I'd ever write Nothing Has Changed from someone else's POV.

The main story stays in Jake's head — but as oneshots? Oh, absolutely!

So: whose perspective do you want first?

⟡ Neytiri — the stranger who looks at her like he's mourning her, and she doesn't know why

⟡ Tsu'tey — treated with a strange, grieving tenderness by a man who knows how his story ends

⟡ Quaritch — playing against someone who's already seen the board, and no idea why he keeps losing

⟡ Renu — the man who refused to cover his face, and buried his daughter for it ─── · ─ ·𖥸· ─ · ─── Vote below or on my Patreon or Ko-fi! The winner gets written. 💙

Jake's first rut as a Na'vi, and he has no idea what's happening to him. Neytiri does — she's entering heat too, and she guides him through it with patience, and a need every bit as desperate as his.

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I'll be writing it over this week, and it releases next Saturday. 🕯️

Thank you to everyone who voted across all three platforms — that was a genuinely close spread. Empty Mouth, Salt and Breath, and Ugly aren't going anywhere; I'll get to all three eventually.

The votes are in — and it's Predator's Patience, by a single vote. 🗳️

Across Tumblr, Ko-fi and Patreon: 9 to 8. That's about as close as it gets.

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So: the bond didn't make him wild. It made him still. All that held leash, all that restraint — until she's the one to pull it loose.

I'll be writing it this week, and it lands at the end of the week. 🕯️

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A genuine thank you to everyone who voted. Ash in the Mouth came within one vote of taking it, so let me say this plainly: none of these are going anywhere. Mangkwan Jake in particular is staying firmly on the list.

Mated Skies

Of all the creatures of Pandora, only Neytiri's ikran holds her ground before Toruk. She doesn't flee. She moves toward him. A oneshot on two legendaries as a mated pair — a bond in the sky that mirrors the one on the ground.

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The oneshot you voted for — by a single vote — is done, proofread, and ready. It drops Saturday on AO3 and Wattpad as well as on both Ko-fi and Patreon!

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Jake lay on his back, rigid as carved wood, his wounded leg stretched straight before him. His hands were fisted at his sides. His eyes were open, fixed on the woven ceiling, catching the faint blue light off the water without blinking.

He was not asleep.

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The bond didn't make him wild. It made him still.

The votes are in — you chose Mangkwan Neytiri. 🗳️

Mangkwan Neytiri Eywa's most faithful daughter, remade in fire and ash. What does devotion look like when it's forged in the Ash clan instead of the forest — the same fierce heart, the same unbreakable will, turned to a harder faith. She was never going to be gentle. She was only ever going to be fire.

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Thank you to everyone who voted. The other three — Neytiri's rage, a tribute to Sa'ata, and the Wind Traders — aren't going anywhere; I'll make my way to them in time. 💙