First Love/Late Spring
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Tsu'Teyur (noun) | pronounced Tsoo-teh-yur | to experience tsu’tey in all senses
1. To experience Tsu'Tey te Rongloa Atey'itan in all his essence, his life as a Child of Eywa, a Child of the Omaticaya, as The People.
2. The Bloodchild of Artsut te Rongloa Pìmaye'ite and Ateyo te Rongloa Yiììtx'itan, Foundchild of Mo'at te Pohatsua Oma'ite and Eytukan te Tskaha Kamun'itan, brother of Arvok te Rongloa Atey'itan and foundbrother of Neytiri te Tskaha Mo'at'ite.
3. To be Tsu'Tey in every way—physical, spiritual, mental; to live with all heart and all blood, in all thoughts, and in all actions—now, before, during, and after in Eywa.
4. The deep knowing of struggles, of love, of duty. To take his place, to understand pain, loss, sacrifice, and strength—devotion to tribe, to family, and to the land.
5. Omaticaya's protector and finest warrior.
OR, “Love’s gonna get you killed/ But pride’s gonna be the death of you and you and me.”
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- Part 2 of First Love/Late Spring
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I don’t know freedom by smolsmokey
Fandoms: Avatar (Cameron Movies), James Cameron's Avatar (Dark Horse Comics)
28 Jun 2025
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He should sleep.
The good Lord knows it—Eywa knows it. He needs it.
But every time he closes his eyes, something tears open in his mind.
Tom—dead on concrete, still in that cardboard box, burning in the incinerator seconds later.Venezuela—Davis, Reed, the goddamn comms boy with half his face off.
Tsu’Tey—bleeding out on the grass, that soft breath that stopped, the way the light dimmed in his eyes.
He nearly didn’t come back.
And Jake... Jake nearly didn’t get to be here. To have this.This family.
This peace.
And peace is the scariest part.
Because he’s never trusted it to last.TL;DR—Tsu’Tey had fallen asleep easily, one arm still draped protectively around Neteyam, hand resting on the tiny rise of his son’s chest.
Jake, on the other hand, is wide awake. Again.Series
- Part 3 of First Love/Late Spring
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next to you by smolsmokey
Fandoms: Avatar (Cameron Movies), James Cameron's Avatar (Dark Horse Comics)
07 Sep 2025
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Jake would've never believed you if you told him ten years ago he'd be on a whole-ass planet, starting a whole-ass family, celebrating his first of many birthdays—as a blue cat alien, as a husband, as a dad.
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- Part 4 of First Love/Late Spring
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do i look? (like him) by smolsmokey for Sea_Meiser
Fandoms: Avatar (Cameron Movies), James Cameron's Avatar (Dark Horse Comics)
07 Sep 2025
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And he gets it. He truly does. He smells the enemies’ smoke in his dreams and sometimes chokes on it too. He was raised on tradition, pride, and pain. He knows what it’s like to want to spit when you see their skin, to smell their smell—to intimately know death before it comes before your time.
But then his gaze shifts to Neteyam—or to his own belly, heavy with his second—then to Kirina, and he remembers.
Children deserve better than to inherit their parents’ bitterness.tl;dr—Neteyam is eighteen moons old when he makes a new friend and it becomes everyone’s problem.
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- Part 6 of First Love/Late Spring
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still, i'll always be there for you (how i do) by smolsmokey
Fandoms: James Cameron's Avatar (Dark Horse Comics), Avatar (Cameron Movies)
19 Aug 2025
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She did not move.
She remained there, elbows pressed to her knees, her hands folded tightly beneath her chin. The air was thick and warm, but her bones felt cold. Old. Her eyes trailed up to the trees that swayed overhead—gentle and eternal—and she hated them a little for being so unbothered.
Another child.
He did not make an announcement as he did with his first; he let the growth of his stomach speak for him. Then the little five-fingered girl.
Born of the sawtute doctor, Graceaugustine, but was being raised by Neytiri and her mate and Tsu’Tey and Jake—her conception, a miracle. Mo’at had told her.
Her son had borne another child. And she had not known the first child or this one. She had not been there to rub the sweat from his brow, to place a hand on his belly and whisper to the little life growing inside him. She had not brought offerings, or sung, or—in another life.
She should have. She could have.
But she did not.
She licked her lips: “Oh—that is…oh…”
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- Part 7 of First Love/Late Spring
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ngaytxoa | sorry (acknowledgment of guilt and regret) by smolsmokey for Sea_Meiser
Fandoms: Avatar (Cameron Movies)
24 Dec 2025
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It had been twenty-four years since he met Grace Augustine, eighteen years since the schoolhouse massacre, nearly fifteen years since Neteyam was born, fourteen and a half for Kiri and fourteen for Lo’ak—and nearly seven since his Tuktirey.
A year ago, a vehicle of metal dropped into their forest, spreading fire and smoke—killing many, killing Olo’eyktanil Eytukan.
A year and nine months later, his family became a target.
Weeks later, his family is seeking Uturu.
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- Part 10 of First Love/Late Spring
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there are no atheists in foxholes by smolsmokey
Fandoms: Avatar (Cameron Movies), James Cameron's Avatar (Dark Horse Comics)
09 Feb 2026
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‘Tsu’Tey.’ Jake stood there, frozen between wanting to argue and wanting to kneel beside him and hold him so hard he couldn’t drift away. The tools in Jake’s hands felt suddenly obscene. He set them down slowly—placing a weapon on sacred grounds.
‘Tsu'Tey—baby,’ Jake said again, softer this time, voice cracking around the edges. ‘Talk to me.’
Tsu'Tey's ear flicked.
OR, Correction without love is cruel. Tsu’Tey understood that not all uniltìrantokx and sawtute were bad; he learned this fact after war, after dying, and after having children. But after losing his eldest son, that same cruel pain took him again to those unimaginable places that he never thought he would have to return to.
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- Part 11 of First Love/Late Spring