came back from the dead to tell yall yes i’m still apart of the avatar fandom and yes i still love lo’ak
and why he's the silliest of the sillies, the goober, the goofier, the silly billy gilly rilly tilly pilly filly dilly jilly zilly xilly cilly villy nilly milly, the cutest the adorable one the tiny smol bean, pookie muffin cupcake bear i love him sm like he's so cute i wanna hug him and squish his cheeks and be his twin sister for life because he's so pspspspspspsps
Lo’ak & Neytiri
I often see posts from people claiming Lo’ak is exactly like Jake and he’s Jake’s mini-me and it’s not that I disagree with this, exactly, but I disagree with the evidence people use on why they’re similar.
I would argue that Lo’ak’s “hot” anger and impulsiveness is exactly like Neytiri, not Jake.
Jake is shown throughout both films to be calm and even-tempered, with him not taking the bait even when Grace insults him to his face. It’s implied that his training as a marine has taught him to see even the most high-stress situations as problems to be solved rationally. It’s through this line of thinking that he’s able to humble himself enough to appeal to Tonowari, or see taming Toruk as just another challenge to undertake rather than a glory/honor to chase. He pushes away his emotions until after a fight and knows when to retreat.
Neytiri, on the other hand, is as quick to take up Ronal’s challenge as Lo’ak is quick to take up Aonung’s. Remember the scene in Avatar 1 where Neytiri is so incensed over Seze’s death that she’s willing to rush into certain death just to kill even one more sky person? Jake is frantically trying to get her to make a tactical retreat but she wants to push forward.
Across all of The Way of Water, Jake is holding Neytiri back from taking her revenge or taking out her anger in each fight. She gets just as impulsive and reckless as Lo’ak - we can see this in several sequences during the fighting, from when Jake has to cover her because she becomes exposed and Quaritch chases her tail, to the final battle sequence where she kills Z-Dog, where she stops her with an arrow to the hip while she kills someone else, knowing Z-Dog could still shoot her. She becomes completely taken over by the rush of the battle. She loses control of her anger to the extent that she breaks her father’s bow.
In the same vein, it’s Lo’ak’s and Payakan’s joint anger that leads to the rush on the boat in which Neteyam is killed (in my opinion, had Payakan intervened with Jake already on the ship, the fight would have gone much differently and much more quickly.) When all of the children are untied and have the opportunity to escape, it’s Lo’ak’s desire to re-enter the fight that leads to Neteyam’s death (remember, the ship is sinking and once the non-recon humans escorting Spider are in the water, they’re easy pickings).
I wanna cry
Look at this baby. He's nothing more but a scared child and he's firing a gun. On instinct. To protect his loved ones. And the moment he pulls the trigger he realizes that at the other end of the weapon a human being is dying. That he just killed someone.
The moment I found this picture I laughed, bc on the first glance Lo'ak looks really cute here and the bad quality makes it meme worthy, but the more I looked the more tragic it became.
In the movie we can see his whole body slacking for a few moments, his expression numb. And Neteyam was there immediately, comforting, bc he noticed, bc he's a good big brother. Was a good big brother. Me sad now. Bye.
i wanna hug him and kiss on the forehead, i wanna protect him, i wanna put him in my pocket, i wanna eat him, i wanna adopt him. he's so bby.
p.s. i'll never get people who say shit 'bout LoLo, like Neteyam's death is his fault, bc it's actually not?? boy has a trauma and many issues (like adhd). ofc he feels a loner and want to prove his best, competing with his older brother, to be like his father, so Jake could be proud of him (daddy issues joined the chat also). and i love him and can relate to him (though i have more of Teyam's personality myself). yeah, there's only 1 year in difference between boys, but Teyam was a warrior, who completed rites, who was raised and trained as a future Olo'eyktan. so ofc Nete is more mature mentally (due to this he had his personal trauma too, but that's another story). sadly, that people in Avatar fd cannot understand this.
I love him so much it’s unreal :((
I’m so tired of everyone hating on Lo’ak
I literally love this kid so much, and not even in a “Omg he’s so hot” way (no shame to lo’ak simps. Love y’all)
i want to hug him and wrap him up in a blanket like a burrito and just carry him everywhere 😭
he deserves the world☹️☹️☹️
like mom like son.
actually, they really have much in common.
They judge people together
Neytiri: "Have you seen Ninat's new hairpiece today?"
Neteyam: "Yes, she's so trying to copy you."
Neytiri: "Still trying to steal my man."
Neteyam: "Pathetic."
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*during Ronal's introduction speech*
Neytiri: "I'm about to slap a bitch."
Neteyam: "I'll hold back her arms for you."
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*when Jake apologized for Neytiri's behavior*
Neytiri: "Is that man trying to die?"
Neteyam: "Man's got no back bone, you deserve better mum."