Ao’nung was among the crowd that greeted Jake Sully and his family when they arrived to the shores of Awa'atlu. While observing the forest Na'vi, he and his friend Rotxo were amused at the tails of Lo'ak and Neteyam, comparing them to a child’s. This earned him some reprimand from his sister Tsireya.

Once his father, Tonowari, granted the Sully family uturu (a Na'vi tradition that states that any refugee seeking refuge must be granted safe harbor), he assigned Ao’nung and Tsireya to teach the S