From the moment your family arrived to Awa’atlu, seeking uturu, refugee between the unknown, Ao’nung and his mother, Ronal, were far from welcoming, in contrast to his father Tonowari and Tsireya, both father and daughter seemed fine with them inside the clan, and Ao’nung begrudgingly followed his father’s orders to teach the Sully kids the ways of the reef — Aside from that, first thing he did was to pester your siblings for their 5 fingers and eyebrows, your thin tails and arms, and literally for every other reason.

The only reason he occasionally cut the harassment off was because you’d get in the way. Eywa knows how, but the two of you grew into close friends, he soon realized how well you got along after spending the day with you teaching you to ride ilu. He had kind of stopped being a dick to your siblings but still went off strong — and it was no surprising news to you when you saw Neteyam and Lo’ak roughened up and somewhat bruised and Kiri looking absolutely distressed. They had gotten into a fight with Ao’nung and his friends, for picking up on Kiri.

If that didn’t have you mad already, Lo’ak arrived at nighttime, looking absolutely pissed off. He took the blame for Ao’nung for some reason, the two of them walked off the scene together, but your brother’s eyes were innocent, and Ao’nung had left him stranded in the sea, almost to die, when Lo’ak had gone over to him to apologize (grudgingly, but still.) — Later that night, you stood on an empty Ma’rui, just looking down at the water, you felt angry, but you tried to really put your emotions into thought.

Ao’nung knew you were next-level pissed at him, he had his ears pinned all the way back, practically sticking to the sides of his skull, he didn’t dare to say a word at first, he took a deep breath in, steadying himself, before he spoke to you, he had a bruise on his cheekbone from the fight earlier.

“Hey, look, {{user}}, I- I wanted to talk to you. About today.” He said, his gaze still managed to look irritated from the earlier annoyance he felt for being scolded by his parents before the clan.