Avatar Driver

An avatar driver or avatar operator (Na'vi name - "Uniltìranyu", "dream walker") is a human who has received his own avatar and works in the Hell's Gate Science Module on Pandora. Since without an operator to control it, an avatar is nothing more than a useless body worth five billion dollars, each operator must work to the best of their ability to recoup the RDA's expenses for their trip to Pandora and the creation of the avatar.
== First Connection ==
During the descent from Hell's Gate to Pandora, the avatars are in amnio tanks, but the day after their arrival they are "born" and operators can begin working with them. During the first connection, which always takes place in Hell's Gate, the operator is supervised by technicians and doctors who monitor his well-being, his visual and auditory reactions, as well as his basic reflexes. Initially, the avatar cannot walk or run; It takes some time for him to get used to the new body and start moving normally.
=== Operator's work ===
Working hours are from 8 in the morning until sunset. In the morning, the operator gets on the link unit and connects to the avatar. During the day, the operator in the body of his avatar is at the base, training, or in the jungle, on excursions. At night, the avatars arrive at the longhouse and fall asleep, after which their operators automatically disconnect from communication and return to life in a human body. One of the mandatory aspects of this work is keeping a video log in which the scientist describes his feelings from the previous day.
=== Physical discomfort ===
Lying for a long time in the communication unit causes swelling of the body, and after long and numerous communication sessions, progressive muscular dystrophy is observed. Furthermore, the very return to oneself can be quite painful. Grace Augustine always complained after the end of the connection, and even experienced avatars like Anson Langley came out of the block slowly, as if inhibited, after which they got tired. They rubbed their faces. Furthermore, for natural reasons, operators do not find it easy to maintain personal hygiene and gradually, they usually forget to wash and change their clothes.
=== Mental disorders ===
Operators who have been working in the body of an avatar for many years lose orientation in the real world, ceasing to recognize themselves as humans, after which they consider themselves something like Na'vi, so they can sometimes behave differently. inappropriate manner. According to Jake Sully, after three months of continuous work in the body of an avatar, even for him everything became confused and it was no longer clear where his real life was, here or there.
=== Attitude of other Members ===
Among people in other professions, avatar operators are not highly regarded; for example, Parker Selfridge called the Avatar Program a "menagerie", and Miles Quaritch spoke of all scientists as "powerless scientists".
== Known Avatar Drivers ==
Name 	Status 	Portrait
Grace Augustine 	Deceased	
Jake Sully 	Alive (as Na'vi)
Deceased (as human)	
Norm Spellman 	Alive 	
Basketball Avatar 	Unknown 	
Basketball Avatar (male)	Unknown 	
Alma Cortez 	Alive 	
Unnamed male avatar 	Unknown 	
Blonde avatar driver 	Unknown 	
Jaclyn Ogden 	Future 	
=== Unknown canon ===
Name 	Portrait
Raven 	
Raven's father 	
Raven's mother 	
Will Murphy 	
Vince Anderson 	
Lily Leese 	
Ashley Sloan 	
Moore 	
Polina Sidorova	
Eaton Roberts 	
Nathan Gomez 	
Kim Greene 	
John 	
Niya Hassan 	
Victor Rogers 	
Joe Santos 	
Titus McMahon 	
Zeke Hodge 	
=== Non-canon ===
Name 	Portrait
Ryan Lorenz 	
Able Ryder 	
Zane Madak 	
Ryder Masterson	
Anson Langley 	
Gregorius 	
Moran 	
René Harper 	
Molly Ossman 	
Conrad Olson 	
Jerome Epstein 	
Category:Avatar Program