Tsu'tey/Relationships

Tsu'tey's relationships
== Romance ==
=== Sylwanin ===
Sylwanin was lover and Tsu'tey's former fiancee.Despite being betrothed to Neytiri, Tsu'tey's true romantic feelings lied with Sylwanin, Neytiri's sister. These feelings continued even after Sylwanin's death. Tsu'tey missed her all her life and often went to the Tree of Souls or the Tree of Voices to connect with her spirit for a word of encouragement or advice. After her death, he joined her as a spirit. His students were aware of his true feelings, with one of them saying that Sylwanin served as a source of motivation for him.Avatar: Tsu'tey's Path issue 1
== Family ==
=== Ateyo and Artsut ===
Ateyo and Artsut are Tsu'tey's controlling parents.
Not much is known about Tsu'tey's relationship with his parents, except that he was favored by them over his younger brother, Arvok, and that Tsu'tey had learned to avoid his parents' controlling nature. After Tsu'tey's death, Ateyo and Artsut blamed Jake Sully for their loss, despite their son's dying wish that Jake succeed him as leader of the clan. After their attempt on Jake's life, Tsu'tey appeared to him through the Pandoran Neural Network, explaining that despite his parents' cruel methods, they had the interests of the Omatikaya at heart. Despite this, he called on Jake to issue a punishment against his parents for their mistakes, but also assured him that there was room for mercy.
=== Arvok ===
Arvok is Tsu'tey's younger brother, who lived under his shadow.
Tsu'tey seemed to have a good relationship with his younger brother, Arvok, and was protective of him. As Tsu'tey was favored by their parents, Arvok had to work harder to gain his parents' affection and felt he lived in the shadow of his brother's success. Unlike Tsu'tey, Arvok had not yet learned to ignore or go against his parents' controlling nature, and he was manipulated by them to defy Tsu'tey's dying wish for Jake Sully to become the next clan leader. After Jake fell into a coma, Tsu'tey's spirit visited him in the Pandoran Neural Network and informed Jake that the poison that had incapacitated him had to have been made by their mother and that Arvok had been tricked into the plan. He reminisced that he was disappointed in Arvok for not finding his own way to shine instead of living in his shadow.
== Friends and Allies ==
=== Jake Sully ===
Tsu'tey held a grudge against Jake Sully, before becoming his ally.
Throughout most of their relationship, Tsu'tey held a rivalry with Jake, sneering at him when he made mistakes and appearing to enjoy mocking and embarrassing him. Tsu'tey was offended by Jake's status as a human being due to the humans being responsible for killing Sylwanin. He was jealous of Jake's relationship with Neytiri, and when he discovered that they had mated, he was outraged and tried to kill Jake. Tsu'tey also appeared smug when Jake admitted to the clan that he had been sent by the RDA to spy on them, possibly because he had suspected that Jake was a traitor as soon as he laid eyes on him.thumb|250px|A dying Tsu'tey tells Jake that he should be the next Olo'eyktanHowever, when Jake returned to the clan after becoming the sixth Toruk Makto and swore his loyalty to them, an amazed Tsu'tey forgave him for everything and came to respect him. He accepted Jake back into the clan and fought alongside him in the battle for the Tree of Souls. As Tsu'tey lay dying, he handed the title of Olo'eyktan on to Jake. He told him that he was proud to fight with him and thought of him as a brother. As his last will, Tsu'tey demanded Jake end his life, honoring him by being his last shadow.
After his parents tried to kill Jake with a deadly poison, Tsu'tey appeared along with Eytukan and other fallen members of the Omatikaya in Jake's nightmarish and tormented dream while he was in a coma. Tsu'tey said that Jake had not tricked Neytiri to love him and that all the fallen in the clan had nothing to forgive Jake about and said that the real question was if Jake could forgive himself for his own mistakes which Jake finally did. Before Jake woke up again from his coma he said that he would try to live up to the faith Tsu'tey had in him. Tsu'tey replied that Jake already had done that.
=== Neytiri ===
Neytiri is Sylwanin's sister, who becamed Tsu'tey's fiancée after her sister was killed.Tsu'tey was betrothed to Neytiri for roughly two years after Sylwanin's sudden death, and the two grew and learned together as close friends. Despite their differences, they seemed to have much respect for each other, and they both found common ground in missing Sylwanin. Neytiri did not love him, but the fact they were going to be a mated pair suggests that Neytiri pitied him and agreed to be a couple in order to ease his grief.
However, Neytiri fell in love with Jake Sully and chose him as her mate instead. Tsu'tey may have genuinely loved Neytiri as he appeared hurt and shocked when he found out that she had mated with Jake. Though she didn't love him as she loved Jake, Neytiri did care for Tsu'tey and shed tears for him when he died.
=== Eytukan ===
Eytukan was the previous leader of the Omatikaya who chose Tsu'tey as his successor.
Eytukan greatly respected Tsu'tey for his abilities as a warrior and chose him to one day carry on in his place as the clan leader. Despite that Tsu'tey's mother Artsut was a hateful rival against his own mate Mo'at, Eytukan probably knew that Tsu'tey himself was nothing like Artsut and his father Ateyo as he had early in life learned to avoid and ignore his parents' controlling nature. Eytukan ordered Tsu'tey to lead a war party into an assault on the RDA after the latter had destroyed the Trees of Voices, one of the Omatikaya clan's most sacred places. Tsu'tey supported Eytukan in preparing the clan's warriors for the defense of Hometree against the RDA. When Eytukan was killed in the assault, Tsu'tey succeeded him as Olo'eyktan.
=== Mo'at ===
Tsu'tey seemed to respect his Tsahik Mo'at despite the enmity between her and his mother Artsut. Tsu'tey probably saw Mo'at as far wiser, knowing his mother's controlling nature. When Tsu'tey needed advice, he rather asked Mo'at for it instead of his mother.
=== Saeyla ===
Saeyla was one of his apprentices, who had romantic feelings towards Tsu'tey.
Other than the teacher-student relationship, Tsu'tey and Saeyla had nothing in common except the feelings she had for her mentor. Because she liked Tsu'tey, she tried to please him during training. She respected and paid attention to what her mentor taught her. When she found out about Sylwanin and Neytiri, Saeyla began to fall in love with Tsu'tey, offering him a fruit saying "it is not poison this time", suggesting she accidentally poisoned him before.During the Hunting Festival, Saeyla invited Tsu'tey to dance, but he declined, asking Ka'ani to dance with her. However, Saeyla didn't take the hint and followed Tsu'tey to the Tree of Souls. She had told him that Neytiri wouldn't show up and that she was with Jake Sully now. She tried to approach him in a romantic way, but Tsu'tey drove her away angrily, calling her nothing. Saeyla left crying, hurt by Tsu'tey's words when she realized what he had said to her. Tsu'tey, looking regretful, says her name before moments later when he hears a noise, without knowing if it was Neytiri or Saeyla. He says he is sorry, showing that despite his harsh words to Saeyla he had regretted hurting her.
The warrior never, sooner or later, referred to the unrequited feelings of his apprentice.
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