Jake Sully

**Jacob James "Jake" Sully** (Na'vi name: ***Tsyeyk Syuli***) is the main protagonist of the first *Avatar* film and a Cotagonist of its sequels, *The Way of Water, The Land of Ashes, The Seed Bearer and The Will of Eywa*. As a human on Earth, Jake was a former Marine veteran, being discharged after being paralysed from the waist down. After his twin brother Tom was murdered, Jake replaced him in the Avatar Program on Pandora, in which humans remotely control human/Na'vi hybrid bodies to safely navigate the planet.

After being stranded alone in the forest of Pandora, Jake is saved by Neytiri, who brings him to the Hometree of the Omatikaya Clan, where he is tasked to learn their ways under the tutelage of Neytiri. Having infiltrated the Omatikaya, he was assigned to gather intel that would help Colonel Quaritch find a way to force the Na'vi to leave the Hometree, before the RDA are forced to destroy it, as it is sitting atop an enormous deposit of Unobtanium.

After spending months with the Na'vi, Jake begins to abandon his original mission and stops reporting to Quaritch. After proving himself a warrior and completing the rights of passage, Jake is finally accepted into the Omatikaya. That night, under the Tree of Voices, he and Neytiri bond, becoming mates.

After the RDA destroy the Hometree, Jake, along with Grace Augustine and Norm Spellman are imprisoned, but soon escape, heading near the Tree of Souls. Having fully turned against the RDA, Jake tracks down a Toruk, successfully bonding with it and becoming the sixth Toruk Makto. He leads the Omatikaya, alongside many other tribes on Pandora against the RDA, ultimately defeating them and forcing them off Pandora.

With the deaths of Eytukan and Tsu'tey, Jake becomes the new Olo'eyktan. Over the next two decades, he and Neytiri have three children together, two sons, Neteyam and Lo'akan, and a daughter Kiri'ite

Two decades later, the RDA return in force, intent on stripping Pandora of its unobtanium and other resources. With the Omatikaya only able to execute gorilla warfare and raids near the retaken Hell's Gate, Jake leaves the Clan in order to unite the Metkayina, TBA and the TBA, to better protect Pandora from humanity.

## Biography

### Early Life

Jake Sully was born in 2124 A.D. on the planet Earth, in the city of New York, one of the most populated cities on the planet. At the age of 18, Jake would enlist in the United States army, joining the Marines. He served for the hardship involved and a cause to fight for, but suffered a spinal injury in an unnamed war while fighting in Venezuela. The injury was severe, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. While recovering in the VA hospital, he would often have strange recurring dreams of flying over a jungle, feeling free.

By the year 2148, Earth's population was about 20 billion and its resources rapidly depleting, with pollution, famine, poverty and war. Jake lived in a cell-like dilapidated apartment in which his bedroom, bathroom and kitchen were one room. Jake's city recommended its citizens to wear masks to combat its air pollution; he also remarked that simply buying a basic cup of coffee has become ridiculously expensive. Since his veteran benefits were not enough to pay for the surgery to repair his spine due to a highly inflated economy, he was forced to use a wheelchair.

After a night of drinking, Jake started a bar fight with a man who struck a woman. After breaking up the fight, the bouncers throw him out into their rainy alleyway and chuck his wheelchair at him. While staring up at the sky filled with the holograms and watching an aerial subway train pass by, he is approached by two RDA agents who confirm his identity and inform him that his identical twin brother, Tom, had been killed in a mugging.

At the municipal crematorium, Jake identifies his brother and laments his brother is gone forever due to someone wanting paper in his wallet. The agents explain his brother was one of the selected few scientists chosen to participate in the Avatar Program and one of even fewer avatar "drivers." Tom had trained on Earth for three years in preparation for a tour on Pandora and represented a significant investment on the part of the RDA due to the inherent link between the pilot and the avatar he controls, as well as the enormous cost of creating an avatar. Since Jake is genetically identical to his brother, he can link with the avatar, thereby saving the company the cost of creating a new one. After being offered significant compensation, he apprehensively agrees to take over his brother's contract and is put in cryosleep for the trip to Pandora.

### Leaving Earth

In 2154, after five years, nine months, and twenty-two days of travel, Jake awakens from cryosleep aboard the ISV *Venture Star* as it orbited above Pandora. Along with the other new arrivals, Jake disembarked from a Valkyrie shuttle at Hell's Gate, where he had his first contact with Pandora's hostile climate. Upon landing, Jake and the other passengers were briefed on the use of exopacks: personal rebreather units that filter the toxic Pandoran atmosphere. Exopacks were required for survival outside of internally pressurized RDA facilities.

When he entered the RDA facility, Jake meets Colonel Miles Quaritch, a seasoned ex-military officer who was in charge of Pandora's entire paramilitary defense force. In a security briefing for the newcomers, he explained to them all the dangers of Pandora, stressing that the biggest threat was an indigenous population of humanoids called the Na'vi. He made it clear that he was unwilling to tolerate any resistance from the Na'vi and had very little patience for the scientists working on the avatar project.