Into the Wild (fanfic)

Into the Wild is a fic written by a Love to Hate fan of Avatar. It tells the story of Jade West, a Corporal in the RDA security force. She survives a Samson crash in the middle of the jungle on Pandora and decides to make her way back to Hell's Gate. However, she meets a Na'Vi that can speak English who offers to guide her home - whom she dubs Marty. Along the way they discuss the Fridge Logic of the movie's universe and shift the movie's Black and White Morality to Grey and Gray Morality.

It has absolutely nothing to do with the book or film of the same name made about the life of Christopher McCandless.


 * Annoying Arrows:
 * Angst? What Angst?: Jade refuses to acknowledge the existence of her
 * Anvilicious: Jade mocks the RDA's cartoonish villainry in what seems like Even Evil Has Standards.
 * Armies Are Evil: Inverted. Jade and her brother Michael are arguably the most moral characters.
 * Apologizes a Lot: Marty.
 * Body Paint:
 * Break the Haughty: Marty's time with Jade makes him stop parroting old sentiments he got from his tribe.
 * Break the Cutie:... but then
 * Bizarre Alien Biology: Marty assumes that Jade has a neural link as well, and asks her where it is because he can't see it in her hair. Hilarity Ensues.
 * Call a Smeerp a Rabbit: Every animal on Pandora is called by their RDA-assigned names. Probably not accidental considering the rest of the details.
 * Crapsack World: In Jade's words 'Crowded, poor, crap food and it smells bad.'
 * Character Development: Basically the whole point of the first half. Overlaps with Painting the Fourth Wall (see below).
 * Chaotic Stupid: Jade's opinion of the RDA falls somewhere between this and Stupid Evil.
 * Curb Stomp Battle: Jade tries to knife-fight a full-grown Na'Vi warrior. It doesn't end well.
 * Death World: Lampshaded by Jade at the start, but in fact she and the Na'Vi are only inconvenienced by the fauna once.
 * Deus Ex Machina: Michael responds to the one at the end of the movie with the much-needed What the fuck?
 * Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Jade doesn't want pity for and is proud of having never cried in five years.
 * Dynamic Character: By the end Jade is a little bit nicer on the whole and Marty is more self-confident.
 * Dying Moment of Awesome:
 * Establishing Character Moment: Jade's brother Michael sees her in danger while in a helicopter. What does he do? Jump out, of course. Then he takes off his mask, gives it to her and beats up Marty with his bare hands.
 * Everything Trying to Kill You: Jade's Catch Phrase becomes "I hate this planet."
 * Expy: Jade is basically Kate from Two Weeks Notice (another fic by the same author) and it looks like Mau wandered onto the set and turned into a smurfy-cat.
 * Fan Nickname: Some of the popular ones are used like Papa Smurf and Smurfy-Cat.
 * Fatal Flaw: Marty's overwhelming self-esteem issues.
 * Fridge Logic:
 * Gas Mask Mooks: Jade averts this by taking off her mask in front of Marty twice.
 * Grudging Thank You: Michael gives one to Marty.
 * Heavyworlder: Averted. Jade is a competent fighter, but her fights with Na'Vi go just about as expected.
 * Hidden Depths:
 * Humans Are Bastards: Marty seems a firm believer in this, until Jade shows him otherwise.
 * Immune to Bullets: Perhaps, but not to grenades.
 * Ironic Echo: It's raining and "A Na'Vi admitting wrongdoing. Isn't that a sight."
 * Jerkass Facade: Jade is actually a nice person once she starts to trust Marty.
 * Jerkass Woobie: Marty.
 * Knight in Sour Armour: Jade.
 * Kuudere: Jade.
 * Meaningful Name: . Jade symbolizes immortality and resurrection.  Marty is short for Marty Stu, the male equivalent of Mary Sue.
 * Never Got to Say Goodbye:
 * Odd Friendship: The Fanfic.
 * Only a Flesh Wound / Instant Death Bullet:
 * Painting the Fourth Wall: The story is third person, but from Jade's perspective. At first Marty is only referred to as 'it'. Then as 'he'. Eventually she gives him the name Marty and he's referred to by that name for the rest of the story.
 * Science Is Bad: Played with. Marty seems to think this, but Jade explains to him that the RDA could essentially heal the world with the Unobtanium from the mining expedition.
 * Shown Their Work: There's quite a bit of detail that suggests the author searched the Pandorapedia.
 * Tear Jerker: The ending.
 * Unfortunate Implications: Just about all the ones from the movies are lampooned, such as being biologically better than humans the tentacle braids and general Sueishness.