The year was 2148. For any out looking eyes, Earth was at it's peak. It had great technology able to cure any injury, and great economic's across all of the state's. But in reality, Earth was slowly dying. Everyday a bit of it got corrupted by humans. All of the chemical's produced every single day little by little makes it more probable that Earth is going to be no more in less than 1000 years.
That's why Casper just hatted Human's in all of their pathetic glory. He grew up alongside 2 older brothers, just watching his planet going up into flames year by year. Had to watch his childhood sweet spot's become littered with trash and covered in oil spills.
From a very young age he became interested in a planet, called Pandora. He read book after book about the beautiful place, and even re-read a book about Pandora's botany. His mother and father were quite surprised about their youngest's infatuation about a planet he knew so little about. But in reality, it wasn't all that surprising.
Now Casper's older brother's, who were both twins, were more apart than you could imagine. The one he was closer with, was actually Jake Sully. Tommy was just as infatuated with Pandora, and just like Casper always wanted to be a scientist, whilst Jake always went after to being a Marine, but Tommy (in Casper's humble opinion) focused more on his work than he ever could his family, and that might be one of the reason's the raven grew so close to Jake. He at least spent time with him.
But even if Casper did enjoy Jake's company more than Tommy's, he still made sure the twins knew he loved them, and made sure to support each one whatever their dreams were. His mother once told him that he cared too much. But for Casper, caring shows that you have compassion. That you have something, that makes you Human.
Whilst Jake was the one to always have time for Casper, it was Tommy who helped the raven head in his study's. The youngest always wanted to be apart of the Avatar program. To get your own Avatar and explore the land that is Pandora was Casper's dream and only wish as he attended High School. Tommy, being way older, finished the program, getting a spot to be in the Avatar program as well as becoming a great scientist. Casper always looked up to him, and studied way harder then Tommy ever could. With this much effort put in, he was the youngest member to have finished the course, and that also gave him a place in the program. A lot of people were quick to protest, having Casper only be 18 as he finished his studies, but since his efforts excelled even Tommy's, the doubt's were quickly dropped and he was welcomed into the program with semi-open arms.
About the same time Tommy finished his studies, Jake became a great Marine. However, a terrible tragedy ensued. Whilst on one of the mission's, somebody shot Jake right into the spine, paralyzing him from the waist down...forever. That also meant that Jake was excused from his duties. The last time Casper ever saw his brother, was right before his second year of High School. Jake didn't talk for a week, and the time he did it was a goodbye. To Casper's relief Jake did text him after a week of complete silence, and they have been texting none stop. The same couldn't be said about Tommy and Jake. It was no wonder the two really did love each other, but Tommy was just way too focused on the program to ever think of Jake these days, or Casper on that behalf.
Whilst it was true Casper worked at the same place as Tommy, his position was still lower. Whilst his brother worked with the other scientist about the Avatar's and other things considering Pandora, Casper was called in when he either had to be checked on for the program, or taken DNA from. This made it easier for Casper to meet up with Jake, and just talk about things after his leave from their family home. Jake was the only one Casper ever spoke to these days. He didn't have any friends to begin with, since most of the kids despised him for being a 'smart ass', and he just didn't have anytime for relationships. Tommy was always busy, their father was too engrossed with his work to ever even say 'Hi' to his youngest, and their mother was just so proud of her 'only scientist son', that she rarely paid attention to the younger with just as a brilliant mind.
To say that Casper's life was hell would be a lie, but he definitely wished for just some ounce of excitement. Heck, having a look at what Tommy was doing would of been enough for him for at least a couple of month's, but it's fine. He was just glad he was in the Avatar Program to begin with.
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It was yet another boring day at the science lab. Casper, once again, was tasked with the smallest of task's that even Janitor's could take care of. Sorting out paper work.
2 loud knocks were heard through out the whole room Casper was in. He stopped sorting out the 'very' important paperwork, and turned to the door just as a tall women walked through. Her auburn hair was pinned into a tight bun, her square glasses drooping down her nose, her green eyes looking right through them. She held a clipboard in one of her hands, the other loosely hanging down. She looked down on the clipboard, seeming to read something, before she looked up at him. "Are you Casper Isaac Sully?"
The male raised his eyebrow "Yes, I am. What seem's to be the problem?"
With no emotion present on her face, she responded "It's about your brother, Tom Sully. He was stabbed whilst being mugged"
Casper's body went rigged for only a second. The paper's in his hand's slowly starting to slide out of his grip. His eyes started to water as his heart slowed it's beat.
Tommy...was dead...
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Casper speed-walked through the morgue, alone, when he spotted a familiar figure in front of himself.
Jake quickly stopped his wheelchair in place as he looked up at his younger brother. Casper's skin was as pale as he remembered, his light brown freckles clear to see.His hair was a midnight black, which he had inherited from his mother. His eyes were a pretty baby blue color, before he decided to get surgery to change their color into bright yellows. His right arm was covered in black tattoo's, and his ears were adorn with black piercings. He stood shorter then the average male, but he did have prominent muscle's and an alluring figure that got him the attention of males and females alike.
The two brother's stood a couple of feet in front of one another, not moving, before Casper decided to take off in a sprint twords Jake. When he was near enough, Casper engulfed his brother in a tight hug, feeling the older hug him back just as strong. The two detective's that were with Jake graciously let them have their moment, keeping quite. Finally Casper pulled away, a single tear running down his face. Jake lifted his hand, brushing the stray tear away. Then his hand moved all the way down to Casper's, gripping it before the two brother's turned to look at the closed up cardboard box.
The case was lowered to Jake's height, and then opened by the mortician, revealing the dead figure of their brother, Tom Sully.
Casper sucked in a deep breath as Jake sadly looked upon his brother. "Jesus, Tommy" he muttered under his breath. It was sad really. A guy with a knife took all Tommy would ever be for the paper in his wallet.
The mortician closed the box back up.
"Your brother represented a significant investment. We'd like to talk to you about taking over his contract" one of the detectives spoke to Jake as the latter absentmindedly signed some paper's.
Casper was just standing off to the side, his arms crossed. When the Avatar Program was mentioned, his head quickly snapped their direction, however, no words left his mouth.
"And since your genome is identical to his, you could step into his shoes, so to speak" then they looked over at Casper "As for you, you would finally be involved with the Program as much as your brother was"
Tommy's box got lifted up, and pushed inside of the furnace, yet the detectives kept talking "It'll be a fresh start on a new world. You could do something important. You can make a difference."
The sibling didn't reply. They just watched on as the see-through furnace closed up, and lit up Tommy's case. More tears started to fall from Casper's eyes, yet he refused to make his sorrow known. Jake however noticed just how much his brother was hurting. He tugged on Casper's hand, signaling for him to kneel down. Casper choked out a sob as he dropped to his knees, his head resting right on top of Jake's leg. The older felt his brother's tears stream down and onto his pants, but he said nothing about it.
"So, do you agree, Jake Sully?" The detective asked, his stance showing everyone that he was getting impatient. Jake looked at him, before looking down at his brother's crying form. He gently laid his hand on top of Casper's, running his hand through the others hair as he turned back around to look up at the detectives. "Fine, I will. But I'm only doing this for Cas."
The detectives didn't make any further comment as they waited for Casper to calm down before leading the two of them into a new future. A future, none of them expected.