Rotxo was with Aonung when the Sully family arrived at the clan in search of refuge. They both looked at the forest Na’vi and laughed at Lo'ak and Neteyam over the small size of their tails.
After Tonowari granted the Sully family refuge, Rotxo helps Tsireya and Aonung to train the Sully children, though he was not assigned to train them. While diving, Rotxo and Aonung were confused as to why the forest Na'vi were not following them, despite their frequent gestures to do so, unaware that they did not understand sign language. He and Tsireya taught them how to take deep breaths in preparation for a dive. Realizing Lo'ak's attraction to Tsireya, Rotxo and Neteyam shared amused looks.
Rotxo tells the story of Payakan.
After Lo'ak was found and brought back to the clan, Rotxo listened to Lo'ak's experience with a tulkun and how it saved his life. When he, Tsireya and Aonung realized which individual Lo'ak was talking about, they shared the story of Payakan, a male tulkun living in exile due to murdering other tulkun and Na'vi. Lo'ak refused to believe it.
While Lo'ak played with Payakan, Rotxo and Tsireya took Neteyam, Kiri and Tuktirey to the most sacred place of the clan, the Cove of the Ancestors, where the Spirit Tree is located underwater. They bonded with the tree's branches. However, Kiri suffered a seizure after having a vision of her birth mother Grace Augustine. Rotxo showed great concern asking if she was breathing and helped her up on an ilu.
When the tulkuns returned, Roxto joined everyone in going to greet them. He was seen with Kiri and Tuk playfully holding onto a tulkun's fin (possibly his spiritual brother). After that, he witnessed Lo'ak being chosen by Payakan and making the bond.
When the RDA killed Ro'a, the Metkayina were determined to take action against the humans. Rotxo was seen with Aonung expressing fierce anger. They were convinced by Jake not to attack blindly and instead took Jake's advice to tell their tulkun sisters and brothers to hide from the RDA and to come to him in case they were marked with a red tracking harpoon. Rotxo and his friends chased after Lo'ak who sought to warn Payakan about the hunting. When they arrived at the Three Brothers, they found Payakan already marked with a tracker. With the RDA drawing near, Rotxo helped remove the tracker and they quickly left with their ilu. Rotxo hid with Kiri and Aonung, but were eventually found and chased by the Mako Submersibles. Rotxo was shocked when he witnessed Kiri crushing the Mako Submersible by manipulating a daisy anemone using her link to Eywa.
Rotxo later attended Neteyam's funeral along with the rest of the Metkayina clan.
Personality and Traits[]
Rotxo with Tsireya swimming.
Rotxo is a loyal friend towards Aonung. He can also be seen as a caring person, as he shows concern when Kiri has a seizure at the Spirit Tree. Rotxo also shows to be very loyal to his friends when he accompanies them (even when he is not obliged) to teach the Sully children the Metkayina traditions. He shows his loyalty yet again when he accompanies them to save Payakan. He also seemed to be close to Neteyam because he is seen crying while watching his funeral. In addition, Rotxo is really close to the family of Aonung and Tsireya because he is very often seen near them.
Rotxo and Aonung are extremely close friends, spending most of their time together. Rotxo often joins him in hunting beyond the coast. They are also seen together when Lo'ak talks to them about how Payakan had saved his life, also when they were escaping from the Tulkun hunters along with Kiri and the others, just as they are seen crying together during Neteyam's funeral along with Tsireya.
Trivia[]
The original script calls Rotxo chunky. Also in the original script, Rotxo calls Aonung "cuz", raising the possibility they are cousins in the final film.
The Rotxo lookalike on the left.
Rotxo is commonly confused to be one of the boys who bullied Kiri and later pranked Lo'ak due to the bully having a very similar hairstyle. The caption in this scene even has his name in the line [ROTXO:“I don’t know”] in response to Aonung asking what she’s doing. However, the bully seems to be younger, has a different voice and appears in the background in the same scene with Rotxo when the Sully family arrived in Awa'atlu. Rotxo seems to have larger flipper-like arms and a larger necklace. Rotxo also carried no bruises after the physical confrontation.
Rotxo and the bully's haircuts are known as the "bird's nest", "broccoli cut" or "zoomer perm" which became popular among young men in the early 2020s. Its inclusion into Avatar may be seen as a joke that it is hard to keep track of who is who when people look the same.
