Parker Selfridge

Parker Selfridge is head administrator of the RDA on Pandora. He has authority over the Avatar Program, much to the chagrin of Dr. Grace Augustine. He is profit-oriented and was incredibly motivated to mine unobtanium at whatever costs.

Selfridge is arrogant, passive-aggressive, cautious, cowardly and lazy, womanizer. He likes to play mini-golf, sometimes even at his workplace, using his own cup as a hole for the ball. Has a secret crush on colonel Quaritch’s sergeant, Paz Socorro (he doesn’t know that Paz is secretly in relationships with the colonel).

Parker's past, both his life on Earth and his beginnings on Pandora, are unknown. At some point he became interested in golf.

Parker is not an adventurer so he stays within the confines of the RDA colony, viewing Pandora's landscape only through holograms.

Around 2140, Grace Augustine made an offer to the Omatikaya clan to establish a school for the Na'vi children and to help them make a decision, she invited them to visit Hell's Gate. Parker was upset with the idea, saying the company would lose valuable time on base personnel. Later, when a mysterious illness broke out among the Omatikaya's children and Grace struggled to find a cure, Parker declared that her efforts were unnecessary and that the deaths of the children could prove to be in the interests of the RDA. His point of view infuriated Grace. Parker then repeatedly questions his actions and decisions, regarding Omatikaya's help as unnecessary and unprofitable efforts.

Parker was prepared to condone the killing of the native Na'vi, but, unlike Colonel Quaritch, hesitated to invoke bad press and trespass his personal morality. Parker is unable, or unwilling, to consider the Na'vi in human terms, dismissing the Omatikaya clan as "fly-bitten savages that live in a tree", while Quaritch doesn’t even perceives them as conscious beings.

Parker has a thing for being in control, always using the threat of firing a person, dismiss one or deportation, which are his strongest levers of pressure on others.

Despite his apparent authority, he secretly fears his subordinate, Colonel Quaritch — not only because of his huge gap in physical strength compared to him, but also because of the influence Miles has over the people at Hell's Gate, possessing a natural leadership and the ability to lead people, unlike Selfridge himself, who maintains control only with the help of money.

Colonel Miles Quaritch is an RDA Security Operations commander, who always looks and acts like tough lifelong marine. He has incredibly beautiful icy blue eyes, grey buzz-cut hair, also he is in outstanding physical condition despite his age (51 years old), and regularly worked out to offset the low gravity on Pandora so he did not get soft. His skin is covered with battle scars, most notably a trio of claw marks on the side of his head which he sustained during his first day on Pandora (interesting fact: these scars went down to the bone, with the three marks having raked across his skull). He views the scars as a badge of pride. He is cold, stern, lustful at times, strict and fears becoming 'soft'. He dislikes the Na'vi — the Pandorian locals — and rightfully calls them savages.

Before Pandora and First Days:

Miles Quaritch was born in the year 2102 or 2103. Before joining SecOps, he served as an infantry officer in the United States Marine Corps. Miles saw combat in numerous Earth military engagements without injury, most notably three tours in Nigeria with the Marines' First Reconnaissance Battalion.

On his first day on Pandora, he was attacked by viperwolf, giving him a trio of trademark scars to the right side of his head and face. Miles was given the option to return home to Earth for reconstructive surgery but opted to stay on Pandora. With his impressive record, he was eventually chosen as the chief of security operations on Pandora in 2152.

Miles Quaritch has been hardened by a tough military life. Despite that he has fought with honor, it is said that he has been "without ever really having a cause worth fighting for." This suggests that he was not alleged to any one nation or country on Earth, and that he realized humans fighting each other on Earth for resources was, ultimately, pointless and detrimental to humanity as a whole. On Pandora, he finally found a cause he finally believed in: the survival of the human race, which far outweighs the livelihoods of the Na'vi.

When he first met Paz Socorro, she was the RDA's newest pilots, assigned to him only a few months ago, but It didn’t take her long to climb the career ladder and become a sergeant, and then even colonel’s Quaritch right hand, thanks to her hard work and diligence, and then, at some point, Miles began to notice that he valued her not only as a born soldier with a steel nerves and as a perfect assistant, but also as an incredibly beautiful young woman gifted with keen intellect and charisma.

On the side she and Miles began seeing each other without anyone else knowing.