Bending Thread

Hi! Like most of you I am sick of dupes about the different forms of bending so I made this to hopefully end that with one major bending resource and discussion thread.

Waterbending

• Draws power from moon.
• Can bloodbend (bending water inbody only on full moon.)
• Can bend water in vines/plants.
• Can , freeze,evaporate, melt, and condense water.
• Some have special healing abilities.
• Waterbending's strength is its defensive capabilities. Waterbending's defensive maneuvers focus on control through turning an opponent's own strength against him which fits into.
• "the first waterbender was the moon".
• opposite to firebending

Note: waterbenders can only help heal by directing chi with water, even though only waterbenders can use it waterbending is not the healing part.

Mainwaterbenders: katara, master pakku, hama, the avatars, Huu and du (swamp)

Earthbending

• Learnt from blind badgermoles.
• Can bend the earth impurities in metal. not the metal itself.
• Can bend crystals, sand, rocks, soil, "earthly meteorites", coal.
• Opposite to airbending.
• Earthbenders use a balance of strength and defense to overwhelm opponents.
• opposite to airbending

Mainearthbenders: Toph, the avatars, Haru, king Bumi, Long feng, the dai lee

Firebending

• learnt from dragons and affected by the sun / comets (sozins comet)
• Stronger with the sun/sozins comet
• Blue fire (azula) is hotter thannormal orangefire
• Lightning (very advanced)"purest form of fire", "cold blooded fire" as inner peace is needed to bend it.
• Combustion firebending to super-heat the air and produce explosions
• Very aggressive with little defensive moves
• opposite to waterbending

Main firebenders:Zuko, Iroh, Ozai, Azula, Jeong jeong.

Airbending

• Learnt from sky bison's
• Can control air currents with gliders
• Can bend gasses in the air
• Mostly evasive moves which support their beliefs of peace
• opposite to earthbending

note: there is no known sub skill for the airbenders eg healing,lightning... but it has been speculated to be flying/gliding and bending poison gas etc

Main airbenders:the avatars, monk gyatzu.

Bending in general:

• 2 non benders can have a bending child
• the idea of multi-national benders hasnt been explored (FN+EK=?)
• fire nation people in ek cannot have earthbending children as they are not earthkingdom- same with northern air temple people

Note: all bending has purposefully been shown to be equal in the show no type of bending is stronger than the other.

please use this thread to discuss any topics involving bending e.g

• other possible bending abilities
• new bending
• bendings affect on society e.g FN more advanced technology compared to other nations which rely moreon bending
• airbending special abilities

please be respectful of other members. and have fun!

There are also new rules:

1. No, absolutely no, n00bish posting in the least!
2. Absolutely no flaming allowed!
3. Discussion only.

Double post, but oh well, my thread. Our last question was:

Who, if anyone, can bend mercury?

If you had to make a second one of these, wouldn't that indicate the first one wasn't good enough and didn't work? o:

And I take issue with this:
"the idea of multi-national benders hasnt been explored (FN+EK=?)"

What about the guy in the "Blind Bandit" (or whatever) that was waving around the fire-flag and earth-bending? He definitely wasn't from the EK and the way he looked matched the FN. Makes a person wonder, no?