avatarluv
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Post by avatarluv on Dec 20, 2011 17:30:13 GMT -5
I've been wondering...does Korra know how to heal, bloodbend, and metalbend? Or are those specialties she won't learn? Hmm...
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Post by ILZ on Dec 21, 2011 1:16:05 GMT -5
Healing seems to be a fairly common skill among Waterbenders in the Northern Tribe, so I'm sure she knows how to heal. As far as bloodbending goes, the only people we know of that posses this ability are Hama and Katara, I would say Hama was long gone before Korra was born, and probably didn't have contact with any other waterbenders beside Katara. I wonder if Katara might have just let that skill die with her since she was so repulsed by it. Concerning metalbending, if I remember correctly Aang never learned metalbending in the series, not to say that he didn't later on of course. This makes me wonder though if only "native" earthbenders are capable of learning metalbending.
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Post by dirtyyasuki on Dec 21, 2011 22:18:12 GMT -5
As ILZ mentioned healing is pretty ubiquitous among the Water Tribes (Southern Tribes included after Master Pakku moving down there to help re-establish the Waterbenders down there)
Metalbending, I suppose she could learn it. The Avatar is still an earthbender in addition to all the other elements she can control. So there's nothing stopping her from learning metalbending if Korra wants to except need. Since she is the Avatar and there are no other benders stronger than her so does she really need metalbending? If she needs an earthquake she can do it, and if there's no earth to bend, she's still got Fire, Air, and Water.
Metalbending apart from being an extension of earthbending by itself was created by one of the most unorthodox and talented earthbenders in recent memory as a survival mechanic.
Bloodbending I don't ever see Korra learning for obvious reasons. It was an obscure branch of Southern Water style which reasonably would have died with Hama and Katara. It was a particularly difficult style to master which required great skill and experience from a master (in the case of Hama) or great talent (in the case of Katara) which would automatically discount most waterbenders ever being able to learn it let alone pass it on to Korra. And most of all the moon being full in the night sky. Without any of these factors bloodbending is useless 3weeks out of a month for average waterbenders. While Korra is powerful enough that I don't believe she needs her own full moon or night time to bloodbend I don't think anyone would have been alive to teach her that particularly wretched form of bending.
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Post by asian malaysian on Dec 22, 2011 1:17:52 GMT -5
Im looking forward to see Korra learning some advanced airbending. I really want to see some of the variants that you see with the elements.
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Post by dirtyyasuki on Dec 22, 2011 4:25:22 GMT -5
I believe one of the variants of airbending has already been demonstrated in the series via Yang Chen. It's basically weather control. Something we've never seen Aang do but obviously something an experienced and powerful master of Air might be familiar with.
That would be a very powerful variant of airbending but also very taxing I imagine.
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Post by ILZ on Dec 22, 2011 15:26:41 GMT -5
dirtyyasuki: I agree that it's not as important for the Avatar to learn metalbending since they do have three other elements to work with, but metalbending would often come in handy since the world was moving toward more industrialization in ATLA and seems to be very industrialized in Korra. Aang even quipped that he wished he could bend metal when he was trying to disable the drill.
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Post by asian malaysian on Dec 23, 2011 1:43:39 GMT -5
I believe one of the variants of airbending has already been demonstrated in the series via Yang Chen. It's basically weather control. Something we've never seen Aang do but obviously something an experienced and powerful master of Air might be familiar with. That would be a very powerful variant of airbending but also very taxing I imagine. Its not quite the same thing since its just a more extreme form of the usual bending. Ill admit that its not easy to conceptualise what it might be.
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Post by Musogato on Dec 24, 2011 20:26:16 GMT -5
I think I read somewhere that one of the ultimate Airbending attacks was to create a vacuum around the opponent, thus suffocating them. However that's pretty extreme; it's possible I'm remembering something fan-made, not canon. ^^;
According to the old Nick.com site when they had those lovely paragraphs on the bending styles, it said that Airbending "lacked a deadly finishing move, which reflected the principles of the Air Nomads."
Korra however probably ignores those 'avoid conflict' teachings, so maybe she'll use Airbending in ways we haven't seen before, once she learns it.
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Post by ILZ on Dec 25, 2011 0:58:49 GMT -5
Korra however probably ignores those 'avoid conflict' teachings, so maybe she'll use Airbending in ways we haven't seen before, once she learns it. That's something I never really considered: how airbending would differ when done by a non- Air Nomad. I'd say it will be interesting to see how someone without all the peaceful, do no harm Air Nomad beliefs handles the element.
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Post by dirtyyasuki on Dec 26, 2011 8:19:31 GMT -5
That's something I never really considered: how airbending would differ when done by a non- Air Nomad. I'd say it will be interesting to see how someone without all the peaceful, do no harm Air Nomad beliefs handles the element. You won't have to go far there. Yang Chen was pretty wise but also really ruthless it seems as far as Air nomads and Avatar's went. reference here: avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Yangchen
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Post by asian malaysian on Dec 27, 2011 23:29:10 GMT -5
I think I read somewhere that one of the ultimate Airbending attacks was to create a vacuum around the opponent, thus suffocating them. However that's pretty extreme; it's possible I'm remembering something fan-made, not canon. ^^; According to the old Nick.com site when they had those lovely paragraphs on the bending styles, it said that Airbending "lacked a deadly finishing move, which reflected the principles of the Air Nomads." Korra however probably ignores those 'avoid conflict' teachings, so maybe she'll use Airbending in ways we haven't seen before, once she learns it. Havent head of the first one before and if there was a vacumn around someone, they'd sorta explode so I agree that its extreme. I wasn't thinking necessarily more violent but a subset like sand and metal bending for earth benders or lighting bending for fire benders. Tenzin would probably try to impress some of Aang's principles on Korra but it will be interesting on seeing how she will use it compared to someone who was raised as an Air Nomad.
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Post by eddington on Dec 30, 2011 14:19:40 GMT -5
l think korra will be able to heal since it's a water bending principle so to say, which is common to water benders in the north and master pakku probably had the chance to teach the new southern water tribe benders, way after the war ended. As for blood bending , I don't believe that katara taught it to anyone since she despised it herself so l don't see korra ever learning it. l hope that she will master lightning bending and there is a chance that she might learn metal bending. After all, avatars like learning new techniques such as aang with lightning bending and kyoshi's ability to bend lava when kyoshi island was split from the main land. so korra might be the first avatar to master metal bending along the way.
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Post by kaangluv on Jan 1, 2012 19:02:01 GMT -5
Wow - creating a vacuum around an unfortunate victim would cause them to explode, wouldn't it? Implode? At the very least, their blood would boil and they'd be cooked alive. Erk.
You could also just suck the air out of someone's lungs. I swear that's what I thought Aang was going to do when he grabbed Ozai's head in the finale. XD
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Post by dirtyyasuki on Jan 1, 2012 22:14:05 GMT -5
Creating a hard vacuum at normal atmospheric pressure would be very difficult and require a master or a very talented (not to mention unusually sadistic) Airbender. The effect would be very similar to what happens to your lungs in a vacuum in space. Your lungs would collapse and be unable to reinflate from the negative pressure and suffocate you from oxygen deprivation. It would not cause you to explode your lungs or blood vessels however.
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Post by asian malaysian on Jan 4, 2012 5:09:36 GMT -5
Creating a hard vacuum at normal atmospheric pressure would be very difficult and require a master or a very talented (not to mention unusually sadistic) Airbender. The effect would be very similar to what happens to your lungs in a vacuum in space. Your lungs would collapse and be unable to reinflate from the negative pressure and suffocate you from oxygen deprivation. It would not cause you to explode your lungs or blood vessels however. . If the air pressure surrounding your body suddenly dropped to the point of a vaccum, it would result in massive decompression and depressurization with all it entails with respect to any gases still contained in your body (whether in your lungs or dissolved in your blood).
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