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Post by Nashk Tategami on May 7, 2012 22:34:12 GMT -5
Korra does know healing, not that it was a big surprise.
Also I just want to chime in on the bloodbending issue... Korra might not be taught bloodbending as a way to control someone, but that doesn't mean you can't bend someone's blood.
Blood bending was created to specifically control and humiliate your opponent. It was created as an art of revenge, an art that to be quite honest... Was rather unnecessary for purposes of combat. You have to manipulate the water inside someone without damaging their internal organs, or their countless tiny and fragile blood vessels. Avatar is (mostly) a kid's show so it probably won't come up... But a water bender could still easily bend the liquid inside someone and kill them in various gruesome means that make me feel like waterbending is the most horrible and abhorrent of all the bending arts.
Followed by the earthbenders with their "bury you alive" potential.
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Post by Esile on May 8, 2012 11:46:47 GMT -5
But a water bender could still easily bend the liquid inside someone and kill them in various gruesome means that make me feel like waterbending is the most horrible and abhorrent of all the bending arts. Followed by the earthbenders with their "bury you alive" potential. And the firebenders with their burn you alive potential. And the airbenders with the blow-you-up-like-a-balloon potential. I think that all of the forms of bending can be used very gruesomely.
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Post by Nashk Tategami on May 8, 2012 15:10:10 GMT -5
Of course all of the arts have the potential to be gruesome, and I don't actually hate bending as I just realized I made it sound.
Its just death by waterbending would be a unique gruesome way to die. All the other ways ( athough I don't see why an airbender would blow someone up when they could just take the air away.) are more mundane and can happen naturally in nature.
But waterbending? The human body has so much water in it embedded in every cell and every crevice of the body.... Blood and fluid in the brain bursting out, your stomach acid, EVERYTHING.
It would be so.... messy. I had a nightmare about it once.
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Post by asian malaysian on May 8, 2012 22:42:45 GMT -5
^ My, that is a vivid discription. A waterbender could just freeze the person's lungs and heart for a less messy killing method.
On Korra's character- I find it odd that a waterbender can be out of touch with spirituality seeing as their bending style seems the most spiritual of the 4 bending arts.*
* I may change my mind on this once we learn more about airbending but aside from the fact that the airbenders are monks, the bending style does not seem particularly spiritual compared to waterbending with the moon spirit at the core.
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Post by avatarluv on Jun 3, 2012 19:06:55 GMT -5
Bringing this thread back because of the most recent episode: Well, Korra definitely knows ABOUT bloodbending, so Katara didn't keep that a secret. But will she learn how to do it? Especially after what Tarrlock did to her.
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Post by ILZ on Jun 3, 2012 22:25:23 GMT -5
I could definitely see her approaching Katara and asking to learn bloodbending. I don't see Korra having as many reservations as Katara did about it. She strikes me as the type that uses all available resources to win. I'm not sure how Katara will feel about teaching her though.
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Post by Paraiba Ocean on Jun 4, 2012 11:02:24 GMT -5
^ My, that is a vivid discription. A waterbender could just freeze the person's lungs and heart for a less messy killing method. On Korra's character- I find it odd that a waterbender can be out of touch with spirituality seeing as their bending style seems the most spiritual of the 4 bending arts.* * I may change my mind on this once we learn more about airbending but aside from the fact that the airbenders are monks, the bending style does not seem particularly spiritual compared to waterbending with the moon spirit at the core. I think that waterbending is the second most spiritual with airbending being the most spiritual. I definitely agree that waterbending has a lot of spirituality coming from the moon spirit and how connected it is to the element, but the same could be said in respects to firebending and the sun. However, at the end of the original series, Aang discusses with many of his past lives whether or not he needs to end Ozai's life to end the war. The last Avatar he calls on (Yangchen) was an airbender as well because he believed she could relate to his reluctance to taking another's life since she was raised in the same spirituality.
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Post by ILZ on Jun 4, 2012 12:00:17 GMT -5
^ My, that is a vivid discription. A waterbender could just freeze the person's lungs and heart for a less messy killing method. On Korra's character- I find it odd that a waterbender can be out of touch with spirituality seeing as their bending style seems the most spiritual of the 4 bending arts.* * I may change my mind on this once we learn more about airbending but aside from the fact that the airbenders are monks, the bending style does not seem particularly spiritual compared to waterbending with the moon spirit at the core. I think that waterbending is the second most spiritual with airbending being the most spiritual. I definitely agree that waterbending has a lot of spirituality coming from the moon spirit and how connected it is to the element, but the same could be said in respects to firebending and the sun. However, at the end of the original series, Aang discusses with many of his past lives whether or not he needs to end Ozai's life to end the war. The last Avatar he calls on (Yangchen) was an airbender as well because he believed she could relate to his reluctance to taking another's life since she was raised in the same spirituality. I'm sure that at one time benders from each element were very spiritual and have lost it overtime. The Air Nomads and Water Tribes seem to be the most spiritual and I think this is probably due to the fact that they lived in more isolated societies. I would say that is possible for a bender of any element to be out of touch spiritually. But I imagine that once they start focusing more on the spiritual side, their bending would improve. Like how Zuko's firebending improved after he learned from the dragons and the Sun Warriors.
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Post by asian malaysian on Jun 4, 2012 21:32:48 GMT -5
However, at the end of the original series, Aang discusses with many of his past lives whether or not he needs to end Ozai's life to end the war. The last Avatar he calls on (Yangchen) was an airbender as well because he believed she could relate to his reluctance to taking another's life since she was raised in the same spirituality. Aang and Yangchen came from a monestary enviroment. They grew up and were trained as monks in a temple. Whether or not all the Air Nomads were able to Airbend, Im sure that each and everyone of them were trained in spirituality. Thats why I make a distinction between the spirituality of Airbending itself as a skill and the Airbenders themselves since the Air Nomad culture is clearly a bit more preoccupied with religion and spirituality than the other 3 cultures. Each of the other 3 bending skills could have been learned from their respective bending animals (ie- air bison, badger-moles, dragons) which are attributed as the first benders in lore. There is no equivalent bending animal for waterbending. Its only the moon. I would say that is possible for a bender of any element to be out of touch spiritually. But I imagine that once they start focusing more on the spiritual side, their bending would improve. Like how Zuko's firebending improved after he learned from the dragons and the Sun Warriors. I suppose a bit of spirituality never hurt anybody but I think weve all seen that it is certainly not a requirement to be a firebending prodigy. *Cue Azula's creepy crawly leitmotif*
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Post by Paraiba Ocean on Jun 5, 2012 0:14:17 GMT -5
However, at the end of the original series, Aang discusses with many of his past lives whether or not he needs to end Ozai's life to end the war. The last Avatar he calls on (Yangchen) was an airbender as well because he believed she could relate to his reluctance to taking another's life since she was raised in the same spirituality. Aang and Yangchen came from a monestary enviroment. They grew up and were trained as monks in a temple. Whether or not all the Air Nomads were able to Airbend, Im sure that each and everyone of them were trained in spirituality. Thats why I make a distinction between the spirituality of Airbending itself as a skill and the Airbenders themselves since the Air Nomad culture is clearly a bit more preoccupied with religion and spirituality than the other 3 cultures. Each of the other 3 bending skills could have been learned from their respective bending animals (ie- air bison, badger-moles, dragons) which are attributed as the first benders in lore. There is no equivalent bending animal for waterbending. Its only the moon. iirc, the subject of whether or not all Air Nomads can airbend has been up for debate among fandom for quite some time, but I believe it's been generally accepted that all Air Nomads (at the time Aang was born, obviously) were airbenders. That being said, I don't know if that's just something fans concocted, or if it's what the creators have said (I'll need to do a little research on that to confirm). But I do see your point/agree that waterbending does have that advantage of spirituality in comparison to the other 3 elements. I think spirituality definitely plays a roll in bending, but it's not a requirement to excelling. Korra, for example, admits she's a spiritual "failure," but she's clearly a very adept waterbender, earthbender, and firebender. Plus, she's also proven herself to be a healer, too. I think the nature of the element itself and the personality/inner problems of the bender will determine how s/he is able to bend. Aang was pretty spiritual, but his earthbending was not so hot when he first started - and a lot of that came from the difference in nature between airbending and earthbending.
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Post by Leaf on Jun 8, 2012 0:24:12 GMT -5
Is it wrong of me to have conflicting love for this character?
Korra is one girl I wouldn't mind getting friend zoned with as I feel she'd make the greatest best friend. Korra is one girl I wouldn't mind having as a girlfriend. And Korra is one girl that I admire and inspire to be like.
I ♥ Avatar Korra.
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Post by asian malaysian on Jun 16, 2012 0:22:06 GMT -5
I could definitely see her approaching Katara and asking to learn bloodbending. I don't see Korra having as many reservations as Katara did about it. She strikes me as the type that uses all available resources to win. I'm not sure how Katara will feel about teaching her though. Speaking of that episode, I cant help but seeing Master Katara walking about with a huge burning red face palm print! Korra, an Avatar from the Southern Water tribe whom Katara personally trained , cant even out-waterbend some arrogant Northern Water Tribe jerk?! Lets be honest, Korra had to channel King Bumi just to break even before getting the number 2 kicked out of her !Its beyond mortifying!! EDIT: Admins, if you feel it should be spoiler alerted, be my guest to modify it. The darn tags just arent working for me and Im not sure why.
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Post by Musogato on Jun 16, 2012 3:23:57 GMT -5
@asian Malaysian; the spoiler tags aren't working because they can only be used once per post, and technically it's being used in ILZ's quote. Annoying, right? I'm not sure if there's a way around it, except to maybe have a second spoiler tag, but otherwise we just have to reply creatively to spoiler text. And I'd say your post is vague enough to work.
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Post by Leaf on Oct 27, 2012 22:27:16 GMT -5
I found a very good Korra sim for The Sims 3 and I am unsure on rather or not to make her a witch. Considering how bending is magic, it seems like the most logical, but this kind of magic uses wands like Harry Potter. There is a lifetime reward that probably takes eons to get that allows witches to use magic with their hands. So... ? What do you folks suggest?
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Post by Musogato on Oct 29, 2012 19:15:40 GMT -5
Oh, cool! That is a really good one; the design looks great. I don't know much about The Sims, so I would suggest doing whatever would be the most fun for you. I did look it up and it seems there are some other Supernatural types as well like Alchemist and Fairy, but from what was written/shown, they don't seem to be any closer to bending either. I'm kind of surprised there isn't a bending mod already, but it looks like there are a lot of other people that are interested in it too, so maybe it's just a matter of time.
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