#earthbender

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The Airbender’s journey continues! Aang’s mastery of the elements inspires courage and balance. Can’t wait for Avatar: The Last Airbender Season 3 release on @netflix! 

I've got other's planned out, but I'm gonna have to rest a bit before artfight☹️ watch my rendering style change again after it's over

Rambling:

waterbender, firebender, and earthbender !

I have just recently finished my 10th rewatch off ATLA, and during this rewatch I started questioning certain aspects of the show; parts that I want to say confused me and or had me questioning certain things in the show. So if anyone who's deep in the ATLA lore or has read the comics (I have not) could please try and help me answer these questions.

Who is the original bender of water/which animal represents water?

So in season 3 episode 12, we see Zuko has lost his "abilities" to fire bend, as prior to joining Team Avatar, his fire bending was fuelled by anger. So when Toph suggests to him to visit the Original Benders, we learn that the dragons have been "extinct." But this isn't the case as we later learn. So my question is this: If dragons are the physical manifestation of fire, flying bisons are the physical manifestation for air and badgermoles are the physical manifestation of earth, then which animal is the physical manifestation of water? I suppose the Koi Fish in season 1 episodes 19-20 could be seen as the original benders, as they chose to leave the Spirit World and leave behind their immortality for teaching humans the ability to water bend. So I guess that question's answered?

What celestial event, natural phenomenon or other enhances an Airbender's and Earthbender's ability to bend?

In season 1 episodes 7-8 we learn about Sozin's Comet, and how Aang has to defeat the Firelord before this happens. Then throughout the season and the later seasons we learn about how the Comet will grant fire benders "the power of a hundred suns" (though I think Ozai was exaggerating here). And we know every month on a full moon waterbender's ability to bend water is also enhanced. So my question is this: What celestial event, natural phenomenon or other enhances an airbender's and earthbender's ability to bend air and earth.

What celestial event, natural phenomenon or other stops an Airbender's and Earthbender's ability to bend?

In season 1 episodes 19-20 we see Zhao cause a lunar eclipse by killing the moon spirit; which causes all waterbender's to completely lose their ability to bend. Then in season 2 episode 10 we learn about "Black Sun" and Sokka being persistent learns that on that day fire bender's lose their ability to fire bend. This becomes evident in season 3 episode 10 when the invasion of the fire nation shows that they cannot bend at all. So my question is this: If fire bender's lose their ability on a solar eclipse and waterbender's lose their ability to bend on a lunar eclipse, then which celestial event, natural phenomenon or other makes airbender's and earthbender's lose their ability to bend?

Or I think please tell me what you think.

Do you think Toph can fight well of her bending gets taken away? I'm not really sure this has happened in the series but I've been thinking. She's pretty small (smallest among em gaang) and was (I think) never shown to fight without earthbending.

So, you know. Will she survive a fistfight? Or a gang fight?

And if I say her bending is taken away, would it also take away seismic sense? So she'd be blind... Well, blind. And will she know what to do?

This stemmed from a conversation I had with a friend while half asleep so don't judge. Feel free to lmk if you want a part 2 by leaving a like or commenting, because I have a lot more where this came from.

Imagine this: You've just been hit by a speeding truck. Now, you're in the world of Avatar the Last Airbender, with bending powers! Great! But, you don't want to be bored. hell, you want to cause some chaos. Get in a bit of trouble. So, here are some recomendations on what to do depending on your bending style. Have fun. :)

WATER

So, obviously, there's the option of blood bending. That's like... the simplest answer, because in Korra it's already illegal, but, I'll have a bit of fun with it too. I imagine that you'd have a giant garden full of a bunch of incredibly deadly and poisonous plants. You may be thinking "Hold on a second, plant bending isn't a thing, and even then, it's a little unoriginal, you're just copying the benders in the swamp", but HEAR ME OUT. These plants contain pollen, so, you specifically chose plants where the pollen is the deadly bit. And the pollen contains moisture. So, you just like... surround yourself with this giant field of super deadly pollen. Like, anybody within 10 meters just dies. Or, if you want, your water supply can just be poison. Think Percy Jackson in Tartarus. Just like... forcing poison into somebody's throat.

AIR

Once again, this has a obvious answer, that I will ignore. While suctioning the air out of areas or compressing it is a really creative idea (thank you atla team) this is for completely original ideas. This stems from the fact that 'air' bending is never really specified as to what the air it's bending is. Is is the specific combination of gasses that form our atmosphere? Or is it just gasses in general? I doubt it's the prior because of one detail: Aang was trapped in an iceberg for 100 years. Even though the world of ATLA isn't nearly as industrial as our own, they still have large industries. And I severely doubt that over 100 goddamn years they haven't developed enough to even slightly shift the ratio of gasses in their atmosphere. So, I have a couple ideas for this one, but I'll just do one for now. I'm sure you've noticed that whenever you get an injection, the person prepping the needle will always make sure there's no air in there, right? That's because lots of gasses in your blood stream is a biiig no no, medically speaking. Those air bubbles stop the blood flow, and damage your tissues. I'm sure you can guess where this is going. See, on a normal scale, this doesn't do much, but, if, per se, an air bender was to rapidly expand the oxygen in your red blood cells, that would form thousands of air bubbles. All cutting off the victims blood stream, and leading to, what I can only assume to be, a slow death.

FIRE

This idea was developed in partnership with my one of my friends, R (hidden for her privacy, love you babes). This comes from the fact that in practice, fire bending is more similar to heat bending- it's just superheating the air to create controlled flames. Where the thermal energy comes from, god knows. Maybe it's why meat is so popular in the Fire Nation. But, anyways, the idea of this has to with pressure in a container. You probably already know this, but I will refresh the memories of those who've been out of school for a while, or haven't learnt it yet. When a container is heated up, the air particles inside gain thermal (heat) energy, which is then transferred into kinetic energy (movement). The particles, with the kinetic energy move faster, and reduce the density. They gain energy, and crash against the wall of the container faster, and with more force, increasing for as long as it's heated, until, eventually, there is too much pressure, and the container explodes. Well, guess what. Your head counts as a container. And the thing is, with a fire bender doing this from far enough away? By the time you realise it isn't just a headache, it's too late for you.

EARTH

Okay, so for this scenario, imagine this: it's during the time when the fire nation's trying to take over a major city. You're a (fairly) experienced earth bender, and Fire Lord Ozai has just paid you whole ton of money to weaken the city to take it over. So, you get your way into the city, and you need a way to weaken them. What do you do? You can't fight them head on, it'd be a 1 v like, 1 billion. So, you come up with a plan: you ruin their water supply. But, in a way that you can't be detected in. See, I assume that earth bending applies to all minerals, due to (and I may be misremembering, but) Toph's explanation of metal bending- finding the minerals in the metal and controlling those. And a type of mineral are nitrates. Nitrates are one of the most creative ways to ruin a water supply. See, algae love nitrates. An excess of nitrates causes large amounts of algal bloom, which means that all that algae? It sucks up all the sunlight, so all the other plants can't photosynthesize. This already wrecks the ecosystem, and it only gets worse. All those micro-organisms- think single cellular bacteria- will feast on all this algae, using up a bunch of oxygen in respiration. Now, not only is this city's water supply packed with algae and micro-organisms that are almost definitely not safe to drink, but it's also low in oxygen. This'll weaken people so much- either from dehydration, or diseases from the algae and micro-organisms- to the point that the fire nation gets in, and you get your paycheck.

"Its coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere"