Woodblock picture of a soldier striking a cunty pose in front of a war crime not related

I hear people have criticism for the spirits in Korra, and there are some good points like I agree that the dark spirits were not done as well as the original series. But for how they look, the idea that some of the spirits are too simple and Ghibli-like in style, idk how much that holds water when you see examples of mythical creatures/spirits represented like this

Continuing on from my previous post, I described some of the uses and techniques I thought about when it comes to using Dry ice with cold airbending. I had mentioned the effects on the body like causing Dizziness, Panic, and suffocation with how CO2 replaces and competes with oxygen in the body, and being a fire suppressant like a fire extinguisher.

Another use I can imagine is using the rapid expansion of gases by changing the temp back up on dry ice (you could also do this with liquid air as well). The rapid expansion exerts a strong amount of force. Enclosed containers without an exit point easily become an explosive as the dry ice returns to ambient temp and sublimates from a solid back into a gas. As you’d expect, directing all that expansive force in single direction like with a kick would be quite powerful. Comparatively, much more powerful than a normal air kick. Here I have shoes that hold onto dry ice in the soles for uses like this.

The shoes are there to protect the feet from direct contact with dry ice when standing on it. 

This could also be used for mobility, like rapid dashing and propelling even faster than using normal airbending. I’d imagine this would take gliders and glide suits to a new level of aerial agility and speed when combined with this technique.

The ferocity and direct approach of using airbending like this is not unlike the way firebending is used. It’s a bit of a departure from the circular movements of traditional airbending, but I think it makes sense considering that the OCs I have in mind haven’t gone to train traditionally with the Air Nation and learned by imitating the other elements around them. (Random thought: You’d think Aang or Korra would’ve used their firebending to jet boost while on their glider since they can use more than one element at the same time, but I haven’t seen either of them do that to my knowledge)

The shoes obviously have a limit of how many uses before running out and then having to rely on regular, but that’s a nice thing about airbending, air exists in abundance. Just needs a tiny bit of time to gather more CO2 from the air into dry ice. 

(I used pink in the shading for dry ice clouds and the dry ice itself because I wanted the visual language to be clear it wasn’t just any old cloud or mistaken for water ice or water mist. I was thinking about yellow, but I didn’t think it would work since earthy dust clouds and sand bending are yellow already.)

A big thing that inspired me to draw is Atla related. One of the ideas I had was how there could potentially be a new Sub-type for Airbending that hadn’t been explored in the shows or extended media from what I’ve seen.

So I propose Liquid Airbending, or cold airbending to include dry ice in it. 

These are my first drawings I made using a tablet, so they’re very basic. I haven’t gotten down a distinct visual language for how to represent dry ice, liquid nitrogen, and liquid oxygen, so they’re going to change and vary while I’m trying to figure it out. 

Air is primarily composed of nitrogen, and oxygen with very trace amounts of other gases like carbon dioxide in our world

I don’t know how useful or fun in a worldbuilding sense it would be to nail down the exact percentages, but I’d think in the AtLA world, their air composition is different. We can see that they have giant bugs in their world, which according to some scientific theories would require more oxygen to get to bird size.

Additionally, I think the CO2 is probably higher after thinking about the jennamite creeping crystal. I’m not entirely sure how jennamite works, but I assume to create a sugar-like rock candy crystal, it’d have to be pulling CO2 from the air. I'm guessing it reacts to people so strongly because people breathing while next to it is giving off CO2 and their ambient body temp warming the gem is causing the reaction to happen quicker than how it would under natural conditions in the environment. 

The attributes and qualities Cold Airbending has

I felt like the other elements have many different sub-bending types and air bending had a lot of potential to even that out.

I figure it would come from a different philosophy or mind set than traditional airbending from the nomads, and I came up with my OC as more science and engineering minded (He was an equalist during Korra’s time and became an airbender after harmonic convergence. He has more of a backstory as you expect from someone who once hated benders to now becoming a bender themselves, but I’ll get into it at another time.) Liquid Nitrogen engines did exist in the real world, so I figured that would fit in LoK more technologically advanced and somewhat steampunk setting.