>Fire is the best element
no water. it's hard to bend anything if you can't even move your limbs. or if you're made out of 80% water which your opponent can freeze/control
>which was a moronic addition
it makes sense. there's water in the body, so why shouldn't one be able to bend it? >that's only on a full moon
only if you're not strong enough to do it without the extra moonpower (which it basically everyone I have to admit). in theory it's the best
There is a spiritual/mental component where in order to blood bend you need to overpower the will/energy of whoever you are using it against in addition to bending the water which is why the full moon is needed yady
>spiritual/mental component
ah okay I thought the moon was needed just because bloodbending is more difficult so one needs more power to do it
Bloodbending is too much and throws the balance between the elements out the window. But my main problem is it inviting all these stupid questions about bending iron in someone's blood, exploding the air in lungs, or combusting someone with their own body heat with fire. If any of these were possible it would make the show look dumb. Imagine how dumb it would be if bloodbending could be used any time...ah, we already have excrement showing exactly that
Blood bending was fine as something that required a full moon to do. It created a very high spike in water bending power for a very short time period that only occurred once every month or so. It also required a great deal of skill so wasn't something they could rely on if going up against massive armies.
By comparison, lightning bending was a more significant power spike. It didn't have nearly the same restrictions that blood bending did and was incredibly deadly, managing to essentially kill Aang while he was in the avatar state with a single attack. The only thing that takes it off the table is if you are able to redirect it, which is a skill exactly 3 people have.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Lightning isn't the same kind of death sentence bloodbending is. Characters still dodge it and block it just fine without redirection, like Aang did with Ozais first few shots. Aang was shot in the back unprepared with arguably the most deadly thing you can be hit by so I don't see the issue with him dying to that. There are also only three people who can generate it, all of them being top tier royal family members.
I would agree with you if the episode wasn't so well done, easily one of the best in the series. Also it's only used one other time in the show so it's honestly fine.
Ofc LoK had to go hilariously over the board with it
3 months ago
Anonymous
I was going to disagree but sure, it is a fine episode. I can only think of a couple episodes I really dislike, great divide and painted lady, and only because of how boring they were. LoK.......it's some shit how everything besides ATLA managed to become worthless
3 months ago
Anonymous
>LoK.......it's some shit
I tried to like Korra, I really did. Idk if I'd just aged out of it or if it really was that much of a step down from Aang and company. I loved the steampunk design of the city, the evolution of bending, even the overall plot seemed like a cool idea. I just couldn't get into the characters. Korra was a b***h, which would have been fine as a starting point for character development, but the show constantly took her side. Bolin was too much of a beta idiot; Sokka was comic relief, sure, but he had hidden depths too. Mako was a cardboard wall with a nice face. Everyone else just seemed to be puppets in service of the plot, rather than people with their own goals and opinions.
3 months ago
Anonymous
It was a huge step down. I watched the premier episode and hated it. Sometime in 2015 I finished it all out of morbid curiosity. I don't know what possesses them to do that to their series, the comics are all filth as well. I haven't read the novels but I heard there's gay shit in there with Kyoshi so that's enough for me to steer clear
3 months ago
Anonymous
>the evolution of bending,
This was the worst thing about Korra though. Having random nobodies lightning and metalbend like it's nothing when those abilities were supposed to represent the absolute peak of skill in their respective elements did nothing but cheapen them. Might as well just have everyone be able to enter the avatar state too while you're at it.
3 months ago
Anonymous
You are correct, I forgot to add that in my reply. Bending became haymakers and kicks or controlling the element like a jedi with the force instead of a martial art
3 months ago
Anonymous
the point of korra was the inevitable march of technology and progress.
Bending becoming widespread and commercialized would have naturally raised the skill floor as it became more mundane.
A missed opportunity though, is having a threat/antag that either exceeded the known skill-ceiling of bending even beyond the avatar, or completely shattered the bending meta with bizarre and unknown strats.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Maybe that's a terrible idea and LoK is just a bad show.
3 months ago
Anonymous
No korra was just a bad show with bad writers that executed everything poorly.
Bending was still integral to the show and setting, but the writers forgot that.
The entire show should have been over-arching around the idea of bending vs technology | old bending vs new bending and where to go next with it as a society.
Instead the show got lost in a lot of bad plots and villains of the week being stretched into entire seasons.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>antag that either exceeded the known skill-ceiling of bending even beyond the avatar,
Psychic firebending. Popping people heads off at will without shooting a beam from your forehead. Spontaneous human combustion. Heat sensing where you know where people are even if you can't see them. Generating fire away from your body instead of from your body. Heat immunity. Making an area so hot it's unbearable to anyone else. Melt metal, instantly evaporate water, send a wave of invisible heat that causes fourth degree burns. Coat yourself in fire and heat like a second sun.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>A missed opportunity though, is having a threat/antag that either exceeded the known skill-ceiling of bending even beyond the avatar
Wasn't Zahir that? He taught himself airbending through pure will and could fly.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>Wasn't Zahir that?
The closest thing, and flipping air bending's morality was kinda cool. But he just felt kinda aimless given his motivations.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>A missed opportunity though, is having a threat/antag that either exceeded the known skill-ceiling of bending even beyond the avatar, or completely shattered the bending meta with bizarre and unknown strats.
That's in the show tho? Amon was the most powerful bloodbender, didnt even need the full moon and could take peoples bending away. And that air homie could fly without a glider and suffocate people
3 months ago
Anonymous
If they wanted to go with the theme about the inevitable march of technology they should have used a similar plot to that Disney movie with the blue elves and half of their dad
Have it so the world is advancing to the point that bending is being viewed as archaic and unneeded. Maybe even have the general populace think of bending as a form of violence since the gangs use it to threaten civilians. You could even still have a focus on the spiritual side of bending that was half-baked in Korra.
Have Korra's mission to be reestablish the importance of bending even with the advances of technology, keeping cultural roots and their connections to the spirits that is lacking with the more modern conveniences.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>metal bending is now commonplace to the point that rando coppers can bend metal >uhhhhhh better invent a new SPECIAL metal that CANT be bent!!
Are you fricking kidding me?
3 months ago
Anonymous
>Having random nobodies lightning and metalbend like it's nothing when those abilities were supposed to represent the absolute peak of skill in their respective elements did nothing but cheapen them. Might as well just have everyone be able to enter the avatar state too while you're at it.
moronic take, Toph was already starting a school for metalbending of course more common people would begin to learn advance techniques like that over time
I'm sure someone would do the same thing for lightning bending
3 months ago
Anonymous
have a nice day
3 months ago
Anonymous
nice argument homosexual
3 months ago
Anonymous
Metal bending proliferating makes sense because it's a new technique she developed and would teach others.
Lightningbending was basically a royal kekkei genkai. Only three very closely related people are capable of it in the original series so it being industrialized is
why didn't they just open a tea shop?
just gross
3 months ago
Anonymous
It would have been kino if they explored spiritualism giving way to industrialization, and people's traditional way of life was swapped for wageslaving in factories using ancient bending techniques to meet demands of an increasingly consumeristic society, and what role the avatar has in responding to such issues.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Lmao
Except for the fact that she didnt teach shit
The made metal bending genetic, dummy one out of one hundred earthbenders are now automatically also metal benders
Try watching the show you're defending
3 months ago
Anonymous
You may be right here but at the very least this makes for a less interesting narrative
3 months ago
Anonymous
The show had a really weird format conceptually. In S1 it works as they're all on a pro-bending team and Asami is the outsider. But then they all split up and do their own things in the following seasons, their friendship just doesn't pull it's weight. Bolin the film star is great, as is his stint in Kuvira's efforts to unite the Earth Kingdom. Asami and Mako just don't get enough, but I personally like meathead Korra.
They jerked off Katara too much because she was a huge b***h that no one liked. tophs metalbending was kind of deserved and also very situational since their society was pre-industry (until they introduced fricking forklifts)
>so why shouldn't one be able to bend it?
there is no just "water" in your body.
If you go down this route then they could bend every material that contains water.
Earthbenders could bend remotely every solid if it just has to contain carbon.
there is only 2 (-1) blood bender
only 1 can metal bend
only few can shoot lightning
only a small tribe can bend roots
I think it was explained that it has to do with purity. Bending roots was already moronic by that logic.
Not sure if it is ever brought up but you probably can't bend around corners or on infinite distance.
>If you go down this route then they could bend every material that contains water.
They theoretically should. In reality it might be to hard to impossible to do tho >I think it was explained that it has to do with purity. Bending roots was already moronic by that logic.
The show outright says that he bends the water in the roots to control them.
>which was a moronic addition
it makes sense. there's water in the body, so why shouldn't one be able to bend it? >that's only on a full moon
only if you're not strong enough to do it without the extra moonpower (which it basically everyone I have to admit). in theory it's the best
[...] >spiritual/mental component
ah okay I thought the moon was needed just because bloodbending is more difficult so one needs more power to do it
Bloodbending is too much and throws the balance between the elements out the window. But my main problem is it inviting all these stupid questions about bending iron in someone's blood, exploding the air in lungs, or combusting someone with their own body heat with fire. If any of these were possible it would make the show look dumb. Imagine how dumb it would be if bloodbending could be used any time...ah, we already have excrement showing exactly that
If Bloodbending is allowed, Earthbenders should be able to bend the bones inside someone's body.
There is a spiritual/mental component where in order to blood bend you need to overpower the will/energy of whoever you are using it against in addition to bending the water which is why the full moon is needed yady
I don't think that's true at all
The only reason bloodbending didnt work on katara was because she was a more powerful bender than the old b***h (this is a pretty weak solution from a writing standpoint tbh, i am more le powerful is not something they usually ever do in the show)
The spiritual explanation is the only one that makes sense imo. The only difference between normal water bending and blood bending is that the water is inside another person. Meaning that if blood bending is significantly harder there must be a natural resistance granted to the water being bent by the body. Given how focused the show is on spirituality I don’t think it’s a stretch.
With katara over coming the old woman, I always interpreted her victory partly as her being more pure in motive and operating in a higher state of being than the old lady. The whole episode is contrasting their similar experiences and the differences in the lessons they drew from them. I’m could be giving the writers too much credit but I doubt it
The spiritual explanation is the only one that makes sense imo. The only difference between normal water bending and blood bending is that the water is inside another person. Meaning that if blood bending is significantly harder there must be a natural resistance granted to the water being bent by the body. Given how focused the show is on spirituality I don’t think it’s a stretch.
With katara over coming the old woman, I always interpreted her victory partly as her being more pure in motive and operating in a higher state of being than the old lady. The whole episode is contrasting their similar experiences and the differences in the lessons they drew from them. I’m could be giving the writers too much credit but I doubt it
Maybe she just bent her own blood to counteract it
i also did the rewatch. I was thoroughly disappointed. First season best season. Season 2 is still reasonably good, but too much filler. The third season is fricking dogshit. Filler the season. You can tell the main storyline of S3 in a 1.5 hour movie. Turns out that Aang hasn't learned jackshit throughout his adventure. Because ultimately the problems he has to overcome at the end are the same as his problems in season one.
No no no, my fellow /tv shitposters. I should not have done the rewatch and just let that good memory be.
>Don't need to use anything around you to do it, can apparently just produce fire from your hands >Gets lightning if you're good enough which pretty much kills whoever it hits unless they know the secret of redirecting it >Skip development of internal combustion engines since you ARE the combustion engine
Fire is OP, no wonder they raped the frick out of the world for 100 years
Umm actually in Zuko alone we see Zuko fighting earthbenders using two pointy sticks and he can't win but then he wins with firebending so in canon fire > earth > hitting a guy with a stick
Always thought Fire was Japan, Earth China, Air Tibet and Water the Ainu. Sozens comet was Perrys black ships that gave Japan western technology that let them attack and colonize the other asian contries.
It's Imperial Japan but with a lot of Chinese and some Indonesian and even pre-Columbian American influences as well. None of the 4 nations are strictly one thing or another. I mean the primary antagonist of the first season was Admiral ZHAO. That's not exactly a Japanese name.
Always thought Fire was Japan, Earth China, Air Tibet and Water the Ainu. Sozens comet was Perrys black ships that gave Japan western technology that let them attack and colonize the other asian contries.
Recently I was thinking about how in a real fight that wasn't bound by the rules of narrative and TV-PG combat, earth would be the best element by far. You could just make a pointy rock come up out of the ground and impale someone in like two seconds. That's really the only move you need in most situations. You could also trap someone's feet in the ground and then impale them.
Based entirely on the shown rules, there's zero reason firebenders would be an issue at any point unless the comet is around. The sand Black person benders would've been as tough as water benders since that's also all over the place.
Fire bending had nothing to do with the Fire Nation winning the war
The war was won on a strategic level, the Fire Nation up to that point had centuries of peace and prosperity, while the Earth Kingdom was growing more and more decentralized and corrupt
While a city like Ba Sing Se was extremely wealthy, it had nothing in innovation, with the city still running on basic labor and earth bending, while the fire nation had mostly evolved past bending as a necessary means of warfare, using coal powered ships to traverse the seas quickly and tanks that could protect its benders inside
>Fire bending had nothing to do with the Fire Nation winning the war
the show literally mentions serveral times how the komet increased their firebending power and how they ware able to start the war because of this
The comet was to genocide the air nomads and prevent a pesky avatar from interfering with the war
We're obviously talking about a non-avatar situation, which is what most of the 100 years war was, and why the Fire Nation easily crippled and dominated the Earth Kingdom
some homie in the kyoshi books basically does this, his signature move is just burying people alive, no fighting required. but people see that as cheating and dishonorable in a fighting sense, and very bad in a spiritual sense because youre giving people a shameful death. so they look down on cheap moves like that.
in a universe where you KNOW spirituality is real and that there is an after life you have to be a real sadistic SOB to disregard all that & kill people by burying them alive.
There is no afterlife. Everyone reincarnates and the spirit world is literally just a world for random energy beings. If you're spiritual enough you can project your soul out of your body and stay that way past death but you don't automatically go to the spirit world by dying
even without going full edgelord earth would still be the best from a realistic standpoint since you can essentially make infinite defenses with it fast and easy >trying to move an army across an area, well to bad there or an ungoldy amount of concealed pits >just breached an area, well to bad because they just made a new one asap, or it was a trap and now a huge part of your force is stuck without any help >just built something, well to bad because if its made out a rock it got ruined by sabatoge, and if you go the extra mile and make it out of something they can't bend they just frick over the foundation so your expensive building is still fricked
unironically the fire nation had the biggest plot armor in the show to be winning to begin with
did you even watch the series? everything in the "bending" universe is in decline spiritually speaking. that's the real reason fire benders are ascendant.
fire has the least connections to spiritualism so they become ascendant in a time where spirits are weakened. the other powers are strong wrt spiritual connections and become weakened as the spiritual and material world's links dissolve.
the whole series is an elaborate plea for people to get more in touch with their spirituality.
Where in the show does it talk about fire being the least reliant on spirituality? In real life (where the inspiration for the show comes from) fire and air are higher in the spiritual hierarchy than earth and water.
It doesn't. If anything it's earth that tends to have the least spirituality. If he means the Fire nation lacking spirit rather than the element then he's right
>Where in the show does it talk about fire being the least reliant on spirituality?
the part where their avatar was the weakest despite literally having avatar powers?
the part where they don't have a fire spirit unlike water benders who still have a literal water god in their home town.
the part where aang struggles to learn fire bending despite air/water/earth bending coming relatively easily to him(it's a hint about descending hierarchies of connection to the spirit world)
the part where in the second avatar storyline fire bending remains unaffected whilst every other form of bending has mutated into more efficient less connected to their spiritual root forms?
>the part where their avatar was the weakest despite literally having avatar powers?
Saw no evidence of this at all. >the part where they don't have a fire spirit unlike water benders who still have a literal water god in their home town.
It's a moon spirit, and it doesn't automatically convey superior strength to water benders. The moon itself empowers them, but firebenders similarly draw strength from the sun. Zuko himself said as much. >the part where aang struggles to learn fire bending
No he took to it easily like he did water bending. The one he struggled with was earth because it was so contrary to his personality. His hangups with firebending only came after hurting Katara accidentally with it. >the part where in the second avatar storyline fire bending remains unaffected whilst every other form of bending has mutated into more efficient less connected to their spiritual root forms
I have no idea what you're talking about.
Nah they'd also get a buff. They could just burn people to death.
Airbenders could also create pressure/vacuums to kill people
Nonbenders could also do a lot more damage
Id say waterbenders would actually benefit the least from 18+ avatar if you stick to the shows rules and say body fluids cant be messed with outside of full moon. Although they DO still have ice spikes
some homie in the kyoshi books basically does this, his signature move is just burying people alive, no fighting required. but people see that as cheating and dishonorable in a fighting sense, and very bad in a spiritual sense because youre giving people a shameful death. so they look down on cheap moves like that.
Thats such a lazy excuse for something the writers simply didnt consider or cba to tackle. Same with the "forbidden" lightsaber technique where you quickly switch off and on the lightsaber mid-fight. As if anyone would care about whats dishonorable in a life/death scenario
The reality is that anyone who strikes first will basically instawin >earthbenders can just suck you into the ground like they did with katara that one episode >waterbenders can just bend the pee out of your bladder instantly causing you immense pain and then drown you >airbanders can just throw you into the air a hundred feet >firebenders can just set you on fire
>earthbenders can just suck you into the ground like they did with katara that one episode
My thoughts exactly when i recently rewatched that scene. Why dont earth benders use that move more? Its so OP.
the answer ofc is that the creators want to keep bending diverse and interesting
Theres actually quite a few plotholes like that. Eg. Why doesnt aang just fly his friends out of the desert? Its shown in a later episode that the glider can carry at least 2 other people.
Again, from a storytelling standpoint it makes sense, from a story point not so much.
Yeah you basically just have to leave the magic system alone because if you try to inspect it too hard you'll just end up with all of these silly showending questions. There's no point
Just relax and enjoy the fight scenes for the kino that they are
I thought about Firebenders being able to take away your body heat, slowing watching you die from the cold
Also earthbenders can form kidney stones if they want to.
Airbenders can take out the air from your lungs.
The creators recently elaborated a bit more on the mechanics of bending, and essentially it comes down to overpowering the opponets "chi field", which is high level benders like Aang can shrug off bloodbending from the best bloodbender in the world and why Amon is able to block other benders. So in theory, it's partly the element you use but also the power of the chi you put in said element.
>high level benders like Aang can shrug off bloodbending from the best bloodbender in the world
He was completely under Hama's control during the puppet episode though. It was only Katara's intervention that saved him.
A sufficiently skilled fire bender (lightning user) is the strongest. No one is dodging lightning. No one is blocking lightning. Azula could snipe Toph with lightning from a mile away and Toph would literally never see it coming.
I don't claim to be a scientist or whatever but I'm pretty sure people who get struck by lightning and die were standing on the ground when it happened.
I don't claim to be a scientist or whatever but I'm pretty sure people who get struck by lightning and die were standing on the ground when it happened.
Metal bend to conduct electricity to ground away from your body. Done.
Also never understood why lightning is fire and not air in this show.
Because firebending was the bending of heat and energy in the show
Besides, it wouldn't have meshed well at all with the peaceful monk shit the air nomads had going on
That's the problem
Being grounded means that a current will flow through you into THE GROUND
It's the lack of a ground that allows someone to survive even high voltage, high current electrical sources. Birds can chill in telephone/ power lines because they're not grounded
lightning bending is pretty loud in the show, and requires some locked-in channeling
earth benders could do the same with earth bullets with way less downsides, and be more mobile
>No one is dodging lightning. No one is blocking lightning
I think you might be moronic, bro. Both of these things happened multiple times in the TV show.
I've been rewatching TLA and Aang really does make airbending seem the most powerful. If he wasn't a monk focused on defensive and non-lethal applications of airbending he'd be a monster with airbending alone.
Surely Water BTFOs everything?
There's tons of water in the air and in the ground, and it's the majority of the contents of every living thing. It's a lot better at killing than air since it's effectively incompressible and will cut far better than gasses, and it's easier to form than earth and found in many more places. I agree that fire is the worst, even lightning sucks because a decent water or earth bender can frick with it since you could just conduct it away very easily before it hit you.
Earthbenders can just snipe you from a mile away.
shooting ice isn't nowhere near as effective as pebbles, let alone metal. Surrounding yourself in earth armor makes you near invincible through normal means of combat including bending.
Earthbenders can theoretically make all kinds of utility in seconds including guns.
All 4 elements become equally deadly at close range if there are restrictions on bending molecules through solids
Anon they use water to cut stone and steel IRL. People shoot through armored tanks and concrete all the time, but no one shoots submarines through water that's why they need to use torpedoes and mines instead of bullets. Water is the strongest material known to man, and you can just fill up their rock armor and drown them.
>but no one shoots submarines through water.
You think a few squaremeter of water will stop a bullet?
You think the water legionaire army walks with swimming pools of shield armor?
Even if a water bender could generate enough pressure to cut with water, you can only do that at very short ranges. At mid or long range an earthbender becomes untouchable. They also have the option to submerge into the ground.
They could make their armor air tight momentarily closing any openings when they see a water bender trying anything.
Only Airbenders could be a danger to them because of their mobility and potential ability to make ones lungs explode.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>You think a few squaremeter of water will stop a bullet?
Yes, but a grid-like mesh would be most effective. A bullet going at mach 2 hitting water is equivalent to water hitting metal at mach 2, and we know from water jet cutters that the metal will yield easily. Water is incredibly dense, which is why they use to to shield nuclear reactors since even lead is not good enough. Water is used on the international space station to absorb micrometeorite impacts going at 22,000mph. There is nothing water cannot stop, it is impenetrable. The only reason we don't use it on tanks is that we can't waterbend it around the tank as armor so we have to make do with solids. Even then, you can just blow bullets away with air (and therefore water), which is the basis of reactive armor.
Water is the strongest.
3 months ago
Anonymous
what cuts things in a fancy water jet is the grit being launched by the water, not the water itself
3 months ago
Anonymous
>They could make their armor air tight momentarily closing any openings when they see a water bender trying anything.
But how can they make their bodies water tight? A water bender could just pull the piss right out of them and aim it down their throat, drowning them.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>They also have the option to submerge into the ground
Into the ground... with the ground water? There is always water underneath you, even ancient people knew this. An earthbender submerging themselves only brings them closer to the instrument of their doom, the aquifers and water table of death.
even without going full edgelord earth would still be the best from a realistic standpoint since you can essentially make infinite defenses with it fast and easy >trying to move an army across an area, well to bad there or an ungoldy amount of concealed pits >just breached an area, well to bad because they just made a new one asap, or it was a trap and now a huge part of your force is stuck without any help >just built something, well to bad because if its made out a rock it got ruined by sabatoge, and if you go the extra mile and make it out of something they can't bend they just frick over the foundation so your expensive building is still fricked
unironically the fire nation had the biggest plot armor in the show to be winning to begin with
Some other anon posted this years ago on Cinemaphile but yea earthbenders are OP because all it takes are 3 of them and you have basically crippled an entire nation's FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN. >sneak three of them into occupied territory, or even smuggle them onto the Fire Nation islands >have them target farms and grain silos >upturn the tilled earth, landslide the rice paddies >within a month the entire Fire Nation is on the verge of a society-collapsing famine
God, what a fantastic show. How many kid's shows explore the idea of a collaborator by making him actually sympathetic and having the characters confront the issue?
Man, I really dislike her show for what it did to the lore, but god damn is she one hot ass eskimo girl. She might actually beat out Katara for me in some frames.
>She might actually beat out Katara
no. especially not with her personality
3 months ago
Anonymous
Meh. Both were headstrong, occasionally whiny, and independent brown girls. The real difference is that Korra had a great rack and magnificent armpits, while Katara had powerful 5head hebe energy.
3 months ago
Anonymous
I understand pitgays even less than footgays.
Korra is too muscular/masuline for my taste. also, she's a spoiled unlikeable b***h
3 months ago
Anonymous
Condolences for your shit taste, anon.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Her personality ruins her design but women who look like her irl are a rare gem
You have no idea what an aphrodisiac it is to dominate a normally wienery, arrogant and sometimes even girlbossy woman and have them reduced to the usual keening mess most women are, except it's more of a challenge with these ones
I'm not a pitgay but this one muscle girl I got with milked me with her armpit, it was weird and I hope it didn't give me any horrid fetishes
3 months ago
Anonymous
>You have no idea what an aphrodisiac it is to dominate a normally wienery, arrogant and sometimes even girlbossy woman and have them reduced to the usual keening mess
this isn't something for me but I understand it now better, thanks
3 months ago
Anonymous
I didn't think it was for me either until this girl I knew got aggressive with me
Eventually overpowering her admittedly impressive strength and start fricking her without fear of being too aggressive was and is still fricking insane, best part is I could raw dog her as she was so ripped she didn't have periods anymore
b***h even tried to sit on my face for me to eat her out but I threw her on her back and seized her by her nicely toned thighs and went to town with her squirming and whining like any other woman would. They can be as varbie as they like, they're still women. And she was a good friend.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>so ripped she didn't have periods anymore
Jesus how much testosterone did she take?
3 months ago
Anonymous
I don't actually know, honest to god swear she was natty at least when it came to drugs
I know I said varbie but she didn't take that anivar shit nor any hormones or steroids, she was a very high metabolism farm girl. She looked half muscular half skeletal, it was a really weird combination. Imagine a muscular Kiera Knightley at the POTC premier
Thin shoulders, well defined muscles, very lean rather than massive
She could fricking benchpress me though.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>milked me with her armpit >i hope it didnt give me any fetishes
Anon.. it's too late... you've already lost
Get yourself a pitbawd gf asap
3 months ago
Anonymous
NO
IT WASN'T MY FAULT
WE CAME BACK FROM RUNNING AND I LICKED IT DURING SEX
IT SMELLED LIKE HER, SHE THOUGHT I WAS A PITgay
3 months ago
Anonymous
You are
You ARE a pitgay
Accept your fate >b-but I'm not! What you want for me is not my destiny
What I want? Boy, there is no "I". There is no "want". There is only what is and what will be. And yours is to be a pitgay
It is written in the stars
3 months ago
Anonymous
this movie was so ass
3 months ago
Anonymous
Imagine being filtered by the northman of all things
3 months ago
Anonymous
It was shit
3 months ago
Anonymous
Well, when the arms are raised, the armpits frame the chest area nicely and accentuate all of those natural curves in the upper body. The armpits are also a great source of natural pheromones, and you'd have led a sad existence as a straight man not to be even slightly turned on by the scent of a woman's sweat.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>Well, when the arms are raised, the armpits frame the chest area nicely and accentuate all of those natural curves in the upper body.
yeah I can get behind that >natural pheromones
no such thing for humans
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK200980/ >woman's sweat
even if there are human pheromones, they don't have to smell bad
3 months ago
Anonymous
I love everything about (non-ugly) women, and that include theirs pits and feets and behind their ears and of course everything else
Precisely what would stop the Earth Kingdom from slicing off about a 50' chunk off the top of their 1000' wall and drop it like a meteor on this drill?
Being an earth bender comes with the unfortunate side effect of making the person inflexible and stubborn, they would never think to do it and even if they did they wouldn’t
The earthbenders should have easily been able to stop the drill. Not by throwing rocks at it, but simply by pulling away the ground underneath it, making it impossible to get any traction and leaving it immobile.
No, because then the avatar would have to help the drill cross it but not bring food, and the whole episode would end in a lame moral about working together with people you hate and who hate you.
Flying technology was just recently discovered by them, their flying machines were probably still under construction at that point and azula didnt want to wait.
>series b***hes about Aang's attachments in preventing him from achieving god mode to defeat final boss >gets violated by a rock that automatically triggers god mode to defeat final boss easily >series b***hes about Aang not wanting to kill anyone, including final boss >suddenly activates new bending ability so no need to kill final boss
The voice acting, animation, and aesthetics hard carried the original show.
The turt teaching him to energy bend is asspulley and the show would have benefited from this being set up more and expanded upon
I actually have a long from idea of how I would do it when I inevitably get my live action adaption that will do justice to the show and be kino through and through
I may write it here if anyone is intrested in my autistic ramblings
The rock hit to the back activating his avatar state because that's where he got shot by azula originally locking it is a great move and perfect even if it is an ass pull. It's the type of coincidence that is essentially destiny, which the show is all about
Frick it, I'll do it >maintain the light tone of the cartoon in the early seasons. Only gets darker progressively >at about the start of book 2 (s3) Aang really starts to grow up, but he's having alot of trouble coming to terms with his actions >specifically all of the people he's hurting, and sometimes even killing (specifically when he was koizilla, he's not an outright murderer, it's a war) >he maintiains his outward optimism, but has constant pains about his actions and how they go against what he was raised to believe >learns about lion turtles very early on, also, from some innocuous scoruce. Not much, just the name >all of his frustration at his action comes to a head when Appa is bisonnapped. He straight up starts attacking the sandbenders before katara pulls him out of the avatar state >just before this, though, in the library, he comes across a scroll or whatever that talks not just about lion turtles, but energy bending itself >>look at this cool lion turtle thing, katata! Energy bending? What's that? >the scroll says the exact lines that the lion turtle told him and shows him the stance to take. Aang at this point is given all the information that the original cartoon gave him >leave this to grow inside him as an idea, just as his own perceived crimes and guilt are festering inside him >show proceeds as normal, with Aang getting worse and worse on the inside, not able to come to terms with what he's done, what he's doing, and what he'll have to do. In book 3 (s5 and 6) when he outright meets masters and stuff like piandao or Iroh (this is a whole other thing that I've changed) he straight up asks them what they know, if anything, about energy bending or lion turtles. He asks the the hidden firebender people, too, maybe even the dragons idk. >no one is able to give him information beyond that they're mythical and super ancient >still, over this time Aang is caught multiple times in secret trying to energy bend
>>That's not earthbending, twinkletoes. What are you doing?? >eventually Aang asks Sokka to let him try energy bending on him. It doesn't work. Again, at this point he knows "how" to do it, meaning he knows the stance and that your own will must be unbendable, but he can't do it and doesn't exactly know what it means to do it >things get heated when he is confronted by the Gaang about not wanting to kill Ozai. They all think there genuinely is no other choice. Sokka brings up that he's killed people before and this infuriates Aang, obviously, because he's right and it breaks his heart that he's done something so outside of his beliefs, even if it was in war or self defense >as the finale begins, Aang decides that he has to go find a LionTurtBro. He's not mysteriously called away, he actively goes looking for one where he assumes they would be, in the ocean. Tall order, but still. >He's caught by Zuko as he's leaving >>can't sleep? >>>I have to find something. Someone, I think... I have to go >>don't worry, Aang. I wont chase you this time lol >>>I won't kill your father >>I would understand it if you did >>>I won't kill him >>...okay >>>will you tell the others- >>I'll tell them you had to leave, don't worry- >>>no... Tell them I love them. And I love you, too, Zuko (this is NOT gay, this is brotherly shut the frick up) >>I'm not sure I deserve that- >Aang goes in for a hug and thanks Zuko for teaching him firebending and for being his friend >Aang and momo fly off in search of the lionturtbro. After much looking he lands on an island which he doesnt realize IS the lionturtbro >still has his chat with the previous avatars and they all say the same thing they normally do. "Lmao killem' don't be a pussy" >island starts moving >Aang finally found the lionturtbro >he goes and speaks to him, pours out his heart >>I've hurt so many people.(action) And so many have been hurt because of me.(inaction, his guilt over his cowardice of running away)
>>I've betrayed everything I believe in. I can't kill another person. I can't end this war. I can't... everyone tells me that Ozai deserves doesn't deserve to live after what he's done. But if he doesn't, do I? I need your help! Please! If there's anything-
[...]
YOU CAN FORGIVE OTHERS... YOU MUST LEARN TO FORGIVE YOURSELF >the lionturtbro touches him on the forehead and chest >Aang falls backwards >through the air >through the water >through the earth >through the fire >repeating the same cycle visually over and over again, first in panic, in fear, in tears, with flashbacks of his actions and everything he's done >hurting others, running away from his responsibility, accidentally burning Katara, deliberately killing that one buzzard wasp when he was pissed off that Appa was stolen, almost killing the sandbenders out of rage >he keeps cycling through the elements, falling through the air, drowning, being buried alive, burning to death >pain >suffering >sorrow >he begins to remember all the good he's done >all the people he's helped, the people that wouldn't be alive if it wasn't for him being there >the north that he saved, the villages he protected, every good thing he's done >the cycles repeat and each set of four corresponds with a different chakra and emotion he's working through, like a rapid fire verison of the training he went through with guru patik which he never finished >he calms down but still goes through the cycles, with lighter, more joyous emotions, signaling that he's gotten through his pain >the final cycle >he is content >falling through air, water, earth, fire >content >he wakes up on the beach with sozins comet above him >he laughs and cries, pure catharsis. He's forgiven himself for what he's done. He's come to terms with his actions. He's ready to forgive Ozai. >Momo flys down and lands on his chest >Aang hugs him and tells him he's ready >final battle proceeds >Aang's avatar state is activated by the rock hitting his back
3 months ago
Anonymous
>he defeats Ozai outright >the final confrontation is the same
OZAAIHHH (YOU) AND YOURE FIREBlack folk HAVE DEVASTATED THE BALANCE OF THIS WORLD. AND NOW YOU SHALL PAY THE U L T I M A T E PRICE!!!1!! >then he stops >>no. I won't end it like this. I won't kill you. >>>even with all the power in the world, you're still WEAK >Aang locks Ozai's arms down and enters the energy bending stance >his own will is unbendable >Ozai's firebending is stripped away >Aang found another way to win the war. He found it himself. The aid he was given was being taught how to become unbendable, which is by true understanding of who you are. Him forgiving himself was the key to him knowing who he was, and THAT is what allowed him to energy bend
Thanks for reading my fanfiction
When I inevitability get the rights to Korra, I'll fix that show by combining Amon and Zaheer into one villian, who is an airbender descendant from an escaped and hidden airbender group of kids that was spared by some low ranking firenation soldier. They hid among the earthkingdom and never learned how to bend, but their children still had the genetics of it. Amonzaheer is a descendant but also hates bending because he actually believes in korra amon's philosophy for real. He learned, through study and sheer force of will how to actually energy bend. His will is unbreakable because he fricking hates bending THAT much and wants to end all bending because benders destroyed his ancestors or whatever. It gets more complicated than that but he's actually an intresting villan and wont be thrown away like heckin amon was in the cartoon
What do you guys think?
3 months ago
Anonymous
>I'll fix that show by combining Amon and Zaheer into one villian
For me it's Bumi secretly being Amon because he's seething over the fact that he's the firstborn son and can't carry on his father's air bending legacy. Nobody suspects the goofy nice guy of being the masked villain. Maybe he's an energy bender experimenting on benders so he can eventually learn how to steal Tenzin's powers.
>>That's not earthbending, twinkletoes. What are you doing?? >eventually Aang asks Sokka to let him try energy bending on him. It doesn't work. Again, at this point he knows "how" to do it, meaning he knows the stance and that your own will must be unbendable, but he can't do it and doesn't exactly know what it means to do it >things get heated when he is confronted by the Gaang about not wanting to kill Ozai. They all think there genuinely is no other choice. Sokka brings up that he's killed people before and this infuriates Aang, obviously, because he's right and it breaks his heart that he's done something so outside of his beliefs, even if it was in war or self defense >as the finale begins, Aang decides that he has to go find a LionTurtBro. He's not mysteriously called away, he actively goes looking for one where he assumes they would be, in the ocean. Tall order, but still. >He's caught by Zuko as he's leaving >>can't sleep? >>>I have to find something. Someone, I think... I have to go >>don't worry, Aang. I wont chase you this time lol >>>I won't kill your father >>I would understand it if you did >>>I won't kill him >>...okay >>>will you tell the others- >>I'll tell them you had to leave, don't worry- >>>no... Tell them I love them. And I love you, too, Zuko (this is NOT gay, this is brotherly shut the frick up) >>I'm not sure I deserve that- >Aang goes in for a hug and thanks Zuko for teaching him firebending and for being his friend >Aang and momo fly off in search of the lionturtbro. After much looking he lands on an island which he doesnt realize IS the lionturtbro >still has his chat with the previous avatars and they all say the same thing they normally do. "Lmao killem' don't be a pussy" >island starts moving >Aang finally found the lionturtbro >he goes and speaks to him, pours out his heart >>I've hurt so many people.(action) And so many have been hurt because of me.(inaction, his guilt over his cowardice of running away)
>>I've betrayed everything I believe in. I can't kill another person. I can't end this war. I can't... everyone tells me that Ozai deserves doesn't deserve to live after what he's done. But if he doesn't, do I? I need your help! Please! If there's anything-
[...] YOU CAN FORGIVE OTHERS... YOU MUST LEARN TO FORGIVE YOURSELF >the lionturtbro touches him on the forehead and chest >Aang falls backwards >through the air >through the water >through the earth >through the fire >repeating the same cycle visually over and over again, first in panic, in fear, in tears, with flashbacks of his actions and everything he's done >hurting others, running away from his responsibility, accidentally burning Katara, deliberately killing that one buzzard wasp when he was pissed off that Appa was stolen, almost killing the sandbenders out of rage >he keeps cycling through the elements, falling through the air, drowning, being buried alive, burning to death >pain >suffering >sorrow >he begins to remember all the good he's done >all the people he's helped, the people that wouldn't be alive if it wasn't for him being there >the north that he saved, the villages he protected, every good thing he's done >the cycles repeat and each set of four corresponds with a different chakra and emotion he's working through, like a rapid fire verison of the training he went through with guru patik which he never finished >he calms down but still goes through the cycles, with lighter, more joyous emotions, signaling that he's gotten through his pain >the final cycle >he is content >falling through air, water, earth, fire >content >he wakes up on the beach with sozins comet above him >he laughs and cries, pure catharsis. He's forgiven himself for what he's done. He's come to terms with his actions. He's ready to forgive Ozai. >Momo flys down and lands on his chest >Aang hugs him and tells him he's ready >final battle proceeds >Aang's avatar state is activated by the rock hitting his back
that's pretty good, Anon. the only thing is, that Aang would have to do worse things than he did in the show for him to be this distressed. he is never really shown to kill someone, not even in self defense (they don't show anyone dying at all IIRC). the worst thing he did was to accientally burn Katara, which is understandable, since it's a show which 6 year olds are supposed to be able to watch.
TLDR: I think your approach is maybe even better than the show's, but would require it to get too dark
Yeah, i understand that, and it would get dark
Specifically he would end up killing tons of firenation soldiers during the koizilla rampage. He would also kill in self defense outright once or twice, or probably in defense of his friends is more fitting. My version would of course have a darker tone, but I will in the end bring it back to optimism and goodness. Aang would genuinely forgive himself for his actions because they ARE against his belief, BUT he would understand that they were necessary to correct the balance of the world. One thing I forgot to mention, is that somehow it'll be conveyed at the end that Aang WOULD actually kill Ozai if he needed to in order to stop the war, but the irony is that the very fact that he would do it is what allows him to be able to not do it
Thanks for saying you like it, anon
If I spent this much time at 4am working on my own book instead of a fanfiction half shitpost, I would be rich by now
, over this time Aang is caught multiple times in secret trying to energy bend
How would he physically be seen doing that? Unless there's a spirit beam being shot at him or a willing volunteer, he can't energybend himself, projecting another avatar to do it to him aside)
So she killed the dark avatar, korra's spirit was killed but then it came back.. ..so logically.. ..the dark avatar cycle has begun a new..
..which means the next avatar could see the dark avatar reappear.. ..hell, korra could give birth to the dark avatar and everyone believe she's a mircle only for it to not be so.
I was annoyed when it was revealed Zaheer tried to kidnap child Korra to raise her to be his anarchist avatar soldier. That sounded like a way cooler show than the one we got.
ebil Avatar would make a lot of sense and is an interesting concept, though it would inevitably turn into a become a good guy story.
Korra successfully destroyed any room for such a thing unless they perform some incredibliy revisionists gymnastic.
Not like I expect anything good ever come out of this franchise now
No heating needed
No electricity bills for cooking
If you’re good enough you can fly for a bit like Azula did
Always have a lighter on you
No evidence if you commit arson
Heat up spoon and make people catch it to give them the ol spicy spoon
you can reduce nearly all advanced human technology to the function of boiling water to spin a turbine
fire benders are walking perpetual motion machines
Is that a fin on the back? How would that fit in the tunnel?
It's a tower like on a ship that folds up. The drill is basically a landship
It's a smokestack, you absolute mongoloid.
They really expected us to believe that water being thrown around at such low speeds could cut steel beams?
Actually it was jet fuel, chud. And we all know jet fuel melts steel beams.
No, but it does weaken it, moron.
The waste was oscillating at extremely high speeds.
Like how a power hand saw works. You move the tool slow, but the blade spins fast.
BIG
Bless the Maker and his water
Bless the coming and going of him
May his passage cleanse the world
May he the world for his people
That never happened moron. There's no war in Ba Sing Se.
rewatched this recently. just as comfy as I remember
Fire is the best element
>Fire is the best element
no water. it's hard to bend anything if you can't even move your limbs. or if you're made out of 80% water which your opponent can freeze/control
This is not a thing that happens in the show. If you're referring to bloodbending (which was a moronic addition) that's only on a full moon
>which was a moronic addition
it makes sense. there's water in the body, so why shouldn't one be able to bend it?
>that's only on a full moon
only if you're not strong enough to do it without the extra moonpower (which it basically everyone I have to admit). in theory it's the best
>spiritual/mental component
ah okay I thought the moon was needed just because bloodbending is more difficult so one needs more power to do it
Bloodbending is too much and throws the balance between the elements out the window. But my main problem is it inviting all these stupid questions about bending iron in someone's blood, exploding the air in lungs, or combusting someone with their own body heat with fire. If any of these were possible it would make the show look dumb. Imagine how dumb it would be if bloodbending could be used any time...ah, we already have excrement showing exactly that
>bending iron in someone's blood
Blood bending was fine as something that required a full moon to do. It created a very high spike in water bending power for a very short time period that only occurred once every month or so. It also required a great deal of skill so wasn't something they could rely on if going up against massive armies.
By comparison, lightning bending was a more significant power spike. It didn't have nearly the same restrictions that blood bending did and was incredibly deadly, managing to essentially kill Aang while he was in the avatar state with a single attack. The only thing that takes it off the table is if you are able to redirect it, which is a skill exactly 3 people have.
Lightning isn't the same kind of death sentence bloodbending is. Characters still dodge it and block it just fine without redirection, like Aang did with Ozais first few shots. Aang was shot in the back unprepared with arguably the most deadly thing you can be hit by so I don't see the issue with him dying to that. There are also only three people who can generate it, all of them being top tier royal family members.
I would agree with you if the episode wasn't so well done, easily one of the best in the series. Also it's only used one other time in the show so it's honestly fine.
Ofc LoK had to go hilariously over the board with it
I was going to disagree but sure, it is a fine episode. I can only think of a couple episodes I really dislike, great divide and painted lady, and only because of how boring they were. LoK.......it's some shit how everything besides ATLA managed to become worthless
>LoK.......it's some shit
I tried to like Korra, I really did. Idk if I'd just aged out of it or if it really was that much of a step down from Aang and company. I loved the steampunk design of the city, the evolution of bending, even the overall plot seemed like a cool idea. I just couldn't get into the characters. Korra was a b***h, which would have been fine as a starting point for character development, but the show constantly took her side. Bolin was too much of a beta idiot; Sokka was comic relief, sure, but he had hidden depths too. Mako was a cardboard wall with a nice face. Everyone else just seemed to be puppets in service of the plot, rather than people with their own goals and opinions.
It was a huge step down. I watched the premier episode and hated it. Sometime in 2015 I finished it all out of morbid curiosity. I don't know what possesses them to do that to their series, the comics are all filth as well. I haven't read the novels but I heard there's gay shit in there with Kyoshi so that's enough for me to steer clear
>the evolution of bending,
This was the worst thing about Korra though. Having random nobodies lightning and metalbend like it's nothing when those abilities were supposed to represent the absolute peak of skill in their respective elements did nothing but cheapen them. Might as well just have everyone be able to enter the avatar state too while you're at it.
You are correct, I forgot to add that in my reply. Bending became haymakers and kicks or controlling the element like a jedi with the force instead of a martial art
the point of korra was the inevitable march of technology and progress.
Bending becoming widespread and commercialized would have naturally raised the skill floor as it became more mundane.
A missed opportunity though, is having a threat/antag that either exceeded the known skill-ceiling of bending even beyond the avatar, or completely shattered the bending meta with bizarre and unknown strats.
Maybe that's a terrible idea and LoK is just a bad show.
No korra was just a bad show with bad writers that executed everything poorly.
Bending was still integral to the show and setting, but the writers forgot that.
The entire show should have been over-arching around the idea of bending vs technology | old bending vs new bending and where to go next with it as a society.
Instead the show got lost in a lot of bad plots and villains of the week being stretched into entire seasons.
>antag that either exceeded the known skill-ceiling of bending even beyond the avatar,
Psychic firebending. Popping people heads off at will without shooting a beam from your forehead. Spontaneous human combustion. Heat sensing where you know where people are even if you can't see them. Generating fire away from your body instead of from your body. Heat immunity. Making an area so hot it's unbearable to anyone else. Melt metal, instantly evaporate water, send a wave of invisible heat that causes fourth degree burns. Coat yourself in fire and heat like a second sun.
>A missed opportunity though, is having a threat/antag that either exceeded the known skill-ceiling of bending even beyond the avatar
Wasn't Zahir that? He taught himself airbending through pure will and could fly.
>Wasn't Zahir that?
The closest thing, and flipping air bending's morality was kinda cool. But he just felt kinda aimless given his motivations.
>A missed opportunity though, is having a threat/antag that either exceeded the known skill-ceiling of bending even beyond the avatar, or completely shattered the bending meta with bizarre and unknown strats.
That's in the show tho? Amon was the most powerful bloodbender, didnt even need the full moon and could take peoples bending away. And that air homie could fly without a glider and suffocate people
If they wanted to go with the theme about the inevitable march of technology they should have used a similar plot to that Disney movie with the blue elves and half of their dad
Have it so the world is advancing to the point that bending is being viewed as archaic and unneeded. Maybe even have the general populace think of bending as a form of violence since the gangs use it to threaten civilians. You could even still have a focus on the spiritual side of bending that was half-baked in Korra.
Have Korra's mission to be reestablish the importance of bending even with the advances of technology, keeping cultural roots and their connections to the spirits that is lacking with the more modern conveniences.
>metal bending is now commonplace to the point that rando coppers can bend metal
>uhhhhhh better invent a new SPECIAL metal that CANT be bent!!
Are you fricking kidding me?
>Having random nobodies lightning and metalbend like it's nothing when those abilities were supposed to represent the absolute peak of skill in their respective elements did nothing but cheapen them. Might as well just have everyone be able to enter the avatar state too while you're at it.
moronic take, Toph was already starting a school for metalbending of course more common people would begin to learn advance techniques like that over time
I'm sure someone would do the same thing for lightning bending
have a nice day
nice argument homosexual
Metal bending proliferating makes sense because it's a new technique she developed and would teach others.
Lightningbending was basically a royal kekkei genkai. Only three very closely related people are capable of it in the original series so it being industrialized is
just gross
It would have been kino if they explored spiritualism giving way to industrialization, and people's traditional way of life was swapped for wageslaving in factories using ancient bending techniques to meet demands of an increasingly consumeristic society, and what role the avatar has in responding to such issues.
Lmao
Except for the fact that she didnt teach shit
The made metal bending genetic, dummy one out of one hundred earthbenders are now automatically also metal benders
Try watching the show you're defending
You may be right here but at the very least this makes for a less interesting narrative
The show had a really weird format conceptually. In S1 it works as they're all on a pro-bending team and Asami is the outsider. But then they all split up and do their own things in the following seasons, their friendship just doesn't pull it's weight. Bolin the film star is great, as is his stint in Kuvira's efforts to unite the Earth Kingdom. Asami and Mako just don't get enough, but I personally like meathead Korra.
They jerked off Katara too much because she was a huge b***h that no one liked. tophs metalbending was kind of deserved and also very situational since their society was pre-industry (until they introduced fricking forklifts)
>so why shouldn't one be able to bend it?
there is no just "water" in your body.
If you go down this route then they could bend every material that contains water.
Earthbenders could bend remotely every solid if it just has to contain carbon.
there is only 2 (-1) blood bender
only 1 can metal bend
only few can shoot lightning
only a small tribe can bend roots
I think it was explained that it has to do with purity. Bending roots was already moronic by that logic.
Not sure if it is ever brought up but you probably can't bend around corners or on infinite distance.
>If you go down this route then they could bend every material that contains water.
They theoretically should. In reality it might be to hard to impossible to do tho
>I think it was explained that it has to do with purity. Bending roots was already moronic by that logic.
The show outright says that he bends the water in the roots to control them.
If Bloodbending is allowed, Earthbenders should be able to bend the bones inside someone's body.
There is a spiritual/mental component where in order to blood bend you need to overpower the will/energy of whoever you are using it against in addition to bending the water which is why the full moon is needed yady
I don't think that's true at all
The only reason bloodbending didnt work on katara was because she was a more powerful bender than the old b***h (this is a pretty weak solution from a writing standpoint tbh, i am more le powerful is not something they usually ever do in the show)
The spiritual explanation is the only one that makes sense imo. The only difference between normal water bending and blood bending is that the water is inside another person. Meaning that if blood bending is significantly harder there must be a natural resistance granted to the water being bent by the body. Given how focused the show is on spirituality I don’t think it’s a stretch.
With katara over coming the old woman, I always interpreted her victory partly as her being more pure in motive and operating in a higher state of being than the old lady. The whole episode is contrasting their similar experiences and the differences in the lessons they drew from them. I’m could be giving the writers too much credit but I doubt it
Maybe she just bent her own blood to counteract it
That's the feeling I always got from it
I want katara to waterbend the cum out of my balla
i also did the rewatch. I was thoroughly disappointed. First season best season. Season 2 is still reasonably good, but too much filler. The third season is fricking dogshit. Filler the season. You can tell the main storyline of S3 in a 1.5 hour movie. Turns out that Aang hasn't learned jackshit throughout his adventure. Because ultimately the problems he has to overcome at the end are the same as his problems in season one.
No no no, my fellow /tv shitposters. I should not have done the rewatch and just let that good memory be.
>the twelve year old kid didn't grow up and become a grizzled old master in months
woah
>Don't need to use anything around you to do it, can apparently just produce fire from your hands
>Gets lightning if you're good enough which pretty much kills whoever it hits unless they know the secret of redirecting it
>Skip development of internal combustion engines since you ARE the combustion engine
Fire is OP, no wonder they raped the frick out of the world for 100 years
Water > air >>> earth >>>>> hitting a guy with a stick > fire
>burns your stick
Umm actually in Zuko alone we see Zuko fighting earthbenders using two pointy sticks and he can't win but then he wins with firebending so in canon fire > earth > hitting a guy with a stick
The fire nation represents Great Britain at the peak of its power during the opium wars pre 1860. Fire nation is caucazoids
Tfw British and love the Fire Nation.
The world needs to be civilised.
I thought it was Imperial Japan
It's Imperial Japan but with a lot of Chinese and some Indonesian and even pre-Columbian American influences as well. None of the 4 nations are strictly one thing or another. I mean the primary antagonist of the first season was Admiral ZHAO. That's not exactly a Japanese name.
Always thought Fire was Japan, Earth China, Air Tibet and Water the Ainu. Sozens comet was Perrys black ships that gave Japan western technology that let them attack and colonize the other asian contries.
they are, they guy is just making up stuff for a joke
Pretty much, but they don't play strictly with those codes
wtf I love the fire nation now
All those cubs were brutally shot by German poachers.
the boer cub was killed by the sick, dying lion
>white people
>Avatar
Maybe if James Cameron directed it. Not in my asian-kino however!
>Not in my asian-kino however!
The shit one filled with fatfricks?
>Korean cartoon
>depicting an invader as anything but Japanese
There is no wiener in ba sing se
Recently I was thinking about how in a real fight that wasn't bound by the rules of narrative and TV-PG combat, earth would be the best element by far. You could just make a pointy rock come up out of the ground and impale someone in like two seconds. That's really the only move you need in most situations. You could also trap someone's feet in the ground and then impale them.
Based entirely on the shown rules, there's zero reason firebenders would be an issue at any point unless the comet is around. The sand Black person benders would've been as tough as water benders since that's also all over the place.
Fire benders reached the industrial revolution first. That's why they were more powerful. Not because of fire bending combat.
Fire bending had nothing to do with the Fire Nation winning the war
The war was won on a strategic level, the Fire Nation up to that point had centuries of peace and prosperity, while the Earth Kingdom was growing more and more decentralized and corrupt
While a city like Ba Sing Se was extremely wealthy, it had nothing in innovation, with the city still running on basic labor and earth bending, while the fire nation had mostly evolved past bending as a necessary means of warfare, using coal powered ships to traverse the seas quickly and tanks that could protect its benders inside
>Fire bending had nothing to do with the Fire Nation winning the war
the show literally mentions serveral times how the komet increased their firebending power and how they ware able to start the war because of this
The comet was to genocide the air nomads and prevent a pesky avatar from interfering with the war
We're obviously talking about a non-avatar situation, which is what most of the 100 years war was, and why the Fire Nation easily crippled and dominated the Earth Kingdom
>the Fire Nation easily crippled and dominated the Earth Kingdom
they weren't able to take the earth kingdom down for a whole century but sure
yeah because at the end of the day the earth kingdom is gigantic with a huge population
and despite that couldnt fend off the fire nation at all
some homie in the kyoshi books basically does this, his signature move is just burying people alive, no fighting required. but people see that as cheating and dishonorable in a fighting sense, and very bad in a spiritual sense because youre giving people a shameful death. so they look down on cheap moves like that.
in a universe where you KNOW spirituality is real and that there is an after life you have to be a real sadistic SOB to disregard all that & kill people by burying them alive.
There is no afterlife. Everyone reincarnates and the spirit world is literally just a world for random energy beings. If you're spiritual enough you can project your soul out of your body and stay that way past death but you don't automatically go to the spirit world by dying
>Everyone reincarnates
>the population stays always the same
even without going full edgelord earth would still be the best from a realistic standpoint since you can essentially make infinite defenses with it fast and easy
>trying to move an army across an area, well to bad there or an ungoldy amount of concealed pits
>just breached an area, well to bad because they just made a new one asap, or it was a trap and now a huge part of your force is stuck without any help
>just built something, well to bad because if its made out a rock it got ruined by sabatoge, and if you go the extra mile and make it out of something they can't bend they just frick over the foundation so your expensive building is still fricked
unironically the fire nation had the biggest plot armor in the show to be winning to begin with
did you even watch the series? everything in the "bending" universe is in decline spiritually speaking. that's the real reason fire benders are ascendant.
fire has the least connections to spiritualism so they become ascendant in a time where spirits are weakened. the other powers are strong wrt spiritual connections and become weakened as the spiritual and material world's links dissolve.
the whole series is an elaborate plea for people to get more in touch with their spirituality.
Where in the show does it talk about fire being the least reliant on spirituality? In real life (where the inspiration for the show comes from) fire and air are higher in the spiritual hierarchy than earth and water.
It doesn't. If anything it's earth that tends to have the least spirituality. If he means the Fire nation lacking spirit rather than the element then he's right
>Where in the show does it talk about fire being the least reliant on spirituality?
the part where their avatar was the weakest despite literally having avatar powers?
the part where they don't have a fire spirit unlike water benders who still have a literal water god in their home town.
the part where aang struggles to learn fire bending despite air/water/earth bending coming relatively easily to him(it's a hint about descending hierarchies of connection to the spirit world)
the part where in the second avatar storyline fire bending remains unaffected whilst every other form of bending has mutated into more efficient less connected to their spiritual root forms?
You made nearly all of that up. Why?
Aang was adept at firebending until he hurt Kamara and shut himself off from it
>the part where their avatar was the weakest despite literally having avatar powers?
Saw no evidence of this at all.
>the part where they don't have a fire spirit unlike water benders who still have a literal water god in their home town.
It's a moon spirit, and it doesn't automatically convey superior strength to water benders. The moon itself empowers them, but firebenders similarly draw strength from the sun. Zuko himself said as much.
>the part where aang struggles to learn fire bending
No he took to it easily like he did water bending. The one he struggled with was earth because it was so contrary to his personality. His hangups with firebending only came after hurting Katara accidentally with it.
>the part where in the second avatar storyline fire bending remains unaffected whilst every other form of bending has mutated into more efficient less connected to their spiritual root forms
I have no idea what you're talking about.
Air and water seem to be the most spiritual
Water benders could just twist your intestines out.
Airbenders could just keep you from breathing if they wanted
Firebenders are the real weaklings.
Nah they'd also get a buff. They could just burn people to death.
Airbenders could also create pressure/vacuums to kill people
Nonbenders could also do a lot more damage
Id say waterbenders would actually benefit the least from 18+ avatar if you stick to the shows rules and say body fluids cant be messed with outside of full moon. Although they DO still have ice spikes
Thats such a lazy excuse for something the writers simply didnt consider or cba to tackle. Same with the "forbidden" lightsaber technique where you quickly switch off and on the lightsaber mid-fight. As if anyone would care about whats dishonorable in a life/death scenario
drill baby drill!
testicular torsion bending
holy shit they can twist intestines out?
stop breathing!?
omg omg!?
*blasts with lightning in less than a second*
>Firebenders are the real weaklings.
>extracts heat from your body
Nothing personnel
With fire you can manipulate heat, which means you manipulate heat transfer and with that you can manipulate entropy itself.
Have fun bending when all your body heat is ripped out of you
Losing body heat does not have an immediate risk of death like losing oxygen or intestines does.
>airbenders remove all oxygen surrounding you or just crush your lungs
The most OP element is air
Yes.
Flying air benders would explode earth benders' lungs from afar, they would be untouchable.
Common benders maybe. But if uou mean elite v elite not sure how you can top bloodbenders
The reality is that anyone who strikes first will basically instawin
>earthbenders can just suck you into the ground like they did with katara that one episode
>waterbenders can just bend the pee out of your bladder instantly causing you immense pain and then drown you
>airbanders can just throw you into the air a hundred feet
>firebenders can just set you on fire
>earthbenders can just suck you into the ground like they did with katara that one episode
My thoughts exactly when i recently rewatched that scene. Why dont earth benders use that move more? Its so OP.
the answer ofc is that the creators want to keep bending diverse and interesting
Theres actually quite a few plotholes like that. Eg. Why doesnt aang just fly his friends out of the desert? Its shown in a later episode that the glider can carry at least 2 other people.
Again, from a storytelling standpoint it makes sense, from a story point not so much.
Still a kino show tho
Yeah you basically just have to leave the magic system alone because if you try to inspect it too hard you'll just end up with all of these silly showending questions. There's no point
Just relax and enjoy the fight scenes for the kino that they are
how do you even navigate in a desert?
if you ever did get out, how do you intent to find your friends again on the journey back?
Stars
I thought about Firebenders being able to take away your body heat, slowing watching you die from the cold
Also earthbenders can form kidney stones if they want to.
Airbenders can take out the air from your lungs.
waterbenders can make you wet yourself and cum prematurely
Oh no don't cumbend me ahhhh nooooo
haha imagine how terrible this would be if Katara did this
you mean water bending and then blood bending.
The creators recently elaborated a bit more on the mechanics of bending, and essentially it comes down to overpowering the opponets "chi field", which is high level benders like Aang can shrug off bloodbending from the best bloodbender in the world and why Amon is able to block other benders. So in theory, it's partly the element you use but also the power of the chi you put in said element.
>high level benders like Aang can shrug off bloodbending from the best bloodbender in the world
He was completely under Hama's control during the puppet episode though. It was only Katara's intervention that saved him.
I think he's referring to a scene in legend of korra
Which we shouldn't take as canon ofc
A sufficiently skilled fire bender (lightning user) is the strongest. No one is dodging lightning. No one is blocking lightning. Azula could snipe Toph with lightning from a mile away and Toph would literally never see it coming.
She is literally grounded
I don't claim to be a scientist or whatever but I'm pretty sure people who get struck by lightning and die were standing on the ground when it happened.
that doesn't help with the internal burns at all
Metal bend to conduct electricity to ground away from your body. Done.
Also never understood why lightning is fire and not air in this show.
lightning makes sense for both fire and air benders since it's kinda both, basically just heated air
>Also never understood why lightning is fire and not air in this show.
air benders getting electricity would have been really fun
Because firebending was the bending of heat and energy in the show
Besides, it wouldn't have meshed well at all with the peaceful monk shit the air nomads had going on
>She is literally grounded
Lmao.
Electric engineering is my passion.
That's the problem
Being grounded means that a current will flow through you into THE GROUND
It's the lack of a ground that allows someone to survive even high voltage, high current electrical sources. Birds can chill in telephone/ power lines because they're not grounded
lightning bending is pretty loud in the show, and requires some locked-in channeling
earth benders could do the same with earth bullets with way less downsides, and be more mobile
>No one is dodging lightning. No one is blocking lightning
I think you might be moronic, bro. Both of these things happened multiple times in the TV show.
The guy I was responding to said in real life, not according to the show logic.
>Toph would literally never see it coming
Nice one.
I love Toph so much, bros
I've been rewatching TLA and Aang really does make airbending seem the most powerful. If he wasn't a monk focused on defensive and non-lethal applications of airbending he'd be a monster with airbending alone.
BRAT CORRECTION
but how? dunk her in some water?
Earth and Air are definitely the strongest elements.
The Fire, the Water.
Lightning might bump Fire above Air.
Surely Water BTFOs everything?
There's tons of water in the air and in the ground, and it's the majority of the contents of every living thing. It's a lot better at killing than air since it's effectively incompressible and will cut far better than gasses, and it's easier to form than earth and found in many more places. I agree that fire is the worst, even lightning sucks because a decent water or earth bender can frick with it since you could just conduct it away very easily before it hit you.
Earthbenders can just snipe you from a mile away.
shooting ice isn't nowhere near as effective as pebbles, let alone metal. Surrounding yourself in earth armor makes you near invincible through normal means of combat including bending.
Earthbenders can theoretically make all kinds of utility in seconds including guns.
All 4 elements become equally deadly at close range if there are restrictions on bending molecules through solids
Anon they use water to cut stone and steel IRL. People shoot through armored tanks and concrete all the time, but no one shoots submarines through water that's why they need to use torpedoes and mines instead of bullets. Water is the strongest material known to man, and you can just fill up their rock armor and drown them.
Water is the strongest.
>but no one shoots submarines through water.
You think a few squaremeter of water will stop a bullet?
You think the water legionaire army walks with swimming pools of shield armor?
Even if a water bender could generate enough pressure to cut with water, you can only do that at very short ranges. At mid or long range an earthbender becomes untouchable. They also have the option to submerge into the ground.
They could make their armor air tight momentarily closing any openings when they see a water bender trying anything.
Only Airbenders could be a danger to them because of their mobility and potential ability to make ones lungs explode.
>You think a few squaremeter of water will stop a bullet?
Yes, but a grid-like mesh would be most effective. A bullet going at mach 2 hitting water is equivalent to water hitting metal at mach 2, and we know from water jet cutters that the metal will yield easily. Water is incredibly dense, which is why they use to to shield nuclear reactors since even lead is not good enough. Water is used on the international space station to absorb micrometeorite impacts going at 22,000mph. There is nothing water cannot stop, it is impenetrable. The only reason we don't use it on tanks is that we can't waterbend it around the tank as armor so we have to make do with solids. Even then, you can just blow bullets away with air (and therefore water), which is the basis of reactive armor.
Water is the strongest.
what cuts things in a fancy water jet is the grit being launched by the water, not the water itself
>They could make their armor air tight momentarily closing any openings when they see a water bender trying anything.
But how can they make their bodies water tight? A water bender could just pull the piss right out of them and aim it down their throat, drowning them.
>They also have the option to submerge into the ground
Into the ground... with the ground water? There is always water underneath you, even ancient people knew this. An earthbender submerging themselves only brings them closer to the instrument of their doom, the aquifers and water table of death.
Some other anon posted this years ago on Cinemaphile but yea earthbenders are OP because all it takes are 3 of them and you have basically crippled an entire nation's FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN.
>sneak three of them into occupied territory, or even smuggle them onto the Fire Nation islands
>have them target farms and grain silos
>upturn the tilled earth, landslide the rice paddies
>within a month the entire Fire Nation is on the verge of a society-collapsing famine
Behold: The Black person wienererino 5000
They stole the drill designs from the Machinist
>stole
He was designing it for them just like everything else he made. He was a collaborator
Should have been shot.
God, what a fantastic show. How many kid's shows explore the idea of a collaborator by making him actually sympathetic and having the characters confront the issue?
>stole
That wienersucker designed it specifically for them.
after it came
[*distant yell of "My cabbages!" heard*]
me exactly 2 seconds into sex with Korra
Might want to delete this, bro. She's a minor.
only in the first season, guy
Man, I really dislike her show for what it did to the lore, but god damn is she one hot ass eskimo girl. She might actually beat out Katara for me in some frames.
>She might actually beat out Katara
no. especially not with her personality
Meh. Both were headstrong, occasionally whiny, and independent brown girls. The real difference is that Korra had a great rack and magnificent armpits, while Katara had powerful 5head hebe energy.
I understand pitgays even less than footgays.
Korra is too muscular/masuline for my taste. also, she's a spoiled unlikeable b***h
Condolences for your shit taste, anon.
Her personality ruins her design but women who look like her irl are a rare gem
You have no idea what an aphrodisiac it is to dominate a normally wienery, arrogant and sometimes even girlbossy woman and have them reduced to the usual keening mess most women are, except it's more of a challenge with these ones
I'm not a pitgay but this one muscle girl I got with milked me with her armpit, it was weird and I hope it didn't give me any horrid fetishes
>You have no idea what an aphrodisiac it is to dominate a normally wienery, arrogant and sometimes even girlbossy woman and have them reduced to the usual keening mess
this isn't something for me but I understand it now better, thanks
I didn't think it was for me either until this girl I knew got aggressive with me
Eventually overpowering her admittedly impressive strength and start fricking her without fear of being too aggressive was and is still fricking insane, best part is I could raw dog her as she was so ripped she didn't have periods anymore
b***h even tried to sit on my face for me to eat her out but I threw her on her back and seized her by her nicely toned thighs and went to town with her squirming and whining like any other woman would. They can be as varbie as they like, they're still women. And she was a good friend.
>so ripped she didn't have periods anymore
Jesus how much testosterone did she take?
I don't actually know, honest to god swear she was natty at least when it came to drugs
I know I said varbie but she didn't take that anivar shit nor any hormones or steroids, she was a very high metabolism farm girl. She looked half muscular half skeletal, it was a really weird combination. Imagine a muscular Kiera Knightley at the POTC premier
Thin shoulders, well defined muscles, very lean rather than massive
She could fricking benchpress me though.
>milked me with her armpit
>i hope it didnt give me any fetishes
Anon.. it's too late... you've already lost
Get yourself a pitbawd gf asap
NO
IT WASN'T MY FAULT
WE CAME BACK FROM RUNNING AND I LICKED IT DURING SEX
IT SMELLED LIKE HER, SHE THOUGHT I WAS A PITgay
You are
You ARE a pitgay
Accept your fate
>b-but I'm not! What you want for me is not my destiny
What I want? Boy, there is no "I". There is no "want". There is only what is and what will be. And yours is to be a pitgay
It is written in the stars
this movie was so ass
Imagine being filtered by the northman of all things
It was shit
Well, when the arms are raised, the armpits frame the chest area nicely and accentuate all of those natural curves in the upper body. The armpits are also a great source of natural pheromones, and you'd have led a sad existence as a straight man not to be even slightly turned on by the scent of a woman's sweat.
>Well, when the arms are raised, the armpits frame the chest area nicely and accentuate all of those natural curves in the upper body.
yeah I can get behind that
>natural pheromones
no such thing for humans
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK200980/
>woman's sweat
even if there are human pheromones, they don't have to smell bad
I love everything about (non-ugly) women, and that include theirs pits and feets and behind their ears and of course everything else
"she" looks like a man.
excuse me
>posts a pic that shows her more feminine than the show did
my apolo-cheese
I want to cuddle Korra
She's not canon, anon. She doesn't exist.
>iwn be able to afford augmented reality so I can render an AI hologram of Korra next to me in skimpy outfit
She's a cartoon
A cartoon that's of legal age in the vast majority of places on earth also, btw
out of 10
Is that a Mecha dunc sand worm?
GIGA DURIRU?
ENGINEERED FOR COMPLIANCE
Season One is the best and I'm tired of pretending it's not.
the outfits were the best in S3
is this dunc
Yes. Paul wants his bison back.
cigarette
LEAN IN THE CUP
HE GOT NO HOES
LIKE FRAGILE STYOFOME
DRIFTING IN THE WOCK
Amerikkkaner posting would ruin this board
It's just zoomer brainrot.
Precisely what would stop the Earth Kingdom from slicing off about a 50' chunk off the top of their 1000' wall and drop it like a meteor on this drill?
Being an earth bender comes with the unfortunate side effect of making the person inflexible and stubborn, they would never think to do it and even if they did they wouldn’t
Benders seem to have a power limit so you'd need really strong benders and even then their energy isn't infinite.
Is that a BBC?
Wtf, I literally just watched this last night
And yea, the episode ends in a massive cumshot after the drill penetrates the wall
BIG BLACK DRILL
The earthbenders should have easily been able to stop the drill. Not by throwing rocks at it, but simply by pulling away the ground underneath it, making it impossible to get any traction and leaving it immobile.
or by creating a canyon which the drill can't cross
No, because then the avatar would have to help the drill cross it but not bring food, and the whole episode would end in a lame moral about working together with people you hate and who hate you.
youre the single most dysgenic person alive what fricking show were you watching
I understood what he was referring to.
Do people really not like this episode? Even the creators made fun of it in the ember island players. I thought it was kino
It was fine. Just poking fun
gay show for gays
I would like to inform you that Netflix Appa has a wiener and ass
>no balls
he was neutered so that he doesn't rape momo
internal like an elephant perhaps?
Wait til you see the cumshot
>spirit creature
>has a skeleton
frick off
its so that the muscles move correctly frickface
GET OUT OF MY COMPUTER I JUST WATCHED THIS EPISOD WHAT THE FUC GET OUT GET OUT OUT GET OOOOOOOOOUT
are you mad about the mechanics or the full penetration
There is no war in ba sing se
idk they made an animated adaptation of dune
why didnt they just fly over the walls?
They fly now?
>get annihilated by giant boulders
Flying technology was just recently discovered by them, their flying machines were probably still under construction at that point and azula didnt want to wait.
same reason the hobbits didn't just fly to mordor
The earth nazgul?
exactly
Because the drill was never the plan. The Kyoshi warrior infiltration plan was
why didn't they just open a tea shop?
why didn't they just nuke the wall?
ribbed for her pleasure
Love how people shit on the giant mecha, but a giant drill is somehow fine.
>believable but extravagant tech for the time
>moronic and out of nowhere mech that had no logical basis for existing
>an actual design that makes sense
>the avatar, but giant and a blue sprit
>cringe, but enemies becoming friends is kino
>yuri cringe that only happened because of fan pandering
>falling for the bait
>series b***hes about Aang's attachments in preventing him from achieving god mode to defeat final boss
>gets violated by a rock that automatically triggers god mode to defeat final boss easily
>series b***hes about Aang not wanting to kill anyone, including final boss
>suddenly activates new bending ability so no need to kill final boss
The voice acting, animation, and aesthetics hard carried the original show.
The turt teaching him to energy bend is asspulley and the show would have benefited from this being set up more and expanded upon
I actually have a long from idea of how I would do it when I inevitably get my live action adaption that will do justice to the show and be kino through and through
I may write it here if anyone is intrested in my autistic ramblings
The rock hit to the back activating his avatar state because that's where he got shot by azula originally locking it is a great move and perfect even if it is an ass pull. It's the type of coincidence that is essentially destiny, which the show is all about
Frick it, I'll do it
>maintain the light tone of the cartoon in the early seasons. Only gets darker progressively
>at about the start of book 2 (s3) Aang really starts to grow up, but he's having alot of trouble coming to terms with his actions
>specifically all of the people he's hurting, and sometimes even killing (specifically when he was koizilla, he's not an outright murderer, it's a war)
>he maintiains his outward optimism, but has constant pains about his actions and how they go against what he was raised to believe
>learns about lion turtles very early on, also, from some innocuous scoruce. Not much, just the name
>all of his frustration at his action comes to a head when Appa is bisonnapped. He straight up starts attacking the sandbenders before katara pulls him out of the avatar state
>just before this, though, in the library, he comes across a scroll or whatever that talks not just about lion turtles, but energy bending itself
>>look at this cool lion turtle thing, katata! Energy bending? What's that?
>the scroll says the exact lines that the lion turtle told him and shows him the stance to take. Aang at this point is given all the information that the original cartoon gave him
>leave this to grow inside him as an idea, just as his own perceived crimes and guilt are festering inside him
>show proceeds as normal, with Aang getting worse and worse on the inside, not able to come to terms with what he's done, what he's doing, and what he'll have to do. In book 3 (s5 and 6) when he outright meets masters and stuff like piandao or Iroh (this is a whole other thing that I've changed) he straight up asks them what they know, if anything, about energy bending or lion turtles. He asks the the hidden firebender people, too, maybe even the dragons idk.
>no one is able to give him information beyond that they're mythical and super ancient
>still, over this time Aang is caught multiple times in secret trying to energy bend
>>That's not earthbending, twinkletoes. What are you doing??
>eventually Aang asks Sokka to let him try energy bending on him. It doesn't work. Again, at this point he knows "how" to do it, meaning he knows the stance and that your own will must be unbendable, but he can't do it and doesn't exactly know what it means to do it
>things get heated when he is confronted by the Gaang about not wanting to kill Ozai. They all think there genuinely is no other choice. Sokka brings up that he's killed people before and this infuriates Aang, obviously, because he's right and it breaks his heart that he's done something so outside of his beliefs, even if it was in war or self defense
>as the finale begins, Aang decides that he has to go find a LionTurtBro. He's not mysteriously called away, he actively goes looking for one where he assumes they would be, in the ocean. Tall order, but still.
>He's caught by Zuko as he's leaving
>>can't sleep?
>>>I have to find something. Someone, I think... I have to go
>>don't worry, Aang. I wont chase you this time lol
>>>I won't kill your father
>>I would understand it if you did
>>>I won't kill him
>>...okay
>>>will you tell the others-
>>I'll tell them you had to leave, don't worry-
>>>no... Tell them I love them. And I love you, too, Zuko (this is NOT gay, this is brotherly shut the frick up)
>>I'm not sure I deserve that-
>Aang goes in for a hug and thanks Zuko for teaching him firebending and for being his friend
>Aang and momo fly off in search of the lionturtbro. After much looking he lands on an island which he doesnt realize IS the lionturtbro
>still has his chat with the previous avatars and they all say the same thing they normally do. "Lmao killem' don't be a pussy"
>island starts moving
>Aang finally found the lionturtbro
>he goes and speaks to him, pours out his heart
>>I've hurt so many people.(action) And so many have been hurt because of me.(inaction, his guilt over his cowardice of running away)
>>I've betrayed everything I believe in. I can't kill another person. I can't end this war. I can't... everyone tells me that Ozai deserves doesn't deserve to live after what he's done. But if he doesn't, do I? I need your help! Please! If there's anything-
YOU CAN FORGIVE OTHERS... YOU MUST LEARN TO FORGIVE YOURSELF
>the lionturtbro touches him on the forehead and chest
>Aang falls backwards
>through the air
>through the water
>through the earth
>through the fire
>repeating the same cycle visually over and over again, first in panic, in fear, in tears, with flashbacks of his actions and everything he's done
>hurting others, running away from his responsibility, accidentally burning Katara, deliberately killing that one buzzard wasp when he was pissed off that Appa was stolen, almost killing the sandbenders out of rage
>he keeps cycling through the elements, falling through the air, drowning, being buried alive, burning to death
>pain
>suffering
>sorrow
>he begins to remember all the good he's done
>all the people he's helped, the people that wouldn't be alive if it wasn't for him being there
>the north that he saved, the villages he protected, every good thing he's done
>the cycles repeat and each set of four corresponds with a different chakra and emotion he's working through, like a rapid fire verison of the training he went through with guru patik which he never finished
>he calms down but still goes through the cycles, with lighter, more joyous emotions, signaling that he's gotten through his pain
>the final cycle
>he is content
>falling through air, water, earth, fire
>content
>he wakes up on the beach with sozins comet above him
>he laughs and cries, pure catharsis. He's forgiven himself for what he's done. He's come to terms with his actions. He's ready to forgive Ozai.
>Momo flys down and lands on his chest
>Aang hugs him and tells him he's ready
>final battle proceeds
>Aang's avatar state is activated by the rock hitting his back
>he defeats Ozai outright
>the final confrontation is the same
OZAAIHHH (YOU) AND YOURE FIREBlack folk HAVE DEVASTATED THE BALANCE OF THIS WORLD. AND NOW YOU SHALL PAY THE U L T I M A T E PRICE!!!1!!
>then he stops
>>no. I won't end it like this. I won't kill you.
>>>even with all the power in the world, you're still WEAK
>Aang locks Ozai's arms down and enters the energy bending stance
>his own will is unbendable
>Ozai's firebending is stripped away
>Aang found another way to win the war. He found it himself. The aid he was given was being taught how to become unbendable, which is by true understanding of who you are. Him forgiving himself was the key to him knowing who he was, and THAT is what allowed him to energy bend
Thanks for reading my fanfiction
When I inevitability get the rights to Korra, I'll fix that show by combining Amon and Zaheer into one villian, who is an airbender descendant from an escaped and hidden airbender group of kids that was spared by some low ranking firenation soldier. They hid among the earthkingdom and never learned how to bend, but their children still had the genetics of it. Amonzaheer is a descendant but also hates bending because he actually believes in korra amon's philosophy for real. He learned, through study and sheer force of will how to actually energy bend. His will is unbreakable because he fricking hates bending THAT much and wants to end all bending because benders destroyed his ancestors or whatever. It gets more complicated than that but he's actually an intresting villan and wont be thrown away like heckin amon was in the cartoon
What do you guys think?
>I'll fix that show by combining Amon and Zaheer into one villian
For me it's Bumi secretly being Amon because he's seething over the fact that he's the firstborn son and can't carry on his father's air bending legacy. Nobody suspects the goofy nice guy of being the masked villain. Maybe he's an energy bender experimenting on benders so he can eventually learn how to steal Tenzin's powers.
that's pretty good, Anon. the only thing is, that Aang would have to do worse things than he did in the show for him to be this distressed. he is never really shown to kill someone, not even in self defense (they don't show anyone dying at all IIRC). the worst thing he did was to accientally burn Katara, which is understandable, since it's a show which 6 year olds are supposed to be able to watch.
TLDR: I think your approach is maybe even better than the show's, but would require it to get too dark
Yeah, i understand that, and it would get dark
Specifically he would end up killing tons of firenation soldiers during the koizilla rampage. He would also kill in self defense outright once or twice, or probably in defense of his friends is more fitting. My version would of course have a darker tone, but I will in the end bring it back to optimism and goodness. Aang would genuinely forgive himself for his actions because they ARE against his belief, BUT he would understand that they were necessary to correct the balance of the world. One thing I forgot to mention, is that somehow it'll be conveyed at the end that Aang WOULD actually kill Ozai if he needed to in order to stop the war, but the irony is that the very fact that he would do it is what allows him to be able to not do it
Thanks for saying you like it, anon
If I spent this much time at 4am working on my own book instead of a fanfiction half shitpost, I would be rich by now
, over this time Aang is caught multiple times in secret trying to energy bend
How would he physically be seen doing that? Unless there's a spirit beam being shot at him or a willing volunteer, he can't energybend himself, projecting another avatar to do it to him aside)
maybe if they didn't made the cgi mech bipedal, the size of a mountain with laser cannons, then you might be able to take this thing sersious
The drill is stupidly oversize but other than this something that already exists for a century
are so many long videos that go into plenty of detail as to why korra is hot fricking garbage trash. this pic is moronic
Everything changed when the fire nation attacked
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so how did the firenation destroy the airbenders when they didn't have anything to fly up to the temples with?
The climbed and used bridges.
shut up
>5556
deserved
They used fire
Avatar is poorly written slop.
yeah netflix should've stayed closer to the animated series
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King Kong-sized Black Compliance Engine
korra my beloved...
Dunno how schizo like you can be attracted to shit characters
So, now we're talking bout korra.
So she killed the dark avatar, korra's spirit was killed but then it came back.. ..so logically.. ..the dark avatar cycle has begun a new..
..which means the next avatar could see the dark avatar reappear.. ..hell, korra could give birth to the dark avatar and everyone believe she's a mircle only for it to not be so.
>So, now we're talking bout korra.
No, we're not. Korragays need to go to hell where they belong.
MMMMMMMMMMMMM SHAI HULUD
You're not gonna believe who they just added to Fortnite
>Toph's morning turd after mastering metalbending
Fire nation katara is peak sexo
Not a fan of her hair style in that, but I like how all the girls' boobs kept growing into season 3. Even Toph was starting to bud.
I was annoyed when it was revealed Zaheer tried to kidnap child Korra to raise her to be his anarchist avatar soldier. That sounded like a way cooler show than the one we got.
ebil Avatar would make a lot of sense and is an interesting concept, though it would inevitably turn into a become a good guy story.
Korra successfully destroyed any room for such a thing unless they perform some incredibliy revisionists gymnastic.
Not like I expect anything good ever come out of this franchise now
Does fire ending have any use other than fighting
Manually powering an electrical plant like in Kora is dumb
cooking and lighting torches
maybe ritualistically cremating their dead too
Get around in hot air balloons
No heating needed
No electricity bills for cooking
If you’re good enough you can fly for a bit like Azula did
Always have a lighter on you
No evidence if you commit arson
Heat up spoon and make people catch it to give them the ol spicy spoon
>Heat up spoon and make people catch it to give them the ol spicy spoon
t. Dominic the rat
Boil water
sanitation and cauterizing wounds
Why is it dumb? It encapsulates the decline of spirituality and subjugating it to industrialization and material greed.
If you can manipulate temperature itself like sozin did, you basically become God
you can reduce nearly all advanced human technology to the function of boiling water to spin a turbine
fire benders are walking perpetual motion machines
Katara midriff
Lord Ozai did nothing wrong.
>muh 6 gorillion Airbenders
It is all a hoax.
If they had airships why did they need to make a hole in the wall
so this is a cartoon that's supposedly for adults? ok
You know it’s crazy how much use the fire lord got out of Azula. She piloted a fricking tank for him