Poll: If you could bend one element, what would it be?

[stiver]

Well, Water is made up of two elements (oxygen and hydrogen), the air is made up of multiple elements (nitrogen, oxygen, carbon, argon etc.), Fire isn't an element, just a chemical reaction and "earth" is just variations between sand, clay and silt, encompassing a wide variety of elements making controlling just one pretty pointless.

I'd control hydrogen, as it is the most populous element in the universe.

/chemistry geek

You fail. Don't overanalyze the question. Just answer it. Would you rather control Water, Earth, Air, or Fire?

I see you were born without a sense of humor.

and obviously fire, being able to burn this is awesome.

 

[Captain_Caveman]

Earth. I'd open up my own excavation company and make a fortune. Then i would fly to the moon and draw a big smiley face on it.

 

[ironmace2.0]

my reason also

 

[Booze Zombie]

I would bend the element of awesome! But seriously... fire.

 

[ironmace2.0]

This has nothing to do with the post but I like your pic

 

[GyroCaptain]

Gold-pressed latinum!

Tempted to say fire, but on the other hand, there's flying to be had....

Ooh, what if advanced waterbending meant shapeshifting? Fleshbending? This is not to mention the appeal of tunneling at high rates of speed with earth.

Going with a coin toss between air and fire: came up air.

 

[Entropy_kC]

You fail. Don't overanalyze the question. Just answer it. Would you rather control Water, Earth, Air, or Fire?

That's a fail if I ever saw one.

I'd go with air, for travelling purposes. If we're talking about real life, I don't know why everyone wants a power that can kill people... are you all psychopaths or something?

 

[Bagaloo]

I'd go with air, for the agility in movement it would offer.
Flying, jumping insanely high and running at incredible speeds would be fun.

 

[Sgt. Dante]

Actually...firebenders create and bend fire, not just bend it. If I could bend fire, I'd never be without something to bend. I could shoot fire from my hands or create and indefinitely sustain a flame in the palm of my hands. Hell, I could even create a 10 foot long fire dragon and make it soar through the air.

As for the water shields, yea, you could protect yourself from bullets and even make ice shields or highly pressurized water shields, but it would take more time and concentration than just raising a 6+ foot thick 20+ foot high wall of stone. You'd have to suck the water from people and then bring it to you, shape it, and then pressurize it. And unless you want to have to hold it in place indefinitely, you'd need to freeze it as well.

Creating a pressureised flask of water and keeping it handy wouldn't be difficult, and bending the water would take no more time than creating your fire dragon. THat said have you been outside lately? it's not rained in days and the plants are still green and the ground is still damp, there are gallons of water within a few feet of me, so even if you could create somethin from nothing with the firebending it's just as easy for a water bender to use their talent. plus, throw in a little rotation and you could create a small mealstrom, these can tear people apart relatively easily.

And as I said before if you were to earth bend you would have to take the material from around you, that might lead to leaving large holes in the ground that could make things difficult. especially if you wanted to make a 120Foot^2 (6x20 feet) wall, that's alot of dirt that would no longer be underneath you. Water wouldn't have that problem, no matter how much of it you used you could shoot it upwards after you're finished and the air displacement would simply allow it to fall as rain for a short while.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

Fire. If someone pisses me off I could light up a flare in my hand and have them back down. It would be a whole lot of fun to burn things. But then again, firebenders are evil...

Airbending would also rock. This is a hard decision...

 

[ShameSpear]

Fire. Because it's fun to be flashy, and nothing is more awe-inspiring than being able to create a giant fireball. I'd learn to do tricks with my fireball. Oh, we'd have sooo much fun together.

 

[Eipok Kruden]

You fail. Don't overanalyze the question. Just answer it. Would you rather control Water, Earth, Air, or Fire?

That's a fail if I ever saw one.

I'd go with air, for travelling purposes. If we're talking about real life, I don't know why everyone wants a power that can kill people... are you all psychopaths or something?

My thoughts exactly. Everyone seems to want to kill people. I picked fire because it has the most day-to-day applications and it means I'd never, ever, get beat up or mugged.

Fire:Move all heat away from someone, freeze those suckers. Waterbenders just got schooled.
Air: Can't breathe without air? Can't fire without oxygen!
Water: People are full of water, none of the this 'bloodbending' stuff, just suck the water straight out of them and you win.
Earthbending: Gravel Machine-gun, need i say more?

Apply some imagination, and the whole thing becomes an amusing exercise in 'killkillkillkill'.

Airbending all the way, being able to blow someone's eyes, ears and lungs out with air pressure kind of kicks ass. Also, flying rules. Firebenders are then also rendered as threatening as a blunt penknife, as is any other thing that likes to breath.

If I could bend fire, I'd be able to create a vortex of fire around someone (or a group of someone's) and suck the air out of the space in between.

 

[Internet Kraken]

Water

Controlling Water essentially gives you the ability to kill anybody you want. After all humans are about 75% water.

 

[RetiarySword]

Earth, purely because everything what man uses comes from the ground. I get Earth, rock, mud, sand, metal, etc.

 

[TUNNEL_SNAKES_RULE]

I picked fire,although I had wished silicon was a choice...

 

[Donbett1974]

Water is pretty much everywhere so there is no need to worry about finding it to bend.

 

[InvisibleMilk]

Earth, definitley. It'd just be so great, shooting a diagnol slice of earth at people, launching them up high.

 

[Eipok Kruden]

Creating a pressureised flask of water and keeping it handy wouldn't be difficult, and bending the water would take no more time than creating your fire dragon. THat said have you been outside lately? it's not rained in days and the plants are still green and the ground is still damp, there are gallons of water within a few feet of me, so even if you could create somethin from nothing with the firebending it's just as easy for a water bender to use their talent. plus, throw in a little rotation and you could create a small mealstrom, these can tear people apart relatively easily.

And as I said before if you were to earth bend you would have to take the material from around you, that might lead to leaving large holes in the ground that could make things difficult. especially if you wanted to make a 120Foot^2 (6x20 feet) wall, that's alot of dirt that would no longer be underneath you. Water wouldn't have that problem, no matter how much of it you used you could shoot it upwards after you're finished and the air displacement would simply allow it to fall as rain for a short while.

No, I haven't been "outside" lately. I live in Los Angeles. There isn't much ground and there isn't much water in that ground either. I guess you could tap into water pipes underneath the ground, but you'd have to know where all the pipes are and you'd have to pick your fights carefully.

 

[Cowabungaa]

Water. H20 is everywhere, it's in every living creature, it's spread thinly in the air around you. There are barely any places where the air humidity is 0%, and when it's higher then 0% you can extract water from the air. If not you can just extract it from living tissue. Flowers, insects, animals, you name it.
it's next to Earth the most flexible element to bend (water walls, ice shields, fast movement, ice projecticles, you name it). But I don't need it: I can just let people explode, drain all their blood out of them. Much more effective then trying to smash them with a rock or set them on fire. Plus it's way more gruesome, and they can't defend themselfs against if. It's just POOF SPLUT dead. Awesome...*grins*

No, I haven't been "outside" lately. I live in Los Angeles. There isn't much ground and there isn't much water in that ground either. I guess you could tap into water pipes underneath the ground, but you'd have to know where all the pipes are and you'd have to pick your fights carefully.

O no, as I sad, your enemy is FULL of water. Makes the fight pretty easy for a water bender.

 

[Sgt. Dante]

*snip*

No, I haven't been "outside" lately. I live in Los Angeles. There isn't much ground and there isn't much water in that ground either. I guess you could tap into water pipes underneath the ground, but you'd have to know where all the pipes are and you'd have to pick your fights carefully.

Suppose it's a matter of Geography, living in scotland it rains for over 40% of the year, to get a week without rain is a bloody miracle.

But yeah, even in a city water pipe run under most streets and up most walls, plus surely you would be able to sense where the water was, making it easier to find.