bliebblob said:
Veldie said:
bliebblob said:
Catie Caraco said:
bliebblob said:
Hmmm water is tempting since it's pretty overpowered (ask me why, I dare you
) But earth or fire suit my personality more. On the other hand, airbending lets you effin fly! So any bending would be great really, I'm not picky
Off topic: you know how earthbenders get metalbending and firebenders get lightning? I wonder what airbenders would get...
Waterbenders can also get bloodbending, though I suppose you could also say they ice bend if you don't want to go the evil route. I don't think Airbenders get anything else though, which kinda sucks for them.
The way I see it, they probably DID have one or two special forms of airbending. But everyone who could use it/teach it was wiped out during ozai's airbender extermination. So it's left to our own imagination what their special bending could have been. So far I got: soundbending, tornadobending and poison gas bending lol.
Soundbending I see as plausible, Tornadobending seems to much of the same as Aaang had made near tornadoes and such. As for poisonbending I can't see it as the Air Nomads where not fighters but lovers of peace and would thus have no need for it.
Agreed on every account. It was just throwing around some ideas based on what may be possible, not on what would make sense canonically. Although, for all we know there may have been rogue tribes of airbenders who did not agree with the monk philosophy. So they left the temples and developed poison gas bending.
Wow this is fanfic writing itself right here isn't it?
The only really interesting suggesstion there is sound bending.. although technically, all those "higher forms of bending" are just basic bending to an extreme degree, and if an Air bender can feasibly pull a tornado out of his ass, I don't think it matters too much what you call it.
Air Bending can directly counter any other bending (other then terrestrial earth bending, where the earth bender pulls a chunk of earth up from the ground, and perhaps the lightning technique of fire benders) if the bender is strong enough. In our RPG, there was a whole network of things various types of benders could potentially manipulate, all through normal elemental bending. Things like liquid lava could be bent by either a Earth bender, or a Fire bender for instance. They'd use it differently, but both could have some effect over it. We had a wood bender (a concession to Dragonblood Exalted) who's natural domain was effecting the growth of plants and the release and control of natural airborn spores and toxins. The air bender had control over those spores and toxins as well, but less direct (although a powerful air bender can be quite precise with his application of air). In Avatar, Water benders can bend plants as well, so that's another place where our Wood and Water benders collided, but Water benders can only manipulate and move plants, the wood bender could actually cause it to miraculously grow.
Feel free to ignore the Wood bender stuff, I'm sure it'll just derail the conversation, but trust me, its inclusion added a very interesting twist to the environment.
