It's ironic that just as Zuko starts fighting against his own people, who he has been relatively able to fight all along, he finally starts gaining the skills that would enable him to fight people of other nations and nonbenders. And also that as he finally starts fighting with others at his side, he develops a skill that necessitates fighting alone.
It's very possible blind airbenders could theoretically do all of that but that all of the ones who thought of it died smashing into a cliff face before they had fully mastered it.
As far as waterbenders go, since bloodbending is such a specialized skill that takes so much power and for most people requires the full moon, and also because Toph never talks about being able to see people's bones, using waterbending to see people would probably not work. Sensing water in the air probably wouldn't work well either.
I did some research on ink in Asia before modern chemistry before to see about whether or not Toph could be able to learn to read ink, and found out that while in Europe people used an oil base and a mix of earth and organic pigments, in Asia, they used almost exclusively organic pigments in water based ink. Shame about that. However, a waterbender would be able to write, but how would you teach them when they couldn't read?
Opening one's own veins would make it lose its Y7 rating? And spit is pretty viscous. It might be troublesome to bend.
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Re: Quiet Shadowed Places - The Cooler
Date: 2012-12-03 03:33 am (UTC)It's very possible blind airbenders could theoretically do all of that but that all of the ones who thought of it died smashing into a cliff face before they had fully mastered it.
As far as waterbenders go, since bloodbending is such a specialized skill that takes so much power and for most people requires the full moon, and also because Toph never talks about being able to see people's bones, using waterbending to see people would probably not work. Sensing water in the air probably wouldn't work well either.
I did some research on ink in Asia before modern chemistry before to see about whether or not Toph could be able to learn to read ink, and found out that while in Europe people used an oil base and a mix of earth and organic pigments, in Asia, they used almost exclusively organic pigments in water based ink. Shame about that. However, a waterbender would be able to write, but how would you teach them when they couldn't read?
Opening one's own veins would make it lose its Y7 rating? And spit is pretty viscous. It might be troublesome to bend.