Poor Zuko. Will you ever write a scene where QSPverse Zuko is up against an earthbender and has someone he needs to protect? That would make his reason to fight the reason why he couldn't.
QSPverse Zuko would still have been able to fight people of other nations, so long as they didn't have ranged weapons available. He could use a sword against its wielder by heating it and if he couldn't just fry someone unarmed from afar, he could grapple without too much disadvantage. He could also fight alongside a firebender, if his teammate were using fire constantly.
I LOL'd at your rebuttal to my argument.
But earthbenders in general can't bend bones, while waterbenders in general can bend bodily fluids in general, albeit with caveats. Toph also seems to need to be touching the earth to use her earthbending; why should she be able to see people's bones, specifically, when she's not touching them and when they're separated from the ground she's touching by layers of flesh? That being the case, I don't think the situation is analogous.
Well, to be fair, Helen Keller learned to write just fine and I'm sure she's not the only one. But if a waterbender could sense wet ink, then xe could watch while someone else wrote and memorize the shapes before they dried. Or, considering where waterbenders live, writing in the snow would work. So would bending water into the proper shapes. If the waterbender needed more time to study each character, then they could be frozen into that shape, giving xem as long as it took for the ice to melt. Finally, a waterbender could simply use the same techniques real-world blind people use.
The techniques would also be useful to a waterbender who became blind after having sight for some time, maybe in the war.
Spit may be viscous, but we have precedent for waterbenders bending solids (ice), colloids (blood) and muddy slurry. Notably, while ice seems to be bendable even for novices, colloids and slurry are more difficult: blood can only be bent by a master waterbender on the full moon, while Katara needed Toph's help with the slurry. (On the other hand, the swamp waterbenders were able to successfully bend plant life at any time, so the difficulty in bending blood may be a matter of overcoming another's will or something equally mystical, rather than a matter of the physical characteristics.) It's possible that this means that water becomes less bendable the more impurities it has. Further evidence in favor of this view is the potability of Katara's bending water even after a season and a half. Going against this view, Katara bends ocean water, lake water and dedicated bending water with equal ease.
I find it odd that opening one's own veins would be considered that much more disturbing than bloodbending, child abuse, getting struck by lightning and dying in a volcano.
By the way, do parts of existing fics count for avatar-500? Because I have two parts of my Zuko and Aang character swap up right now (one is Wrong, one is up on my journal) and the third is the right length and fits the prompt...
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Re: Quiet Shadowed Places - The Cooler
Date: 2012-12-03 05:30 am (UTC)QSPverse Zuko would still have been able to fight people of other nations, so long as they didn't have ranged weapons available. He could use a sword against its wielder by heating it and if he couldn't just fry someone unarmed from afar, he could grapple without too much disadvantage. He could also fight alongside a firebender, if his teammate were using fire constantly.
I LOL'd at your rebuttal to my argument.
But earthbenders in general can't bend bones, while waterbenders in general can bend bodily fluids in general, albeit with caveats. Toph also seems to need to be touching the earth to use her earthbending; why should she be able to see people's bones, specifically, when she's not touching them and when they're separated from the ground she's touching by layers of flesh? That being the case, I don't think the situation is analogous.
Well, to be fair, Helen Keller learned to write just fine and I'm sure she's not the only one. But if a waterbender could sense wet ink, then xe could watch while someone else wrote and memorize the shapes before they dried. Or, considering where waterbenders live, writing in the snow would work. So would bending water into the proper shapes. If the waterbender needed more time to study each character, then they could be frozen into that shape, giving xem as long as it took for the ice to melt. Finally, a waterbender could simply use the same techniques real-world blind people use.
The techniques would also be useful to a waterbender who became blind after having sight for some time, maybe in the war.
Spit may be viscous, but we have precedent for waterbenders bending solids (ice), colloids (blood) and muddy slurry. Notably, while ice seems to be bendable even for novices, colloids and slurry are more difficult: blood can only be bent by a master waterbender on the full moon, while Katara needed Toph's help with the slurry. (On the other hand, the swamp waterbenders were able to successfully bend plant life at any time, so the difficulty in bending blood may be a matter of overcoming another's will or something equally mystical, rather than a matter of the physical characteristics.) It's possible that this means that water becomes less bendable the more impurities it has. Further evidence in favor of this view is the potability of Katara's bending water even after a season and a half. Going against this view, Katara bends ocean water, lake water and dedicated bending water with equal ease.
I find it odd that opening one's own veins would be considered that much more disturbing than bloodbending, child abuse, getting struck by lightning and dying in a volcano.
By the way, do parts of existing fics count for avatar-500? Because I have two parts of my Zuko and Aang character swap up right now (one is Wrong, one is up on my journal) and the third is the right length and fits the prompt...