I don't know. I tend to write fills for the verse as I get requests for them. It's not something I particularly dedicate myself to, unlike, say, Kindle the Wind or Good People and Death Eaters. But it's a fun idea to play with.
Zuko is a good grappler, and in close up fighting, he's a force to be reckoned with. However, he can't shove heat into something without touching it, which makes heating up somebody's swords difficult. He has better luck just burning their flesh with that method. However, most of the fighting we see in A:tLA is ranged group fighting, at which he is pretty severely disadvantaged.
It seems like kind of a dangerous skill to perfect.
Hama was the first waterbender to discover bloodbending, so before her, nobody bended bodily fluids inside somebody else's body either, and most earthbenders aren't restricted like Toph to only the earth they are touching. Which means we could be one clever earthbender away from bonebending. Also, we only ever see one swampbender bending plants, and it's heavily implied he's a great master, the sort of anti-Hama. We have no idea if it's more difficult to bend plants. Also, you're right, it may well be mystical. But spit is still not a lot of water. You would have to spit a lot to get good amounts. Faster than sweating, though.
True, but the A:tLA verse uses Chinese characters, of which there are several thousand. That would be a whole lot more difficult to teach than an alphabet. It could be done, but it would take some serious dedication. And then, they would be easy to forget unless you used them constantly.
Visible blood and self injury both raise ratings automatically. A:tLA was pretty sparse on the visible blood. This is also probably why nobody peed for bending material.
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Re: Quiet Shadowed Places - The Cooler
Date: 2012-12-03 02:28 pm (UTC)Zuko is a good grappler, and in close up fighting, he's a force to be reckoned with. However, he can't shove heat into something without touching it, which makes heating up somebody's swords difficult. He has better luck just burning their flesh with that method. However, most of the fighting we see in A:tLA is ranged group fighting, at which he is pretty severely disadvantaged.
It seems like kind of a dangerous skill to perfect.
Hama was the first waterbender to discover bloodbending, so before her, nobody bended bodily fluids inside somebody else's body either, and most earthbenders aren't restricted like Toph to only the earth they are touching. Which means we could be one clever earthbender away from bonebending. Also, we only ever see one swampbender bending plants, and it's heavily implied he's a great master, the sort of anti-Hama. We have no idea if it's more difficult to bend plants. Also, you're right, it may well be mystical. But spit is still not a lot of water. You would have to spit a lot to get good amounts. Faster than sweating, though.
True, but the A:tLA verse uses Chinese characters, of which there are several thousand. That would be a whole lot more difficult to teach than an alphabet. It could be done, but it would take some serious dedication. And then, they would be easy to forget unless you used them constantly.
Visible blood and self injury both raise ratings automatically. A:tLA was pretty sparse on the visible blood. This is also probably why nobody peed for bending material.
I've done that, so yeah, go right ahead.