Vid: Bloodbenders Build a Levee

[attackfish]

Disclaimer: The music for this vid is Natalie Merchant's "Build a Levee", as performed live in San Diago on March 30, 2002. The footage in this vid comes from Avatar: the Last Airbender, and The Legend of Korra, which belong to Nickelodeon, as well as to Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko.

Summary: To bloodbend is to take back control.

Warning: Spoilers for all of Korra, Book 1, and all of Airbender Book 3.  Also *Spoiler, highlight to read* canon violence, canon murder-suicide, canon child abuse, canon animal cruelty, bloodbenders bending blood, just general creepiness.

Creator Commentary: Happy Halloween!  And happy early birthday to me!


Bloodbenders Build a Levee

Comments

[sholio]

I really enjoyed this vid! Great job blending the two canons -- and bloodbending is perhaps the most chilling place that the show goes as it explores the limits of its magical "rules", so I liked seeing it handled in vid form.

[attackfish]

Thank you! I had lots of fun with it. Bloodbending is so deliciously creepy and horror movie-esque, and it gets used repeatedly as a metaphor for cycles of abuse, and I wanted to do a Halloween vid for my birthday, so...