• Rose Thorne(She/Her)@lemm.ee
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    Heart, while a terribly defined power, was shown to be able to influence animals to do your bidding in a comic.

    This motherfucker coulda been rollin’ up on a tide of goddamn bears to these engagements. Shit yeah, gimme that ring, I’m headin’ to the closest zoo.

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      It’s like how people thought Air Bending was the weakest bending in Avatar, and then we watched a man suck the air out of someone’s lungs.

      Do not mistake the act of reservation as weakness.

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        Every flamethrower motherfucker is a badass until they are on the floor, gasping and convulsing for air.

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          Plus, fire requires oxygen. Their flames are useless if an airbender can just remove the oxygen from the air or suffocate the fire entirely.

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        Air bending weak? Bro it’s the one bending style that doesn’t have an ingrained weakness.

        No water? Fucked.

        No Earth? Fucked.

        Too cold/eclipse? Fucked.

        No air? Well you’re already fucked for different reasons, so unless they develop space travel air benders will never lose their element.

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          But, it gets no boosts, like the moon or the sun being stronger. Earth also gets no boosts, but it’s balanced by offensive power, whereas Air is a defensive element.

          As far as space travel goes, if any benders were involved at all, they’d have to be a team in close concert, because any one of them holds the power to kill everyone on the ship.

          But, if they decide to continue the story in that way, I would be 100% down to watch that.

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            Earth is balanced by having two advanced forms, fire and water only have lightning and blood bending respectively. Earth has metal and lava both, though even if a bender is capable of either they only get one.

            I always felt that air kind of got ripped off by not having any kind of advanced form but occasionally they just learned to fly so I guess that’s pretty unique and powerful.

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        Do you have a magic ring that amplifies your desire to compel others?

        … Shit, now I don’t know if Ma-Ti needs to wield it, or throw it into the fires of Mordor.