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Zuko, he's just a total boss.

I am all Firebending, fast, offense, take the advantage, press until the opponent makes a mistake, and then keep punching where it hurts.


Never, ever back down.
 

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bliebblob said:
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Hmmm water is tempting since it's pretty overpowered (ask me why, I dare you :p) But earth or fire suit my personality more. On the other hand, airbending lets you effin fly! So any bending would be great really, I'm not picky :)

Off topic: you know how earthbenders get metalbending and firebenders get lightning? I wonder what airbenders would get...
Waterbenders can also get bloodbending, though I suppose you could also say they ice bend if you don't want to go the evil route. I don't think Airbenders get anything else though, which kinda sucks for them.
The way I see it, they probably DID have one or two special forms of airbending. But everyone who could use it/teach it was wiped out during ozai's airbender extermination. So it's left to our own imagination what their special bending could have been. So far I got: soundbending, tornadobending and poison gas bending lol.
Soundbending I see as plausible, Tornadobending seems to much of the same as Aaang had made near tornadoes and such. As for poisonbending I can't see it as the Air Nomads where not fighters but lovers of peace and would thus have no need for it.
Agreed on every account. It was just throwing around some ideas based on what may be possible, not on what would make sense canonically. Although, for all we know there may have been rogue tribes of airbenders who did not agree with the monk philosophy. So they left the temples and developed poison gas bending.

Wow this is fanfic writing itself right here isn't it? :)
Rogue Air monks would be a interesting story but how would they have survived the Genocide of Air Nomads there would of been some indication to them in the temples and the fire nation would of most likely found em if so.

A fanfiction would have to take place before the war to even be plausible tho im sure it would be a fun read :D
 

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Xartyve2 said:
On the recommendation of every peer I have I purchased the first season, sorry... "book", of Airbender. Four episodes in and I just have no enthusiasm to continue. It gets better, right? Tell me it gets better.
It's always possible that it's just not for you. But you should know it's eerily common for people (including me) to not be impressed with the start, only to love it to bits later. Though the exact tipping point seems to vary from person to person.
 

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Firebending for me. You can create it out of nothing (earth and water manipulate the actual element but are useless without some earth or water to use) and get a consistent power-up during the day (unlike water which waxes and wanes with the moon). Air is pretty cool (who wouldn't want to fly), but too defensive for my liking.

Plus if you're good enough with fire you get those awesome lightning powers.
 

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Sokka... cause shit just wouldn't get done without the brains of Team Avatar.

Voted Airbending because fuck gravity.
 

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Veldie said:
bliebblob said:
Veldie said:
bliebblob said:
Catie Caraco said:
bliebblob said:
Hmmm water is tempting since it's pretty overpowered (ask me why, I dare you :p) But earth or fire suit my personality more. On the other hand, airbending lets you effin fly! So any bending would be great really, I'm not picky :)

Off topic: you know how earthbenders get metalbending and firebenders get lightning? I wonder what airbenders would get...
Waterbenders can also get bloodbending, though I suppose you could also say they ice bend if you don't want to go the evil route. I don't think Airbenders get anything else though, which kinda sucks for them.
The way I see it, they probably DID have one or two special forms of airbending. But everyone who could use it/teach it was wiped out during ozai's airbender extermination. So it's left to our own imagination what their special bending could have been. So far I got: soundbending, tornadobending and poison gas bending lol.
Soundbending I see as plausible, Tornadobending seems to much of the same as Aaang had made near tornadoes and such. As for poisonbending I can't see it as the Air Nomads where not fighters but lovers of peace and would thus have no need for it.
Agreed on every account. It was just throwing around some ideas based on what may be possible, not on what would make sense canonically. Although, for all we know there may have been rogue tribes of airbenders who did not agree with the monk philosophy. So they left the temples and developed poison gas bending.

Wow this is fanfic writing itself right here isn't it? :)
Rogue Air monks would be a interesting story but how would they have survived the Genocide of Air Nomads there would of been some indication to them in the temples and the fire nation would of most likely found em if so.

A fanfiction would have to take place before the war to even be plausible tho im sure it would be a fun read :D
Absolutely, Aang was the only surviving airbender so it could only take place before both of the series.
 

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I'd love to Earthbend, but I've been told I'd better suit Firebending from every person I know who watched the show: apparently I'm too passionate, too lively, and way too energetic for Earthbending. At least no-one said 'also you're a dick'.

Also, Toph is the greatest character. I love Toph. Too many reasonto wriet. Mind. Metlign fomr lvoe. Blargh.

Captacha: patience, child

Read in the voice of blind Master Po from Kung Fu, of course.
 

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Xartyve2 said:
On the recommendation of every peer I have I purchased the first season, sorry... "book", of Airbender. Four episodes in and I just have no enthusiasm to continue. It gets better, right? Tell me it gets better.
Keep watching. The first season of the show is definitely very "childish", but it's just getting it's footing, and they weren't sure if they were getting more episodes.

If you aren't hooked by in by the epic season finale, the show probably isn't for you.
 

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well it depends, if i can do the advanced form of the bending (blood, sound, metal lightning) i would probably choose earth bending because that would be hella sweet (yo?)
but if i can't then i would choose airbending because hey, flying also getting a lemur or flying bison would be cool
 

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Xartyve2 said:
On the recommendation of every peer I have I purchased the first season, sorry... "book", of Airbender. Four episodes in and I just have no enthusiasm to continue. It gets better, right? Tell me it gets better.
Trust me, skip the episode "The Great Divide." It was bad. Really bad.
 

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I also rewatched TLA a while ago but to be honest it wasn't as good as I remembered. It's still a good show but the filler content really stands out.
Filler? As a fan who's seen the show 8 times from beginning to end, I can guarantee there is only one episode in the entire series that is entirely irrelevant to later episodes (The Great Divide). Book 1 did have a lot of seemingly disconnected and meaningless episodes, but they got better with it after that, and even then all but one of those episodes meant something later.

Anyway, Iroh is my favorite character. The man is everything that's great about any character, all rolled into a single personification of awesome.

But I would be a waterbender. The healing plus attacking and freezing and such... yeah. It's good.
 

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bliebblob said:
Veldie said:
bliebblob said:
Veldie said:
bliebblob said:
Catie Caraco said:
bliebblob said:
Hmmm water is tempting since it's pretty overpowered (ask me why, I dare you :p) But earth or fire suit my personality more. On the other hand, airbending lets you effin fly! So any bending would be great really, I'm not picky :)

Off topic: you know how earthbenders get metalbending and firebenders get lightning? I wonder what airbenders would get...
Waterbenders can also get bloodbending, though I suppose you could also say they ice bend if you don't want to go the evil route. I don't think Airbenders get anything else though, which kinda sucks for them.
The way I see it, they probably DID have one or two special forms of airbending. But everyone who could use it/teach it was wiped out during ozai's airbender extermination. So it's left to our own imagination what their special bending could have been. So far I got: soundbending, tornadobending and poison gas bending lol.
Soundbending I see as plausible, Tornadobending seems to much of the same as Aaang had made near tornadoes and such. As for poisonbending I can't see it as the Air Nomads where not fighters but lovers of peace and would thus have no need for it.
Agreed on every account. It was just throwing around some ideas based on what may be possible, not on what would make sense canonically. Although, for all we know there may have been rogue tribes of airbenders who did not agree with the monk philosophy. So they left the temples and developed poison gas bending.

Wow this is fanfic writing itself right here isn't it? :)
Rogue Air monks would be a interesting story but how would they have survived the Genocide of Air Nomads there would of been some indication to them in the temples and the fire nation would of most likely found em if so.

A fanfiction would have to take place before the war to even be plausible tho im sure it would be a fun read :D
Absolutely, Aang was the only surviving airbender so it could only take place before both of the series.
Hmmm make it follow Roku then perhaps as he has to stop them from trying to destory the air nomads
 

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Character: Toph, she takes the scene every time she has something to say.

Bending: Air, I'd also like to learn chi blocking; chi blocking plus Air bending's maneuverability would be pretty unstoppable.

On a side note, Korra kind of let me down at the end; but I am looking forward to what they do next with the franchise (so long as M. Night Shmymoviessuck isn't allowed near it).
 

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Where is the Azula love? Her story arc was downright amazing. She was easily the scariest 14-year-old girl in fiction. The role cemented Grey DeLisle as one of my favorite VA's, and dear god, the sheer pathos of her downfall is just heartbreaking as she pushes absolutely everyone away from her after a long string of betrayals and loses the control she had exemplified up until that point in the series. Azula is the best of many great characters.

I've always considered water the style for me.

saintdane05 said:
Trust me, skip the episode "The Great Divide." It was bad. Really bad.
Fun fact, when I downloaded the first season of Avatar, the uploader had taken that episode out(presumably because it sucks). I went years without even knowing it existed. Then I found out there was an episode I hadn't seen and got excited...at least there were a few decent lines from Sokka.
 

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Favorite character is definitely Iroh, I mean come on.

For bending I want to be an air bender. Since I don't like direct fighting those weird shenanigans Aang does to avoid combat would be awesome to be able to do. I also love movement, all that running and flying, it's like parkour except extreme.
 

bliebblob

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Earth bending has the most application, and is overall my favorite. As for my favorite character I found Toph to be the most enjoyable of the bunch.

bliebblob said:
Hmmm water is tempting since it's pretty overpowered (ask me why, I dare you :p) But earth or fire suit my personality more. On the other hand, airbending lets you effin fly! So any bending would be great really, I'm not picky :)

Off topic: you know how earthbenders get metalbending and firebenders get lightning? I wonder what airbenders would get...
Why? Every element can do things that are not shown in the show that are very over powered. Even applications of what they show is possible are overpowered.
When I say overpowered I don't mean it in terms of raw power. Because that completely depends on how much the bender has trained. The show does a really good job of making that clear: it's not the type of bending that makes you win, it's how good you are with it.
So if you get to pick a bending style, you should instead look at the extras that come with it. Like lightning for firebenders and flying for airbenders. This is ofcourse very subjective: some people would rather be able to shoot lightning than fly, and for others it's the other way around.
And this is where I feel waterbending has an unfair advantage because they just get SO much extras: powerboosts by the moon, icebending, healing, plantbending, bloodbending,... I know just because you're a waterbender doesn't mean you automatically learn all of those as wel, but at least the option is there. An earthbender can simply never learn any of it and what do they get instead? Sandbending and metalbending. Again, personal taste plays a big role here but I feel it's not really a fair trade. That's what I mean by "overpowered."
 

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Altorin said:
bliebblob said:
Veldie said:
bliebblob said:
Catie Caraco said:
bliebblob said:
Hmmm water is tempting since it's pretty overpowered (ask me why, I dare you :p) But earth or fire suit my personality more. On the other hand, airbending lets you effin fly! So any bending would be great really, I'm not picky :)

Off topic: you know how earthbenders get metalbending and firebenders get lightning? I wonder what airbenders would get...
Waterbenders can also get bloodbending, though I suppose you could also say they ice bend if you don't want to go the evil route. I don't think Airbenders get anything else though, which kinda sucks for them.
The way I see it, they probably DID have one or two special forms of airbending. But everyone who could use it/teach it was wiped out during ozai's airbender extermination. So it's left to our own imagination what their special bending could have been. So far I got: soundbending, tornadobending and poison gas bending lol.
Soundbending I see as plausible, Tornadobending seems to much of the same as Aaang had made near tornadoes and such. As for poisonbending I can't see it as the Air Nomads where not fighters but lovers of peace and would thus have no need for it.
Agreed on every account. It was just throwing around some ideas based on what may be possible, not on what would make sense canonically. Although, for all we know there may have been rogue tribes of airbenders who did not agree with the monk philosophy. So they left the temples and developed poison gas bending.

Wow this is fanfic writing itself right here isn't it? :)
The only really interesting suggesstion there is sound bending.. although technically, all those "higher forms of bending" are just basic bending to an extreme degree, and if an Air bender can feasibly pull a tornado out of his ass, I don't think it matters too much what you call it.

Air Bending can directly counter any other bending (other then terrestrial earth bending, where the earth bender pulls a chunk of earth up from the ground, and perhaps the lightning technique of fire benders) if the bender is strong enough. In our RPG, there was a whole network of things various types of benders could potentially manipulate, all through normal elemental bending. Things like liquid lava could be bent by either a Earth bender, or a Fire bender for instance. They'd use it differently, but both could have some effect over it. We had a wood bender (a concession to Dragonblood Exalted) who's natural domain was effecting the growth of plants and the release and control of natural airborn spores and toxins. The air bender had control over those spores and toxins as well, but less direct (although a powerful air bender can be quite precise with his application of air). In Avatar, Water benders can bend plants as well, so that's another place where our Wood and Water benders collided, but Water benders can only manipulate and move plants, the wood bender could actually cause it to miraculously grow.

Feel free to ignore the Wood bender stuff, I'm sure it'll just derail the conversation, but trust me, its inclusion added a very interesting twist to the environment.
Okay that's very cool and all but I'm not sure what exactly you want me to say about all that? :S I was just trying to get people to come up with possible specialized airbending styles.
 

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Veldie said:
bliebblob said:
Veldie said:
bliebblob said:
Veldie said:
bliebblob said:
Catie Caraco said:
bliebblob said:
Hmmm water is tempting since it's pretty overpowered (ask me why, I dare you :p) But earth or fire suit my personality more. On the other hand, airbending lets you effin fly! So any bending would be great really, I'm not picky :)

Off topic: you know how earthbenders get metalbending and firebenders get lightning? I wonder what airbenders would get...
Waterbenders can also get bloodbending, though I suppose you could also say they ice bend if you don't want to go the evil route. I don't think Airbenders get anything else though, which kinda sucks for them.
The way I see it, they probably DID have one or two special forms of airbending. But everyone who could use it/teach it was wiped out during ozai's airbender extermination. So it's left to our own imagination what their special bending could have been. So far I got: soundbending, tornadobending and poison gas bending lol.
Soundbending I see as plausible, Tornadobending seems to much of the same as Aaang had made near tornadoes and such. As for poisonbending I can't see it as the Air Nomads where not fighters but lovers of peace and would thus have no need for it.
Agreed on every account. It was just throwing around some ideas based on what may be possible, not on what would make sense canonically. Although, for all we know there may have been rogue tribes of airbenders who did not agree with the monk philosophy. So they left the temples and developed poison gas bending.

Wow this is fanfic writing itself right here isn't it? :)
Rogue Air monks would be a interesting story but how would they have survived the Genocide of Air Nomads there would of been some indication to them in the temples and the fire nation would of most likely found em if so.

A fanfiction would have to take place before the war to even be plausible tho im sure it would be a fun read :D
Absolutely, Aang was the only surviving airbender so it could only take place before both of the series.
Hmmm make it follow Roku then perhaps as he has to stop them from trying to destory the air nomads
Makes sense. If it happened before the big war, Roku would definanlty have had dealings with them.
But I don't read fanfics, much less write them. I was just commenting on how this was turning into a full story rather than just an idea for a specialized form of airbending. :)
 

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FAVORITE CHARACTER: I'd probably say Iroh. Awesome backstory combined with the personification of Cool Old Guy/Badass Grandpa.

IF I WERE A BENDER: Waterbender. I'll admit, it's 90% liking the abilities, 10% blue is my favorite color.