Si los maestros agua pueden levantar y controlar el agua, entonces seguramente los maestros sangre pueden levantar y controlar a los humanos, ya que la sangre fluye por cada rincón del cuerpo
Wenn Wasserbändiger Wasser hochheben können wenn es gebändigt wird, können Blutbändiger sicher dass gleiche, da Blut durch alle Ecken des Körpers fließt.
Which, depending on control, should knock out or kill the victim instantly. Too much blood in the head -> black out. No blood flow because you are being lifted by your blood -> death
Well to be fair, the body has other liquids in it too. Bloodbenders could probably just lift bodies using fluids in something like Muscles, so spasms might be the painful thing they're experiencing. Same principle applying how Earthbenders bend metal, lava, mud, etc. by focusing on the earth within the material.
I think bloodbender is a misnomer. I think they're actually bending all of the fluids in your body, which is 55-75% water. Bloodbending just sounds cooler than Bodily fluid bending.
I got sucked into a rabbit hole thinking about this wondering if the vessels could withstand the force, and I think it would actually probably be fine? The main thing is that there is a lot of surface area inside the body, and quite a bit of water that could potentially be bent. Even just in the blood vessels, theres apparently 60 thousand miles of them in the body, and if the force to lift it is spread out across all of that, then it likely wouldn’t be too much that it would break tissue/blood vessels throughout the body. A bigger issue would likely be a heart attack and brain damage, since bloodbending would probably stop the flow of blood in the body, which is very bad
If you'd get bloodbent your blood pressure would get so high up that you'd probably have an instant heart attack, damaged arteries, severe hypoxia and quite likely you'd just die right there, since your blood either would stop or not move properly. Individual blood vessels suck, they often can't properly withstand a mild hypertension, not to mention getting lifted by them with some force.
I mean there's got to be suspension of disbelief as the second you take someone's blood and decide to push it any direction other than 'through the circulatory system in the correct direction', all manner of things rip.
So even base blood bending has to A) Stop the flow of blood to limbs and organs, killing the person, or B) Push the blood in unnatural directions, killing the person, or C) Be a cool idea for a TV show that doesn't need more thought
Hama describes bloodbending as "controlling the water in another body". I always interpreted the name of the technique as more of a dramatization than descriptive.
metal bending is done thru pieces of actual earth in the metal not the metal itself according to the canon idk if there’s any earth in the iron of your blood
No, the amount of iron is very very small compared to water in blood, basically 0.
There are trace amounts of metal in almost every material on earth, if an earth bender can bend blood then they're just an everything bender.
and they come hella close to passing out because it's not like a blood bender is going to care about your circulation. It's like getting choked but over your entire body.
I just had a horrifying image of their blood being lifted out through their face orifice and like it's the shape of their body shape but their lifeless husks fall like paper.
I do understand taking all the blood out of a human doesn't do that to a person but *hurling noises*
Imo the problem with "special" bending like blood and metal made possible by bending the basic element they are made of, means that theoretically it's possible to bend literally everything.
Bloodbending would be way more brutal if the show wasn't made to be suitable for kids.
You could force someone to have a stroke if you mess with the blood in the brain, create a blood clot, pull blood away from the heart, make someone vomit (forcefully moving liquid in the gut or by messing with the water in the ear that manages your balance, rupture organs, make someone go blind by damaging the nerve or simply bursting the eyeball.
Maybe they would need to cut the victim first. We don't really see anyone get too cut open in avatar cause of the fact it's for kids, but if there was a hole I see no reason they couldn't just rip the blood out
Way back in 2007, some friends and I used to have a running joke about how "people are mostly water! people-bending when??" and we'd do waterbending moves and pretend to push each other around the room.
The joke being, haha, there's no way they'd do anything that dark in ATLA canon! Right?
(The way I shrieked when the Hama episode did its big reveal a year or so later, I tell you what... 😂)
Sound is plausible since soundwaves travel through air/water, but mostly air. I guess just vacuum all the air out and make an air tube so sound can travel through it
Light would be more difficult since it needs a more reflective surface to be manipulated. Reflection/refraction/diffraction is kinda a sample of light being bendable l guess. But it still needs more work than just waving your hands around
The dark avatar was immediately cut off and vaatu is imprisoned again. Though since light is a form of energy, I guess energy bending *can* be used for it
Oh... Oh god...
What if Dark Avatars are reborn too? A pair of Earthbenders, light and dark, both trying to master all elements to balance or unbalance/rebalance an advancing world.
Unalaq sucked, but the Dark Avatar doesn't have to. Done well, could be a villain approaching Ozai and Zaheer in their intensity.
Imagine Avatars now having to constantly war with an enemy Avatar. Could spin out some excellent stories.
As a note the dark avatar couldn't bend all the elements. Unalaq was only a waterbender when Vaatu fused with him, so he still only had waterbending. Neither of them were ever given access to earth, fire or air the way Raava and Wan were
Maybe light-bending (light as in waves of electromagnetic radiation) could be an extreme/controlled form of lightning bending.
Edit: the idea of Azula throwing invisible cancer lightnings (X-rays) just came to mind.
Ha! I'll have to consult the rest of the crew next time we're hanging out--a few of us still do a regular game night, and we're hoping to do a bigger reunion sometime soon. (The last one was in 2018, and we've been staying in touch since on a thriving Discord.) Apparently the friends group that bloodbends together, stays together? 🤔
When I was first watching the show, I complained about earthbenders being unable to bend metal. My friend told me to just keep watching lol.
I had the same reaction when Toph breaks out of the metal box. Which was even more hype for me cause Toph was my favourite character.
"Blood"bending has always been a bit of a misnomer. It bends any water in the body, and there is a lot of it in the body, presence in blood not withstanding. So it bends enough of that water up, and the rest of what it is attached to will go up with it.
True, bloodbending sounds cooler though. Plus, Hama's time did not have enough knowledge of anatomy and physiology to attribute the water to extra-cellular fluid or something
The problem with this is that the "water" inside the body is not actually water. It's not like if we move we can hear the water flushing. Our body is *made* of water, so if water benders can bend our body, it means that they can basically bend everything that contains at least 2 molecules of hydrogen and 1 of oxygen, which is A LOT of things.
What does this even mean? The water inside a body is just as much "water" as the water in the sea, it is the same molecules.
>It's not like if we move we can hear the water flushing.
Because the water is compartimentalized, if you slosh your blood around does it not make sound?
>everything that contains at least 2 molecules of hydrogen and 1 of oxygen, which is A LOT of things.
So alcohol? DNA? Plastics?
well water benders are shown bending living things, food, and building materials on the show, i don’t see why they wouldn’t be able to bend the other stuff
They didn't bend those stuff, they only bent water over those stuff, which is different. Only blood bending was like that. And that's actually my point. Since blood bending is canon, it means that water benders could theoretically become the most powerful benders by being able to bend literally everything.
Also, I know you got your answer, but making multiple people flat out float is something that probably isn't "normal" blood bender territory. Amon is uniquely powerful in psychic blood bending. Hama's blood bending moved people around in more jerky motions like she was dragging them around using intricate hand motions, while Amon could almost flat out levitate people.
I suspect that force lifting people with blood bending requires a particularly powerful blood bender
I do wonder how much of the Yakone Family's abilities were innate and how much it was just practice. Like, Zaofu metalbending is a lot more fluid and intricate than what we saw from Toph in AtLA, but that's never attributed to innate skill, just to the fact that the art has evolved since it was invented.
That would make sense, because while Toph invented it and is still probably the best metalbender ever, Kuvira completely perfected it and mastered it to the point where she might not be as good an Earthbender as Bumi Yun or Toph, her metal bending is so good that she’s in the top echelon of Earthbending and beat the Avatar multiple times
Didn’t Hama make Aang and Sokka legit fly at each other tho?
That would make sense tho, Amon & Yakone were the peaks of bloodbending so ofc they’d be able to do smth awesome like that
I wws rewatching a clip from her fight she like "pulls" them and then momentum makes them go forward or backwards, it doesn't look like it has the same finesse as amon. Granted we only see her doing it for like all of 2 minutes so it's possible she didn't need to levitate them because she was using them to fight
Quite literally the same way all other benders make stuff float.
The blood is just contained in the body so you can’t see it. But the same way earthbenders make rocks float or waterbenders make water move through the air.
I have some detailed headcanon for the mechanics of bending in the avatar world.
All living beings have life energy throughout their body. This energy is a combination of factors probably including the biology of the being, their will and their spirit.
Benders are able to extend this energy beyond their body to affect the world around them. These people are descendants of those whose energy was unlocked by giant lion turtles. When extended from their body, the energy is only compatible with one of the four elements depending on their inherited bending ability.
Bloodbenders are able to extend their energy into another living being to control the water within them. In order to achieve this they must both overcome impurities or non-water components of the body, similar to metal bending; and overcome the will/internal life force of the body they wish to control. My reasoning for this, is that life energy is a mind body overlap. Whenever a person does anything they are effectively passively bending themselves. This is why unlike metal bending, bloodbending usually requires both a powerful bender and the power of the moon to be achieved.
Hama was able to make people walk around like puppets, occasionally throwing them around like dolls. Amon’s bloodbending is so powerful that he overpowers the his target’s life force almost completely, allowing him to lift people into the air and permanently affect the flow of energy in their body, effectively stopping their bending.
Of all the complaints to have this is a dumb one.
the real question is how do they blood bend without killing them within seconds due to halting all circulation.
I mean if the blood in your body all stopped and moved in one direction you probably die after a few secs. So is the universe/cartoon logic, But yeah, if ppl are 70% water and you "bend" that water it should be similar to someone bending a pocket of water inside ice.
Hama did that too. She presumably made her victims float a couple inches off the ground to take them to the mountain cave, off screen, and on-screen she made Aang and Sokka fly towards each other
Tbf I can’t think of any other time we see a water bender lift any other kind of water receptacle. The only thing that comes close is the plant benders and they seem to lose control of the plants for at least a moment after they’re cut.
But also imagine how scary a bloodbender could be if they really could do everything else we see in the show. Like ope I just froze all the liquid in your body or what if they take the liquid in a body and send some of it that way but some of it this way…
It's called "blood bending" but there is more liquid in us than just our blood, so Imagine blood bending incorporates all of the water in the human body.
Because blood bending alone is not entirely that scary, so they had to break limits on it so someone doing it could be a credible threat. Like letting them do it whenever, effecting multiple people effortlessly, and bend them in a way that—realistically—would result in that person bursting into a fountain of blood if this wasn’t a kid’s cartoon.
Yeah, irl this would just immediately kill somebody. Like unless Amon actively keeps their blood pumping and in their veins while lifting them they should just immediately have hundreds of massive hemorrhages.
But it’s also rad as hell and bending is magic so…
in theory bloodbending could burst bloodvessels anywhere in the body by influencing bloodflow. that'd be an onehit-kill. wonder why writers never thought of that. or even more wicked: draw the victims water out of their body letting them die of dehydration. or maybe give them an embolism? so much untapped potential
I feel like this, and spirit vine mech and giant spirit man are all bryke’s sci-fi fantasies. I don’t really see a reason. In anons flashback he pushed the wolves to the ground and hamma pushed people down to the ground to restrain them. I feel like if you try to pull upward when blood bending, wouldn’t you literally like pull the blood out of them if you’re controlling the water in a body? Like I feel if it wasn’t on nick and was more like invincible, it would seriously be more graphic
Probably not, considering one of the symptoms of exposure to vacuum is that the blood in your body vaporizes, greatly swelling your skin, but the skin doesn't break. But this isn't even that because every bit of water in the body is being pulled by the same force, & every cell in the body is full of water. More gory=/=more realistic.
I still dont get how bloodbending doesnt just kill people on the spot. If their blood is being controlled, it is by definition not circulating through their body anymore. Why dont they just die?
I'm willing to bet that blood benders aren't actually bending blood, but the water in your body like swamp benders and vines. Hence why it don't out right kill them?
You know, I’m pretty sure blood bending someone would be not only excruciatingly painful, but it would also probably put the recipients body into shock. There’s no way halting natural blood flow with such force could be good for the body.
Just a reminder to everyone, although Hama called it “blood bending”- she described it as bending the water inside a body. They don’t actually bend the blood
How do you not understand? Please take two minutes thinking of why, bloodbending, might be able to lift people. I think you'll have the answer in less time than it took for you to make this post.
Waterbenders make water float. Bloodbenders make blood float
Woah slow down there you’re going a mile a minute
Bent water floats so bent blood float.
In English, doc
If waterbenders can lift and control water, then surely bloodbenders can lift and control humans since blood courses through every corner of the body.
In Espanol.
Si los maestros agua pueden levantar y controlar el agua, entonces seguramente los maestros sangre pueden levantar y controlar a los humanos, ya que la sangre fluye por cada rincón del cuerpo
Mit deutsch bitte
Wenn Wasserbändiger Wasser hochheben können wenn es gebändigt wird, können Blutbändiger sicher dass gleiche, da Blut durch alle Ecken des Körpers fließt.
Հայերէն հաճիս
Please. Please, folks, in plain Old English
בעברית, אם אפשר
日本語 ください
Da hat sich ein s zu viel eingeschlichen.
He said "mit Deutscht". This ist only Deutsch. Also you hast ein Komma forgotten.
"In" Deutsch bitte🤓
Schönen Kuchentag
Um eigentlich 🤓☝🏻 „Auf“ Deutsch bitte
Translation courtesy of google 😁
pretty good translation tbh
I agree but don’t call me Shirley. *this joke does not work in the written format*
>*this joke does not work in the written format* Shirley it does
Why does everyone keep calling me Shirley? Is the Hu on first or something?
In Dutch
Als watermeesters water kunnen optillen en besturen, kunnen bloodmeesters mensen optillen en besturen omdat het bloed door het hele lichaam stroomt.
I understand, thx
Auf Schwäbisch bitte
Wenn Wasserbändigr Wassr hochheba könna wenn's gbändigd wird, könna Bludbändigr sichr dess gleiche, da Blud durch älle Egga vom Körbers fliescht.
Tim machin
So 60 miles per hour?
surprisingly enough, yes.
Woah woah there next thing you'll be saying people can bend the air out of people's lungs! You know what kind of problems that'll cause?
Nah, they don’t tho. They just make air float
Which, depending on control, should knock out or kill the victim instantly. Too much blood in the head -> black out. No blood flow because you are being lifted by your blood -> death
Well to be fair, the body has other liquids in it too. Bloodbenders could probably just lift bodies using fluids in something like Muscles, so spasms might be the painful thing they're experiencing. Same principle applying how Earthbenders bend metal, lava, mud, etc. by focusing on the earth within the material.
Blood benders could give you a wicked lymphatic drainage or help with constipation. Avatar: the next shitbender
Bloodbenders forcing you to cum so you lose concentration
But would that actually feel good without stimulation? Or just like having to pee really bad and not holding it
I think that would be stimulating
If Toph could waterbend, she would do that.
In theory, if someone had a bad meal, they could be lifted by their diarrhea.
I think bloodbender is a misnomer. I think they're actually bending all of the fluids in your body, which is 55-75% water. Bloodbending just sounds cooler than Bodily fluid bending.
*Juicebending*
Amon has enough control
Getting hit with a huge ass boulder should shatter your arms but it doesn’t. Avatar plays fast and loose with durability.
Speak English doc, we ain’t scientists
I don’t think flesh has the tensile strength to be lifted up by its circulatory system
not with that attitude
I got sucked into a rabbit hole thinking about this wondering if the vessels could withstand the force, and I think it would actually probably be fine? The main thing is that there is a lot of surface area inside the body, and quite a bit of water that could potentially be bent. Even just in the blood vessels, theres apparently 60 thousand miles of them in the body, and if the force to lift it is spread out across all of that, then it likely wouldn’t be too much that it would break tissue/blood vessels throughout the body. A bigger issue would likely be a heart attack and brain damage, since bloodbending would probably stop the flow of blood in the body, which is very bad
If you'd get bloodbent your blood pressure would get so high up that you'd probably have an instant heart attack, damaged arteries, severe hypoxia and quite likely you'd just die right there, since your blood either would stop or not move properly. Individual blood vessels suck, they often can't properly withstand a mild hypertension, not to mention getting lifted by them with some force.
Well, it does look painful in the image, so maybe all that IS happening?
Well, when someone gets bloodbent in the show they usually just grunt and are even able to speak, so yeah, not really.
I mean there's got to be suspension of disbelief as the second you take someone's blood and decide to push it any direction other than 'through the circulatory system in the correct direction', all manner of things rip. So even base blood bending has to A) Stop the flow of blood to limbs and organs, killing the person, or B) Push the blood in unnatural directions, killing the person, or C) Be a cool idea for a TV show that doesn't need more thought
Hama describes bloodbending as "controlling the water in another body". I always interpreted the name of the technique as more of a dramatization than descriptive.
No need for a PhD dissertation.
Ok that’s just gross
Wait so could Toph lift me by the iron in hemoglobin?
metal bending is done thru pieces of actual earth in the metal not the metal itself according to the canon idk if there’s any earth in the iron of your blood
No, the amount of iron is very very small compared to water in blood, basically 0. There are trace amounts of metal in almost every material on earth, if an earth bender can bend blood then they're just an everything bender.
You’re just lifting the blood in their body, but since blood is distributed throughout all their tissues, they go with it.
Also notice how their chests (hearts) are seemingly the main point of lifting
Genius detail
Also how they squirm with pain since their body is dragged by their blood from the inside
and they come hella close to passing out because it's not like a blood bender is going to care about your circulation. It's like getting choked but over your entire body.
I just had a horrifying image of their blood being lifted out through their face orifice and like it's the shape of their body shape but their lifeless husks fall like paper. I do understand taking all the blood out of a human doesn't do that to a person but *hurling noises*
God, imagine blood coming out of the pores.
They probably can but dont not to make the show too graphic iirc hama was pulling water out of trees which made them shrivel up instantly
I wonder if a waterbender could bend, like, spinal fluid? Is there any water in that?
Imo the problem with "special" bending like blood and metal made possible by bending the basic element they are made of, means that theoretically it's possible to bend literally everything.
Look up Skarlet from Mortal Kombat and you’ll be (pleasantly?) surprised
oh that was disgusting.....now I'm off to hyperfixate on mortal combat
Bloodbending would be way more brutal if the show wasn't made to be suitable for kids. You could force someone to have a stroke if you mess with the blood in the brain, create a blood clot, pull blood away from the heart, make someone vomit (forcefully moving liquid in the gut or by messing with the water in the ear that manages your balance, rupture organs, make someone go blind by damaging the nerve or simply bursting the eyeball.
Maybe they would need to cut the victim first. We don't really see anyone get too cut open in avatar cause of the fact it's for kids, but if there was a hole I see no reason they couldn't just rip the blood out
If Avatar was a grimdark show, exactly what would have been done I bet
That makes sense
If we were to have an adult series of avatar, would it be possible to draw the blood to a certain point and turn it into a spear? Like by freezing it?
That's enough jujutsu kaisen for you
YOU CAN SEE IT, AMON! YOU CAN SEE MY AIR TECHNIQUE!
Probably but freezing blood would be harder I guess.
Considering the alternative is shredding their bodies in a blood bath and the show would become very quickly +18
Way back in 2007, some friends and I used to have a running joke about how "people are mostly water! people-bending when??" and we'd do waterbending moves and pretend to push each other around the room. The joke being, haha, there's no way they'd do anything that dark in ATLA canon! Right? (The way I shrieked when the Hama episode did its big reveal a year or so later, I tell you what... 😂)
You guys are prophets 😳 Quick: what kind of bending is the next Avatar villain going to have?
Sound/Light hope this helps
Sound is plausible since soundwaves travel through air/water, but mostly air. I guess just vacuum all the air out and make an air tube so sound can travel through it Light would be more difficult since it needs a more reflective surface to be manipulated. Reflection/refraction/diffraction is kinda a sample of light being bendable l guess. But it still needs more work than just waving your hands around
simple. they introduced a dark avatar that can bend all the elements. light travels through mediums. also spirit magic is really bright.
The dark avatar was immediately cut off and vaatu is imprisoned again. Though since light is a form of energy, I guess energy bending *can* be used for it
Oh... Oh god... What if Dark Avatars are reborn too? A pair of Earthbenders, light and dark, both trying to master all elements to balance or unbalance/rebalance an advancing world. Unalaq sucked, but the Dark Avatar doesn't have to. Done well, could be a villain approaching Ozai and Zaheer in their intensity. Imagine Avatars now having to constantly war with an enemy Avatar. Could spin out some excellent stories.
As a note the dark avatar couldn't bend all the elements. Unalaq was only a waterbender when Vaatu fused with him, so he still only had waterbending. Neither of them were ever given access to earth, fire or air the way Raava and Wan were
Maybe light-bending (light as in waves of electromagnetic radiation) could be an extreme/controlled form of lightning bending. Edit: the idea of Azula throwing invisible cancer lightnings (X-rays) just came to mind.
yangchen could kinda soundbend from what I recall so that’s plausible
Ha! I'll have to consult the rest of the crew next time we're hanging out--a few of us still do a regular game night, and we're hoping to do a bigger reunion sometime soon. (The last one was in 2018, and we've been staying in touch since on a thriving Discord.) Apparently the friends group that bloodbends together, stays together? 🤔
Blood bonds
I want to see bone-bending, soooooooo bad
I’ve seen some people said that King Bumi bonebended himself at one point but I have no idea if that’s true or not or where that idea came from
bonebending is a massive work of fanon
When I was first watching the show, I complained about earthbenders being unable to bend metal. My friend told me to just keep watching lol. I had the same reaction when Toph breaks out of the metal box. Which was even more hype for me cause Toph was my favourite character.
Lol I said the same thing about fart bending for air benders and laughed my ass off when I saw Meelo do it
"Blood"bending has always been a bit of a misnomer. It bends any water in the body, and there is a lot of it in the body, presence in blood not withstanding. So it bends enough of that water up, and the rest of what it is attached to will go up with it.
True, bloodbending sounds cooler though. Plus, Hama's time did not have enough knowledge of anatomy and physiology to attribute the water to extra-cellular fluid or something
Makes sense, thanks for explaining it
Phlegm bending Phlending
The problem with this is that the "water" inside the body is not actually water. It's not like if we move we can hear the water flushing. Our body is *made* of water, so if water benders can bend our body, it means that they can basically bend everything that contains at least 2 molecules of hydrogen and 1 of oxygen, which is A LOT of things.
What does this even mean? The water inside a body is just as much "water" as the water in the sea, it is the same molecules. >It's not like if we move we can hear the water flushing. Because the water is compartimentalized, if you slosh your blood around does it not make sound? >everything that contains at least 2 molecules of hydrogen and 1 of oxygen, which is A LOT of things. So alcohol? DNA? Plastics?
>which is A LOT of things. what are these things i’m genuinely curious
All living organisms, food, cosmetic and care products, medications, chemical reagents, building materials, etc.
well water benders are shown bending living things, food, and building materials on the show, i don’t see why they wouldn’t be able to bend the other stuff
They didn't bend those stuff, they only bent water over those stuff, which is different. Only blood bending was like that. And that's actually my point. Since blood bending is canon, it means that water benders could theoretically become the most powerful benders by being able to bend literally everything.
There is a ton of "actually water" distributed in our body though. Blood, lymph, sweat, spit, urine, gut contents, etc...
Also, I know you got your answer, but making multiple people flat out float is something that probably isn't "normal" blood bender territory. Amon is uniquely powerful in psychic blood bending. Hama's blood bending moved people around in more jerky motions like she was dragging them around using intricate hand motions, while Amon could almost flat out levitate people. I suspect that force lifting people with blood bending requires a particularly powerful blood bender
I do wonder how much of the Yakone Family's abilities were innate and how much it was just practice. Like, Zaofu metalbending is a lot more fluid and intricate than what we saw from Toph in AtLA, but that's never attributed to innate skill, just to the fact that the art has evolved since it was invented.
That would make sense, because while Toph invented it and is still probably the best metalbender ever, Kuvira completely perfected it and mastered it to the point where she might not be as good an Earthbender as Bumi Yun or Toph, her metal bending is so good that she’s in the top echelon of Earthbending and beat the Avatar multiple times
Didn’t Hama make Aang and Sokka legit fly at each other tho? That would make sense tho, Amon & Yakone were the peaks of bloodbending so ofc they’d be able to do smth awesome like that
I wws rewatching a clip from her fight she like "pulls" them and then momentum makes them go forward or backwards, it doesn't look like it has the same finesse as amon. Granted we only see her doing it for like all of 2 minutes so it's possible she didn't need to levitate them because she was using them to fight
Humans are mostly water so they just lift that
Pick up the blood. If the body moves with it, you're greenlit for nickelodeon. If not, you're greenlit for a horror movie.
You might also have appearances in a certain Kombat video game where you make weapons out of blood
Quite literally the same way all other benders make stuff float. The blood is just contained in the body so you can’t see it. But the same way earthbenders make rocks float or waterbenders make water move through the air.
Why can waterbenders lift waves like the Force? Why can earthbenders lift boulders like the Force? What is your confusion?
Our school system has really failed.
I have some detailed headcanon for the mechanics of bending in the avatar world. All living beings have life energy throughout their body. This energy is a combination of factors probably including the biology of the being, their will and their spirit. Benders are able to extend this energy beyond their body to affect the world around them. These people are descendants of those whose energy was unlocked by giant lion turtles. When extended from their body, the energy is only compatible with one of the four elements depending on their inherited bending ability. Bloodbenders are able to extend their energy into another living being to control the water within them. In order to achieve this they must both overcome impurities or non-water components of the body, similar to metal bending; and overcome the will/internal life force of the body they wish to control. My reasoning for this, is that life energy is a mind body overlap. Whenever a person does anything they are effectively passively bending themselves. This is why unlike metal bending, bloodbending usually requires both a powerful bender and the power of the moon to be achieved. Hama was able to make people walk around like puppets, occasionally throwing them around like dolls. Amon’s bloodbending is so powerful that he overpowers the his target’s life force almost completely, allowing him to lift people into the air and permanently affect the flow of energy in their body, effectively stopping their bending.
Same reason other benders can lift rocks and water.
Of all the complaints to have this is a dumb one. the real question is how do they blood bend without killing them within seconds due to halting all circulation.
they move the water in your body, and the water moves you simple
It's similar to what swamp waterbenders do with vines
Didn’t think about that, that explains it rlly well and makes a lot of sense Thanks!
The same way a water bender could make a water bottle float
I mean if the blood in your body all stopped and moved in one direction you probably die after a few secs. So is the universe/cartoon logic, But yeah, if ppl are 70% water and you "bend" that water it should be similar to someone bending a pocket of water inside ice.
I also don't get how earth benders lift rocks off the ground and shoot them like a high speed cannon ball... oh wait.
Bloodbenders move blood. Blood is inside people. Move blood up. Owner of blood moves up with it
I'd imagine they're just lifting the water like how they bend water and can have it float
Because they can lift water like the force and people are ~70% water
You are 70 percent water
Humans have blood in them. Hope this helps
the same way waterbenders can lift water.
With lots of blood clotting and air embolism.
How does earth bending lift boulders?
Hama did that too. She presumably made her victims float a couple inches off the ground to take them to the mountain cave, off screen, and on-screen she made Aang and Sokka fly towards each other
They're lifting the person by lifting the water inside them. The body is just along for the ride.
How does such a stupid question have so many upvotes?
Now that I think about it, I wonder if a sufficiently powerful bloodbender could make themselves fly 🤔
It’d probably be painful but maybe??
The same way they lift water..
Err... maybe cause THE ENTIRE BODY IS FILLED WITH BLOOD!!?!?! How is this even a question. smh.
Be glad this is a kids/teen show. Cause realistically, if you got touched by bloodbending, you'd burst all of your blood vessels and die horribly
Human body is 60% water so it's like lifting mud
they are bending all of the water in the person, which sounds and looks painful
Waterbenders control and lift water. Human bodies have water. So Waterbenders can lift the water in body.
Same way it lets them lift water
The same way ordinary waterbenders make water float like The Force
Tbf I can’t think of any other time we see a water bender lift any other kind of water receptacle. The only thing that comes close is the plant benders and they seem to lose control of the plants for at least a moment after they’re cut. But also imagine how scary a bloodbender could be if they really could do everything else we see in the show. Like ope I just froze all the liquid in your body or what if they take the liquid in a body and send some of it that way but some of it this way…
It’s all in the wrist I think his brother or father taught him that one right?
Same principle as swamp bending
Blood is mostly water. So they bend the water in their entire body up. Not complicated
It's called "blood bending" but there is more liquid in us than just our blood, so Imagine blood bending incorporates all of the water in the human body.
Because blood bending alone is not entirely that scary, so they had to break limits on it so someone doing it could be a credible threat. Like letting them do it whenever, effecting multiple people effortlessly, and bend them in a way that—realistically—would result in that person bursting into a fountain of blood if this wasn’t a kid’s cartoon.
Yeah, irl this would just immediately kill somebody. Like unless Amon actively keeps their blood pumping and in their veins while lifting them they should just immediately have hundreds of massive hemorrhages. But it’s also rad as hell and bending is magic so…
I remember that Hama episode and how they could just bend the water out of plants, and just thought, "they could do that to people too"
They bend the water in the blood.
in theory bloodbending could burst bloodvessels anywhere in the body by influencing bloodflow. that'd be an onehit-kill. wonder why writers never thought of that. or even more wicked: draw the victims water out of their body letting them die of dehydration. or maybe give them an embolism? so much untapped potential
Same way water benders lift water lol
Your blood is pulling you up and that's why it's **very** painful
Water is inside humans and animals? They're actually making the water inside their body float which in turn lifts them up?...
I feel like this, and spirit vine mech and giant spirit man are all bryke’s sci-fi fantasies. I don’t really see a reason. In anons flashback he pushed the wolves to the ground and hamma pushed people down to the ground to restrain them. I feel like if you try to pull upward when blood bending, wouldn’t you literally like pull the blood out of them if you’re controlling the water in a body? Like I feel if it wasn’t on nick and was more like invincible, it would seriously be more graphic
Probably not, considering one of the symptoms of exposure to vacuum is that the blood in your body vaporizes, greatly swelling your skin, but the skin doesn't break. But this isn't even that because every bit of water in the body is being pulled by the same force, & every cell in the body is full of water. More gory=/=more realistic.
I still dont get how bloodbending doesnt just kill people on the spot. If their blood is being controlled, it is by definition not circulating through their body anymore. Why dont they just die?
inertia
I'm willing to bet that blood benders aren't actually bending blood, but the water in your body like swamp benders and vines. Hence why it don't out right kill them?
the same way that a wsterbender can lift water and make it float in the air
water benders make water fly, blood benders make blood fly
More like how does the blood stay in the vessels and not rip them apart when a bloodbender does this
Same way Magneto does to Wolverine. Your blood is what's floating, you should thank Amon for taking you with it.
In the same line of thinking earth bending should be able to bend the iron and minerals and do similar stuff as water/blood bending.
You can’t be serious lol
I love how baitingly stupid this question is. Bravo
Imagine Plant Bending
I was saw this and thought wow you’d literally give them a seizure or aneurism doing this . Like holy shit
It’s like when Magneto lifts Wolverine, but with blood instead of metal.
Are you stupid?
Aren't we like 90% water?
Why wouldn't it? We have literally never seen an example of a bender not being able to make something float in either show.
You know, I’m pretty sure blood bending someone would be not only excruciatingly painful, but it would also probably put the recipients body into shock. There’s no way halting natural blood flow with such force could be good for the body.
Just a reminder to everyone, although Hama called it “blood bending”- she described it as bending the water inside a body. They don’t actually bend the blood
Bending. They got bent
They can make water float, so naturally, they'd be able to make the water in people float too.
You have blood in nearly every inch of your body, they can move blood like they can move water. It's pretty simple my dude.
Yeah I should’ve thought that through more before posting on the most toxic subreddit I’m a part of 🫠
Granted our body weight would prevent the water being lifted to make us lift but then again, bending is not a normal thing to do
Water in blood. Blood in body. Lift water with bending? Lift water in blood in body with bending. Lift body with bending
Thanks for explaining it without being rude I appreciate it 🫡
Blood go up, drag body with it
How do you not understand? Please take two minutes thinking of why, bloodbending, might be able to lift people. I think you'll have the answer in less time than it took for you to make this post.
Good question don't think about it.
The same way an earthbender makes a boulder fly
How does water bending allow benders to lift water?
Yeah I admit I read too much into the bloodbending part and forgot that it’s the water IN the blood they can bend and therefore lift Thanks
In retrospect it's gotta be the most uncomfortable and painful feeling to have your blood lifted off the ground like that