that Korra will be stripped of her ability to bend the elements she knows, but develop air-bending in the wake of that, and have air-bending unlock her ability to bend water, earth, and fire as well.
I think that would work brilliantly. We've seen Aang blocked from the Avatar state, but never an Avatar with no bending at all: and especially if this round of balance is between non/benders, it would give Korra a very different perspective than even an Avatar who hadn't been a prodigy like herself.
I know the healing is all glowing energy things, but suppose it is, actually, the other side of the coin from bloodbending, and they are two ends to a middle?
And if the show doesn't go there, I commission you to write the fanfic.
I really wish that she had been there to help take down Yakone.
She is the obvious first-call witness at the trial, yes, and as the only other known practicing bloodbender of her day, the only person who might have been able to hold off Yakone without needing to go into the Avatar state—I'd have called that reason enough to have her on hand during the sentencing. It makes me think that her absence is somehow significant, because the other answer is that she went by the wayside of married-with-children and that seems inconsistent with the writing of the world so far—Toph doesn't seem to have lost an ounce of casual, cheerful toughness with motherhood—but I'm not coming up with any ideas of what she might have been doing. There really is, for me, the increasing sense of an entire history woven behind the events of Korra that no one is quite thinking to look for, and they should. I am just waiting for the revelations to start piling into the light.
some people on Tumblr noted that Amon was able to move more easily once he stepped forward into the moonlight, making them wonder if actually Yue's influence in the moon is working against bloodbending.
Hah. I hadn't noticed that at all. If nothing else, it's more evidence that the full moon is not the only factor.
I'm not sure about that, but if true it would be another argument for Spirit intervention in imbalanced mortal affairs.
I would love if Yue's transformation turned out to have farther-reaching consequences than "The Siege of the North" and one of the best exchanges about romance in the original series. She's been the moon for seventy years. I imagine she's seen a lot.
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I think that would work brilliantly. We've seen Aang blocked from the Avatar state, but never an Avatar with no bending at all: and especially if this round of balance is between non/benders, it would give Korra a very different perspective than even an Avatar who hadn't been a prodigy like herself.
I know the healing is all glowing energy things, but suppose it is, actually, the other side of the coin from bloodbending, and they are two ends to a middle?
And if the show doesn't go there, I commission you to write the fanfic.
I really wish that she had been there to help take down Yakone.
She is the obvious first-call witness at the trial, yes, and as the only other known practicing bloodbender of her day, the only person who might have been able to hold off Yakone without needing to go into the Avatar state—I'd have called that reason enough to have her on hand during the sentencing. It makes me think that her absence is somehow significant, because the other answer is that she went by the wayside of married-with-children and that seems inconsistent with the writing of the world so far—Toph doesn't seem to have lost an ounce of casual, cheerful toughness with motherhood—but I'm not coming up with any ideas of what she might have been doing. There really is, for me, the increasing sense of an entire history woven behind the events of Korra that no one is quite thinking to look for, and they should. I am just waiting for the revelations to start piling into the light.
some people on Tumblr noted that Amon was able to move more easily once he stepped forward into the moonlight, making them wonder if actually Yue's influence in the moon is working against bloodbending.
Hah. I hadn't noticed that at all. If nothing else, it's more evidence that the full moon is not the only factor.
I'm not sure about that, but if true it would be another argument for Spirit intervention in imbalanced mortal affairs.
I would love if Yue's transformation turned out to have farther-reaching consequences than "The Siege of the North" and one of the best exchanges about romance in the original series. She's been the moon for seventy years. I imagine she's seen a lot.