Yeah...matter of fact come to think of it , Iroh always mentions that true fire breathing comes from the breath , so it could be a case where the take in air through their lungs , feel the heat permeate through their body and channel it through their Chakra pathways.
I agree, this has always been a theory of mine. I assume the reason the Airbenders didn’t just clap the firebenders was due to their teachings and way of life. They are a peaceful and spiritual people, so suffocating people is probably out of the question. Kind of like how I’m sure other waterbenders figured out they could bend the blood in your body but it was never something the 2 major tribes latched onto because it goes against their beliefs.
I think it could most definitely be a plausible thing in the Avatar universe. Fire benders can shoot lightning, and and water benders can change the tempature of water, so I think it’s safe to say air benders could theoretically create pockets of space with less oxygen in the air than normal.
But that needs to be from an expert water bender not everyone can just do it. Whereas firebenders by default have to do it out of thin air to even qualify as benders
They also can only attack from one direction and don’t have access to all the more broken forms of bending
Earth ending could just make the ground swallow you whole or bend the metal in someone’s body (I’ve also heard of bone bending that like one person did but probably not canon)
Waterbenders become basically unbeatable when they can blood bend and could simply form ice to appear in someone’s chest cavity
Air benders can straight up fly and steal oxygen from your lungs
Fire attacks all originate from the user so you know exactly where it’s coming from and lighting bending is a decent bending style king windup for good payoff nothing special
You couldn't bend the metal in peoples bodies since metalbending is based on imperfections and the metal in peoples bodirs is litteraly metal atoms usually bonded to organic molecules. You don't have pieces of metal in you, you have small amounts of metal used in the structure of some protein complexes and similar componds.
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u/Ok_Figure_4181 May 24 '24
Firebenders create their element out of nothing so I don’t see why they complain about only getting a power boost every century