Is it possible to bend

A bender's powers cannot extend beyond his native element. Further, the The Legend of Korra episode Beginnings indicates that humans could bend more than one element, with the assistance of the spirit Raava.

However, due to her merging with Wan, and the lion-turtles who granted bending to humans leaving the physical world for the spirit world, no one except the Avatar is capable of this feat. During Aang and Korra's time no, only the Avatar can bend more than one element. It has been explicitly stated in the show and by Bryke.

Children of 2 different bending backgrounds can produce offspring that bend either element, or possibly none at all. Also, children of non-bending parents can have a bending child. They tend to be withing the same element as their culture, but as we see with Mako, Bolin and Aang's children, that is not always consistent. Also, Bryke have intimated in panels that the element available to the bender is both tied to their personality and informs their personality. Specifically that airbenders access to the element air is tied to their spirituality and that they are drawn from the other three nations.

Events in Book 3 may support this interpretation, or could be a one-off event as the aftermath of events in Book 2. The Avatar's ability to bend more than one element comes from an outside force that is revealed during book 2 of Korra.

As we learn in Korra Book 2 chapters 7 and 8 that bending was granted to humans as a defense against the spirits by the Lion Turtles last seen in Last Airbender Book 3 chapter In the episodes of Korra we see that contrary to local legends the bending ability was granted to humans by the Lion Turtles.

With the assistance of the greater spirit Raava he was able to contain the power of air-bending as well as fire-bending. With Raava's continued assistance he was able to learn the bending of all four elements, and his joining with Raava started the Avatar Cycle. This does not actually contradict the legends of badgermoles, the moon, flying bison, and dragons teaching people how to bend.

Though they were not granted the power by those species it is entirely possible that those species taught them how to use and perfect the use of the elements.

As explained in the answer to the question you linked, there are several reasons why someone can't bend multiple elements, and these apply as much to your question as that question.

In particular, even if the techniques to bend sand are more similar to the techniques to bend water, sand is still a variety of Earth, and as such the spiritual connection to sand is formed by Earthbenders, not by Waterbenders, and a Waterbender won't be able to bend sand. The closest anyone who isn't the Avatar could come to blending an element beyond their own is most likely mixed materials, such as Mud for a Waterbender due to the high amount of water in mud.

Finally, as also said in the answer to the question you linked, if it was possible, people would have. Several people in the series are very powerful in their element, and would have grasped the chance to bend another if they could have. Well bending seems to be a talent a gene they get from their parents, like how some people can sing while others try but no matter how hard they try they cant ever be a singer like the natural talent, plus the Avatar is blesses from the spirits an opening of all chakras, he possess these as well where others do not.

Not to mention the Chi needed to bend certain elements, that's why when someone blocks their Chi they cant bend I believe the Chi and the element have a certain connection and like what I was saying earlier about the genes, they could have like a dad who has a brunette gene and a blinds gene Bb, and the mom has two blonde genes but half of those kids will be brunettes and they may have the blonde gene but only the brunette shows well that's what it is for bending I think even though you have the genes of both only one shows.

We learn from Wan in Beginnings, part 1 that originally humans would gain bending powers from the Lion Turtles. The granting of such powers was temporary, though; humans received the power prior to venturing into the wilds, and would have their bending removed upon coming home.

Moreover, each Lion Turtle would grant only bending associated with one specific element. Wan subverted this by sneaking into town, so the fire Lion Turtle wouldn't remove his bending. Long story short, he kept his firebending ability in a sort of "permanent" form. Later on, he requests the power of air bending from the air Lion Turtle. The following conversation ensues:. Air Lion Turtle: You already carry the power of fire. No human has ever held two elements at the same time.

Wan: I'm not like other humans. I can learn to do it. Air Lion Turtle: Hmm, perhaps. But to do so, Raava must hold the power for you until you master it. The dialogue is somewhat ambiguous in that it doesn't tell us whether Raava's help is a requirement for a human to hold multiple elements, or if Wan needs her involvement only because the Lion Turtle wants so. I won't enter a discussion whether Unalaq's ability to corrupt spirits was an extra form of bending, granted by Vaatu.

I am more interested in their eventual fusion by the end of the second season of the Legend of Korra. Vaatu saw that he was defeated by the fusion of a human and the spirit of light. He then joined with Unalaq to become the "dark avatar". If we consider for a moment that Vaatu's nature is similar to that of Raava, he would be able to hold powers other than waterbending for Unalaq.

And while the pair would probably have a hard time convincing a Lion Turtle to grant them more powers or even finding a Lion Turtle, for that matter , the ability to "hold" more than one element would remain. So we have one or two ways in which someone other than the avatar could bend more than one element. It has always been a possibility, despite never having happened. Considering that none of the avatar had anything in common besides their devinity, it is safe and not illogical to assume that the avatar is merely the incarnation of a spirit among humans.

He avatars sole purpose is to kep peace and ballance amongst the nations and thus the world. So the sole difference between say, roku and zuko, is that zuko is a natural born firebender where as roku is just a spirit in human form. What way to keep peace than to istill someome woth ultimate power right? So, base on the rules of the show no one person can bend more than one element unless that person happens to be the avatar.

Now, remarking on what followed. There are only four bending elements. Water, Earth, Fire and Air. Sadly, we can't bend the elements using just our body But there are things that come close. Anything can be done with a little science and a lot of creative extrapolating and imagination.

I'm referencing all the types of bending as in Avatar Wiki. Airbending could be done using some form of pump to push air. However, it takes a stretch to compare Aang's graceful movements to the mechanisms we have in place. And yes, such "air-bending" would be uni-directional in movement, with little or no control over its movement. Imagine a jet pack - very bulky and it operates for a short time.

Then there's this guy. Unsure if true or false, but this guy can really use air to his advantage -. Flight is definitely possible : But doing it like Aang did would take a special aircraft called Powered hang glider. Waterbending is sadly out of our reach. The ability to manipulate fluid water is well beyond us. Season 1.

Episode 1. Retrieved on August 12, July 15, March 18, Episode 5. June 2, Season 2. Episode 9. August 22, The Legend of Korra. Book Three: Change. November 22, Book Two: Spirits. December 2, November 9, Episode 8. October 21, April 7, Episode 3. May 5, Episode 6. December 1, July 14, June 9, Book One: Air. June 23, October 18, Like the Imperius curse in Harry Potter , Mindbending can be utilized for actions as mild as gently prodding an individual into taking a particular decision to literally converting them into the user's puppets for all intents and purposes.

Therefore, Mindbenders are expected to be held accountable for their practices, although autocratic organizations may unfairly suppress them as a preventive measure which would not end well, for sure. Leaving aside the probability of paradoxes the standard outcome of messing with the sequences of events , Timebending is a magnificent tool that has limitless potential. Traveling too far back into the past or ahead into the future is certain to cause unwanted ripples in the timeline, but taking a hop into yesterday or tomorrow should be feasible.

This way, a Timebender won't have to rely on the irreversibility of temporal flow and can make their choices accordingly. There is much that can go wrong with this discipline, though. Ajay's natural habitat is his bedroom, which means that his time is spent staring at his TV screen in a hypnotic coma.

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