Wednesday DE: But everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked

[angry_friendship_wolf]

So, in the universe of Avatar: The Last Airbender, there are four styles of elemental manipulation: Water, the element of change and versatility; Earth, the element of stability and fortitude; Fire, the element of power and life; and Air, the element of freedom and spiritualism.

If your pup was a bender, which element would they use? Or would they not be a bender at all?

Comments

[skyhigh_seance]

So, debating here - I can see Klaus as either Fire or Air.
Fire: Arguably Klaus has one of the more powerful 'gifts, and one of the greatest potentials for causing wide-spread disaster other than his sis Vanya and brother Ben. ... And yeah, I don't think it's a coincidence that the kids with ridiculously powerful gifts were the ones that ended up drugged out of their skulls or dead. ANYWAY.
Air: However, arguably Klaus' gifts lend themselves more to spiritualism than anything else, not that he chooses to do anything along those lines. At all. Ever. Shut up, Ben.

Either way, he'd be patently refusing to bend shit until he's given no other options.

[bjornwilde]

For Ahsoka I can see an argument for either Water or Air, especially with how she moves while fighting. I am going to go with Air though as she is more casually spiritual in Rebels and she does hold a part or all of a manifestation of the Light Side of the Force within her.

While it is tempting to say Fire for Sabine, I think I'll go with Water. Being able to change and adapt is a pretty fundamental part of her character. I can see her as being a Water bender who uses Fire bending forms, much like how Iroh used Water bending forms to improve his Fire bending.

Jess is Fire all the way and has a wicked talent for Lightning bending.

Tybalt isn't quite parsing but if I had to choose, I'd go with Fire as life and the struggle to live are very much a center of him.

Viv, again, isn't parsing very well since she is a construct. For all of that though, I could see her as an Air Nomad for her inherent Zen, serenity, and empathy.

[death_gone_mad]

So Amascut is pretty much in Fire territory. Being a former goddess of Death and Rebirth, though presently she is denying the rebirth part of it, she is all about manipulating life itself. Plus fire magic is her prefered form of combat magic and her least subtle form of mind control magic manifests as lightning.

I am suffering from another bout of Fairy Fixit is true nuetral when it comes to this, so I am just going to steal from the Codex Alera/Chinese elements and assign her to wood.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yamato really should be a Waterbender. The Crest of Friendship is, after all, associated with the Moon, and ice, and death in the sense of the transition from one state of being to another. He's got the entire package of Water Tribe imagery going for him.

But his personality doesn't really fit that at all. His entire thing is setting his eyes on a target and pushing through to achieve it, whether that be through dogged determination or through cunning, and that's really more of a Firebender thing.

So I think I'd settle on him being a really weird Firebender. Like, he's nominally bending Fire, but he's using it to do things like bend the heat out of the air and freeze things, or super-cool and then super-heat the air to make blast waves of wind.

[irish_vagabond]

I'm reading that last paragraph and thinking other Firebenders would be like Yamato wtf are you dooooing

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Just a group of Firebenders somewhere getting steadily more frustrated that Yamato is using firebending to bend a whole bunch of things except actual fire.

"It turns out anything can be fire if you don't care," Yamato just deadpans one day, as he uses thermomagnetism to bend metal, to the unending irritation of everyone nearby.

[sticktothemission]

Khadgar is a Waterbender.

Gabriel is...not Air? I'd think, given the choices he makes in life and who he becomes, he leans most heavily towards Firebending.