Talk:Chi/@comment-207.200.116.14-20110120020717/@comment-76.24.189.176-20111228063608

Actually, I'm glad you brought this up because I think a waterbender with a good healing hand who also knew chi blocking could make it especially devastating and in my opinion it is the most interesting concept of waterbending they could expand on. I'm not sure is they could use ranged chi blocking but I wouldn't rule it out yet. As for bloodbending, it is the controlling of water inside a living organism such as a rat or human. Human's are 70% water so it's the water inside of the person the bloodbender is manipulating and it is much different from chi. As far as it is known, this can only be done by a waterbender on the night of a full moon. I assume the restriction is because a full moon would be when waterbenders are most powerful as the moon gives waterbenders extra power (especially when full). The moon was actually the original waterbender (ocean tides). Therefore, I assume the restriction is due on some level to power so if a powerful waterbender were to get a stronger chi flow or something by using the chakra gate technique (the one that Aang used to enter the Avatar state and it probably isn't the only use or limited to avatars and the avatar state) or something similar, they might be able to overcome that restriction at least to a point. There is a potential to impact bloodbending with chi blocking but I don't know if it would be the answer or part of the answer to the full moon restriction, and I'm not sure exactly what the effects would be.