Talk:Bloodbending/@comment-4872792-20120225043207

I think bloodbending in reality can't just make a person explode, (not saying it can't kill, with enough practice the flood could be stopped altogether). Katara and Hama were able to use the water extraction technique (which is directly related with bloodbending, it could be considered the mother technique) in plants (the living form immediately below animals in complexity and evolution level) during broad light, and that's when a waterbender ability is at its weakest. I think it can be safely assumed that, during the night (any night), a powerful waterbender should be able to control the inner fluids of lesser animals (invertebrates and maybe even amphibians) but to do it with superior animals (reptiles, birds and mammals) the power of the full moon should be required. The water extraction technique might be completely impossible in animals just because of their sheer complexity, even in the full moon. Not to say that a specially gifted waterbender couldn't do it, if they dedicate themselves to master bloodbending, in that case they might be able to move bloodbending of even superior animals to any night, gain the ability to extract fluid out of lesser animals also in any night and then extract the fluid out of superior animals during the full moon. It still might be prohibited on humans though, given that all bending arts are spiritual in nature and such a human's spirit acts as a barrier to avoid a bloodbender to gain such authority over another person's body.

Or maybe I thought too much into this :P