Talk:Airbending/@comment-216.73.73.66-20111130170950/@comment-75.101.1.190-20120127052236

In response to other posters - no, a firebender Doesn't need air to firebend. They may not be able to create flames, but a skilled firebender can still generate heat, which is all a firebender is really doing.

"If we're apply real world science in this situation,-" I have a rule about trying to apply real-world science to bending: don't apply real-world science to bending. I've seen people try to use "science" to justify the craziest nonsense (there's carbon in the earth and carbon in our bodies - therefore earthbenders can bend human bodies). Besides, the first thing that science will tell you is that you can't make air move by making kung-fu poses. Bending is explicitly based off of Eastern Mysticism; the real world sciences do not apply.