Talk:Energybending/@comment-4848126-20121218144541

I've been thinking about energy-bending recently, mainly what the lion-turtle said about it in the days before the avatar: that before elements were bent, energy was. I was thinking about how energy-bending affects bending (being able to restore and take away someone's bending). I was also thinking about how somehow back in the day people copied the moon or badgermoles or dragons or flying bison and learnt to bend - this taking place a very long time ago (seen by those awful lot of avatar statues in the air temple). And then it clicked: the reason that a non-bender can't just go out, find a badgermole and learn earthbending from it is because when people did that thousands of years ago, they ''energy-bent. ''They used the ability in the same sort of way that energy-bending seems to when restoring/taking away bending: it affects the energy in a person's body and how it interacts with that person. In the case of learning bending, this means that energybenders could change the way their energy (chakra I guess) acted, and coupled with the movements of the badgermoles and so on they simultaneously taught themselves bending and changed their chakra so they could bend.

Honestly, I don't care if it isn't canon, it makes sense to me.