Talk:Bloodbending/@comment-24.61.65.126-20120819162120/@comment-3068994-20120820044541

And the thing I don't like about your posts is that you're countering is hostile, which could very easily put people on the edge and receive critical replies in turn. But; I haven't done that... I have taken the time to fully explain the reasons behind things I said, I can't help that you took it the way you did. I'm sorry for that.

Good point about the bend platinum thing. However, why? Why would that make it 'relevant' then? The last situation was the inability to bend metal, as it was a preclusion to earthbending. That was overcome. The next preclusion, given in LoK, was platinum. All it is, is just another barrier/another type of element. Perhaps down the road an earthbender could discover how to bend it, we don't know- the chance is there. Why do you think it's absolute proof it cannot happen/that it makes the comparison null and void?

Prior to Hama, bending other people's bodies/blood was a preclusion to waterbending. Hama overcame that. Bloodbending came with its own 'presumed' preclusion - inability to bend except during the full moon. That was erased during LoK season 1. It isn't the question of whether it was possible, it was just deemed impossible, same as bending metal until Toph broke it. Same as bending platinum (until who breaks it? If at all?).

It's just a barrier for which someone creative has not overcome yet. And once overcome, they can teach it to others. And if anybody had said that someone who could bend was Yakone's son, their minds would of course jump to the first conclusion to his talents of bloodbending and presume he passed that on. And of course, he did.