Talk:Bloodbending/@comment-12772397-20130720051242/@comment-12772397-20130721041311

i think the only way they can reconcile the great imbalance they've created among the elements with giving bloodbending the great power it has, especially since it can now remove a person's bending, is if they make it possible with the other bendings too.

now this sounds ideal but the way this could possibly happen though very farfetched and stretching it quite a bit is this way:

since bloodbending allows the removal of one's bending by selectively removing the flow of blood to certain parts in the brain that are related to chi and one's connection with the element they bend and severing that connection, this may also be accomplished by:

airbending: removing the oxygen flow in the blood away from those areas

metalbending: removing mineral flow, like iron, from those areas

firebending: (the hardest one to think about even though the others are already ridiculous) removing the heat flow to that area to inactivate that area of the brain, perhaps.

now it hasn't been proven yet if the way bloodbending does it is permanent, though it is assumed to be, maybe i'm just in denial about it being permanent because eventually, wouldn't blood flow just return to normal? though it may take a lot of time. though energybending could speed it along.

this would bring more balance to the elements.

also as for bloodbending's counterparts (as i still protest bloodbending being the subset of waterbending and root more for plantbending [no pun intended])

firebending: removing the heat from one's body so that it becomes impossible for them to function properly

earthbending: disrupting the mineral balances (zinc, magnesium, etc) in our bodies. i don't know enough about minerals and their importance to our function but if they work like ions do (assuming here) disrupting the mineral balances between certain barriers inside our body could immobilize us or disrupt the nervous system. but it's not the only way this could work.

airbending: knock the breath out of someone, make it hard for them to breathe and take the air out of their bodies so they can't even breathe. this could knock them out.

however dark this may be the imbalance REALLY bothers me since realistically they should be on the same level as one another. we could call these types of bendings forbidden versions of bending the four elements since it's so immoral. and put plantbending there as the regular subset along with metal, lightning and ?sound?