Talk:Firebending/@comment-108.26.74.76-20120624225213

Hate to bring fanfiction into this, but I'm reading a particularly good one called Embers by Vathara.

Long story short, it introduces the idea of "fire healing" (using green,gold, and violet flames from the sun warrior episode. Think Northern lights) being a sub-skill for firebenders. And it got me wondering why waterbending is the only bending art that has healing capabilities. Book 1 and 2 I was ok with it, but than you get to book 3 where blood bending shows up (and than there's LOK, where bloodbending restrictions no longer apply), and than its like "Wait. WTF?"

So not only do water benders have the only known form of super natural first-aid. They also have the ultimate attack method (with firebending being the offensive-based element of POWER, you'd think that title would belong to them). So it really feels like fire should get some kind of new sub-skill in LOK season 2. Not necessarily(sp?) healing, but something to even the playing field. Fire and water are opposites so you would think by definition they would be equals. Right now thats really not the case.