Talk:Bloodbending/@comment-72.204.94.1-20120508210343

For everyone who thinks that Korra should learn Bloodbending to stop Amon..... Think about this for a second. Korra is the Avatar, which means she is to master all of the elements. The mastery of the elements is difficult and time consuming, and it leaves little room for more advanced techniques in each of the elements, such as bloodbending, metalbending, lightningbending, and others. Aang only redirected lightning, and if he learned anymore of these advanced techniques, it happened when he got much older.

No matter how talented Korra is, she is still too inexperienced for such a technique. With carelessness, Bloodbending could easily kill the person being controlled, and considering Korra's rash and lack of patience personality, she would have the capability to misuse the technique and cause some serious harm. If she wanted to learn it, I would recommend vast training and learning anatomy for years before she should put it into practice. I highly doubt Korra would have the patience for it, despite her waterbending roots, and especially since she could only use it during a full moon.

We all realize that her bloodbending has potential for being extremely useful when versing Amon, but you have to stop and think about what would happen if she confronted him using it. She could end up killing him which would most likely give birth to a full scale uprising against all benders. Korra represents benders, and the killing of the symbol of non-benders hope would cause a war and forever remove the stability between benders and non-benders alike. Just like when Amon said that taking away Korra's bending would only make her a martyr for the benders, killing Amon would be the same symbol for non-benders. How exactly to remove the threat of Amon is up to the writers, but as of now killing him suddenly isn't the answer.

I don't think Korra's personality is ready for the responsibility and burden of bloodbending, and I think that it should be left only to experienced waterbenders with a lot of training. Let Korra just be the Avatar, and use all of the elements to take care of Amon. Using bloodbending alone on him would be way to easy, so I doubt the writers would let it end that way anyhow :P