Talk:Bending Arts/@comment-707005-20101026163541

Bending is largely based on imagination and creativity. The Bending Arts are infinitely flexible in that they can be used to fit any number of situations depending on the mastery level of it's user. Much like drawing/painting, the artist is limited only by his/her skill and imagination.

Toph's ability to bend metal is something any earthbender could have developed, however, through Toph's necessity and creativity, she learned to do it where others have failed.

Another interesting example is Hama's ability to blood bend. She figured out that the water in peoples' bodies could be manipulated by her water bending skills. This and her ability to extract water out of air are great examples of creativity with these skills.

some skills I suspect that there are many other unique properties of bending that have yet to be discovered so if you have any ideas, feel free to share them.

here are are couple of my ideas.

1) For earth benders, the ability to bend the minerals in animal/human bones 9living or dead).

2) For fire benders, the ability to boil a person alive (or spontaneously combust) with their own body heat.

3) For air benders, to extract the air from a person's body/ lungs.

4) For water benders, to turn the any fog or rain (environmental effect) into an icy cold environment around hostiles.

5) For water bender to freeze/boil the water in a person's body.

6) For earth benders to bend sand into projectile darts, walls of solid rock, weapons, or even use the sand as a way to choke enemies and blind them too.

7) for earth benders, the ability to bend special stones deep in the earth such as gems and diamonds. As these are far more durable than normal rocks they would make exceedingly effective weapons, armor and projectiles.

8) for Fire benders the ability to channel the power of sunlight (any source of heat such as body heat) into a focused heat beam (much like Combustion Man aka Sparky Sparky Boom Man). this can be a sustained "laser" or a single shot projectile.

9) For water benders, cloud bending can be an effective weapon since clouds are very common. The use of the water in them can prove to be an effective launching pad for a barrage of icy shards, etc.

10) For water benders, underground water sources can be tapped for their power as well. Boiling hot geyser water can be use to take out an entire invading force.

11) For air benders, the ability to change the density of air, to make the air around enemies so thin they can't breath (or remove the air altogether creating a void). the void (or vacuum) would be an especially effective tool since this would alter the conventional physics of wind resistance among other things.

12) For earth benders, they could simply allow the earth to swallow up the enemies (more easily if they convert the ground into sand first).