soungbending was used in book one air chapter ten turning the tides when meelo started fartbending a mix of sound and sceantbending. not to mention that earthbenders could also develop plantbending being made of water and earth. not to mention that humans and spirits could always marry and create some kind of crossbreed.

<p>an airbender can't "scentbend". the fartbending is about as close as you'll get to that, but that had nothing to do with soundbending. meelo was just focusing his fart into the equalists' faces, he wasn't creating a fart that wasn't already there. an example of soundbending can be seen in "tales of BSS" when aang amplifies his bison whistle so it could be heard across the city. another example is in "the firebending masters" when aang amplifies his call for help. </p><p>pro-tip: type your reply in source mode for spell-check. (click the [ ] button at the bottom of the reply box; the left-most one) </p>

<p>I don't think spirits will be able to marry and cross bread. getting married is possible but a human and a spirit cannot be connected because the spirit would kill the human. Humans might be able to learn new techniques from spirits but would not be able to merge bodies completely. The only way the avatar and anti-avatar were able to have spirits is with the harmonic convergence which wont be around for another 10,000 years. </p>

what I meant was a human and spirit got married and had a baby and human and spirit are both dominant traits so with codoninance you get the result of blending which is where I get the idea of the crossbreed and I knew that aang had soundbended in tales of BSS and in the firebending masters. And as for the crossbreed thing I never said anything about merging all I said was they marry have sex and have a baby.

<p>Okay so back to the original topic (which has somehow turned into a topic of crossbreeding) . . . </p><p>Yeh, I totally think it would be cool if we saw some more variations that were used in ATLA used in LOK and some more new and original variations born in LOK. Though you cant deny that lots of old variations have been reused in LOK: healing, bloodbending, metalbending, seismic sense and lightning generation. Their have also been a few new variations created: spirit manipulation (which uses waterbending) it was created by Unalaq) and fartbending (which uses airbending) it was created by Meelo). We have also been lucky enough to see energybending again (which isn't a varation, but I thought that I'd mention it anyway). </p><p>While that has been said, it would be nice to see more of the variations that we haven't seen much of yet use in LOK. I would love to see some more sandbending, cloudbending, lavabending, sweatbending (because it's useful), mudbending, plant manipulation and many other littleused and mentioned variations used in the up coming LOK books/seasons. </p>

sweatbending is just waterbending with your sweat it is no sub skilland cloud bending needs an airbender and a waterbender so tenzin or one of his kids has to do it with Korra.

<p>I have wondered how the first Airbenders were allowed to float on clouds (in the Raava era). We see them riding them. Maybe they manipulate the air around a cloud making it move. Airbenders wont be able to transform clouds into water, that would require a Waterbender. I would love to see sound bending, if it is possible. </p>

<p>I think the cloud riding thing was more of a stylistic kind of thing, as all airbending during Beginnings has a very cloudy look to it. Chances are they were using a technique similar to the air scooter, as actual clouds can't support any weight. </p>

<p>Here's a possible special technique for air benders, I thought that since people breath air and there's air in people's lungs maybe air benders could bend the air with in people causing suffocation or their lungs to explode by increasing the air pressure in there lungs. It's pretty gruesome but I like this theroy but it probably will never happen due to the fact that air benders are pacifistic and non violent </p>

<p>I was thinking the same thing. They may have the most potential out of any bender but live in moderation. I always thought they would be able to levitate people or manipulate the air around people. Maybe have some type of "Force" that they can use. I do think air has the most potential out any element, maybe that's why only monks posses this power. </p>