<div class="quote"><i>DrachenRitter42 wrote:
Did you even <i>see </i>the episode in which Bloodbending is introduced in ATLA? Katara was <i>horrified </i>at it, and only ever actually used it herself when she had no other choice. I can't remember Katara ever actually willingly bloodbending another individual, with one possible exception(My recollection is fuzzy, but I vaguely recall her possibly using it - and later regretting having done so - in the episode in which she and Zuzu track down her mother's killer).
<p>Plus, as Agression pointed out, Katara is the <i>main reason why bloodbending is illegal in the Republic.</i>
</p><p>So while we do not know where Yakone learned how to bloodbend, much less mastered the art to a degree far beyond Hama's, but we do know with absolute certainty that if there is one waterbender in the world who definitely did <i>not </i>teach bloodbending to Yakone or anyone else, it's Katara.
</p><p>Katara intentionally used blood bending on the souther raiders to try and avenge her mother.
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