<div class="quote"><i>Thinker224 wrote:
<div class="quote">AtomicPsychology wrote:
Idk if this is just an animation thing or supporting evidence that she's psychically waterbending, but in "The Stakeout" when Asami escapes woth Korra and Ming-Hua is the first person to see it, her pupils shrink when she shouts, "The Avatar!"</i></div>
Ehh, that probably just to enphasis that she's entering a more tense state of mind. Similar thing could be said when Huan gets angry at Bolin.
<p>But more on-topic, she probably lost her arms way before or was born without arms. Would explain how she's extremely adept to bending without the apendages and why the other members are not surpised in any way. For all we know she bends with more subtle movements (as other said perhaps even spinal movements), or even develped a more psychic style of bending like combustion benders and Yakone's bloodline.
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<p>I definitely agree now, she lost her arms not because of the kidnap attempt, Minghua was born armless then.
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