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Yeah, he psychically bloodbends his opponents as they launch their attacks. Not enough to subdue them, but enough to allow him to evade their attacks, and so subtly that even his targets don’t notice what he’s doing, let alone an outside observer. Video game aside, Mako pointed this out when he and Korra were in the attic with Tarrlok on Air Temple Island in 1x11

She’s a much more realistic, relatable character than Aang. Watching her growth as a person from pilot to finale, it’s an astounding transformation. She starts out as a brash, hot-headed, and confident teenager, a type of person most of us either know or are/were at one point in our lives. Over the course of the show, she becomes more understanding, patient, strategic, and empathetic, while retaining her unwavering confidence. Her recovery from the crippling injuries sustained at Zaheer’s hands, from the physical paralysis to the mentally debilitating PTSD, reminds everyone, in show and IRL that even the Avatar is human (at least partially) and that war wounds reach beyond the physical body.

Avatar Kuruk died at the age of 33.

Avatar Kyoshi died at the age of 230.

Avatar Roku died at the age of 70.

Avatar Aang died at the age of 165 (chronologically speaking).

That’s a combined age of 498. Divide that number by 4, you get an average age of 124.5. For the sake of the following equation, we’ll round up to 125.

10,000 divided by 125 is 80. That’s why I voted 80.

I don’t hate math as much as the average person. Sue me. XD

Mine has the combined ones

Fire

1: Fire Lord Ozai

2: Uncle Iroh

3: Princess Azula

4: Jeong Jeong

Air

1: Tenzin

2: Jinora

3: Monk Gyatso

4: Zaheer

Water

1: Noatak (Amon)

2: Yakone

3: Councilman Tarrlok

4: Katara

Earth

1: Toph Beifong

2: Kuvira

3: King Bumi

4: Ghazan

During her conversation with Zuko at the duck pond, she saw how Zuko reacted to her statement that the Avatar was dead, and realized that Zuko knew something she didn’t that could’ve allowed Aang to survive her attack. She gained a hunch that Aang was alive, and though she had no concrete proof, she told Ozai that Zuko had taken the Avatar down so as to avoid any potential consequences, knowing that Ozai would be infuriated if the Avatar was revealed to be alive. It was a cunning form of self-preservation.

That theory might explain Bolin’s ability to lavabend, and we don’t know anything about Ghazan’s parents, so that wouldn’t be able to disprove anything. However, multiple Avatars, including Roku, Kyoshi, and Yangchen’s predecessor, showed the ability to lavabend as well, and we already know that Kyoshi didn’t have a firebending parent (her father was an earthbender and her mother was an airbender). Toph did say it was a rare skill, but so was metalbending in the years following the Hundred Year War, and by Korra’s time it had become much more widely used, especially in Republic City, Zaofu, and the short-lived Earth Empire. It’s likely that Ghazan simply discovered the skill by accident or, like Bolin, in a life-or-death situation where the power manifested out of nowhere, and it seems entirely possible that other earthbenders could learn the skill with practice.