In Korra we see that a Spirit tells Korra that vines and spirits are the same thing. So if a human eats the vines they are basically eating spirits. In the Shadow of Kyoshi Novel we see an example of a human eating a spirit when Yun, the false Avatar, ate Father Glow-Worm. Yun gain a ghastly aura around him and a boost in his Earth bending abilities as well as the ability to burrow between the Spirit and Material world. So in theory if a human ate Spirit vines they would become human-spirit hybrids and attain special abilities attributed to the Spirit vines. The Spirit Vines covering Republic City were created by Vaatu and are thus as extension of Vaatu’s influence on the Material World. So in theory if someone were to eat Spirit vines from Republic City then they would gain some attributes of Vaatu such as his purple spirit beam, ability to propagate plant life, a dark aura, flight, or even Waterbending (since Vaatu and Unalaq become one). There are so many possibilities. Would eating the Spirit Vines from the Foggy Swamp and in particularly the Bayon Grove Tree have different effects since they are not from Vaatu and according to Baatr Jr have high spiritual potency then that of Republic City? Possibly since the Swamp makes one see illusions and have visions then that’s an ability that Vine Eater might possess; illusion creation and possible mind control or mind reading. Please give me your thoughts.
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@BuffKage The Spirit said it like that because it assumed that it was common knowledge. After saying “Spirits, Vines, same thing.”, the Porcupine Spirit went on to say “You’d expect the Avatar to know that.” Which means that it’s statement wasn’t just true but an established fact that should be common knowledge to even the Avatar. Korra tried to Spirit-Bend the Vines and was momentarily successful until they regrew aggressively. So if the Vines could be spirit-bent then they are definitely “Spirits”.
What would happen if a human ate Spirit Vines or a Spirit Vine Fruit 🍎? Would they get powers or spirit abilities? Like Devil Fruits 🍌 in One Piece.
In Korra Book 2, Korra ask a Porcupine Spirit on how to get rid of the vines and it responds by saying “Spirits, Vines, same thing”. Going by this logic that means eating a spirit vine is the same as eating a spirit.
In the Shadow of Kyoshi it was shown what the effects of eating a spirit would have on a human. Yun, the false Avatar, ate FatherGlowWorm’s eye 👁 after defeating him, and subsequently gained the ability to burrow/create portals between the spirit world and the mortal world. He also gained a ghastly spiritual aura reminiscent of the tendrils which used to encircle Father GlowWorm’s Eye. In attitude, Yun became more bloodthirsty and malevolent in a way being corrupted by FatherGlowWorm’s Power.
So with this theory, if a human were to eat spirit vines they would gain spiritual abilities based on the spirit they ate as well as the personality and aura accompanied by that spirit. It differs from spirit-body possession as the human host is not disfigured while the spirit remains unaffected after separation. In this case the spirit dies (spirits don’t die but are rather incarnated into a new form) and the human gains their abilities but becomes corrupted.
Since spirit vines can be highly destructive if tinkered with let’s say that eating two spirit wine fruits would make a human explode from the two spirits being at war within them. When the human dies the two spirits are released back into the Spirit World.
Reaffirming that spirits can not die, in the comics General Old Iron explained to Aang that spirits can’t be killed or die as they are immortal but rather change into new forms. General Old Iron then becomes a cluster of crab serpents 🦀 🐍 and retreats to the sea. Other examples include Princess Yue becoming the Moon 🌙, Raava reincarnating into the next Avatar, etc.
This also means that Vaatu is still alive and may have a new incarnation since he fused with the human, Unalaq.
Perhaps since Vaatu created the Spirit Vines in Republic City, the Vines are Vaatu’s new form/incarnation. Similar to Raava’s essense in Wan’s Teapot being used to resurrect her during Harmonic Convergence.
That’s a cool theory, the spirit vine entering the stomach (sea of chi) overloads the human and causes them to implode. But let’s assume it can be use to enhance them...like some Spirit Wilds Tarzan non-bender that has super-human abilities from being on a strictly spirit vine diet. Like real super strength or teleportation or intangibility...I just want explore the possibilities.
I think Zuko would be the first die since he is the oldest, is male and currently the most active so thus he is under more stress.
Between Toph and Katara, I think Toph dies first because Aunty Wu predicted that Katara would die after the birth of her third great-grandchild and at the moment her grand-children are all still children. Fast for 30 years and Katara would die at the age of 117 years old. Toph may just bury herself under the Bayon Grove Tree when she’s bored of life and become one with the Earth and Swamp permanently (in that way she may technically live forever but that’s just fanon lol)
It would be cool if Mako was given new Firebending abilities from the Spirit Energy passing through him or even unique spirit based abilities ...like how Wan fused with Raava by touching the Harmonic convergence charged spirit portal. Mako could have literally become a walking spirit portal (Teleporter or even conduit to summon spirits), get various colors of Flame, or Purple Lightning or even his own pseudo Avatar State!!!! The comics kinda wasted that potential.
Most likely Flight, since he had feathers, and possibly the ability to breath dragon fire as he now sported a beak and the ability to illuminate his body as light source. It would be cool if he had the ability to use all the different colors of firebending (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, magenta, violet and even white light). Since the pattern of body structure for humans possessed by spirits is normally half their face includung their mouth and one or both arms affected, I'd say that the Governor's son's body would consist of two wings with taloned hands, a dragonbird eye and beak with red-purple feathers on one side of his face.
Koh has stated that all those that he steals faces from are connected to his lifeforce. This is how he escapes being slayed by Kuruk, when he says that Ummi would simultaneously be killed. That also means that Koh's victims are immortal. They don't require any food to survive and don't age as shown in the Promise comic with Rafa whose face was restored by the Mother of Faces and looked extremely younger then his younger sister as if he did not age a day since his face was stolen. They are also Blind and lack a sense of smell. They can still make sounds and possibly speak given that the curly tailed Blue-nose monkey Aang encountered in the Spirit World could still make chattering sounds even without a face...I guess the vocal cords are unaffected. The ears are also unaffected so echolocation could possibly be developed by Koh's victims.
Imagine an Earthbender with Seismic sense becomes a Faceless Immortal Bounty Hunter, with a Shirshu steed (to compensate for his lack of smell and provides a surplus of paralyzing venom). He can never starve, he can perceive the world around him through seismic sense and spirit sensing through the Earth, be a truth seer by checking the fluctuations in people's pulses, Skilled Earth and possibly Metal bender and even act as a portal for Koh to enter the Physical world almost like being able to summon Koh (In this way, he can offer sacrifices to Koh while Koh defends him in battle as reciprocation), and also teleport to the Spirit World (Koh's lair specifically at one point and to any point in the physical world from there).