Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2010 19:58:43 GMT -6
Yeah, the creators were very vague in that respect. Whenever they tried to elaborate on bending it only raised further questions, in a good way. That being said they did at one point say something along these lines. This is from memory so it may not be all that accurate, "Sometimes bad things happen and they just aren't reversible." They use the Holocaust as an example of an atrocity that just cannot be undone in terms of damage. In my opinion, I wouldn't be surprised if the Air Nomads, at least, went extinct after this, that means no more airbenders. It would be a horrible thing to picture but a good message when it comes to thinking about your actions, and the horrors of war which the show touched well upon.
My belief is that this is the end for airbending, at least beyond the Avatar. In my mind, Aang and Katara's kids won't airbend and the world would just have to go on like it had during the war.
As we know, a bender is born and at some point their bending ability manifest itself. My belief is that the Avatars, at least those meant to be born into the Air Nomads, will either be born to peoples who don't really affiliate themselves with a particular element/nation probably islanders or misplace ethnic cleansing survivors. At some point said child would show airbending talent, the people would then realize the severity of the situation and try their best to help the airbending Avatar learn a discipline long since gone from their world, and if they are the Avatar they shouldn't fret too much. If knowledgeable they could just call upon a past life and ask for guidance on their training. Eventually they would move on to the next element in the cycle and move on. Eventually they would die, and the next Avatar would be born, and the cycle would continue with Airbending proving a difficult and possibly near-impossible bending discipline to master for future Earth Kingdom Avatars, assuming the natural opposite deal that Bitter Work suggested is true.
I still say the bigger crime is that there will no longer be herds of sky bison flying through the air pooping on unsuspecting and unlucky individuals. I honestly wish that they could have at least thrown in somewhere that a few, genetically diverse pockets of them survived somewhere, traveling with little flying lemurs on their horns and backs. Oh, if only I had the artistic talent to draw that scene.*teardrop*
They could also just teach themselves airbending, Katara did it with waterbending, despite how bad that went
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My belief is that this is the end for airbending, at least beyond the Avatar. In my mind, Aang and Katara's kids won't airbend and the world would just have to go on like it had during the war.
As we know, a bender is born and at some point their bending ability manifest itself. My belief is that the Avatars, at least those meant to be born into the Air Nomads, will either be born to peoples who don't really affiliate themselves with a particular element/nation probably islanders or misplace ethnic cleansing survivors. At some point said child would show airbending talent, the people would then realize the severity of the situation and try their best to help the airbending Avatar learn a discipline long since gone from their world, and if they are the Avatar they shouldn't fret too much. If knowledgeable they could just call upon a past life and ask for guidance on their training. Eventually they would move on to the next element in the cycle and move on. Eventually they would die, and the next Avatar would be born, and the cycle would continue with Airbending proving a difficult and possibly near-impossible bending discipline to master for future Earth Kingdom Avatars, assuming the natural opposite deal that Bitter Work suggested is true.
I still say the bigger crime is that there will no longer be herds of sky bison flying through the air pooping on unsuspecting and unlucky individuals. I honestly wish that they could have at least thrown in somewhere that a few, genetically diverse pockets of them survived somewhere, traveling with little flying lemurs on their horns and backs. Oh, if only I had the artistic talent to draw that scene.*teardrop*
They could also just teach themselves airbending, Katara did it with waterbending, despite how bad that went
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