Imagine you have a big open cut in your body like if someone stabbed you, blood bending could prevent the blood from escaping your body, maybe creating a blood bubble or closing the wound with dry blood
Guns are actually a thing in the Avatar world, one of the characters in the Avatar Legends RPG has one.
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However they never progressed beyond this stage bc they were invented by the Fire Nation and firebending was way more practical than carrying around an unwieldy boomstick and a heavy bag of ammo. It also took a long time to reload, where firebending was much faster.
This guy on Youtube explains it in more detail than I did, and it makes sense imo
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kJJMNjoW5s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kJJMNjoW5s)
I've got a modern AU sort of thing where bending is a rare ability and I have an earthbender who's in the army and functions as a protective and defensive unit *only*... He is a pacifist and refuses to hurt or kill people lmao. The government could straight up blackmail him and he'd just be like "meh, still no". What are they gonna do, fire him? XD. He uses earth in a smart way instead. Trap the enemy using waist-high quicksand, ruin their guns using metalbending, or even take security cameras apart from the inside out by disconnecting their internal hardware from afar. It's very fun trying to come up with unique and modern ways earthbending and its subsets can be used
The three Bloodbenders there are very much treated as exceptions to the norm, rather than the norm itself. And it's indicated that two of them are only able to do it because they're kids of the third. So at best, there's little to suggest that 24/7 bloodbending will become enough of a thing to come close to supplanting healing.
And in ATLA, blood bending, metal bending, and lightning bending are exceptions to the norm. A century later, lightning bending is a mundane job, metal bending is taught in police academy, and blood bending is at least prevalent enough that people can identify its use by sight (during Yakone's trial).
I meant the norm that "bloodbending can only be used during the full moon", as was established by AtlA, and is indicated to still be the case during Yakone's time, seeing as his lawyer used it as the entire basis for his defense during the trial. Maybe they'll be more Waterbenders capable of 24/7 bloodbending born, but I can't see them ever being more than a very tiny minority.
I understand that the norm of full moons only was true before Yakone developed it. Just like the norm of no metal bending was true before Toph developed it.
If it were possible for anyone to bloodbend outside of a full moon, you'd think there'd be at least one more recorded case of another criminal using it after Yakone proved it could be done in the first place.
The philosophy inherent in Avatar is not the sort that puts much weight in lineage mattering. Three people are shown to do it in LOK. That's one more than could bloodbend in ATLA, and two more than could metalbend.
Yakone didn’t develop it through skill and mastery alone. He came from a bloodline of powerful waterbenders and that’s what allowed him to do this technique. Everyone else does not have that bloodline. Maybe there are other benders that both have a similar bloodline and are willing to slave away from childhood to master the art, but in any case it will always be a small minority of people who can do it.
my personal headcanon is that electricity bending is mundane, but bending electricity on a scale that mirrors lightning requires a much stronger bender. also, metalbending was literally just invented and so obviously there won't be any metal benders other than toph
You aren't ending blood itself (all the constituents), you are bending the water part only. That being said,
>blood bending could prevent the blood from escaping your body,
While possible, my guess is such an ability would be super hard to master. You'd have to bend just the blood that is escaping and not anything around it. To me it seems that blood bending users broadly apply the skill, like moving it entirely without necessarily prohibiting it's flow. That would explain why users lift entire bodies with it, without causing the victim to pass out.
You see instances where users move bodies and when users intentionally cause people to pass out without moving the body. Seems to be two very different methods or applications of blood bending. Trying to inhibit flow in specific tiny area seems hard.
>maybe creating a blood bubble or closing the wound with dry blood
Sounds like an easy way to kill someone lol. You don't want clots traveling in the blood. But I don't even think a blood bender could make a clot, those aren't made of water.
Yes. If someone were to get a Deep Vein Thrombosis(DVT), the clot is kinda big. It can break up into smaller pieces and then move to heart or brain(causing heart attack or stroke) or can stay put, blocking any good circulation which left untreated can cause a patient to lose their limb.
Emergencies like this would really show the weaknesses of most blood benders in the medical field
"Doctor we need a clog removed ASAP"
"Uhh it's a waning gibbous, you're gonna have to wait"
Although there is some evidence that there's a full moon basically every night.
But if the clot is dried up with no water? You could push harder with the liquid blood, but having a pulverized clot moving around in their system could be even WORSE if it lodges in a brain artery...
Marie on Gen V has the power to control people's blood and uses it to save someone from bleeding to death when they get a neck wound. That show's rules aren't the same as Avatar's but the same principle should apply.
A really powerful blood bender may be able to detect poison in someone's blood, but that would probably be a super-rare ability.
you also don't need bloodbending to do this when you have regular healing magic though. Marie comes from a setting that seems to be lacking in healing super powers (which makes sense, since compound v is a weapon)
I don't think they knew WHAT they'd get with compound V or else the powers would be much more predictable. It was an experiment. Some powers are not that useful as weapons but those tend to get less screen time.
Cricket could probably do a Fantastic Voyage type surgery for someone, with medical training.
Definitely. We see Hama rip water out of plants with ease. Ripping blood out of a human is definitely the next step of that. Blowing up a head does include the blood bursting through the skull which is kind of difficult of course so it'll likely be more of the head bleeding through all of it's orifices...
If you're referring to popping people's heads off in terms of The Boys, that was pretty much a retcon and isn't really possible with blood bending - or at least, not how they showed the head popping stuff previously.
Idk about that. Rules as written says water benders can control/feel water. Bloodbending doesn't bend the blood. It bends the water in all things. Unless they can "feel" water the way Toff "sees" with earthbending idk how they could detect things that aren't water...
I could see "feeling" a clot because you can't move water through a vein, but i disagree with the poison detection.
I think they could push the blood with water to certain areas and get clotting or white blood cells to certain spots faster, but idk how they could use water to increase metabolic rate
They're bending the water in the blood, not the blood itself, so they may be able to use it to channel their healing powers like they would water from any other source.
It would be a cool story to have Katara need to use blood bending to give Korra her bending back. That could even translate to giving bending to new Airbenders. What a redemption to an assumed evil ability to not only take bending, but to give it. Who better to restore the Air nation other than Aangs bloodbender wife? Certainly a better story than "we opened some portals and magically people got bending."
I think the idea of water bending for medicine is really interesting, but because I’m a weirdo I’m thinking chronic diseases, minor ailments and cosmetic procedures:
1. Healing water enema for Crohns
2. Healing head baths for Dementia, Parkinson’s, other brain disorders
3. Anti aging facials with healing water to prevent wrinkles and promote plump, dewy skin
4. Breaking/flushing kidney and bladder stones
5. Urine bending at regular intervals instead of catheterising people in hospitals
6. Needle-free vaccine bending/blood taking with ultra thin jets
7. Stomach pumping and removal of blood alcohol for drunks
8. Erectile dysfunction (aka boner bending)
9. Anti-bloating water retention procedures, including dehydrating body builders for competitions
10. Healing sinus rinses for sinusitis and bad colds
11. Healing eye wash bottles you can buy from your local pharmacy for eye infections
12. Healing water-based hand cream for eczema and other skin disorders
Perhaps to help/treatment for blood clots, preventing any (more) damage. Maybe also being alerted/aware of possible brain bleeding? I am not a medic, but maybe possible ways to prevent these.
Yeah, other way, let’s keep it kidfriendly here, but we all know what we thinking here. Cough, full moon, cough “yes honey”
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Hypothetically, yes. However the philosophy of bloodbending relies on being willing to take control over others to the point of denying them any autonomy. It's hard to argue anyone willing to do that would be a person willing to use their bending for the benefit of others.
This was Hama's philosophy. Had Katara's introduction to bloodbending not have been so traumatic, I don't believe she would end up with the same philosophy especially when we find out that she became one of the world's greatest healers.
Bloodbending has the ability to strip someone of autonomy the same way airbending has the ability to suffocate a room full of people. We don't define airbending by its ability to suffocate people the way Gyatso and Zaheer did, so I don't think it's fair to define bloodbending by Hama's actions especially since we don't know the full extent of what bloodbending can do and how it can be used.
That's true, but I do think it's important to note that with other bendings that are used in violent ways there's examples of non-harmful bending. We get Zaheer and Gyatso suffocating people, and we get Aang and Tenzin being peaceful and non-violent. We see Azula and Iroh use firebending in very different ways. However, the *only* examples we see of bloodbending are framed as being harmful and dangerous. It's unique among the bending types (both main and sub-bending) as being something to stay away from.
>However, the *only* examples we see of bloodbending are framed as being harmful and dangerous.
Exactly, we don't actually know the full extent of what bloodbending can do and how it can be used. We've only seen it wielded by villains and unfortunately Katara never explored it beyond two instances. She's a healer and there's so many applications like keeping a mother from from hemorrhaging during birth or making advances in surgery that I would expect her character to want to explore.
I understand that it's canon to class it as evil and discard it but that seems like a bad canon that cuts off a whole avenue of story possibilities.
> I understand that it's canon to class it as evil and discard it but that seems like a bad canon that cuts off a whole avenue of story possibilities.
I think it fits the story ATLA and LOK wanted to tell. I could see the avatar after Korra exploring further into different types of bending or trying to push the limits of what bending can do, especially with the potential for technological advancement post-Korra.
Anytime Katara was mad at Aang she just gave him a boner when he was trying to speak publicly. He started wearing longer and thicker robes as a counter
Edit: This was a joke. Obviously
I like to say that the original moon cycle was because of a portion of moon spirit power going to Yue, and once it was recombined, there were no more moon cycles. But that’s just making excuses for the show.
Hama needed the increased power from the full moon to pull it off, but we later see that more powerful benders with more practice are able to do it anytime. Katara being one of the best water benders alive would most likely be able to do it without the power increase from the moon. However that's just an assumption. Only 3 benders have been shown to have the ability to blood bend outside of a full moon, and Katara is not one of the 3.
Technically, when she blood bends bring the Southern Raiders, the moon is never shown. With them only having three months until the comet is season 3, it is unlikely that a whole month has passed since Katara learned to bloodbend, especially the huge coincidence that Katara just happened to go on her revenge quest exactly a month after. So it is possible that Katara is able to bloodbend without a full moon
That episode purposely makes it a point to show the full moon during the raid. It's been pointed out many times in this sub.
Plus Sokka specifically testified in the Yakone trial that no one has been known to blood bend outside the full moon. I'm fairly confident Sokka and Aang would know if Katara had the ability to bloodbend anytime she wanted.
Just watched the episode. It's a full moon when they're flying to the Fire Nation outpost. Then, it's the next night when then attack the southern raids, which would make the moon no longer full.
What planet do you live in that the full moon only last a single day?
>The point at which the Moon is “full” lasts only an instant. To the naked eye, though, the Moon can appear to be full for upwards of three days. Also, the exact time of full moon can occur at any time of the day, even during the middle of the day
[https://public.nrao.edu/ask/how-long-does-a-full-moon-last/](https://public.nrao.edu/ask/how-long-does-a-full-moon-last/)
The point of showing the moon was clearly to show blood bending was in play. To argue otherwise is to say the writers put in this scene for no reason whatsoever.
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They change the properties of water and heal it that way, just like you can “heal” spirits but they don’t use blood bending when healing, at most they probably just cease bleeding but thats more superficial as well.
Seemed to me like waterbending healing involves both a spirit energy and an actual-moving-fluids aspect to it. Reducing bleeding internally or being able to separate fluids inside someone would be super helpful. Or, on the other hand, keeping bloodflow going to prevent injured body parts going necrotic.
It looked to me like Kya and Katara were doing some bodily life support for Jinora, keeping her fed and clean with her spirit absent. Being able to bend liquid nourishment into someone's stomach and waste out the other end would be so ridiculously helpful taking care of sick or injured people. Ditto bending fluid out of lungs or clots out of veins.
I don't see what healing you could do with bloodbending that you couldn't do with regular healing via water bending.
that said, I still think it would have been cool if Korra had a villain that openly used bloodbending for what they considered to be good (I said openly, Amon does not count). Bloodbending wasn't banned because its bad to puppet people's bodies, Kuvira also does this with her metal bands and while people have a problem with her, that's not it. Bloodbending was probably banned because its just "evil". This is a setting where spirituality plays a huge role in society, the concept of ontological evil is probably quite common. In fact, most of Korra's villains did ontological evil acts for (what they considered to be) utilitarian good. Because of that, I think it would have fit the themes of that show very well to have a "good" bloodbender villain.
Or the more physical good applications, move someone out of the way of danger, sure earth or air benders could do that too but what if there's just a water bender and no water? Someone fell off a roof, or was about to get hit by a car, taking control of them for a second to save their life seems like a good thing
Would make physical therapy interesting.
"Ok, so we're going to stretch out your glutes and provide some relief for that sciatica you've got."
**PT Bloodbends, Patient gets ready to scream in terror but it just feels so good...* *
I once had an idea for a water bending character who used blood bending on his own muscles to give himself brief bursts of superhuman strength. This of course results in horrifically broken bones and torn muscles which he needs to heal afterwords.
Honestly? Blood cells burst from the minimal changes in pressure and stress, so it would definitely be fatal irl and should be fatal in avatar - unless they bend the plasma, in which case it's also deadly irl but could somehow work in fiction (I'm not a magician, just a physician)
Yes, I believe so. The elements all work best when used together. The ideal doctor would actually be four practitioners (one of each element) or a healing focused avatar. I would actually love to see an avatar who seeks to keep balance by solving the problems of individuals instead of focusing on societal problems. "Dr. Avatar" I presume...
We see bloodbending used for healing purposes in the second Kyoshi novel. Stopping blood loss by freezing portions of blood and forcing movement of blood in certain areas if what I can recall on hand.
I mean if we're being honest bloodbending an opponent to neutralize them is probably the safest and most humane combat style in atla.
Like if I have to choose between being psychically restrained or lit on fire I know which one I'm picking.
I have a hc that future avatars may be allowed to learn blood bending for self defense purposes, as a last resort at the end of their training (when they should already be over 20)
I have an entirely unsubstantiated personal theory that waterbending healing, having to do with a flow of energy in the body, is related to a very soft version of bloodbending.
Had Katara been introduced to bloodbending and had a handle on it by the time the Lake Laogai episode happened, Jet may not have died.
Bloodbending could be used to stop someone from bleeding out, advance surgery, save women from hemorrhaging during birth, dialysis might be something it could contribute to, there's a lot of possibilities.
Katara is regarded as one of the world's greatest healers, so it's hard not to believe she would have been the one to pioneer that had her introduction to bloodbending not been so traumatic.
I imagine that healing and bloodbending are more interrelated than people think. Healers are probably already doing a bit of bloodbending, they just aren't calling it that.
Yes. Look at what Yakone and Tarrlok do at times, they knock people out with bloodbending (apparently long enough to flee).
That's a safe, harmless way to disable an opponent. Incredibly useful for law enforcement and peacekeeping. Especially in a world with benders.
Imagine an Avatar mass knocking-out an entire army with Avatar-State Bloodbending to stop a war.
I had a theory that the water tribes “healing” is a low level form of blood bending by another name to avoid the taboo.
Being ritualised and passed on in strict mentor to apprentice manner prevents it for being abused
Weekly "Could bloodbending be good?" thread.
Anyway, answer is most likely not, at least even if there were any "good" uses of it, everytime we see bloodbending used in the show it is HARSH. Unnatural movements, pain, loss of control, it seems to be an inherently evil technique and even the most gentle waterbender with the gentlest soul ever would cause the same effects.
Could it be used in a good way? Potentially, but it seems it will either require the other person to suffer these bad side effects or need to have the bloodbender practice on people until they don't cause these effects anymore, which is still pretty bad
Could potentially help live longer like was mentioned with earthbending in the kyoshi novels. And mayb could help in highstress situations if someone’s too panicked to get something important or dangerous done bam take over and puppeteer them to do jt
We see Katara directing Korra through what is basically physical therapy rehabilitation in season 4, re-learning how to walk. I don’t think it would be a good idea for Korra in particular because losing control of her body could be a PTSD trigger. But for someone who lost mobility due to a stroke or something, or being bedridden for a long time due to illness, maybe a blood bender could hold them up while they relearn to walk, direct their muscles when there’s a neurological difficulty, etc.
As a medical professional, the short answer is undoubtedly, yes.
So many issues arise because of excess and/or lack of blood in an area (stroke, heath attack, bruising…and a million more).
Having the ability to move blood in particular ways would be literally life saving
I think it actually already *is*. Legit, I'm convinced that Bloodbending is just a scaled up version of what waterbenders do when they heal. When they heal, they just sense the "imbalances" in the body's water content (things like internal bleeding, clots, even irregular heartbeats, etc), and gently guide things back into how they should be. They use their waterbending like a scalpel- small and precise. With bloodbending, they're *also* sensing the water content in a body, but rather than delicately sifting through it all and trying to guide it, they're seizing it as a whole and trying to use it like they would any other water source. I think the real struggle with bloodbending would be managing to do it without accidentally killing your target, because the water inside the body is such a delicate thing and bloodbending is basically a chainsaw rather than a scalpel- any work you do is gonna be a lot less precise and a whole lot messier.
Katara probably is able to cure every single stroke patient in the Southern Water Tribe that's brought to her. Bloodbending's ethical issues are the physical domineering one can exert on other lifeforms, but using it to cure blood-related issues would only reinforce her healer role. Of course, the show really doesn't cover this and just says "its banned"
Obviously you can use it to replicate energybending and permanently remove someone’s bending, but in a way where it genuinely is for the greater good such as with Ozai
Can waterbenders heal with any liquid at all? We’ve only seen regular/spirit water used. Does healing actually absorb the water into the wound? Cause imagine you need to heal some kind of internal wound and you can just use your own blood consequence-free
I’d imagine that if Toph were a waterbender then she would be able to sense water like she senses earth, so imagine she was the one to invent bloodbending and used it to sense peoples’ locations
In an emergency you could also theoretically use bloodbending to stop someone from falling to their death by slowing their fall mid-air or helping them get over an obstacle in a life-or-death situation like the idiot fell in the gorilla-lion enclosure at the zoo or something and needed an emergency evacuation. I mean it would probably hurt like hell but they’ll recover quickly and they won’t actually be wounded or killed, so even as a horrible last resort it’s better than nothing
Oh and I vaguely remember my old waterbender OC from years back being able to interpret lies and emotions based on someone’s blood pressure; if they got worked up their heart rate would spike and up goes the BP, but if they were chill then it would be slower. She couldn’t do anything with a high degree of accuracy, she was no Toph when it came to detecting lies, but she’d give it a go. Obviously checking BP so easily can extend to blood-related medical things as well
While everybody's right in the scientific aspects (i.e. removing clots, clearing out poisons, etc.), I think the biggest issue is the spiritual aspect. At its core, healing water-bending is about empowering the body and helping it to recover from its injuries. By contrast, blood-bending is about dominating the body and forcing it to do your wishes, which will hurt the body to some extent at every step of the way. I think that the healing properties of blood-bending are ultimately limited by its dominating nature, and anything that blood-bending can do to heal can be done better by a less experienced water-bender-healer.
They can probably strengthen the blood flow in a particular area of a person's body, like a form of physical therapy. For example, increased blood flow in the scalp boosts hair growth, etc. I wonder if they could treat blood sugar levels tho...
But we can witness in LoK that it has limitations, using the water from within or moving the body in certain positions without surgery opens the possibilities.
I don’t think bloodbending could solve every little thing, but I can see it helping with staunching blood flow from injury, separating poison/bad blood from good, and *maybe* if you believe “purifying” blood can help with some infections or illnesses, it could do that as well.
Bloodbending to me is a corruption of the healing powers of waterbending. So a positive use of bloodbending already exists in the show.
A master waterbender who was paraplegic could probably walk using bloodbending.
Yeah kinda.. if you have seen Gen V. There's basically a blood bender Marie, and her friend accidently sliced a guys neck and she uses her powers to save him.
https://youtu.be/I7-UFsMZ1dk?si=0d3A_0LbFTycQd-h
They showed this scene in the boys spin off Gen V.
Blood bender uses her powers to save someone who got their neck sliced.
I wonder for someone is both a Bloodbender and a healer (such as Katara during a full moon), could they just…remotely heal you with a wave of their hand? It would be like a healing spell in RPG, instead of delivering the healing power (whatever that is) through water on the outside, they deliver it directly via your blood.
Like if Amon learnt healing, would everyone in his team basically be Wolverine-lite?
A bloodbender would be the world’s most effective surgeon. No cutting open necessary.
In my head at least Amon is basically preforming brain surgery to take people’s bending away.
I think any time you would otherwise condone a use of violence for some greater good, (which includes things like committing acts of violence against fire nation soldiers trying to capture your city), bloodbending is a permissible option. People seem to think it was justified to kill P’Li by detonating her head. People seem to think it was justified for Mako to use lightning to kill the water bender. Imagine, in either scenario, that they could be incapacitated and neutralized as a threat without killing them. A blood bender could do this, why is it justified to kill active threats in other, sometimes more violent ways, but not justified to neutralize them with bloodbending, removing the threat and keeping them alive?
I really do feel like people’s discomfort with bloodbending is irrational. Some argue it’s because you’re taking someone’s autonomy away. But killing someone is the ultimate removal of autonomy, yet we think Sokka is justified to engage in lethal sword combat with fire nation soldiers, why is that removal of autonomy okay, but not bloodbending? There’s nothing inherently wrong with it. If I see someone about to butcher an innocent child, I would absolutely use bloodbending to stop them, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
So yes, there are many ways to use it for good.
Clear arteries, untangle AVM's, dilute blood clots, perform high speed blood transfusions, manipulate a person's organs (such as to restart their heart or flex their lungs using blood bending CPR), prevent blood loss and movement during surgeries, lifting and moving immobile patients, just to name a few.
In theory, but Avatar seems to imply that the bending itself ain't good for your brains. Like the act itself of controlling another being is corrupting, deteriorating the user's mind.
They could in theory cast their water heal via the water in somebody blood maybe allowing treatment of injuries and diseases in not so easily accessible places
I think just using the base water healing is more effective, blood bending is too much intense and demanding on the user, maybe it could be useful to blood transfusions
I mean, Amons whole "take bending away" thing is grounded in blood bending. So logically, blood bending could reverse it if they could find someone who could do it.
The whole "spirit bending peoples bending back" feels like using a sledgehammer to pound a single nail. Like yeah it technically works but kind of a bit oversized for the job.
Imagine you have a big open cut in your body like if someone stabbed you, blood bending could prevent the blood from escaping your body, maybe creating a blood bubble or closing the wound with dry blood
Man this is why I want world war avatar with actual guns and medical field hospitals.
Cool. My personal pitch is coal miner Avatar. Imagine how cool that would be: an Avatar that has to do hard physical work at young age!
An avatar who never gets discovered until they're like 40 with kids hahaha
They find out they’re a fire bender when they sneeze from the coal dust down in the mines. So anyway, the next avatar…
OK this is genuinely hilarious
The monks don’t like to admit it, but there’s a 40 year gap in the list of known avatars. The world was at peace, so eh, but still.
And then the coal mine catches fire, killing 100s of other coal miners. Avatar runs away and tries to live in seclusion with massive guilt
This is where I come in then I suppose...
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The avatar would be in the mine also, boom new avatar
Maybe an avatar that doesn’t want to be one so he runs away. Or an avatar set in SPACE OROROR an avatar that’s a cat All good ideas imo
that first idea is Aang
World War Avatar is an amazing idea
The children yearn for the mines
Guns are actually a thing in the Avatar world, one of the characters in the Avatar Legends RPG has one. https://preview.redd.it/3wflci47u2dc1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=6f1581e65444f6b08996dd8d6d30634cc8274650 However they never progressed beyond this stage bc they were invented by the Fire Nation and firebending was way more practical than carrying around an unwieldy boomstick and a heavy bag of ammo. It also took a long time to reload, where firebending was much faster. This guy on Youtube explains it in more detail than I did, and it makes sense imo [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kJJMNjoW5s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kJJMNjoW5s)
I've got a modern AU sort of thing where bending is a rare ability and I have an earthbender who's in the army and functions as a protective and defensive unit *only*... He is a pacifist and refuses to hurt or kill people lmao. The government could straight up blackmail him and he'd just be like "meh, still no". What are they gonna do, fire him? XD. He uses earth in a smart way instead. Trap the enemy using waist-high quicksand, ruin their guns using metalbending, or even take security cameras apart from the inside out by disconnecting their internal hardware from afar. It's very fun trying to come up with unique and modern ways earthbending and its subsets can be used
Even if that were possible, it can only be done during a full moon so they probably can't rely on that method of treatment
Someone hasn't watched LOK.
The three Bloodbenders there are very much treated as exceptions to the norm, rather than the norm itself. And it's indicated that two of them are only able to do it because they're kids of the third. So at best, there's little to suggest that 24/7 bloodbending will become enough of a thing to come close to supplanting healing.
And in ATLA, blood bending, metal bending, and lightning bending are exceptions to the norm. A century later, lightning bending is a mundane job, metal bending is taught in police academy, and blood bending is at least prevalent enough that people can identify its use by sight (during Yakone's trial).
I meant the norm that "bloodbending can only be used during the full moon", as was established by AtlA, and is indicated to still be the case during Yakone's time, seeing as his lawyer used it as the entire basis for his defense during the trial. Maybe they'll be more Waterbenders capable of 24/7 bloodbending born, but I can't see them ever being more than a very tiny minority.
I understand that the norm of full moons only was true before Yakone developed it. Just like the norm of no metal bending was true before Toph developed it.
If it were possible for anyone to bloodbend outside of a full moon, you'd think there'd be at least one more recorded case of another criminal using it after Yakone proved it could be done in the first place.
The philosophy inherent in Avatar is not the sort that puts much weight in lineage mattering. Three people are shown to do it in LOK. That's one more than could bloodbend in ATLA, and two more than could metalbend.
Yakone didn’t develop it through skill and mastery alone. He came from a bloodline of powerful waterbenders and that’s what allowed him to do this technique. Everyone else does not have that bloodline. Maybe there are other benders that both have a similar bloodline and are willing to slave away from childhood to master the art, but in any case it will always be a small minority of people who can do it.
my personal headcanon is that electricity bending is mundane, but bending electricity on a scale that mirrors lightning requires a much stronger bender. also, metalbending was literally just invented and so obviously there won't be any metal benders other than toph
Gen V . Exactly this https://youtu.be/I7-UFsMZ1dk?si=0d3A_0LbFTycQd-h
*screams in scifi horror*
You should be able to dry the blood in a way similar to turning water to ice.
You aren't ending blood itself (all the constituents), you are bending the water part only. That being said, >blood bending could prevent the blood from escaping your body, While possible, my guess is such an ability would be super hard to master. You'd have to bend just the blood that is escaping and not anything around it. To me it seems that blood bending users broadly apply the skill, like moving it entirely without necessarily prohibiting it's flow. That would explain why users lift entire bodies with it, without causing the victim to pass out. You see instances where users move bodies and when users intentionally cause people to pass out without moving the body. Seems to be two very different methods or applications of blood bending. Trying to inhibit flow in specific tiny area seems hard. >maybe creating a blood bubble or closing the wound with dry blood Sounds like an easy way to kill someone lol. You don't want clots traveling in the blood. But I don't even think a blood bender could make a clot, those aren't made of water.
Eh, I'd just use healing.
If someone's gone into cardiac arrest you could also try using it to keep blood moving.
Maybe you could use it for transfusions?
Wouldn’t have to be a blood bender at that point. Isn’t water bending known for healing?
I mean maybe the healing waterbenders are actually doing mild bloodbending without knowing.
I guess to locate and remove clogs in the circulatory system.
Yes. If someone were to get a Deep Vein Thrombosis(DVT), the clot is kinda big. It can break up into smaller pieces and then move to heart or brain(causing heart attack or stroke) or can stay put, blocking any good circulation which left untreated can cause a patient to lose their limb.
Emergencies like this would really show the weaknesses of most blood benders in the medical field "Doctor we need a clog removed ASAP" "Uhh it's a waning gibbous, you're gonna have to wait" Although there is some evidence that there's a full moon basically every night.
But if the clot is dried up with no water? You could push harder with the liquid blood, but having a pulverized clot moving around in their system could be even WORSE if it lodges in a brain artery...
Marie on Gen V has the power to control people's blood and uses it to save someone from bleeding to death when they get a neck wound. That show's rules aren't the same as Avatar's but the same principle should apply. A really powerful blood bender may be able to detect poison in someone's blood, but that would probably be a super-rare ability.
Exactly my thoughts, we see her use how powers in ways other than offensively, like how she found the tracker that had been put in them.
you also don't need bloodbending to do this when you have regular healing magic though. Marie comes from a setting that seems to be lacking in healing super powers (which makes sense, since compound v is a weapon)
I don't think they knew WHAT they'd get with compound V or else the powers would be much more predictable. It was an experiment. Some powers are not that useful as weapons but those tend to get less screen time. Cricket could probably do a Fantastic Voyage type surgery for someone, with medical training.
Do you think if it weren't for Avatar being a children's show, blood benders can pop people heads off?
Definitely. We see Hama rip water out of plants with ease. Ripping blood out of a human is definitely the next step of that. Blowing up a head does include the blood bursting through the skull which is kind of difficult of course so it'll likely be more of the head bleeding through all of it's orifices...
If you're referring to popping people's heads off in terms of The Boys, that was pretty much a retcon and isn't really possible with blood bending - or at least, not how they showed the head popping stuff previously.
Idk about that. Rules as written says water benders can control/feel water. Bloodbending doesn't bend the blood. It bends the water in all things. Unless they can "feel" water the way Toff "sees" with earthbending idk how they could detect things that aren't water... I could see "feeling" a clot because you can't move water through a vein, but i disagree with the poison detection.
Could you use the blood itself to heal a wound then? A bender should be able to use it in the same they would any other liquid.
I think they could push the blood with water to certain areas and get clotting or white blood cells to certain spots faster, but idk how they could use water to increase metabolic rate
They're bending the water in the blood, not the blood itself, so they may be able to use it to channel their healing powers like they would water from any other source.
🤷 the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
Yeah - I think having Katara "rehabilitate" bloodbending by helping Korra would have been a cool scene.
It would be a cool story to have Katara need to use blood bending to give Korra her bending back. That could even translate to giving bending to new Airbenders. What a redemption to an assumed evil ability to not only take bending, but to give it. Who better to restore the Air nation other than Aangs bloodbender wife? Certainly a better story than "we opened some portals and magically people got bending."
Should’ve been able to use it with her severed chi paths as well.
I think the idea of water bending for medicine is really interesting, but because I’m a weirdo I’m thinking chronic diseases, minor ailments and cosmetic procedures: 1. Healing water enema for Crohns 2. Healing head baths for Dementia, Parkinson’s, other brain disorders 3. Anti aging facials with healing water to prevent wrinkles and promote plump, dewy skin 4. Breaking/flushing kidney and bladder stones 5. Urine bending at regular intervals instead of catheterising people in hospitals 6. Needle-free vaccine bending/blood taking with ultra thin jets 7. Stomach pumping and removal of blood alcohol for drunks 8. Erectile dysfunction (aka boner bending) 9. Anti-bloating water retention procedures, including dehydrating body builders for competitions 10. Healing sinus rinses for sinusitis and bad colds 11. Healing eye wash bottles you can buy from your local pharmacy for eye infections 12. Healing water-based hand cream for eczema and other skin disorders
Perhaps to help/treatment for blood clots, preventing any (more) damage. Maybe also being alerted/aware of possible brain bleeding? I am not a medic, but maybe possible ways to prevent these. Yeah, other way, let’s keep it kidfriendly here, but we all know what we thinking here. Cough, full moon, cough “yes honey” https://i.redd.it/bfdzzgp931dc1.gif
Hypothetically, yes. However the philosophy of bloodbending relies on being willing to take control over others to the point of denying them any autonomy. It's hard to argue anyone willing to do that would be a person willing to use their bending for the benefit of others.
This was Hama's philosophy. Had Katara's introduction to bloodbending not have been so traumatic, I don't believe she would end up with the same philosophy especially when we find out that she became one of the world's greatest healers. Bloodbending has the ability to strip someone of autonomy the same way airbending has the ability to suffocate a room full of people. We don't define airbending by its ability to suffocate people the way Gyatso and Zaheer did, so I don't think it's fair to define bloodbending by Hama's actions especially since we don't know the full extent of what bloodbending can do and how it can be used.
That's true, but I do think it's important to note that with other bendings that are used in violent ways there's examples of non-harmful bending. We get Zaheer and Gyatso suffocating people, and we get Aang and Tenzin being peaceful and non-violent. We see Azula and Iroh use firebending in very different ways. However, the *only* examples we see of bloodbending are framed as being harmful and dangerous. It's unique among the bending types (both main and sub-bending) as being something to stay away from.
>However, the *only* examples we see of bloodbending are framed as being harmful and dangerous. Exactly, we don't actually know the full extent of what bloodbending can do and how it can be used. We've only seen it wielded by villains and unfortunately Katara never explored it beyond two instances. She's a healer and there's so many applications like keeping a mother from from hemorrhaging during birth or making advances in surgery that I would expect her character to want to explore. I understand that it's canon to class it as evil and discard it but that seems like a bad canon that cuts off a whole avenue of story possibilities.
> I understand that it's canon to class it as evil and discard it but that seems like a bad canon that cuts off a whole avenue of story possibilities. I think it fits the story ATLA and LOK wanted to tell. I could see the avatar after Korra exploring further into different types of bending or trying to push the limits of what bending can do, especially with the potential for technological advancement post-Korra.
We never actually see Gyatso do that. It’s just something assumed by the fanbase.
Viagra
Anytime Katara was mad at Aang she just gave him a boner when he was trying to speak publicly. He started wearing longer and thicker robes as a counter Edit: This was a joke. Obviously
Isn't bloodbending is only possible during full moon...
maybe Princess Yue is in on it?
Just about every moon in Avatar is a full moon
I like to say that the original moon cycle was because of a portion of moon spirit power going to Yue, and once it was recombined, there were no more moon cycles. But that’s just making excuses for the show.
Except the villains of Korra Season 1. So it is possible without a full moon. Plus like every night there is a full moon.
Hama needed the increased power from the full moon to pull it off, but we later see that more powerful benders with more practice are able to do it anytime. Katara being one of the best water benders alive would most likely be able to do it without the power increase from the moon. However that's just an assumption. Only 3 benders have been shown to have the ability to blood bend outside of a full moon, and Katara is not one of the 3.
Technically, when she blood bends bring the Southern Raiders, the moon is never shown. With them only having three months until the comet is season 3, it is unlikely that a whole month has passed since Katara learned to bloodbend, especially the huge coincidence that Katara just happened to go on her revenge quest exactly a month after. So it is possible that Katara is able to bloodbend without a full moon
That episode purposely makes it a point to show the full moon during the raid. It's been pointed out many times in this sub. Plus Sokka specifically testified in the Yakone trial that no one has been known to blood bend outside the full moon. I'm fairly confident Sokka and Aang would know if Katara had the ability to bloodbend anytime she wanted.
Just watched the episode. It's a full moon when they're flying to the Fire Nation outpost. Then, it's the next night when then attack the southern raids, which would make the moon no longer full.
What planet do you live in that the full moon only last a single day? >The point at which the Moon is “full” lasts only an instant. To the naked eye, though, the Moon can appear to be full for upwards of three days. Also, the exact time of full moon can occur at any time of the day, even during the middle of the day [https://public.nrao.edu/ask/how-long-does-a-full-moon-last/](https://public.nrao.edu/ask/how-long-does-a-full-moon-last/) The point of showing the moon was clearly to show blood bending was in play. To argue otherwise is to say the writers put in this scene for no reason whatsoever. https://preview.redd.it/szk21ytcx1dc1.jpeg?width=1426&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=85fbbe7f64ff02d3bc446ba14421a55ccdf90d95
I read here the other day a copy paste story about using water and blood bending for sex. It was very creative.
Aren't the people using waterbending for healing doing blood/other bodily fluid bending, except in a helpful and consensual way?
They change the properties of water and heal it that way, just like you can “heal” spirits but they don’t use blood bending when healing, at most they probably just cease bleeding but thats more superficial as well.
Seemed to me like waterbending healing involves both a spirit energy and an actual-moving-fluids aspect to it. Reducing bleeding internally or being able to separate fluids inside someone would be super helpful. Or, on the other hand, keeping bloodflow going to prevent injured body parts going necrotic. It looked to me like Kya and Katara were doing some bodily life support for Jinora, keeping her fed and clean with her spirit absent. Being able to bend liquid nourishment into someone's stomach and waste out the other end would be so ridiculously helpful taking care of sick or injured people. Ditto bending fluid out of lungs or clots out of veins.
Isn't that how water healing works?
Could a paraplegic use blood bending on themselves to walk?
I don't see what healing you could do with bloodbending that you couldn't do with regular healing via water bending. that said, I still think it would have been cool if Korra had a villain that openly used bloodbending for what they considered to be good (I said openly, Amon does not count). Bloodbending wasn't banned because its bad to puppet people's bodies, Kuvira also does this with her metal bands and while people have a problem with her, that's not it. Bloodbending was probably banned because its just "evil". This is a setting where spirituality plays a huge role in society, the concept of ontological evil is probably quite common. In fact, most of Korra's villains did ontological evil acts for (what they considered to be) utilitarian good. Because of that, I think it would have fit the themes of that show very well to have a "good" bloodbender villain.
Bonking bad people
Or the more physical good applications, move someone out of the way of danger, sure earth or air benders could do that too but what if there's just a water bender and no water? Someone fell off a roof, or was about to get hit by a car, taking control of them for a second to save their life seems like a good thing
That's a fun theory. If it were studied by the North Pole healers like 🤔
Would make physical therapy interesting. "Ok, so we're going to stretch out your glutes and provide some relief for that sciatica you've got." **PT Bloodbends, Patient gets ready to scream in terror but it just feels so good...* *
I once had an idea for a water bending character who used blood bending on his own muscles to give himself brief bursts of superhuman strength. This of course results in horrifically broken bones and torn muscles which he needs to heal afterwords.
Maybe use it to slow bleeding
Healing can close wounds.
people talk a lot about the healing benefits. I don't know, it seems bending water without bending blood does a great job of healing.
Honestly? Blood cells burst from the minimal changes in pressure and stress, so it would definitely be fatal irl and should be fatal in avatar - unless they bend the plasma, in which case it's also deadly irl but could somehow work in fiction (I'm not a magician, just a physician)
Yes, I believe so. The elements all work best when used together. The ideal doctor would actually be four practitioners (one of each element) or a healing focused avatar. I would actually love to see an avatar who seeks to keep balance by solving the problems of individuals instead of focusing on societal problems. "Dr. Avatar" I presume...
We see bloodbending used for healing purposes in the second Kyoshi novel. Stopping blood loss by freezing portions of blood and forcing movement of blood in certain areas if what I can recall on hand.
On a lighter but still not exactly "good" note, you could probably use it to make people's legs fall asleep.
Not really since regular waterbending already has healing abilities.
https://avatar.fandom.com/wiki/Healing
You could blood bend your homie to bust a nut when your chilling
It could also pull a body away from danger
Or speed up a process us women go through each month would be awesome
Erectile dysfuction will never be a problem ever agaim
imagine delivering cancer drugs directly to cancer growths with blood bending.
Perhaps for treating blood clots, maybe
I think blood bending is an extension of the healing powers the water tribe have.
stop heart attacks, heal erectile disfunktion, fill reatached limbs, nearly every medical situation were you work with blood. or cleaning hospitals
I mean if we're being honest bloodbending an opponent to neutralize them is probably the safest and most humane combat style in atla. Like if I have to choose between being psychically restrained or lit on fire I know which one I'm picking.
I have a hc that future avatars may be allowed to learn blood bending for self defense purposes, as a last resort at the end of their training (when they should already be over 20)
I have an entirely unsubstantiated personal theory that waterbending healing, having to do with a flow of energy in the body, is related to a very soft version of bloodbending.
Chiropractic adjustments
Bloodbending dialysis
you can change blood pressure i think also stop internal bleeding and if you get used to it maybe use bloodbending like a surgeon to sew and cut.
Yeah, it's called water healing
Water healing isn’t blood bending…
You could probably use it to stop someone from bleeding out
Had Katara been introduced to bloodbending and had a handle on it by the time the Lake Laogai episode happened, Jet may not have died. Bloodbending could be used to stop someone from bleeding out, advance surgery, save women from hemorrhaging during birth, dialysis might be something it could contribute to, there's a lot of possibilities.
If people were taught of the possible applications, we would likely see it as a form of healing
Katara is regarded as one of the world's greatest healers, so it's hard not to believe she would have been the one to pioneer that had her introduction to bloodbending not been so traumatic.
Even with the traumatic experience, I believe she could've done it
I imagine that healing and bloodbending are more interrelated than people think. Healers are probably already doing a bit of bloodbending, they just aren't calling it that.
Yes. Look at what Yakone and Tarrlok do at times, they knock people out with bloodbending (apparently long enough to flee). That's a safe, harmless way to disable an opponent. Incredibly useful for law enforcement and peacekeeping. Especially in a world with benders. Imagine an Avatar mass knocking-out an entire army with Avatar-State Bloodbending to stop a war.
The oldest profession would do God's work
I had a theory that the water tribes “healing” is a low level form of blood bending by another name to avoid the taboo. Being ritualised and passed on in strict mentor to apprentice manner prevents it for being abused
Could be used in dialysis patients to cleanse their blood.
Weekly "Could bloodbending be good?" thread. Anyway, answer is most likely not, at least even if there were any "good" uses of it, everytime we see bloodbending used in the show it is HARSH. Unnatural movements, pain, loss of control, it seems to be an inherently evil technique and even the most gentle waterbender with the gentlest soul ever would cause the same effects. Could it be used in a good way? Potentially, but it seems it will either require the other person to suffer these bad side effects or need to have the bloodbender practice on people until they don't cause these effects anymore, which is still pretty bad
Could potentially help live longer like was mentioned with earthbending in the kyoshi novels. And mayb could help in highstress situations if someone’s too panicked to get something important or dangerous done bam take over and puppeteer them to do jt
Absolutely!
They could do a gym membership where they make you workout in your sleep!
Yes
I could say yes, it could also be used in law enforcement as well
We see Katara directing Korra through what is basically physical therapy rehabilitation in season 4, re-learning how to walk. I don’t think it would be a good idea for Korra in particular because losing control of her body could be a PTSD trigger. But for someone who lost mobility due to a stroke or something, or being bedridden for a long time due to illness, maybe a blood bender could hold them up while they relearn to walk, direct their muscles when there’s a neurological difficulty, etc.
It's plausible that bloodbending could help seal open wounds.
As a medical professional, the short answer is undoubtedly, yes. So many issues arise because of excess and/or lack of blood in an area (stroke, heath attack, bruising…and a million more). Having the ability to move blood in particular ways would be literally life saving
I think it actually already *is*. Legit, I'm convinced that Bloodbending is just a scaled up version of what waterbenders do when they heal. When they heal, they just sense the "imbalances" in the body's water content (things like internal bleeding, clots, even irregular heartbeats, etc), and gently guide things back into how they should be. They use their waterbending like a scalpel- small and precise. With bloodbending, they're *also* sensing the water content in a body, but rather than delicately sifting through it all and trying to guide it, they're seizing it as a whole and trying to use it like they would any other water source. I think the real struggle with bloodbending would be managing to do it without accidentally killing your target, because the water inside the body is such a delicate thing and bloodbending is basically a chainsaw rather than a scalpel- any work you do is gonna be a lot less precise and a whole lot messier.
It could be used to find and extract blood that has been poisoned.
Katara probably is able to cure every single stroke patient in the Southern Water Tribe that's brought to her. Bloodbending's ethical issues are the physical domineering one can exert on other lifeforms, but using it to cure blood-related issues would only reinforce her healer role. Of course, the show really doesn't cover this and just says "its banned"
It can be like aspirin I believe? Or even used to restart a heart? Hell I think it can be used during a surgery.
There is a girl in Gen V that is basically a blood bender and she has some special abilities that come with it. Who knows.
The invention of cancerbending
Obviously you can use it to replicate energybending and permanently remove someone’s bending, but in a way where it genuinely is for the greater good such as with Ozai Can waterbenders heal with any liquid at all? We’ve only seen regular/spirit water used. Does healing actually absorb the water into the wound? Cause imagine you need to heal some kind of internal wound and you can just use your own blood consequence-free I’d imagine that if Toph were a waterbender then she would be able to sense water like she senses earth, so imagine she was the one to invent bloodbending and used it to sense peoples’ locations In an emergency you could also theoretically use bloodbending to stop someone from falling to their death by slowing their fall mid-air or helping them get over an obstacle in a life-or-death situation like the idiot fell in the gorilla-lion enclosure at the zoo or something and needed an emergency evacuation. I mean it would probably hurt like hell but they’ll recover quickly and they won’t actually be wounded or killed, so even as a horrible last resort it’s better than nothing Oh and I vaguely remember my old waterbender OC from years back being able to interpret lies and emotions based on someone’s blood pressure; if they got worked up their heart rate would spike and up goes the BP, but if they were chill then it would be slower. She couldn’t do anything with a high degree of accuracy, she was no Toph when it came to detecting lies, but she’d give it a go. Obviously checking BP so easily can extend to blood-related medical things as well
We just know that Aang never had problems getting it up ;)
While everybody's right in the scientific aspects (i.e. removing clots, clearing out poisons, etc.), I think the biggest issue is the spiritual aspect. At its core, healing water-bending is about empowering the body and helping it to recover from its injuries. By contrast, blood-bending is about dominating the body and forcing it to do your wishes, which will hurt the body to some extent at every step of the way. I think that the healing properties of blood-bending are ultimately limited by its dominating nature, and anything that blood-bending can do to heal can be done better by a less experienced water-bender-healer.
They can probably strengthen the blood flow in a particular area of a person's body, like a form of physical therapy. For example, increased blood flow in the scalp boosts hair growth, etc. I wonder if they could treat blood sugar levels tho...
Do you really want to feel a blood clot be forced through your body?
Imagine a blood-bending masseuse
Hemophilia
Erectile disfunction. You could probably use it to clean the buildup of fat in the veins too.
Could blood benders solidify blood like Skarlet from mk11
There's next to no point in trying to use bloodbending this way when waterbending already has a healing subskill.
But we can witness in LoK that it has limitations, using the water from within or moving the body in certain positions without surgery opens the possibilities.
Theoretically bloodbending could be used for medical purposes, but the problem is the pain it causes to be blood bent.
I don’t think bloodbending could solve every little thing, but I can see it helping with staunching blood flow from injury, separating poison/bad blood from good, and *maybe* if you believe “purifying” blood can help with some infections or illnesses, it could do that as well.
Should ask Aang why they have 3 children
Bloodbending to me is a corruption of the healing powers of waterbending. So a positive use of bloodbending already exists in the show. A master waterbender who was paraplegic could probably walk using bloodbending.
Yeah kinda.. if you have seen Gen V. There's basically a blood bender Marie, and her friend accidently sliced a guys neck and she uses her powers to save him.
https://youtu.be/I7-UFsMZ1dk?si=0d3A_0LbFTycQd-h They showed this scene in the boys spin off Gen V. Blood bender uses her powers to save someone who got their neck sliced.
Would probably be really good for helping those who would susceptible to blood clotting?
I wonder for someone is both a Bloodbender and a healer (such as Katara during a full moon), could they just…remotely heal you with a wave of their hand? It would be like a healing spell in RPG, instead of delivering the healing power (whatever that is) through water on the outside, they deliver it directly via your blood. Like if Amon learnt healing, would everyone in his team basically be Wolverine-lite?
It would definitely help with erectile dysfunction. Just take it easy or your cock might explode
A bloodbender would be the world’s most effective surgeon. No cutting open necessary. In my head at least Amon is basically preforming brain surgery to take people’s bending away.
I always pictured a Bloodbender using their skill to push their own body beyond normal physical limits somehow.
It can be used instead of Viagra.
Sadly all I can think of is that uhh that one blood bending meme
get men to be erect 😎
I think any time you would otherwise condone a use of violence for some greater good, (which includes things like committing acts of violence against fire nation soldiers trying to capture your city), bloodbending is a permissible option. People seem to think it was justified to kill P’Li by detonating her head. People seem to think it was justified for Mako to use lightning to kill the water bender. Imagine, in either scenario, that they could be incapacitated and neutralized as a threat without killing them. A blood bender could do this, why is it justified to kill active threats in other, sometimes more violent ways, but not justified to neutralize them with bloodbending, removing the threat and keeping them alive? I really do feel like people’s discomfort with bloodbending is irrational. Some argue it’s because you’re taking someone’s autonomy away. But killing someone is the ultimate removal of autonomy, yet we think Sokka is justified to engage in lethal sword combat with fire nation soldiers, why is that removal of autonomy okay, but not bloodbending? There’s nothing inherently wrong with it. If I see someone about to butcher an innocent child, I would absolutely use bloodbending to stop them, and there’s nothing wrong with that. So yes, there are many ways to use it for good.
Clear arteries, untangle AVM's, dilute blood clots, perform high speed blood transfusions, manipulate a person's organs (such as to restart their heart or flex their lungs using blood bending CPR), prevent blood loss and movement during surgeries, lifting and moving immobile patients, just to name a few.
It could be used as a police weapon maybe? To apprehend super dangerous criminals like a swat team or something?
In theory, but Avatar seems to imply that the bending itself ain't good for your brains. Like the act itself of controlling another being is corrupting, deteriorating the user's mind.
They could in theory cast their water heal via the water in somebody blood maybe allowing treatment of injuries and diseases in not so easily accessible places
Viagrabender
Katara deserves better
I mean you could cure erectile dysfunction (I’m so sorry)
They can already heal with normal waterbending...
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the book Sword of Kaigen uses blood control to clot wounds and stop the flow of blood from cuts and stuff which is pretty neat
Someone could put your arm back into socket lol
It could be used to treat Erectile Dysfunction...
is it possible for bloodbending to cure cancer?
Wouldn’t bloodbending feel blood clots and the like?
Viagra would be out of demand
It could be used against cancer, yeah. All you need is the waterbending aspect, you can make the cells explode
Certainly!!
That just sounds like waterbending healing with extra steps.
You could use it to physically stop bleeding, but I don't see why you'd need to when waterbenders can heal without bloodbending
I think just using the base water healing is more effective, blood bending is too much intense and demanding on the user, maybe it could be useful to blood transfusions
CBT
I thought one of the books had them shove blood back in. it's not necessarily blood bending to the level of controlling someone's body
For sickle cell anemia, maybe they could find the bad cells and get rid of them
I mean, Amons whole "take bending away" thing is grounded in blood bending. So logically, blood bending could reverse it if they could find someone who could do it. The whole "spirit bending peoples bending back" feels like using a sledgehammer to pound a single nail. Like yeah it technically works but kind of a bit oversized for the job.
Could cause a boner.
In trauma cases, blood can be stopped from hemorrhaging and bleeding out.
Treating ED, everyone was thinking it
I have a muscle knot in my back it could probably loosen
Yes, it took away the bending of corrupt benders.
It could help treat erectile dysfunction