Chris Humphrey

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[Chris Humphrey @ereboKinetic]

@mega7010real @puppyochako Unalaq is Korra's uncle. Tarrlok and Noatok (Amon).

If Korra can master it as a child with a more lax teacher, why wouldn't the boys be able to master it in a few years with a drill sergeant for a father, making them practice into the night until they perfected their forms?

[Chris Humphrey @ereboKinetic]

@mega7010real @puppyochako No, her intent was for Katara to learn with her and join her. Then, when bloodbending Katara didn't work, she switched to trying to beat her in a fight. It was only when the opportunity presented itself with Aang and Sokka that she switched tactics to force her to learn.

[Chris Humphrey @ereboKinetic]

@mega7010real @puppyochako Korra mastered it as a child, and she didn't have a teacher as hardlined as Yakone. If they were being given bloodbending instruction, they were ready for it.

[Chris Humphrey @ereboKinetic]

@mega7010real @puppyochako Because the boys were trained in water by Yakone before they started bloodbending training.

[Chris Humphrey @ereboKinetic]

@mega7010real @puppyochako 1st time: a master waterbender spends years practicing on small animals before bloodbending a person.

2nd: Katara, another master waterbender, picks up the skill, overpowers a master bloodbender

3rd: 2 waterbending masters spend years on animals before bloodbending a person.

[Chris Humphrey @ereboKinetic]

@mega7010real @puppyochako Both times we see someone train bloodbending, they start on animals. Smaller animals to larger ones, then a person. But if controlling blood inside something is the only stage, she's mastered it by default.

[Chris Humphrey @ereboKinetic]

@mega7010real @puppyochako She used the final stage of it, bending a person, twice. Noatok, Tarrlok, Hama, all took years to refine their bloodbending before they bloodbent a person. Katara did master it.

[Chris Humphrey @ereboKinetic]

@jojinho00 @puppyochako Bloodbending a person is the final step in bloodbending mastery. She completed it.

[Chris Humphrey @ereboKinetic]

@jojinho00 @puppyochako What aspect didn't she master?

[Chris Humphrey @ereboKinetic]

@korewrites97 People do remember. That's how they know the natla version is worse.

[Chris Humphrey @ereboKinetic]

@KnightGambit Roku possessed Aang to manifest. The issue isn't just Kyoshi appearing, it's the context.

[Chris Humphrey @ereboKinetic]

@Calebclind231 @gonicku_ @blutaraarchive Yeah, Zuko had her sent back home on the condition she wasn't allowed to leave the capital.

[Chris Humphrey @ereboKinetic]

@blutaraarchive Jet was tragic. Tagah is an interesting case, though. He was in essence a walking spirit, only kept alive because of the staff.

[Chris Humphrey @ereboKinetic]

@blutaraarchive Hama is sent home post-war. Ty Lee and Mai are arrested and then put to work helping the people they hurt. Azula arrested, Ozai depowered.

Mai's dad, Ukano loses his position and is later arrested. Mai's mother had no power to begin with and leaves Ukano post-war. Zhao dies.

[Chris Humphrey @ereboKinetic]

@AlzaeTheKing @sunhye__tlly @blutaraarchive They are different moments, but they're different as far as immediate stakes, rather than the actual choice being made.

[Chris Humphrey @ereboKinetic]

@AlzaeTheKing @sunhye__tlly @blutaraarchive Being Aang's friend turns him into a traitor. It's not just making a buddy on a road trip, it's abandoning the will of his father, his family, his country.

The Crossroads of Destiny is a more direct framing of that choice, but not the only one.

[Chris Humphrey @ereboKinetic]

@AlzaeTheKing @sunhye__tlly @blutaraarchive Zuko having no reason in his mind to take the offer yet doesn't mean it isn't an offer (which we know it was due to Aang's honest disappointment that Zuko rejected it). It's Aang that sees the good in him first, that's why he asks Aang to vouch for him when joining them.

[Chris Humphrey @ereboKinetic]

@AlzaeTheKing @sunhye__tlly @blutaraarchive If he'd joined Aang back then... Why would that not result in him becoming an enemy to the fire nation & working towards their defeat?

The moment with Katara happened because he'd already started doing the work, not because it's his first real opportunity.

[Chris Humphrey @ereboKinetic]

@blutaraarchive Aang not only offered him friendship and camaraderie in Book 1, he saved him from being captured by Zhao, and saved Zuko from freezing to death in Book 1 despite Zuko kidnapping him in the first place.

It was Aang first, twice. Deal.