Right, so here's my attempt at a counter to the Air-benders being the most powerful in their second form.
My argument is that the basis on which you stand your arguments is wrong. Specifically, the chemical arguments. In the series, we are shown that water benders can bend blood, by manipulating the water in the blood. We are shown that earth benders are able to bend metal by manipulating the earth (impurities) in the metal. Fire benders are shown to be able to bend lightning by manipulating the... something in fire (I dunno, density, electron alignment? I dunno). so logically, the airbenders would be able to bend something that contains air on a less significant level than regular air (ignore chemical makeup, it gets too damn confusing on what they're actually bending), Which leads me to believe that they'd be able to do a form of gaseous bending (again, ignoring that air is already gasses, also ignoring that fire is a gas). Now, why this makes more sense than yours. (I'm probably gonna get proven wrong here by a number of different things, but yea, here's my shot at it. Also, I know.)
In the airbender world, There are four manipulable elements (earth, fire, air, water) that everyone knows about. (btw, that video is great Wight, helped me figure this next part out.) There is also the bending of spirituality, which is a metaphysical concept, the state of spirituality, but that's not any more important right now that to note that it's a metaphysical concept. So we see the incorperation of the four classical western elements, and the incorporation of the metaphysical role of spirituality. Here is where I start to lose track of things a bit, because of my knowledge of how our world works and my want to apply my understanding of my world to a cartoon fantasy world.
Literally nothing in the Airbender world works the way our world works. It may look like it, it may act like it, but in my belief, the chemical (idea) makeup is different entirely. The four elements exist along with metaphysics, but these elements don't interact chemically the same as ours do. The result is the same when you put water on fire, but the process was different in my opinion. This belief spawns from the FACT (until I'm proven wrong) That water benders can't manipulate air, even though it has oxygen, fire benders can't manipulate air even though it possesses carbon dioxide, Earth benders cant manipulate anything but earth (even though they can turn stone to liquid (as evidenced by the piece of meteorite Sokka gave to Toff) at will), and Air benders cannot manipulate any of the other elements directly. therefore, in the air-bending world, I theorize that these are not the same compounds that make up our atmosphere, and we should rather treat them as being separate in chemical structure. Now, by stating this, I can also make the claim for spirituality.
Spirituality determines why a person is attuned to which element, or to none at all. People born with an affinity for earth, if they possess the right capabilities, are able to bend the element of "earth". (it should be noted here that I do not believe that elements work the way ours work in this universe either) This applies to all of the elements. God I'm tired. I'll update this later, post your comments on my ideas, I'd like to see how you guys crush this.
Last edited by Templar; Jul 3, 2014 at 11:44 AM.
Reason: I noticed that this is all over the place. I'll make it more "readable" soon
