#bloodbending

[mayskalih]

[solo-walker]

Uhhh assorted thoughts about 'The Puppetmaster' because the Black Sun posts are gonna take a backseat while I deal with Real Life Things:

So. Hama did have a hobby, right? Otherwise why would she have those puppets in her closet? Unless she was somehow soaking them in water and using them to practice bloodbending??

My god. What a hard-hitting portrayal of the atrocities of the FN. The prison. The abduction, the destruction of your home and the dehumanisation and the way the number of waterbenders fighting alongside Hama kept dwindling and dwindling and dwindling...

Subtle contrast with NWT because we see women actively taking part in combat and defense!

Hama teaching Katara (and Katara later implementing) the method of wringing water from plants and the air itself was cool af

I. I don't know how to feel about Hama being marched away with the threat of being locked up forever again. That can't be how her story ends, right? I have a feeling she's gonna return in some way. There's a ton to explore and she would be an interesting eventual-addition to the team, especially with regard to Katara.

How did Hama even find that underground prison??

I don't know just... how to explain it. but this episode just really affected me in a different way. Something about the feeling of irretrievably losing connection to pieces of your culture due to a systematic erasure of it, not knowing if you'll ever find a way to learn. and then you get that chance from an elder (possibly your last chance) and you empathise with them, but you know they've been through unimaginable horrors and are forever changed and their lessons warped and broken because of it. and there's so much grief there, and so much anger and bitterness and tar trickling through the generations because of what was done, the whole snarl of muddled emotions sitting in your gut as you try to stave off the lesson but can't help but perform anyway... idk man. i just. *sigh*

gosh hama the character that you are

[yourhighness6]

Ugh I will always love the concept of Katara using blood bending to revive Zuko after the last agni kai, mostly because it makes no sense to me that Zuko was able to bounce back so easily after being struck by lightning, but also because the way the show treats bloodbending is just odd to me. It was a defense mechanism created by a traumatized victim of some of the most devastating parts of colonization, and although I understand that Hama was supposed to symbolize the "bad parts" of waterbending and was important for Katara's growth in realizing that the world isn't entirely black and white, its still disappointing to me that the show never explored the gray areas of blood bending, especially since that episode was, as I stated above, about understanding the gray areas of the war. Katara using blood bending to revive Zuko would add so much to the last agni kai in demonstrating that she has truly realized that "good" and "evil" are relative concepts, and Zuko being saved by both a defense mechanism of a survivor of colonialism and a type of bending used to terrorize his people would have even added to his arc, as the narrative required him to save and subsequently be saved by the physical embodiment of everything his family sought to annihilate.

[kspeciale]

BLOOD BENDER KATARA🩸One of my favorite episodes was when Katara learned how to be a blood bender. Such a badass moment for her and if she continued to use it, I think she would’ve been a force that even the fire nation would’ve feared. Anyway, I did this sketch of her to match the Zuko one I did. I also love these two!

[crackbending]

[spotofjane]

Season 5 was good

[captainzutara]

sometimes I forget that bloodbending having medicinal purposes and being able to help people medically isn't actually canon like what do you mean Katara didn't discover a way to help people with heart conditions and blood clots and internal bleeding and revive those whose hearts have stopped and open up hospitals around the four nations with teaching academies for life-saving medicinal bloodbending for waterbenders

[rubydart]

This song put a spell over me.

Animatic for Hama of the Water Tribe, Bloodbender, after she frees herself from the Fire Nation prison.

Music by Jorge Rivera-Herrans - Get in the Water, from EPIC the Musical, song cover by Morgan Clae [Video Description: Get in the water: Hama faces a Fire Nation soldier at the beach under the light of a full moon. Face tired, almost impassive, she tells him to get in the water. Tides so high: She reaches her hand up to the moonlit sky and the waves of the sea around her start to roil. Her actions in time with the music, she threatens and bloodbends the soldier to step closer to the sea. He shouts no, and Hama sends a wall of water up around them. Hama forces him to kneel and sends the water over the soldier, and the final shots are from his POV as the water rises and covers his vision. ]