thinking about the logistics of warfare between three nations that can control some essential element and getting a headache
to me it seems as though the earthbenders should be essentially impossible to invade they can make big hole on a whim ??
milord research your hole tech trees!!!
ur enemy spent how long pushing a drill up to your great city's walls and you just let em? ur telling me that thing crawled along an open field for several days and not one guy said "what if we just bury it?"
no wonder this random teenage girl is the best earthbender ever no one else is even trying
this writers room is more concerned with how to exploit benders for in universe capitalism than they are with like
the humble hole
🕳️<--- this simple technique could have prevented a 100 years war
@JuneMoon this is maybe childishly grimdark of me but I always thought it went dreadfully underexplained what's stopping any given whateverbender from activating any of the dozen obvious killswitches the human body has, like a fire guy instantly giving someone a 200 degree fever without having to throw big slow fantasy fireball
@multiocular @agonist @JuneMoon If you control wind could you just squeeze all the air out of someone's lungs until they die?
@futureimperfect @multiocular @agonist they do that in a book im being told
@JuneMoon @futureimperfect @multiocular @agonist its somewhat implied that bending the inside of a guy is significantly harder than the outside, due to their internal spiritual energy aura, which even nonbenders have. bloodbenders can break this rule but its like a whole fucked up thing they can only do on the full moon unless they give up pretty much all of the rest of their bending, and even then it can be resisted.
@JuneMoon @futureimperfect @multiocular @agonist energybending is the only thing that seriously breaks this rule and maybe 3 whole guys ever get it in the whole ATLA canon and theyre all dead now. the Rule Number 1 is you cant fuck with the inside of someones body without 1. being power-boosted due to plot shit 2. being like 5 feet max from them or 3. having a deus ex machina divine revelation of fantasy samsara
