Seismic sense: Through learning this skill, earthbenders can detect vibrations in the ground to perceive objects, people, and other aspects of their environment, essentially acting as sonar but through the ground.
(Source: makorras)
No. No I’m sorry but I won’t have anything bad said about Ty-Lee over this. This is the whole point of her story. Born as one of seven identical sisters she had no sense of identity of her own. She then fled to the circus thinking the attention of others would give her a personality. When Azula came knocking she was soon pressured into following her again, just as she had done when she was a child.
When she wore the Kyoshi Warrior overalls it was because she chose to - it was her own decision. Not something she was born into or pressured to do or to seek the approval of others. It may have been a uniform but it was one with a fully fledged individual inside of it. It was part of who she wanted to be. Not what anyone else wanted.
That’s the point of being an individual.
(Source: datzr)
Katara’s Waterbending is so elegant.
I always thought of Waterbending as the most graceful and artistic discipline, demonstrating gentleness and majesty far more frequently than any of the others.
I have this sneaking suspicion that this will not be the case in Korra. Already the three or four instances of her Waterbending seen thus far have been surprisingly direct and power-based. I am loath to believe this simply because of her personality. Rather, I believe Waterbending, and all of the disciplines, must have been revolutionized with the advent of multi-cultural society in The United Republic, providing the opportunity for polymerization of bending styles and forms between elements.
I also wonder if our favorite masters from the former series worked to change their disciplines. Obviously Toph did with her standardization and structuring of Metalbending as its own disparate discipline. I wonder if Aang too pushed the limits of Airbending, making Tenzin a far greater Master of the nearly forgotten art than was to be expected of a typical Airbending Master before the war.
As for Waterbending, I expect Katara attempted to reinstitute Southern Water Style in the Southern Water Tribe in an effort to restore her Tribe’s culture. Perhaps this style is slightly more direct and less flourishing than Northern Water Style?
Glad to know I’m not the only one who noticed that waterbending seems to have lost its elegance.
Hoping for an episode in which Katara corrects Korra’s use of waterbending.
You have indeed felt a great loss. But love is a form of energy, and it swirls all around us. The Air Nomads’ love for you has not left this world. It is still inside of your heart, and is reborn in the form of new love.
