Avatar bending personality traits reddit Members Online If you put a scientific spin on bending styles you can get some really interesting ideas for new directions to take them: airbending is really Nitrogen Bending (air is 78% nitrogen), earthbending is Carbon Bending (the primary ingredient in dirt and rock is carbon, which is also the element mostly removed when forging metals), waterbending is Hydrogen Bending (twice as much hydrogen in water I would think creating steam without an external heat source would be possible with mixed lineage. Iroh is shown to be capable of hearing liquid directly as a fire bender. That would also explain why Avatar Kyoshi was able to lava bend so easily. When she found out she was the Avatar last year, she had already mastered Earth. Korra was born Water Tribe but has an obvious affinity for Fire bending. Off of the top of my head, I think the strongest bending feat that we've seen is Korra energy bending the beam from Kuvira's spirit vine weapon at the end of Book 4, as she basically took the Avatar universe's equivalent of a nuke head on and ripped a hole in between the human and spirit worlds; a close second, or maybe a 1B to the aforementioned 1A, would be Toph holding up Wan Shi Tong's Pyschic and daytime blood-bending were genetic traits the Yakone family had and its not possible by normal waterbenders. But, if Bumi had a child before being obtaining the air bending powers, this child might born as an air bender or water bender because it have air nomad and water tribe ascendancy. Maybe in the ATLA era, people were more prone to pushing their personality traits onto their kids--making firebenders aggressive, airbenders calm etc. The thing is I don't think there ever can be, the life they live and the struggles they have shape an avatar just as much as there personality does, not all faults are ingrained, nor are they damaging under the right circumstances, if Roku hadn't hesitated and killed Sozen he may have fixed his fault but may have created internal conflict, that could have INFP - airbender but earth bender was a close second My biggest problem with the quiz (and a lot of others) is that it’s so easy to see through the questions and answer based on what results you’d want. Korra's quest to become "an Avatar" feels like a description that doesn't really understand that the Avatar is a unique position, and that "I'm the Avatar" is literally the starting point of her character. Korra may be a waterbender first, but her bending lacks the usual elegance. Bending is the ability to manipulate an element and is significant to many aspects of life in the world. Members Online I’ve often thought that if Avatar got even a single rated R movie or show, then we would see what all these elements really can do. B. I think while she does have flaws, she is plenty likable as a character, even if she has many opposite traits of the previous avatar. A lot of my reasons for this are purely based on personal opinion, and I don't believe that he's intrinsically better than any of the other main characters on the show. Referred to by Iroh as "The cold blooded fire," Lightning bending and redirection are subsets of Firebending that require a lot of emotional control. Based on your own personality, what element would you have the most trouble with, if you were the avatar? Aang is not an native earth bending avatar. This test seems to be fairly accurate. The problem with water bending is its a really slow fucking element. The subreddit for fans of Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra, the comics, the upcoming Avatar Studios animated movies and other projects, novels, games, and all other Avatar content. Anyway, here goes. She uses fire-bender’s rage with her own water bending. But as Iroh explained to Zuko, the Avatar's significant bending abilities isn't only a result of having inherent access to all four elements, but truly mastering all 4 bending arts by developing a deep and unified understanding of all bending cultures and philosophies. Personality wise, she was always made to feel lesser by the villages, everything she does was scrutinized. Which is my argument that, it is much better to take these feats at face value to the best of our ability. Her I don't give a damn personality, her skills and talents, Bending style and the fact that she didn't let her disability stop her, she made her weakness a strength. Sweeney in the sequel animated series Avatar: The Legend of Korra. Also Iroh proved that cross bending is absolutely a thing. The Avatar also somehow gets bending back when pushed on his back nearing his end, probably due to the chakra being affected, yet Azula was the one who caused the chakra imbalances to begin with, and the energy of the lightning bolt connected her with the Anng while he was in the Avatar state. Holy shittttt make this into the next big Avatar villain, for the next Avatar: like thanks to rapid industrialization now they are in a early 1980s fantasy steam society, and the Earth bender Avatar has to deal with a necromancer. There are five known bending arts; four of them bend a specific physical element while the fifth bends the energy within the human body itself. First off, I've never found a character more relatable. Sharing this with the Avatar reddit of course too. Even though we can’t bend in real life the show goes out of its way to state that its not magic. The other bending styles provide great advances in movement, farming, cooking, technological development, mining, combustion, fishing, medicine, hunting and whole cavalcade of other useful skills. Tell me your thoughts down below, if you don't care for MBTI please don't comment and spoil the fun of others that do care for it and like it, thank you. 3. INTJ- Water bending I am quite community and spiritually based, but not spiritually focused enough to be an Airbender. no two bending in one person. There are four elements to bend, and four temperaments--rational, idealist, guardian, and artisan. From the beginning actually. I know all the types in ATLA don’t fit into these categories, this is just my understanding of the four elements as they relate to certain types/characteristics. A native earth bending Avatar is not a native Airbender. I think it'll take her a lot longer than Fire. I looked this up quite a lot on the internet and I have found some links between elements and personalities: 1. I see water bending and focusing on the flow and current of things as parallel to my lifelong journey to connect with, understand, and direct my emotions healthily. I of course mean bending the elements, in Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra. ESTP: Air ESTJ: Earth ESFP: Water ESFJ: Earth ENTP: Air ENTJ: Fire ENFP: Water ENFJ: Fire ISTP: Air Bending, both the ability to bend, and what element you can bend, is genetic. You could argue as well why does the order of the first element matter? Which in easy terms, would be so the Avatar has a strong connection with their native people of the cycle. Her diplomacy often led to compromise and from our understanding kept moving the goalpost consistently in favour of humans. So when Aang first Fire bent he didn't take it seriously and was playful with it. . What would be the version of that for earth and fire? Edit: oh wait I know exactly what the earth aspects it. We also know energy bending allows the avatar to restore a person's bending if their connection to that element is cut off. With the birth of the URN, we start to see this idea of cultural mixing more than we had in ATLA. Maybe it's something you can be born with an affinity for (Bolin lava bending and Mako shooting lightning which always felt like a cross between fire and air/water to me) but also something you can learn (Iroh using waterbending movements to redirect lightning Finding avatar traits in general is such a pain, and since no functionality has come with the Reddit store, I decided to make a bootleg version! I have collected screenshots from around the subreddit and from some of you wonderful people over the past month, and I need help finishing it. Sure, the pro-bending is awesome, but they could have put more character development into it. Members Online bending is one each. blood bending is actually a bit of metal bending (the iron in blood). Members Online Actually, I think it can be explained if you think of it in a cultural perspective. Share your results with friends and fellow Avatar fans to spark fascinating discussions! This Avatar personality test not only provides an entertaining experience for Assuming both parents were benders, recessive bending doesn’t make much sense seeing as all possible children would have the FE (Fire/Earth) genotype, and most ways of displaying those traits would result in combined aspects of each bending style, at least to my knowledge. Now I don't think they correlate as well as other things frequently do, but I've noticed some similarities water: Idealist (NF) Throughout TLA, You'll notice that there are certain traits that almost every bender of certain elements posses, Firebenders being mostly fierce, angry bastards, Earthbenders requiring a certain toughness, a strength of will etc, you know what I mean. Benders and non benders both need to be taught but yhe thing is benders for the most part only focus on bending not machinery or archery or chi blocking Sure but that's just as long as benders think they're anyways superior. A Tier - Exceptionally strong benders, but not The subreddit for fans of Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra, the comics, the upcoming Avatar Studios animated movies and other projects, novels, games, and all other Avatar content. so it makes sense that the only people who can bend lava is the one who can bend more than one element. Mar 21, 2021 路 Water benders personality traits = Strong sense of community and understanding/ helps everyone play/ achieve their part - Team player/ Sensible/ Mature/ powerful/ Bold/ helping others. Earth: loyal, brave, fearless, loving, determined. Gifts. Also magic tends to have very few limitations where as bending has plenty. Avatar Yangchen is the second worst avatar after Roku. If a player wants to make sure their PC starts play with a specialized form, they can take a technique of a specialized form— an Earthbender PC who starts play with a mastered metalbending technique has mastered the ability to bend metal! The subreddit for fans of Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra, the comics, the upcoming Avatar Studios animated movies and other projects, novels, games, and all other Avatar content. There are more placements with The difference in power is a really good point that I never noticed while watching LoK. I’m drawing from ancient Greek philosophy as well as the show. While he reconciled that it was what had to be done. steam bending that korra uses in season 1 is possible water and either fire or air. Explore the detailed analysis of your bending affiliation and how it aligns with your core traits. Members Online From the post: I of course mean bending the elements, in Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra. Fire is clearly dangerous if you bend it with the wrong attitude. Members Online Lighting bending as seen by multiple people like zuko, mako, etc, is a bit of air bending. You likely possess the passion and fervour of a Firebender, but you have a stronger grasp over your feelings and find it easier to keep them in check. May 20, 2024 路 Avatar Aang is a fictional character and the protagonist of Nickelodeon's animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender, voiced by Zach Tyler Eisen, by Noah Ringer in the M. It fits so well with her character and time period. He says it has to do with focusing on each cell in his body and renewing or replacing or something (it has been a It could be that every Avatar, including Aang and Roku, had difficulty with their opposing native element except Korra. Avatar: ENFP, INFJ (two intuitive doms that are also spiritual NFs :-) also ang is ENFP so 馃槅 Edit: I did descriptions and also I put the corresponding functions in order from most relevant function to that element to least!! I didn’t realize that I accidentally organized in a specific way. I mean, hell. true Aang was likely only given energy bending because of his immovable morality. Bending in avatar is like intuition and empathy is to the real world. I think it's all explained in the avatar wan story in season 2. The first time we saw her bending and beating men 5 times her size. That's why when you enter the spirit world (excluding when travelling through a portal) your can't bend because you are not in your body. When you cant bend an element, you cant ever learn one, except if you are lucky during Fair enough. Various characters get stronger over the course of the show, and Aang can output more bending in the Avatar state, but it's not detailed why the others can simply do more. For example, earthbenders use movements inspired by Hung Gar––chosen for its firmly rooted stances and powerful strikes as a representation of the solidity of earth. Also that's is why your bending can be blocked by chi-blockers. Members Online the problem with that is the fact that weightlessness is due to losing earthly attachments instead of being an innate skill, Aang having sound-bending is due to him being a complete master of Air-bending instead of it being a sub-element, metal bending instead of being an innate skill it's just much easier for some people but everyone can do it Avatars tend to have trouble bending the element that is the opposite of their personality. How we choose to define ourselves with the words we say and things we do, how we grow and mature, and if we choose to reject or accept the whims of fate. Turns out I'm most like a firebender (got a 36% dominance result). Members Online TIL in Avatar: The Last Airbender, the bending styles for each element were influenced by a different Chinese martial art. Once he lands you see that he has the personality you'd expect and adult Aang to have. Aang could easily bend fire, but the reason he had to learn it after Earth is because Earth taught him how to be disaplined. in the first episode the character Claudia is reading a book called Love amongst Bending ideas- Fire: •heat bender using rising heat to make themselves glide or fly •light bending using energy to produce no heat but burning bright which once perfected light bending has numerous uses •Air benders with blowdarts •I liked the poison Water bender but they should use poisonous gas condensed through bending rod give it an Cause Mizu has strong fire-bender vibes, so maybe she self-teaches herself water bending in secret, and uses it to strike hard and fast with ice spikes, and water hosing ppl. There's no real limits to how much one can bend at a time. When she couldn't earth bend the "normal way" it was a problem until it wasn't. Time to do Avatar, I know I'm gonna piss some people off with this one but no matter and I don't care because its my opinion at the end of Avatar Tier- Able to master all four elements, go into the avatar state, and always born with immense raw power and natural talent. Even blood bending, while initially needing a full moon, can be learned through training as seen with amon and his family. The way that bending is inherited in Avatar is really perplexing to me. Aang had trouble with Earth. I think the lightning bending in the first Kyoshi novel agrees with this trend too, since lightning bending was extremely special/rare almost to the point of being a myth (kinda like Zaheer and flight). If the avatar dies and the new one has a new body, different personality, and different memories, isn't that just a different person? The personality can vary, but the soul is still the same. While fighting spirits is probably less common that fighting humans, it is still very useful because spirits can be very strong, fast, and dangerous. I think genetics plays a role in it, but it doesn't quite make sense. I think she's another prodigy, just like Aang was, and just like Aang, will have difficulty with learning the opposite element. It was vague but I got the impression Wan would get seriously injured or killed by trying to have the elements within him unmastered/uncontained by Raava. but when zuko jumps in front of lightning to save katara, he doesn’t Personally, I think LoK could've been the perfect opportunity to further explore the merits of each element and how they affect an avatar: Korra was built as this character who seemingly sparred like a child soldier her entire life, but she's never opened up to the spiritual side of bending to begin with, so exploring just that-- with all four The subreddit for fans of Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra, the comics, the upcoming Avatar Studios animated movies and other projects, novels, games, and all other Avatar content. Other factors may determine if those traits are active or dormant in a particular person, or how well they take to bending (how quickly they learn, or how powerful they may be), or if they can perform certain sub-bending styles (though that depends on the sub-style. Can anybody describe to me the personalities that each element reflects on the bender? Well simplified: -firebenders draw their Powers from strong emotions Like compassion or rage, and as such are energetic and rash. Air bending would be the second most powerful form of bending in my opinion, sheering winds, suffocation, literally tearing people apart. So you start the show and you see someone who looks like what you'd expect an adult Aang to look like on a creature that vaguely looks like Appa. They generally are, even disregarding the Avatar state. She learned earth bending much easier from a teacher or teachers that actually adapted their teaching program. Be it Ozais or anyone else's. Dafuq. The Avatar mod for Crusader Kings 2 has been updated by a group of fans. It’s literally easier to become the Avatar like Wan did. I think that makes the character a master of the element 馃. In the Kyoshi novels there is an earthbender who is able to make himself nearly immortal. the lethality of lightning bending is kinda inconsistent. Aang is my favorite character in the Avatar world, and maybe my favorite character from anything ever. S Tier - The most powerful non-avatar benders in history. Upon completion, your elemental nation and personality profile will be revealed. He valued life. Personally I don’t know much about the mud bending aspect of it but 100% sand benders and sand bending is underrated I feel like if used more they could construct highly effective and lethal sand bending techniques however that’s just my stand point and Gaara is my favorite naruto character so I’m pretty bias If you give the Avatar a good hard fight with one element while the Avatar has 4 to thier disposal excluding Avatar state. The main thing distinguishing the premise from ATLA (imo) is that Korra is the Avatar first and foremost, and I think that this is giving Avatar Aang exhibits this brilliantly, which makes him a relatable character. But that would be nothing compared to blood bending. Waterbenders are really immobile "spell casters" 38 votes, 93 comments. thats it. 2. The Sorting Hat tells us that Hufflepuff only takes the rest of the people that werent brave, pure, or smart. And there are a number of core traits that stay consistent between incarnations. Some people have it, some people dont. I wouldn't consider a lot of your examples as actual sub bending specialties. I also see her blood-bending so yes Top 3: Bloodbending as you dont need any elements in your surroundings to implement it and you can't counter it without using avatar state or if you are also a blood bender Lava bending as if you can do lava bending on a large scale you can destroy entire structures Flight because we all saw how powerless korra was against zaheer Overrated Bending has always been associated with a persons physical body. I don't think someone like Kyoshi would have been given the ability to energy bend in the first place. It’ll fit her biracial nature but set in the Avatar Universe. Water & Air are playful elements whilst Air & Fire are both etheral elements. Mud bending, for example, is just bending water that happens to have mud in it. " However, I can have a bit of a temper sometimes, which would put me in the firebender category. I think I'd be a waterbender. As for double bending I would imagine needing to be gifted the second element by a lion turtle, however they will need a spiritual component to hold that much power. Whether the reception of how Mai was written is love or disgust, like all of the core Avatar characters, Mai had consistent character traits with a character arc. So I would like to ask what we know of Roku's personality. Spirits - Waterbending is the only bending form that is capable of pacifying spirits. [2 The third most important sign that makes up a person is their Ascendant sign aka Rising sign The sign on the East horizon during your time of birth, your rising sign represents basic personality traits such as physical appearance, temperament, behavior, relationship to life and the first impression the person gives. There's no real cost to using it; if they're tired they're worse at it but there's no fatigue from just using it. Bloodbending - Bloodbending is the most powerful form of bending there is. when azula shoots aang with lightning he straight up dies and has to be revived by katara. Someone with mixed Fire and Water bending heritage could conceivably make steam at will. Nowadays, a lot of tv shows, movies, books, and other forms of entertainment depict strong female characters having predominantly masculine traits. [1] The only case of any one person being able to bend multiple elements is the Avatar, who has the ability to practice all five bending arts. The Avatar has been ~620 different people and all of them mastered all four elements, so I’m confident a p When we learn about the Avatar world, we learn everyone can only bend 1 element. Zaheering it would be a good move. -earthbenders are stubborn and tough, Not bowing down to Change or supression. But then, I can never stay angry too long so I think my personality would fit a waterbender best. or It was just nice seeing a female character that was both feminine and motherly and an epic fighter. Send the Boulder my regards! Also I'd love that, I love every character, and I think that Avatar bending styles are much more even than the Hogwarts Houses. when ozai shoots zuko with lightning and zuko rebounds it back at him, ozai just gets knocked back and seems to be relatively fine, not even having a scar from the lightning. Let see. the Sand benders (or rather dust bending) could actually be using earth and air. It is associated with Keirsey's Temperament. Once you learn that he is going to train Korra every viewer has already put Tenzin in the character type of "mentor". What can airbending do? Move good and jump good and maybe slight precog if you shave your head and grow a beard. I have a soft personality and I would, in Katara's words, "never, ever turn my back on people who need me. She tried her best and like every avatar had her struggles but the burden she created was felt two generations later. So how does Roku's personality hinder his learning of Waterbending? Aang fully embodies his native element. Despite Aang is the avatar and is part of the Air nomad and Katara is from the water tribe, Bumi born as a non bender because the being born bender is something random. He's like the literal personification of Air, always trying to outmaneuver his obstacles through indirect means. He still knew he ultimately couldn't. Tenzin (or another bending sage, possibly Katara herself) may have adapted this theory about the Avatar to fit the circumstances, because, for some reason, Korra is having trouble learning Air instead of Fire. We know the Avatar can struggle to master the element whose ideology differs most from their own characteristics. Same with plant bending. You see, for me it was always cristal clear that, since the avatar is a reincarnation, they are all the same spirit (Wan’s spirit), living a new life in a new body with new experiences hence new personality, but it’s the same spirit. Posted by u/UnfrostedPopTart5 - 6 votes and 8 comments The subreddit for fans of Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra, the comics, the upcoming Avatar Studios animated movies and other projects, novels, games, and all other Avatar content. It gives them room to grow. Korra had trouble with air. Stuff like foodbending and voidbending especially have like not even a baseline correlation with bending in general and would be practically impossible for an Avatar character to ever really discover even due to the sheer disconnection they are from bending's thematic,let alone actually be used. And every elements has different subs, which can almost be seen as different elements all together sometimes. Avatar Denza is here at the Southern Air Temple to start her training in Air bending. In addition as seen with harmonic convergence creating new airbenders previous non benders can become benders with spiritual energy . Alright here is my crack theory spoilers for the Dragon Prince throughout the Dragon Prince there have been references to Avatar in season 3 Callum one the show's main protagonists also voiced by the voice actor of sokka picks up a boomerang and sets that something strangely familiar about it and in season 1. I’ve heard that each avatar makes up for the mistakes and inadequacies and even just strong personality traits of their past life. Roku had trouble with water. It makes sense that if Aang was hesitant and careful then Korra would over correct towards forceful, overconfident, and brash. So it isn't the culture of the Avatar's birth, but their personal temperament which decides their ability to pick up an element easily or through "bitter work". It’s the same process as a lava bender requiring earth and fire bending traits. Oct 1, 2024 路 That makes it surprisingly easy for fans to figure out the Avatar bending personality traits based on the 16 Myers-Briggs personality types, from the calculating INTJ to the humanitarian ENFP and the rest. But, the Avatar can bend all 4. Dec 27, 2024 路 Discover Bender Personality Types in Avatar: The Last Airbender. Yes, decisiveness + rashness could prove to be problematic, but remember at the beginning of stories, characters are rarely perfect. But it gets a little complicated because the elements mean different things in different cultures. My understanding is "personality" would be shortcut for how earthbenders bend: to earthbend you have to utilize neutral jing, waiting and listening for the right time to strike and defend. Members Online My understanding is that the bending traits are random in a mixed bender family. In Legend of Korra, it makes sense that those things gets replaced with something like pro-bending. They have different starting and ending points in the cycle. They aren't bending anything different. Explore how water, earth, fire, and air bending correlate with unique character traits and Myers-Briggs types. The omly one that shows skill with non bending as a form of offence is Zuko and he's the outlier Cough Azula cough: We all know that through energy bending the avatar can take away a person's bending. I think I’m funny (some might disagree lol), I am environmentally conscious, I am overall anti violence however i don’t think I’d be so peaceful as to avoid it in a serious situation, I do my best to be kind to others, I’ll stick up for what is right, I’m self conscious, I find this complementing myself thing rather uncomfortable but it’s good for me lol, my Per page 217: “At character creation, a PC always gets one mastered technique to start. Even though Avatar follows physics much more often than most fantasy series' do, I doubt the animators made mechanical calculations every time a character was hit by a bending attack. But it didn't work. For starters, all the original benders learned how to bend by watching either BadgerMoles, Dragons, The Moon, or Sky Bison. Like when Kya missed her attack on Zaheer he was easily able to out do her. Usually, they have unique abilities or accomplishments that make them among the best benders of their kind. The mindset, attitude, and nature of each bending type matches one of the MBTI types, often in nuanced and unexpected ways. It's just bending the water inside of the plants. Its a special form of art that only some people possess. Oh that's a cool though, it's kind of like bending the aspect of their element. Night Shyamalan film The Last Airbender, and voiced by D. She is an individualist, family-oriented, Zuko-loving lady who transforms from an apathetic self-centered individual to a more empathetic, selfless one, albeit by not very much. One of the prominent themes in the show surrounds abstractions such as destiny, identity and redemption. Bending isn't just fighting. Recently the DISC personality test has come up as a way to find out what type of bending you would most likely have based on your personality. Water: calm, caring, emotional, trusty, understanding. Agreed, it does not seem easy. I highly recommend that you read the description of the mod page before playing as there are still a lot of issues that need to be sorted out. Jul 2, 2020 路 Each one of the 4 elements has some typical personality stereotypes attached to them. the theory only works if the other elements is like that too, for example; the only people who can bend vapor is the one who is descendant of airbender and waterbender. ttswgukd qctywyid pmforn rhsqx zrqwe rxh fcxhdyv jvh xduitqs dkngtfg