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| Azula Quest; A princess is you? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Feb 7 2013, 10:23 PM (38,715 Views) | |
| Chibi-Reaper | Feb 7 2013, 10:23 PM Post #1 |
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Posted Image I suppose that this would be the best place to pick this up from. Definitely going to have to re-create or gather together all of the previous posts, of course. Story Alone, right from post numero uno. Azula. 15 years old. Fourth month, ninth day, of year 100 ASC Master Firebender [23/6] -"Butterfly Wings" Fire-flight [3/???] -"Rocket Boost" Advanced flame propulsion [1/???] -"Dragon's Breath" burning exhalation [3/???] -"Advanced Fire Stream" focused fire spout [2/???] --"Hunting Dragon" Flame Spout Seeking Missile [1/???] -"Flame Wall" basically that. [1/???] -"Pinwheel Shot" distance projectile [1/???] -"Butterfly Swarm" razor-fire butterflies [1/???] -"Lava Bending" Fortress Killer [1/X] -"Inner Fire Reinforcement" Self-buff [2/???] -"Edge Enhance" Sword-buff Flames [1/???] -"Voice of Command?" ...not what it says on the tin? [1/1?] Air Bender [4/?] -"Cold Sky Fire" Lighting manipulation. [4/???] --"???" Force Lightning Taser? [1/???] --"???" Electro-Net. [1/???] Advanced Etiquette [2/2?] Spiritualism [3/3?] Leadership [6/???] Politics [6/???] "Agressive Self Defense" [3/???] -Unpleasant Surprises [2/?] Strategy [4/???] Logistics [2/???] Second Child Arts [1/???] Somewhat Cultured [4/???] Basic Trading Knowledge [2/???] Creepy child. Praise the Sun. Fire Good. ... Jealous. So jealous. Once burned, twice....? Tea-sipper. Ruby Butterfly. Divine Right of Kings? Cap'n Jin. Toph Customer, or some other pun. Old Man of the Mountain: Not Your Buddy. Lotus Initiate. Raijin Approves. Fuujin... not so much. Edited by Chibi-Reaper, Feb 9 2013, 06:48 PM.
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| HighMongrel | Feb 10 2013, 04:06 AM Post #1351 |
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[x] You're going about this the wrong way. You are first and foremost a firebender after all. Use you're new found powers to augment your existing ones instead of trying to learn a style made for the nomads. Fan the flames. Also, I wanna eventually make fire and lightning butterflies. |
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| d.fish | Feb 10 2013, 04:08 AM Post #1352 |
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Free electricity?! AZULA, TIME TO BECOME A SPARK! AZULA, GIRL GENIUSSS!!! |
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| Liam-don | Feb 10 2013, 04:12 AM Post #1353 |
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Can't fan the flames if you can't even create a strong breeze. The only thing we could do right now is try to see if the Airbender's breathing exercise could improve our lung capacity and maybe master the basic lightning form Raijin piggybacked to get to us. The second isn't very useful in the grand scheme of things though. Maybe if we run into another Saber yeti, but not a real priority. |
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| mc2rpg | Feb 10 2013, 04:23 AM Post #1354 |
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I don't really feel the urge to work on regular airbending. It may come to our call due to being used to Raijin, but it will never be like our fire or lightning. We should be working on improving lightning until we find some sort of training manual or teacher. While we are working solo lets go for the things that we are actually good at. |
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| Larekko12 | Feb 10 2013, 04:23 AM Post #1355 |
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Why not send him a message saying you have the location of other airbenders while swearing on agni but it's something you should talk about in person. |
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| Yog | Feb 10 2013, 04:26 AM Post #1356 |
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Only avatar can bend more than one element. People may or may not believe in spirits, but they know this. Our claim of being able to wield two elements is far more world shattering, for everyone, than spirits demonstrating that they exist. How many airbenders are there in Korra's time? I know that this is an AU, but still. And Aang's reaction was more due to us stealing air's prerogative. Now we can share it with him. Presentation is everything. |
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| Keeper of Storms | Feb 10 2013, 04:28 AM Post #1357 |
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[X] See if there are any scrolls about airbending stored away in the palace. Conquerors like to loot, so it's quite likely there are some. [X] Board the Butterfly and take it to a higher altitude for meditation, breathing exercises and some flying. |
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| MacroDaemon | Feb 10 2013, 04:42 AM Post #1358 |
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I don't think it's the fact that we're only blessed by Raijin that will make airbending harder for us, rather than our personality. The freedom and flightiness of wind is not something Azula has any experience with. Considering how it Raijin phrased it, I think wind and lightning both would be equally available to any who was blessed by Raijin or Fuujin. More militaristic people will just have an easier time with lightning, while pacifists will have an easier time with wind. |
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| UberJJK | Feb 10 2013, 04:48 AM Post #1359 |
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I kinda agree with this. Before we were a firebender intruding into air's domain. Now however we've gone before one of the spirits Airbenders worship, completed his trial and were rewarded with the ability to Airbend. I can see Aang respecting this, after all the very first Airbender probably had to do something very much like that. |
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| Yog | Feb 10 2013, 04:50 AM Post #1360 |
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One thought - to master Air Bending (which is freedom) we may have to completely open our mental box, free our inner Dragon and tame it without chaining it. |
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| Alratan | Feb 10 2013, 04:51 AM Post #1361 |
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In Korra's time there are four airbenders, Aang's son and the three of his grandchildren old enough to bend. That's it. The air acolytes are not benders, just people from the other nations that Aang converted to the air monk philosophy and their descendants. That didn't allow them to air bend at all though. The fact that we've now stolen more Airbending is not going to endear us to Aang. We're not going to embrace his philosophy, and that's the big barrier. His style of air bending won't work for us anyway, and we'll need to create our own. Appa may be more help with that than Aang. I suspect we should set Ty Lee on the Avatar if we want to get on our good side. He's currently friendless, and she's probably the friendliest person we know. Azula, Mai, and Zuko are probably too scary and intense, but Ty Lee's not. If he ever met Rin, we could invite him to the naming ceremony for her children. Really, the ideal option from our PoV is for Aang to go back to sleep for another hundred years. I wonder if we could persuade him that in order to safeguard the Avatar cycle, he can't risk wandering around until enough time has passed that Azula has plenty of air bending descendants. On a completely different note, I actually rather wonder if Aang's stil alive, or if the NWT killed him in his sleep or similar. Edited by Alratan, Feb 10 2013, 04:57 AM.
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| Bastur2 | Feb 10 2013, 04:52 AM Post #1362 |
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[x] Training in air is going to get you nowhere without a teacher, or at least an example, let's see how about putting fire of others. [x] Focus on your friends for now. [x] talk with Zull wen she returns, we should see what will be the repercursions of her little outing. [x] Arrange for new swords for Zuko and yourself Airbender will, at best, be a secondary skill set. One that, at this point in time, doesn't needs to be mastered. Yes if we did we would be able to have acces to more bulshit skills... But the point of fact is that we already have more than a few bulshit skills that we didn't perfect. Yes airbender could be very usefull, but it really isn't necessary at this moment. Let's what skill we have with fire (heating control and putting it out) so we can better our primary skill and guarantee that we will have enough fire during the eclipse. Edited by Bastur2, Feb 10 2013, 04:55 AM.
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| Alratan | Feb 10 2013, 04:55 AM Post #1363 |
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I doubt Airebending is freedom any more than Firebending is hate. That's simply the philosophy which the Air Monks used to build their style around. We know that multiple bending styles with different philosophical underpinnings can exist for each element, so there's no reason we have to use the air monk's one if we're not suited to it. The lightning bending aspect of Airbending is clearly not based around freedom, after all, so we may want to work out from there rather than going directly to wind. Focus on mastering lightning, then the rest can follow. |
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| Larekko12 | Feb 10 2013, 05:06 AM Post #1364 |
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Fire bendings is passion. Air is detachment. thinks I. |
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| MacroDaemon | Feb 10 2013, 05:07 AM Post #1365 |
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If that were true, Azula would have no problems airbending. |
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| HioH | Feb 10 2013, 05:13 AM Post #1366 |
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Air is freedom. For the nomads it was freedom from conflict, For us it might be better to focus on something like freedom from fate/destiny |
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| Silver W. King | Feb 10 2013, 05:48 AM Post #1367 |
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You know what we should do. We should go to a secluded place far away from civilization or anyone we know....and let the dragon out. |
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| Liam-don | Feb 10 2013, 05:57 AM Post #1368 |
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We'll have to do that at some point, yes. Preferably before the comet comes. But not right now. We need to make sure our house in orddr before running off anywhere. I haven't found an argument against my suggestion of having Zuul teach Katara. Come on, we need to make a real, serious attempt at subverting her. And that means giving her something of substance. Edited by Liam-don, Feb 10 2013, 06:02 AM.
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| Yog | Feb 10 2013, 06:01 AM Post #1369 |
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Preparations first, dammit! Find lore on dragons: 1) People turning into dragons, though magic, spiritual shenanigans or whatever. 2) Dragon changelings 3) Dragons mating with humans, producing offspring 4) Methods of dragon taming - the most important part, really. Sozin tamed his somehow. There should be scrolls on how tame / pacify / negotiate with dragons. Master Voice of Command, or at least look into it - it's the closest thing we have to any bending that may help us. Especially try to say your own name "Azula" in it and meditate on it. Meditation. Prepare the site. Like, hide Toph and Ty Lee deep underground in Toph-built bunker ready to clap you in rion and chi-block you if you go on too much of a rampage. After we do those, yes, go to an island and release the dragon. Then tame it. |
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| Yog | Feb 10 2013, 06:02 AM Post #1370 |
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Other than Katara trying to kill Zuul / Zuul tryint to kill Katara? And the fact that we don't really want Katara to know water bending. |
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| HioH | Feb 10 2013, 06:06 AM Post #1371 |
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Aye, making sure we understand and control the dragon part of ourselves seems likea good idea, and something thats pretty urgent. |
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| Yog | Feb 10 2013, 06:07 AM Post #1372 |
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Before we got interrupted by the spirit, we were going to do this, if I remember correctly. So, let's do that. |
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| EnderofWorlds | Feb 10 2013, 06:13 AM Post #1373 |
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I just thought it was too stupid to warrant people telling you why it's bad. Even if we do intend to subvert her; which I personally don't really care for except that it's a time sink, we should start off with baby steps. Someone suggested she work as a medic to heal the sick and injured, that's a good idea. But she has to earn the right to being taught waterbending; or at the very least be loyal to us. Given that she's still in her 'Kill the Fire Nation' phase, I'd prefer it if we didn't give the waterbender backed by destiny to be powerful any actual ability to harm us. Not until she's far more loyal and obedient. |
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| Liam-don | Feb 10 2013, 06:19 AM Post #1374 |
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Katara isn't hurting Zuul anytime soon and if we can't trust Zuul not to flip out and kill someone despite a direct order to not harm her, she's utterly useless to us and we should just kill her. As for waterbending, it's so Katara can defend herself. She's smart enough to not do anything stupid and besides, what's one waterbender gonna do? Katara is no Toph. Edited by Liam-don, Feb 10 2013, 06:21 AM.
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| HioH | Feb 10 2013, 06:22 AM Post #1375 |
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yes she is, thats why we dont want to teach her |
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| Liam-don | Feb 10 2013, 06:30 AM Post #1376 |
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Not a time sink to put her in someone else's hands. She only hates two persons in particular, her mother's killer and us, because we keep antigonizing her. And Katara isn't a dog. She won't be loyal and obedient anytime soon, but she can become friendly and trustworthy, like Toph. But you actually suggested more than letting her rot in a hole, so I'l give you that. |
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| Jiven | Feb 10 2013, 07:18 AM Post #1377 |
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[x] Training in air is going to get you nowhere without a teacher, or at least an example, let's see how about putting fire of others. [x] Focus on your friends for now. [x] Talk with Zull wen she returns, we should see what will be the repercursions of her little outing. [x] Arrange for new swords for Zuko and yourself [x] Where is the Avatar ? [x] The release of SWT prisoners ? [x] How is Katara ? [x] Break Joo Dee |
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| Alratan | Feb 10 2013, 07:20 AM Post #1378 |
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My proposal for Katara was twofold. 1) get her an education and exposure to the finer things in life 2) set up a hospital where she can provide free healing. This has several benefits - it shows the people of the Fire Nation that water benders are something they should want to have around, so there would be less opposition when we come to release the imprisoned ones, if we do so, and it will also force her to see the common citizens of the Fire Nation as people, just like her own. It would also keep her busy. On top of this, we'd also keep her away from Zuul, or anyone or thing else that could teach her or inspire her to develop non-healing water bending. She never needs to learn to do this, and making her substantially more dangerous makes it much harder for us to take risks with her or give her other limited freedoms in future. On the subject of Zuul, we really need to make her someone else's problem. We have more than enough to do already. I wonder if Jeong Jeong stayed loyal in this TL. We should also consider that putting her down for a second time would probably be easier than the first, now we are better at lightning. Zuko would probably also be capable of doing it. I wonder if handing her over to him would be possible? We'd probably want to intensively brief him on her capabilities, and we might want to hold off on doing this until we've learned heat bending and can teach it to him (he must have something to share in return), as that way he'd be much more capable of dealing with her style. We should find out if Iroh has taught him the quenching technique. |
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| target | Feb 10 2013, 08:14 AM Post #1379 |
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[x] Training in air is going to get you nowhere without a teacher, or at least an example, let's see how about putting fire of others. [x] Focus on your friends for now. [x] Talk with Zull wen she returns, we should see what will be the repercursions of her little outing. [x] Arrange for new swords for Zuko and yourself [x] Where is the Avatar ? [x] The release of SWT prisoners ? [x] How is Katara ? [x] Break Joo Dee Edited by target, Feb 10 2013, 08:23 AM.
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| Yog | Feb 10 2013, 08:18 AM Post #1380 |
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My personal last vote (the list of priorities in descending order of importance, from most important to last important): [x]Study dragons: 1) People turning into dragons, though magic, spiritual shenanigans or whatever. 2) Dragon changelings 3) Dragons mating with humans, producing offspring 4) Methods of dragon taming - the most important part, really. Sozin tamed his somehow. There should be scrolls on how tame / pacify / negotiate with dragons. [x]Prepare to unlock your mental box on some deserted island - that issue is pressing. And Raijin called you a dragon to your face. To do so do: 1) Master Voice of Command, or at least look into it - it's the closest thing we have to any bending that may help us. Especially try to say your own name "Azula" in it and meditate on it. 2) Meditation. 3) Prepare the site. Like, hide Toph and Ty Lee deep underground in Toph-built bunker ready to clap you in rion and chi-block you if you go on too much of a rampage. [x]Unlock the mental box, tame inner dragon [x]Talk with Ozai and Iroh about being an airbender. Try to convince them that there is no need to hide it, and, in fact, a cause for celebration. |
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| Alratan | Feb 10 2013, 08:32 AM Post #1381 |
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Why would Voice of Command have anything to do with taming our inner dragon? For all we know it's what's making it so uncontrollable in the first place. Speaking like a dragon could easily make us think like one. We also have no reason to believe that if we fully open the box that we will ever be able to close it again. We need far more information before we do this, either by asking Navi or by finding another dragon to talk to. Unleashing our inner dragon also has the risk that it's giving the destiny spirits a perfect opportunity to win, and turn us into the monster they've always wanted. We have no way of protecting ourselves from their interference. Lastly, if we do this, we want Iroh and Zuko there. Iroh because with his quenching he's one of the few people who could put us down if we go crazy, and Zuko because he's one of the few people that might be able to talk us down. Edited by Alratan, Feb 10 2013, 08:37 AM.
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| Yog | Feb 10 2013, 08:41 AM Post #1382 |
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Because from what we have gathered it is a draconic method of communication or something close to it. The more we master it as human, the less we get overwhelmed by it if our inner dragon uses it and the more we'll be able to affect said dragon (we have evidence that dragons respond to it) And it is the closest thing we have that may help. It's a long shot, yes. Incredibly so, but it is better than nothing.
We have no choice but to open the box. The containment is breaking already. And the thing contained inside is changing / maturing / growing. We need to open it on our terms before it opens on its own in a highly emotional situation. Like it does already, if only a little for now.
Not unleashing it gives the spirits opportunity to keep putting on pressure and placing us into situations where the containment is likely to break on its own.
This maybe I can agree with, though having Toph bing us in like half a meter of iron (basically, putting ourselves into the iron sarcophagus only far thicker) with holes cut specifically so Ty Lee could block our chi without freeing us should work too. |
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| Alratan | Feb 10 2013, 08:56 AM Post #1383 |
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I don't think that our inner dragon is that distinct from us. It is us. By using the Voice of Command we may well just erode our humanity and strengthen that aspect of ourself that we don't like.
I think its more likely to hurt, and so be worse than nothing. The closest thing we have that may help is to strengthen our human nature, and build connections to other people as people, rather than as possessions. That means, pretty much, Ozai, Iroh, and Zuko. We've made some progress on that front, but more can be done. For example, Zuko already knows almost everything. Tell him what's going on. Share the burden a bit. Demonstrate trust. Try the same with Iroh. We need to give Azula reasons to hold onto her human identity.
Or we strengthen the box. We have airbending now. Our nature has probably changed enough that we can use that to improve the containment. The box had seemed roughly secure. Something changed that. I suspect it was using the Voice of Command regularly.
Then we can deal with each situation as it comes, and manage ourselves so we don't get placed in situations that are likely to provoke us breaking down.
Imagine what would happen if we spontaneously shapeshifted into a dragon when inside such a prison. It wouldn't be a clean death. Just quickly reviewing this plan.
What does this quite mean?
We need more than that. If we're dealing with her, we should go in with a plan and someone having agreed to take her off our hands on a day to day basis.
With the NWT.
Already decided that it can wait until after the comet.
Honestly, do we really care? She's Iroh's hostage, not our's.
She's already broken. The problem is fixing her. Edited by Alratan, Feb 10 2013, 08:56 AM.
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| Yog | Feb 10 2013, 09:17 AM Post #1384 |
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How is airbending going to help us with mental soul / spiritual contamination? As far as I know, it has no mind-manipulation techniques (that we know of anyway). EDIT: Especially since airbending philosophy runs pretty much counter to the self-control we need. Edited by Yog, Feb 10 2013, 09:20 AM.
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| Earth-Destroyer | Feb 10 2013, 09:26 AM Post #1385 |
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[x] Talk to Ty Lee, her behavior of late when we where in danger, this is something we need to talk about. [x] Think about Rules to establish for Zuul. Their are the simple ones. Do not start fights, or antagonize others into fights. No leaving the capitol without our permission first. [x] Draw up a schedule for Zuul to learn Etiquette from the trainers. Set aside an hour to personally go over the importance of tea with her. [x] Have arrangements made for Katara to be able to volunteer, her services as a healer in the city. |
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| Alratan | Feb 10 2013, 09:30 AM Post #1386 |
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It almost certainly has mind manipulation techniques. People have inner storms, and manipulating them will do something. Airbending philosophy also doesn't run counter to the self control we need, at all. The philosophy the Air Monk's Airbending style that they used to control the winds did, but we know that each element has more the one bending style. For example, we know that our style of lightning bending is based around absolute emotional control and calm. That's what we should build on, our existing lightning bending, to develop techniques and principles that would help us. Strengthening our inner lightning is also likely to give us something that's particularly in line with Azula's human aspects, rather than her draconic ones, given dragons are the children of Agni. Whilst the winds may respond to us, our patron her is Raijin, and so our affinity for lightning is likely to be greater than that for the winds anyway. Edit: given the amount of time people want to waste on Zuul, I'm sorely tempted to vote for greeting her return with a full powered lightning bolt to the face. Probably wouldn't be very good for Azula's humanity though. Edited by Alratan, Feb 10 2013, 09:33 AM.
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| Earth-Destroyer | Feb 10 2013, 09:35 AM Post #1387 |
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Zuul is not a problem, it will take all of five minutes to establish rules for her to fallow. And we still need to learn her style of firebending.
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| Liam-don | Feb 10 2013, 09:40 AM Post #1388 |
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Zuul is a pain in the ass, but a pain in the ass Chibi took great care to explain we can't get rid off. Not only Iroh shut down our suggestion, the girl casually murdered someone as soon as she was left to her own device. Even if we lay out ground rules, it's pretty clear that we'll need to issue threats as well, and nearly permanently reinforce them through our presence. We can't let Zuul stray too far, she's is our responsibility now. |
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| Yog | Feb 10 2013, 09:41 AM Post #1389 |
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Inner storms? Have we ever seen evidence of this in the quest or in the canon? You are making a big assumption here. But even if they do, any such technique would be of crazy BS level, on par with VoC or Divine Right, i.e. things that require you to be a master bender. Whiel we are not even a beginner yet.
So... Your proposal is to create an entirely new style of bending that runs counter to whateve teachings we could find (either in scrolls or from Aang) at all points, obtain mastery in it, then invent crazy BS technique in it that is on par with Divine Right (the supreme secret of the Fire Lords, only ever taught by first child to the first child and never discovered by anyone else) or Voice of Command (something we have stumbled upon by chance, still don't know how it works or what it even is)?
Our style of firebending that creates lightning which we then can manipulate a little is reliant on perfect self-control. We have also not seen any evidence of inner lightning in the metaphorical sense. And... you want us to strengthen our cold emotionless sociopathic rationality in order to make our humanity firmer? You sure about that?
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| Torgamous | Feb 10 2013, 09:46 AM Post #1390 |
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| Yog | Feb 10 2013, 09:49 AM Post #1391 |
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That's "stilled air" not inner storms. But ok, point taken, and I remembered about that part, actually. |
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| Alratan | Feb 10 2013, 10:06 AM Post #1392 |
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Yes. We know Inner Storms exist:
We're 2/3 of the way to mastery. Just as Aang can be a master airbender whilst knowing nothing of how to bend lightning, only wind, there's no reason we can't do the same in reverse.
We already have invented an entirely new style of air bending (or rather, the previous Fire Lords did, inadvertently). We also have the massive advantage that we can already detect the inner storms, and that we know such conceptual airbending is possible. Virtually no one would even try that kind of thing, if they're igorant that there's even something inside people to bend like that. We've also already considered internal lightning bending other people, when we were trying to fix the Joo Dee.
The "Firebending" of Lightning that we and our family did was never really firebending in the first place. It never drew on Agni's power, it was always stealing from Raijin. In any case, our Lightning manipulation certainly isn't Firebending now, it's squarely airbending, and our old techniques still work just fine.
That's not really what Lightning Bending requires:
Calm isn't the same as sociopathic rationality.
Not never learn wind, just get air bending mastery from lightning first, as we're a lot better at that. Edited by Alratan, Feb 10 2013, 01:08 PM.
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| Liam-don | Feb 10 2013, 10:15 AM Post #1393 |
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There's nothing new about our use of lightning. It's something the Air Nomads discarded because of their pacifistic ways, but I'm pretty sure it existed before. That's why Raijin was so pissed at them. They threw him away.
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| Alratan | Feb 10 2013, 10:31 AM Post #1394 |
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I doubt there is something unprecedented. However, it's likely that the bending style whichever of our ancestors stole lightning invented to do so isn't the same as the airbending culture that preceded the air nomads used to lightning bend. We know that multiple different bending styles exist, and it would be straining credulity if our ancestor just happened to reinvent something exactly the same as had been developed before, despite starting from the principles of Firebending. Remember that the Fire Nation is unusual in only having a single national bending style for Firebending, and it only happened due to the strong selective pressures of the hundred years war making people learn the hate/rage based style as it was better for combat than the alternatives. Basically, it doesn't really matter whether our lightning bending style is relatively new or something old that was rediscovered. Whichever it is, it's an airbending style that we know, that works, that we're 2/3 of the way to mastery in. It seems much more effective to finish mastering that style rather than tilting at windmills and attempting to learn windbending when all the styles we know to do so seem incompatible with us. Edited by Alratan, Feb 10 2013, 12:49 PM.
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| UberJJK | Feb 10 2013, 10:52 AM Post #1395 |
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While working on getting mastery with our lightning I think Azula should try to learn the instant lightning trick Ozai has. When you get right down to it instant lightning means your able to instantly calm yourself even in a highly charged combat situation. Something I can see been useful for resisting/shutting down future Dragon events since Azula's dragon side tends to manifest as hate/rage/anger/ect. |
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| Hymn of Ragnarok | Feb 10 2013, 11:00 AM Post #1396 |
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Actually, we're probably a lot closer to instant lightning bolt of death. I can definitely get behind refining it further so that we have a faster draw. We got a relatively easy level up in that from constant training from Ozai via shooting birds our of the sky, this is probably something we can train on our own and expect to get results relatively quickly. As good as the fancy tricks are, and they are good, getting our insta kill would be even better. Also, if Aang finds out we only have Raijin's favor, he's probably going to clam up and refuse to teach us. We are essentially stealing air right now, and there's nothing Fuujin can do to stop us. Just pointing it out. |
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| Yog | Feb 10 2013, 11:04 AM Post #1397 |
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We are not stealing anything. We are sharing it. Air spreads. More so than fire even. |
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| Liam-don | Feb 10 2013, 11:14 AM Post #1398 |
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We're not. We're using Airbending, and that includes air, for some reason. Though I supposed Aang could not see it that way, he is a good natured, optimistic boy at heart, who wishes to see the best in people. Why would we assume he would take it the wrong way right from the start? |
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| Nightblade | Feb 10 2013, 11:18 AM Post #1399 |
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Cause Aang ran into Fong. |
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| Hymn of Ragnarok | Feb 10 2013, 11:19 AM Post #1400 |
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We are totally stealing it. We have Raijin's favor but not Fuujin's. Lightning, A-OK. Moving the air, we have the ability but Fuujin doesn't want us to have it.
I don't think he would take it wrong from the start. I think, presented correctly, he would indeed help. I also think that if he knew the exact circumstances for our airbending, that we have the favor of Lightning but not of Air, he'll be more reluctant. |
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