People just starting to watch A:TLA for the first time: The bending is really cool, but couldn’t the waterbenders technically just bend the water inside of people? Like their blood? I’m pretty sure technically they could. Well I guess it’s a kids show so they probably won’t go into it haha.
People who have seen the show already and know what happens:
I think I read in a fic (I’ll search it later) that it’s unlikely that bloodbending was invented by Hama and it was something like a secret art of the southern waterbending style (that Hama wasn’t aware of) and that it was practiced by a private some sort of sisterhood… like I can’t believe they didn’t had legend about some deity or goddess, some daughter of Tui that had some tragic back story that led to the creation of bloodbending
the images below represent somewhat what I imagine that legend of the blood goddess, daughter of Tui
edit (18/05/2022): i think it was this fic but i honestly can’t find where the author said that
