Sounds familiar. This is what blue firebending needs to do for both Azula and firebending. We do know that firebenders direct chi through their bodies, according to Uncle Iroh. Instead of merely controlling an external element, they actually produce something with their chi.
Presumably, they are using their chi to produce heat and that heat is expressed as flames. Despite these uncertainties, chi appears to be at the center of firebending in a way that it is not for the other forms of bending. Fortunately, we have a character in Avatar, and an entire episode, devoted to teaching us about chi and how it flows through the body.
These clogs can either reduce the flow or stop it altogether. Guru Pathik did not say that opening and closing the chakras is a one time event. Presumably, if one knows how to identify their closed chakras and how to open them, they could do so at will, as is the case with the Avatar State.
Along these lines, a firebender could also learn to open their chakras at will. This could imply it requires your chakras to be open, not a personality trait. Guru Pathik said that if the chakras are open, the chi flows freely and the pools stay clear. If the chakras are clogged, the pools become dirty. If a firebender uses their drive to force their chi through the dirty pools, then their chi becomes dirty as well. Aang had to learn the skill of opening his chakras.
Other firebenders could also learn that skill, too. Azula is referred to as a prodigy. Bending in Avatar is portrayed as being both a skill and a talent ; it has to be taught and practiced. Azula practices. She is taught by presumably the best teachers in the world and she has the talent to improve her skills.
What clogs her chakras that requires her to open them? How does she open them? We know that what allowed Aang to let go was his pressing need to be the Avatar. Perhaps what allows Azula to let go is her pressing need to be a competent, fearsome princess. Why can Azula do this but nobody else seemingly, such as Iroh? Who knows for sure, but then again, why is Katara so inherently good and how come Toph is both blind and amazing instead of blind and mediocre?
This could be where the prodigy element comes into play. Her power and ability in firebending caught the eye of her father especially. When she was 9-years-old, Azula demonstrated and even flaunted her firebending prowess to her grandfather, the late Firelord Azulon, even surprising him how great she is for her age. She grew to love this constant attention and become somewhat of an exhibitionist overtime as she would typically demonstrate her power and sadistic nature over her peers to garner their attention too.
After her brother was banished from the capital to look for Aang, Azula spent the next three years relentlessly training her bending, strategy, and combat until she concentrated her skills down into her refined, advanced blue fire technique. One final notion may be based on the creators' having personified Azula on color symbolism alone. While her namesake in the Avatar universe derived from her grandfather, Azulon, but her name also comes from the Spanish translation of blue, which is Azul.
As she is the only one who is personified as blue amongst a nation of red, this makes her stand out even more as a character. Moving forward with that concept, the creators could have structured her as a sort of contrast to her nation, especially her brother, Zuko.
While throughout the series, Zuko had been very passionate, hotheaded, and impulsive , Azula had been depicted very even-tempered, cunning, logical, and a perfectionist. Tea can also serve as a catalyst for this technique, as shown by Iroh. Heat control : Certain advanced firebenders appear to have the ability to control heat. Using this technique, firebenders can heat liquids, [27] heat metal until it glows red, or melt ice, or in reverse, cool things down, as evidenced by Fire Lord Sozin who absorbed the heat coming from lava through one hand, letting it pass through him, and out via the other, effectively cooling it down.
Ozai creating fire enhanced by Sozin's Comet. Due to its solar augmentation, firebending is slightly stronger during the day, being at its most powerful around noon. With an extraterrestrial heat source much closer to the planet than the sun, in particular Sozin's Comet, firebending is enhanced dramatically. A firebender under the effects of the comet can produce much larger, powerful flames, which create greater destruction and can extend much further than usual.
Experienced firebenders can use the comet's power to sustain flight, generate exceptionally powerful lightning bolts, and perform other feats of firebending which they would usually be incapable of executing. Firebending is the opposing art to waterbending, though they share facets of self-control, diversity, and variation in strength due to external forces and strong emotions. Firebenders use quick strong punches and kicks to shoot fire, while waterbenders use smooth movements and elegant turns and spins to return the momentum of the opponents' attacks.
Firebenders attack first, while waterbenders wait and turn their target's attacks against them. Many waterbenders of the United Republic of Nations, a new-founded country of the world, have adapted a fighting style which is based primarily on sheer strength and speed. For example, criminals, task force members, and even Councilman Tarrlok tried to defeat their opponents with surprising, aggressive first strikes, a tactic typical of firebenders. However, this new fighting style is restricted mainly to the waterbenders of the republic.
Zuko fighting Katara. The two bending arts are also opposed by their celestial power source; firebending is fueled by the sun, waterbending by the moon. This is best demonstrated during a duel fought between Zuko and Katara; at night, during the full moon, Katara quickly battered Zuko into submission and froze him against a wall; however, at sunrise, Zuko effortlessly melted the ice holding him in place and defeated Katara with one short fire blast.
Like all bending arts, firebending is balanced out as to not be more or less powerful than the other arts. It has repeatedly been illustrated that it is the skill and prowess of the user that determines victory. Firebenders sometimes incorporate weapons into firebending, such as Zuko's utilization of firebending in conjunction with his dual broadswords , shaping and channeling the flames down the blade of his weapons.
Certain firebenders are able to generate and manipulate lightning by separating the yin and yang energies. Lightning, also known as "the cold-blooded fire", is considered the most powerful firebending technique, and its use was initially available only to a select few firebending prodigies and masters. However, by the time of Avatar Korra, the art, while not widespread, is known by enough people to make lightning generation a decently-paid job at a power plant in Republic City.
Some experienced firebenders are unable to generate lightning because they do not possess inner peace. If a firebender who harbors inner turmoil tries to generate lightning, it would only cause a miniature explosion. Zuko, for example, was unable to generate lightning because of his inner conflict with both his father, Fire Lord Ozai, and his sister, Azula. Iroh generating lightning. Lightning generation : Lightning generation is the ability to generate and direct lightning.
It requires peace of mind and a complete absence of emotion. During Korra's lifetime, many other firebenders demonstrated the ability to generate lightning, particularly in creating energy for Republic City's power plant.
Lightning redirection : After observing the redirecting techniques of waterbending, Iroh developed a technique to redirect the course of lightning strikes by absorbing it through one arm, guiding it through the stomach, and out the other arm.
Lightning Bolt Zolt is known to have been capable of redirecting lightning. Equator : A firebender's power is at its maximum potential nearest to the equator. This effect increases significantly during the summer.
Warm climate : A firebender is much stronger and controlled whenever he or she can draw energy from heat. The climate conditions of a battleground can turn the tides of the fight in a firebender's favor, if the weather is hot enough.
Extreme cold : Cold temperatures reduce or even completely negate a firebender's abilities. The Boiling Rock prison used insulated chambers, the coolers, and piped in cold air as a punishment for those prisoners who used firebending, as the freezers prevented them from bending.
Full moon : With waterbending becoming stronger with it and firebending being water's opposite element, the full moon weakens firebending to some degree. Lack of defense : The major combat weakness behind the applied art of firebending is its confrontational nature.
Due to its aggressiveness and pursuit of continuous assault, it traditionally lacks basic defensive techniques, which can leave an inexperienced bender considerably vulnerable to enemy counterattacks, though masters such as Jeong Jeong can effectively use firebending for defense. A common mark of a firebending master is the ability to sustain attacks for long periods.
Zuko 's firebending was briefly weakened due to losing his drive to capture Aang. Lack of drive : In order to firebend properly, one must have "inner fire", his or her drive, without which one's firebending becomes weak. Aang, being traumatized by his first experience with firebending, was too afraid to "give it some juice", as said by Zuko. Both overcame their problems after meeting with the masters Ran and Shaw, who taught them the true meaning of firebending, restoring their drives.
Other circumstances : A firebender's power may decrease in any situation which might extinguish their flames, such as being underwater or caught in the rain. Zuko overcame this while underwater in the North Pole by melting ice by heating it with direct contact. Poor breath control : According to Iroh, true firebending power comes not from physical size or strength, but rather from the very control of one's breath.
This was first explained and demonstrated by Iroh, an overweight, squat man with no exceptional strength or physique; however, this did not stop him from being one of the most powerful firebenders in the world. Poor breath control means dangerously poor control of any fire generated. For this reason, breathing exercises are one of the most critical first steps for beginning firebenders. Poor self-control : Though anger, rage, and other intense emotions can amplify the power of firebending, it can lead to dangerous explosions or wildfires and can also cause any nearby flames to burn out of control.
The enlightened firebending master Jeong Jeong repeatedly stressed this importance during his instruction of Aang, who accidentally burned Katara when he refused to listen, [2] and a lack of self-control was demonstrated by Zhao during his fight with Aang. Solar eclipse : Firebending's connection to the sun results in a lessening of strength during the night and a complete loss of firebending during a solar eclipse.
The symbol for fire and firebending is a stylized, tulip-shaped flame forked into three tongues that curve outward like flower petals, with a counter-clockwise spiral at the base.
The symbol is featured in connection with Fire Nation spirituality. In 0 AG , Fire Lord Sozin launched a genocidal attack on the Air Nomads , succeeding in part due to the power granted him by a passing comet.
Over the course of a century, the war continued, and under the rule of Sozin's grandson, Fire Lord Ozai, the Fire Nation saw the return of "Sozin's Comet". As prophesied, the comet's immense energy granted Ozai the power to conquer the entire world. The only threat to Ozai's campaign was the Avatar, Aang. Aang succeeded in his quest to defeat Ozai, and he satisfied his spiritual needs by not taking Ozai's life but simply by removing his ability to firebend. Ran and Shaw demonstrating the beauty and true essence of firebending.
The Fire Nation's religious clerics, the Fire Sages , once served the Avatar, but they were eventually forced to endorse the imperial war. Shyu was the only Fire Sage to remain true to his allegiance to the Avatar, [29] a trait he inherited from his father and grandfather.
A firebender's powers seem to increase during the day in the presence of the sun. Because of this solar sympathy, their powers are weakened at night and a solar eclipse can temporarily negate their powers entirely, [11] much like waterbenders' powers are negated during a lunar eclipse.
A firebender's power is intensified in warmer climates and is at its peak when situated near their native equatorial homelands during the summer. Firebending's distinctiveness is in its uncontrolled nature; fire, if left to itself, will consume everything it can. Firebending is thus a matter of controlling an element rather than directing it. Many firebenders are intoxicated by their power, while more prudent ones feel cursed by it, much like Jeong Jeong. Zuko fought an Agni Kai against Zhao.
Among firebenders, or at least those of the upper-class, disputes of honor are settled by a challenge to an Agni Kai, or "fire duel", a traditional firebender duel that is centuries old. Such a duel is conducted in an open-air arena, and it may be witnessed by spectators. The traditional time for an Agni Kai is sunset or sunrise, although it is not a requirement. While not an explicit condition, in the post-Sozin Fire Nation, Agni Kai have become almost exclusively duels to the death.
The victor may spare the defeated, but it is generally looked upon as an act of weakness rather than generosity. The duel is traditionally fought bare-chested and the contestants may have one or more "seconds", i. The opening pose of an Agni Kai is squatting with back turned to the opponent. During this phase, both contestants traditionally wear a red-and-black shawl over their bare shoulders, which is dropped upon turning to face each other.
It is considered dishonorable to attack from behind in an Agni Kai, especially for a defeated opponent who has been spared by the victor. When giving his input on firebenders in the film , M. Night Shyamalan said that he made the choice to have the firebenders in the film only be able to control pre-existing fire to avoid them being "overpowered". However, this puts firebenders at a great disadvantage when in the Northern Water Tribe.
It would also make an Agni Kai quite difficult. It was stated at the end of the film that the power of Sozin's Comet is required for all firebenders to be able to generate fire "from their own chi", just like the "Highest of firebenders", like Iroh was in the movie.
Thus, when the Fire Nation begins invading a city or town, they bombard it with fire balls so as to set fires and give their firebenders a source. Only the most skilled firebenders have the ability to create fire from nothing but their own chi; they also show the ability to be unharmed by fire.
Firebending moves are based mainly on the Northern Shaolin style, also known as shaolinquan. Northern Shaolin is an external style that uses long, aggressive techniques that explode and drive through the opponent. The Northern Shaolin style emphasizes "kicking over hand fighting", or prioritizing one's legwork as opposed to the arms. Kicks are meant to "extend as far as possible without compromising balance.
It optimizes a strong continuous offense, sacrificing defense for greater power, the principle behind a pre-emptive strike, and as such, firebending is categorized as the most aggressive of the four bending arts.
Close quarters firebending and distanced firebending combat use completely different styles of the bending art. Avatar Wiki Explore. Latest news.
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