She did this to earn Katara's trust and teach her a few other techniques and eventually Bloodbending. So Hama invited Katara and her friends to her hotel. She heard that Katara was both from the Southern Water Tribe, and a skilled waterbender. One day, which was also a few days before the next full moon, Hama overheard Katara and her friends. However, instead of returning home, Hama decided to get her revenge, by Bloodbending random citizens of the Fire Nation into a cave on top of a mountain, chain them up, and left them to rot.Īs the years went by, Hama realized that she was growing old, and she need an heir to pass down her Bloodbending technique.

The prison guard unlocked Hama's cell and she was able to escape. After she was successful with Bloodbending the rats, on the next full moon, she use her new abilities on one of the prison guards. So every full moon, she decided to perform Waterbending on the elephant rats that scurried around her cages. During her time in her cell, Hama realized that whereever there is life, there is water. It was also revealed that Bloodbending also has a few other sub-techniques as well including Psychic Bloodbending, which allows one to control others without hand movements, and Bending Severing, which can permanently disable another person's bending.īloodbending was originally created by the Waterbender Hama, while she was imprisoned in a Fire Nation Prison. However, as the years went by, there have been a select few Waterbenders who can perform Bloodbending without the aid of the full moon. Originally, Bloodbending could only be used to during the full moon, for that is when Waterbenders are at their strongest. Only the most skilled and powerful Waterbenders are capable enough to use this technique. It allows gifted Waterbenders to take control of the water inside the blood in anyone's body. Once you perfect this technique, you can control anything, or, anyone.īloodbending is a sub-technique, as well as an illegal technique of Waterbending in the TV shows Avatar: The Last Airbender and its sequel series The Legend of Korra. Controlling the water in another body, enforcing your own will over theirs.

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