BECAUSE HOLY SHIT, TOPH IS A *MAGNET BENDER* IS THE BEST FUCKING THING I'VE HEARD ALL DAY.

(itp: AtLA Fridge Brilliance )

Hama is *directly responsible* for Kya's death...as in up until her escape from prison, waterbenders were taken prisoner.

Kya was banking on that knowledge because she wasn't outright asking for death.

Southern Raider's dude says, "No prisoners today." As in it's a recent policy change.

Fire nation sees that waterbenders are capable of bloodbending = all waterbenders are killed instead of taken prisoner.

Also: this doesn't work out *perfectly* but basically...the different bending types could be said to encompass different states of matter.

Air = gas, water = liquid, earth = solid, fire = plasma.

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