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Oct. 30th, 2019 11:54 amWhile I’m on the nostalgia train—
The super fun thing about Noatak and Tarrlok’s story is the note (I think back on one of the extra features in ATLA) that bloodbending opens the mind to homicidal madness.
IIRC people used to ask why there wasn’t … like, medicinal bloodbending. But that’s why Katara had it outlawed; it’s intrinsically corrosive.
Noatak and Tarrlok don’t instantly become murderous, to be sure (though they both get there in the end). But while forcing small children to hurt animals would be abusive as fuck regardless of the method, Yakone literally warped his sons’ minds when he trained them to use bloodbending. For years.
This is fine :)
The super fun thing about Noatak and Tarrlok’s story is the note (I think back on one of the extra features in ATLA) that bloodbending opens the mind to homicidal madness.
IIRC people used to ask why there wasn’t … like, medicinal bloodbending. But that’s why Katara had it outlawed; it’s intrinsically corrosive.
Noatak and Tarrlok don’t instantly become murderous, to be sure (though they both get there in the end). But while forcing small children to hurt animals would be abusive as fuck regardless of the method, Yakone literally warped his sons’ minds when he trained them to use bloodbending. For years.
This is fine :)
