So you’re telling me ONLY the avatar can control multiple elements, let alone all of them...

Fuck the elements, I want to bend pure energy like Korra.

I wish to bend korras neck until it snaps

genetics determine a persons' bending ability
It's why the airbenders didn't just get reborn in other nations after the fire nation exterminated them at least until Korra gave random people air bending powers because something something spirit portal

So tsundere anonkun.

Bending is an act of physical, mental, and spiritual effort. There're probably limitations related to how much energy, focus, and will people have. If you can't bend a single grain of sand, you probably can't touch the trace earth elements in people's blood. I could train religiously for a years to learn how to do terrible things to people with tangentially-related skillsets, but I find that morally-reprehensible and generally a waste of time; Hama could do all that shit because she taught herself over the course of being in a jail cell for years.

I feel like you're asking people to put more thought into things than you yourself are.

ie... reincarnation, similar to the Avatar. Instead of rotating reincarnation of the 4 nations, benders reincarnate within their own.

>Forgetting Energy Bending

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Bending is as much spiritual as it is physical technique. As in, your ability to bend is tied to your very soul. The Avatar gets all 4 because 1) the original Avatar actually bothered to go globetrotting to gather the spiritual connections nessecary and 2) they have what is essentially Spirt World Jesus permanently attached to thier soul who acts as a sort of wild card that enables them to use all elements simultaneously (before the merger the Avatar could wield all 4, but only use one at any given moment)

Energybending (god powers) > waterbending (bloodbending) > earthbending (metalbending + lavabending) > firebending (lightning + flight) > airbending (flight)

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Water benders are healers too.

I thought about it more in terms of the scientific logic behind it. The spiritual element hinders scientific explanations, but i felt they threw a lot of that out of the window when they made the spirit into just an alternative dimension and that spirit energy could be "harvested" and so on
If you look at Marvels comic-book universe, they typically say a mutant has "psionic" powers as some horseshit explanation for whatever scientific ground a given power has. This is a problem when writers wants to develop their power systems beyond the confines of the story initially portraying them.

Try and hear me out. There aren´t actually 4 different elements, there are all the DISCOVERED ones in the periodic system, and matter is the way said elements are connected through energy. So bending is, in theory, just the bender having some power to interact or manipulate energy between elements on an atomic level. So if firebender figured out that the 4 elements were actually just variation of the same atomic units, and his power to manipulate heat or gasseous substances or even generate ACTUAL ENERGY (lightning) where in theory the same manipulation of matter as the waterbender, would he suddenly be able to train himself to waterbend, or bend anything else? Or would he potentially have the ability to generate nuclear power, given how heat is just atomic substances being taken apart?
These are the kind of dumb, overthough things that start to manifest when a fictional universe runs for too long, and it wouldn´t suprise me if the same could happen to avatar if they kept it going as a franchise, given how they´ve already canonized dumb shit like forklifts

Lava bending would be bending earth or fire bending the heat of the lava.

It's kinda weird how they simultaneously made bending a spiritual gift but also entirely genetic.

Not him but you're looking way too much into it. The setting is based on this.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Naturalists
>The School of Naturalists or the School of Yin-yang was a Warring States-era philosophy that synthesized the concepts of yin-yang and the Five Elements.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_and_yang
Yin and Yang are basically manifestations of an omnipresent and undetectable force called the Tao that are opposite to each other and yet complementary.

And instead of going with the traditional chinese Earth, Metal, Water, Fire, Wood system they went with the indian Earth, Fire, Air, Water, Void system.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_element
>Ancient cultures in Greece, Persia, Babylonia, Japan, Tibet, and India had all similar lists, sometimes referring in local languages to "air" as "wind" and the fifth element as "void".
The fifth element called void is pure energy found in the universe and in all living things aka energybend in the Avatar setting.

They also adopted the chakra system from Hinduism to explain how benders can do what they do, why chi blockers can stop benders from bending and why psychologically unstable characters like Azula, pre-redemption Zuko and book 1 & 4 Korra are unable to perform well.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakra
>The belief held that human life simultaneously exists in two parallel dimensions, one "physical body" (sthula sarira) and other "psychological, emotional, mind, non-physical" it is called the "subtle body" (sukshma sarira). This subtle body is energy, while the physical body is mass. The psyche or mind plane corresponds to and interacts with the body plane, and the belief holds that the body and the mind mutually affect each other.

Once you do some basic reading into these things you understand how the magic system in the Avatar setting works and where it came from.
In terms of raw power all 4 elements are the same but the void/energy element trumps them all.

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Raava only fused with the Wan, giving only him the ability to bend.

>speedwatchers

I knew most of that already, and i know im digging way too much into it. Im just postulating what treatment bending as a fictional set of scientific logic could get if we get a future show set later than LoK. Which i find likely, given that AtLA is a goldmine for milennial consumers

Are you being intentionally stupid? Bending isn't just a skill anyone can pick it up. Its something given at birth

Pretty much every element shits on firebending until they've unlocked lightning-bending and flight, and that just makes them not shit.
>try to firebend
>waterbender douses the flame with water, now has steam to bend and burns the firebender with it, also bloodbending if they have it
>earthbender douses the flame with sand (or stops it with a rock wall), traps the firebender in a sinkhole with no air, needs flight to counter the sinkhole
>airbender removes all the air from around the firebender, fire still needs oxygen
The only thing they had over the other elements is that they can just produce their element wherever they are, and the terror tactics of setting stuff on fire.

You have to understand that a sequel to LOK is impossible to write without walking past the line that separates non-Gods and Gods and without making the technology of the world even more powerful than nuke wielding mechas.
Korra is literally sitting on top of the line that separates Gods from everything else, you can't write villains and protagonists more powerful than that without going full retard on the power creep.

They're writing prequels and live-action reboots for a reason user.

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>lavabender
Remember when only the Avatar could do this before they randomly made it something any earthbender could do in TLOK?