2012-06-13, 02:52 AM
Worthyness Wrote:Maybe the fact that Hama used blood bending on a tunnel full of fire benders/innocent civilians and hid them in a cave? The fact that maybe her fellow prisoners saw how she escaped? Maybe how the guard she blood bent told his superiors and spread rumors? Or the two people that Katara blood bent- the first captain of the ship she thought was the guy who killed her mother (he didn't die). Anyone who didn't die from being bloodbent probably went on to tell their kids stories and then water benders hear of it and try it on the full moon. Who knows who else Hama told when she got taken to prison. Rumors spread--> people start abusing it--> outlawed. Rumors spread like wildfire and then when you have instances where people actually do it on other people, then you have a confirmed rumor and more badass water benders try to do the same thing. It's only a matter of time before it gets out of hand.
I find it being passed on by some other people/tribe more plausible than that, bet that they only thought it could only be used in full moon was thanks to Katara, being most likely the only person that was willing to talk to others about it, you guys remember that small water tribe in that swamp, pretty much no one knew about them and the ability to bend plants.