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Something I've been working on for a while now...I saw the idea before from other deviants and on internet in general, but I have to admit I didn't like most of the made up symbols I saw before... so I made up my own with my understanding of what the symbols are, of course with proper respect of the original ones that have appeared in the actual series.
My understanding and explanation to my personal interpretation is as follows:
Center:Β The Yin and Yang, the Spirituality and Energy that lives within all things
Inner Circle: The original four elements in the proper avatar cycle...
Fire
Air
Water
Earth
(based and trying to symetrically mimic the original series symbols)
Advanced States: straight line from the symbols.
Lightning from Fire (Technically lightning generation/redirection )
Void from Air (Seeing Zaheer in Book 3 Change achieve this was cool, "enter the void and become wind")
Blood from Water (Trying to mimic a full moon as blood bending is established first as a moon induced power only)
Metal from Earth (Based on Book 4: Balance banner for the Earth Empire, works as the perfect symbol for metal, I first did the badge in Lin's uniform but this one felt right)
Combined elements / Variable sub-bending : in between the advanced symbols.
Fire + Air = Combustion (based on the tattoo from both combustion benders in the series)
Air + Water = Healing ( I decided this one as the 'spiritual healing' symbol based on the Book 2: Spirits season, but healing was easier to label, adding swirls from water and air and a spiral in the middle as to 'center' it. Mixing Air nomad spirituality with healing water bending arts is the way I interpret this from being a possibility)
Water + Earth = Plant (=w= I know its not a combination but I like the idea that both are needed for plant life)
Earth + Fire = Lava (In the series both earth benders and fire benders have been shown lava bending so its a mixed art)
OwO Handmade over and over and eventually near-symmetrically with help of rulers only (I didn't find the compass XP)
All Avatar the last airbender and Legend of Korra symbology, characters and story belongs to Nickelodeon studios, hand art by me
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I'd rather be a water bender. They're awesome! So are firebenders :3
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Thank you for showing that Firebenders can Lavabend. I'd be one such Firebender, and I also love the line from Lavabending to Metalbending, as Lavabenders could then learn to bend molten Ore. I love this so much. Thank you for this <3
I also adore the symbol you made for Lavabending. I'm about to draw myself as myself in ATLA, may I use the symbol you made for Lavabending in the background?
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Thank you
OwO I still am trying to do a proper "balance" with measurements and rulers and all that
buuuut I'm also a bit less in a hurry on these
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Cool, you're welcome.
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Remember when it was just the four elements lived together in harmony? Boy does a lot change in 70 years.
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water and earth = swamp like in the series too remember? where aang connect to the tallest tree
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Awesome work!
Love your design for Void, the inverted spirals juxtaposed against Air's inward ones looks great.
And the use of Zaofu/Metal Clan/Kuvira symbol works really well with the canon of the show!
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Yo I like this.
This combination of bending style works super well!
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Theres a massive chart of all elements. Have you seen it? I wouldn't mind seeing a nice artistic representation of it.
i.imgur.com/Ccby4Jk.jpg
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O3O I've seen the large chart... I decided to do mine but in a smaller ratio and with what I felt was correct
I might be wrong, I mean I did it mostly for fun
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it's very plain and clear thank you i wonder if you can contact me through my Email, fareleon92@gmail.com i wanna discuss with you about this symbols if you don't mind
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I like how you used healing as the air+water combo.
I like the Balance symbol in the middle. (possible energy bending{Raava + Vaatu})
I like the symbols for combustion and Void.Β
And I really like how your fire symbol.
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OwO thanks!
I've been practicing a lot to the point my parents asked me why I was drawing Mandalas xD
I want to do an updated version with more... lets say proper angles...
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I think the plant should have been mud, since both water and earth benders are shown bending mud. But that would be hard to design, especially with no pre-existing symbol.
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O3O that would be true, yet the complication is that mud can be separated back into its original bending materials (earth and water), while plant needs both to survive and cannot be torn back into the original bending properties
like combustion cannot be split into air and fire again (though fire can be extracted from the explosion and the air push can be contained to be released later with air if I'm right...
O---O its a hard choice... many bending ideas are hard to deliver XP
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Good point. And the other bending wheel that was mentioned is incredible, I mean who has the time to think up all of those possibilities?
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Yours looks good, but that one is better: i.imgur.com/Ccby4Jk.jpg
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hehe, yeah
I did mine on a whim but he/she dedicated a lot of time
OwO I wanted to avoid using any of theirs but some are so perfect...Β still don't like the "snow" chain O3o
Everyone has their oppinion, I tried to make what I thought fit my way of thinking ^w^
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I like this a lot and it's close to my point of view
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OwO thanks!
=w= I have new materials and ideas for this but I haven't had the time to work on it...
so maybe soon enough I'll get time to work on it =w=
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I am wondering wether you have seen this chart yet? holavatar.weebly.com/uploads/1β¦
As for your designs I particularly like the void symbol as it is essentially an inverted air symbol with reference to the vacuum (though I don't know how I feel about a fourth spiral where air is non existant).
As for your metal and combustion symbols I am not so sure about going so close to already existing designs. For example the zaofu metal clan logo is more of a city logo than a metal bending symbol. The real marker is indicated by the earth kingdom logo being in the center. I think the border parts are to indicate the special nature of the city. As for combustion we associate it with the tattoo for them but I don't feel it expresses the real nature of the bending. For that matter I think combustion is not even well explained enough to make a proper symbol. For all we know it is a sub-style of the real art. Like how ice minipulation is to water bending.
Lightning, Lava, Plant, and blood bending though I think the chart has made it better. Thought the pinched bottom of the volcano is growing on me and might be a better variant.
Healing though I think should just stay lumped with the center, spirit bending, yin yang, chi, energy bending whatever. That way all the elements have access to it they can just go about it in different ways. Like earth bending could help mend the bone structure or fire transfer energy to the body. We already see parts of this like the chi sensing of the fire sage.
I do think though that sound bending might be between water and air due to the fluidity of both. The manipulation of compression and rarefaction might give them enough control and detail focus. Also air and water are two mediums that we know we can here sound through. For earth though that might be the reason for the seismic sense existing.
As for the combustion region I think if it is possible that another might fit there mainly Light bending.
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Lol, I did see the chart before...
OeO My excuse for the 'void' one was that it felt like something was missing in the middle, and it bothered me more than I'd like to admit, but I did think the idea in two ways, one with all the spirals mixing in the centre or this one you see...
OwO; I wanted to reference the series because I personally didn't like the ones of the chart about metal and combustion.Β Combustion as I felt it meant to focus the energy in one point and release it within that point, fire is either put off by air or expanded by it hence why I thought about it as the middle between air and fire. True they didn't expand on it but I fel it was better to have it for 'balance' than the 'hole' of a symbol missing... And if we go for the sub-bending, the plants, lava and metal are technically sub-bending arts as it is, but all water benders can bend ice as a state of water, but not all firebenders can generate lightning or combustion powers as explained in the show (if not we might have seen more combustion benders, or like the metal clan, a village that teaches the art, maybe)
OwO I'm not sure about blood, as I prefered to reference the full moon than the blood itself... I wont deny taking the drop of blood as a base for the shape though.
what do you mean by 'lumped with the center' for healing?, If I may ask, I don't think I get it O3O
O3O oh, you mean like both as the center, the Yin-Yang and the healing?
I think its been mentioned all arts have a spiritual side but the only art that has shown the healing reaching for the spirits has been water element (plus the shiny water speeding up healing process in the series is part of it)
OwO sound bending was an idea but a symbol that could express it evaded my grasp, and the combined symbol in the chart didn't give me the elemental reference, hence why I tried with healing instead and its positon...
O3O Yet in the series no one has been seen bending light as it is (only lightning), and for that would be bending the Yin-Yang (the light and the dark) in the core of the chart... wouldn't it?
OwO of course this is just my opinion on the symbols chart, we'd have to wait for the authors to show an actual official chart for everyone to agree completely...
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The lack of airbending advancement in powers is an uneasing thing. We all really do feel it needs more hence void bending and even sound bending despite the inherent difficulties with these.
To be honest I didn't really like his combustion symbol or metal symbol. Still trying to make a decent metal or combustion symbol. I was working with a hexagon metal symbol earlier. I did create a nuke shroom symbol for combustion (but I think it was a bit over the top).
As for the lack of combustion benders it might be because they keep dieing from blowing themselves up.
The moon being the symbol for blood bending is a bit weak due to it already being used as a nations symbol and also the fact that we know blood benders can bend without a full moon it just takes skill and intense training. Also blood in always present in the art cause that is what is bent. Though my brother did make a heart symbol for blood bending but it felt weak to me.
I think of the water benders ability to heal as a spiritual connection granting more power. As we have seen spirit water has healing properties. Yet there so far has not been something like a Spirit stone, flame, or bottle of air. This may be because of Twi and La being directly connected to water bending powers. Thus I think we can assume water acts a medium or conduit to better allow connection to spiritual energy thus being able to aid in healing. As for the other elements it is shown that some of them have healing related skills such as the fire shaman being able to sense blocked chi (Just a guess but I wonder if they can directly transfer there chi energy to other beings.) For earth benders I think they can fortify themselves hence a hearty nature. For air benders I think it comes in the form of spiritual freedom like Jinora's astral projection (Wonder if she could possess someone O.O'). Ether way I like the healing aspect of bending to bending energy; or energy bending. Which I believe bends the persons spirit hence the connection to the spirits and as we see more often they pretty much are made of energy.
I am working on the sound bending symbol though I am looking also at more modern ways of representing sound. Since science helps us to under stand the nature of it and technology is evolving in the avatar universe.
Lightning generationΒ is aΒ sub-skillΒ withinΒ firebendingΒ that allows a firebender to produce lightning by separating the positive and negative energies internally, before directing it up through the arm and out the fingertips. So it is not really yin and yang seperation they just used that due to limited knowledge.
As for light bending we already know we can push light around an object with todays technology. However if you can directly control surrounding energy (which firebenders can absorb or redirect energy) Then with proper scientific knowledge a person should be able to figure it out. Also since it is spacious like air I imagine the fire bending style to bend light to be more like air bending forms.
Yeah though I doubt they ever will and frankely I can come to terms with that. It is just more comfortable for people to have symbols to represent it. Since they already have bending symbols.
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sabes ahora que lo pienso el elemento aire tanto como el agua pueden generar olas enormes y lanzarlos a los enemigos ya que la manipulacion de las olas es con el viento y el agua
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Pues la funcion es esa pero solo con agua, si recuerdas (y como esta basado en la serie) los maestros agua la controlan en todos sus estados.Β Segun varios juegos, series y algunas lecturas hablan de la combinaciΓ³n siendo nubes, hielo o cosas por el estilo, asi que me basΓ© en la serie de Korra con el personaje de Unalaq que curaba o envenenaba a los espiritus para hacerlos agresivos... y ya que en la serie se especifica que los maestros aire son monjes que siempre estan en contacto con los espiritus pues se me hizo la combinaciΓ³n mas certera.
Era curacion espiritual o control clima que no hubiera tenido mucho sentido, pero hubiera sido muy interesante
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claro que lo recuerdo ademas un maestro agua puede tener sangre control o puede extraer agua del aire ademas de que obviamente puede controlarlas en todos los estados
pero tambien haz memoria recuerda que katara y toph en una disput pelearon en el lodo donde las 2 estaban en igual condiciones de lucha ya que el lodo estaba mezclado con agua bueno imaginate lo siguiente
un maestro aire y una maestro agua en un rio los dos podrian por igual aunque con distintas aplicaciones controlar el agua uno mediante aire controk y el otro obviamente en agua control claro que el maestro agua puede congelar el agua y asi evitar que los ataques lleguen a el pero eso implica que tenga que congelar y descongelar un proceso que tarda unos segundos pero validos para distracion y atacar
recordemos que iroh aprendio de los maestro agua redigiir los rayos y recordemos que de todos los elementos el mas adaptivo es el agua que se adapta en todo los ambientes por ejemplo en un episodio los maestros fuegos pueden hacer "vapor control" zuko en un episodio enfadado produce humo desde su respiracion asi que tanto maestro tierra como fuego y aire pueden de alguna forma manipular el estado de agua control
y un maestro perfectamente de la misma que iroh aprendio la redireccion de rayos podria hacer agua control en las condiciones aceptables eso si vamos al asunto anng cuando era principiante en agua control combina aire control con agua en los primeros episodios lo vemos en la adivina en vapor pero con los arqueros los atacan "el espiritu azul" hace un escudo de hielo combinando aire con agua control si vamos mas lejos en una escena comica "no recuerdo en cual episodio" anng se seca usando aire control y el agua se aleja de el y deja a momo de forma comica pues es como si lo hubiese secado una secadora de pelo pero esa escena deja claro que si manipulas bien el aire control puedes manipular el agua y en ese episodio anng ni tenia agua control asi que debe ser uno de los primeros
pero bueno no le demos mas vuelta al asunto
por cierto ya que estamos en varias batallas anng aplica aire control a FUERTE PRESION llegando a romper bloques de hielo asi que si vamos al asunto un experto maestro aire en un rio aplicando bien la tecnica de aire control puede llegar a romper los bloques de hielo y por cierto en el episodio omashu cuando entran en las caΓ±eria si observas bien cuando entran angg usa aire control para manipular GENERANDO OLAS (tal como digo) para evitar que el agua contaminada llegue a el mientras sokka recibe toda la porqueria
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It's good to see someone realizing all the posibilities bending have. I'm still waiting Air to have more variety as it's the only one in the series that hasn't a "real" upgrade... and if "void" only enables to fly... it's a bit underpowered. Suffocation is also a nice improvement... but it's Air after all.Β
Great work from you!
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OwO thanks!
I agree with you on the Void stuff, I'm thinking hard about what other immprovements could there be for the airbenders here but its hard...
It would be much like the 'push and pull' skill?, generating voids of air and vacuum forces pulling the enemy into them.... I've heard that vacuum spaces can actually redirect the path of lightning and without air there is no fire... And vaccum is also said to be able to actually push and pull the light around it (if strong enough)Β =3=;; ... maybe I'm far fetching this one xD
=3= I've always thought of it as gravity (though most peope relate gravity to earth instead
OwO;; thanks again, and I'll keep thinking of other 'void' bending suff for the future ideas around them XD
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What about soundbending for air? And one could invert the voidbending, and pressurize the air a bunch; from what i've been told by my dad, three atmospheres of pressure is enough to kill someone, or at least ensure they're not going to be fighting for a while, or pressurize the air and then release it very quickly so they get the bends rather bad.Β
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OwO thanks!, I had a really hard time trying to get it... even now I see some mistakes XP, but final version will look better Owo
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This is so fantastic! I bow before you.Β Β
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=w=;; nothing to bow about, but thanks!
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OwO YAY! thanks!
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