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Waterbending, one of the four Bending Arts, is a hydrokinetic and cryokinetic ability to control water and its forms, combining this with martial arts. The people of the Southern Water Tribe, the Northern Water Tribe, and a few in the Earth Kingdom (though these are of Southern Water Tribe ancestry) mastered this technique some time ago. Its season is winter.




Origin

Source: Moon
Learned From:The Moon

The people of the Water Tribe first learned Waterbending by observing how the moon pushed and pulled the tides of the ocean. They then learned how to simulate the effect themselves. As such they have a strong spiritual connection to the Moon (and its counterpart the Ocean) and any adverse effects on these mediums can affect them too.

According to the episode "The Waterbending Scroll," the word 'waterbending' is written in Chinese as 截水神功, which can be translated as "The Divine Ability to Halt Water".'




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Special Techniques
Cloudbending: In, "The Fortuneteller", it's shown that (because clouds are made with water and air), a skilled Waterbender or Airbender can manipulate them easily to create various shapes (used in that instance to provide a message to nearby villagers).

Sweat Manipulation: First shown by Katara, resourceful Waterbenders can bend their own sweat to use as a makeshift weapon in the case of being separated from a source of water

Condensation: Not only can skilled Waterbenders condense clouds into a usable source of water, but they also can condense invisible water vapor right out of the air.

Plantbending: A member of the Foggy Swamp Tribe, Huu, has illustrated that talented Waterbenders can manipulate plant life--from the highly water-saturated vines and roots found within the swamp lands and seaweed from the ocean floor--they can even rapidly regenerate the plant mass of the plants they bend (since the cell tissues of a plant is more versatile than the cell tissues of an animal--and why Bloodbending can only be achieved on the nights of the full moon; see below), all by bending the ample amount of water within them just as they can with watery mud. Going further, a skilled Waterbender is able to separate and completely extract the water from plants for more effective utilization just as they are able to separate the water from mud, sand, and even polluted river systems etc--albeit in the case of plant life, this process will then leave behind the dried out, withered, dead remains of all the affected former plant life.

Bloodbending: Since the human body is roughly 70% water, Bloodbending does not necessarily bend blood, but the fluids in one’s body, allowing the user to manipulate a body's muscles to move as they wish or to stop movement completely. Potentially, a Bloodbender could stop a victim's heart or crush his/her internal organs, though this has not been stated. Bloodbending is said to only be performed during the night when there is a full moon, when waterbenders experience a significant increase in their powers.
Bloodbending is considered to be quite a sinister art since it forces the bender's will over the victim's will.

Solutions: It has been shown that Waterbenders can bend any liquid that is partially water, or anything that contains water.

Water Run: This is a technique in which waterbenders would use all four limbs to run on water at very high speeds, in addition to riding on foreign objects with the same purpose. This technique is first used in "The Serpent's Pass", when Katara forms an ice surfboard and increases her speed in order to effectively freeze the Serpent's midsection without being hit; unfortunately the Serpent broke out. Katara used it a second time in "The Painted Lady" to cross the lake to the village, and Aang did a variation of this by freezing blocks of ice to use as stepping stones. Lastly, Aang uses this against Ozai in "Sozin's Comet, Part 3: Into The Inferno" to run from Ozai's attacks.


Healing
Skilled Waterbenders can use a special sub-skill unique only to certain members of each element. Waterbenders in particular possess the ability to heal wounds by redirecting energy paths (or chi) throughout the body, using water as a catalyst.
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