Why Airbending is MUCH More Terrifying in Caves

Airbenders are very often thought of passive and quite weak when compared to the benders of other nations, but there is a reason they had to become like this. The powers and abilities that airbending grant are simply far too powerful for any society to hold, without ripping themselves apart into endless civil wars and conflict… That is, unless they became nomadic pacifists, spreading the concentration of airbenders across the world and swearing themselves against offensive violence. And the forbidden airbending power that we’re about to discuss likely directly led to this cultural shift… What is this power?

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So to start off with explaining this deadly airbending power, we must first establish the fundamentals. What we know as sound is actually just a series of vibrations through the air that can be understood by the human ear. Therefore, airbenders are able to sound bend, and we’ve seen examples of shrieking and other terrifyingly loud screams used by airbenders to debilitate their enemies in the novels.

Knowing this, airbenders can exploit the properties of sound waves to to two extremely interesting techniques.

The first is being able to attack someone through walls. All the airbender would need to do is use a very low pitched sound wave to blast through a wall and hit the enemy on the other side. Of course, being able to control the properties of the sound wave to precisely would be a skill reserved only for high level masters of the art, not just anyone…

The other one is possibly even more scary, although it may be fatal the airbending choosing to use it too. Instead of generating a low pitched sound wave, if the airbender was in an enclosed space, like a cave or a small room, they could produce a high pitched shriek. This would then reasonate and bounce between the walls of the encolsed space, quickly compoudning into an intolerable explosion of sound. For this reason, you would absolutely never want to enter an enclosed space with an airbender you don’t trust.

[madambutterfly]

Their own power terrified them so that’s why they went the way of pacifist.

[Tyler_TheSoundBender]

I love it because we are the SoundBender’s

[jayjaybulldog]

Me personally I had always thought that aangs bending is more of a sound cold atmospheric type of ability based on how he was raised during the south air temple by his master gyatso from the air nomads. As we know that his airbending tattoos we’re given in way of his responsibility as the next avatar, to me aangs power is like a mix of freezing moist of h20 from water bending that can be deadly just like how katara has been showing here’s before she wanted to teach aang the basics as a learning type.

[yohaifishman]

I always thought that sound bending is possible (and underrated). I'm glad that I wasn't the only one who thought of it 😊

[Scugzerker]

Also, because it's an enclosed space I can imagine it being easier for an airbending master to create deadly vacuums. You either suffocate when in one or explode if you're holding your breath.

[jayjaybulldog]

Growing up, I had always wonder to why aangs sound wave can be more integrity as a hit damaged movement. When I think of a high pitch Shriek I often sometimes think how his bending reminds me of Ben 10’s alien transformation of echo and Danny Phantom’s Shriek with the power of his ghostly wale sound beam. Even though that aang is much different than those two I’ve been doing a bit of research to think his bending is almost a morph split from Danny’s energy source due to the fact he’s half ghost in his world while aang is connected to the cosmic shake of the spirit world as a airbender🤔?

[mahazkhan]

Can’t waterbenders fry people if they bend water around people at such a high temperature

[dylanpham]

Interesting, I’ve never thought of this. That means airbenders could also produce and attack with sonicbooms which would be a terrifying powerful attack. It’s blast could destroy and go through anything

[Rama_Rama_Rama]

Airbending is my most favourite because it's subtle almost like gravity.

[remingtonwright]

How might a bending battle go between a combustion bender and a sound bender?

[naturalinstinct]

Infrasonic waves are way more damaging than suprasonic waves

[larrikate]

So what do we learn? Don't take airbender babys into caves!

[aaronpingol]

Making mustard gas bend it away to the city equals massacre

[WngSMC]

Shouldn't water & earth benders be able to sound bend too?
Water conducts sound better than air.