On bending and anti-benders...

Apr 09, 2011 13:35

Me: Head!Hiroshi is torn between dislike of hitting females and wanting to slap the stupid out of her.

Bex: Go for it, head!Hiroshi.

Bex: Seriously, if I had a 'bender saying stupid shit like that, I'd slap them too.

Bex: Boo-hoo, I am inconvenienced by having superpowers!

Me: How many JOBS the normal folk have been kicked out of because they can't bend. The HOMES destroyed because a bender got angry. The CONTEMPT the superpowered have for the normalfolk.

Bex: Yes.

Bex: Especially as a society gets more and more industrialized. We see the effects in our own world without superpowers. Throw in superpowers...

Me: Yep.

Bex: Wouldn't you much prefer a waterbender in your hospital to a woman who merely possesses a prestigious degree? Or an earthbender in your construction company to a man who can merely use the tools competently? Or a firebender in your restaurant to someone merely apprenticed to a respected chef? Of course, it's even nicer if the 'bender is both those people...

Me: Or an earthbender in your construction company to a man who can merely use the tools competently?

This would be what happened to Hiroshi's father.

Bex: *cuddles Hiroshi*

Me: (Watch Korra Joss all this. :< )

Bex: Oh yeah.

Bex: But I can totally understand an anti-bender bias.

Me: But I'm pretty sure I'll end up with one or more anti-bender OCs.

And one or two weak benders who probably get it from BOTH sides.

Bex: I also think the solution is not "bending and adventure!" but laws and education and hard work.

Me: Yes. Especially on the laws aspect of it. *cuddles the poor gembenders*

Me: (I've also read a few fics that hint in their backstories that 'benders used to enslave nonbenders)

Bex: (..... Huh. Not a direction I would go, generally.)

Me: (Well, they also imply that this was thousands of years in the past.)

Bex: (Ah, okay then.)
EDIT: And now I have an OC who is an anti-bender.  And a gembender.  Poor Intan.

fandom: avatar, puck is thinking thinky thoughts

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