Katara Bloodbending

"For some reason, this technique is VERY ADDICTIVE! Hahahahaha!"

## Character

Katara Bloodbending is Katara. She is one of the main protagonists alongside Aang and Sokka.

She is Katara after using Bloodbending, which made her go crazy with the power of Bending in the eighth episode of the third season (Book Three: Fire) of Avatar: The Last Airbender: "The Puppetmaster".

## Backstory

Camping in the woods for the night, Team Avatar sits around a campfire, telling ghost stories. Sokka tells a horror story about a haunted sword but fails to scare the others. To darken the mood, Katara tells a scary story about a little girl named Nini, a friend of her mother's who disappeared during a severe winter storm in the Tribe of Southern Water. She remembers that despite her disappearance, the villagers continued to see smoke coming from her chimney. The story makes the entire group nervous. Toph suddenly states that she can hear people screaming under the mountain, scaring everyone. Out of the darkness, an old woman named Hama appears behind them and terrifies them all, but she warmly offers them a safe place to spend the night, which they gratefully accept, and at her inn, they enjoy tea with spices. Hama warns them that recently, people in the forest have mysteriously disappeared during full moons, and this worries the group, but Hama calmly assures them that they will be safe with her. The next day, everyone goes out to buy food at the market. Hama and Katara become friends, and Hama then comments that "they're going to get along great." Meanwhile, Sokka overhears some villagers talking about the strange disappearances of villagers during the full moon. The market clerk claims that he has lost at least one delivery man in the last full moons, believing that the strange happenings are the work of an angry spirit. He, Toph, and Aang agree to examine the village to see if they can find out what the villagers could have done to anger the spirits. Hama sends her guests back to the inn, saying that she has some tasks she must complete.  Sokka, becoming increasingly suspicious, comments to Hama how mysterious his city is, causing her to smile strangely and tell him, "Mysterious city for mysterious children."

With Hama absent from the inn at that time, Sokka decides to investigate the house in search of anything suspicious and hears protests from Katara for being rude. His searches reveal a closet full of wooden dolls in a hallway and a locked door in the attic. Looking through the keyhole, he sees a box in the room beyond it and uses his sword to pick the lock. After breaking into the room, Toph turns her meteorite bracelet into a key to the box, and just before they can open the box, Hama enters and catches them in the act, however, she opens the box for them and takes out a whale tooth comb, revealing that she is from the Southern Water Tribe. Hama prepares a traditional Water Tribe dinner for them, explaining that she knows that they are also from the Southern Water Tribe, as she heard them talking in the forest. Hama also reveals that she is a waterbender, folding the soup into the bowls. This delights Katara and arouses the others' curiosity about how she ended up residing in the Fire Nation. She begins to tell the story of how she was taken from the South Pole to the Fire Nation.

When Hama was young, the Fire Nation captured all of the waterbenders during raids on her tribe, over time reducing their numbers until Hama was the last remaining one.  Eventually, she, too, was captured, and among those captured was the only one who managed to escape with her life. Katara is deeply moved by her tragic story and expresses her joy at having found another southern waterbender. Hama offers to teach Katara what she knows to continue the tradition of the southern waterbenders. Katara is very happy about this and happily consents, wishing to learn more about her tribe's cultural heritage. The next day, Hama teaches Katara, explaining how water exists in all forms, even in the air. Hama begins to draw water from the air before freezing it and throwing it at a nearby tree, much to Katara's fascination. She takes Katara to a field of fire lilies and demonstrates that water can also be extracted from any living thing. With one swift movement, Hama takes the water from the flowers, leaving them dry and dead. Katara is surprised but feels sad upon realizing that the lilies have been killed. Hama quickly dismisses her concerns, reminding her that they were simply flowers and that she should do anything to survive in this hostile land. She tells Katara that she has one more technique to teach her, one that can only be used during the full moon when your bending skills are at their peak. When Katara expresses hesitation due to rumors of disappearances, Hama reassures her, stating that two waterbending masters under a full moon should be able to handle anything.

Meanwhile, Aang, Sokka, and Toph believe the disappearances are the work of an angry spirit and undertake an investigation. After briefly exploring the area, Aang concludes that the town is surrounded by natural beauty and that the residents have done nothing to disturb the environment or anger the spirits. Questioning one of the residents leads the group to Old Ding, an elderly man who supposedly saw the spirit that night. Ding tells the three that he never saw a spirit but rather felt possessed and compelled to walk towards the mountain, unable to control his own movements. Ding almost entered a cave. However, the sun was born, and he regained control of his body. Upon hearing this report, Toph realizes that she actually heard screams coming from below the mountain and concludes that the captured villagers must be imprisoned there.

Katara and Hama arrive in the forest with a full moon in the night sky, and Hama ominously comments that she has never felt so alive. Aang, Sokka, and Toph discover an underground prison in a cave, Toph opens the door and turns her bracelet into a key to free the villagers from their shackles. The villagers tell them that it wasn't a spirit that captured them but rather the innkeeper Hama. Sokka and Aang go to stop Hama while Toph leads the villagers out.

Hama reveals to Katara the story of how she escaped. While they were trapped, she and the other waterbenders were completely separated from any and all water. The guards pumped dry air into the cells and made sure their arms and legs were tied before giving them water to drink. However, she eventually realized that water exists inside all living things and began to manipulate the water on the bodies of the rats that crawled into her cage. After years of secretly mastering the technique, Hama took control of one of the guards, forcing him to unlock her cage and allowing her to walk free after decades of imprisonment. This technique, Bloodbending, could only be used with the influence of the full moon enhancing her abilities. Horrified by the idea of ​​controlling another person's body, Katara is doubtful as to whether she should really learn about learning to master blood. Hama declares that the choice is not hers and that they must take revenge on the Fire Nation for almost exterminating their entire culture, saying that Katara must avenge her mother's death, which an explosion leads Katara to realize that Hama is causing the disappearance of the Fire Nation residents. Hama perversely states that the people of the Fire Nation deserve the same treatment they gave the waterbenders of the South and that Katara would obey her wishes that she learn the technique. Hearing this causes Katara to refuse to learn bloodbending and orders Hama to stop terrorizing the city, enraged at being denied, Hama uses the technique to temporarily force Katara into submission, but Katara soon regains control of her body, reminding Hama that she also draws energy from the moon and is powerful enough to overcome Hama's technique. The two begin to fight, each drawing water from the grass and trees that surround them, but it quickly becomes obvious that Katara is the superior combatant. When Katara appears on the brink of victory, Aang and Sokka arrive to help her, but they end up providing Hama with an advantage, as she uses Bloodbending to control them like puppets to attack Katara. Katara avoids their attacks and manages to freeze Aang and Sokka in two separate trees to stop them, but this proves to be just a temporary solution. Hama frees them both and resorts to sending them flying into each other, with Sokka's sword pointed directly at Aang.

In the original, Katara, at the last second, desperately uses Bloodbending to subdue Hama and protect Aang. Toph arrives with the other villagers, who handcuff Hama and take her away, vowing to imprison her forever. As she is dragged out, Hama laughs with joy, saying that prison no longer matters now that her work is done. She gets her point across by sarcastically congratulating Katara on becoming a true bloodbender. Katara begins to cry as Aang and Sokka try to comfort her.

In the Bad Ending, Katara was unable to use Bloodbending to save her friends, Hama made the two fly against each other, making Sokka kill Aang. Katara and Sokka are desperate. Hama then controls Sokka and makes him kill himself with his sword, Katara begins to cry and scream in despair. Hama then begins to laugh at Katara's misfortune. Katara, extremely furious, uses Bloodbending and begins to break Hama's bones. Hama says that her work is done. After saying this, Katara breaks Hama's neck. Katara looks at Hama dead on the floor, and her mind becomes confused when looking at the blood. She then manipulates the blood and destroys Hama's body (who was already dead). Katara becomes addicted to manipulating the blood. Toph, along with the villagers, arrive at the place and are horrified by the scene. Katara, seeing Toph and the villagers and confused with what she was doing, runs away from the place. Toph, crying with great anger, goes after Katara and asks for an explanation of what happened. Katara then uses bloodbending and breaks Toph's feet, leaving Toph thrown on the ground. Katara then leaves, and after being very far away, Katara looks at her hands full of blood and starts to laugh and cry uncontrollably. After all, she was alone with her new addiction: using Bloodbending.

## How and why she would join Bad End Friends

After a few months of training during the full moon, Katara (now Katara Bloodbending) evolved her bloodbending to an incredibly powerful and deadly level. To evolve her technique, she killed people and animals during the full moon to strengthen herself. In one full moon night, she ends up finding Bipper, Gun Fiend Aki and Demon King Tanjiro in a forest. Katara Bloodbending uses her technique and breaks Gun Fiend Aki's arm and tries to control Gun Fiend Aki but is almost killed by the Demon King Tanjiro, who was going to punch Katara Bloodbending. Demon King Tanjiro only didn't kill Katara Bloodbending because Bipper stopped him. Bipper recognizes Katara Bloodbending's strength, Bipper then tells Katara Bloodbending that they are recruiting new members for their group and asks if Katara Bloodbending wants to join them. Katara Bloodbending realizes that she will not beat the three. Seeing that she had nothing left and that the only thing she wanted to do was use Bloodbending on any living being, accept Bipper's invitation, and so Katara Bloodbending joins the BEF.

## Appearance

Katara Bloodbending has brown hair in a bun and has blue eyes. Sometimes, she makes a sinister face with a sadistic smile and even uses her Fire Nation disguise, which is now her current outfit.

## Personality

Katara had a warm, compassionate and caring personality and often acted as a motherly figure to the group, but after her Bad Ending, Katara Bloodbending became crazy and sadistic, she became addicted to using Bloodbending on any person or creature, just because she can't contain her new addiction, sometimes she misses her old life, but her love for Bloodbending is much greater and makes Katara Bloodbending just want to use the technique more and more, a complete insatiable and psychotic addiction, she doesn't care if she's killing or destroying lives, she just wants to dismember anyone who gets in her way with Bloodbending

## Abilities

•Waterbending (Katara Bloodbending still knows how to use her waterbending, but she rarely uses this ability, using more healing, Katara Bloodbending carries two bags full of water)

•Healing (can heal himself or others using water, can heal physical injuries such as burns, lacerations, broken bones, blunt force impact, illnesses caused by severe pollution, and severe tissue damage caused by lightning, is also capable of curing mental suffering and adulteration)

•Bloodbending (Bloodbending is the strongest form of Waterbending, with this technique, Katara Bloodbending can control the victim's muscles and blood, controlling the victim like a doll, twisting and breaking the victim's limbs, make people or creatures faint, it can even be used to crush or stop the activity of the victim's internal organs)

•Bending Severing (this technique is used to sever the connection between a bender and their bending abilities by interrupting their chi pathways, this technique requires direct physical contact between the user's hand and the victim's forehead, the effects of this technique are long lasting , because, according to Katara, it “separates” the individual from their bending, making them impervious to all healing methods)

•Psychic Bloodbending (Psychic bloodbending is the ability to use bloodbending telepathically and thus control others with minimal movement)

•Full Moon (when it's the night of the full moon, Katara Bloodbending's abilities become incredibly more powerful, dangerous, and fatal)

## Weaknesses

•Power of the Full Moon (Katara Bloodbending needs the full moon to use the full range of her techniques, but after joining the BEF, this weakness was overcome and can now use her techniques at any time)

•Limited Healing (although healing can fix injuries, both physical and mental, healing cannot bring back lost limbs, such as arms or legs and is ineffective in calming severe mental anguish or mental illness, such as depression or PTSD, this explains why Katara Bloodbending never returned to her normal mindset even though she used the cure)

•Disturbed mentality (Katara Bloodbending has a completely crazy and sadistic mind. This affected her intelligence and sanity, sometimes seeing hallucinations of her old friends and her brother)

•Limited Body Control (Bloodbending Katara may lose control if the victim is a more powerful bloodbender or if the person is extremely powerful)

## Interactions with the BEF

Katara Bloodbending doesn't talk much to the other BEF, but she always calls Gun Fiend Aki or Demon King Tanjiro to cause slaughter, after all, Katara Bloodbending loves and is addicted to using her bloodbending, Gun Fiend Aki and Demon King Tanjiro also love blood , so she gets along very well with both of them, Demon King Tanjiro sometimes helps Katara Bloodbending in her bloodbending training (most of Demon King Tanjiro's abilities are made from blood, so he's a great trainer)

## Behind the Scenes

Avatar: The Last Airbender is an American animated television series created by Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino with three seasons and produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studios. Katara Bloodbending appears in the eighth episode of the third season (Book Three: Fire) of Avatar: The Last Airbender: "The Puppetmaster."

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## Trivia

•Bloodbending is referred to as the highest level of waterbending, as well as the darkest, most powerful, and most feared of all bending techniques, and is the only one known to endanger the user's mental state. This is one of the reasons that Katara Bloodbending went crazy.

•With the help of Demon King Tanjiro, Katara Bloodbending learned how to use Bloodbending without the full moon.