"I. Am not sure how that's obvious. But if it's a thing that happens I can understand being paranoid about it."

"It's the best known use, anyway."

"If I were going to do nasty things to someone using their blood--which I wouldn't--the most obvious thing that comes to mind is to just rip it from their bodies. But if that's a thing, I can see how it would...linger in the public consciousness."

"It's hard to bloodbend at all - I mean, absent an open wound. Most people who try find they can only do it on the full moon, at night. It's not the most convenient way to injure someone with waterbending if there's any other water around - if you can pull it from nearby plants, if you've been sweating all day, if there's a speck of humidity in the air."

"I wonder why that is. Blood's difficult for me, since the iron's on a very small scale, but...I haven't tried to do anything to blood that was in someone's body, but it doesn't feel any less responsive, if that makes sense."

"It's not quite that the blood is already moving, because it's not hard to pull water out of a river, even a fast one, but it's sort of like that. In our case."

"Yeah, sounds like it."

"Well, I'm not going to complain about limitations that make it harder to do unpleasant things to people. Especially since they don't seem to be limiting in any other way."

"I mean, waterbending in general does get stronger at night and during the full moon, like firebending is stronger during the day or when there's a comet passing and doesn't work at all during a solar eclipse. Air and earth don't have anything like that though."

"Sounds vaguely arbitrary, but I don't really know enough about your system to judge."

"It's usually summarized as 'waterbenders derive their powers from the moon and find the sun inhibiting, firebenders derive their power from the sun' with... no scientifically reasonable explanation for the comet."

"If waterbenders derive power from the moon, how can you bend here? Milliways doesn't have a moon, so far as I know."

"I don't know. I can't bend in the spirit world, but I can't actually do much of anything in the spirit world, because I need to airbend to walk and there isn't any air to use there, so not being able to waterbend isn't special. I don't feel particularly weak -" She bends the last of her slush. "...yeah, seems normal. Daytime new moon normal, but that's still functional. Maybe it's because I'm the Avatar, I don't know."

"Bar? Any light to shed on the subject? No pun intended."

I can't remember any other waterbenders entering the bar, nor do I have more theory available than does Beila, I'm sorry. Although many people who normally would find their abilities of whatever sort inhibited in an environment like Milliways do not experience that problem here and it may simply be that.

"I was wondering if it was something like that. I don't know, though, I can't push off of nonexistent magnetic fields to fly here."

The assistiveness of the premises is incomplete.

"Quite. Well, maybe it's because you're the Avatar, who knows."

"Sometimes things are totally because I'm the Avatar. It's a thing."

"I imagine it is! Sounds very Chosen One-y."

"I guess. I think it's not really a choosingy thing, exactly. It's a beingy thing."

"Oh, Chosen One is a sort of trope in literature in my universe. It doesn't literally mean that anything chose you, it just means you've got some sort of specialness that often has arbitrary features that stand in place of a more random Deus or Diabolus Ex Machina."

"Oh. I'm that, but the name is inapt. Insofar as anything is choosing things about who's the next Avatar, it is The Avatar Spirit, namely the thing that's going around being reincarnated. I wouldn't say I identify with it in a personal sense, but it's certainly not somebody else."

"Alas, I do not dictate the names of tropes in literature. I promise you if I did they would be either much more sensible or so silly no one would think they were infacetious."