- Mar 11, 2018
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Even if the MC could potentially bend all 4 elements in book 4, it doesn't mean he should. You have to be aware of the fact that everyone in that world thinks that there is only one person who can bend all 4 elements (Avatar Korra). Everyone, excluding maybe Katara and Toph, thinks that the MC is some random airbender guy. Having him reveal that he is an Avatar from a different time and just bend all 4 elements willy nilly would be sure to cause a lot of problems and chaos and would make things a LOT more complicated for him than is necessary.What in my opinion also doesn't make sense that much so far is that the MC right now in book 4 doesn't seem to be able to water-, fire- or earthbend. Sure, he is now in the body of an airbender and not of the avatar itself. But he is able to contact the sprits in the spirit world. That's actually something only the avatar can do. Either he is the current avatar or not. Then it shouldn't matter that much what body he occupies at the moment. But not partially. That doesn't make much sense.
Maybe MITY should address that at some point in the story. What is interesting though is that Katara pointed the MC to ask Korra a lot of things about the abilities of the avatar like the avatar state for example. Maybe the MC just isn't aware that he actually CAN water-, fire- and earthbend because he assumes to be limited in his abilities due to the body he's occupying right now not being the the body of the avatar of that time.
Thinking back to book 2 when the MC occupied the body of Zuko he actually never even tried to waterbend because he focused that much on learning to firebend. So him assuming to be limited by the body he's occupying at the moment without actually really being limited could actually be an explanation. Maybe that could've been one of the reasons why Katara pointed him to ask Korra those questions: Maybe she's preparing him for the things to come. She and Toph to a certain degree both seem to know more than the MC himself and Katara told him once that he came back to her and told her some things...
Of course I may be reading too much into this but it's still valid.