@dejatwo: Are these koi the MISSING waterbending animals?! Are Tui and La, ATLA's moon and ocean spirit, the water element's animal benders? Short answer, no. #atla #avatarthelastairbender #dejatwo

Al007 :

Wasn't it stated that people learnt water bending from mimicking the movement of the tides?

A.A.Ron :

the moon itself is an original water bender it creates waves

Dusk :

It’s humans broooooo it’s humans broooooo they’re the og water benders brooooo

beeswaxinthebutt :

Didnt they learn from the moon?

Tirahvi :

true its not an animal. the original bender of water benders is the moon. The moon bends the sea, pushing and pulling.

Zhanya :

Unrelated but La was NOT playing when they killed Tui

Mark Zander Ⓐ☭ :

seriously, are dragons really benders? I don't see them bend. they just spew fire. just like that fish snake in the beginning sleeping water.

ZackTheIceCat :

I’m pretty sure Hamma explained that it was the moon’s gravitational pull that influenced the waves that made people learn to water bend

hannah :

showing off my cat, Koh the Face Stealer (Koh for short)

SuperNova :

Saying the unagi isn’t water bending is just stupid. It has a water breath like the dragons have the fire breath. “It’s not producing it” cool, NO water benders produce water, it’s a huge plot point. Only fire benders actually produce fire from thin air. If the dragons are fire benders then the unagi is 100% a water bender.

Daniel Storesund ☭✊️ :

the fact that people learned from the moon dose not technically rule out the Usanagi 🤔

acewyrick :

“There are no water bending animals” as he shows footage of a sea monster that can shoot water out of its mouth

J_T :

Plot twist the original moon was an animal. Like a celestial armadillo thats in permanent ball form

BadOmen :

the moon is the first waterbender

Akemi Homura :

its bc the moon guys it controls the tides

Nyisaiah :

I mean the moon does make sense. It controls the tides, idk why people try to argue with it

SPOTIFY EMAIL :

Pretty sure it’s implied that the moon is the original waterbender and they learned how to waterbend by mimicking the movements of the tides

kageonid8624 :

dragon fire bison and giant mole are all spirits they were around during Wong time they just choose to stay instead of going to the spirit world

toe_tickling_Tuk :

Ocean and moon not just moon….

Willy Wonka :

Lion turtles? Wasn't there a water Lion turtle that the original avatar learned from? Or are they not considered animals but spirits as well?

SleepyRiko :

Why does there need to be an animal? The moon is already an amazing answer for how people learned water bending. If anything it’s cooler and way more interesting than an animal anyways.

Star Requiem :

I feel like people are also forgetting how the original benders also have very important cultural significance to each nation, so no that random eel doesn’t count

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Klecks :

a Fisch is an animal.