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Denied SoundBending (into airbending)

Should this be a new Element or In Airbending?

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TheSkyKing

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vidant829 said:
I would call it sound bending due to what's being caused by the manipulation of those currents but in terms of actually controlling sound waves themselves, keep in mind that all they are is a transfer of energy from particle to particle. This means that Airbenders with ease could cause or direct such transfer since they control sound's primary medium of travel; air. Now also remember that we only perceive sound as what we hear because our ears uses hairs to feel the waves pattern and the brain translates it into a distinct noise. So by putting these two facts together and you can assume that an Airbender could with minimal effort, make whatever sound they so desire.
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sound is more than just the movement of energy from particle to particle. It's the energy that causes these particles to vibrate at certain intervals. The particles aren't pushed around forward or backward, only vibrated. The only way you could use the medium to affect the wave would be to minimize the sounds affect by increasing the amount of medium (which would slow the wave Down since it would require more energy to travel through it and the wave would dissipate faster) or decreasing the amount of medium (less medium means the sounds can't travel as far). The medium doesn't affect the initial energy of the sounds nor the direction of the wave. The only way an air bender would be able to intensify a Soundwave or manipulate would be to vibrate individual air particles at specific intervals and doing this would require the utmost of skill and concentration that only an air bending God could do so. And btw, you're wrong about the ear hairs thing. We perceive sound through a tightly stretched but thin piece of skin in our ear: the ear drum. When a sound wave hits the ear drum, the ear drum vibrates and nerves connected to the ear drum are able to send that pattern to the brain which then translates it.
 
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Also guys, I feel like there is a lot of tension here. Can we all confirm that we are having a heated debate and do not harbor and negative feelings towards one another?
 
vidant829

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TheSkyKing said:
sound is more than just the movement of energy from particle to particle. It's the energy that causes these particles to vibrate at certain intervals. The particles aren't pushed around forward or backward, only vibrated. The only way you could use the medium to affect the wave would be to minimize the sounds affect by increasing the amount of medium (which would slow the wave Down since it would require more energy to travel through it and the wave would dissipate faster) or decreasing the amount of medium (less medium means the sounds can't travel as far). The medium doesn't affect the initial energy of the sounds nor the direction of the wave. The only way an air bender would be able to intensify a Soundwave or manipulate would be to vibrate individual air particles at specific intervals and doing this would require the utmost of skill and concentration that only an air bending God could do so. And btw, you're wrong about the ear hairs thing. We perceive sound through a tightly stretched but thin piece of skin in our ear: the ear drum. When a sound wave hits the ear drum, the ear drum vibrates and nerves connected to the ear drum are able to send that pattern to the brain which then translates it.
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This first statement still acknowledges that an Airbender is capable of controlling sound to a certain degree irregardless of the skill required to do so. The second statement on the other hand is something that I'm willing to own up to but even with this change in input, air is still the primary medium at which sound travels through so manipulation of that will still have a notable effect.
 
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