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No. 113664
>>113661
>Honestly, bloodbending should logically be easier than Plantbending, because people are actually designed to move around like that, and plants for the most part aren't.
That reasoning only holds water when you consider the physical mechanics of bloodbending and waterbending, and even then it kinda falls apart because the human body has bones, which would make it more difficult for a the bloodbender to outright 'twist' the body into whatever shape is desired, whereas plants are made of a less rigid structure which will break easier in the face of an opposing waterbender. Of course, even before you begin to consider that, you have remember that blood isn't the responsible for the control of muscles, which engender movement, so bloodbending shouldn't even grant you control over someone else's motor functions. The best you should be able to do is pick up, and otherwise move, an individual through brute force (like Amon lifting a wolf off the ground in the flashbacks), and even that should cause serious injury due tot he massive cellular damage because you're picking someone up by their cells, which should cause death incredibly quickly.
If we accept that bloodbending is physically impossible, then we have to look for some other mechanism by which it works. Logically, the best assumption is that it works through some spiritual means, since bending has already been proven to be at least spiritually based in nature. This also leads to a rather natural conclusion as to why bloodbending is harder than plantbending - humans have more of a spiritual presence than plants, and are thus harder to influence. Therefore, it takes more bending power to trump a human than it does a person.
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