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[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

One thing I would do is use my water bending powers to open a house painting business (interior/exterior and cabinets). I would promise completely perfect results in 1 day or less with the caveat that the customer cannot be home for 'safety' reasons. Oh! I could partner with an air bender and we could have places completely painted, not a drop spilled, and completely dry in 1 hour or less. Without even over charging people we could do so much volume we'd make bank!

I may or may not be painting right now and hating reality.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

That only works for water based paints. What would you do when the customer want oil based paint to be used?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Oil benders are only rare because of the fire nation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Is it only water specifically?
Couldnt it also apply to oil because it's fluid based?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Exactly what a bender can bend has been talked to death through out the years but I don't think a water bender can bend oil. An earth bender can bend lava, a fluid. A water bender can bend ice, a solid.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I feel like this is a very philosophical question. Like Toph bended metal, but metal is but one component of earth. Water and oil don’t mix unless under certain circumstances and oil isn’t recognized as being a part of water.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Toph can only bend metal due to the impurities in it; highly purified titanium can't be metalbent

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

highly purified titanium can't be metalbent

Fire nation: Write that down WRITE THAT DOWN

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Hm. I think we'd just have to specify our special and unique process only works with water-based paints and primers. Could get away with the hybrid paints though and I think there's good enough hybrid primers to make it work.