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k so obviously Lucrezia is a waterbender, she’s too flowy to be anything else, but rather than bloodbending I think she should do something like…spiritbending? the way whatshisname Korra’s evil uncle does the thing to re-good-ify dark spirits, but in a more longterm, controlling way. or maybe she just has a load of tiny spirit minions who infect/possess people? she definitely somehow ensured that Agatha would be the next Avatar, that much is clear, then stuck around in the spirit world (like Iroh but the opposite in every moral and personality way) to possess her when she was summoned back to the material plane. 

so Gil would DEFINITELY be an airbender amirite?
I think Lucrezia as a spiritbender is a great idea too, since in canon she’s meant to be great at the biological stuff I think she wouldn’t NOT bloodbend (think how great that and healing would be in experiments) but using spiritbending for possession? Gold.
Old Heterodynes as firebenders? Burn, rape, pillage? Bill and Barry were not, which is everyone thought was WEIRD (what are these weird new good Heterodynes), but Agatha looks like another FUN one. Agatha lightningbending the castle back online.

No no the Boys have got to be firebenders of the lightning-enthused Heterodyne tradition, because that’s why it matters so much when they choose not to burn and pillage. Like half the point of A:TLA is that your nationality doesn’t determine your personality or moral alignment. 

Gil’s not an airbender either. Yes, the flying machines, and I can totally see him tearing around Paris on an air scooter, but even if you assume shifts in culture, you’ve got to look at the fighting styles. Gil doesn’t dodge and flip like an airbender, he attacks head-on. I’m inclined to Earth but Fire makes a lot of sense as well.

I’m most conflicted for Tarvek. Air? Water? Not Earth or Fire, except I can totally see him metalbending. 

Bill and Barry dd canonically set fire to a third of their town (it was the part known as the Flesh Yards, so, understandable. But they definitely do fire.)

Gil and Klaus have to be Earth I think – they’ve got the solidity – but Gil mixes it up more, maybe because of his fondness for air. He can move more loosely and dodge more, even though he’s still got the refusal to budge.

Based on fighting style I think Tarvek’s probably air – he’s all dodging and feinting not because he has to be, but because it’s what he’s comfortable with. At least until he loses his temper and you meet the hurricane.