>>88821378>Citation needednew airbenders from traditional earth nation families, the avatar having 4 elements despite his genetics, and the Wan episodes where we see that it all came from lion turtles and there is no genetic element (unless you believe the turtles are genetic engineers)
>prior to the spirit portal mumbo-jumbo in Korra, there's never been a person able to bend an element outside their nationality>barring the Avatar"prior to it happening, it never happened"
pottery.
Anyway, two more things:
1- even if we consider that "no one is able to get bending outside of his nationality" as true, it doesn't necessarily means it's genetic. There are plenty of explanations, even one completely spiritual, or some sort of "sickness"; if your mother has aids, you're very likely to have, for example. It could propagate like that.
2- My turn now:
>bending is geneticcitation needed
