[ SECRET POST #2002 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2002 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 066 secrets from Secret Submission Post #286.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 2 - text comments ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I thought it was obvious by Katara being the only waterbender in the whole of the Southern Water Tribe? If that's not a good reason, there's the fact that the highest seats of power are held almost exclusively by benders in the original series, the use of bending to terrorize citizens and commit crime in LoK, and the Council and the elite metalbending police force in LoK. If the benders aren't a minority, they are quite clearly a privileged class.

Oh, I see where you got that. Sorry, I guess I should have said "non-privileged class" or something of that sort. I mean, original anon hasn't seen the series, so I was trying to sum it up.

[sachiko_san]

That's because the Fire Nation took all the waterbenders from the Southern Tribe, so of course the majority left behind would be nonbenders.

[(Anonymous)]

So? They're still dead, iirc. If the living are almost all nonbenders and the Northern Water Tribe and Foggy Swamp Tribe have nonbenders, then the ration of nonbenders to benders is probably fifty percent or less.

Unless a massive amount of waterbenders were suddenly born to the Southern Water Tribe, waterbenders still represent a minority there. The Fire Nation also killed all the airbenders but Aang, but this actually elevates the number of benders in the world because only one Air Nomad child was a nonbender (Bumi). The decimation of theses two groups changes the ratio of the world.

[sachiko_san]

I somehow doubt the ratio would be that much.

[(Anonymous)]

On which side? I personally think benders are a privileged, minority upper class with the nonbenders being a non-privileged underclass, which was the gist of the first comment, which I then corrected because I realized that I was conveying the wrong idea.

[(Anonymous)]

"there's the fact that the highest seats of power are held almost exclusively by benders in the original series"

The leader of the southern water tribe, the leader of the northern water tribe, and the earth king were all non-benders.

so no.

And the majority of the rich people and powerful people that we see in the original show (the Beifongs, the fortune teller, Mai and her parents, Ty Lee, and Master Piandao) are non-benders. And the benders who are rich and/or powerful are either fire nation royalty, bending masters, or members of the military, which is because benders make convenient soldiers because they don't need as much training in combat or weapons.

Benders are not privileged, they're people born with a skill that makes them convenient for working as a laborer, a cop or a soldier, which are all pretty shitty jobs and don't put them in high economic or social ranks. In fact if they ever want to get anywhere in life with their bending skills (and aren't quite skilled enough to be pro benders) they're gonna want to join a triad, which incidentally happens to be the source of the bending/non-bending problems if Amon's "backstory" and Hiroshi Sato's entire reason for hating benders wasn't an indicator. The main problem here isn't that benders are privileged, it's that there aren't labor laws in place or a minimum wage, so benders can't really live off the shitty jobs they're "privileged" enough to get and thus some turn to a life of crime.