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Elaboration on Aang

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Character: Aang
Powers/abilities: Every form of bending can involve punching bits of your element at things or manipulating it otherwise in combat. Earth, water, and air require that the element be around, but firebenders can produce their own fire as long as there is oxygen in the atmosphere. So instead of going on about all the creative things you can do with bending, I'll let you know the specific things people have been shown to do that you might not necessarily think they can do. Aang is theoretically capable of everything listed here, but if it requires lots of training and a mindset he doesn't have, then he's probably never going to learn it in his lifetime.

Cool Airbending Stuff
Flying - Airbenders can technically train themselves to fly, but this process is so difficult that only two people have ever been known to do it (neither of which is Aang, by the way). To fly, you have to 'let go of all earthly ties' and 'step into the void', which usually requires years and years of training yourself to emotionally detach yourself from all material things, including other people.
Drawing breath out of lungs - An airbender has been shown literally bending the air out of people's lungs. All airbenders can presumably do this, but their philosophy of nonviolence keeps it from being normal.
Creating Vacuums - An airbender has never explicitly been shown doing this, but it's implied by the previous bullet point. If they can actually do this, then it presumably takes lots of training and concentration.
Drawing nutrients from the air - Airbenders can meditate and get nourishment from the air around them. It's not recommended, but at least one airbender has been known to last over three months just through meditation alone.

Cool Waterbending Stuff
Getting and manipulating moisture from surroundings - Waterbenders can get water from plants, the ground, the air, and any other thing that has trace amounts of water in it. They can also manipulate things with trace amounts of water in them, including plants.
Bloodbending - Waterbenders can bend the blood inside a person's body, turning them into a puppet on nights of the full moon. It's a skill that has to be learned. Some waterbenders can do it regardless of what time it is, but that's genetic.
Healing - Waterbenders can use water to heal people. One firebender in canon said it was a rare ability, but every waterbending woman in the Northern Water Tribe was shown to be able to do it, so it's presumably a common ability that just needs practice.
Temperature manipulation - Waterbenders can turn water to a liquid, gas, or solid at will and continue bending it.

Cool Earthbending Stuff
Vibration Sensing - Earthbenders can learn to sense the vibrations in the ground and feel when things move around them even if they can't see. Both Aang and Aang's teacher are shown doing this.
Truth-Sensing - As an offshoot of the above, some earthbenders are so sensitive to vibrations that they can feel it when a person's heartbeat quickens in a lie. Aang's never been shown doing this, but his teacher has.
Metalbending - Earthbenders can learn how to bend any kind of metal that isn't utterly pure (like platinum). This requires lots of training and a certain kind of attitude, since metalbenders need to be more unyielding than metal itself.
Lavabending - Taking the earth around you, turning it into lava, and then bending it. This is a very rare skill, but Avatars in the past have been shown being able to do it and Avatar Roku was able to do it while possessing Aang's body.

Cool Firebending Stuff
Lightning Bending - It's implied that anyone with the right mindset can do this. It requires the ability to be at peace and in balance within yourself long enough to clap your energies together. (Of all special skillsets, Aang is probably most suited for this.)
Lightning Redirection - Drawing lightning through your body and shooting it out again without hurting yourself. Aang has been shown doing this, as have two other firebenders.
Combustion Bending - This is where you basically turn into your own long-range bomb; you release a charge from your head that shoots out and explodes on the nearest surface. It's not very clear how people learn to do this, and only two people are ever shown being able to do it (neither of which is Aang).
Heat Bending - Master-level firebenders have been shown to bend the heat away from something to cool it down.

Cool Avatar Stuff
Connect with Past Lives - This means Aang can talk to, remember experiences from, and even be possessed by past lives.
Spiritual projection - This isn't unique to the Avatar, but Aang's spirit can walk out of his body and either chill out in the real world or go to the spirit world.
Avatar State - This is a state where he not only is possessed by every single past life of his, but he is also drawing on the power of Raava, the spirit of harmony that fused with him 10,000 years ago. This allows for incredible feats of power, including but not limited to cutting off a piece of land and pushing it into the sea to create an island, whipping up massive storms, creating new geological features in the land, and so on. When in the Avatar state, the Avatar is able to do anything it ever learned how to do in any life.

Any nasty side-effects or drawbacks: Bending requires a lot of physical exertion, but anyone who's trained in using it can deal with it like any athlete deals with frequent exertion--with a good diet and a lot of good sleep at night. Using his Avatar powers is especially exhausting, and when he's in the Avatar State, he's not always in control of himself because Raava sometimes takes the reins and all his past lives can overwhelm his present-day sensibilities.

Aang is able to physically stand using Avatar powers and bending more than one element because he is fused with Raava. Without Raava, he'd only be able to bend one element. If Raava weren't fused with him and tried to possess his body for him to have his powers anyway, her presence would burn his body away.