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[resistivity]

You've reached Mako. Leave a message. ( it seems like that's going to be all, but then there's a rather awkward pause and he continues, ) If it's an urgent matter, direct your call to local authorities and/or emergency services. You can access these resources by — ( beep. he ran out of recording space. good job, mako. best cop. )

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[resistivity]

No, it's.

( man, how does he even start explaining it. he's quiet for a moment, trying to work it out in his head. even as he reaches over to swat at where minato's trying to squirrel things away. quit that. eat!! )

I mean, it's not my specialty, but. It's not just washing, it's like... stimulating the body to accelerate its healing response.

[p_mortem]

[ Ouch... Okay, okay, he'll eat, dipping his head to take a bite from his peach necklace so his hands can remain free to ruin his shirt.

But "stimulating the body to accelerate its healing response." That's such a weird thought... but it's not unbelievable. He thinks for a bit, and then bs's some sort of science explanation he thinks might be plausible. ]

So like... how the body tries to increase blood flow to places it's got to heal. Or how people say to drink lots of fluids when you're sick. Except magic, and faster?

[resistivity]

I don't consider it magic, but. Yeah, I guess that's close enough.

( look, he's an expert on fire and earthbending, but as far as water and air... his main exposure to waterbending is through korra, and it isn't like she has the patience to sit down and explain the process. )

[p_mortem]

[ Well... Running water and electrical appliances felt like magic when he was little, so the experience (or lack of) is probably something like that. That said, he saw that Mako meant by ~firebending~ aka he suddenly became Thor and summoned a thunderbolt out of the sky, so getting to see waterbending is pretty exciting. ]

I'll make sure to ask him. Can waterbenders do the Moses thing? You know... [ He puts his hands together and pushes them off to the side. A couple of nuts fall out of his sleeve and roll away. ] Parting the seas. To get down there in the lake without actually having to swim.

[resistivity]

( what's a moses. minato's lucky he clarifies the matter, otherwise mako would have just been left staring blankly at him as if an answer could manifest out of nowhere. )

Most waterbenders wouldn't be that strong unless it's in the middle of the night on a full moon. ( accidentally making minato conflate waterbenders with werewolves?? ) But uh, in theory, yeah. Usually Korra just bends water around us and makes a bubble.

[p_mortem]

[ Right. Waterbenders are either werewolves or Shadows, which are also ridiculously strong during full moons and Minato reminds himself to be a little more wary when approaching Lance in the future.

But here is an application of "water bending" Minato can more easily visualize, actually bending water and forcing it away to form a bubble of air. ]

I see... I've been thinking, the way you use that ...element bending... thing... they're all for practical purposes, huh? For me, it's just fighting, so I didn't need to learn control or anything.