Talk:Amon/@comment-98.200.164.35-20120603104207

Okay, not sure if this has been mentioned by anyone before, but I've got a theory about Amon that's kinda crazy and ironic. As soon as it was revealed that he could take away a person's bending I thought, "He's an energybender!" I mean, it was obviously the first thing everyone thought, and then probably discarded BECAUSE it's so obvious. Further, Tenzin confirmed that only the Avatar has ever possessed that ability (he most likely is just referring to Aang), so it seems crazy that Amon could be an energybender, and he's got to be doing it some other way. But we know that past Avatars have been able to do it, and that before the Avatar existed, the ONLY kind of bending was energybending. So, at first I thought, "What if Amon rediscovered it somehow? I mean, he does say that the spirits gave him the power to take away bending."

But--what if, long ago, Aang taught Amon how to energybend for some very serious reason? I don't know what--maybe so that Amon could defend himself? Certainly before Amon was the person he is now--ruthless, cruel, obsessed with power, wanting to get rid of the Avatar altogether. That would just be such an interesting twist, and provide a sort of parallel between Roku and Aang, and Aang and Korra. Roku told Aang he thought Aang was destined to redeem him by ending the war, for which he felt personally responsible. Maybe Aang's spirit will come back and say something similar to Korra--that she can redeem him by beating Amon, for whom Aang feels responsible because when Amon was young, Aang taught him energybending.