Talk:Energybending/@comment-174.70.35.11-20120615003038

You don't need a light show to energy bend. You don't need to be the Avatar to energybend either. Energybending PREDATES the Avatar. It was the original bending-bending one's spirit and using it as energy.

Note also that Brian and Mike mentioned that inheriting bending required more than just having one bending parent, but inheriting something spiritual. Bending is a combination of genetics and spirit.

For the Avatar it is simply EASIER to conceptualize though still difficult. Aang did no light show when he energy bent that arse Yakon.

Even Mako could learn energy bending! Bolin! Tenzin. You do not need to be the avatar but capable of bending. The stronger your spirit, the more capable you are. Aang was the almighty when it came to spirituality. Korra, definitely not, but energy bending like the Lion Turtle subtly said requires an UNBENDING SPIRIT of the heart and the mind.

Korra does not have an unbending spirit. She is easily suaded by others and concerns herself over other's opinions. She looks for the glory to the name Avatar rather than being the Avatar. Aang was just the opposite. He was firm in his beliefs and his spirit was stronger than any other bender and many Avatars before him. It has been noted that only a few Avatars learned energy bending. He could control his heart as much as his mind by the end of the series.

Note that Amon uses the mind aspect. Being the only energybender (whatever you say a chiblocker can not stop blood bending) he may not grasp the full scope of energy bending. He may only know how the mind aspect works.

Korra is very hot headed and emotional. She might get the heart aspect of it and it may not work on her when Amon attemps energy bending simply because he can not overcome the heart-only the mind.

But as long as he is capable of bending one aspect, elemental benders don't have any defense unless they try to learn it themselves.

amon's techniques are MORE than chi-blocking. Chi-blocking doesn't work from a distance and can not render blood bending useless. You'd have to bend something AGAINST that of blood bending. Like Katara bent the energy of the other blood bender OUT- so did Amon. If he is not a waterbender, nor airbender, nor firebender, nor earth, then that leaves pure energy.

Amon's mind is certainly UNBENDABLE. What of his heart? We know nothing about that. But Korra...completely bendable in spirit and mind.