Talk:Amon/@comment-5336812-20120727014017

Okay, like I said, my theory about Amon was waaaaaaaaay better than the real one. And as promised, I have a keyboard now and will let y'all see what you think:

THE BASIC IDEA:

What if he was Sokka and Suki's son? That'd explain how he'd be trained by Ty Lee after she joined the Kyoshi Warriors, and it'd explain Sokka, Suki, and Ty Lee's total absence from the show.

What if his story WAS true? What if Sokka and Suki were murdered by fire benders raiding Kyoshi Village?

EXTRAPOLATION:

So maybe after the Fire Nation was defeated the world stopped seeing the Fire Nation as the enemy and became less "united against a common enemy", so instead tensions began rising between benders and non-benders (as they obviously have by the time of Korra) and as a reaction the Kyoshi Warriors aimed to become the first group of modern chi-blockers(taught by Ty Lee) as a sort of peace keeping force, and somewhere amongst them(money's on Ty Lee) they developed the advanced power stealing Amon learned.

And then a/some bender(s) attacked Kyoshi Village, killed Sokka and Suki (and presumably the other Kyoshi Warriors) with fire and scarred a young Amon. An Amon who had been trained by Ty Lee in a forward-looking effort to maintain the peace in the world that her friends had battled so hard to achieve.

Think about it, Amon' mask is very much like Kyoshi Warrior war paint too....

That would set Amon up as being a tragic villain and fallen guardian, mentally scarred when he was young and now twisting what he was taught from being used to maintain peace into a form of terrorist revenge.

Also sets Amon up for a possible redemption as he finally realizes the catastrophic effect he has had on the peace his parents were willing to die to achieve.

ALSO sets up the possibility of Korra maybe meeting a very old and bitter Ty Lee. Totally the opposite of the carefree spirit she used to be - mentally scarred and broken by what happened to her friends and village - that she couldn't save them. Maybe she saved Amon and even he ended up being corrupted by what happened, so she basically lost everything.

It'd be a horrific thing to do to Sokka, Suki and even Ty Lee(and Kyoshi Village), but it'd be an epic as hell background story for Amon, no?