Talk:Amon/@comment-69.208.67.84-20120610165825

Amon's plan to rid the world of Benders by taking away thier bending has hit a snag. The Wiki lists Tarrlok's are as 37 but Yakone his father had his bending removed 5 years before. That means that the Bending is a genetic trait passed on from parent to offspring just like eye and haircolor either through a parent's dominent trait or through both parent's recessive traits. Brown eyes vs. Blue eyes. Brown eyed parents can have a blue eyed child but blue eyed parents can only have a blue eyed child, Brown is dominant blue is recessive.

Tarlock having the ability to bloodbend despite his ability being removed by Aang shows that part of the ability to bend is in the genes. One way to explain it would be like this, A person can loose a limb or recive an injury to the brain that makes takes away the ability to use a portion of thier body, i.e. being paralized. A person who has been paralized can have a child perfectly healty. It appears that the removing of a person's bending ability is a focused surgical brain injury. Similar to a lobotamy a surgical procedure to the brain used to treat what was preceaved to be mental illness in the past. From what I'm seeing Amon is using his ability to sever a nerve in the brain that interupts the ability to bend, like a person with a brain injury can be paralized.

If this is the truth than Amon is not putting an end to Bending taking away thier bending, this might also be why he kidnapped Tarrlok. Taking away bending does not appear to prevent the victim from passing the trait to thier offspring. Amon would have to steralize the benders after removing thier bending. Now Amon's plan starts to have a rather frighteninly familiar ring to it. When he told Tarrlok he was the Solution. If he plans to take away people's bending permenantly he's going to need a Final Solution... Pun intended. Pardon any misspellings