Talk:Energybending/@comment-98.197.181.47-20120623102414

OK, this is my theory on how Amon is an Energybender. I will discuss different points that have been debated on and will provide my own reasoning. This is simply my own opinion and is in no way official.

1. 1.  The Light Show – At the end of AtLA, we see the first appearance of Energybending when Aang removed Firelord Ozai’s Firebending. In this scene, we see Aang and Ozai turn blue and orange respectively as their spirits fight for dominance. Many people claimed that Amon was not an Energybender because there was no similar light show. However, we see Aang perform Energybending again on Yakone in LoK minus the bright lights. It is my opinion that the light show was simply a metaphor for the internal battle that was raging between Aang and Ozai. Though another explanation would be that the light show shows us the actual energy being bent on the inside of their bodies, and we were treated with a visual experience of the event. Either way, the light show would not be seen on the outside.

2. 2.  The Hand Position – This seems to be the biggest argument against Amon. Aang was always shown placing one of his hands on his opponent’s forehead and another on his heart, while Amon is shown placing one hand on the forehead and the other on the back of the neck. While their positioning may be different, it does not mean that Amon is not an Energybender. In both of Aang’s cases, he subdues his opponent using Earthbending, and then he proceeds to remove his opponent’s bending. As Amon cannot Earthbend, his method would be different. There is a pressure point on the back of the neck (the Amon pressure point), which is the second deadliest pressure point on the human body. I believe that Amon utilizes this pressure point to subdue his opponent then removes their bending just as Aang used Earthbending to subdue his opponents.

3. 3.   “To bend another’s energy, your own spirit must be unbendable or you will be corrupted and destroyed.” – That is what the lion turtle told Aang regarding Energybending. We know that the energy the lion turtle referred to is one’s life energy or chi, but how do we define an unbendable spirit? In my opinion, the spirit consists of what you know, what you feel, and what drives you to do what you do. In a sense, this is the essence of a person, i.e. their spirit. Looking at Amon, we know that his family was killed by a Firebender and he was heavily scarred by said Firebender. He believes that all the conflict and pain in the world was caused by bending, and because of this he feels a deep hatred for bending. Because of all this, he has made it his goal to eradicate all bending from the world. Using this, we can get a glimpse at the essence of Amon’s character i.e. his spirit. Not only is his spirit resolute, it is continually getting stronger while his opponents’ are getting weaker. The first person we see Amon use his technique on is Lightening Bolt Zolt. Naturally, Zolt is skeptical of Amon’s claim of being able to remove bending. However, Amon subdued Zolt, and we watched as his lightening degraded into regular fire which then shrank into nothingness as Amon progressively removed Zolt’s bending. After this, Zolt’s henchmen attempted to fight back, but each one fell quicker than the one before. Then he allowed Korra, Mako, and Bolin to escape so that they could spread the tale of his powers. This, along with his trademark mask and air of mystery, caused fear and confusion to spread amongst the bending populace. His enemies know what he is capable of, though they do not know when and where he is going to strike. This terrifies them, and when their time comes they simply give up as they cannot imagine winning against him. Examples include: the Wolf bats who gave up after being unable to bribe Amon into sparing their bending, Tarrlok who lost hope after his Bloodbending failed to work on Amon, and Lin Bei Fong who accepted her fate when she refused to betray Korra to Amon. On the flip side of this, Amon’s resolution (spirit) is getting stronger as each of his plans came together successfully. This emboldened him, making him stronger while his enemies were getting weaker, thus making his Energybending work even faster as he can quickly overcome his opponent’s spirit with his own. What’s more, I believe that Amon was planning for all this to happen to make his goal into a reality.

4. 4.  Not a Bloodbender – I have seen people theorizing that Amon is really a Bloodbender, as he was able to resist Tarrlok’s Bloodbending. I say no to this, and here is why. When Avatar Aang was nearly killed by Yakone’s Bloodbending, he went into the Avatar State and overpowered the Bloodbending being done in his body. We know that in the Avatar State, Aang’s tattoos would glow because they were drawn along the chi paths in his body. So while in the Avatar State, the chi in Aang’s body was essentially in overdrive mode. This is what allows Aang to break free from Yakone’s control. While Yakone had control over the water in Aang’s body, Aang used the Avatar State to supply enough energy (chi) to his limbs to break free and subdue Yakone. I believe that Amon did something similar in his fight with Tarrlok. “In the era before the Avatar, we bent not the elements but the energy within ourselves.” Using this piece of information from the lion turtle, it could be said that it is possible to not only bend the energy of your opponent, but also your own energy as well. In Amon’s case, I believe that when Tarrlok was Bloodbending him, Amon manipulated his own chi, redirected it to his limbs, and then he was able to overcome Tarrlok and take away his bending.

These are my arguments as to why I think that Amon is in fact an Energybender. Though it is all speculation now, we can only wait until it is officially announced by the show as to whether my theory is right or not.