Talk:Amon/@comment-174.70.35.11-20120513093355

Just to note something. In order to take away bending.... you'd have to be a bender yourself. It wasn't like any of the other avatars learned energy-bending. Bending is spiritual according to the creators of the show. Amon keeps saying the spirits "chose" him. This might be a boastful viewpoint of his thinking he was special.

Aang wasn't chosen by the spirits, but he did learn from the sprits and Iroh has also been capable of not only seeing spirits but connecting with them thus learning new skills from them. It is possible that someone besides the Avatar can learn energybending, but they must be a bender in order to do so. Of all things Amon may himself be simply an energy-bender. Amon being Bumi is not out of the question.

It's already been mentioned that Tenzin was the only one of Aang's children born with airbending. Kaya hasn't been mentioned to be a bender, but let's pretend for one moment she is a waterbender.... either Bumi became a waterbender or he wasn't a bender at all. That would leave one very jealous brother who has the capability of learning such moves from people like Ty Lee and watching his father teach his younger brother.

It is not impossible. But that is only one possibility basing it if Amon has embellished some of his past or lied. If he didn't then there are other theories to go on. Perhaps he was a bender born under a non-bending family. Bending is primarily spiritual. It is not just blood inherited. The chid born must also have some spiritual capacity. He might not have known he was a bender that whole time and in the moment of his parents' mutilation by a firebender discovered energybending while mistakingly thinking he was "chosen".

There are plenty of reasons. But energy-bending IS bending. He had to have been a bender the whole time and it is possible he had been looking at it the wrong way not knowing he IS a bender. Taking away someone's bending requires unrelentless spirit and is a form of energy-bending thus the person was a bender irregardless.

Although Aang was the only shown Avatar to learn energy-bending, he is not the only one to have learned it. It was mentioned that a few avatars have learned it as well.

It is not at all impossible for Tenzin or Zuko or Azula or Katara to learn it, but very difficult and incredibly tricky and it may be that the Avatars being who they are just have a better capacity to have that unwavering heart because of connecting with their past selves. Aang may not have taught it, but a spirit can and the Avatar is not the only one who can connect to the spirit world. Yue did so being resurrected by the water spirit. Iroh did so because of his own spiritual revelations and sought it out thus learning to not only see them but enter the spirit world at least once and connect with his spirituality.

Another bender learning it? Entirely possible if however implausible. Still that makes Amon one conceited bastard.