Talk:Bumi/@comment-99.18.107.148-20120505163809

Clearly Bumi is NOT Amon as his skin tone is wrong and his facial structure could not fit in Amon's mask, however the creators made Bumi a non-bender for a reason, a reason which certainly will come into play at sometime during the revolution. So instead of going back and forth about how "Bumi is Amon" and "Bumi is not Amon" the focus of this discussion should be: what will Bumi's role be in the story? And what will Korra learn from him?

This is my guess on his role, there's no evidence for or against it, it is simply one possibility which I think makes for a good story:

Bumi, while he would never devolp bending hatred like Amon, probably would have developed some bending envy in his younger years. This makes sence because he is the older brother of Tenzin and Aang certainly would be hoping for an airbender to continue the line so Bumi would wish he where an airbender to please his dad. Then after Tenzin was born and known to be an airbender, Aang would have to give Tenzin a little extra attension to make sure he would be able to cary on the airbender tradition, further developing Bumi's bending envy. This would make it hard for young Bumi to make friends with benders. Instead, Bumi would likely make friends with lower class non-benders who would share his complaints about the benders, someone like a young Amon (probably with a different name though). Knowing of Sokka's magnificent feats of the sword, Bumi would convince Amon and his family to face the firebender rather than surrendering to him leading to the tragedy that Amon has already discribed. Without a family or a face Amon would disappear and take the name that we know him as today.