Talk:Amon/@comment-50.53.109.37-20120417214124

Here is a theory of Amon that is likely to blow your mind.

Amon is a non-bender, born to non-benders who have lived in Republic City for generations. They were born in poverty, having to scrape by to make a living running a simple shop or buisness. Then, the Triple Threat Triad was founded, and this new crime syndicate began making life very miserable for local non-benders. Amon and his parents were constant targets of Triad extortion and intimidation. Amon's hatred of benders started to grow under these conditions.

Later in life, Amon's parents were simply not able to pay what they owed to the Triad. In response, the Triad burned down their buisness and meager home, killing both parents and leaving young Amon for dead. He wandered the streets as little more than a begger, his hatred for benders growing more and more as he saw not only what the Triad was doing, but also how even the law treated benders vs. non-benders. Benders would be treated more lieniently by the establishment, while non-benders were not afforded the same treatment. The Triads actions against Amon's family went largely unpunished as the Triad was easily able to pull strings to smooth things over with local law enforcement.

Finally, Amon joined a small political organization called the Equalists. The movement was small and ineffectual and sought peaceful coexistance with benders and equality for both benders and non-benders alike. Amon, a charismatic man, began to slowly win equalists to his more extreme viewpoints, convincing members that equality would not be won peaceably, but only with force. Soon, Amon and his followers usurped the Equalist movement and made it into what it is today, a terrorist organization dedicated to the eradication of bending.

How was that? All that and not a single useless and arbitrary reference to old characters (like Ozai, or Koh, or an inexplicably male Azula, or inexplicably non-pregnant male Pema) or nonsensical twists. Just a little attempt to tie Amon into the world itself.