Talk:Amon/@comment-5191713-20120613015023

My Theory on Amon:

Okay so it's already been determined that Amon is not a bender, this includes energy bending too. I think it's an interesting theory that Amon could be an energy bender, and for a while I believed it too. But it just doesn't add up. Only the avatar can energybend. Sure, in the way way past energbending was the norm, but that's not how it is anymore. Amon doesn't have any connection to the spirit world, he isn't working with koh. Amon isn't a character we've seen before, he's new. He isn't aang's, zuko's, ty lee's, or anyone's son. His whole family was killed by a firebender, those characters didn't die that way. My theory? Amon is just a superb chi blocker. And I think people have forgotten just what that means. Amon doesn't need energy bending to strip people of their bending, because, in fact he is not taking their bending, he's simply blocking it.

Remember when Aang had to go visit the guru because he was unable to enter the avatar state? Why couldn't he enter the avatar state? Because his chakras were blocked. If you ever watched Naruto than you know about how chakra flows through the body and about how it can be blocked off by an opponent. I know that's a different show but I think it correlates to what's going on in LOK. Amon has learned how to block people's chakra lines, effectively elimating their ability to bend.

The place where he touches them is also important as it is the forehead, the area which deals with the chakra of insight, blocked by illusion. Amon is simply disillusioning the benders into thinking that their bending is gone, in reality it has simply been blocked off from them by Amon. I think this trick of his is both a chi block to the chakra line and to the mind. And quite simply, no one has seen the likes of this before and therefore cannot comprehend what exactly it is that he's doing, explaining why it seems so permanent and un-fixable.

I think this is all I wanted to say, if not I'll add on to it later...

oh and p.s.: Amon only touches the forehead, whereas with energy bending a hand is placed on both the forehead and the chest. Amon isn't energy bending, he's just using some crazy scary chi-blocking.