Talk:Amon/@comment-5142401-20120819024903

I miss Amon (pre-Noatok) a lot...;_; I've been wondering why I liked him so much, even though he, generally speaking, had probably the least character development pre-episode nine (thats when we learned he could fight bloodbending) and finally figured it out!

Amon was fear.

Fear is probably the biggest thing that forced Aang to mature. Fear is what has made pretty much every Avatar character evolve, for better or for worse. (Fear os losing somebody, fear of losing your people, fear of confinement, fear of a person, etc. etc. etc.) That is why I liked Amon so much. When he got in Korra's face at Aang Memorial Island THAT WAS SCARY. He literally had the power to unmake her, but didn't. He let her walk through the city literally sweating in fear because of that one incident. I miss that.

Aang's nightmares about Ozai, fear of losing Katara etc. was what made him more than just the goofy kid in the iceberg, and thats what Korra needed, and to a degree still needs. Pre-Noatak Amon reminded me of Jigsaw from Saw, or Bane from The Dark knight Rises. He lets you fight and struggle, while the net just gets tighter and tighter. I feel like if they had let Korra literally suffocate under that fear it would have made for much more interesting story than the Yakone story-ark.