Talk:Amon/@comment-5111158-20120517001830

Everyone shouldn't get worked up about who Amon could be because, quite frankly, we have no evidence or clues to who he could be. Amon right now, is just Amon. He is more than likely a character totally unique to this series with no connection to the last series. However, I do believe that the whole of the situation with Amon is linked with Yakone. Here is a possibility, but first lets take into consideration that, maybe, Zolt is connected to Yakone (they do look similar, but I don't believe that Zolt was the man in the flashbacks).

---More than 42 years ago, a man by the name of, Yakone, threatened Republic City (as stated by Tarrlok, a fact confirmed by Tenzin). Who knows how long he has been running around the city causing havoc? There is a theory that Yakone is Zolt's father (which is plausible due to their similarities). This would most likely make Yakone a bender. Now, perhaps Yakone was the opposite of Amon in ideals. He thinks benders should rule over non-benders. This lead to Zolt becoming the leader of a gang of benders which extorted non-benders (Triple Threat Triads). No doubt Yakone had already been doing this, which brings me to the story of Amon's parents. Ok so, Amon said when he was a boy, a firebender extorted his father and at some point killed his parents, then burned his face. Could Yakone have been a firebender, and the man who killed Amon's parents? Or could Yakone have had a group of followers as well and one of them did the deed? This would warp Amon's view of benders and the bending arts altogether, even to the point where he wanted some revenge, which ultimately grew into a "revolution" (as much as he may like to call it that, I see it more of a genocide against the bending arts) as he discovered more non-benders in the same situation. Now, if Zolt was Yakone's son, then Amon did get his revenge ''(Yakone is gone, so why not take it out on his son?). ''However, since it was far too late and the Equalist movement was in full swing, so he couldn't just say, "mission accomplished", and i guess you could say he had no choice but to follow through with this "revolution".---

...Now as far as Amon's apparent "energybending" (I firmly believe he is not energybending)....

---He puts his hand on the back of the neck, which is very near the sound chakra (truth, blocked by lies)......"The lie that he can take away bending, permanently".

---He also puts his hand on the forehead, over the light chakra (insight, blocked by illusion)......."The illusion that your bending is gone, forever".

Sounds a bit too convenient and coincidental if you ask me... O_o