Talk:Energybending/@comment-67.142.162.22-20120609234031

I have a theory on Amon and energybending. Granted this is just speculation, but it could explain how Amon could be an energybender. Remember that some people are born with the ability to bend one of the four elements. You cannot just become a bender. You have to be born with the ability. Energybenders are likely the same. Remember that the lion turtle told Aang that people bending the enegry within themselves, before the avatar and before the bending of the elements. That would mean that energybenders at some point existed. Now energybending is an extremely dangerous skill to oneself, so the implementation of the four bending arts would have eradicated energybending as an art, but that doesn't mean the abiltiy went away. Benders need to be taught how to use their abilities. While one could easily find out if one could bend one of the elements, hence Katara, it would be harder to discover how to bend energy, thus those who are natural energybenders do not know that they are energybenders. Amon could be one of those natural energybenders. It's possible that he didn't lie when he said a spirit taught him. Spirits are ancient and many likely know of energybending. One malevalent spirit could have taught Amon the art of energybending. Amon does take away bending in a different manner than Aang did, but just like there are multiple ways to bend the elements, there could be multiple ways to energybend. Aang could have been taught in only 1 style with just 1 abiltiy. Amon could have been taught in a different style with multiple techniques. One example is when Amon resisted Tarrlok's bloodbending. He could have used energybending to counter bloodbending. Anyway that's my 2 cents, take it as you will.