Talk:Amon/@comment-174.59.226.224-20120421165801

I have a theory that Koh the face stealer is the spirit who gave Amon his power of energy bending. Koh has a habit of taking faces, but what is stopping him from also taking bender's ability to bend. Koh probably picked Amon to have energy bending because he is trademarking his work similar to how the Joker leaves joker cards during his crimes. Amon is the perfect being to represent Koh's work due to Amon having to hide his face. In a way Amon has lost his face.

The motives for Koh wanting to remove bending could be that he wants to punish the Avatar. In the past he stole Avatar Kuruk's wife face because Kuruk was neglecting his duties. Koh probably knew that if he helped Amon with his anti-bender revolution, it would lead to the Avatar trying to stop it. Koh might be setting this whole thing up as a trap for Korra to punish her for not protecting the world. Amon did say that the spirit(s) in the his dream gave him energy bending because they believed that bending and the Avatar aren't bringing balance to the world. It could also be that Koh just wants straight up revenge with the Avatar for a past form of it trying to kill him. What ever his motive might be, Amon just seems like a pawn in his plans.

I also believe that Amon doesn't now the true intentions of Koh's plans. Amon might not even know that Koh gave him energy bending. Koh could have disguised himself when revealing himself to Amon in his dreams.

One important piece to my theory that I don't know yet is what would happen when the Avatar loses it's ability to bend. Would this stop the Avatar cycle? Would this cause every other bender to lose their bending powers since the Avatar is a bridge between the World and the Spirit World? It could be that benders get their bending powers from the Spirit World due to the link between both worlds. Similar to how a plug acts as a bridge for electricity to flow to an appliance from an electrical outlet. Taking away the avatar's bending ability might very well break the bridge between both worlds.