Talk:Amon/@comment-4954896-20120406183434/@comment-4963341-20120406213326

The most likely purpose to Amon's mask is likely two-fold. To inspire fear and awe since such a blank, expressionless mask is very unnerving, and two to of course conceal his identity. The second purpose does not immediately mean that Amon is going to be a character that we know, rather in universe it probably allows him to live a double life. For all we know, Amon could be one of the counsel members, seeking to further the equalist agenda subtlely through politics, and then donning the mask and being a terrorist as well. A two pronged attack, attacking benders politically with the mask off, and attacking them physically with the mask on.

The equalist agenda needs to have public support to really work; him just going around terrorizing benders would just make him look like the villain. His goal will only be viable if he can make the non-bender population not only condone his violent actions against benders, but actively endorse them, and the best way to do that is through politics and diplomacy.

This is likely the purpose of the mask; not to conceal the face of Ozai/Cabbage Man/Bumi/Tenzin who inexplicably hates benders, but to simply keep his identity, which in and of itself is really not important at all, a secret in order to allow him to opperate on multiple fronts.

Or maybe he's just fuggly, who knows.