Talk:Amon/@comment-4662143-20120429061109

Has anyone talked about this picture yet? This guy found it, and, along with this guy, thinks that it is proof that Aang's nonbending son Bumi is in fact Amon, a theory that is apparently circulating in the comment boxes here and otherplaces. However, the picture clearly shows an Airbending tatoo, and Bumi is definately not a bender. Plus, his pageshows that he is too dark skinned to be the person in the picture. The guy in the picutre is too old to be Tenzin, plus the moustache is missing and the beard is the wrong style. However, when we take a look at the picture of Aang as a grown man, it's a perfect match. The beard is the right style, albeit gray as we would expect with age, and it's hardly surprising that he would look thinner and gaunter as an old man. The Arabic subtitle is the real proof. It says "I am your father."

So that creates more problems. We know for sure that this is Aang (because Tenzin is the only other Airbending dad in the series, and his kids couldn't be having a flashback about their aged father, because he's not that old yet), and Aang is definately not Amon. Aang has to be dead for Korra to be Avatar, while Amon is very much alive, and way too spry to be 82 years old. But then why is he holding Amon's mask, and wearing his outfit? And who is he saying "I am your father" to? Given that he only has three kids, and only one of them is a major character in the series, I strongly suspect that Tenzin is having one of those Wierd Dream Sequences (TM) like the one where Zuko sees himself as having Aang's tattoos, or where Aang dreams he's flying on Appa while Sokka and Katara fly on a giant Momo and the glider. I think Tenzin has some unresolved Daddy issues, and knows more about Amon than he's letting on, something that manifested itself in a Wierd Dream. Perhaps he sees Amon in the dream (which is apparently set in Republic City, as evidenced by the buildings and bridge behind Aang's head) and, horrified, asks "Who are you?" and Amon takes off the mask and says "I am your father" and Tenzin wakes up in a cold sweat. Still, now we know what Aang looks like as an old man, though, I must admit, I didn't expect him to look so frail.

I suspect Tenzin knows more about Amon than he's letting on (and not just having the usual stress nightmares that come with helping run a city facing a revolt by a masked revolutionary) because on the side of right Aang's face is what clearly looks like a scar. I thought it might be a shadow, but there is shadow on Aang's head too, and it is definately lighter. Just look at the differences in shade between the illuminated part of Aang's face, (around his right eye), the shadowed part, (the very top of his head), and the scar (around his left ear). Three different shades, meaning that the left side is too dark to be in shadow. It's even darker than the illuminated part of Amon's clothing (near his right shoulder) and the darkened part of it (directly behind the mask). So it must be a scar. So, not only does this prove that Amon was actually telling the truth about his origins (further damaging the "Amon is Bumi" theory) but it also proves that Tenzin knows where the scar is and what it looks like. So, just like Zuko must have seen Aang's tattos before to have them float to the surface of his subconscious and show themselves during his dream, so too must Tenzin have seen Amon without his mask. Perhaps, just like Zuko obsessed about Aang and saw him multiple times before having him show up in a dream, Tenzin did the same, albeit for some different reason we don't know about. Of course, that means that he couldn't have asked "Who are you?" in his dream, but he probably asked something else and that is how Aang responded. I am interested in hearing your thoughts on this.