Talk:Amon/@comment-71.191.56.24-20120610174415/@comment-173.77.19.237-20120610200916

Any bloodbender has to be a waterbender to begin with. Like Sokka mentioned, there are particular individuals who go beyond standard limits for benders. Those who learn to manipulate secondary elements related to their original bending, like bloodbending or metalbending. Toph did not only originated metalbending, she was already the strongest earthbender perse. Ozai and Iroh were the strongest firebenders and used lightning bending, even Azula managed to have most of her fire blue, the true heat within the flames. She could have learned much more if she wasn't as mentally and psycologically affected as she was.

So, let's say Bumi is a non-bender as Amon is a presumably non-bender. It is most probable that both Bumi and Amon if not being the same person, and all the more if indeed they are, that both are waterbenders over energy benders. Again, to learn a bending discipline you have to at least be able to bend an element and then transform it. It is easier to see them as waterbenders as it could help them or him, overcome other's bloodbending over them as Katara did when she fought her bloodbending master, than to see them making up an element like energy bending when not even the strongest already known benders could go that far. Yes, Tarrok and his father managed to learn bloodbending and use it beyond full moon, but so would anyone practicing it, the reason nobody else does it, it's because it's a rare knowledge among waterbenders and because it's considered not only illegal but also as something terribly inhuman. It's a good thing that Ozai wasn't a waterbender then, hahahahaha.