Talk:Amon/@comment-24.62.132.164-20120611054147

If we're throwing theories around, I'd like to throw in my own theory that if any known character is Amon, it's Yakone.

My basis is that the farmhouse story is a lie, and that his whole antibender crusade is just revenge. Because his bending was taken away, he is determined that the whole world, especially the Avatar (who took his) gets their bending taken away also. Tarrlock also said that his father tried to take control of the city from its underbelly, which is what Amon is trying to do. Yakone tried to take control of the city via bloodbending, and because he doesn't have that he's trying to take it via nonbending. The fact that Amon is pretty much resistant to powerful bloodbending may be a residue of his former power.

My only plothole is of course his age, although one explanation can be found in King Bumi, who was spry and powerful well beyond the age he'd be. It could alternatively be another son of Yakone.