Talk:Amon/@comment-4888161-20120529053247

I have the craziest theory on Amon you have ever heard. I don't know if it's true, but it's interesting.

All these silly theories about who he is, what him and the Equalists really stand for, why suddenly team Avatar's pets are the most charismatic speaking of masked freaks, blah blah blah. With all the speculation, not once have I seen anything about the most important subject of all:

Amon's love life.

Hey come on now, don't give me that look. I'm serious... Now I don't count Korramon or anything like that because it is clearly crack shipping. I'm talkin about the man Amon might be under the mask in a serious relationship with someone serious. And I mean realistic speculation. Characters like Lin and Pema would be out for obvious reasons, and no benders could likely be it. But all the obvious stuff aside, I'm wondering if Amon would have had a serious relationship with anyone.

Now you are probably wondering what the heck I'm talking about, why the heck I'm bringing it up, and what the heck it actually means in the first place. You are also probably wondering why someone who claims he doesn't ship (and doesn't particuarly enjoy it) is bringing up shipping on the one character page which doesn't really have it. Alow me to explain:

I am asking if under the mask, Amon would be the kind of person to have had a relationship with a woman. My reasons go beyond the basic love, because the answer to something like that could have a dramatic effect on how he views things. We don't know what Amon does when he isn't behind the mask or running the Equalist. I assume he appears like a normal not Equalist person, just as most of the Equalists do when they are away from their double life. So it is entirely possible Amon could meet someone and fall in love. Now I believe that at least when he started this whole thing, he was single because of the nature as his role as head of the Equalist, and a few other things. I won't get into that now as this is already very long. But he may meet someone in the future, or have met someone recently. And depending on the relationship and her views on things, it could greatly impact what Amon believes. Now addmitedly, Amon doesn't seem the type to have his outlook on the world be impacted by anyone. So I don't believe that idea is particuarly likely. But it does point out the impact a woman in his life (at any point during it) may have on him.

But then there is the possibility of a woman in his past. A woman in his past may have been the victim of a bender. We know for a fact that this is what happened to Hiroshi, and look what it did to him. When Amon told the story, it was his father and family. But we don't know for sure he was telling the truth, and it did give an excuse for the mask. It certainly sounds better that his family was killed, then telling a story about his girlfriend. Or maybe it is true about what happened to his family. But it doesn't seem to me like that would be enough (by itself) to make his views so drastic. Now I go back and forth on this, and it would certainly be enough for him to develop feeling of hatred towards benders. But was it really enough by itself to make Amon's plans be so drastic?

I don't think just one bad experience like this has you plan to take over the world and eliminate bending entirely. It may make you predjudiced, but there has to be something else going on. It makes more sense for someone who hates benders to see the equalist movement in full force and join it after only one bad experience, rather than do what Amon decided to do. I think you would need more than one experience like that to make you decide to lead a movement like that and erradicate bending in the entire world. Now the simplified theory:

And my theory is that some time after the initial incident (whether it was his family or something else, and until and unless it is shown Amon was lying about his family I'll buy that for a first traumatic experience), he fell in love with a woman only to have her killed off by a bender. And that is what motivated him to do what he's doing today. The fact that it happened again. The (hypothesized) fact that he lost the person/people closest to him again, made him decide he had to do something about it once and for all.