Talk:Amon/@comment-5084867-20120507013142

Ok, here's my theory.

Yakone killed Toph's husband and Sokka's wife, which is why you see them in the flashback -- and that's one of the reasons why Aang was forced to kill him or turn off his bending -- which ever he did. Obviously he killed a lot more than that, bc just two people dying isn't a big enough deal to get him remembered 42 years later.

The reason Korra got the flashback is because Amon (who is Yakone in this theory), in some wierd, clearly-borrowed-from-Harry-Potter twist, was imbued with part of the spirit of the Avatar -- enough to channel Aang's abilities to remove bending powers. Contact with him triggers flashbacks for her through his eyes -- becuse she shares the Avatar spirit with him.

Which also might explain how the hell she got so old without communing with any of the previous Avatars. And why she can't airbend -- Yakone/Amon has that part of the Avatar