Talk:Amon/@comment-98.200.164.35-20120610005756/@comment-5083615-20120610014452

Well thank you anonymous contributor #1! And anonymous contributor #2, you make some really good points! I really don’t know how chi-blocking would help with the bloodbending thing, but maybe it’s a spin off? Like chi-bending? But you are right, I really have no idea. However, as far as there being more than one way to energybend, I have to respectively disagree. The position you saw my grandfather using was not random; it clearly represented the fundemental aspect of the bending art as described by the lion turtle.

“The true mind can weather all the lies and illusions without being lost. The true heart can tough the poison of hatred without being harmed.”

Amon may have a strong will, and he may be very, very strong of mind, and thus able to manipulate that. But he did not manipulate the heart. After all, he couldn’t could he? If his claims of motives are true, then he is very much driven by hatred, poisoned to the core with it. There is a reason only the avatar has been able to perform energy-bending as far as the record goes. It requires something that only the avatar has been able to achieve. Mere clarity of mind and will allows you to bend lighting, not energy. And the motives the lion turtle spoke of match up perfectly with the job description for the avatar, further explaining why only they have been said to have learned it.