Talk:Amon/@comment-98.200.164.35-20120610005756/@comment-98.200.164.35-20120610015854

Actually, I believe the lion turtle also told Aang that "before the era of the Avatar, we bent not the elements, but the energy within our bodies," implying that energybending was once as common as the four bending disciplines are today. Perhaps it was BECAUSE people divided into the Four Nations and learnt to bend the four elements that they lost their ability to energybend, having "sacrificed" it, so to speak, to bend the elements. Which would also explain why only the Avatar has been able to learn energybending SINCE, because the Avatar in a sense represents all Four Nations in one person (certainly the combination of all four elements in one person)--i.e., the Avatar is a "return" to the state of things before the four bending arts were discovered, only with the addition/combination of those arts.

Moreover, when Aang was energybending Ozai, it appeared that the reverse was almost about to happen, that Ozai's nigh on indomitable will to conquer nearly overcame Aang, with the result that the Avatar's energy was almost bent by the one whose energy HE was trying to bend. (Attempting to energybend apparently opens up the would-be energybender to energybending his/herself. We didn't see this when Aang was energybending Yakone, though--possibly because Aang was much more experienced and powerful at that point.)

Remember that we still know VERY little about energybending in comparison to the other four disciplines of bending--and even their subset skills. There's more than one movement that can make fire shoot out of your fingertips. The other bending arts are incredibly versatile and dynamic. I see no reason yet why the same cannot be true of energybending.

Also, it seems highly unlikely that Amon could overcome bloodbending through sheer willpower, since the "will" is not what is being affected. Bloodbending isn't mindcontrol in any sense. It's the control of the water and fluids in another's body.