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Part Three: Energybending vs Taking Someone’s Bending

Again we can compare how Aang’s method and Amon’s differ.

Aang touches two chakras, Amon only one.

For Amon’s way of taking away bending only the touch on the forehead seems to be necessary (he never touched Tahno’s neck). No visible glowing is involved, either.

Aang touches two chakras and we see him glowing both times, even tough in Yakone’s case the glowing is a lot less strong than in Ozai’s, it is still visible.

Another thing I found interesting. Take a look at the gif. Amon seems to be pushing down on that man’s forehead with visible strength, as if pushing something in.

Is this a kind of bloodbending that locks chakras/chi flow? A kind of advanced chi blocking that requires no bending?

Should true energybending take that much physical force?

Energybending: Part One

Energybending: Part Two

cadesama:

Here’s my concern trolling for the day: What if Toph was murdered 42 years ago?

• Lin has an old looking scar. She looks comparably aged to Tenzin, who is 51 years old. Events 42 years ago would have occurred when she was a little girl.
• Lin’s grudge against Korra seems more generalized than particular. Perhaps it is a grudge against the Avatar rather than Korra herself.
• The flashbacks in order go Sokka looking solemn, Toph the brave soldier, Aang in the town hall (perhaps at a trial), bad guy, and Aang looking angry.
• If we take that order to be chronologically accurate, it could be Toph going out to handle the situation, a subsequent trial for the bad guy, an escape and possible retaliation against Toph, and then Aang taking the situation into his own hands.
• If it’s not chronologically accurate, then Sokka looking solemn might take place after the Toph shot — possibly an emotional reaction to something happening to her — and it might be Aang making the “arrest” before the trial.

On the other hand, maybe it’s Sokka that bit it.