#Lok Amon

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I love masked men too much. 😔

[therealjustpeachesback]

i did something with my finger

[kason-nvidiade-art]

Equalist Work by KasonSama

This has been a WIP for ACTUAL YEARS at this point so I decided to ""finish"" it. It's done.

It is nice doing Legend of Korra art more so Equalists, love these guys.

[pastelclownz]

bro looks like a pokemon villain

[jadeazora]

Rewatching LoK and always would have loved more details on Noatak's past and resurgence as Amon. (Probably biased since I've always really loved bloodbending as an ability and Steve Blum's one of my favorite VAs.)

My headcanon was that he was a vigilante; if he saw benders abusing their powers over non-benders, he'd later abduct them and use them as "practice." I always kinda wondered if, in targeting the victims' chi paths, he was fucking around with the brain to some extent too, given the damage he inflicted was unable to be healed by even the most skilled healers like Katara. It sounds like it would be a much more precise style of bloodbending than the body-puppeteering Yakone had him doing. (Also always wondered how he worked the process out and if there were any failed attempts that left his victims dead before he successfully managed to successfully strip someone of their bending.)

Would also be willing to settle for a novel about Zaheer and the other members of the Red Lotus too.

[bibibbon]

Re: Amon vs. Spinner - Amon being a hypocrite made perfect sense for his character. He genuinely wanted to wipe out bending because he felt it was the source of the world's problems and produced people like his abusive father, but his past and the way we see him raised by his abusive father where the importance of his bending power gets drilled into his head for years means that it makes logical sense that he'd use that bending power to get rid of others' bending since he's psychologically incapable of not using it to solve his problems. And like his brother Tarlokk the point was that it's a tragedy they became just like their father while both trying in their own ways to fix the problems that gave rise to him. Their feelings on how they were abused gave them tunnel vision to the point where they couldn't see how they were repeating the cycle until it was too late.

With Spinner, there is nothing unique about his past of being prejudiced against to separate him from any other heteromorph. So him being hypocritical doesn't have any justification other than undermining his position.

Yep you have basically put it into better words than I could ever do anon!!!

Unlike Amon, spinner doesn't have a reason to be discriminatory towards his own kind and his previous actions make it so that it doesn't make sense why he would do such a switch up. Sure spinners character going through a similar thing to amon would be very interesting and it would explore a characteristic that the villains have that's almost never explored : their hypocrisy!! However, if hori wanted to go with that route he needs build up which he very much lacks!!

Spinners storyline also is lacking in more ways than one. His relationship with tomura is Hella underdeveloped and there really isn't a clear path of how spinner changes from being a die hard stain fan to a die hard shigaraki fan. Spinner and shoji could of had an interesting dynamic as they both have their own respective parallels and similarities were both characters could gain a voice through their interactions but nope hori didn't build on that at all.

Out of topic but I just wanna add that to me there's something so symbolic about Amon dying by a technological device and not by a bender of by bending itself. The abuse he went through truly shaped him and his brother in such a different way with them both still relying on an ability that they don't take a liking to, to get by. (Honestly I should rewatch lok and atla maybe I will post about it but getting into fandom mess thats the atla fandom is annoying)

Edit: now that I think about it Amon and overhaul end up being a bit similar more similar than amon and spinner (I still like amon better tho)

[emblemxeno]

Done with episode 3, so now I have the gist of Amon's motivations.

On paper, the Equalists' revolution sounds promising. After all, challenging the status quo of benders being at the top of the food chain is a fascinating plot line, and one that I don't think wholly comes out of nowhere given ATLA's own class hierarchies.

In practice, however, I just hope the rest of Book 1 exposes and explores more of this sentiment, because "con artists, thieves, and murderers who were also benders means that benders as a whole have too much influence and power over the rest of the world's populace" is... a remarkably shallow justification for stripping away peoples' physical capabilities. Especially since the process looks painful and deblitating.

At the end of the day, the point will eventually be that Amon sucks and needs his ass kicked (cuz it's still technically a kid's show and bad guys getting beaten is good for building moral fiber in the youth lol) but I'm hopeful that the landing will stick better as I watch more.

[flamingo-mango]

Amon

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This is the only fanart I have in this mass upload which is kinda surprising for me.

[thewormsdontstop]

"It will be just like the good old days."

Here's the sketches I did for this

[hannisen]

20min sketch before work

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the girlies (mako and amon are also there, ig)

[crazyyynnn456]

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Quick art for my friend. I haven't watched the animated series, but I know these bros thanks to her! I am very sad for the fate of Tarrlock and Noatak, and perhaps this art is the embodiment of a naive dream of how the events of history could have gone differently....

[therealjustpeachesback]

Little sillay pics of my favorite men

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One of the things I really disagree with is that benders in LoK are weaker than in ATLA.

Like, maybe normal benders kinda were. Peaceful times and all, average benders in LoK probably weren't as strong or trained as people who were forced to learn how to fight because there was a war going on.

Now, top benders, benders who actually take a role in the story? Not really.

We didn't actually see many Firebenders in LoK aside Mako, Iroh II, P'li and 88yo Zuko who we only saw fight once at the North Pole at night, at his weakest, okay. And well, Korra. Still, P'li was one of the rarest benders in the franchise. And Mako was a pretty talented Firebender, and Korra was about his level except the lightning generation thing. They're not Ozai or Iroh, okay, I'll give you that, but about Show Zuko level. And Iroh II was pretty good too.

We didn't see many Airbenders in ATLA, with the whole Aang being the last one thing. We know Gyatso was great we didn't actually see him bend (aside throwing pies or messing with Aang to cheer him up), nor any other airbenders aside other kids-- and also, all that was before ATLA, in flashbacks. Aang was a prodigy and very powerful. But in LoK, Tenzin wasn't a slouch either. Neither was Jinora, who was also a spiritual prodigy, or Zaheer, or even Kai, who was also pretty good considering the kid had only gotten airbending a few weeks ago. And Korra herself ended up becoming a pretty good airbender. Neither her or nearly all of the others were at Aang the Airbending Prodigy's level, okay, but all of them were good, most of all Tenzin. Tenzin was one of the strongest benders in the franchise overall, and tbh he was probably better than ATLA Aang (but probably not as good as Peak Aang).

The strongest Earthbenders in ATLA are Toph and King Bumi, and most of all Toph, I agree with saying that they are stronger than all the other Earthenders in LOK; the only ones who could keep up with them in terms of just earthbending are people like Yun or Jianzhu from Kuruk's and Kyoshi's Era, or, you know, Kyoshi herself as an adult. However, those are the two only Earthbenders who stick out more than LOK'S. The other talented Earthbenders in ATLA-- guys, come at me. Come at me, look me in the eye and tell me that you actually think Tyro or Haru could beat Lin, Su or Kuvira. Tell me that you actually think that any Dai Li agent of Aang's time could beat Bolin or Ghazan. C'mon, tell me, tell me that you actually believe that. Toph was the exception of ATLA, not the rule. Aside her and probably Bumi —and Lavabending and Metalbending could still give any of the others an advantage against him that gives them the ability to put up a good fight—, any Earthbender in LOK could probably beat any other Earthbender in ATLA without breaking a sweat.

And in terms of Waterbending it's not just that the Waterbenders in LOK are as strong as the ATLA ones, it's that most of them are stronger. The only notable Waterbenders in ATLA (the only ones if we're being honest, we didn't see many Waterbenders). Were Katara, Pakku, Hama and Aang. Aang was a weaker Waterbender than any of the previously mentioned ones, and Bloodbending inventor Hama got beat up by 14yo Katara. So, really, the strongest ones are Katara and Pakku. Now, Legend of Korra had, let's see *checks* Amon, Yakone, Unalaq, Tarrlok, Korra herself, Ming-Hua-- damn, even 'weaker' Waterbenders like Tonraq, Kya II, Eska or Desna are still pretty skilled. Most Waterbenders in LOK are insanely OP, and generally stronger than even the strongest at ATLA. For example, in terms of raw power —idk about skill, that's a different thing—, Amon beats people like Katara and Pakku easily; his raw power was, well, more powerful than Korra's, who has the biggest pure Waterbending feat in the franchise, and than Tarrlok's, who had more raw power than Korra, at least in Book 1. The guy was likely the most powerful non-Avatar bender in the franchise.

[jadeazora]

Y’know, back when this was originally airing, this was my first episode of Korra that I ever watched. (I don’t even think I knew that there was a sequel series to ATLA coming out back then, since I wasn’t online to the extent I am now.)

What a doozy of an episode it was to start out on too   😅

[backwards-blackbird]

...Yeah, the revolution can wait. ❄️