#tlok amon

[thingamabobus]

more bloodbaby doodads while i play around on csp

+ them hanging out with korra because it was cute in my head

[leonardotheamonlover]

Noatak and Tarrlok aura farming at the beach

Corny rizz ✌️

[swxnraii]

AMON IS SOO COOOOLL BRO! Def top 3 fav villains in Tlok.

[nextpageyaoi]

The Lieutenant is probably losing his fucking mind in the crowd

Anyways, uuuuu I said a while ago there should be an Amon concert drawing and I did it loll. I guess this technically was actual render practice. A lot of trusting the process even though I was lazy with some stuff and didn’t bother going back to fix it (*cough* the hands)

Ref under cut

[mostholy]

What fandom should i draw more?

CRK

One Piece

Mafioso from Forsaken

Amon from TLOK

Simon Riley

Ii Capitano

Voting ended onMay 4

Yandere x reader fanart version

[cruelangelderangedmind]

Test test~!

[camcat1320]

Ozai was supposed to be Amon

My meta theory about TLOK is that the entire show is just ATLA Book 4 chopped up, diluted, and repackaged. I wholeheartedly believe Amon was supposed to be Ozai in disguise.

Remember that scene in TLOK when Amon's mask flew off and he revealed that he was a bender?

With the tension rising, the animation and music, you would think it would've revealed a previous big bad that the characters have dealt with before that had returned to power. But no. As I watched it years ago, I felt like I hit a brick wall, wondering "who the fuck is that?" It didn't stick the landing for me.

I believe this scene was supposed to be the finale of ATLA Book 4 and the reveal was supposed to be Ozai. From a writing perspective, that would make more sense for a masked villain reveal.

I did not care for the use of bloodbending to lock or take away someone's bending. It doesn't make sense in the magic system of the Avatar universe. But having Ozai learn to energy bend, reverse engineering what Aang did to him, that makes sense.

But wait, isn't the Avatar the only one that can energy bend? Not necessarily.

As the lion turtle said, "Before the age of the Avatar, we bent not the elements but the energy within ourselves. To bend another's energy, your own spirit must be unbendable, or you will be corrupted and destroyed."

If ancient people did this before the Avatar even existed, it stands to reason that energy bending is not an exclusive power only the Avatar can do. An important thing about energy is that it is all around us and within us. Also, energy cannot be destroyed nor created, it can only transform.

Aaron Ehasz had stated in an interview that his ideas for Book 4 was supposed to include the negative consequences of taking Ozai's firebending. Since energy cannot be destroyed, Ozai's firebending had to go somewhere. Aang took in Ozai's firebending into himself and he would have to deal with the personal consequences of that.

On a wider scope, bringing back the ancient art of energy bending to the collective consciousness should have negative consequences as well. The whole show is about yin and yang ideas, light and dark, 2 sides of the same coin. What if something that was used for good was also used for evil?

Now I think Aang was naively incorrect about Ozai. Aang states that he took away his firebending so he could not hurt anyone else ever again. But for someone such as Ozai, his firebending wasn't the only source of power he wielded. Ozai was the leader of a fascist imperialist regime, he would have skills in manipulation of the masses and bending people to his will. He doesn't necessarily require firebending to do so.

So what does one do after they've been dethroned and crave revenge? Start a cult.

Look inside the cult leader’s playbook for achieving unconditional love, endless devotion and the power to control people's minds, bodies an

Amon has hints of being a cult leader, especially when he says that the spirits had given him the power to take people's bending away. Cult leader 101, make it seem like you have an exclusive, God-given superpower.

The TLOK writers tried to go for an oppression narrative where the nonbenders were suppressed by bender gangs. I think this was grasping at straws to replace the narrative that was meant for ATLA.

Imagine, Ozai wanting to start a cult so that people would willingly give up their firebending so that he may take it for himself, growing in power the more he takes. He would take advantage of the down and lost people of the Fire Nation. The people are disappointed in the loss of the Hundred Year War and the economic downturn that resulted shortly after and are disgruntled by Zuko's leadership thus far. Ozai would tell the people what they want to hear, feeding into their anxieties and fears, spinning webs of lies. He would propose to tear down the government then replace it with something new, a new world order, something with him at the center of it. And Ozai would do this with the assistance of the Fire Sages and high ranking government officials who have all sworn their loyalty to him.

Now THAT sounds like better villain motivation!

[youcannotkillmeiamsubhuman]

"When everyone's super, no one will be" - Syndrome, The Incredibles

Personally, I think this is one of the most misunderstood quotes in fiction because it's one of the most overused quotes that nobody uses right.

Like a week or so ago I saw a couple of guys debating (on Twitter, where else?) about the "Anyone can wear the mask" mantra in Into The Spider-Verse, which relates to the concept of everybody having the capacity to be a hero.

Besides the rather Bean Soupy fallacies made relating to questions such as "So, a murderer can be a hero?" one guy misapplied the Syndrome postulate "When everyone's super, no one will be."

This is false equivalence. Syndrome's quote refers to the idea of an equal playing ground, not inherently the idea that the ubiquitous presence of something results in its lack of presence.

If every ambivalent parahuman is referred to as a "daemon", that doesn't mean that they suddenly aren't. If everyone has an Iphone, that doesn't suddenly mean that everyone doesn't.

So, what does Syndrome's quote relate to?

First of all, it should be pretty fucking obvious what it relates to. Second of all, why do I have to explain this fact about a movie that came out 22 years (holy shit) ago?

The quote "When everyone's super, no one will be" relates to the idea that Super means to be above everyone else, above average. When everyone's super, then super becomes the average. Therefore no one is super. Ya got it? That's the easiest way to explain it.

Actually really funny to think about a hyper-capitalist supervillain having a communist solution.

Which actually reminds me of two other communist villains in modern media: Starlight Glimmer, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic; and Amon/Noatak, Avatar: The Legend of Korra.

The difference is the fact that Syndrome's approach was additive while Starlight Glimmer and Amon's approaches were reductive.

Syndrome wanted to level the playing field by bringing everybody up there, but Starlight Glimmer and Amon wanted to do that by bringing everyone down.

I guess Syndrome probably isn't exactly communist just because everyone's on the same level, but it's pretty funny to see a billionaire talk about equality. All I wanna say is that, they don't really care about us. Just saying.

Oh, and before you ask how Starlight Glimmer and Amon are communists, they're particularly closed-market communists that are on the same moral spectrum as fascists and look like fascists. But the type of communism that Starlight Glimmer and Amon most exemplify is the kind where the government controls everything and says they're making everyone equal but at the same time manufacturing struggle because nobody controls their own businesses.

Huh, communism and fascism basically have the same end result. Democratic Socialism it is!