#and! add to that that unless you are trained just being born a bender isn't an intrinsic leverage over a nonbender. untrained benders

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man i think the amon plotline is just kind of weak in terms of world building

#lok #i've seen posts discussing this with more nuance #but it's still so soon after the hundred year war #republic city is new too. only a generation old. majority of its population are either 1st or 2nd generation immigrants #or earth kingdom citizens or fire nation colonists who built what became the city during the war #and the way that bending is distributed among the population of every nation is entire random. it's an odd choice to mark it as a dividing #a dividing line. because every bender has family that are nonbenders and vice versa #and! add to that that unless you are trained just being born a bender isn't an intrinsic leverage over a nonbender. untrained benders #and benders without a lot of power exist. able to do party tricks and not much more #it likens to. people who's bodies are more naturally built to handle manual labour. it's just genetics and random luck #of course there could be interesting ways to tackle bender and nonbender dynamics especially with the religious significance of bending #and in mixed cultures how bending being passed on can be a surrfire way you are truly seen as carrying on that side of your culture #and it could be interesting seeing the culture shift as republic city is the first place to have such a wide mix of different cultures #in things like food and festivals #but a nonbender revolution (especially led by a bender like amon) is odd. like what is the goal of the revolution #bending and nonbending people can't be seperated in any meaningful way. and there are already laws and rules #prohibiting destructive bending use just as there are regular destruction #it's just. the revolution seeks to remove bending from the world. that's obviously a wild thing to say with cultures built around and with #bending as a part of them. add that to the fact that benders can be born from non-bending families and it just falls apart.