No, this isn't a thread about how benders are oppressive and that bullshit. This isn't a thread about how he's right in his philosophy, frankly, I don't think he is. This is a thread about how we must support Amon because honestly? This equality stuff? That's all he has.

Let me take you through a week in the life of Amon.

It starts out deceptively well.
He wakes up, tries to brush his teeth, realizes he still has the mask on when he smears toothpaste all over it. Has to wash it all off but he smells mint for the rest of the day. Comes face to face with his lieutenant and his glorious fu-manchu. Like he needs it rubbed into his hideous face that his burns mean he won't ever, ever grow a fabulous mustache like that. No no, just keep talking lieutenant Keep talking with your perfect facial hair. Because nothing can bring Amon down, not this week. This week he has plans. He's got the perfect week started and week ender. He's starting it off with the revelation (that will totally impress EVERYONE), and ending with a totally sweet gig he got at this great comedy club, apparently his lieutenant’s sister worked there and she managed to pull some strings. So that's awesome.

And then it seems to get better, when they catch some mobster benders there's this one bender in there that's TOTALLY hot and he tries to get his moves on. But it's not really working, like he tries a pick up line and the kid just get scared and and it takes all of three seconds for him to kidnapper-zone him. All “Yeah I'm sure you're a great but you're too nice a kidnapper” and ok yeah that hurt, but he was totally sure he could work this out, and that night he totally forced that earthbender to......

Cuddle him. What? You thought he'd- no, no Amon knows the rules, that's third date material. Anyway he thought it was going great but apparently Bolin chewed through the restraints that night and Amon woke up cuddling all the spaghetti that fell out of his pockets while he slept, and his ninjas were totally snickering at him later because they captured Bolin and he probably told them Amons penis was small fucking BITCH maybe he'll like him after the revelation, everyone would be totally impressed with him then!

See aside from the awesome spiritbending/chiblocking powers and his great comedy routines Amon totally had this family punch recipe. It was the last thing his father passed down to him before he died and he made just the biggest best batch of punch ever for this rally. That and the pie his second in command made meant everyone would be showing up. It was all set up in the back, and everyone could eat once he took the benders powers. And it was totally going great! He took three and then Bolin was sent up and he looked totally impressed, he smiled at him and called him “sir” oh yeah Amon was getting laid tonight- and then out of NOWHERE the avatar comes to beat him up! So of course he runs into the steam because holy shit that's the avatar. When he checked later, the table with the punch and pie had been knocked over, no one even got to try any.

.So he kind of spent his next day crying, but he told his equalists he was doing paperwork.

The next day, he was still crying, until he heard something on the radio. The AVATAR was talking about him! Ohmyspiritsohmyspirits the avatar was saying his name, and trying to schedule something with him, and she was doing it in public which meant she wasn't just trying to meet him privately to get him to do her homework or something for her! He was so excited he forgot to put a straw in his drink and tried to drink it normally through the mask and he ended up burning himself with hot tea and oh god it was everywhere in the mask and it just reminded him his face is already a burnt mess. But he didn't care because he was going to be hanging out with the avatar and since she was friends with Bolin maybe he'd be there and the three could hang out and the avatar would be his wingman and it would be awesome

So the time finally came and he brought his friends (ok so they were work friends that still counts as friends) only things went kind of bad and the Avatar didn't look like she was having fun and she kind of skootched away when he touched her, so he moved closer but she kept moving away and he wasn't sure why. But he was determined to make this a good night, so he gave her the invite he had for Bolin (to his comedy club event, that was still a thing that was going to happen)

And then he decided to knock her out and give her the hand sewn pillow he made! Everyone loves hand made gifts (At least according to his many, many, many “how to make friends for the socially retarded” books he owned), so they'd totally be besties after this

So that meant all he had left to do was prep for his comedy club show. And he was pumped. The avatar wasn't going to crash it this time, she was invited! And hopefully Bolin would come too. He wondered if it would count as a second date if he did, he wasn't sure if it could but he was really sick of waiting for that third date and he wouldn't mind a shortcut

So the day finally came and he was at the club, he had the stage for almost the whole night, and the crowd was pretty big. This was the perfect chance to make his name as a professional comedian. He searched the crowd for Bolin and the Avatar. Ok, he couldn't see them..but it was a huge crowd. Maybe he just couldn't see them. Oh wait, there's one- he waved for a full ten seconds before realizing that wasn't Bolin and he awkwardly put his hand to his side, trying to pass it off as if he'd been shaking dirt off his hand or something. The lights went down, he stepped up to the mic, and he hit them with his starting joke.

No one laughed.

...Ok well, he hadn't had a startup act to warm the audience up, probably most of them just hadn't heard him because they'd been mumbling to themselves. Well, he had their attention now. He hit them with another.

No one laughed.

Sweating now, and feeling the spaghetti in his pocket jostle, Amon tried again. Maybe he just needed to switch topics. “Any earthbenders in the house?” A few raised hands (he didn't see Bolin), “Well I guess I'm gonna have a ROCKY relationship with this crowd!” He could hear someone cough.

That night he curled up in a corner and cried for hours drinking and eating cookie dough ice cream. He woke up in Bolins closet with no idea of how he got there.

This is why we need to support the equalists. This is why we need to support Amon. Because this poor, pathetic bastard has nothing else.