I must comment on this in more detail later, but I loved it, and really enjoyed reading it. Thank you. A lot of this characterization gels with my own current thoughts on Amon.Title: Names
Summary-ish: He had to remember not to see her as a girl.
A/N: So normally, I have this personal rule such that I’m not supposed to write fanfiction about anything that I’m obsessed with at the moment because then I might not write for the sake of a story rather than to just have an outlet. Well tonight I was just like fuck that rule, I wanna write shit. So here’s a lame-o Amon-centric fic haha. Everyone else is so good at these, I am ashamed lol…I just wanted to let loose and write though, forgive me. No shipping. I mean I guess you could sort of call it Amorra on like a subatomic level, but not really.owo thank you! I got inspired by your commentary on my theories post actually. Our ideas seem to gel a lot! I look forward to your further commentary. Haha I don’t usually post mind-spew writing like this so crit would be much appreciated.
I love the self-reflective/self-aware tone to this. It again gels with my thoughts/impressions/theories on Amon’s character, that he’s very thoughtful, can come at an issue from different angles, even see things from his opponent’s POV—but then despite everything he thinks, he will choose a particular course of action and stick with it, even if that contrasts with certain things he acknowledges, i.e. focusing only on Korra as Avatar-the-Symbol and not Korra as the human teenaged girl. I think you expressed that well. I just love he shows some sympathy for Korra, does see her as human, recognizes that she had no choice in the matter like practically everyone else with regards to whether you’re born to bending or not, and especially who’s born to be the Avatar. And even his analysis of that, analyzing the powers of names and their influence on humanizing, his analysis of identity itself, fitting for a man in a mask. I like the almost-regret and unsteady confusion over whether he really has his own identity or not. I do see Amon as really trying to turn himself into an Idea/Symbol for his cause, and I also think it would not come easily, that it’s a struggle, and I like how you delved into that a bit. And how Amon does acknowledge he’s made sacrifices, and then really interestingly enough connects to Korra again still, how he’s ‘more than a man,’ ‘she’s more than a girl’ as the Avatar, and she’d simply have to make sacrifices too. And he does that twice; Amon personally connected to both Korra’s humanity and her Symbolic status, though admittedly more the Symoblic than the human.
So, this was lovely Amon (and Korra!) fic, and I’d like to see more of him (them) from you.
And I’m really glade it was about Amon and Korra, ‘cause I’m really excited about their canon relationship, looks like their conflict will be epic, and I’m hoping Amon will be a major factor in making Korra develop and think. And on a more guilty pleasure fanon side I crackship them.