If you could conjure and project any ONE of those three elemental powers, which would you pick?
Things you CAN do:
- Launch your powers in the form of a ball, stream, or other projectile. You have a range of roughly 100 meters. (328 ft)
- "Empower" your body in various ways with the element. (Heating it with fire, electifying your hands, lowering your temperature with ice to blend into thermal imaging, etc.)
- Fuel them without an external energy source. Your powers are generated naturally by you and do not require batteries, crystals, or any other macguffin to use.
- Control them. You're at no risk of losing control of your powers any more than you are of losing control of how you move your arms. You also cannot directly harm yourself with your powers (Your flames won't burn you), and can suppress them to avoid unwanted side-effects. (Lightning can be "turned down" to avoid damaging electronics, ice can be turned down to keep your food from getting cold unusually quickly.) That said, nothing's stopping you from burning someone alive in a fit of rage.
- Fine-tune them. You can adjust temperatures to a degree, change amperage in arcs, whatever.
- Affect outside forces. You can cause a fire to die or burn brighter, for example. Alternatively, you can adjust the intensity of lightning powers to do anything from annoy, much like walking on carpet with socks and poking someone, to stunning, much like a taser, to outright smiting a whore like Zeus or Thor.
Things you CANNOT do:
- Give them to someone else, even temporarily. They're yours and yours alone.
- Summon the element from elsewhere. You cannot summon a lightning bolt from the sky, for example. Alternatively, an ice ball cannot be conjured anywhere outside of your body. If you want to hit something around a corner, you'll have to "steer" it.
- "Run out" of energy. Using your powers drains you, but no more than any other activity one might do during the day. The more you're accustomed to using it, the easier it gets.
- Resist elements that are not your own. Freezing temperatures are still just as deadly to you as to anybody else.
- "Place" your powers without a fuel source. You can't put down an electric spark that's self-sustaining unless it's hooked up to a battery or power line of some sort.
- Break the laws of physics/thermodynamics outside your body. If you summon an ice ball in the sun during the dog days of summer, that little dude's going to start melting the moment you let go of it.
- Create absurd amounts of power. You're not going to power a city with your body or heat up the firewood to a million degrees. The latter of which would probably scorch a good portion of the planet and you along with it.
I'd go for lightning myself. Electricity is used for so many things nowadays, a little zap to fry some jerk's booming car stereo is only the first of many things I'd love to do. A proper jolt could be used to save someone from cardiac arrest or attempt to account for a seizure to minimize any damage it does. And then, of course, I can taze anybody that tries to attack me or someone else, and I'll never need to worry about power again if I get myself a little dynamo.and keep 'er charged. Hey, recharging my phone's batteries would be a breeze, and I wouldn't have to worry about a sudden power outage wiping my progress on a game!
Last edited Mar 21, 2016 at 08:55PM EDT
