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Poll: Which Superpower Based on the Four Classical Elements? (12 member(s) have cast votes)

Which power would you pick, as described below?

  1. Earth (4 votes [33.33%])

    Percentage of vote: 33.33%

  2. Air (3 votes [25.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 25.00%

  3. Fire (4 votes [33.33%])

    Percentage of vote: 33.33%

  4. Water (1 votes [8.33%])

    Percentage of vote: 8.33%

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Posted 17 May 2015 - 11:04 AM

If you could choose to possess one of the following superpowers, based on the four classical elements, which would you pick?

 

Earth. You have command over earth, rock, mineral, and ores, shaping them to your will. You can erect (heh) massive structures of stone or crystal, form glass from sand, create shapes and even animated items, like stone golems, that obey your will. You can create earthquakes.

 

Air. You command the winds, enabling you to create controlled tornadoes or hurricane-force blasts of wind. You can alter the direction, speed, and force of air currents at will. You can literally shape the wind, and by using it to carry yourself aloft you can fly. You can create hurricanes.

 

Fire. You can generate and control fire, altering its strength, intensity, and direction at will. You cannot be burned. You can form fire into basic shapes, even animate "fire golems," although these constructs have no solidity. You can project fire like a flamethrower, but you cannot use it to fly (you do not generate any thrust). At its greatest intensity your flame can generate enough heat to melt carbon steel (at least 2800°F/1540°C).

 

Water. You can shape and command water to obey your will, altering its direction and force, forming shapes, etc. An aspect of water is ice, which you can cause any water to become at will (although if the ambient temperature is above freezing any ice you create will immediately begin to melt and need to be periodically "reinforced"). You can create constructs of ice similar to the Earth powers above, and can create ice golems that obey your will. You can literally suck the moisture out of the air to create water. Given a sufficiently large source of water, you can create a powerful high-pressure blast of water like a fire hose, or even a tsunami (assuming a HUGE source of water).





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Posted 17 May 2015 - 12:41 PM

Earth, because building stuff that leaves behind a permanent location sounds pretty neat, like a house made out of granite or something, and I could still throw rocks at people with tremendous force, potentially more than all the other due to momentum and the potential for gravity causing it to fall (I.E. all I have to do is lift up and drop a large boulder over a tank rather than sit there trying to fire blast a tank the whole time), and generally tunneling through the ground or building a giant wall sounds a lot more useful. 

 

I might not be able to fly like you could if you had a glider and controlled bursts of wind around you, but that's dangerous and risky anyways, and normal gliders could do it. A flamethrower replicates the power of fire, which is kind of useless in modern living given things like microwaves, stoves, and ovens. 

 

 

Earthquakes and landslides also cause tsunamis, so I get that power too, meaning I'm just as destructive. 

 

Earthquakes and Tsunamis seem OP, though. 

 

 

Water is a second bet, but, ice is less stable than say, granite, or concrete or something. 



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Posted 17 May 2015 - 01:44 PM

I'm too big of a Kvothe fan to pass on knowing the name of the wind.

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Posted 17 May 2015 - 06:08 PM

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Posted 17 May 2015 - 06:38 PM

Air. Simply because I always dreamed to fly. Like just float away go where ever I want. Without the hassles of planes and such. Also, since stated I could create hurricanes, I sure wouldn't mind blowing my enemies houses away lol

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Posted 18 May 2015 - 01:09 AM

I'd probably go with fire. Being impervious to heat and flame is a big bonus. Also,

At its greatest intensity your flame can generate enough heat to melt carbon steel

I could do what jet fuel could not.

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Posted 18 May 2015 - 05:10 AM

lol 



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Posted 18 May 2015 - 07:43 AM

I went with air. Flying is just too tempting. 



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Posted 19 May 2015 - 01:19 AM

I'm too big of a Kvothe fan to pass on knowing the name of the wind.


I have not enough likes to express my appreciation of this.

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Posted 22 May 2015 - 06:23 PM

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Posted 22 May 2015 - 06:37 PM

Ha! Avatar is kind of what made me think of this. Plus the D&D elemental monk class. :D



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Posted 22 May 2015 - 07:49 PM

As awesome as the idea of flying is, and as equally-awesome the way you described earth command is, I have to choose fire.

Fire awes me and scares me. Its beauty is entrancing, yet its destructive terror is frightening beyond description. Being able to master it, to harness and control it? Being able to play it tantalizingly across a lover's skin, or use it to torment the evil forces of the world?

Gimme.

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Posted 23 May 2015 - 06:52 AM

Fire has a certain fascination for me, too. But after working at a burn hospital, and seeing what it can do up close, I have developed a respect-bordering-on-fear of it. For delivery of sheer horror or pain, nothing on this list compares to fire.



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Posted 23 May 2015 - 07:06 AM

Then fire seems the obvious choice for you, since it grants you immunity to it.



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Posted 23 May 2015 - 09:09 AM

I would just choose earth. Make a house, build other buildings, use my money to buy land and just create everything I need on it ,from iron to copper and whatever. If I wanted to fly, I'd get in a glider. If I wanted to shoot out fire, I'd just get a flame thrower. Building something on the other hand, is a lot more expensive, as is covering yourself in dirt armor. If you can like, levitate dirt, than, you could just make armor to protect from all these days, and you'd be done. Also, metals and stuff would be cool to manipulate. 

 

Just seems more practical in my every day life. Earthquakes = tsunamis, as do landslides, so I kind of have the most destructive powers when you go with earth. 



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Posted 23 May 2015 - 05:31 PM

Then fire seems the obvious choice for you, since it grants you immunity to it.

 

I'm not interested in causing horror or pain. And besides, you can't fly with fire.



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Posted 23 May 2015 - 05:38 PM

Then fire seems the obvious choice for you, since it grants you immunity to it.

 

I'm not interested in causing horror or pain. And besides, you can't fly with fire.

You could put like, fuel behind you, or create air current to glide on, with a glider. By heat movement and whatnot. 

 

Threaten someone if they don't make you fly. 



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Posted 24 May 2015 - 11:04 AM

Then fire seems the obvious choice for you, since it grants you immunity to it.

 

I'm not interested in causing horror or pain. And besides, you can't fly with fire.

That wasn't my point. You don't even need to be interested in causing horror or pain. The practical benefits of being immune to extreme heat alone are massive.



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Posted 24 May 2015 - 11:48 AM

 

Then fire seems the obvious choice for you, since it grants you immunity to it.

 

I'm not interested in causing horror or pain. And besides, you can't fly with fire.

That wasn't my point. You don't even need to be interested in causing horror or pain. The practical benefits of being immune to extreme heat alone are massive.

You could just cover yourself in water, or earth. xP



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Posted 24 May 2015 - 07:11 PM

I like burning things :3




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