What is your favorite element?

ML_Peregrine 2021-06-12 17:36:31 UTC #6

I just kept thinking of Avatar lol. I think my fave from Avatar would be water-bending since it's so versatile. Bloodbending, freezing water, evaporating water, manipulating the rain and storms. Other bending techniques are super cool but water fits my aesthetic the best lol.

Thinking of the shadow and bone trilogy, I also like the idea of manipulating sunlight and shadow.

As for chemical elements lol. I'm no chemist but my faves are polonium and radium because Marie Skłodowska Curie discovered them and she's an inspiration.

IndigoShirtProd 2021-06-12 17:41:28 UTC #7

I'm privy to Tungsten, I've seen some cool rings made out of that. You can't go wrong with gold and silver, honestly. I don't think the Noble gases get enough credit, but if I had to pick one, I think it would be Cobalt.

But in all seriousness, my fav is water. And it so happens that I have a comic related to the elements! What are the odds?

chestnutriceeee 2021-06-12 17:42:44 UTC #8

Illusions. The type that messes with your mind, from inducing hallucinations to traditional illusions which mess with your perception. Controlling someone's mind like that seems overpowered to me

Iris-Grimoire 2021-06-12 17:54:14 UTC #9

Ice Ice baby. The aesthetic of snow, ice, blizzards, frozen non-water liquids is just so nice.

Jwebtoons 2021-06-12 18:49:47 UTC #10

Lightning

summer_coefficient 2021-06-12 18:56:50 UTC #11

Iron or Flourine I guess

Kuma 2021-06-12 19:03:07 UTC #12

Lightning. Lighting can be used in so many other ways than just throwing bolts and people tend to ignore it.

Berserker 2021-06-12 19:08:52 UTC #13

Storm powers. Which can include lightning but its more of a bonus.

crowstories 2021-06-12 19:33:59 UTC #14

The element of surprise!

JK, it's probably fire...

My novel is largely about the god of chaos and his many incarnations, much of which is (loosely) based on actual mythology. He's been associated with storms and water, as well as chaos (obviously), both in the sense of the primordial matter from which the universe was created, and the concept of chaos as disorder and often catastrophe.

NickRowler 2021-06-12 20:27:09 UTC #15

I like water because I like the nautical aesthetic that comes along with it.

Legendofgenii 2021-06-12 21:15:12 UTC #16

Wind!

Tehe.

BarBarKetrab 2021-06-12 21:20:21 UTC #17

Hmmm.... I don't really have a favourite per se.
But my favourite to draw would definitely be electricity.

Scarlet_Cryptid 2021-06-12 21:43:17 UTC #18

I think mine would have to be Water, or if you broaden the definition a bit, liquids in general.

I'm a water sign in both the Western and Eastern Zodiac (Pisces and Water Pig), and on the rare occasions people have tried to guess my sign, they always guess a different water sign (I've been mistaken for a Scorpio twice).

I live in a region famous for rain, the ocean, coffee, beer, and wine. In fact, I work in the wine industry. In art, I work almost exclusively with ink. I drink a lot of tea. My life is dominated by Liquids.

rajillustration 2021-06-13 01:58:58 UTC #19

I was a swimmer in high school and I grew up near the beach, I'm all about water.

Eiranyx 2021-06-13 02:30:32 UTC #20

Hmmmm... Probably Fog/Mist -- kinda like a combination of air and water because it's basically water in its gaseous form -- It's usually not commonly featured as a powerful element but if you think about it, its actually very versatile, imagine the things you can actually do with it ^^

LunarScyphozoa 2021-06-17 04:28:21 UTC #21

The best element is surprise

noenoh 2021-06-19 05:28:07 UTC #22

Air /Earth

ExA 2021-06-19 07:59:57 UTC #23

Is it time and dimension is elements too?

MeltingCORE 2021-06-19 19:26:05 UTC #24

The fire is so pretty...

djourner 2021-06-19 19:34:11 UTC #25

If we are talking exclusively about those basic elements, like in the 4-5-6 elements. Life fire, water and whatnot

Earth - It is universaly present and to me the most useful outside of combat, treating soil, building, even cleaning... Depending on how much it extends you can so some pretty amazing (and dowright scary) things.

If we are extending a bit and adding stuff like metal, poison... and basically going like pokemon.
Nature/life - I love the idea of creating and sustaining a garden, I just never had a good hand for it. Nature sounds like one of the most useful things as it makes things tastier and bigger, so yeah... love it.

If we are extending it to the absolute limit and saying any one word can be an element, like time, space, dimension.
my best pick for that is...

Luck - By far one of the most broken 'elements', like sure, you manipulate atoms and can cause a nuclear explosion... But I control the probability of you succeeding.
Just to clarify, I do not mean karma, I mean luck... the chance of things suceeding, not the opposite reactions the universe 'has to make' to balance it out.
It is an ultimate, 'i win' card at it's most powerful, literaly shaping reality to bend to your will without ever causing things like paradoxes or worrying about the possibility of failure, and even on it's lowest form, it would be heaven for anxious guy like me if I had a certainty that I had a better chance to succeed at just about anything.

Why yes... I did give this response and unatural amount of thought... How could you tell?