Elements

[Ashe]

I entirely don't see lightning and fire being "the same thing". Water and Ice are two entirely different states of the same matter, Fire and Lightning are two different states of different matter that doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the other.

But I'm not even fighting to really truely combine Ice and Water just for flavor reasons. I just cannot see the flavor reasons or logic reasons of Dark and Light elements.

As for Earth, I have no idea why having an Earth element somehow necessitates the person being a cuddly lover of animals. I'm thinking Earth as in stone and sand, forms of rock and crystal. I'm not thinking Earth element as "mother earth" and thus also controlling trees to grab people in the Druidic style, and extending to animal empathy and all that. I feel we have the techniques that allow for some of that already, and going by that Gaara style of thinking I was using for Earth, I don't ever see him ever reaching down to hold a puppy up close and a dozen birds flying down to land on his shoulder.

What I'd love to see is someone slam their palms down into the earth and a freakin' massive rock golem rise up to beat the shit out of someone. That kind of earth element. The Captain Planet version of the earth ring is a good example as well. Seismic power.