#flames au

Dying will flames are inherent to you as a person, so no matter what you have the same flame. I imagine a lot of hard-core trainers are probably capable of producing them. The struggle of knowing if you can usually comes from not having the right materials - the gemstones - to use them. However, I think that at one point, when the boys were working at the subway but before they were in charge of it, there was a big accident and the train was attacked by angry wild pokemon. The two of them had to defend the train as well as try to get help, and it was during that they unlocked their flames.

BUT WAIT hear ME out! Comically one-sided and unjustified anger, then he meets Dawn and is like 'in for a penny in for a pound, I'll be her storm guar-' and even while he's trying to haymonize with her, it's just not clicking. Not because they can't harmonize, but because Dawn is 1) not aware of what he's doing and 2) already had a storm guardian (barry) so she's not really on the look for one. Obviously a sky can harmonize with multiple of the same flame but she, like, doesn't have a nagging opening for one.

Also, do people bond here? You know, "every sky needs a set" and all that jazz. Oh! Can elements fall into discord/dissonance if the get cut off from their family? *looks at Ingo who got eebie deebied and Beni & Kamado who had fled their region*

Yeah inverted flames exist, though uhhhh admittedly I have yet to spend much time trying to decide what others are. I'll need to sit down and make a bigger list at some point. Side note: aren't most of the arcobaleno pretty inverted? Despite making this au my khr is pretty rusty lol.

I'm thinking for the Pokemon au, like, every sky naturally sort of ends up trying to collect a full set of the other elements, and they do bond with each other, but it's not a 'one perfect soulmate' kind of deal, and sometimes a sky can kind of have different guardians of one element in rotation or bond to people shorter amounts of time. Dawn's definitely bonded with Barry, Ingo, Rei, and Cynthia at the very least, but she's also bonded with Lucas, and both him and Rei are rain guardians.

I feel ilke discord/dissonance would mostly be brought on by like being forcibly cut off or one member of the bond (usually worse if its the sky half) rejecting the other. So yes? But in most cases it's, like, a bit of anxiety-like feelings that eventually fade with time. Like, Lucas and Barry aren't going insane back at home, but they do have really bad anxiety over Dawn's disappearance. I think Kamado lost some guardians from his original region, and so it still pains him to this day. Being purposefully cut off, well, I could see that spurring someone into doing some really insane. things.

Especially if they'd just recently found a sky, but they're going through with their evil plan, and then suddenly this warm connection is cut off, leaving them cold and desperate for its return. It fuels a desperation, almost against the persons right mind, to try and fill that hole in themselves.

Individual elements (that aren't sky) rarely connect to each other, but I think even if Ingo and Emmet (and Elesa?) were bonded like that, its impossible to tell if the dissonance in flames is brought by that or just Ingo's disappearance.

Oh lol kind of mentioned stuff about this in the last ask!

Considering how rare skies are, I think that tbh, Emmet and Ingo never thought too much about every finding one they'd be able to harmonize with, but they did have a sort of understanding without barely having to talk about it that they would surely find the same sky if that every happened, right?

But regarding Volkner and Dawn’s bond you could argue that while it was an instantaneous bond it might not be as strong as someone she purposely Harmonized with. Bonds that are created instantly are similar to snap decisions and thus weaker since no effort was put into it. Clouds are naturally creatures of instinct so Volkner could have subconsciously picked Dawn as his Sky without even realizing it. Which random question, would Ginter be a Cloud as well? Same typings typically run in families (Yamamoto and his Dad, Tsuna and the bosses ect). I wouldn’t be surprised if Dawn unknowingly tried to bond with him because of it (whether he was amused or not is up in the air).

Also, what are your thoughts about the Night Flame?

I think there's probably two ways that guardians - aspects? elements? - are formed between a flame user and sky. The first is in-the-moment adrenaline bond, and the other is 'I-pledge-myself-to-you' kind of bond. I think initially, the adrenaline bond is stronger than just pledged to the person, but then overall and overtime, the 'pledge' is usually stronger for exactly what you're saying - the harmonization between the two is more purposefully focused and created.

Sky: Acceptance

Storm: Desire

Rain: Reliability

Sun: Activity

Lightning: Ambition

Cloud: Independence

Mist: Creativity

Not to mention the fact that canonically every Lightning user we saw in the show being borderline obsessed with something/someone. Levi being Xanxus, Lambo with killing Reborn and even Verde with his creations.

From what I read in your other fic (which how the heck did I not read this before now?) Emmet strikes me as a Lightning if only because he wants to find Ingo. Also, he likes winning more than anything else right?

Ingo as an inverted Storm kinda makes sense? He’s be like Fon.

Sorry for all the questions and ramblings I’ll stop now!

Oh damn there's a list like that? That wasn't on the wiki - or I didn't look hard enough lol.

I believe my reasoning for Emmet having storm was never resting, very offensive and in the middle of battle, kind of more matches his energy. And then for Ingo it was that lightning users are the first line of defense, the protection of the family, and that's what he's focused on doing especially in detours (which, hey, hope you enjoyed it :) )

Although, they are brothers, and twin brothers at that, it's not like I'd be hard to say that they both have lightning and storm flames. In fact, I've been playing on and off with the concept that they were both storm before Ingo left, and when he got to Hisui he began to more main lightning.

I defo don't think Adaman or Irida have sky flames, I think for the clans it almost makes the decision of who's the leader too easy to parse, though you could definitely do something with it. Rain and cloud I think sound really good! Especiay the complications for Irida of naturally being sort of an independent person, but now people are relying on her.