It’s funny… my element is actually metal…
Since reading Musashi Miyamoto’s Book of Five Rings I have held a deep interest in the water philosophy. Before that even, I have always loved water types in the Pokemon series of games and have never forgotten the famous quotation by Lao Tzu – “Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.” I read that in junior high school and it has stayed in my mind since.
In the series, water works the way it should, as a power. It is infinitely versatile. Defensive. Offensive. Offensive when used as blood bending – and application that simply had to happen if the writers knew anything about anatomy. Apparently they did.
I write a character that is composed of water. Probably have for around 20 years or so, different ones but… Water is difficult to control, so she has a hard time appearing as a human being except in the most vague sense of our mind. She is gentle. Shy really, as she is Chinese and could hardly speak to her comrades even if she could fully form watery vocal chords to speak – she is ever a stranger to the rest of the world. But she is incredibly strong. Absorbing water around her, the rain, the moisture in the air, she can become a behemoth and strike down those that oppose her friends. She is water.
I choose water, for its beauty, and its forbidding power.
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