Songs of Innocence and Experience

In continuation of the recent tradition of "non-emo" posts, today's article is about Avatar: The Last Airbender.

For those who do not know what it is, go look it up on Wikipedia. It's not a simple mindless Western cartoon that has a generic Asian motif. Well, I'm not here to describe the series to you; you have Wiki for that.

Anyway, in the series, certain people are gifted with different kinetic abilities allowing them to manipulate one of the "elements" of their world: water, earth, fire and air. Now, given the choice, which element would you wish to manipulate?

Well, because this post is simply about my choice, I suppose I'll go discuss it already. I would choose water... and why? Well, here are some of the reasons:

• You can use it for water's various cleaning purposes. You can clean stuff, dry them afterward, separate water from polluted sources of it...
• You can "heal" people by messing around with the flow of water inside them. You could probably relieve hypertension with that.
• You'll almost never be thirsty again - you can make a drink out of sufficiently moist air. Or if stuck in a desert, just get water from cacti and anything else that's alive.
• It allows you to cook food well, making sure heat is evenly distributed inside your cooking pot/pan/whatever.
• Uhm... don't get me started on swimming...
• You are your own microwave oven.
• Contrary to popular belief, you can get water to manipulate anywhere... from the air, from yourself, from other living organisms... as long as you know there's water in something, you can manipulate it.
• You can make art, tools, anything solid you need with ice.
• You can travel via water, as long as you have the stamina to traverse seas and oceans.
• If you're strong enough, or if you have a lot of people with you, you can manipulate weather.
  

And there are also more creative uses for water, as well...

• You can forcibly vibrate water inside living things, making them blow up or burn due to the heat.
• You can manipulate the blood inside organisms, making them have strokes by preventing the blood from getting to the brain.
• You can freeze the blood and watch them die of hypothermia.
• You can forcibly dehydrate them and leave their bodies' proteins to denature.
  
• Or you can just make the water go out of every single hole and pore in their body.
• You can manipulate the air around you by moving the water suspended in it.
• You can manipulate earth by manipulating the water present in it.
• You can manipulate the bodies of the organisms themselves as though they were merely dolls of ice.
• You can make ice out of air/nothing, just like what Hohenheim was doing.
• Waterball mode, like a RO wizard/high wizard.
• You can make weapons out of ice (Law of Ueki mode...)
  

Water is capable of many things, more than just a whip or a trap of ice. It's like FMA actually. There's a curious thing about FMA. If people could transmute things as long as there is "equivalency", why don't they get themselves loaded with diamonds? They simply have to transmute carbon things into it... It's the simple revelations like that which spur creative uses of simple powers.

That's all for today, folks. Now, I'm not sure how the next one will go. I can't really think of anything. Oh well, back to emo posts again :)