well idk if this'll be super cringy or exposing of my minds inability to not latch onto random things... but I'm doing a series of idea notes so let's keep going. this time i cover something big. all the elements I've used with mikey, and there are allot of them. maybe show what i have figured out definitively as the element for him.
so straight away ill admit that many of these ideas came from the fics i made or by what i seen other people bring to the table as the element they think mikey would represent.
lets start with the most popular one of all. element of light essentially mikeys bright and vibrant spirit and heart as a literal force in of itself. and we do see it often when he does have access to some sort of otherworldly power its very very bright.
the element of air/wind/oxygen is next. if there is an element i see next to light it would be the free moving and detached breeze that is wind(or if you get into elemental circle stuff the life giving power of oxygen) interesting i have seen 2 fics where mikey is the earth element(and spring as well) and donnie is air instead.
the next one id say is a shoe in for mikey and elements is lightning/electricity. out of everytime mikey was given a power twice it was electric related. with the mystic weapon inazuma in 03 and mikey getting (and using it very well) lightning powers after a death and revival. an interesting sort of thing to see if i have to say so myself.
most recently we also had the element of fire with rise mikey. i think one of the only time id seen that beyond some firebender mikeyideas
but what about some of the wierder elements i have thought of over my stories.
the element of plants or plant life. coming from 2012 mikeys mystic quest being given the kanji for forest. i do enjoy messing with that in a few ideas. well that and allot of my initial ideas for mikey in orange wisteria was for him to use flower breathing with his insect breathing
the element of sound perhaps you could connect this to neo sunlight my old reincarnation fic idea but i mostly connected this to the huge connection between mikey and music/sound as a whole.
i have occationally tried to use the element of spirit. usually to represent that light in my eyes because of a certain 2012 scene id seen of mikey with bright glowing nunchucks for a moment. this was before i made spirit energy what it is.
at the end of the day i have a very unsual grouping i associate with mikey element wise
electricity,sound,light,fire,plants,wind and even darkness(cause for every bright light there's a darkness and i blame cloak and dagger especially for this idea that never left) are the usual elements chosen for any mystical or spiritual power for mikey.
but i usually pick some sort of theme of some kind. support/healing/poison,deception/illusion,relatively normal damage these are the usual themes with the powers.
truly idk whether to cringe at my choices or think about how i subconciously took pieces i saw of mikey in different series to make different themes or elements from what made mikey well... mikey(like his kindness for healing, or his natural goofball and trickster nature for illusions,or his possible want to help by the power becoming something support based over traditionally damaging. heckc even if the power was spiritual,magical,or psionic in nature)
this could probably also be a sign of literally seeing something shiny and new and hoarding the new element or idea into a little treasure pile or fixation on something that i really really can't explain
i think thats it for today @brightlotusmoon @fire-fira @brain-rot-tmnt @technicallysublimechild my friends i hope you don't cringe too badly at this. or maybe im super dramatic and you find it interesting to read about what my mind goes around on so much back in the day.
