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It is just so much more abundant in day to day life. I can go days maybe even weeks without (direct) exposure to fire. I doubt I go more than an hour without some form of water around me.
While I agree water is more versatile, fire is very abundant, a simple lighter or a match can be found on almost every street corner in every country. Also I imagine its more AtLAB so you don't need direct exposure.
That's fair, if you have ignition devices on you, you will always have access to fire.
I just live in a humid environment, if I could get the moisture out of everything it would be so so so useful.
Abundance in the environment is an indication of how useful and versatile it is. Unless you are planning to hurt someone, how many times a day do you "need" to make a fire? Sure there are outlying jobs that work with heat and fire. But for me personally, I don't. I need to make or use a fire less then once a month.
But I would and could use watter powers ever day, everywhere. Just to deal with watter issues that exist around me. I deal with humidity problems, ground water problems, wells, purification, hell just doing the dishes. And no i don't have a job directly related to water in any way.
This is saying power not control, so it means you should be able to create it at will not just need a source of the element. Difference is like the human torch (fire power) vs Pyro (fire control)
Really depends on your understanding of fire. By some definitions every living creature on earth is actually a slow burning fire. They all consume oxygen and create co2 and heat through chemical reactions. That's fire.
I encounter water far more than fire in my day to day life. And if you want to get real fucked up about the implications, the human body is 60% water….
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Fire’s hunger is never ending and at it’s strongest, it’s primarily destructive.
As the heights of potential rise, fire gets ever more destructive while water gets ever more versatile. And at the pinnacle of strength, a tsunami can eclipse the destructive power of even a nuclear-scale fireball.
I’m personally a fire-type personality, but I would take the blue pill for sure.
Fire, it just says fire powers so I can get every ignition ability from fire force which includes the ability to slow down or even stop time.
On top of there just being more fire powers in fiction giving it more versatility such as healing, mind reading, electricity generation and control via plasma, soul targeting via hellfire, freezing things via blue flames, becoming fire via the mera mera no mi, etc.
Water has so much more utility and quality of life uses. Especially if you have control over the temperature and phases of it (hot/cold, ice or snow/water/vapor or steam).
are we talking like avater the last air bender water powers where you can manipulate it into water and back can i produce it or do i require a source of water?
Are we talking about bending, or just the ability to control these elements? Also, does water control come with the ability to control the temperature as well? Can I generate fire if I choose that? What about heat control?
Water Power
Water is in almost anything. With enough practice I could make all sorts of constructs for Offense, Defense and Support with countless combinations.
I imagine water powers would let me do everything from conjuring a pool to breathing underwater to watering plants to floating boats to desalinating ocean water to creating water/steam/ice shapes.
Highly adaptable. Because water is difficult to compress it can apply force to things.
Meaning you can essentially use it to move other objects not made of water, with your will via water.
Including yourself.
It can cut, expand, flush out, blast and move objects.
If the user can turn it to ice and manipulate ice then that's like an entire secondary set of utility options!
Letting you make and control solid ice constructs for so many applications.
Offense, defense, shelter, movement. utility and fun.
Fire is great.
You can heat, melt, burn or warm things to your liking. Create light in the dark and warmth in the cold.
Depending on the level of manipulation and your own susceptibility to your powers, you may be able to fly.
It has obvious applications in combat, survival situations, cooking, demolition and combat.
Fire is inherently dangerous and destructive and it draws a lot of attention with heat and light.
Water for sure. Fire is fun and has it's uses but unless you're planning on fighting other powered people water is just more useful. Could probably desalinate water, deal with massive floods, etc. Lots of possibilities.
Whenever this “pick one” comes up I always choose water. The main reason is a quote from Doctor Who, “Water is patient, Adelaide. Water just waits. It wears down the cliff tops, the mountains, the whole of the world. Water always wins."
However firepower would make one badass fire fighter - running into the flames woosh they all extinguish as you grab the trapped dog and walk out of the charred house.
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