Basically, I'm going for a hero who can manipulate fire, but I don't want to be as cliché as Pyro from Xmen. As far as I can tell, all he is is a human blowtorch, judging from his performance. I want to have a more intimate connection with my fire. I want to be able to write my name in the air with fire just as easily as I could throw a fireball. I want the fire to basically be an extention of me--just as much a part of me and as controllable as my physical fingers. I realize that many of the things that I want to be able to do are pretty extreme, but I should be able to scale them down enough to decide on what basic skills I should choose. Let me describe exactly what I want to be able to do . . . eventually.
I want to be able to control the shape of my fire. Like I said, I should be able to write my name in the air. I'd like to be able to put impressive swirls in the air. If I wanted, I'd like to be able to sculpt my fire in to a figure--like a statue. I want to make these designs as big, as little, as simple, or as elaborate as I want. If I want to be outlined with a shield of fire, I should be able to do that. If I want to hold a ball of fire in a certain spot and then move it through the air, I should be able to do that. To sum up, I want to be able to have complete control over the shape, location, and size of my fire. Shooting a ball of fire out of my hand like Pyro did to those cops simply isn't good enough.
I want to be able to control the temperature of my fire. I'd like to be able to make it so hot that you can't stand within a mile of it without bursting into flames. I want to be able to melt metal in a microsecond. But I also want to be able to make the fire very cool. I'd like to make it literally freezing--like -200 degrees F. But I'd also like to be able to have a full fire dancing on a person's hand . . . at a comfortable 70 degrees. I want to be able to have extreme temperatures both ways and everything in between. My ultimate goal is a concept of a type of shield in which I have an incredibly hot thin layer of fire that would disintegrate bullets as they passed through it, but that layer would be surrounded by an incredibly cold layer of fire that would compensate for the hot and prevent the entire neighborhood from being vaporized.
I came up with concept by thinking of how it would be nice to shield myself and my comrades from bullets, but I realized that if my friends (I assume that I would be immune to fire) were near enough to the shield to actually benefit from it they would be vaporized by the extreme heat radiating from it. The only way to make this work would be to have the type of shield I described. This way, bullets can pass through the protective cold layer and into the hot layer where they'll be vaporized before they hit any of us.
So you can see how much control I want to have over the temperature of my fire.
With these powers I should also be able to other nifty things. Since to me it just seems too cruel to try to use fire to burn another person to death, there are other ways I can use it offensively. For example, I should be able to focus a ball of fire into a size so small and yet so intense that it should be able to melt a hole through a door lock or through an opponent's gun. There are all sorts of creative things I'd like to be able to do.
So you can see just how organic I want my powers to be. The question is, just how do I do this with the rules of the game? My friend said that I should be able to combine certain skills together in creative ways to make it work, but he wasn't exactly sure how to get it as specific as I wanted. I hope you can help.
Thanks for the help,
Poocho
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