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Natalia designed Much of the lightning clan's current war strategy (unless her father decided to deviate...in which case...oh well. she will probably be pissed and stage a cue against her father then. Unless other clan members get pissed...then she will defend her family.). Unless there's something I vastly don't understand, she's done her homework.

there is one thing that carries so little charge that it is a threat from my research. but i will tell you when it doesn't matter.

just remember that you have only seen one of her elemental's abilities, and that she is also an elemental user. she will eventually tread further into fiction as well. but not yet.

(also, if the ice is, as i expect, just her elemental and not ice formed from water, the charge in them is Natalia's own imaginings since it is assumed and not sensed. i intended that. she will sense the difference soon)

you said there were massive rocks lining the shore. if they line the shore, and he is standing behind one with regards to natalia, then wouldn't he be in the water by virtue of those two facts?

unless i misunderstand you. though i have a fix prepared because i think that is the case.

i assumed as much about the ring. Natalia assumes your ice is worthless, because most of the ice users she has seen don't know that lightning can prevent riming.

but the ring is made of H2O i think.

then is it really ice? or is that about to become ice later? either way, i edited, and my post has the same result without any of the accidental Mis-assumptions i had taken before.

really? you have yet to trigger Natalia's. (it does more than just the one attack you inspired.)[ty btw. that omni-directional paralysis was almost all inspired by your words, except the omni-directional part.]

i did. that was inspired by, and answering the above. there was no assumed water in my post regarding the circle. your body has been re-assumed normal, and uncharged.

ground potential (no lightning struck it. this process cannot be seen until it contacts water. there is nothing in the sky. it is ongoing. the same double chamber claymore style as the lake fight.). the earth has many times the charge potential as the clouds. it is drawing it up. with assistance. also, she is not creating anything yet. much of the charge being created was done by you with your sending ice into the clouds. the sword is acting on the byproduct of the clouds being charged with minimal interference from Natalia. she isn't using lightning to do anything other than sense, and occasionally remove moisture . charge is just the potential to form electricity, so by building charge she is creating pockets of built up energy for large attacks later. all she is doing is knowing where these pockets are, and when the outside edges are broken. the energy being used here is just what it takes to fix the damage caused by a moving object through a charge zone boundaries. it's like zach knowing whether or not there are ice crystals somewhere. yes it would use a non-ignorable amount of energy, but i think it would not be as draining as you want it to be. yes, LIGHTNING cannot easily be held in place. just like ice is hard to suspend from the air. ice is easy to hold in place, and charge is easy to suspend in the air (it's impossible once it becomes lightning, it must move) charge imbalances happen naturally all the time. the only thing she is doing is stopping them from coming together, felling when they change, and helping her sword do something it does already without her help but much slower. yes, it would be draining, but she would not be at her limit with those things. removing moisture from the air would be hard at first, but once the main area is clear, she just has to not keep the charges apart as well on the edge with the water, and it will prevent more moisture from coming in in battle ready quantities without much maintenance.
charge occurs in pools. she only has to maintain the edges, and the center cannot discharge. it doesn't help that ice is one of the natural causes of lightning.

charge does not move on its own except to respond to other charges moving. thus it is easy to pool. when you move through it, she has to re-pool it, or it will discharge on its own. once pooled, it will sit.

if you note, there has not been a single attack against Zach. all the energy he has put into attacking was instead, for her, used to save up for later.

her power failing here would cause an effect. ice when left alone sits by its nature. charge pools when left alone discharge (otherwise known as form lightning) when left alone in nature. the only thing she is really doing, is preventing lightning that should occur, and spreading out what she does allow so that it doesn't cause a damaging effect.

those are my thoughts, though it is open to discussion.

pool. everything about a pool is the same. all of those particles are negative, or positive but never both. with a single Electromagnetic force, none of them will move. you don't have to pay attention to them all. it takes one consistent force, each pool is one pool. not thousands of particles, because you don't have to pull them back one by one. you use a negative veil to repel them, and prevent them from sensing a positive partner. by moving through the veil, you break that veil, and it must be remade, but it doesn't require much...though new energy is expended each time a veil is broken, it is only enough to close a single hole. you are forgetting the electromagnetic response of electricity...i think that's silly. they are not marbles. you can make them all go east by putting either a really positive marble east, or by putting a really negative marble west. you only ever control that one marble. also, you can reabsorb that marble, since you never use the electricity from it, you only need it to exist for it to work. once you create the veil, you never need to reapply charge to it, just fix holes. a hole can only be caused by a conductive object with a different charge then the veil. it is a lot easier then you think it is, because you fail to think like a lightning user. given, most lightning users weren't taught the leader style of lightning, and don't use charge pools, but the physics behind it is sound. it really wouldn't use much energy. eliminating water vapor and moisture for ice, and drawing ground charge are the main sources of effort. but it would be less than 30%. holding the charge pools is at most 5%, even with their size and potency. this is no where near the lake level though.

i think you are overdoing the "these are not real elements bit" ((you argue that i am under doing it...but where is the line?)). i like their properties. i think they should retain them. otherwise we aren't manipulating ice and lightning, but rather hard cold stuff, and shocky marble piles.

if said ice were to be rocket propelled in real life you would have one mega lightning, and it'd be over. no earth shattering kaboom, but a really large, positive lightning strike in one place. you wouldn't need to limit the element to abnormal properties, but teach students not to carelessly throw it up there. besides, positive lightning rarely falls right below where it is formed. IIn nature it tends to cloud jump, then become a "bolt from the blue" where no one expects it. it could make a good training scene somewhere later if you ever write on ice clan training. (there is another way, but since you didn't think of it, i don't want it effecting the fight.[selfish B^stard aren't i...it'd be a LOT of editing for me.])

anyways, i realize it's 5:30 for you...that makes me really sad, but you should sleep. have a great night, sleep well, dream well, wake rested.

Meh. Its hard for me to explain without my cheat sheet handy (lost it somewhere) but oh well. We will just go with that for the time being. Now to continue our enjoyment.