Talk:Liquid Fire Manipulation/@comment-30483383-20170205155348

The picture that's characterising this page, Yuji Sakai's 'silver' flame which is controlled like a liquid had me thinking of something. I can't remember where it's come from or why, but I'm thinking of Liquid-Fire Manipulation as 'Mercury Flames/Fire'. Even the way they look in the picture seems to support it. Best reason I can think of is the fact that Mercury itself is a liquid at room temperature, and quite uncommon amongst the elements. I almost feel like I've heard the term Mercury Flames as a thing before. Then again, it might just be the way these particular flames look, which makes me think of Mercury.

I would imagine that Liquid-Fire should also 'dissolve' metals, thereby increasing its own volume? Perhaps that's another power entirely, if not an application. Although that might be treading on the territory of controlling Liquid Metals. I'm probably confusing myself there.

I suppose I just don't consider Liquid-Fire as much of an actual 'Burning' flame, but more of one that melts through things. I also think Flame Solidification is a little strange here, as I don't believe it should ever become perfectly solid, but rather semi-permeable.

What about you guys? I don't know if adding Mercury Flames as an alternative name is worth considering, or its just some weird throwaway thought I had, that means nothing in reality. I'll probably still call this power Mercury Flames/Fire in my head, since it sounds more... exotic, I guess, than Liquid Fire. I think there's a lot of interesting quirks that could be thought of for this power, but I'm unsure as to whether I could add a few things.

I'd have to think, but I think this page could easily be expanded to seperate it more from the myriad other 'special' fire manipulation types.