daily entertainment: in their element

[herr_bookman]

What's your character's experience with fire? Do they have a healthy respect for it or are they little pyros? Conversely, what's their experience with water? Can they swim?

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[protect_and_survey]

Jemma: For both of these, right now, they are tools to be used and understood, but don't come into her daily thinking as more than that. ... AND THEN CANON COMES. >.< Sorry, Tahno.

William: Water is... everywhere. Seriously. You sail on it, it falls from the skies, your clothes are dampish quite a lot of the time... water is ubiquitous. Fire you have to be a bit wary of - it's important, because otherwise nothing gets cooked and there's nothing warm when it gets cold, but fire on a wooden ship can get very deadly very fast.

Glorfindel: 99.99% of the time he's fine with fire, fire is important - it is defense and offence and a resource for life. ... And then there's those few moments that he remembers how it feels to burn and he has to go find somewhere else to be for a bit. Water he has less issues with - Ice he isn't fond of, and never will be fond of, but water's fine. He'd have a problem if it wasn't, considering how Rivendell is built.

Sam: Fire's fine, and water's fine - she's kind of in Jemma's boat for that, but the fire that comes with bombs.... yeeeah, no.

Ace: Is still a nutty pyromaniac. It's her first love. Water she's not so fond of, some days, but that's the Cheetah virus talking and she tries not to let it talk so much.

Oswin: ... I don't think has much of an opinion on either, other than she's a huge fan of water when Tahno's involved.

Katya: Doesn't have much an opinion on either as well - She can swim though - tigers love water!

Bones: The only fire he worries about is one on board ship, because really there shouldn't be any, and it's using up oxygen that has a better use. He doesn't have much of an opinion on water, though he has lots of opinions on mutated water, most of them summing up to 'space sucks and this also sucks and what medical god did I piss off to have to deal with this shit?'.

[i_am_your_host]

For Emcee, an open fire or a fireplace means keeping warm in the winter, having grown up in poverty as a child. Water was also always ice cold, so bathing was unpleasant and infrequent. It's still kind of that way in his crappy apartment when the plumbing and heating don't work. This is why he likes Milliways and Eric's shower.

[hecu_marine]

Shephard got in trouble a couple of times as a kid for setting things on fire in the kitchen. In his defense, he was doing it to see how small samples of different things burned, and he was doing it in the sink so he could turn the water on if the fire got out of hand. After about the third time his father sat him down outside to teach him how to start and build fires properly under controlled conditions. He's good with it now, he knows a good ten or fifteen different ways to start a fire if need be, and he's also trained in responding to incendiary weapon attacks as part of HECU protocols. As for water, he's good with it and he can swim pretty well- comes of growing up near a river like the Cheat.

Gordon's a decent swimmer but his attitude towards fire is 'if it isn't strictly controlled and metered, someone else can deal with it, thank you, I have had ENOUGH of this and no longer have an HEV suit'.

Ellen's very careful around fire, as resources to exterminate it should it get out of hand tend to be scarce. And also it's tricky to start, so you'd best do it right the first time. She's also fond of fire in the form of the Shishkebab flaming sword, but that goes out when you let go of the handle. Water... well, she can swim, as Vault 101 had a very small therapeutic pool to get people who'd broken limbs or whatever back on their feet as soon as possible. Water's a precious thing where she lives, though. Safe water is the basis of the local currency. You don't screw with water.

Fawkes is not quite as cautious around fire, since he's tougher-skinned and more likely to be able to stomp a small fire out before it hurts anybody. Water he treats with the same respect as Ellen.

Santo- eh, not particularly fussed about either, although he's always glad to see his scientist friends keeping fire extinguishers in their labs for safety. He can swim well and has had to wrestle Moon Nazis underwater.

Varric: Fire is how you light the house and keep it warm. Water is how you keep clean and dilute alcohol if you've given up all hope of spending eternity at the Maker's side.

Edward is wary of fire shipside and would be deeply grateful for the invention of lightning rods to prevent building fires. Water's more his thing; he's an excellent swimmer and free-diver who'll be using diving bells later in his canon, to the point of getting into brief fist-fights with sharks that spot him while he's trying to bring something up to the surface.

Stacker respects both, and can swim, but his entire job is basically predicated on GOD DAMMIT OCEAN WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL US WITH NOW.

[fairy_fixit]

Amascut is a pyro, but who can blame her? Fire magic is the best. She's even comfortable with being burned, as long as it is a temporary thing. As for water, well, her mother is a river spirit/goddess. And I suspect when people call her the Lioness that the lions native-ish to Gielinor are sort of like tigers and used to swimming occasionally. Plus the ruins of one of her temples is right on a beach. She's not afraid of the water, but it is messy sometimes and she wouldn't live in it, just float on top of it and fish from it.

Fairy Fixit, like the rest of the Zanaris fairies, likes a very controlled climate and fire and water are usually signs of things going wrong. Water is well behaved and fine when it isn't falling from the sky, but it is a shame that all water isn't sugarwater. She doesn't swim, she flies.

[bjornwilde]

Hank: Fire is a good thing when contained. Water, he used to love swimming until his feet started changing. He misses it.

Quinlan: Fire is a tool and sometimes you need to let it run free. Water, he's over his near drowning as a padawan but he still tends to avoid water worlds.

Ahsoka: Fire, or plasma, is a good friend. She likes big fires from time to time, but loves her plasma blades best. Water she is fine with. If my memory serves, she even fought underwater in the Mon Calamari civil war.

[onceaviking]

Vampires can burn so Eric has a healthy respect of fire. He likes it for its mood setting qualities.

Water is for washing and getting clean. And once it was for swimming in and sailing on, in the sun.
He likes water.

[last_kallig]

Ibani likes fire, or at least lightning and plasma. Sith abilities and a lightsaber in her hand make her feel safe.

She doesn't have much experience with water and she doesn't know how to swim. That's probably something she should remedy, just in case.

[mojitoing]

None of mine are pyros, but Clem does do a fire dance as part of her old Branson routine.

It's canon that Pinkie, Juliet, Clem and Dixie can swim; I'm going to guess Eponine can't, because there's no way her parents could have afforded the fashionable beaches where such swimming might take place. Of all of them, Clem's the most in love with the water and wishes she could spend her whole life in a hot bubble bath (this is, again, canon).