At the rate she's going, how long before Bakuda gets slapped with a kill order?
Will it be the unwilling human bombers or will it be her holding the city hostage?
Canon never even gave her a Kill Order when they found out she was freaking holding people hostage and doing full-on Bonesaw level wetware and installing
bombs in them. There's a great fic on SB called
Meta that gives a few examples of the really high-end shit she could potentially pull given time and effort. It's also all PHO posts due to in-universe reactions from reading
Worm. Hilarious to read, but also very frightening/very serious when you take the time to think about it.
I've found that fanfic's generally tend to have the more interesting interpretations and ideas about using the flames. Particularly Black Sky, and to a lesser extent but still worth mentioning for the sheer quality of the story, The Sky That Accepts All.
Frankly, you may know more about the flames than me! I haven't watched or read the series, all I know comes from a fanfic I picked up. That said, it had some pretty good stuff on inverted and normal flames, so check it out! Its called "Russian Roulette: Reloaded" by Vixen Tail. She did one of my favorite Naruto works, and her talent and effort really shows in her writing.
While I could never get into her Naruto OC, I can definitely back up the rec for
Russian Roulette(She added the "
Reloaded" bit when she decided to split up the story into 2).
RR and
Black Sky* are the two best fics I have found for exploring and explaining Flame types(And that I'm willing to stand by). Of course, Ryuugi also posted his own thoughts here or on SB on KHR Flames and he's generally pretty insightful, so there might be something to pull from that.
Lightning is fun in my mind because it's the only clearly defensive element, because of it's hardening capability. That said it's also electricity. Attack and defense, it's the element of a defender, the protector to me. And now Taylor has something to defend, kids. so she's starting to tap into it.
I wonder, will she have Flame assisted ADHD? Lightnings seem to process things faster than others due to the fact that their nerves can fire faster thanks to their Flame type and it's also thematic that lightning moves
fast. Stream of consciousness would be the way to go I should think if you want to showcase her mental state when using Lightning Flames. That or her mind making leaps left, right, and center with little rhyme or reason simply because we can't keep up. Basically, I kinda imagine the best version of a Lightning to be Bartholomew Oobleck from RWBY.
I look at sky flames interactions with other flames as primarily an enhancer. So yes wrath flames would be heavily storm influenced sky. I'm less certain about what to do with sky flames as a standalone. Depending on what interpretation people go by it's either the most broken flame or it's just having a lot more power to throw at things, disregarding the zero point breakthrough anyway. But I have time to think on that still before it comes up.
The idea of her finding flame reactive gems is something I'm playing with and will try to fit in somewhere. Though I sort of want her to use anything but rings just because.
Sky Flames as a Standalone would probably be Hyper Intuition. Seriously, I don't buy the "It's Vongola only!" crap, it sounds more like something every Sky user should have access too. The Vongola were simply the first to notice it/first to name it/first to shamelessly take advantage of it or something. I'd imagine Sky Flames harmonize the users senses and instincts in-tune with their environment(And thus, people and that includes non-Flame users. Flame users just feel more inclined to listen to a Sky due to the subconscious effect from Flame interaction more so than a non-Flame user would. Basically, charismatic with non-Flames, super charismatic with Flames) which allows them to be able to pull off a Spidey sense and be able to "read" an opponents reactions without much experience that you'd get from fighting in tons of battles over the course of your life. Sky Flames are also said to be the purest of Flames, but what that actually
does/achieves is left unexplored...so it could be anything, but most fics I have read explain it as a way for them to connect with damn near any "grade" of ring or jewelry that can manifest flames.
As for "power", I believe that power is dependent on several factors, but mainly relies on 2 rather obvious factors. Your body and your will. If your body isn't up to whatever standard the Mafia deems as acceptable(Which is never actually stated in canon and Tsuna didn't start packing on the muscle/abs(Nor did most mafiosos seem to be all
that muscular or anything, though I blame it on the author/artist's drawing style and wanting Shounen pretty boys), so I'd say reasonably fit/athletic in some way), then it could potentially break down from the stress of using/manifesting your Flames because you
can physically get tired from using them. You can also make up for a little physical deficiency with your Will, if it's strong enough. Will is obvious, 'cause
Dying Will Flames. It comes from the soul or whatever at the moment of your (near)death and you need the will/mental strength to pull it out so as to "not die". If both are in balance, or at least very strong, you should be able to pull a good amount of Flame "power" out of yourself. If you are deficient in one or the other, then you're unlikely to get as much as you actually could.
Of course, the manga never really explained how "Flame power" worked or could be measured, so one could simply take that as "As much as the plot demands" or "PLs are bullshit". Also, only Tsuna seemed to really have the truly big and powerful attacks from what I remember, hence the whole "Sky Flames have more power" in them and whatnot.
Oh, and another thing I remember from fanfics is that people have used Sky as a shortcut to using other Elements, like using the Sky Flames but thinking "Sun" or "healing" and the like to minorly utilize the aspect of Sun flames, but the trade-off was that it wasn't as good as using, or having an affinity for, pure Sun Flames.
I remember the manga got crazy by introducing more Flames type when it didn't really to do so since it has seven Flames with various abilities. If it wanted to have more plot then it should've expanded more on the seven Flames and how they could be combine to become more stronger then it was individually.
The seven earth flames could've be something of a combination stemming from a experiment of some sort to make new stronger flames. And the eighth flame could be something that was around but not mention often since it energy that only the wrathful dead use in order to manifest in the living world.
Just rambling on how that adding more flame types all of a sudden in series just didn't make sense to do so cause it already has seven good flames that it could've expanded on.
Yeah, KHR went down the drain with the Byakuran arc and everything after that and we never got proper explanations for
anything. So personally speaking, I'd prefer
@Fencer would just stick with the original 7 unless he/she for whatever god forsaken reason brings in the Tri-Ni-Sette and/or Byakuran. And I
still wish we had an actual explanation for Xanxus' and Secondo's Flame of Wrath beyond the plausible fanon of "Sky+Storm" flames.
*There's some excellent other KHR fics by Umei no Mai as well, some of which have to do with
Black Sky in some capacities.
Note: Not trying to get the folks that know the setting up in arms over non-canon jewels, just throwing things at the wall to see what sticks. Could even be something cheap and easy like Goldstone (glass with copper fragments suspended in it)
