Open question of the day!

What chemical element do you most strongly identify with?

I think I might be copper?

Or maybe magnesium?

Alternate question, what element in any other elemental system do you most identify with?

@literorrery I'm curious what you think about this question since you've put more thought into elemental associations than anyone else I know.

@starkatt Used to be water. I think I've got that down pretty pat at this point.

Now if I can pick up fire and not _drop_ that... that'll be the trick.

@starkatt Air. This is probably not a big surprise n..n;

@starkatt The element of disquieting alienation, found sparsely in the pages of her earlier works, would bloom unfettered in the asylum's sterile grounds of constant yet impersonal observation. It would, once rooted, prove a hardy variant indeed. [ footnote 17 ]

@starkatt Historically, that would be Mercury, symbol of magic and communication. Manifestation of water (emotion) in the sacred metals and one of the Gea Arxia (Three Primes) along with Sulfur and Salt. Symbol of transformation.

That said, I'm at least making a concerted push towards Gold, fire metal, manifestation of will. It's historically been a weak point, but you dress for the job you want, not the job you have, so....

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