Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-31564770-20170617002206/@comment-31564770-20170628062330

Well, it's been a few days, but let's see what I can do.

For elements, I agree 100% with Regina as fire due to both her volatile and intense personality and her association with red. There's also the similarity to how fire can be a strong, cleansing force- not necessarily "good" per se but definitely necessary and overall beneficial- or how fire can be a destructive and dangerous entity and how that relates to Regina's nature as her current self and her past as the EQ.

I'd place Emma as the best fit for water. This has nothing to do with color or her personality, it's more that whenever you have types of magic associated with an element, water is generally where you find healing magic. Even though water, like all the elements, has a duality- think gentle brook versus tsunami- water magic tends to fall in to a more gentle school. As the Savior, Emma also has that duality but tends to fall into the more gentle category. Also her magic is unique in that it's 100% light sorcery (I count Fairy magic as it's own beast since it has a bunch of unique requirements like dust and a wand). Light magic is also associated with healing, so it works there too.

For air, I'm having a bit of a debate. On one hand, we have Snow and Charming. On the other, Rumplestiltskin. The difficulty lies in that they're the same type of air association for me. Air's duality is the gentle breeze or the tempest, and for me both of them are tempest associations. Snow and Charming have a tempest that's in my opinion geared towards ideals and values, something that tends to also associate with air. They never relent on heroism and trying to be good and bring hope. Rumple is of course more destructive. Air and fire are both emotional elements, and Rumple and Regina differ here because fire is more focused and intense. Regina has a goal and she goes after it, obstacles and collateral damage be damned. Rumple takes a sort of 'man in the background' approach where he bides his time. While he does have an endgame, he deals with problems as they arise and shifts resources as needed. Similarly, air prefers to knock stuff over if it has to but take the path of least resistance first.

Finally, for earth, I put Zelena as the best match. Although she doesn't fit the description of pacifism and protection by any stretch of the imagination, she is a "what you see is what you get" type of person. You could call it natural and tie that to earth, which is what I'm doing. Zelena doesn't hide. She also fits the side of nature that aggressively tries to keep growing. For Zelena, what she has is never enough. No matter what she builds she always wants more, and she adapts to the circumstances to try to find the best way to have it all. Often, that means taking stuff from others- what she sees as reclaiming what's rightfully hers similarly to how nature overtakes anything that's left unattended for long enough. The only reason all out houses aren't falling into ruin and overgrown by now is because we keep watching them and fighting nature off. Plus there's the fact that Zelena, like the earth element, associates with green.

Ok, for colors I'm gonna keep it short. This post is too long already XD

Red: Regina as she is today- a redeemed hero

Orange: Rumplestiltskin

Yellow: Snow and Charming

Green: Zelena, of course.

Blue: Obviously the Blue Fairy, but a more main character that also fits really well is Belle.

Purple: The Evil Queen, both the split version and Regina's past self

Black: The Black Fairy, Hook, and to some extent Regina both present day and as the EQ. Maleficent and Cruella go here too.

Final note, I consider myself a bit of an artist. I like to draw a lot, and when it comes to colors in a picture I'm shading there's one that I absolutely adore. Even though in general my favorite is blue, when I'm drawing purple is the best thing ever. It's incredibly versatile, and can be used to shade virtually any other color depending on what shade you use. For example, when doing light skin I use a light pink-purple as my darkest shade. I use a sort of wine colored purple to shade red things, and I even use lilac when I'm shading white because using greys there ends up monochrome and bad. So when I peg the Evil Queen as purple, I feel the need to specify a bit. The purple that can comes to mind is the color of Regina's smoke when she teleports. That's a shade of purple that ties in to many of her other elements as well. The Evil Queen is, well, a queen. That purple is very regal and suits a queen. Furthermore, purple in that shade is a sort of middle ground between red and black and it carries some associations of both. The dark and evil association of black are there, but it also carries some of the passion and fire from red. As a matter of fact, I can will and do shade fire with a very similar purple as I'm talking about here. Anyways, just thought I'd include a bit more detail for anyone who wants it!

More ideas to associate:

For each season, we know they've had themes that vary slightly on the overall theme of love and hope. What do you think each season's theme is, in the most specific single word you can come up with?