Thread:Outhra/@comment-5609796-20130208003921/@comment-1855774-20130208031837

Parts was the closest one-syllable aspect name that could be equivalent to Elements that I could come up with at the time. I was going to change it to something else later, because, honestly, Parts was clunky as anything to say and doesn't flow well at all.

I'm sorry about doing it without asking you. It's hard to know when somebody's actually going to be coming back to a page, and when I tried asking permission before, it usually turned out that the page creator had bailed after creating the page and wasn't going to come back, let alone answer. I know that's more of an excuse than anything, but if I wait to see whether someone from 2011 intended for their untagged androgynous troll to be male or female when they've moved on to the Naruto Wiki or something, I wouldn't get anything done.

Back to the aspect name change, well, three-syllable aspects or titles in fantrolls just do not sit right. Not only is it against canonical rules, but if you want something that can for whatever reason only be expressed in three syllables, you should really just use a metaphorical alternative. Two-syllable ones are all right, but beyond that just seems lazy to me. For somebody to go through all the trouble of making a template with thirty-odd characters on it and then just decide "Okay, this guy's going to be, hmm... Practitioner of Consideration!" just seems to be against the point of making fan characters.

To change the subject a little, what were you intending with an "Elements" aspect, anyway? Maybe we can solve this problem together. Is he the controller of Ni and Sn and Au and Uuo? Does he control the components of a given facet of reality, like plans or buildings? Is he the Avatar, master of all four classical Greek elemental powers? (If it's the latter, I'd recommend reconsidering. All four of those have canon (Breath) or fanon (Flame, Blaze, Dirt, Rock, Might, Tides, etc.) counterparts, and it's just overpowered to have them all in one player's possession at once.)

Wow, this was a long response. I'm going to need to be more concise in the future.