To Maximize The Angst One Could Think After The Ice Chapter, Zane Instead Meets The Ice Emperor Instead

To maximize the angst one could think after the ice chapter, Zane instead meets the ice emperor instead of himself and he gets really touchy and anxious around his element; ice itself welling up in uncontrolled bursts because for fifty years the element was allowed to fester over the entire never realm, not understanding and now feeling trapped inside just one single being and only unlocked periodically. When Zane tries to use his element he's constantly trying to seek a tiny sliver and not the entire flood however while doing this he's just making his problem even worse. And most times it's not even helpful, sure it's nice when instead of making a road slick for a runaway burglar it completely freezes the vehicular but most times it's the easy little tasks that go rogue and cause utter chaos: he was trying to ice Jay's coffee once and he completely froze Jay head to toe in an ice block that Kai had to later carefully thaw away, not to mention the hypothermia and cold that Jay was diagnosed with later.

Au where like. The elements are somewhat sentient and can talk to their hosts in their mind (think like naruto and ninetails. that's the only example i can think of,) and they tend to take the form of the person who has held their element the longest. And day one Zane meets ice and it's him. how fucked up would that be