Talk:Incubus/@comment-27950421-20181102125449/@comment-27950421-20181102202402

There's also a bit on how mana blasts function and how mana manifests itself when projected from the body.

Basically, mana in it's natural form has no mass and thus can't actually hurt someone if you clubbed them over the head with it. So in order to have magical pew pews that actually pew pew, it needs to be converted into a form that can actually cause damage.

This is where things get interesting. You see the form the mana takes and it's exact effects depend on the users personality, emotions, history, and how they envision the results.

So in a person whose in a rage, or someone who has a generally hot headed personality, or someone who is in or comes from a line of work involving flames like a blacksmith, their mana is likely to manifest as a fire where as a person who is cool headed would produce ice. Or at least mana that appears like fire and ice respectively. How the person visualizes it, be it conciously or unconciously, also alters its effects. If a person envisions the light from a fire, then the fire they produce won't burn and instead simply create light. If a person has been badly burned in the past or sees fire a destructive force, then the fire will burn far hotter and consune fuel far more readily than a normal flame.

This stuff isn't limited to the nature of the mana either but also the appearance of it. If a young girl who's obsessed with magical girls were to shoot a fireball, it'd likely come out heart shapped and sparkly. If a guy who loves reptiles were to do the same, it would likely be in the shape of a roaring dragon.

For mamono stuff like this tends to fall along species lines. This is also how mamono can get away with throwing fire and lightning and freezing people left and right without actually killing anybody. Being hoped up on perviness all the time, their visualization of the elements are of being hotand bothered, being electrocuted with pleasure and the cold loneliness of not having a partner meaning that the damage isn't physically manifested but the attack is meant to incapacitate the target thus it does it's intend purpose via other means.