I'm hoping to come up with a good plot for the mysterious man; I have a few small ideas in this 'verse, but nothing concrete yet.
What really startled me about that Wikipedia page was that ... well, I knew only the most rudimentary aspects of astrology; I didn't even know that signs were traditionally mapped to elements, but when I went to look up the traditional element system, that was the page I was directed to. And I had already assigned the various attributes, in ways that seemed obvious to me, and then that page just slotted in eerily well. Very disorienting! (At the time I used it as a "sign" that I had found the right story for the exchange, because you have to get the muse going somehow, right? Hee.) It doesn't work as well for JF — even though John is obviously Air — or JM, but you can't hold out for perfection ....
Re: Damper by michelel72
What really startled me about that Wikipedia page was that ... well, I knew only the most rudimentary aspects of astrology; I didn't even know that signs were traditionally mapped to elements, but when I went to look up the traditional element system, that was the page I was directed to. And I had already assigned the various attributes, in ways that seemed obvious to me, and then that page just slotted in eerily well. Very disorienting! (At the time I used it as a "sign" that I had found the right story for the exchange, because you have to get the muse going somehow, right? Hee.) It doesn't work as well for JF — even though John is obviously Air — or JM, but you can't hold out for perfection ....
Thank you!