Gravity. Owns.

Quick Death. If the stage is set right.

I vote for Gravity, its totally sweet. But then again, Magnetism can be a really cool power for a Bionicle.

But it matters, if your giving this power to a certain character, what is the character like and whats best suited for him/her?

And on about the death, I really like both, the slow death is great for an emotional scene, while a quick death is good for a twist or shocker.

I gotta think of a way to tell you guys why I need one or the other element without spoiling the story.

Basically, I figure the more powerful an element, the more believable it is for the weilder to be corrupted. Both magnetism and gravity could easily do that in the Bionicle world, but I'm not sure which would be more effective.

Thanks, guys!

I vote Gravity.

As for death, I don't know. A slow death would be more emotional for the reader, but a quick death would be more shocking and, possibly, horrifying. So, it depends. Both kinds of deaths are quite good. Also, if the character were dying, and then looked as if he might be restored to complete health, and then just suddenly died, that would have a pretty good impact.

~Phyre

Corrupted? Then give them something like DEATH.

Sure, that might make it a wee bit obvious, but eh. Besides, you could start by waxing philosophically about how Death is nessesary in a world where people rarely die of what we fleshies consider "natural causes". Death, or plague perhaps?

My vote is for Magnatism, since I like Magneto and Gahlok-Kal, and because you get to have stuff stick to other stuff.

If they've got Magnatism, then a wicked sense of humor is absolutely a must.

Gravity's all fine and dandy, but it's kinda dangerous. You mess around with it too much and WHAM! You're a square inch cube! Not cool, not cool at all.

Seriously, Magento alone is proof that you can do anything with Magnatism.

A Gravity villain would be a "big picture" person. His goals would be on at least a galactic scale. He'd keep a very low profile. His machinations would be slow and subtle, yet far-reaching and unstoppable. His philosophy would be fatalist. He would consider himself a being of the highest order. His control would be refined to near-infinite accuracy and extend over a near-infinite range.

I'd stay away from writing Gravity villains.

The glib, easy answer to your second question is that the manner of death is ultimately unimportant, meaning you can choose arbitrarily, because what matters is how believably you handle it and follow through with its consequences in the action and in the characters.

-BC

I vote Gravity.