[quote=@Nimda] The question is: why do they need to be close together? [/quote] They don't [i]need[/i] to be. [quote=@Nimda] First of all, making non-canon situations is easy with the What-If Rift. No rhyming. [@DarkwolfX37] In regards to the jab, that's not what I think Christmas should be about, but that's what I think it's become. [/quote] Absolutely rhyming. And no, it's not a jab, I genuinely think that would be in character for Dynamo. At least back when he and you weren't serious all the time. [quote=@Nimda] I can help here. Most of what anyone means when they say "energy" is plasma. They're way different, but when you shoot a glowing white beam, it's plasma, not energy. The second interpretation (especially if it's colored) is a force of some kind (e.g. electromagnetic). If it does something special that most others don't, it's likely a force that the user is able to generate and others cannot. Forces normally don't have a visible travel path ("red runes appear on your skin") and do a variety of tasks. Finally, we have magic, which is just magic. Realistically, magic would be the capability to direct energy (the actual energy stuff), in order to make it behave in different ways. Since energy is only something that is a property of matter, magic allows you to change how that matter behaves. [/quote] To add to this, there's the whole "other universes have different laws and how that translates between them" thing that allows for further kinds of "energy."