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Can I get an opinion/help on a semblance idea for a character? Going for a mage-type who alludes to the Little Match Girl, and so far I've worked out that her relationship with her parents is strained simply due to them wanting a boy instead of a girl and all her life she's just simply never been good enough.

Not overt things like abuse, but more 'Reach this goal? Oh, you did? Well, you can do better and reach this goal instead then.' and not actually praising her for reaching the first goal.

My original idea was a scrying semblance, which I will post sometime later, but I'm really not feeling it for her. I also feel like she needs more oomph in her fighting, since she's a mage-type and her weapon is a gymnastics ribbon-whip that has fire, ice, force and lightning in it. She uses the ice to made a chain-sword or to add barbs to the ribbon and fire and lightning to make it an elemental whip, as well as simply throwing the elements. And the force dust is usually used to create barriers by twirling the whip either in a circle in front of her or around her, like gymnasts do.

I have contemplated a fire-based semblance, but while the Little Match Girl sells matchsticks and tries to warm herself by the light of them one snowy night, she doesn't have that much fire in her and I feel like I've alluded to the fire enough with her emblem (a flower stem, but instead of petals at the top it's a flame) and weapon.

So my other options are hallucinations of a sort, to reflect the hallucinations LMG sees while freezing to death and in character they would basically be her making the others see what they 'want to see' or something, I'm iffy on it, or a frost/cold based semblance to reflect how she died in the snow at the end of the story, but I'm not sure how to tie it into her reflection of character, or a 'get better/harder/faster/stronger' semblance to reflect her never being good enough for her parents. In which case I need to find the trigger for that one.

Anyone else have any thoughts?