Pyrokinesis help

[codepyro]

Can anyone teach me how to throw fire!

[Darin Rosewood]

Umm... is that a serious question? XD Most pyrokinetics will never get to the point where they can throw fireballs around or start them spontaneously using only air. And nearly all pyrokinetics start off with just heating things up. First, try increasing the temperature of your body (don't ask me how, I'm no pyrokinetic). Then, move onto heating other objects. Once you can raise the temperature of other objects about ten degrees or so (without directly touching them, mind), try moving an already-lit flame, such as a candle flame. Don't try taking it off the wick, I strongly doubt you'll be able to until much later. Then try increasing or decreasing its size--you'll want a candle that doesn't flicker very much so you're sure it's you who's doing it. If you can get that down, try extinguishing a candle flame or a lit match. Then move on to using an unlit candle/match and lighting it. Then try the same techniques on progressively larger flames until you think you can do the next techniques without hurting yourself. At this point, it might also be a good idea to make a video. Nearly all the psi videos floating around are for TK, I'd love to see one on pyrokinesis. ^_^

Alright: now you've got a choice. You can either work on igniting a flame in midair, or taking an already-lit flame off of its fuel source and moving it around. The few pyrokinetics I'm aware of that have ever gotten this far are usually better at one or the other. Anyway, to ignite a flame in midair, you need a great deal of psi energy, which you should have built up in the preceding "exercises." I'm not entirely sure of the exact mechanics (like I said, I'm a pyro, but not a pyrokinetic. XD), but probably the best you're going to get at first is a spark, and even that will probably near-drain you. Work on three things from this point: the amount of energy you have available to you, the size of your flame, and the heat of your flame, in that order. More energy==more ability to practice, bigger==better, and while heat isn't particularly important, it generally looks cool to have a white-blue flame burning in the palm of your hand (oh yeah, work on not getting burned, too. lol).

When working with the other technique, you have to use your psi as fuel for your flame (since it now has none). Getting it off the fuel source (it should be fairly easy if you've been practicing controlling the direction of the fire and since you now have enough energy to do it) requires four or five hells of a lot less energy than making one yourself, so your main problem with energy is releasing it at a constant rate so as to not make your flame flicker too much, and actually having enough energy to hold it off the fuel source for more than three or four seconds. Also, moving the flame takes more energy (both because you need to expend energy to move it and because a moving flame needs more fuel for some reason, according to some) than holding it still.

Whatever you do, don't try them both at once, please. You'll just end up using all of your energy and having a massive headache for the rest of the day/week. If you really want to try making a flame out of nothing and moving it, wait until you're able to do both of them separately. I doubt you'll get to the point where you're even able to do one or the other, but hey, you could have a gift for it. ^_^ Hope that helps, it took me about half an hour to write.