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Custom element Japanese name: Shuton
Custom element English name: Alcohol Release
The element is based on: Water + Earth + Fire + Advanced Chakra Control
Facts that prove the element to be possible (in the manga context): Alcohol is the main ingredient of sake, an alcoholic beverage which is often drunk by characters in Narutoverse such as Jiraiya, Tsunade and sometimes Rock-Lee and that proves its existence in the series. Rock Lee even benefited from his condition after drinking sake in a battle and came up with the Drunken Fist fighting style which enabled him to perform undetectable and unusual moves due to the effects that alcohol had on his body.
In chemistry, alcohols are organic compounds containing a hydroxyl group attached to a carbon atom. Scientifically speaking, alcohol that's mostly used in alcoholic beverages, including sake, is ethanol and that is why that certain type of alcohol is called drinking alcohol, or simply 'alcohol'. Methanol may occur in some falsified alcoholic beverages because it’s fairly cheaper than ethanol, but that is usually being avoided and is even forbidden because it has lethal effects on the person who drinks it. But this element is established on the non-chemical term of alcohol that's used in trivial speech - ethanol that’s diluted with water, which may be used as a drink but also has many alternative uses; such as for disinfection and as a fuel.
Alcohol is commercially produced by using a process called fermentation, which results in ethanol-water mixture, while methanol for example, is usually produced by another process – destructive distillation of wood. Fermentation is the process in which yeast breaks down carbohydrates into alcohol and carbon dioxide. Yeast are tiny single-celled fungi that contain special enzymes responsible for this reaction. Carbon dioxide gas bubbles get out of the fermenting solution into the environment, leaving a mixture of ethanol and water. It's important that no air is present or the yeast will produce ethanoic acid - the chemical found in vinegar.
How it works: Four factors are important for the creation of alcohol through fermentation in nature: water, yeast, appropriate temperature and carbohydrates. Water and Earth chakra together imitate formation of structures that belong in the fungi kingdom, in this case yeast. The same two elements again represent occurrence of flora which contains carbohydrates. Water chakra imitates the required water and the use of Fire chakra acts like it compresses the formula to stop air from getting into the mixture and then heating it to achieve the required temperature.
The user will combine Water, Earth and Fire chakra and create new elemental chakra – Alcohol. The new chakra can be commonly released through mouth and then by using nature manipulation, actual alcohol in colourless liquid-form with a recognizable smell, which is also the natural state of Alcohol, will be created and later controlled by using shape manipulation. In some rarer moments, the user can concentrate the Alcohol chakra in their body to use the wanted effects of Alcohol on themselves.
The first and foremost difference between Methanol and Alcohol (RPwise) is that I am aiming for this CE to be more of a intoxicant than a fatal poison. Merely trying to get my opponents to mess up on their techniques. Cause them to get drunk due to the usage of alcohol techniques, where while methanol is aimed to kill someone in very small usage doses. I'm planning to use alcohol more as a supplementary element.
➠ Primary: Fundamental use of Alcohol is based on its actual, physical clash with other techniques, where general rules about the relationships among the elements stand. The user is able to create liquid-based forms that look a lot like water and can be used both as a defence and offence in a similar style to water, but of course, with different properties than water. It's important to say that ethanol itself is very volatile, but it's also more difficult to get it solidified, ergo has a lower boiling point (78.37 °C) and a lower freezing point (-114 °C) than water. This means that it's easier to evaporate ethanol from the mixture and disable the Alcohol element by heating it, but also means that it's harder to freeze the whole mixture.
Ethanol is an extremely good solvent for materials like oils and fats which also enables Alcohol, being a mixture of ethanol and water, to still be able to dissolve those substances, although not fully and quickly as pure ethanol would. Ethanol is hygroscopic which means that it has the ability to attract and hold water molecules from the surrounding environment, to the extent that it readily absorbs water from air. This is a two-edged sword since it’s sometimes useful that Alcohol can absorb moisture from the air but that also dilutes it and makes it weaker. But the whole process of absorbing water from air doesn't happen quickly enough to influence on Alcohol in a battle.
Alcohol is very flammable (more precisely ethanol, but it affects the mixture as a whole), which means that using it near Fire isn't safe because it uses it as its fuel and Fire is dominant to Alcohol, but the user is able to create interesting combinations with those two. Due to alcohol being liquid and considering solid and sturdy properties of earth, Earth is shown to overpower Alcohol. Due to the fact that ethanol doesn't form ions while mixing with water, Alcohol conducts electricity from very poorly up to not at all (depending on the strength of the Lightning technique) and is generally stronger than Lightning. Because of the complete miscibility of water and alcohol (ethanol mixes with water equally in every part), by adding water to alcohol, it would completely blend in. But that doesn't mean that Alcohol is stronger than Water, but is somehow neutral instead because the power of Alcohol would be weakened because as the percentage of water would get bigger, the percentage of ethanol would get smaller. Alcohol is neutral to Wind since there is no diversity between that relation and the relation between Wind and Water alone.
➠ Supplementary: Alcohol can cause alcohol intoxication when consumed and can affect the liver, but more importantly, it directly attacks the human brain, but far less than pure ethanol which is able to kill a person after he/she consumes 500 mL of it (methanol for example, is even deadlier because only 30 mL of it causes blindness and possible death, which greatly restricts the use of pure methanol and its mixtures because they don't have any positive uses for human organism). This phenomenon of intoxication doesn't really make Alcohol to do damage on another person, but can be used to create a diversion when the person feels dizzy and disables them to be able to perform techniques of a certain rank for some time because they cannot concentrate as thoroughly. Both physical and psychological conditions of the targeted person are unstable and they can also be very easily put into genjustu because they become, most primitively said, drunk. This is a very similar to drunkenness in reality, which can go from the seemingly harmless euphoria to serious problems like addiction, coma, respiratory depression, or even death. Although, this element doesn't have the ability to put people in those conditions. Alcohol doesn't necessarily need to be swallowed because it can be very easily injected into the organism through skin and even the scent of it, when it's in close-range to the person's nose, can also have dazing effects on the affected person. The most serious consequences occur when alcohol enters the organism through an opened wound, because then, it gets directly into the blood system.
Alcohol is good for disinfection and can be used to destroy most micro-organisms that might cause damage and various diseases to the user or another person and it also prevents from inflammations. This means that Alcohol can be used as an antiseptic and that waves of Alcohol that the user sends out of their body kill large amounts of microbes.
In strictly controlled amounts, Alcohol can be used to relieve the user from pain which can help when dealing with damage that the user receives, not in a way that it heals, but helps on a psychological level. That would allow the user to create a fake feeling of recovery in their mind after bearing with serious damage which would assure them to still be able to fight for a certain amount of time. It doesn't work like other Alcohol techniques because it’s usable only on the user because the user needs to concentrate Alcohol chakra in their own brain. This is actually a form of intoxication which the user performs on themselves, but the user is able to carefully control the quantities and restrict the noxiousness and cause the wanting effects. Although, the user still experiences some, a bit softened, bad effects of Alcohol. Those properties greatly distinguish alcohol that is made out of ethanol and water from all other alcoholic liquids, including methanol and its variations which are far too deadly for anything like that to be tried.
Usage Examples:
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Conditions to be able to use it:
- Mastery over Water, Earth and Fire.
- Over average chakra control (at least Kage-ranked).
Is weak to:
- Fire – Fire uses Alcohol as fuel.
- Earth – considering Alcohol's properties as liquid.
- Metal-based (Steel, Iron, etc.) – same as with Earth.
- Explosion - alcohol would support an explosion.
Is strong against:
- Lightning – Alcohol conducts electricity very poorly.
- Cannon Dark – Dark cannot absorb liquids and Alcohol has enough density to defend from raw forms of energy.
- Aburame bugs - Alcohol can kill the bugs, and also it can be use as a repellent to keep the bugs away from the user.
- Oil-based – Alcohol is able to partially dissolve oils and weaken elements that are based on it.
- Germ/Bacteria/Pathogens – Alcohol destroys most micro-organisms.
- Decay - Decay cannot break the bonds between ethanol and water molecules.
Co-creator:
Students I passed this custom element on too: @Ndlovu & ??
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