I haven't really covered it very well before in this picture series but the magic system I use in my fantasy stories and art allows for both a major, and minor element.

Amethyst here is earth major, water minor, and specialises in grounding kinetic, thermal, and electric energies and allowing them to disperse harmlessly. While Leoric (air/water) is the group's speed, and Alyssa (fire/earth) is its damage dealing, Amethyst is its armour, drawing the focus of their opponents and allowing them to wastefully expend their strength against her.

If you've ever wondered why my stories tend to keep the rangers as "just friends" - this is one of the reasons. It's a problem when your friend's job is to stand in front of the oncoming fire, but it's even more of a problem when that job falls to your lover. Getting "too close" causes issues, makes for bad decisions, and the bad decisions cause more trouble than if you'd just stayed at a comfortable distance and trusted your friend to do her job. (Right or wrong, that is the code they have to live and work by. As a happy side effect it allows me to do more mix n match pairings :P)


(Shading turned out to be a pain on this one; previous pics have been more limited in colour palette, the variation in hue rather spoiled my ability to have a nice shadow :/ )