User blog comment:Saren the Dark Lynx/SFW 2015 Winter Awards/ Saren/@comment-1942179-20151228185805

About Thunder's backstory. I won't go into detail about the organization running the experiments, as they're linked to an older roleplay that I still need to go over, but the guy with the fire elemental ring wasn't said to have outmatched him. Think of the situation: Bolt was in a house with family, and a guy recklessly throwing fireballs at him indoors. Whether or not Lightning is hotter than Fire, using either of them inside would be dangerous. He more than likely didn't want to use his powers in fear of harming anyone or setting fire to the house--which happened regardless. Sure he could have just run away and lead him away from them all, that would have been the better option in hindsight. But in the heat of the moment, I doubt anyone's first instinct to an intruder in their house would be to abandon ship, family and all.

in all honesty, I copied good chunks of that backstory from Electric's page, which holds the older version. (I was in a rush. ^^;) After these awards I'll try to put some more detail in there. Thanks for the feedback.