Editing Courtship Rituals (section)

==Air==

Idealistic, grandiose, chivalrous to the extreme; think courtly love, wherein love was not really about anything so physical as lust as it was about adoration from afar, and the imagination to take the slightest hints of affection and run away with them. These are the sorts liable to write poetry and serenade their objects of affection, to whom the merest smile will be enough to send them into a rapture. They also talk in bed. A lot. (... Romeo was totally an Air in the beginning of the play.) They're the least expected to make the approach, and an Air who is too forward gets odd glances; on the other hand, they're also expected to be one of the most flirtatious, only surpassed, perhaps, by Fire. 

Ascending: However high-minded and grandiose their adoration, Ascending Airs are also fickle, and liable to change their mind on who has the brightest eye and the lightest step between one week and the next. While in the grips of adoration, though, they will frequently arrange 'accidental' meetings, rather juvenile in their coyness, in an attempt to cause the object of their affect to approach them first. 

Resplendent: A little more focused than their Ascending companions, Resplendent Airs frequently have longer affairs, and are more liable to initiate contact rather than making anonymous gestures or accidental meetings. They are given to romantic gestures like sonnets, songs, and airy, delicate, and frequently impractical gifts, but frequently private ones rather than shocking, grandstanding ones.

Descending: Like gentle zephyrs after a storm, these Air aspects are not so passionate in their approach as their brethren; they appreciate the spice that a romance brings, but they are not often the ones to initiate contact. Cool-minded, they appreciate intellectual stimulation as much as physical; purely extravagant gestures with no mental content to them isn't their kind of thing. If one invites you to a private Gateway match in her home, chances are she's interested in more than just your mind. That mind frequently means great inventiveness in bed.