Talk:Identity Guide (FULL Version)/@comment-17708066-20161206152307/@comment-4107522-20161206174956

The Chaos-Types thing actually comes from the comics, at least the idea does. While in the games all the Chaos Emeralds did the same thing, in the comics of course we had all the Chaos Emeralds on Mobius being normal green, so they do the normal Chaos Energy stuff without any additional specialness.

Then we found out that RED Chaos Emeralds have a different effect during Sonic's space trip in issues 225-230, where it basically copies things into something else.

Then we saw the Silver SUPER Emerald used later on to revive and heal King Max, implying it's based in healing properties.

From there I just started assigning different powers to each emerald color. Pink connects with the mind to create things, Purple just for destruction, Blue is assimilation/absorption, Yellow is solid energy (or output), Red's copying, Silver's healing, and Green is just the raw unsplit energy of Chaos.

As Identities are kind of like living Chaos Emeralds themselves, they can tap into the different types and train to control them separately rather than just using the normal GREEN type.