User blog comment:Demileto/Is Lincoln Campbell really an alias for Thomas Ward?/@comment-18086040-20150525031944/@comment-26918230-20150824115542

That Lincoln’s power set is adjacent to pyrokinesis is one of the reasons why I think there might be more of a distance between him and Grant Ward than brothers, that they may be cousins instead of siblings (among many other things that don’t quite add up for me, though I like the overall idea of what people are saying). Traditionally in comics the power sets of siblings differ from each other to a great extent, whether it be amongst full- or half-siblings... Just take a look at Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, whose power sets couldn’t be any more different from one another’s, especially in the comics where Wanda Maximoff has a greater range of abilities than she’s been allowed so far in the MCU. There’s almost an unwritten rule to show as much variation as possible within the same family; if anything, there’s more of a chance of a similarity between a parent and child in their powers than between siblings (especially as a clue to someone’s heritage, as I guess was the case with Magneto and Polaris), but with the parent-child relationships we’ve seen so far on the show even that hasn’t been the case. I could see something like the Ward/Slade family has a recurring specialisation in heat- and light-generating powers (it makes me think of how some of the firebenders in the “Avatar: The Last Airbender” universe could also bend lightening) and every generation has one or two members in this representation while other family members are allowed other powers (it would be pretty boring for us as an audience if everyone in the family was a firebender or lighteningbender of sorts), but there should still be some spacing between them. It would make sense for Grant Ward to be Hellfire, and I think there’s a strong case for Lincoln Campbell having *some* connection to the Ward or Slade family, whatever it might be; it’s just reconciling the possible relationship between them I’m still mulling over in my head. He could be lovely in the role but I’m still leaving the door open a crack that Thomas Ward may be a separate character yet to appear as an adult.