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While I still have energy tonight:
As far as it has been observed, Black and colourless avatars are grouped under "Colourless", that is, they belong to neither the chromatic circle nor the metal colour chart.
On this note, I happened to think about the properties of an ice cube.
An avatar with ice armour would share similar properties to precious metal avatars: resistance to poison, cutting, blunt attacks, corrosion, electricity. Ice is arguably less resistant, however, to heat and piercing, ice will melt when enough heat is applied, and piercing a la LCS definitely will crack any ice surface.
Ice is also heavy; its density is just a little lower than pure water, and pure water alone is heavy enough. I wonder what is the strength to weight ratio of ice, though.
Above all, ice is cold - it is unpleasant on first contact, and disables and is even deadly to bare biological matter upon prolonged contact. If an opponent was trapped by an ice avatar longer than a few minutes, I daresay escape is nigh-impossible.
Frost Horn might have similar attacks, but he is built around freezing the environment, then using it to his advantage. A purely ice avatar would leverage on the properties of ice to attack and defend.
Moving on, I believe there is a reason why the author has never used gems/precious stones in his work, while fans were quick to use them in avatar designing competitions; gems would have additional properties based on their material.
Tourmaline Shell's name in kanji can be translated as "Electric Gem", and this property rendered him immune to freezing attacks. This is one hint that gemstones have additional passive/active properties chromatic and metal avatars do not share; it is just as specialised as metal colours.
Besides a possible immunity to light-based attacks, I speculate on the last thing for today: that gems must be polished. Ores containing the gem are rough and far from beautiful; it takes a master crafter to cut and polish the ore into sparkling gems.
I venture that an avatar based on a gem face a prerequisite or condition to unlock the full potential of their avatar.
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