Feral Instincts

What's That?
A Feral Instinct, sometimes called a Feral Side, are the evolutionary 'leftovers' of FE. The Deities did not make Elementals to be perfect, nor are they, and they know that. Sometimes these instincts are good, such as fight or flight responses to fear when in serious danger. Sometimes they're bad, as is the case with most Fire Elementals. They don't really have that flight response. Some might, but a majority of them overestimate their abilities. This quite often leads to "I'm superior" fights.

However, sometimes they're more primal than that. All Elementals have night vision, but they still fear other things, like going hungry, which leads to eating disorders.

Fight or Flight
Fight or Flight is an instinct humans have, adapting because we needed that little voice in our heads that say "bro you can't take this guy, back off." But guess what? A good portion of Fire Elementals don't have that voice. When two Fire Elementals get into a fight, they don't think "hey, this is a bad idea, I'm probably gonna die," they think things like, "Well fuck, I don't want to die a wimp," or "[Insert exessive profanity] I'm gonna [censored] your [censored] up!". It's sometimes referred to as Feral Mode, because they just stop thinking coherently. It's like a switch is flipped in their brains and all they want to do is win or die with honor.

Air Elementals don't even have that response. They never had any real natural predators, so they're a peaceful bunch. They get scared by loud noises sometimes, but really, there's not a lot they're naturally afraid of. Starvation, yeah, but really, they don't fear other creatures. They'd have to be attacked before they started running. Because of this, today's Air Elementals don't have good natural defenses. They do have something to compensate, however. Their wings are extremely powerful, so much so, they are able to fly with something almost (or over, depending on the Elemental) double their weight in their paws while flying. During FE, they often carried their Elets on their backs and in their paws (and they usually had 2-4 at a time back then) while flying from place to place, so it really wasn't all that difficult. They also had to carry a lot of food because they were social creatures, and they had a hierarchy similar to fire Elementals (though with less abuse towards lower status Elementals) with hunters and gatherers.

Plant Elementals immediately respond to a predator with fear or submission. They legitimately don't have a fight response. They sometimes used whatever natural defense they had as a distraction (poisonous gas, thorns on the tail, spitting acid, etc.) but they never stayed around too long in FE. Sometimes the plant Elementals were taken back to Falecea as captives, but usually, they were killed for fun. It was a game to the Fire Elementals. Whoever brings back the most corpses gets a prize.