#but some fucking frilly alice-in-wonderland type skirt pops up and it's just a collective 'huh'

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Magic is honest sometimes

Ok so I have this headcanon that magic in twst is not necessarily determinate of the user unless they actively choose for it to be (I'm only in book 4 so idk if this is negated or not). Like, there's obviously specific intention behind spells/magic because they learn to cast it, but small details can sometimes be left negligent because it doesn't matter too much in the mind of the caster.

For example, if Grim wants to shoot out a ball of fire, he might picture that and the degree of his detail in imagining it will determine what type of fireball it is. If he literally just imagines a ball of fire, then boom: ball of fire. But the heat of the flames or the color might not prescribe to anything specific- if it's fire, it's fire. He'd have to fine tune his vision to get something more nuanced; say, blue flames or smaller more condensed flaming projectiles.

Along those lines, there's magic that actively involved other people; Trey's unique magic, for example. If I recall correctly he did ask Ace, Deuce, Yuu, and Grim what they wanted a pastry he offered them to taste like out loud, but his magic directly interacts with them and their preferences. So the intention to have that magic interact with the affected subject changes the outcome by making their preferences part of the equation.

Anyways all that to say that I've been thinking about my Yuu and the uniform summoning magic. They're nonbinary and sometimes swing between feeling more masc or more femme. There's a magic Cater uses to summon uniforms in the first book, but if his vision of the uniform was vague and an enby Yuu was involved, would it conform to how they were feeling? Like imagine they felt more femme that day and everyone was just shocked something like a skirt/dress appeared.