Holly (thinking): Okay, Holly, worry about the time travel stuff later.
(DASH)
(SPLASH)
Quick repair job on the building . . .
[Runes: Seal back together!]
. . . and another on the people.
[Runes: General purpose patch you up!]
Holly: You might want to have a real doctor check on you later!
Are you all okay, little fishies?
Holly (thinking): . . . Great, now Ivy’s got me doing it.
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Are the spells on these page just your basic ones that every mage learns? And when can we see Holly’s domain in action? 🙂
Oh man, y’all are spoiled by only seeing teen-prodigy mages in action. Holly’s doing real-time repairs on a building — that means multiple types of materials and compounds, none of which can afford to have faults or seams or weak points — and she’s doing it while she’s inside the place, meaning that a screw-up could bring a whole lot of concrete and glass and steel and water crashing down on top of her. Not to mention all the other humans/birds/fish/etc hanging around.
That’s definitely not basic. Lots of star mages can’t do it. Someone like Ivy could only do parts of it — she’s ridiculously powerful, but a lot of the materials don’t fall under the influence of her domain.
Star magic means that every material falls under the influence of your domain.
Every material by virtue of being star stuff?
Cue Ceannic Carl Sagan.
I thought she was doing a temporary patch job to hold things together until a construction/maintenance crew could make a proper fix. The assumption that the spells here were basic ones came from remembering one of the first stories where she was practicing fire magic…and since fire wasn’t her domain, I figured that there were some spells from every domain that most mages learned/can do.
Are mages capable of using most spells, but those outside their domain are harder?
Admittedly, construction people are going to come in and double-check everything afterward. Still impressive that she can do as much as she does.
Mages can only do spells within their own domains — it’s just that those domains can be really wide, and often overlap. Everyone has some version of a healing spell, for instance. And star magic is the broadest — if you’re a star-based magical girl, you can work out a way to do pretty much anything.
Holly had trouble with fire control in the first storyline, which is why we see her practicing a few storylines later…and why she doesn’t try to set anything on fire here ^_^;
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