"I mean, I am a magical girl - I usually use the Latin, puella magi - and my costume is not unusual for my variety, but yes, I am not your kind of magical girl. What would happen if you tried to fix your costumes? Add leggings or something?"

"If we really wanted to don leggings every time we transformed, then as long as we never had to transform in an emergency situation it would probably work, but then when we detransformed we would be wearing leggings over whatever civilian garb we had been wearing."

"Can you change your name, too, that would be even better."

"My name? My name's the same as it ever was."

"...You don't have a magical girl name?"

"No. Do you have a secret identity deal going on...?"

"Yeah. But even if we didn't want to keep our real names secret, the transformation comes with a name," she sighs. "They're mostly not any good."

"Oh. I don't need to say anything in particular to get into costume. Although one time I did let the media notice me and showboated a little to see what happened. I had them calling me 'Gem', which was not very creative."

"Better than 'Psychic Maiden Cerebella' or 'Iron Maiden Magnetar'."

"And that would be the other reason to do Synchronicity."

"Is that the magically-enforced name of the - hybrid you?"

"No, Synchronicity is the name of the magical maneuver that produces her. The magically enforced name is Lady Ironheart."

"That's not as bad..."

"Exactly."

"What does your magic do besides... combine you? Which sounds fantastically uncomfortable to me but must not be that bad if the improved name compensates."

"Lots of things. Most but not all of them combat focused. Basically you say a usually but not always ridiculous phrase, sometimes accompanied by some kind of silly gesture, and a magic thing happens. And you just sort of...know the magic things you have available, and every now and then you get a new one."

"Huh. My magic is pretty freeform but I have usage limits. When do you get new spells?"

"Usually when you've just achieved some kind of personal milestone. So, when you've just defeated a big enemy, sure, but also when you resolve a recurring interpersonal issue or had some kind of important epiphany or something."

"Interesting incentive structure. What spells have you got?"

"...Perfect Scream, Third Eye Annhilation Beam, Third Eye Burning Sear, Synchronicity, Si Vales Valeo, Mind Mirror, Psionic Blast, Axiomatic Restoration, Ironwill Shield, Wings of the Mind's Eye, Mind Palace Gateway, and Soul Aria."

"...I was mostly curious about what they did, but that's interesting in its own right."

"Third Eye Annhilation Beam, Third Eye Burning Sear and Psionic Blast are basically the same thing in descending power level. Perfect Scream does brain damage. Synchronicity is the obvious. Si Vales Valeo is sympathetic healing. Axiomatic Restoration restores objects or systems to a state of lower entropy. Wings of the Mind's Eye gives me, well, wings. Ironwill Shield is a shield. Soul Aria is projective empathy of varied intensity depending on what I intend when I cast it. Mind Palace Gateway and Mind Mirror are really really obvious when I cast them, I promise, and they...do have applications besides mind reading. But they also allow for mind reading."

"Mind Mirror creates a planar surface with a representation of someone's mind on it, and anyone who steps through gets a more...close look at the relevant mental activity. Mind Palace Gateway is similar, but it stays interpretive and you can also move stuff around. If it's your own mind you automatically interpret what everything means; if it's not then you're just in a palace-like area. With stuff that may or may not make sense depending on how well you know the person. I've only ever used either spell on myself--they're really good for introspection--or on my sister. Who consented in advance."