Holly (narrating): When a magical girl “creates” a thing,
you don’t choose how it looks — it just appears, fully-formed and designed. As if there’s a cache of pre-existing magical items somewhere, and you’re just reaching in and grabbing one.
We call that theoretical cache “hammerspace.”
The first thing any magical girl pulls out of hammerspace, when you transform for the first time, is your costume.
(Presumably your normal clothes go into hammerspace until you change back.)
Your transformation item appears with the costume — usually as a brooch or a hairpin or whatever — but it stays with you when you detransform. Most people carry theirs around for easy access. Or you can choose to stash it in hammerspace for safekeeping. If it gets lost or stolen, you’ll be unable to transform until you find it . . . . or manifest a sparkly new replacement.
Holly: And then there are magical items! They come in a lot of useful-looking shapes . . . but their real purpose is as power foci. For instance, this sword isn’t really good at stabbing things, but it’ll shoot a beam of sparkles like nobody’s business.
Any questions?
Elisa: Just one . . . do I need to be wearing this outfit to hold the hammer?
Holly: Yes. Definitely. It’s an important Southern magic thing.
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