>The "sticking", or creating one without any noticeable movement from us?
//Additionally:
>How are spellcards declared, do we need to just say its name while holding to invoke it? Or is it possible to hold it, say its name, and not invoke it?
>Does activating a spellcard cause our eyes to glaze over? Or do our eyes seem normal (as normal as a trance can be)?
> Both. Elis is too fast and strong [You know she's far above a human] to have any chance, and you would certainly need to move to cast one her size anyway.
> You literally declare the name of the spellcard, while holding it towards your intended target.
> Eyes appear normal; you just enter a magically-invoked trance as you perform the danmaku. Otherwise everyone could deviate the patterns and movement so they can't get hit and that would be cheating. At the same time; a magical boundry forms so the target can't just time it out by fleeing [And other people can't cheat it out by shooting from outside and such]. This is part of the magic of the Spellcards themselves, being a system created by Reimu, who's skilled with boundaries, it has nothing to do with your own magic.
> Can we fake declare a spell card? Ex do what we normally do but fire a nonspell weaker imitation of it?
> It wouldn't fool a Gensokyian, but it's entirely possible since Elis is Makaian. You think that could work.
