Only in the same sense Fluffy copied Violetta’s portals. A sufficiently knowledgeable spellcaster would be able to observe the crafting of a spell and work out the means of casting it on their own. Daniel would need more training to be able to copy a spell by sight-reading the way Fluffy did.
The golem, however, is a different scenario. Since Fluffy made it by using Daniel’s own magic as a conduit, it effectively taught Daniel how to do it. In other words, Fluffy inadvertently gave Daniel some spontaneous terramancer training.
The mind control magic, however, does not work that way. I don’t have a suitable canon/lore reason for that, just a meta-logic one: I don’t want every spellcaster Fluffy possesses to come out of it with an ability to copy-paste the mind control trick.
Potential reason from the peanut gallery: when the spell is initially cast, the target is only getting the end result of the spell (mind controlled) without the casting itself. That covers the initial control, now for “mind jumping” as I’ll call it (changing mind control targets). So, when fluffy made the earth golem via The Daniel, he was casting through The Daniel, just directing him (and this teaching him his shiny golden spell). When jumping minds, fluffy doesn’t technically cast THROUGH the controlled individual, but siphons off their magical energies to power his spell, which is still being cast only by him, so the controlled ones mind never “touches” the casting of the spell, despite they’re powering of the spell.
Heck, if fluffy wrote the spell himself, maybe he put a failsafe into it preventing an enemy from gaining his spell the moment he dropped control over them, so that’s another potential reason (and a much simpler one)
Dammit, Violetta. https://www.sueandkathryn.com/comic/sue-and-kathryn-636
Can possessed creatures copy Fluffyś spells?
Only in the same sense Fluffy copied Violetta’s portals. A sufficiently knowledgeable spellcaster would be able to observe the crafting of a spell and work out the means of casting it on their own. Daniel would need more training to be able to copy a spell by sight-reading the way Fluffy did.
The golem, however, is a different scenario. Since Fluffy made it by using Daniel’s own magic as a conduit, it effectively taught Daniel how to do it. In other words, Fluffy inadvertently gave Daniel some spontaneous terramancer training.
The mind control magic, however, does not work that way. I don’t have a suitable canon/lore reason for that, just a meta-logic one: I don’t want every spellcaster Fluffy possesses to come out of it with an ability to copy-paste the mind control trick.
Potential reason from the peanut gallery: when the spell is initially cast, the target is only getting the end result of the spell (mind controlled) without the casting itself. That covers the initial control, now for “mind jumping” as I’ll call it (changing mind control targets). So, when fluffy made the earth golem via The Daniel, he was casting through The Daniel, just directing him (and this teaching him his shiny golden spell). When jumping minds, fluffy doesn’t technically cast THROUGH the controlled individual, but siphons off their magical energies to power his spell, which is still being cast only by him, so the controlled ones mind never “touches” the casting of the spell, despite they’re powering of the spell.
Heck, if fluffy wrote the spell himself, maybe he put a failsafe into it preventing an enemy from gaining his spell the moment he dropped control over them, so that’s another potential reason (and a much simpler one)