Fair enough, and cleaning magic is certainly more versatile than, say, dragon slayer magic.
Or it will be once we develop it more.
One of my favourite magic is probably Levy's word scripts, for example. And that analysis/computer-like magic from that one blue Pegasus guy
Talking of something else, I have to say this last encounter makes this guild a lot more appealing than I thought it would be.
Also, i'll give a shot to try and develop training steps for a couple of possible new spells.
1) starting from the one given in the example
Can generate solution from hands -> Can create from feet -> Make it extra slippery -> Practice 'skating' by generating substance from feet as move -> Practice be able to remove solution left behind -> etc -> etc
I'll add the steps "practice generating the solution through shoes, so that we don't have the remove them every time" and "practice making the solution appear out of nowhere further from your body, first while making the appropriate gestures, than without them". This will also make it a good crowd control move.
2) steps for another move
-Change the composition of the "solution" from a cleaning solution for floors to something more suited to the body (body wash, shampoo...it obviously need to be less acidic, more "skin-friendly").
-Slowly add up to the volume of solution you can create and maintain control of at a time, up to at the least the content of an average bath tube "or if that's too much at least enough to cover most to all the surface of an adult body.
-Practice moving the solution telekinetically, so that it's possible to, for example, having the equivalent of a shower or a bath just with our magic everywhere. We need a way to always be clean afterall!
-Practice making the solution disappear, drying everything it made contact with.
-Experiment with the temperature, density and composition of the solution to maximize the comfort and the feeling of relaxation from the "target".
-practice changing the scent of the solution, so it can mimic various fruits/flowers/herbs. Focus on the more "relaxing" ones.
Possible uses: are we dealing with people angry/in a bad mood? We can magically relax/pamper them to make them more friendly to us.
While it's certainly weird to suddenly use our magic to clean someone, mages in fairy tail regularly do weirder things, especially in fairy tail. And if the target basically went through a spa treatment for free it will probably be in a good enough mood that it won't care about it (as long as we're good enough).
it can even be one our social tic/weirdness.
gray loses his clothes, Cana always drinks, Elfmann goes "manly!" To much, and we clean everyone who talks to us while daring to be dirty!
once it's relaxing enough it could reach the point to apply a malus to our target in battle, basically applying a negative status effect to our enemy due to them being "too relaxed to move/act effectively" kinda like that cp9 agent in one piece, Kalifa if I remember correctly.
This could end up being a good spell to capture targets alive too, and once we become strong enough we could apply it to multiple targets.
I'll probably think of something else later. There was an interesting idea for a shield mentioned by someone before, taking advantage of water's surface tension..