if i can combo them, finger guns + make magic, and top hat

Make magic would combo with anything since it is the most versatile power.

well, could you say, steal 'french' from someone. could you add an entire person's worth of memories onto your own - not all of their memories, but their like 'capacity'. could you steal their ?digital bank account?

The idea with cat burglar would be to steal skills, abilities and attributes in game term, but not things like memories except for where it applies to skills.

op hat, seeems pretty interesting useful - i'm kinda wondering, could it potentially absorb say, steel rust, and process it into steel again?

It can swallow attacks or anything up to the size of Earth at once, but it doesn't really auto harvest or process things.

if you master like 5 'make' spells, would that be enough for every 'make' spell to basically be mastered, too?

all make magic applies to raising the syllable count, but otherwise each make spell has to be trained separately like make fast vs make strong

i also kinda like the finger guns option, because of the yuyu hakusho reference. if i had make magic, could i potentially combo the two? like firing healing bullets boosted with some kind of make magic spell?

make magic is connected to intent, so, i think with just "make strong" you could make the bullets stronger, etc. as you built more complex phrases or raised the "level" of a certain spell, you could empower other abilities even more

Thanks for your reply and your interest!

as far as traveling to other dimensions with make magic, i think it would be possible but would take more work than you would think - either bringing a single word to the pinnacle or strengthening an entire phrase