If I use a Well-Prepared on one of my bowed personalities to unbow him, can my opponent use Misdirection to redirect the action to one of his unbowed personalities?
redirecting well-prepared
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Bow or straighten one card in the current battle.
So there are two effects this card could produce:
Bow target.
Straighten target.
Nothing about that restricts you to targeting only Unbowed or Bowed cards. You can choose to straighten an unbowed card. The effect simply fails, going to waste.
When Misdirection gets played, another player gets to choose the targets of the Action. However, he does not get to change the decision made on announcement about whether Well Prepared will Bow or Straighten its target.
So, if you tried to use Well Prepared to bow one of your enemy's cards, he could Misdirection it to one of his already-bowed cards, but he could not make the Well Prepared straighten that card.