Mimic Is Not Needed (If You're Spending OM)

[Amaterasu]

(not a staffer, so don't take my response as infalliably correct)

In short, Mimic is the power that allows you to copy people's moves on the fly, even in the midst of combat, without either summoning a weapon first (would not really be efficient to sit down for 5+ minutes in the midst of a fight), or learning the move or whatever. And you can do so for up to one hour after you see someone use that move.

Summoning new items with Omnilium is creating something from your head (your character's, ICly). To create a perfect replica of someone else's move you must have witnessed them use it and understand its inner workings, whether through Insight, because they explained it to you or because you spent a lot of time closely observing. And while your character can fantasize together extra aspects to the new move they're creating, there's limits beyond which you're just meta-gaming.


To take a practical example, disregarding Insight, Telepathy etc.: character A uses a rifle that has automatic (hold the trigger for constant firing) and semi-auto (pull the trigger once for one shot) modes. Character B witnesses A using the semi-auto mode, they will be able to use Mimic to create a rifle that can fire ONLY semi-auto, because that's what he's seen. He didn't see A using the automatic mode.

Later, Character B wants to create a permanent replica, it could be argued that they must know that character A's rifle can also use auto-fire because that's normal for modern-day rifles or something. But it would be overstepping the limits to say that just by seeing the rifle Character B is also aware that A can turn the rifle into a hammer or something similarly fancy, which he's never shown. It's entirely based on what Character B knows and wishes for.