Talk:Empathic Mimicry/@comment-4119660-20140212221148/@comment-5150583-20140212225753

Well, if you want them to be able to recall all the powers they've encountered, then there is really no good way to not make them OP, once they master recalling powers at will. Without making all the other characters powers in your story weaker or near useless, it'd be how their power works.

Hope can use the powers of those around her, so her weakness is being alone at this time. Meggan has to shape shift into the form of the one she wishes to copy, so her weakness is that she can only take one form at a time, thus one power. Phobe can only copy powers against the owners of those powers, so they don't stick with her. If you make your character like Sylar or Peter, then their only real weakness is personality. Sylar just wanted more powers, so he wasn't interested in anything else. Peter just wanted to help others and didn't care much about himself.