User blog comment:DYBAD/Character Sheet/@comment-25417020-20150211124551/@comment-4867780-20150215011058

He's a hoarder of all kinds of empirical information (templates), which combined to his converting/reshaping abilities make him like a super-sculptor, creatively remaking anything into anything else based on available data.

Superpowers are essentially the cherries on the cake, super-shortcuts allowing to directly achieve numerous effects. Using his remaking abilities on memorized powers allows him to reverse engineer them, opening the way for countless variations and enhancements, multiplied exponentially by the recombination of different powers.

From just a bunch of basic powers he can make an extensive collection, which is why he's not actively hunting for powers like most replicators. Still, every information is useful, and any new power he comes accross is basically a exotic new ingredient his "home cooking", so he memorize them regardless for the sake of diversity.