At the end of the training he has to duplicate that rug exactly. :P

Become one with the table!!!

Goo mimicry feels like an underutilized aspect of goo characters. I really like the idea of such a character being able to fool sight, touch, and sound, but not smell or taste.

I can totally agree with this! Honestly, T2 did an amazing job with this idea, and I feel like it's not really utilized any more!

Oh yeah, aesthetically speaking the T-1000 Terminator from T2 more or less ideal goo to me. I much prefer the concept of amorphous and infinitely malleable over the more common "animate water" or otherwise appearing to be perpetually dripping.

Heh. Rather glad my sona fits that bill! :D

(To be fair, I've got a few pics I've not uploaded yet, one of which is another loosely similar to this concept. ^.^; )

No one ever considers taste. I mean if you are going to hide in a restaurant at somepoint you will have to make yourself "food" to either get close to a target or get into a room that is restricted. You might even have to pass a taster. So technically speaking smell and taste should be considered. If you look like a rock and a geologist thinks you are interesting, they may lick you.

I mean, it's nice to have some limitations. I personally consider smell and taste to be harder senses to fool by emulation. Sight is simple enough, as is sound. Touch/feel also sounds like something with a perfectly malleable form should possess the ability to replicate. Taste and smell, however, I believe are more chemical in origin, and are not as "simple" as shape and hardness. Just feels like altering your form wouldn't grant you a new smell or taste. Sure, having perfect mimicry can facilitate shenanigans, but again, limitations can be the spice of life in their own way.

Oh i never said every mimic would had to be good at everything. Imagine a mimic who was spot on in the looks department, but since most forms lack a way to smell they were like garbage dump everytime they transformed (just an example), or the mimic who can't really do food so just does the wax versions on food. Like I'm all for limiting a power set, makes people more creative. Perfect mimicry i think should be saved for when the mimic is in a total focus state, maybe life or death.

I'd say for the average "pass among people unnoticed" goo mimic, taste is something they can likely get away with not having if they're not in the habit of imitating food. For a goo character of mine, lore wise she typically uses some potent perfume to make it much harder for other people to notice that she lacks a distinct personal odor.