There’s a reason that most mimics are sentenced to death. What else do you do with folks who can change their appearance, their personality, and even their abilities in the blink of an eye? A mimic could pretend to be your own grandma and you wouldn’t notice. Except for the fact she stopped baking cookies. So, if you catch a mimic and they won't agree to work for the empire, they have to be killed. It’s the only way. Arch John Wild was a normal guy. He lived with his father on a little farm in a house that they built by themselves. And then he found out that he was a half-mimic.