In the story The Mimic, the Mimic’s original, primitive-looking endoskeleton body is just a robotic torso with arms and a head. It’s made out of cannibalized machinery, such as wiring from unused rooms, pistons from a defunct industrial washing machine, and steel, spools, gears, and springs from a Leavers Machine. The Mimic’s skull started out as two large white doll’s eyes placed within a boxy piece of metal housing from a broken-down compressor. To make it look more like a real head, a narrow protuberance that juts up from between the eyes is formed using a rounded bit of metal from the guts of the Leavers Machine. Under the eye housing, a hinged “jaw” is welded in place, formed out of parts of the Leavers Machine’s guide bars. The Mimic has a big, white-toothed mouth made from a set of novelty chattering teeth.[1] A large processor is welded to the back of the skull and a tangle of wires are run all around the skull. They stretch towards the back of the skull, dive in and out of both eye sockets, snake through the mouth, and extends down the articulated neck that in turn connects with a metallic spine, which connects with a slightly curved makeshift rib cage, and the rib cage is linked to two robotic arms that end in pincerlike hands.[2]