This is a discussion inspired by this thread, wherein we struggled to come up with a balanced power for someone who wanted to effectively control pets in the DFRPG. Those pets might take the form of a trusted mount, like the original poster's pegasus, a close ally, actual pets, like Lea's hounds, summoned mooks, like Binder's grey men, and anything else you could think of. As Sanctaphrax put it, he'll consider it a success if the rules can cover:

A character with a pet
A character with a whole bunch of pets
A character with multiple bodies
A character that can copy itself
A character that can shapeshift into multiple bodies at once
A character with numerous minions
A character and another character statted as a single entity

So this is a thread for anyone who wants to tackle that tall order. We already have a few attempts to create powers that address this, including Revlid's multiple bodies power on the master list and my own contribution which I'll throw up below, but they've fallen short thus far. Would be glad to get a discussion going.

EDIT: This conversation has gone on for a while now, with multiple iterations on how such an ability could work. The most up-to-date take can be found here.