#hence why uppsulka doesn't have two extra arms and legs sticking out of her host

[creaturefeaster]

say that a mime was low on hemolymph and they lost one of their limbs and then took a host, would they be able to move that part of the host’s body or would it be sort of kind of paralyzed?

Hey you know I never considered this facet of mime logic!

I think that it would be more like, they would have a difficult time successfully hosting overall. It's possible of course, as I stated before a lot of mimes choose to host when low on life, but considering the fact that they stem throughout the body to take control of it, it'd probably be a pretty harsh and exhausting experience doing it so low on hemolymph. Once they're there though, and the energy of their host is tapped into, it'd be all good.

Anyway, a mime with a damaged stem + plus low hemolymph, would probably result in failure to fully reboot the system in whatever direction their damage is. I think this could behave in many ways depending on the varying levels of damage & hemolymph, indeed with possible paralysis for biological hosts, or even necrosis of the parts affected. As in, that part of the body would decay as though it were left unhosted up to the fully reactivated tissue.

To add onto this, usually when a host is non vitally damaged to the point of loss, such as an appendage being cut off, a mime's stem will usually take over whatever is missing if it's fresh. Such as Foxglove's true hands replacing Maja's after she cut them off. The thing with this, is that their host is a generator of temporary hemolymph, and as such so long as their stem is not damaged, it will try to regrow what is lost. This can still be difficult for mimes with low native hemolymph however, even if their host's artificial hemolymph is fully pumping, because the host's hemolymph is not truly the same as the native and does not have the same regenerative properties.