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2. Weakened Copying/Uncles: Constant exposure to Jean-Paul, who enjoys being a doting uncle, despite hiding his relationship from Jean-Marie gives a prime example of how the weakened version of his powers works. Rather than true super speed, flight, etc., Jordan has semi-permanently gained extraordinary athletic ability. He can run, jump, etc. at near peak human levels, super strength aside. He has an amazing, but still human reaction time and reflexes.
Likewise, due to long term exposure to his adoptive father, Madison Jeffries, Jordan has a knack for tinerking and machinery. Even if he hadn't shown his father's head for mechanics and electronics, he'd have picked up a good deal off this. He still has to go through the steps, cannot telekinese anything, etc., but he has an amazing talent when working with mechanical and electronic devices, and can push the boundaries of super-science within these fields, such as the ability needed to produce wonders like the Box armor.
If he were to spend several months without contact, these abilities would fade, but as he has been around these mutants very frequently for several years, it takes little contact now to maintain them, to the point they are nearly innate abilities.

3. When around other mutants, he begins to copy altered and extremely weak versions of their powers, perhaps about 5% as effective at best. Around a Namor/super Atlantean, for example, he might begin being able to hold his breath for longer periods or swim a little better. Exposure to Cyclops might lead to slightly improved nightvision and his eyes may turn red.
These abilities tend to fade almost as soon as contact ends unless he's around the mutants for an extended period of time. The longer and more constantly he's around a mutant's genetic signature, the longer the abilities tend to last, though it would take years of almost constant contact in order to make anything else a part of his regular powerset.

4. Should he come into a situation where he takes in bodily fluids from another mutant, such as blood exposure through a cut, or a very deep kiss, he can duplicate a warped version of their powers akin to roughly one-quarter of their ability. These are never exact copies - more like weaker abilities suggested by the original.
Examples might include - contact with Wolverine's blood through a cut on his arm might give him extreme empathy with predatory animals, or boost a single sense to extraordinary levels. A deep kiss with Dazzler might let him reflect sound or light based attacks back at an attacker. Such copying tends to last about an hour before the abilities fade. This is also a very difficult circumstance to come into during combat situations in particular, and not something he makes an effort to do, both because of the obvious awkwardness of the ability, and its unpredictable nature.

5. A blood transfusion /from a mutant with his blood type/, which is extremely rare, and found only among homo-superior will permanently alter his powerset in a drastic fashion, adding to the abilities he gained through this process with Lilian Crawley. If the transfusion is from any other blood type, he will reject the transfusion, probably grow rather ill, and only gain the benefits of #4. This is the only way he can truly copy new powers on a significant scale, and even among mutants, only one in every few thousand shares his blood type, and no baseline humans do.