Sometimes, depending on the item's nature, you can plot whole stories behind it. Mystical artifact? Another wizard wants it, hires someone to acquire it, etc.
Cyke has a low-level of absorption that usually doesn't get statted in any game system. He was blasted by Storm with lightning so that he could absorb and process it so that he could use his optic blast.
If you're going to model Cyke with a multipower, then you'll want to have one major blast slot when he is lacking glasses/visor and have lock out on all other slots in the event he his lacking his control mechanism (glasses/visor).
Then the GM could require the players to take Mystery Complication of X points, to fill in as he chooses, so that what happens in the first couple of game sessions can be used to fill in the Complication list.
But, and has always been the case, you do not get points for complications generated through game play.What you can do (with GM's permission), is change existing complications to reflect game play.
Blue booking: One or a few of the players describing activities of their characters in written form, outside of the role-playing session, creating a sort of ongoing character history and resolving actions that don’t involve the rest of the group.
If the GM sets the points for the game at 400. You get 400. If you are required to have 50 points of Complications and choose not to take them, you only have 350 points to build with.