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Long post up ahead. Sorry in advance.

I've heard a lot of complaints from pro-Cerberus players that ME3 is making Cerberus two dimensional mustache twirling villains or bad writing. I do not think this is necessarily the case. At first, the indoctrination thing didn't appeal to me even as someone who doesn't like the organization, but it sounded a lot better once I gave it some thought.

Hear me out. Indoctrination is not out and out mind control. It can be, but the more the Reapers try to assert control, the less useful the subject is. The process of indoctrination, according to the games, is like a voice in your head. It is insidious. The longer you are exposed, the more and more you begin to believe. You become convinced that the Reapers are right, or at least, unstoppable juggernauts. It twists a person's thinking.

If your concern is that Cerberus will no longer have interesting characters or motivations anymore, indoctrination gives room to allow characters to become misguided, but well-Intentioned extremists. It allows characters to still have thoughts and motives should Bioware choose to. You were still able to appeal to Saren on Virmire, and even on the Citadel...it wasn't until the very end that Sovereign exerted full control over Saren. Given that TIM and Cerberus were so important to the plot of ME2, I do not believe that Bioware is going to waste the potential here. Perhaps you might even agree with whatever Cerberus's motivations are for following the Reapers, in which case, you should ask Bioware for the option to work with the Reapers and Cerberus. I have an idea as to how that could work with only minimal alterations to the game, as a matter of fact: agree to go undercover for Cerberus, dupe the rest of the galaxy and go about the game as normal...then reveal your true allegiance at the end.



On the other hand, if Bioware chooses to make husks out of all Cerberus personnel, this means Cerberus being your enemy is against their will. In this scenario, does this not make Cerberus and TIM in particular more tragic figures than evil ones? Looking at Benezia's example (a mother forced to try to kill her own daughter) even if they broke free from being indoctrinated for a few brief minutes, they would be taken over again. Cerberus would still have to be stopped, but being forcefully controlled by the very enemy they were trying to oppose (the Reapers) would make them less of an evil villain, not more. Furthermore, it makes sense for the Reapers to specifically target an organization that is aware of their existence and has resurrected Shepard.

At the end of the day, perhaps it will make that final blow to the Reapers more satisfying.



Perhaps you are worried that Bioware itself will fail to write these outcomes well. That is a problem with writing, not the idea itself. So what people really need to be asking for is for Bioware to write it well.