evisneffo wrote...
Militarized wrote...
Then they totally mention stuff like Grayson without even telling people who he is... total facepalm. They have a weird mix of stuff put in for big fans whove read everything and at the same time, dumbing some of it down to incorporate new people.... I don't get it.
The Grayson mentions all went completely over my head. It sounded like a DLC thing, but unlike the filling-in for Overlord, their dialogue was all stuff like "when you think about what happened to Grayson..." that left me in a corner in the dark thinking "BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO GRAYSON :crying:"
Grayson is an ex-cerberus merc who turns rogue on them to protect his daughter, an autestic biotic who was being taught at Grissom Academy. Cerberus hunts him down finally in the last book before ME3's release, they experiment on him with Reaper tech, implanting him with it to study how indoctrination like Sarens progress's.
He breaks out, essentially, after Turians raid the base in an attempt to take down Cerberus(Grayson sends out a msg before hes captured with info to Kahlee Sanders... the chick from Grissom

).
It's neat, you get a perspective from someone whose indoctrinated... they actually don't fully control him sometimes, they flood him with specific hormones when he thinks he's in control or force his brain to bring up memories to manipulate him into doing what they want but he thinks it's HIS idea to find Sanders/go to Grissom.
Long story short he's killed, and he's not some dumb red sand user that TIM makes him out to be in the game... he's an ex-addict and they use it on him to let the Reapers control him since he was actually fighting back against the indoctrination before they forced him to take it.
There was a really, really cool bit at the end of the book where the Reapers talk to Sanders... from her perspective it was like, they were trying to talk to her and tell her why they're doing what they do but they didn't know how to communicate... same lines as Harbinger essentially but she tried to reason with Grayson/Harby. That's her perspective on it anyway, like they don't know how to get their point across to us.
Personally I still like to think that's because they can't dumb down their logic of us imposing chaos on the ordered universe and them annihilating us = restoring order... since I ignore the HORRIBLE endings.