User blog comment:Legionwrex/What happens to husks in the Synthesis ending?/@comment-68.97.180.238-20150330051352/@comment-68.97.180.238-20150331131330

Well, in a way I can agree with you. "Servant" was really the wrong term, what I was thinking was more like "agent" or "proxy". But other then that, the logic makes sense on paper atleast.

When the husks became sapient, the personality of the person the husk once was didn't return, a new personality formed. This personality has no previous memories or knowledge of the life or experiences of that person.

Eventually they would probably come to learn that their previous existence was huskified by the Reapers, basically meaning that the Reapers essentially created them, since without their precursors being huskified they would have never existed. That's what the Reaper's "gift" to them is, it's not being huskified, it's being given existence. They have the Reapers to thank for existing, so it would make sense that they would atleast have great respect for the Reapers.

Even if they were told they were forcibly huskified, they probably wouldn't care because they didn't exist at the time of huskification and thus their precursors were huskified against their free will, not them.

The reason for, most of them atleast, wanting to act as the Reaper's caretakers, which basically means that they maintain and repair the Reapers, is out of a sense of respect for having been created.

This also solves the problem of who will maintain the Reapers. From what I remember of the series, it was implied that the Reapers used husks as a labor force to repair themselves, so it certainly would make sense that atleast some of the husks would continue to do this out of a sense of respect. Not only that, but they would be more likely to trust the Reapers than anyone else, meaning that they would probably be the only ones who would be willing to repair the Reapers.