User blog comment:Mike Gilbert/Do you think the Reapers should keep their powers after Synthesis?/@comment-5020188-20130516202702/@comment-72.49.149.251-20130516234345

If what I garnered from the game makes sense, the Reapers were slaved in totality by that master-control cyber-brain within the Citadel, fully capable of becoming aware but unable to manifest their individual personalities beyond their inner-workings, being "drowned out" by the control bot. The way Harbinger kept popping out at the last minute for all of his hollow minions before they burned out and the way Sovereign keeled over moaning in agony the moment my Karpov gut-shot his lanky meat-drone seems to show me that they can do a similar override to their implanted minions and whatever the flesh-puppet feels corresponds to the fleshy-bits still lingering within the Reaper-shell. (P.S. Am I. . . extrapolating to far again? It seems like my sentences start to bloat the more I involve myself in a concept.)