User blog comment:Suparockr/List of Plotholes throughout the series/@comment-3228423-20120719022353

How could the Catalyst take the form of the kid (who I'm now glad to watch die every time I see that cutscene) when only Shepard knows who he is? Only explanations I have are plot hole, bad writing, or the kid never existing in the first place and was only a product of the Reapers getting into Shepard's head