User blog comment:CrackFoxJunior/A way to destroy the Reapers WITHOUT destroying EDI and the geth./@comment-3061137-20120802001355/@comment-99.140.217.58-20120804155221

Bear with me on this one, it's gonna get weird.

Think of Doctor Who. Think about how Regenerations work. The original body and mind cease to be, but all of their memories are intact and shunted into a new body, with a new mind. They influence the new mind, but the "New" mind has it's own motives, quirks and thought processes.

Both the Catalyst (And by proxy, the Reapers) and Shepard are dead as we know them. Together, they created The Shapards. A new kind of Reaper that doesn't harvest, but "Keeps the peace" And "Protects" the galaxy.

Now what that means is open to interpretations, as the Catalyst once thought it was protecting everyone by REAPING them... (One of the reasons I didn't choose Control ending.)