User blog comment:SunyiNyufi/My idea of Mass Effect 3 ending with Indoctrination Theory and what would come after/@comment-4319257-20120329130726/@comment-3527219-20120329144057

Yeah, I haven't come up with a good explanation for why the Citadel is there, or how the Reapers brought it there, I only know that Bailey would be the one to answer those questions in-game :D

And yeah, Cerberus base happened as it happened, and TIM is going to the Citadel, so you probably would have to fight both Cerberus and Reaper ground forces while trying to reach the Presidium tower. TIM “believes” that he can control the Reapers via the Crucible (though he is wrong since it's a cannon...sort of), so he is there to try to open the Citadel arms once the Crucible is there. What he doesn't know that it won't work, and the reapers plan with him is to let the Crucible doc, and re-calibrate it in a way that it will obey the Reapers, so they can use it to destroy the fleet with minimal effort from them, and this would leave their precious relays and Citadel in tact. It's not really the best plan (I have to iron out the details too), but it was last-minute plan, since they only learned about the Crucible's capabilities when TIM did.

As for dealing with TIM, I thought they could be a dialogue with him, similar in gameplay mechanics to the one before the starchild, meaning: if you always used charm on him he does the Saren, if you intimidated him, you get to shoot him, and if you fail, it will be a boss fight.

Now in the first phase of the boss fight, he would distance himself and you have to fight some elite Cerberus goons (like Phantoms and stuff). You can shoot TIM during this sequence, but he is mostly behind cover, and while he doesn't have much health, he has strong shields which are hard to pierce, and will re-load after some time. So while it's possible to kill TIM during the first phase it will be really hard, cos if you get close to him, he will use a nova-like attack on you, and then run away, and you only have Shepard and Anderson in your team at the time.

Second phase starts once you finished of the Cerberus guys, TIM comes out of hiding and with his reaper-control-powers takes control of Anderson, who will start attacking you. You can start shooting at Anderson, and TIM will comment that “Never thought you would be willing to kill him so easily, Shepard” or something like that, which correctly implies that if you shoot down Anderson, he will in fact die. However you can knock Anderson out with melee only attacks, and/or go straight for TIM, who once around half of his shields are gone, will release Anderson and try to regen his shields again. If he gets it back to 100%, he start controlling Anderson again. Mind you that TIM will still sometimes shoot you with his pistol, but that doesn't do much damage, and he runs around from cover to cover, and if you go close without stunning him in one way or another (with charge for example), he will use nova and then escape.

Once you get his shields down completely it won't regenerate and he will die in two shots (like the bitch he is). Then you get a cinematic about him rumbling something, and Shepard shooting him in the head.

Or at least that's what I came up with so far :D