User blog comment:SunyiNyufi/My idea of Mass Effect 3 ending with Indoctrination Theory and what would come after/@comment-4933332-20120331093552

What about the ending where you continue the game after you become indoctrinated.

So you and the illusive man are working together with the reamining cerberus force and gunning donw alliance soldier and you play the first half of the alternate ending working for Cerberus trying to "control" the reapers without knowing you are working for the reapers

However at the end your squad mates (if still alives, if they all died in the run to the citadel due to low EMS than the reaper win) approach you have a conversation.

Now there is a role reversal of the Shepard/Saren or Shepard/TIM conversation. It's your squad mate and/or love interest trying to convince you that you are indoctrinated.

If you are the type of player who skips conversation with your squad mates and just do missions, their attempts fail, you and illusive man kill your squad mate and the reapers win

However if your love interest or a squad mate where you go through all the conversation with them are there. They can get through to you and you get a paragon interrupt (I could imagine a really great writer would make this scene be incredibly dramatic and emotional involving. i just imagine a love interest Liara who already watch her mother indoctrinated pleading with Shepard ).

You go and sacrifice your life and kill the illusive man and then your squad mates stops the reapers (I really don't know the specifics in stoping the reapers, maybe the squad mates activated the crucible weapons)

You get some last words with your squadmates/ love interest, you apologise to them that you wern't strong enough to break through the reaper's will earlier and you felt like you failed. Your squad mates tries to reassure that you were strong enough when it counted, shepard dies and your LI collapse in tears whilst the other squad mates put their arms around your LI trying to comfort them

In the end you see a discussion between the surviving members of your team about how history would remember Shepard considering that he/she did betray the alliance and killed a lot of people in the process. in the end they decided that no matter how history remembers shepard, they will remember shepard as a great person who delivered when it counted.

So that would be the bittersweet ending.