User blog comment:Spartan0700/Mass Effect 3: Off the Record/@comment-5287758-20120727114358/@comment-3062992-20120727192208

I haven't read any of the books, but it's my understanding based off ME3 alone that Anderson was, indeed a bad*ss. Don't get me wrong, I think it would be interesting if he was the OTR player character, but he is a man with morals (and love interest) set in stone; it's hard to imagine a player assuming control of him if the player is, say, a renegade who has a thing for Ashley. That makes me think that they would create a whole new character that could realistically swing both ways on the spectrum of morality and continue to uphold the game's core experience.

I agree with the squaddies for the most part, save Javik and Kahlee. Shepard and Liara were only able to recover Javik because of Shepard's interactions with the Cipher. I know Liara read his mind afterwards, but she's always telling him how his experiences with the Prothean technology made him extraordinary and somehow she was never able to replicate the feat of interacting with Prothean technologies like Shepard did. I think, if Kahlee were to go on the Normandy, she would take a non-combatant "desk" job, typing on some panel somewhere, if not have the option to become a war asset working on the Crucible, like she already is.