Is Lexi the Benefactor?

Well the benefactor is insanely wealthy and kinda evil right?

Lexi has spent her life studying species so there's not much time left for being an evil genius. Plus the other doctor on the Hyperion knows her professionally so it's not as if she's pretending to have had that career. Plus why would the benefactor choose to travel on the Hyperion over the Nexus?

I'd like some clarification - what do we have that the Benefactor is evil? Is it the Jien thing? If you look at the lines and between the lines, could that stuff be taken another way? I'm curious; I didn't read the books.

I took it that Jian was a pawn.  The way she talked about the benefactor in her secret messages gave me the impression she was scared of him, and regretted letting him in on the project.   Also this is ME, a world with Cerberus, the Shadow Broker and evil organisations and powerful bastards running everything.  I just assumed they were going in that direction again.

See I was actually going the opposite; that those from the Milky Way may be problematic, even still with scummy qualities and people of course, but that the story of the Ai is one which ultimately is going to be better morally than where it came from (though perhaps not as necessarily heroic in the end as the best the MW had to offer, but that's another subject).

So its actually intriguing to me thinking that Lexi is Benefactor. The surprise being that it actually is just a benefactor, albeit with the reveal that our doctor may at least be involved in arguably shady things of her own - its all, to her, on the 'up and up'. No 'shadows', just helping in her way.

Its how I feel about all the rest at least. Yeah we have Kadara, but its no Omega. Yeah we have New Tuchanka, but its no Tuchanka. Yeah we have the Nexus, but its no Citadel. Yeah we have Tann and co.,  but its no Council or Udina. Its the fresh start, which both means that its never totally fresh (the past trails with us) but its an attempt at an improved (in this case ethically) renewal. I like thinking that Lexi as the Benefactor could represent even the worst of the Asari, improved - that yes its a secret kept and some superior-minded manipulation, but we know Lexi and we'd end up knowing that its all for the greater good, but also a safer good (for example, what if Lexi just stays low because she already knows of the killing of Jien, and it wasn't done by her, but instead Lexi is worried she might be a target herself, if her identity is uncovered).


K, getting kinda fanfiction here, but eh.

TBH I think the most likely candidate for Benefactor could possibly be Reyes. He is the Charlatan and it wouldn't surprise me if that's not all as he was a kind of guy that played his cards close to his chest really. He's also ironically good at getting things people need and getting things done on the sly.

It’s the Geth. Their sustained, small-scale credit-skimming of trillions of souls funded the Ai. They provided the visuals that made Garson fully commit. They knew for a certainty that there were good reasons to get out of the MW.

I feel kind of guilty, now, that I helped that Refund Guy in ME3. What was I enabling?

Maybe it was the "Aria's expecting me" guy from Omega. His experience turned him into an anti-elcor racist, so he wanted to go to Andromeda to get away from the elcor and hopefully find a nightclub somewhere that will let him in.

I'm still holding on to the ridiculously small and predictable assumption that it's someone like Tann, even if that would be wayyy too obvious/silly. I don't think the Benefactor is an arc designed to play-out as a grand-reveal-reference to the old games eg. Geth, TIM, Cerberus etc


The list goes on.

Naturally, I recognize this as a predictable (and likely incorrect) choice, but again, I can't see it being a reference to the past games, especially now that new content seems less and less likely for this particular game. If it gets revisited, will probably be kept smaller/andromeda in-house rather than a throwback.

This is my headcanon that Lexi is a member of the Benefactor and she knows whom are other members of this organization.

Also if Lexi was the Benefactor, and the Benefactor wanted to kill those who knew about them, Alec Ryder would have never woken up but had a ‘malfunction’ as Lexi was ‘reviving’ him. This theory is still ridiculous.

I really don’t think so but you know..her attitude toward SAM would make sense this way. Fear of AI, especially one who could have some connection to her. And her insistence that she monitors the pathfinder instead of letting Henry take his spot on the ship.