Yeah that makes sense, we wouldn't really know anything about them at that point (except for whatever we get during character selection)
That would be pretty nifty; first they start slowly changing appearance; "Didn't you have green eyes?" and then odd dialogue options start showing up, suddenly they're telling us how beautiful it would be to burn the city down, of course that only happens after we kill that evil clone we found.
We could start seeing "They Approve" whenever we use the tadpole, talk about a game gaslighting you, radical.
