His placement in this game is very weird. He exists pretty much ad just filling a mechanical role. The fact he is who he turns out to be... doesn't seem to actually matter to the story. I forget he's there most of the time, even. Yet he's also one of the only characters that is always going to be around, yet they don't make any narrative use of him. It's like they just thought he'd be a cool Easter egg, which honestly is what I assume their thought process was.
