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Could be, but I don't see Shady as a deus ex machina character to me a character like that does not appear as often as he does usually they come in at the end and bam the story ends with a nonsensical pulled out of the ass finish. I am not firm in my assertions about them being the same person but I can see a few reasons why the writers would do what I suspect. The questions I keep asking that lead me to my theory is why is Shady there , there are many ways the goods he provides could be worked into quests for the MC to complete he really does not need to be there for the goods. If the time line is decades long why does he not age? when all of the other for lack of a better word NPC's are aging or dieing normally? in the slave rout of book 4 Shady shows up in the water tribe village and literally goes Super Sayin on the MC in the shop and he is collecting essences of life(not sure how else to describe what he is collecting). Then there is the fact that in book 3 Katara says that the MC came back and told her about his mission presumably the MC could not have come back until the mission was complete other wise how would he know what kind of help he would need? Its like a time paradox type thing or possibly even a butterfly effect where he has to come back to change things that did not work out right in his own time line , then again it could also be parallel universe territory maybe similar to to a Stiens Gate scenario. Shady could have been the one that contacted Katara , all he would have to do is tell her about something that only the MC and her would know in order to convince her although I doubt that it would be necessary for him to do so being that Katara recognizes the MC instantly when ever she see's which ever body he inhabits. I mean its not like there is a over all connecting series of events that say I am your future self but it certainly could be the case. Until the game is finished we will not know the mind of the creators but I would not be surprised if it turned out to be true.I think the reason why both MC and Shady wear hoods up is that MC is supposed to be the "Faceless" protagonist (for immersion purposes) and is using Shady's assets. And Shady is... just a generic deus ex machina. Some dialogue does imply that he knows more than he lets on, but... how would you go about from Avatar with a dead beat life to... that? Also I'm pretty sure that our MC hates time travel as much as everyone else. I mean... Do you really think he'll go ♫Back in time♪ just so that he could help himself for no benefit in the meantime?