: I think everyone is overthinking the age bit. Cyro sleep may have Orion
: Candidate 047 at a considerably younger biological age than his literal
: age (this is true regardless of the possibility of the Rookie being the
: same person). And ONI assets that pose as underlings isn't anything
: unprecedented. Remember Clarence from the Mona Lisa?

: *I will never remove this hat*

Those are good points, and you have good points in your other posts, but I'm inclined to agree with Flynn J Taggart that it would go against the theme of the game. The rookie isn't really much of a character in the story, though, so I could see that theme sort of not applying to him.
IDK, maybe he's secretly a woman.