I'm not really seeing it. Tali barely does anything in OSABC aside from falling for Joker and self-exiling, while Wrex has a history with Shepard and has the whole "reluctant return of the king" thing going on. Garrus has the whole deal with Telanya and goes from "Turian Batman" to "CRIME GENOCIDE".
I get the wish to not have this overlap canon's character page, but there's barely anyone who that qualifies for with how OSABC is written, at least not if Tali doesn't. Nazara I'll concede, but he's mechacthulhu and dies immediately. The next least characterized Reaper is Harbinger, and even he'll probably need a folder once the whole deal with him turning on the Catalyst and being the screaming broken soul gestalt of a bunch of Leviathans gets written.
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Tali's primary differences come in the second and third stories. Her relationship with her father seems to be extremely different, she willingly joins cerberus, and her personality seems to have shifted to something far colder and more bitter in comparison to her canon self.
Wrex's only difference seems to be that piece of his backstory, having met Shepard before and having lost his son to Ganar. While a few of the details are different, he still ends up back on Tuchanka trying to unify the species and his personality hasn't really changed. Once we reach the Tuchanka-arc that might change.
How is Garrus' actions on Omega different from his actions in canon? While we definitely get more details in OSABC, nothing in there strikes me as something that Garrus wouldn't have done in the games. The relationship with an OC is something, but I think putting that in Telanya's section would be enough. We probably could use a section for Angel's team, given that the only thing canon gives us is their names.
Enough distance in scale is functionally distance in substance. Archangel in canon is an amusing oddity. Aria is all "he's a troublemaker, get him off my station". Archangel in OSBAC is a geopolitical disaster. Aria's at risk of losing her position, the whole galaxy is listening to his broadcasts, and entire criminal orgs including the big three are at risk of being destroyed in the Crime Genocide. Garrus, in the style of Konrad Curze, kills so many fucking dicks that Omega goes from selling sapients for meat to becoming something similar to canon. Sidonis doesn't betray them (yet), the big three just call in a literal army and even that almost doesn't work. There's the flying battle to escape the station, that's different. And then, yes, there's the rest of the Angels. Since most of them lived to join Revenant it'll probably be an ongoing deviation for Garrus' arc.
Areas to Expand upon: - Liara could use some work, especially to demonstrate on how she's different from canon Liara. - Aethyta could use her own character section. - Tela Vasir could use her own character section. - Nazara is going to be moved into the main Reaper area, he's not exactly unique.
A note going forwards; I want the character sheet saved for those chars that are either original, or else noticeably different from canon. Right now Garrus and Wrex likely do not need sections, though Tali potentially could.
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