User blog comment:Rikerslade/The Assassin's Creed / Watch Dogs connection/@comment-5150860-20131030135959/@comment-3046679-20131102035806

This was the guy you've played through ACB/ACR multiplayer, shown in the Abstergo story there. Everyone assumed he was silent because "oooh, it's the player character", until they gave him a name and a background through Initiates.

And I suspect it'll eventually happen to the silent mook we play in the modern parts of Black Flag.