Board Thread:Assassin's Creed III general discussion/@comment-70.57.89.17-20170520203939/@comment-28601337-20170521001349

He's not alive. The Desmond we all know is completely dead, gone, deceased... however you want to call it. Abstergo took some of his blood and organs to create the Sample 17 Project. The Desmond that "lives" in the Gray along with Clay is more like an Artificial Intelligence that has Desmond's memories and personality. Just like Clay in Revelations.