To play him with the amnesia is closest to canon and I'm more comfortable with that, I admit, but this is definitely something I wanted to run past the mods since it makes some calls on behind-the-scenes NPCs and the like.

I do, however, think I didn't state some things clearly. I was wondering on him going to the Jaeger Academy straight out of military school instead of having had the altercation with the AI, and that's what I meant as blank slate and a lot of his canon not applying.

With him having gone through amnesia, there's the possibility of story hooks with his nightmares and possibly some faint memories from what happened - not enough to really pin anything down without mod approval, of course, and maybe even a higher-up wanting to make sure that their amnesia-zapper keeps working, but if that's overstepping, I can go the other way just as easily.