User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 03-03-'13 — Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag trailer and screenshots/@comment-3046679-20130318164706/@comment-144.173.245.70-20130319175632

So it's unlikely that they'll prescribe a personality or character type to this research analyst. Obviously we're playing someone in the AC Universe but I don't think it'll be a character with whom we're already familiar. That is to say, to make the player immerse themselves in the narrative we won't have a new 'Desmond', it'll most likely be similar to the MP side of things. 

But my original point was that I doubt an experienced fighter would be given the role of reseach analyst.