If you're a Mass Effect fan currently playing Avowed, you'll have immediately identified Kai's voice as belonging to Garrus Vakarian voice actor Brandon Keener. While voice actors appearing in multiple games is normal practice, an interesting aspect of Kai is that his personality also resembles everyone's favourite Turian.
Right from your first interaction with Kai, the Coastal Aumaua emits some of the same personality traits as Garrus. Both Kai and Garrus are capable operators with a sardonic wit whose life experience has given them a slight melancholy. There's no way of knowing if the character-building process was moulded by Keener's performance, or if the writing team wrote around the voice actor's strengths. Either way, these crossover fans are just happy being able to travel with a character that resembles one they adore.
This phenomenon was highlighted by Radicalbanapple in a recent Reddit thread. The above image features Avowed's Envoy in a forest with Garrus and Dragon Age's Varric Tethras. Although Varric's voice actor Brian Bloom doesn't appear in Avowed, the second recruitable companion is a Dwarf named Marius who is a ranged fighter, similar to Varric.
It's certainly a sentiment I understand. The feeling you get while playing Avowed...
