Well of course the person would know of the creature because their friends and/or solders would have told that person.
Also,would it be considered taking it too far if the person were to conduct tests on them self, even to the point of driving them self mad, just so they could take full control of the creature and be able to remember the time they were the creature as well?
It really is hard to answer such things as i would require to know a lot more.
Such situations are very hard to say something about, especially morally without knowing a lot about it.
But as far as i can tell that would be taking it very far, especially if you would go mad from the experimentations on yourself.
If you finally get control over the creature but became mad yourself, how would that be any improvement.
Let's say the creature is driven on purely basic instincts and just kills to survive/defend himself/ feed himself.
Such things are more predictable and in general less dangerous then a mad person.
A mad person is in general a lot less predictable in his actions and thus more dangerous then the creature he/she tried to control in the first place.
Weird questions by the way.
My time as being half-tremor and half-human (or something like that) was a lot more different as the experimentation just altered my behaviour.
I still had full control and wasn't really harmful during that time.
I was more harmful to myself then anyone or anything else in fact. :P
As much as i liked this way of sort of role-playing, i think this is enough of that for now. :)