Hmm…TreeHuggerHannah wrote...
I haven’t ever witnessed or read any cases where someone who was delayed in their maturity stage suddenly progress to the age that matched their body. (THH would know more about this aspect of teenage years than I would so feel free to jump in and slap me if I’m wrong lol:P).
In general I would agree with this, particularly in a case where he has (presumably) had no therapeutic intervention in the meantime. Caveat that everyone is different and we all develop at different rates - but I think it would be rare.
Of course there are lots of cases where the level of development that a person is able to demonstrate flutuates based on external factors (for example in a more positive or supportive environment more maturity is demonstrated, in a negative or adversarial environment there's some regression) and cases where a person demonstrates uneven development in different areas (for example, they may have a sexual awareness and interest beyond their years but be significantly behind in their ability to make good decisions,) and it's possible one or both of those scenarios could fit Cole - I don't really know enough about him to speculate.
In general, though, I think the odds of Cole moving from an adolescent or preadolescent level of emotional development to an adult level of emotional development - even as a chronological adult - in just a few years not only without any type of therapy but also without a social support system would be negligible.
you know another aspect of this could be environment. Sociologically speaking Cole hasn’t had a ton of face to face interactions with others in a very long time. While it wouldn’t be anywhere near as severe as say Genie or Victor, there are some aspects that could be explained purely based upon the fact that Cole in many ways is being thrown into a world he doesn’t understand. While he has observed people, actually engaging with them is an entirely different beast. I would imagine that even if he were both physically and mentally able to be interested in a romance it would come as an incredible challenge. Heck, even fully adapted adults who have been successfully interacting with others for years often have terrible times in both romantic and platonic relationships. Unless he spent years watching players like Anders and gleaned some good pick up lines.
Something of an interesting note is that when you mention “The level of development that a person demonstrates fluctuates based on external factors.” This is true for all different healing processes and growth progressions, especially in regards to any psychological disorder. You could take 15 different people with the exact same diagnosis (and of course every single case would have aspect that were different, but diagnoses wise there is usually a guideline like Bipolar or depression) and the treatment could take years or months depending on the personal experiences or environmental surroundings. I would imagine that poor Cole won’t have the best surroundings. Cycling back to Cullen I would see this as a similar issue for his PTSD. I mean come on; in the beginning the poor guy might have relived traumatic events whenever someone cast a spell.
MMG you raise a good point about Cole being a human or not. I am going off the assumption that he is a typical sentient being. At least to enough of a degree where there would be complexity for him to become an LI when we meet him. Maybe if the game progresses forward like DA2 and years were to pass it would be easier to understand. In that manner you could watch his development and maturity continue on until he was a true adult. Then at the very end of the game he would be a possible romance. I feel like having known him in his more adolescent mind it would still feel pretty weird though. For example, Star wars! She would never have ended up with Anakin Skywalker if she had spent all of those years he was a kid/teenager with him.
Edited multiple times for grammer mistakes. Need sleep so badly.
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Here in the Netherlands, longer sentences are considered to be a sign of 'education', as long as it is done properly. I am used to reading legislation, and those guys really make a sport of building looooong sentences... So my example would not be to 'rape' sentences by just stuffing commas in there, but actually rebuilding sentences into grammatically correct yet long sentences, which makes them harder to read. Not that I was offended by your sentence or anything, but wanted to explain my bonkers line of thought anyway 
There's only one season, so it's not like you have massive amounts of episodes to catch up on.
