TheKomandorShepard wrote...
It isn't so hard...
First i mean that he isn't villain but he was right hand someone who was and they have very similar views simple?
Next is that he is emotionally weak and have problem with dealing with his feelings acting like ten years old simple?
Another is that he is weak character and that he was tortured isn't excuse many other characters suffered and deal with it much better than him like silas.
Ok we go for another sentence , many his fans use as argument that his positive trait is that he was better than some templars in kirkwall what isn't nothing difficult because templars in kirkwall were sadists.
I skip some parts if you have you have any objections read my previous comment.
He's guilty by association, okay I understood that part from before. Can't really dispute that. He does not however share the same views, similar but not the same. It's like saying every cop shares the same view on criminals. Meredith calls for the Rite of Annulment prior to the end of the game, but Cullen actually mentions how the circumstances in Kirkwall don't warrant it, unlike the Circle in Ferelden. Which is pretty different.
I'm unaware of how he acts like a ten year old though. Is it when he is talking to a female mage or after he's been tortured or during his first year in Kirkwall?
Silas was tortured, this is true, but Cullen wasn't just tortured physically, he watched as his friends were killed in front of him and as abominations toyed with his deepest secrets. Both are horrible events, but you can't say, "Other people deal with their problems better, why are you being a baby?" Some people never get over that kind of torment. They go years and years with PTSD and die. That doesn't make them weak however, makes them really unlucky.
Still being surrounded by sadists for years and not becoming one via peer pressure and a dislike if not hatred of the people he is supposed to protect is pretty telling of how strong he is. One thing of note however is that it's not just his fan's beliefs that he's a good templar, but the devs themselves have labeled him as a moderate so...yeah.
On Cullen's opinion of the Tranquil Solution he actually does not say whether he supports it, but I'd be lying if I said he doesn't seem to lean in its direction. He doesn't think it's necessary to make use of it more than they already do though. To him it appears that making a mage tranquil is a mercy, WE know it's not, but he doesn't because he didn't get to see Karl. I'm not saying that would change his mind though, I don't believe he'd support it, but I can't say definitely one way or the other because he's a moderate, he could go either way and that's why I find him interesting.