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Ha! Good one. Now I'm nostalgic, that's such a classic Baldur's Gate 2 moment. "NPCs start jabbering in the most inappropriate moments, like when you're about to engage a dragon" was a cause for much fun-poking on the forums back then. I think it was one reason why they switched to on-demand banters in later games.
I see you're a fan of the Team Awesome that is Cassandra-Cole-Solas, too.
I like Cole, and I have a hard time understanding how some people hate him. He's basically a child.
I don't see him as a child at all -- that'd make me dislike him, actually. 
Guileless, a bit literal-minded and confused about some mortal oddities, but mostly an alien being who found himself in a very strange and often hostile world with even stranger rules.
His oddities won me over tenfolds. I take him when ever I can.
Same. It feels strange to leave home without him now. I want to hear everything he has to say about places and people, not to mention simply enjoy his company.
I agree, it's pretty incredible! Especially because in the middle of that uncertainty, he'll go to Therinfal (despite being so emotionally connected to the original Cole's struggles) to make sure he won't hurt anyone again, and then to help the templars themselves. He has such a large amount of personal strength, I mean, he'd have to in order to deal with so many people's pain.
It's definitely an underappreciated kind of strength. And while it's his purpose and he is happy to live it, the first scene at Skyhold also suggests that feeling so much pain so close is not easy on him ... especially, I suppose, if people die all around him.
I think the trouble is that many people associate culture-shock and a unique world-view, with being a child.
True. Some of his mannerisms could be viewed as child-like, but one should never forget that he isn't really human -- and what exposure to the mortal world that he's had was pretty damn ugly and nasty as a whole, not the sort of experience conductive to learning how to "act normal".
If he's attuned to people's thoughts and emotions, I imagine he's even more likely to react strongly to people thinking 'demon' than other spirits (epsecially if someone like Rhys was one of those people
). Plus, the Lord-Seeker at the time used a Litany of Adralla on him at the time to 'prove' he was a demon. I'm not sure exactly how the Litany works (or if Cole does), but that could influence his thinking.
Very likely. All those thoughts battering at him, including those of his only friends, combined with being twisted from his nature and having committed some gruesome acts ... it's impressive that he didn't go fully demon-mode as a result but recoiled from it.
It makes me really happy that Solas talks to him about being a spirit of compassion and emphasises just how precious such spirits are. Cole gets so little recognition for what he does, it's good to see!
Indeed. It's against his nature to seek recognition or gratitude, but I think it nonetheless does him good after all he's been through when people who know he's not human nonetheless not only don't see him as a monster, but let him help them in his unique way and thank him for it.
I felt the same way about when you ask Cassandra for advice. Prior to befriending Cole, she just says the Inquisitor should send him away because he's dangerous, but afterwards she doesn't say anything. It would've been a nice touch for her to comment on how she's changed her mind, especially after he helps her come to terms with her revelations about the Seekers.
I noticed that, too -- a curious oversight considering how well they get along later on.
No problem! His speech is so poetic on the spirit path (and sometimes before then). Hard to understand, but worth it if you piece it together. I didn't realise on my first PT, but when they return to Solas' study and Varric is concerned, Cole references the history with Bartrand.
Yes, though I thought it was weird because Cole really doesn't act remotely like a babbling madman. As I said somewhere else, I'd have liked to see Varric come around a bit to more-spirit-Cole, as Solas does to more-human-Cole. Between that scene and the one post-quest banter they share, it almost feels as if Varric doesn't know how to treat Cole anymore. I do hope they sort it out -- Varric really doesn't strike me as a guy who'd withdraw from a friend so easily.
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