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[Icefalcon]

To quote Alistair

 

"More Crazy? I thought we were all full up"

[Winterfly]

Sera is not enough? Herr derr I bring you a hat and pie  herr derr.

[N7recruit]

I think the OP means a Psychopathic Companion, some one like Ramsay Snow for example! 

 

Most of the DA companions so far could be viewed as at least somewhat bonkers to varying degrees. But we haven't had a full blown Psyco companion yet.

 

No shortage of psychopathic enemies though... 

 

Ramsay Snow for DA:I companion & LI!   

[Panda]

I think the OP means a Psychopathic Companion, some one like Ramsay Snow for example! 

 

Most of the DA companions so far could be viewed as at least somewhat bonkers to varying degrees. But we haven't had a full blown Psyco companion yet.

 

Yep this is how I saw the question as well. We have had some mentally scarred one's and one's who have some issues but not really crazy one's. Though personally I don't see appeal of psychopathic companion, I don't think they fit to military organisation and developing relationship with them would be quite hard. I guess companion like this could be somehow useful as long as your goals are similar.. if it's psychopatic Joker-like though then there is not much to agree with unless you want to play psycho quizzy as well who wants to bring chaos to Thedas.

[Reptillius]

If you want to have crazy. Go back and play the DA:O and Awakening and take Oghren through just about everything.  He's more crazy than Anders.  He's also ready to charge into various issues and sort out whether he should have later.

 

Anders may have self control issues. Specially after Justice starts being his in-body room-mate but He's easy to understand for his motives. He also shows a couple other issues that end up with him doing something extreme only after 10 years of being stuck in Kirkwall to the point that he feels like that is absolutely the only way to really make a difference and change the situation for that long.  If he'd really been crazy he probably would have blown up the chantry in act 2 about the time he had to deal with Patrice yet again stirring up problems and using Templars to do it which is helping to further the unrest in the mage/Templar conflicts instead of helping the situation.

 

Talking to Oghren on the other hand, sometimes admittedly while he's drunk, is somewhere along the lines of considering whether you should ask Minsc how he hid his Miniature giant space hamster in the beginning of BG:II.  or a number of his other conversations in both games really...

 

 

As For Jack. Jack would count as crazy. She is just not the sociopath she'd want you to believe but she is still crazy.  Quite good at Justifying her actions as defined from her skewed view of the galaxy at large that do not necessarily coincide with reality in their entirety.  Mental illness can be as much defense mechanism as anything else.  She's actually more stable in ME3 with "her kids" to train and protect to channel all of that into.

[daveliam]

Meh.  I can understand why someone would want this.  There were a few "crazy" companions in the BG series (who was that annoying mage who shrieked ,"STOP TOUCHING MEEEEEE!" when you clicked on him?).  I always found them super annoying, but I can see how they would be welcomed for other players.

[Winterfly]

Meh.  I can understand why someone would want this.  There were a few "crazy" companions in the BG series (who was that annoying mage who shrieked ,"STOP TOUCHING MEEEEEE!" when you clicked on him?).  I always found them super annoying, but I can see how they would be welcomed for other players.

Variety in character personality is pretty good to have.

[Reptillius]

I think I know who your talking about. I can't remember his name because I never used him. I always preferred Edwin.  He was the superior mage stat/spell wise, His personality was a heck of a lot better, and I got a kick out of turning him into Edwina and leaving him that way.

 

I also tended to find it interesting because I'd do something to get Khalid chunked and then he'd be back as if nothing had happened in BG:II but he wasn't nearly as whiney and useless in BG:II.

[Winterfly]

Xzar.

[Mistic]

I think the OP means a Psychopathic Companion, some one like Ramsay Snow for example! 

 

Most of the DA companions so far could be viewed as at least somewhat bonkers to varying degrees. But we haven't had a full blown Psyco companion yet.

Yeah, I understood it the same way. In TVTropes terms, it would be someone akin to a Psycho Sidekick (when the hero is accompanied by a less-than-morally-good supporter knowingly) or a Poisonous Friend (similar, but the hero doesn't know about their evil deeds, or doesn't know much; not to be consfused with toxic friends, those who lead you to commit not very nice actions), maybe the Token Evil Teammate in a group...

 

Mind you, "psycho" in these definitions doesn't mean really crazy, just evil or amoral and prone to Kick the Dog.

 

However, if that's not crazy enough for some, there's also the good old trope Sociopathic Hero. As the definition says: "They may solve their problems in much the same way as a villain would—ruthlessly manipulating and killing their way to their goal. They may routinely torture, murder, and commit evil acts nearly as bad as the Big Bad. They'll do whatever it takes to win. The people they fight beside worry about their behavior, but feel "At least they're on our side."". That sounds similar to OP's definition.

[KaiserShep]

If they went with a crazy companion I'd rather they went with a character who was fun..like the Russian in Armageddon or Stephen from Braveheart.

And technically, that Russian wasn't really crazy either, and he was the only certified cosmonaut. He even said so himself! Just don't touch his uncle.

[animedreamer]

Sera is not enough? Herr derr I bring you a hat and pie  herr derr.

 

I don't think we know her that well to be calling her Crazy?

[Iakus]

I don't think we know her to be calling her Crazy?

Well, she, Iron Bull, and Dorian are supposed to be "Team YOLO"

 

But whether there's going to be a Steven Heck-type character...who knows?

[Revan Reborn]

I think the leaders of Kirkwall thought the Mages and Templars could change the current conditions through talking and compromises.

I didn't get that impression personally. I felt they were just hoping the problems would go away and they wouldn't have to deal with them. If you remember when the Arishok and the Qunari arrive, that's when the leadership of Kirkwall really starts to blame them for all of their problems.

[Northern Sun]

As Alistair once said "More crazy? I thought we were all full up."

 

This was is Lothering. It only went downhill from there, as personified by the Warden's quote in Orzammar of "Don't I have enough armed lunatics following me?"

[Ceoldoren]

As someone who has seen people I love deeply struggle with mental disorders, unless it is done with a great deal of care and respect I'd really rather they didn't. I'd say there's enough poor representation for people with mental disorders as it is. I really don't think we need more.

[ObserverStatus]

If we had a companion character who was the same kind of crazy as Mason Verger, that would be amusing.
 

[Urazz]

I'd call the entire DA2 cast insane in their own way.

Yeah, I agree, they are all crazy in their own way.  With extra emphasis on Anders for sure due to a self inflicted multiple personality disorder.  

[Fortlowe]

Anders and Cole, notwithstanding, I think I'd like a mad dwarven scientist a la Walter Bishop, of Fringe. Lyrium addled, obsessed with something to do with nugs (possibly collecting fecal samples), devoid of shame or an attention span outside of his or her research, and breathtakingly brilliant.

Someone who is adorablely absent minded one moment, then frighteningly rational the next. Like remarking on how nice the market smells then explaining how the best way to eliminate the darkspawn would be shutting all the air vents to the deep roads.

[KaiserShep]

Dworkin the mad is the type of companion I would like. My explosives expert that knows how to make enemy hordes spread in a fiery blaze, and he's laughing all the while.

[The Qun & the Damned]

I think I'm sort of finished with crazy. Anders, Velanna, Leliana, hell, I'm adding Anders again 'cause that mofo was crazy since awakening but more or less hiding it behind a joker facade

[Ceoldoren]

I think I'm sort of finished with crazy. Anders, Velanna, Leliana, hell, I'm adding Anders again 'cause that mofo was crazy since awakening but more or less hiding it behind a joker facade

No, no he wasn't. He was a very, very different man in Awakening. 

[Wolfen09]

I think the OP means a Psychopathic Companion, some one like Ramsay Snow for example! 

 

Most of the DA companions so far could be viewed as at least somewhat bonkers to varying degrees. But we haven't had a full blown Psyco companion yet.

 

No shortage of psychopathic enemies though... 

 

Ramsay Snow for DA:I companion & LI!   

 

The fact that bioware goes for a more serious in depth character development means this will never happen....  It would be like trying to seriously develop sheogorath from the elder scrolls series...  to quote:  "I once dug a pit and filled it with clouds....or was it clowns.... it doesn't matter, it didn't slow him down. But it really began to smell! Must have been clowns. Clouds don't smell, they taste of butter. And tears."  You cant develop someone like this without ruining the crazy