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[BadgerladDK]

"She knows they're going to kill her, can only save what's important. Precious space to remember her smile."

 

I *thought* this was Cortana from Halo saving a picture of John's smile when she's becoming fragmented, but the "her" throws me off... Maybe thinking of some other story with an AI that's facing deletion and saves a picture of its operator's smile?

[ronniecross2]

"She knows they're going to kill her, can only save what's important. Precious space to remember her smile."

 

I *thought* this was Cortana from Halo saving a picture of John's smile when she's becoming fragmented, but the "her" throws me off... Maybe thinking of some other story with an AI that's facing deletion and saves a picture of its operator's smile?

Portal, perhaps?

[Jaulen]

"Old pain, shadows forgotten from dreams too real. This side is slow and heavy, but here is what can change."

 

I had thought this one was referencing himself, I could also see it being a ref. to Solas in some way.

I think Cole has a cryptic for each companion?

[BadgerladDK]

"Old pain, shadows forgotten from dreams too real. This side is slow and heavy, but here is what can change."

 

I had thought this one was referencing himself, I could also see it being a ref. to Solas in some way.

I think Cole has a cryptic for each companion?

 

Someone had a theory on this one on Reddit that makes sense to me: Inception. They change memories through dreams, time slows down the deeper they go in the memories.

[BadgerladDK]

Aha! Got the "remember her smile" one...

 

Hate Plus, an interactive novel where you explore the memories of an AI. Mike referenced it in the Pax Australia panel.

[ZipZap2000]

I'm pretty sure it's Psycho.

No in psycho she's showering and he jumps through the shower curtain and kills her. Another one is bugging me which is "He hates the world because of the darkness behind the door, some doors shouldn't be opened" 

[AWTEW]

No in psycho she's showering and he jumps through the shower curtain and kills her. Another one is bugging me which is "He hates the world because of the darkness behind the door, some doors shouldn't be opened" 

 

I think this one would be more likely to be FMA then the other one.

[BadgerladDK]

"It wasn't blood in the bath. Fingers on the scalp, intimate, and then the moment is gone."

 

This one is Gone Home. You find a stain in the bathtub that looks like blood, but turns out to be hair dye. There's a note in your sister's diary about how intimiate it felt to dye her friend's hair, and the last sentence of that note is "and then the moment was gone".

[Kage]

 

• "She knows they're going to kill her, can only save what's important. Precious space to remember her smile." - ?

 

 

If its not the interactive novel they said before, it could be the Valerie story from V of Vendetta.

[CastaliaFey]

THE Psycho? The one with the blond woman in the shower and the guy who keeps his dead mother in the cellar while pretending to be her? i have no idea how you think that relates to the quoted Cole line.

"It wasn't blood in the bath" ...  In order to get the texture/color right for the blood in the shower (since it was filmed in BW), Hitchcock used chocolate syrup.  (or at least that's the way I remember the story being told when I took my film class in grad school)

 

"fingers in the scalp"  ...  before she's stabbed, she grabs her hair and pulls while screaming.

[Aisynia]

"Ships launch on changing winds, dizzy sometimes like the top of the stairs, but sometimes like dancing."

 

"Kid, says the stone. Kid, kidding, it would keep me kept with a name, but the cairn can't catch me."

 

wut

[Tielis]

I think they are *all* references to the DA plot.  And they are references to what y'all are saying as well.

[JerrSolo]

"She knows they're going to kill her, can only save what's important. Precious space to remember her smile."

 

I can't quite place this. I'm fairly certain the reference is to a woman deciding whether or not she has space for an old photograph while trying to pack a few important things in a hurry. The scenario sounds so familiar, but I can't recall what it is.

[Pani Mauser]

An old name burns inside of armor that shouldn't fit, lit by faces of children he couldn't save.

 

Isn't it about Blackwall, though?

 

I know, no spoilers, but...

Spoiler

 

Blackwall hates past himself and even after you learns he truth, he asks to continue to call him Blackwall, like a title, since his real name reminds him too much of what happened. Warden's armor 'should not fit'  since he is no Warden at all. And he is haunted by the fact that his target was traveling with children, so his people had to kill those children as well.

 

And he was too afraid to stop his people because he lied to them about 'important mission', so if he cancelled it because of children, it would be suspicious. It was supposed to be a simple hit job on the noble, but he would not tell it to his people and made up a story.  But the noble was traveling with his family, and death of children weights heavily on Blackwalls' mind, he pretty much always thinks about them (if you take Cole and Blackwall with you after this quest, Cole will tell all of it in the banter).

 

"She knows they're going to kill her, can only save what's important. Precious space to remember her smile." - V for Vendetta, maybe? The moment with letter in the jail, an inch of freedom speech.

[SurelyForth]

I'm pretty sure he references It's a Wonderful Life, too, or something similar in a banter with Solas (some details are off, but it's the basic plot):

 

Cole: It sees him ready to jump. Pain pounding, pulsing, life of frustration can finally fall, to freeze.

Solas: Ah, yes.

Cole: It holds him high, shows the hole, where everything falls without him. He never needs to leave. He matters here.

Solas: That is one interpretation, yes.

Cole: You think it is different.

Solas: I think he fell, and it held him as he died, leaving him with images that told him his life was worthwhile.

Cole: That's much sadder. But yes. Calm, comfort, as the cold takes him away.

[Noelemahc]

Aha! Got the "remember her smile" one...

 

Hate Plus, an interactive novel where you explore the memories of an AI. Mike referenced it in the Pax Australia panel.

I could agree. At one point you have to decide which of the two AIs you're saving, and there's a way to save both of them from erasure if you put in the effort (and do a bit of counterclockwise thinking).

[JCAP]

Another one is bugging me which is "He hates the world because of the darkness behind the door, some doors shouldn't be opened"

That's definitly a reference to Corypheus. He opened a door he shouldn't have.

Although, Fullmetal Alchemist kinda fits too, but Edward (protagonist) doesn't hate the world.

[Edrac]

"It wasn't blood in the bath. Fingers on the scalp, intimate, and then the moment is gone."

This one is Gone Home. You find a stain in the bathtub that looks like blood, but turns out to be hair dye. There's a note in your sister's diary about how intimiate it felt to dye her friend's hair, and the last sentence of that note is "and then the moment was gone".

Yup, I connected it to Gone Home too. I never imagined I'd see a reference to such a niche game honestly, but cool nonetheless.

[Fandango]

An old name burns inside of armor that shouldn't fit, lit by faces of children he couldn't save.
 
Isn't it about Blackwall, though?
 
I know, no spoilers, but...

Spoiler

 
Blackwall hates past himself and even after you learns he truth, he asks to continue to call him Blackwall, like a title, since his real name reminds him too much of what happened. Warden's armor 'should not fit'  since he is no Warden at all. And he is haunted by the fact that his target was traveling with children, so his people had to kill those children as well.
 
And he was too afraid to stop his people because he lied to them about 'important mission', so if he cancelled it because of children, it would be suspicious. It was supposed to be a simple hit job on the noble, but he would not tell it to his people and made up a story.  But the noble was traveling with his family, and death of children weights heavily on Blackwalls' mind, he pretty much always thinks about them (if you take Cole and Blackwall with you after this quest, Cole will tell all of it in the banter).

 
"She knows they're going to kill her, can only save what's important. Precious space to remember her smile." - V for Vendetta, maybe? The moment with letter in the jail, an inch of freedom speech.

Great catch. What an interesting character Cole is!

[Pani Mauser]

Great catch. What an interesting character Cole is!

 

Cole is awesome! I always take him with me. He just keeps giving away secrets of other companions. And his comments on Bull's romance are just the best, even if not very work-safe)))

[Ashevajak]

 

• "It wasn't from a flower. He rode it in the snow." - ?

 

 

Oh BioWare, getting in the classic movies. That's a reference to Citizen Kane.

[MissGemini6]

"It wasn't blood in the bath. Fingers on the scalp, intimate, and then the moment is gone."
 
This one is Gone Home. You find a stain in the bathtub that looks like blood, but turns out to be hair dye. There's a note in your sister's diary about how intimiate it felt to dye her friend's hair, and the last sentence of that note is "and then the moment was gone".

That sounds like an exact match to the quote. All I came up with for a possibility was The Grudge, but now I agree with you.

I do think the one about knowing they will kill her is V for Vendetta. I love that movie, and V comments about the woman remembering the smile of her girlfriend, before they take her to be executed, when speaking to Evie.