He will be taken post-game from a route in which his personal quest was finished, Varric's way.
Taking Varric's route forces Cole to better understand how humans think and feel, and to own and accept his own humanlike thoughts. By the end of the game with this option taken, Cole has "grown away" further from his original nature to develop more of a humanlike identity. He's more "grounded"; his way of speaking becomes more down to earth and he stops firing off streams of consciousness. Since he can't free himself from it anymore through invisibility and memory erasure, he's forced to start learning his way through socialization, and being not just compassionate, but sensitive and respectful.
It's a mixed blessing. He has more hangups thinking like a human than he does thinking like a spirit, he isn't used to feeling like his feelings are "part" of him and tends to just wish they would go away, and he needs to compensate for both needing to catch up on life skills and losing command over some of his original abilities. Because his priorities and frame of mind change, he's not fully adjusted to those changes, he's more tentative, regretful, and overthinking than he is pre-companion quest. However, his way of thinking becomes more flexible and less "results" oriented, with him becoming more "someone" and less of a concept he always needs to serve. He likes learning and new experiences for their own sake, and because he's more open to them, he takes more away from events than he used to--in his own words, he "remembers more". He also starts appreciating the idea of compromise, companionship for the sake of companionship, and that sometimes it's the thought that counts when you try to help others.
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He will be taken post-game from a route in which his personal quest was finished, Varric's way.
Taking Varric's route forces Cole to better understand how humans think and feel, and to own and accept his own humanlike thoughts. By the end of the game with this option taken, Cole has "grown away" further from his original nature to develop more of a humanlike identity. He's more "grounded"; his way of speaking becomes more down to earth and he stops firing off streams of consciousness. Since he can't free himself from it anymore through invisibility and memory erasure, he's forced to start learning his way through socialization, and being not just compassionate, but sensitive and respectful.
It's a mixed blessing. He has more hangups thinking like a human than he does thinking like a spirit, he isn't used to feeling like his feelings are "part" of him and tends to just wish they would go away, and he needs to compensate for both needing to catch up on life skills and losing command over some of his original abilities. Because his priorities and frame of mind change, he's not fully adjusted to those changes, he's more tentative, regretful, and overthinking than he is pre-companion quest. However, his way of thinking becomes more flexible and less "results" oriented, with him becoming more "someone" and less of a concept he always needs to serve. He likes learning and new experiences for their own sake, and because he's more open to them, he takes more away from events than he used to--in his own words, he "remembers more". He also starts appreciating the idea of compromise, companionship for the sake of companionship, and that sometimes it's the thought that counts when you try to help others.