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App for Mask or Menace
〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: Fae
AGE: old enough to drink in the States
JOURNAL: fae_of_the_rose
IM / EMAIL: afarawayrose@gmail.com
PLURK: FaeRose
RETURNING: Nope
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Cole (Alias: The Ghost)
CHARACTER AGE: Not given, looks to be early twenties-ish
SERIES: Dragon Age
CHRONOLOGY: Post-Inquisition
CLASS: Hero, But A Really Confused One
HOUSING: Sure! (I feel sorry for the roomies)
BACKGROUND: A quick rundown of choices made in-game that would be relevant to Cole but aren’t worth putting in the app itself:
-The Inquisitor was a female rogue dwarf (not that he really cares either way but it will affect how he interacts with the Inquisitor in game at first. I've also cleared this with the Inquisitor in-game and they're fine with this.)
-The War Table missions regarding Rhys and Evangeline were done
-Celene remained Empress and was reunited with Briala while Gaspard was later executed
-Florianne was made jester (because that’s hilarious okay)
-The mages were made allies
-The Grey Wardens were pardoned
-He was not taken into the Fade at Adamant
-Stroud was left in the Fade
Cole’s background is...complicated, and this is in a series with complicated backgrounds. This Cole isn’t the true Cole. The true Cole was a young mage in Thedas, taken to the White Spire Circle of Magi in Val Royeaux after Templars found him when he killed his father (who had killed his mother) and sister (an accident). As this was during a time of great strife between the Templars and the Circle, they locked him away in the dungeons to starve and promptly forgot about him, even erasing all records of the boy. His agony brought a Spirit of Compassion to his side, who stayed with the boy until he died of starvation and neglect. The spirit, wanting to help, took on the shape of Cole and began to “haunt” the Spire, killing mages who were likely to be made Tranquil or otherwise executed by the Templars as this was a more humane option. That spirit is this Cole, who actually forgot who and what he was in the year between his arrival in the real world and the events of Asunder. A detailed summary of Asunder is here , but to recap:
Cole meets the mage Rhys, who is currently under suspicion of the White Spire murders. When Rhys is sent with his mother, his former lover, and a Templar Evangeline to meet with a Tranquil elf named Pharamond, Cole follows as he heard Lord Seeker Lambert, a really nasty sort of guy, order Evangeline to kill the mages if Pharamond’s research brings the effectiveness of the Rite of Tranquility into question. He manages to warn Rhys, who tells Evangeline about him, and later Cole is dragged into the Fade when the party enters to stop a demon from possessing the no longer Tranquil Pharamond. He learns to trust Evangline here, though the other mages are wary of him as they now know he is the Ghost of the White Spire. He is convinced to join them when they bring Pharamond to the Divine, hopefully helping people trust Rhys again.
That all goes to hell remarkably quickly and soon Cole is working with Rhys’s mother Wynne and Evangeline to save Rhys and the other mages. Cole tracks down Rhys and tries to escape with him; Lord Seeker Lambert, however, is able to track Rhys down and chase Cole away with the Litany of Adralla, as this proves the confused boy is not actually a boy but some denizen of the Fade. Cole leaves, assuming that Rhys will forget him. He later turns up in Lambert’s quarters, where he kills him.
During all of this, everyone believes Cole to be a mage like the original Cole was. However, this Cole knew that the original didn’t want to be a mage as being a mage only hurt people. Therefore, Cole here is a rogue. Yes, knives can hurt people but it’s safer than magic.
In Inquisition, Cole can be met in one of two ways. He is either at Therinfal Redoubt with the Red Templars, where he helps the Inquisitor with the Envy demon posing as Lambert’s replacement, or at Haven if the Inquisitor instead goes to Redcliffe and the mages, where Cole then warns the Inquisition that the Templars are corrupted and coming to kill everyone. (As the Inquisitor currently in game sided with the mages, I am assuming that Cole was not met in Therinfal simply to make this easier on everyone.) Regardless of how he’s met, Cole approaches the Inquisition for two reasons: he wants to help, and they seem to be good at helping, and he wants to find himself.
After the joining and handling the situation at Adamant Fortress (the same place they met Pharamond), Cole approaches the mage Solas for help to prevent him from being bound like the spirits/demons at the Fortress, forced to do whatever the mages wanted him to do. Solas refuses until the Inquisitor asks him to help Cole; he then tells them he’s heard of an amulet that may work. Upon finding it, however, they learn that something is preventing it from working on Cole. Cole believes it to be his anger at the Templar responsible for the real Cole’s death, who he can sense is still alive somewhere. Together with Solas and Varric, Cole and the Inquisitor track him down in Redcliffe. Here, Cole is given a choice: he can either listen to Solas and heed his nature as a Spirit of Compassion and forgive the man or he can listen to Varric and confront his anger at the man. My Cole chose to listen to Varric, becoming more human as a result. He is safe from being bound to a mage’s will, can no longer force people to forget as easily, and is able to learn and remember things he was unable to before.
Other than this, Cole’s involvement in the story of the Inquisition is rather small. The last thing he remembers before being brought to Heropa is the Inquisitor retiring to her rooms before giving a speech at the end of the game.
PERSONALITY: Cole is a surprisingly simple character, at his core. Originally a Spirit of Compassion, Cole’s driving force is his need to help people. He doesn’t care how he does it; his murders at the White Spire were done out of a sense of compassion as the life of a mage in the Circle at the time was a hellish one. He sought out those who begged for death and gave it to them and once in Skyhold he secretly helps other people; he hides daggers so fights don’t end in blood, he burns turnips so a dying man believes he’s home, he slips honey into Leliana’s wine to cheer her up, and he finds Dorian a wooden duck (though he’s sorry he couldn’t find one with wheels on it) simply because these things make people happier. He fears nothing more than being made to hurt people and can in fact ask party members to promise to kill him if he becomes a demon. It distresses him so much that, before his crisis after Adamant Fortress, he makes people forget him if he tries to help them and it ends up backfiring. He cannot stand the thought of hurting people whatsoever.
Also it’s best not to ask him too many questions about what he is or why he bleeds or whatever. He’ll just confuse you, even now.
When Varric convinces him to face his anger at the Templar responsible for the first Cole’s death, Cole becomes more human. He still isn’t human himself, but he’s anchored more firmly in the real world. He can’t make people forget about him anymore and he is able to learn and feel things he couldn’t before. He still struggles with humanity, but he likes it as he now has a sense of who he is beyond "Spirit of Compassion". He’s remembered now and he finds that people don’t always care if he gets it right. It’s nice to know that someone out there wants them to be happy. Despite being more human, Cole still doesn’t feel any urges to eat or drink or really do anything "human". He likes being real, but humanity can keep the rest of that messy stuff.
(If Cole chooses to follow Solas, not Varric, he forgives the Templar and becomes more of a Spirit. This makes him hard to relate to, however.)
All of this being said, don’t piss him off. One of the party members asks in party banter how a Spirit of Compassion can become such a ruthless killer to which Cole responds "Templars". He doesn’t hate the Templars, pitying them as they fall to the red lyrium, but they killed Cole and caused countless other problems for his friends. He is merciless if he is killing to help people--which is the only time he’s killing people. He doesn’t like it, but if it helps he’ll do it.
Don’t piss him off.
POWER: Teleportation/Flash Step: This is the best way to sum up what Cole is capable of doing when we first meet him. He just tends to...appear wherever the hell he wants (including in the Inquisitor's mind) and while we only see this the first few times we meet him and not again, it’s hard to say if he loses this ability if he becomes more human. Therefore, I’d like him to keep it. This skill allows him to transport himself to any point he can see in a blink of an eye. He can’t go clear across town, but he can go clear across a room.
Enhanced Empathy: This is vital to who and what Cole is. Obviously it would need a permissions post for the details of it, but as he’s always reading for people’s hurt he’s always going to know if they’re hurting and how badly. It almost works like telepathy, but not quite. He is able to sense someone’s hurt enough to get a picture of what caused it (unless they are somehow able to block him, like Solas) and tries to make it hurt less in some way or find and do things that will make them happy, like slipping honey into someone’s wine or fighting a rat to get a locket back.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE: [I really sincerely hope no one was expecting to see Cole’s face because you’re not going to.
Enjoy the view of his fabulous hat! And his chin]
I don’t understand. They say it can let me talk to people across the country, far-flung friends and foes I haven’t met yet, but I don’t see how. It isn’t magic. I could tell if it was. It’s not a raven and it can’t fly. Then how does it work? If I press this button [he suddenly gets really loud because he upped mic volume] will people hear me? Will this button--
[The feed ends as Cole hits the power button. Whoops.
Someone get this kid an adult]
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE: Here.
FINAL NOTES: If at all possible, I’d like him to be rooming near a castmate as this kid needs an adult and they’re the best equipped to handle him right now. I completely understand if this isn’t possible. I will also have a permissions post up as soon as possible.
NAME: Fae
AGE: old enough to drink in the States
JOURNAL: fae_of_the_rose
IM / EMAIL: afarawayrose@gmail.com
PLURK: FaeRose
RETURNING: Nope
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Cole (Alias: The Ghost)
CHARACTER AGE: Not given, looks to be early twenties-ish
SERIES: Dragon Age
CHRONOLOGY: Post-Inquisition
CLASS: Hero, But A Really Confused One
HOUSING: Sure! (I feel sorry for the roomies)
BACKGROUND: A quick rundown of choices made in-game that would be relevant to Cole but aren’t worth putting in the app itself:
-The Inquisitor was a female rogue dwarf (not that he really cares either way but it will affect how he interacts with the Inquisitor in game at first. I've also cleared this with the Inquisitor in-game and they're fine with this.)
-The War Table missions regarding Rhys and Evangeline were done
-Celene remained Empress and was reunited with Briala while Gaspard was later executed
-Florianne was made jester (because that’s hilarious okay)
-The mages were made allies
-The Grey Wardens were pardoned
-He was not taken into the Fade at Adamant
-Stroud was left in the Fade
Cole’s background is...complicated, and this is in a series with complicated backgrounds. This Cole isn’t the true Cole. The true Cole was a young mage in Thedas, taken to the White Spire Circle of Magi in Val Royeaux after Templars found him when he killed his father (who had killed his mother) and sister (an accident). As this was during a time of great strife between the Templars and the Circle, they locked him away in the dungeons to starve and promptly forgot about him, even erasing all records of the boy. His agony brought a Spirit of Compassion to his side, who stayed with the boy until he died of starvation and neglect. The spirit, wanting to help, took on the shape of Cole and began to “haunt” the Spire, killing mages who were likely to be made Tranquil or otherwise executed by the Templars as this was a more humane option. That spirit is this Cole, who actually forgot who and what he was in the year between his arrival in the real world and the events of Asunder. A detailed summary of Asunder is here , but to recap:
Cole meets the mage Rhys, who is currently under suspicion of the White Spire murders. When Rhys is sent with his mother, his former lover, and a Templar Evangeline to meet with a Tranquil elf named Pharamond, Cole follows as he heard Lord Seeker Lambert, a really nasty sort of guy, order Evangeline to kill the mages if Pharamond’s research brings the effectiveness of the Rite of Tranquility into question. He manages to warn Rhys, who tells Evangeline about him, and later Cole is dragged into the Fade when the party enters to stop a demon from possessing the no longer Tranquil Pharamond. He learns to trust Evangline here, though the other mages are wary of him as they now know he is the Ghost of the White Spire. He is convinced to join them when they bring Pharamond to the Divine, hopefully helping people trust Rhys again.
That all goes to hell remarkably quickly and soon Cole is working with Rhys’s mother Wynne and Evangeline to save Rhys and the other mages. Cole tracks down Rhys and tries to escape with him; Lord Seeker Lambert, however, is able to track Rhys down and chase Cole away with the Litany of Adralla, as this proves the confused boy is not actually a boy but some denizen of the Fade. Cole leaves, assuming that Rhys will forget him. He later turns up in Lambert’s quarters, where he kills him.
During all of this, everyone believes Cole to be a mage like the original Cole was. However, this Cole knew that the original didn’t want to be a mage as being a mage only hurt people. Therefore, Cole here is a rogue. Yes, knives can hurt people but it’s safer than magic.
In Inquisition, Cole can be met in one of two ways. He is either at Therinfal Redoubt with the Red Templars, where he helps the Inquisitor with the Envy demon posing as Lambert’s replacement, or at Haven if the Inquisitor instead goes to Redcliffe and the mages, where Cole then warns the Inquisition that the Templars are corrupted and coming to kill everyone. (As the Inquisitor currently in game sided with the mages, I am assuming that Cole was not met in Therinfal simply to make this easier on everyone.) Regardless of how he’s met, Cole approaches the Inquisition for two reasons: he wants to help, and they seem to be good at helping, and he wants to find himself.
After the joining and handling the situation at Adamant Fortress (the same place they met Pharamond), Cole approaches the mage Solas for help to prevent him from being bound like the spirits/demons at the Fortress, forced to do whatever the mages wanted him to do. Solas refuses until the Inquisitor asks him to help Cole; he then tells them he’s heard of an amulet that may work. Upon finding it, however, they learn that something is preventing it from working on Cole. Cole believes it to be his anger at the Templar responsible for the real Cole’s death, who he can sense is still alive somewhere. Together with Solas and Varric, Cole and the Inquisitor track him down in Redcliffe. Here, Cole is given a choice: he can either listen to Solas and heed his nature as a Spirit of Compassion and forgive the man or he can listen to Varric and confront his anger at the man. My Cole chose to listen to Varric, becoming more human as a result. He is safe from being bound to a mage’s will, can no longer force people to forget as easily, and is able to learn and remember things he was unable to before.
Other than this, Cole’s involvement in the story of the Inquisition is rather small. The last thing he remembers before being brought to Heropa is the Inquisitor retiring to her rooms before giving a speech at the end of the game.
PERSONALITY: Cole is a surprisingly simple character, at his core. Originally a Spirit of Compassion, Cole’s driving force is his need to help people. He doesn’t care how he does it; his murders at the White Spire were done out of a sense of compassion as the life of a mage in the Circle at the time was a hellish one. He sought out those who begged for death and gave it to them and once in Skyhold he secretly helps other people; he hides daggers so fights don’t end in blood, he burns turnips so a dying man believes he’s home, he slips honey into Leliana’s wine to cheer her up, and he finds Dorian a wooden duck (though he’s sorry he couldn’t find one with wheels on it) simply because these things make people happier. He fears nothing more than being made to hurt people and can in fact ask party members to promise to kill him if he becomes a demon. It distresses him so much that, before his crisis after Adamant Fortress, he makes people forget him if he tries to help them and it ends up backfiring. He cannot stand the thought of hurting people whatsoever.
Also it’s best not to ask him too many questions about what he is or why he bleeds or whatever. He’ll just confuse you, even now.
When Varric convinces him to face his anger at the Templar responsible for the first Cole’s death, Cole becomes more human. He still isn’t human himself, but he’s anchored more firmly in the real world. He can’t make people forget about him anymore and he is able to learn and feel things he couldn’t before. He still struggles with humanity, but he likes it as he now has a sense of who he is beyond "Spirit of Compassion". He’s remembered now and he finds that people don’t always care if he gets it right. It’s nice to know that someone out there wants them to be happy. Despite being more human, Cole still doesn’t feel any urges to eat or drink or really do anything "human". He likes being real, but humanity can keep the rest of that messy stuff.
(If Cole chooses to follow Solas, not Varric, he forgives the Templar and becomes more of a Spirit. This makes him hard to relate to, however.)
All of this being said, don’t piss him off. One of the party members asks in party banter how a Spirit of Compassion can become such a ruthless killer to which Cole responds "Templars". He doesn’t hate the Templars, pitying them as they fall to the red lyrium, but they killed Cole and caused countless other problems for his friends. He is merciless if he is killing to help people--which is the only time he’s killing people. He doesn’t like it, but if it helps he’ll do it.
Don’t piss him off.
POWER: Teleportation/Flash Step: This is the best way to sum up what Cole is capable of doing when we first meet him. He just tends to...appear wherever the hell he wants (including in the Inquisitor's mind) and while we only see this the first few times we meet him and not again, it’s hard to say if he loses this ability if he becomes more human. Therefore, I’d like him to keep it. This skill allows him to transport himself to any point he can see in a blink of an eye. He can’t go clear across town, but he can go clear across a room.
Enhanced Empathy: This is vital to who and what Cole is. Obviously it would need a permissions post for the details of it, but as he’s always reading for people’s hurt he’s always going to know if they’re hurting and how badly. It almost works like telepathy, but not quite. He is able to sense someone’s hurt enough to get a picture of what caused it (unless they are somehow able to block him, like Solas) and tries to make it hurt less in some way or find and do things that will make them happy, like slipping honey into someone’s wine or fighting a rat to get a locket back.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE: [I really sincerely hope no one was expecting to see Cole’s face because you’re not going to.
Enjoy the view of his fabulous hat! And his chin]
I don’t understand. They say it can let me talk to people across the country, far-flung friends and foes I haven’t met yet, but I don’t see how. It isn’t magic. I could tell if it was. It’s not a raven and it can’t fly. Then how does it work? If I press this button [he suddenly gets really loud because he upped mic volume] will people hear me? Will this button--
[The feed ends as Cole hits the power button. Whoops.
Someone get this kid an adult]
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE: Here.
FINAL NOTES: If at all possible, I’d like him to be rooming near a castmate as this kid needs an adult and they’re the best equipped to handle him right now. I completely understand if this isn’t possible. I will also have a permissions post up as soon as possible.