History Characters / DragonAgeInquisitionCompanions

* DidntSeeThatComing: [[spoiler: When he let Corypheus find the Orb, he expected Corypheus would blow himself up unlocking it, leaving Solas to take the Anchor. He didn't count on his dupe being able to jump bodies. And thus, [[spoiler:he inadvertently enables Corypheus[[NiceJobBreakingItHero perpetrate the atrocity]] that (litereally) starts the game story.]]

* DidntSeeThatComing: [[spoiler: When he let Corypheus find the Orb, he expected Corypheus would blow himself up unlocking it, leaving Solas to take the Anchor. He didn't count on his dupe being able to jump bodies.]]

* RealityWarper: He has come to develop powers to control the Fade's effects on reality. [[spoiler:And that's parlor tricks compared to Solas' most powerful act: creating the fucking Veil itself''. His powers have also progressed to the point that he can kill people by ''thinking'' about it]].

* RealityWarper: He has come to develop powers to control the Fade's effects on reality. [[spoiler:And that's parlor tricks compared to Solas' most powerful act:]] ''[[spoiler:creating the fucking Veil itself]]''.

* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Part of the reason she so vehemently dislikes Cole might well be because his read of her indicates she wishes she weren't a mage, fearing that her magic could control her and eclipse her identity (whether by demonic possession or by the lack of status that mages have). Rather than allow that, she's made her magic ''into'' her identity, something for others to fear rather than something she herself fears.

* BadLiar: It's not so much that his lies are obvious, so much that he tells the truth about things he ''really shouldn't'', then awkwardly changes the subject when people ask too many questions. For example, he told Leliana the location of his real home town. [[spoiler:When she investigated, her scouts found centuries old ruins]]. He could have just claimed to be from any random alienage and no one would have thought twice.
* BerserkButton: There's only one thing that will always consistently make Solas lose his cool: denying living creatures their freedom. Whether these are spirits, people living under the Qun, mages, or anything else, he will always get heated, and sometimes even outwardly angry about this topic.

* BadassBi: He's attracted to men and women, that is when he's not killing things. ''Lots'' [[BloodKnight of things]].

-->'''Cole:''' Your knife is big.
-->'''Blackwall:''' ''[snickers]'' It's a sword.

-->'''Bull:''' (''upon seeing icicles hanging from a statue's breasts'') Hey, look up: giant titsicles.

* [[LieBackAndThinkOfEngland Lie Back And Think Of Tevinter]]: How his parents wanted him to overcome his IncompatibleOrientation regarding his ArrangedMarriage (so he could sire an heir for them), but something that Dorian refuses to do.

--->'''Cole:''' He would have said yes.\\

* CommonalityConnection: Initially seems to be a {{Foil}} to Dorian: raggedy versus pristine, apostate versus [[TheMagocracy magister]]. But Dorian is ''not'' a magister; he is, in fact, a DefectorFromDecadence, something Solas greatly appreciates. They bond over magic and artifacts.

--> Solas: If you wish to make amends for past transgressions, free the slaves of all races who live in Tevinter today.
--> Dorian: I... don't know that I can do that.
--> Solas: Then how sorry are you?

* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Occasionally expresses this view in the main game.
-->'''Solas:''' Sometimes to achieve the world one desires, one must take regrettable measures.

* {{Asexuality}}: Originally, being a spirit. Discussed in banter between him and [[MentorArchetype Solas]].
-->'''Solas:''' Have you felt no interest in women since you came through the Veil?\\

* BadassBoast: For all his airiness, Cole manages to pull off a few.
-->''Can you see me?! You ''will'' see me!''\\
''Venatori. Hungry, hateful, ready to hurt people. And they're afraid. They should be.''

--> ''I am unbound, and ''you'' are undone.''

--> ''I am no demon, and you are no god.''

--->'''Cole:''' He hurts, an old pain from before, when everything sang the same. You're real, and it means everyone could be real. It changes everything, but it can't. They sleep, masked in a mirror, hiding, hurting, and to wake them... ''(gasps)'' Where did it go?\\

-->'''Cole:''' ''(upon seeing Cullen naked)'' It comes off! I didn't know it came off!

* BoomerangBigot: Despite being an elf herself, she doesn't identify herself as one and seems to dislike anything specifically elven in nature. While it is mostly directed towards the Dalish, she even takes umbrage with helping ''city'' elves, part of the "little people" she claims to champion. She has a few {{Freudian Excuse}}s, as it turns out: [[spoiler:First, she was adopted by an emotionally manipulative noblewoman who tricked her into thinking she was the subject of FantasticRacism]]. Also, due to her upbringing, other elves (city and Dalish) have looked down on her for [[NoTrueScotsman not being "elfy" enough]] all her life.

--> '''Sera's Journal:''' Elfy Gods [[spoiler: aren't even demons.]] Weird or worse? ... Not as bad for Dwarves as was for Dalish. Maybe.

* HiddenDepths: If her friendship is high enough, you hear her backstory: [[spoiler: Turns out she was raised by an old, proud noblewoman. The woman bought cookies from the local bakery and passed them off as her own, lying to Sera about how the baker was a bigot to keep her from finding out she couldn't cook. After revealing this, Sera reaches out to her friend/lover to make some cookies with her, because she's never had anyone, parents or otherwise, with whom she could do anything simple like that.]]
--> '''Sera:''' Right, what do you mean, because I am really not used to that... acceptance thing you're doing right there.

-->'''Iron Bull:''' What'd you think of that redhead in the village we just passed?\\

* [[IfGhostsThenJesus If Darkspawn, Then Maker]]: Played straight and subverted. After the Elder One's identity is revealed [[spoiler: as one of the Seven Magisters to enter the Fade, set foot in the Black City ([[UnreliableNarrator or so he claims]]), and create the Darkspawn]], Sera [[NonSequiturFallacy sees this]] as "proof" that the Golden City is real, thus the Maker is real, thus everything the Chantry preaches is true. (Depending on your dialogue choice, the Inquisitor can play the [[AgentMulder non-believing skeptic]] to her [[AgentScully avid believer]].) Subverted when it turns out she draws the line at the Elvhen religion. While the [[spoiler: original]] Darkspawn "prove" the existence of the Maker for her, the existence of the Maker doesn't prove (not even the possibility of) the Elvhen religion for her.

--> '''Cole''': (quoting Sera's line of thought) Shite. He's wrong. Dead-eyed crazy, shite. I called him a 'him'. Is he alive, is everything alive, shite. [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny I hate raisins]].

-->''"Sera:''' Finally someone fun! I'll call her Widdle!\\

--> "We have too much in common, yeah? Because we both like women?"
* StaticCharacter: Unlike most other companions, she does not have a major shift or development of character, either from the main quest or her personal storyline. There are a few small revelations, but they do not cause any meaningful changes to her personality, and trying to get her to rethink her life will have no result beyond a loss of approval.

'''Sera:''' Your face is stu-- ''(beat)'' Shut up!

** Alternately, [[spoiler:if he is made more human]]"

* StaticCharacter: Unlike some other companions, Vivienne doesn't change as a person. Rather, the player can choose to learn more about facets of their personality.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Out of all the companions, Vivienne endears herself the least to the party members and refuses to resolve hostilities regardless of their CharacterDevelopment. Even [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Cole]] makes more friends.

* TranquilFury: Her specialty.

* ManChild: He's taken on the form of a young man in his early twenties, but he's very childlike in mentality, to the point that both Varric and the Iron Bull call him "Kid" despite his (apparent) age. Since he's a spirit, it's unclear just how old he ''really'' is, but his childish mind is likely why he's not a romance option.
** Subverted by the time of ''Trespasser''; it turns out that [[spoiler: it's not a case of whether he's mature or adult enough to consent to a romantic/sexual relationship, and is instead a case of whether he wants to or not.]] It can also be argued that, while [[CloudCuckooLander strange]] and [[AllLovingHero optimistic]], these qualities do not immediately mean he has a "childish mind"; the personal issues that he attempts to heal with his abilities and his job with the Inquisition also require a lot of maturity to handle.
* TheMatchmaker: Serves as this [[spoiler: if he becomes more spirit-like]]. This comes to the forefront in ''Trespasser'', as he plays matchmaker with Maryden, the Inquisition's bard, [[spoiler: who he would have dated himself had he become more human-like.]]

* OfficialCouple: In the Trespasser DLC, he may decide to date Maryden the bard [[spoiler:if he becomes more human.]]

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: David Gaider teased his appearance in the game before it was confirmed by tweeting that he pictured Cole as looking like [[AmericanHorrorStory Evan Peters]].

* AuthorAppeal: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJSr6GHbl8c Solas absolutely hates tea]], especially caffeinated tea - it keeps him awake and thus unable to enter the Fade in dreams. Incidentally, Patrick Weekes doesn't like it either.

* ChastityCouple: As with Josephine, the Inquisitor's romance with Solas is never confirmed to be sexual, leaving it to the player to determine what they prefer to imagine.
** In ''Trespasser'', [[spoiler: it is confirmed that Solas would not lay with the Inquisitor under false pretenses, though his phrasing is still pretty ambiguous. Is he saying he never slept with the Inquisitor, or that he slept with her as himself (Solas) rather than Fen'Harel, or denying that he manipulated her through sex and romance? You decide!]]

* CoolOldGuy: Solas is in his forties. He and Blackwall occasionally have "kids these days" talks. [[spoiler:Actually, he's a couple thousand years older than that...]]

* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: In ''Trespasser'', [[spoiler:a fully befriended Inquisitor can tell him that they never imagined that he was someone who would destroy the world to rebuild his old one. For what it's worth, Solas thanks the Inquisitor.]]

** Subverted by the time of ''Trespasser''; it turns out that [[spoiler: it's not a case of whether he's mature or adult enough to consent to a romantic/sexual relationship, and is instead a case of whether he wants to or not.]] It can also be argued that, while [[CloudCuckooLander strange]] and [[AllLovingHero optimistic]], these qualities do not immediately mean he has a "child's mind" and the personal issues that he deals with on a regular basis and his job with the Inquisition both require a lot of maturity.