Right yes, SPECLUATION FOR EVERYOEN.
Well, Gracia would start out from scratch again, which means she's the same Gracia that sat quietly and waited for a servitor to blow her brains out. And without those in the room to give her self-confidence and to deliver 600 kilo-tons of fuck you into Slaanesh's face, daemon incursions would be way more frequent.
She'd retain her odd way of naming things, like calling soldiers "guns". She's pretty much dropped this as she's noticed it pisses people off and that she's the only one that does it. Cultural humiliation, yay.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?Hooray for Cloud's superior mental stability.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?Does Cole have Gracia's sense of internalised helplessness?
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?I'm still playing through Origins.
But it'll be a while before I can get Inquisition.
I don't mind a few character spoilers.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?Cole is technically two things, a spirit of compassion that crossed through into the real world voluntarily and thus retained its sanity, and a mage boy that it was drawn to and crossed over for in the first place. The real Cole was a hedge mage they locked up in a room and forgot he was there, causing him to gradually starve to death over the next several days. Since while a lot of templars are kind of abusive assholes they weren't actually supposed to accidentally starve their charges to death out of negligence, they covered the whole thing up. Whoops. Fact remains that there was still a starving child calling for help for days on end, and said aforementioned compassion spirit crossed through to try and help him. Except spirits of compassion are really weak, and all it could do was hold his hand and comfort him as he died, and then subsume his identity (likely on accident).
So Cole is technically more real than most spirits and his whole storyline revolves around making him more human or more like a spirit, but because he's still a spirit of compassion that also happens to be a boy, he's innately attracted to pain and fear and hurt and repressed unhappiness and all those lovely things and is compelled to help soothe it as is his nature. He wants to help.
That's... really fascinating.
Ahahahaha Gracia and her bizarre comfort from confinement triggering him.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?Just two different kinds of crazy, drawing completely different ideas from a single circumstance.
Have Gracia and Cole been acquainted properly before?
edited 25th Jan '16 2:01:17 AM by SR3NORMANDY
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?I don't think so.
Also there's the bit where he kinda sucks at his job, sort of?
He's a spirit, and spirits just kind of are. They can't actually help the problem, per se. If you blame yourself for so-and-so's death, he'll know to say "it wasn't your fault" and then leave. They won't remember him, but they'll remember they suddenly feel less guilty about this thing and go about their business.
But imagine... fuck it, Cloud. "It's not your fault." "-Sudden vivid painful 'nam flashbacks since he just dragged that shit up again-" "you're safe here and they're dead" "all my friends are also dead and i hate myself", so on and so forth.
Basically people are complicated and spirits don't really understand people or understand complicated, and Cole, now that he's sort of both, has a rather difficult job figuring out how to people in general, and also adjusting to the fact that now he's complicated too. The result is rather hit-or-miss.
edited 25th Jan '16 2:09:00 AM by WonderSquid
That's really neat.
Cole can get even by talking about how great the Inquisitor is, though.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?I think out of the three nutcases, they're different enough in their own special ways.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?Well yeah, but they're also socially stunted pasty malnourished blond folk with a thing for knives that absolutely positively need to help as a vital part of who they are because what else is there to existing and both grappling with a merged identity that are still familiarising themselves with concepts like "eating food" and "changing clothes" and "talking with your mouth hole" and might turn on you if they decide you're a terrible enough person but until then will take an inordinate amount of abuse from a wide variety of sources that they really ought not to because it's all they know how to do and have kind of a Thing about being locked up and forgotten.
They even look somewhat alike.
edited 25th Jan '16 2:24:32 AM by WonderSquid
Meh.
I'm the guy that accidentally made a cyberpunk Zack girl.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?I had the plan from the start that Gracia had a friend who was a better psyker who kept her from being an unsalvageable wreck and explained why she even survived attempts to be sanctioned.
And then I decided that she was this slick, confident late teen named Morgo (with a first name only you know) who at first couldn't stand the sobbing mess she had to share a cage with, but eventually came to care for. And every so often I'd add more details until I realised she was very close to being Zack.
I could play it off as being intentional, but eh.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?

But I want to go back to being the Doctor.
Waaaaaah.
But yeah, Gracia's gotta get into the RP some day.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?