"I'm a spirit," Cole clarifies. "Ghosts were people. I never was."

No, Cole's weird. An abstract personification of an emotion who got an identity crisis, thought he was human, developed a bit beyond the abstract personification of his emotion, but now is starting to swing back towards abstract personification form. It's odd. And it doesn't help that Cole seems incapable of explaining things in a straightforward manner.

"I'm a spirit of compassion. I just look like the real Cole."