[Tenses up at the questions - knows he's not dismissing it, but the questioning is still enough to make him more defensive, tensing up and just looking at once pissed off but mostly just heartbroken]
Maybe you should ask him yourself, since you like him and know him so well.
He said that he owned them. And he said it was fine if he called Bull that because Qunari are like that -- except, apparently, the one he's decided is okay to fuck.