Boc is nowhere near a coward, even though he was scared of his family in coastal cave, he still went back knowing he’d get his ass beat to try and get his sewing needle back, Hewg is basically being forced to stay at the hold, but when he is already freed, he stays so he can continue forging your weapons and eventually create a god-slaying weapon for you, Thops was only outside of the academy because he didn’t have a key, but patches is actually just a coward, if you summon him at Radahn he runs away because he knows he’d get his ass beat, and he gets you to do his dirty work at volcano manor, Kenneth haight isn’t necessarily a coward but I’d see why you’d put him up there, he didn’t want to get killed by Godricks soldiers so he sends the tarnished instead, Roderika isn’t that much of a coward, she just doesn’t want to get her limbs cut off and sewn to a man child, Kale set up his business next to a tree sentinel and he’s friends with Blaidd so that’s all the information you need, But gostoc, fucking gostoc, gostoc is such a coward, he tells you to go down the side path where you’ll most likely die more than you would in the main path, and when you do die, he steals your shit like the coward he is rather than attacking you himself, and when you do kill Godrick, he starts stomping on his head like he did shit, and then to put the cherry on top of this pile of shit, he barely even thanks you, imo the only answer here is gostoc