smokes cig nonchalantly

Simply put, your emotions, and their consummate physical Sensations, your psychosomatic ticks (and so on) fluctuate naturally- vis-a-vis a cycle you are unaware of and uncensored with. Something really upset you, you felt BAD, but then you waited... and it went away, like a lab rat waiting for a treat.

Conversely, you probably felt patches where you were very HAPPY, and then that subsided just the same, through no fault or action of your own, merely the dopamine reward cycle of our ape-brains.

It's all chemicals, when you think about it that way...

Knowing this, the pain stings less. And the relief soothes less Welcome to your muted state, thank you community college philosophy class.

Learned How To Not Give A Fuck About Anything, I'm All Fucked Up: Select either a friendly creature or an enemy creature-browbeat target with cynic buzzwords and one-dimensional truisms until they become a pseudo-sociopath. Affected creature cannot be healed; Affected creature cannot suffer negative status effects (mental state, burning, poison, bleeding).