[ If Owen's personality wasn't........... Like This. ]

So they do. [ .... ] Is it also a habit to be intentionally unpleasant? Or is that simply your state of being? A way to push people away so you won't get hurt?

You've lived so very long. Does it not get exhausting, to push away everyone who might care for you and for whom you might care? If you wear a mask for so long, it's bound to become the truth.