Talk:Operation Spyfall/@comment-34597974-20161021224143/@comment-29570797-20161022000126

Maybe it has to do with this trope I find on her called Broken Bird:

"These characters (often female) are coping with a  Cynicism Catalyst, a  Despair Event Horizon, or a  Dark and Troubled Past by becoming as  cynical,  stoic, and/or  badass as possible.



Her deep experience and emotional detachment almost always give the impression of competence, though she doesn't always live up to her own hype. Varying between  Cool Big Sis,  Emotionless Girl,  Little Miss Snarker, and  Snark Knight, she marks herself as more experienced and worldly than the other characters, even if the  Competence Zonemeans she herself is barely out of her teens.



In fact, she can sometimes fill a mentor role for less experienced and more idealistic characters, all the while loudly expressing her irritation with said arrangement, so no one gets the impression she's softening up. Sometimes, this is to  Jerkass<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;line-height:22.4px;"> levels; however, she is often a sympathetic  Jerk with a Heart of Gold<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;line-height:22.4px;">,  giving an impression of independent toughness to hide a sincere affection for the other characters<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;line-height:22.4px;">."

Source: TV Tropes and the category of Broken Bird.