I'm saying the effect of the job is predictable. [Sorry Geralt. He's going to possibly cross a line here, but you can throw pork at him if he is.]

Killing things makes you hunted in turn, because if you're willing to kill things that are sometimes human shaped, well. Or maybe you're playing with magic instead. It probably doesn't matter. Your good starts to look suspicious, so you keep distant from society. Maybe you have your own people, maybe you don't. But there's a cynicism and a wariness of the world. Weary also enters into it. There's pitch black humor to cope.

[There's a shrug.]

I'm wrong on some details, I'm sure. This is just my observations. The job's damage tends to shape people in similar ways.