Sometimes, yeah. Putting on a brave or a happy face when bad things are happening can help a lot with keeping others calm.

[It's how she tried to keep everyone's spirits up, when the looming threat of Cass returning still hung heavy over Corona. In cases like that it's fine, but this whole feeling of manipulation is completely different.]

But acting like nothing happened when a lot of people were hurt in December feels kind of... bad. It's like the people here don't even care that a lot of their own turned up dead.