Sardonic-ity

Fio recently realized she is the queen of the sardonic comment, a trait she inherited from her mother.  It's more of an attitude than anything else, a way of saying that everything has an ironic underbelly, that the roof may be good, but the basement's bound to leak, that your good fortune today will be gone tomorrow.  It's a survival tactic, a way of laughing at the hard times sure to come. It's also what makes Fiorella's romances "dark."