- Despite not caring for the well-being of other people, he also doesn’t wish them ill will (unless they wrong him somehow) and doesn’t feel any particular negativity towards humanity as a whole. He knows people are often awful but doesn’t hate them for it.
- He’s become desensitised to a lot of stuff, especially because of his time spent as a servant to mobsters. At times, they’d killed and tortured people with him in the room watching. He learned apathy very quickly.
- With both his father and the mobsters, he knew when to fight back and when to take a hit. Fighting back was reserved for life or death situations.
- The version of the drug he took was still experimental, so while not as dangerous as it could have been, he had a good reason to assume he’d die because of it. He suffered through a virus-type illness as a result and almost succumbed. The fact that he pulled through in one piece made him the first successful subject. The drug became much safer afterwards.
- Likewise, the fact that the drug was more dangerous than the one currently used may also explain how powerful his ability is. As they say, no pain, no gain.