Yeah, he really is. Blunt as in plain spoken, straightforward, direct, and totally honest. Ian is eschewing the expected social courtesies in this situation, he's not going to load Cy with sympathy or tiptoe around the issue, because it's so much easier to just cut to the chase and openly address the fact that Cy survived something terrible and for some reason he's getting socially shunned by other pilots for it (a hook that you placed forward for Cy so I rolled with it :-) ).<br/><br/>The average person is going to perceive it as kinda aggressive and some characters might think Ian's a bit of a shit starter because he's not following polite social script, but I don't think there's anything inherently volatile or biased in that.<br/><br/>I'm actually a bit confused about that. The only way Ian is "biased" concerning Cy is that he thinks the guy survived something traumatic and no amount of therapy is ever going to make what happened fine. But that's Ian's personal view that death isn't something that can be made okay, so he doesn't really buy into it. And for Ian hearing Cy say what happened was his fault sounds like someone with survivor's guilt blaming themselves - aka possibly a serving a humble pie.<br/><br/>So yes Ian just really is that blunt  :P and that can grate on people the wrong way. He's also currently a lot more blunt and up front than usual because he's currently going through his own stuff too.