Concept: a video game alignment/reputation system, except instead of Good/Evil or Law/Chaos, the axes are Cynical/Sentimental and
Silly/Serious.(Sentimental Serious would roughly overlap with your standard “Lawful Diplomatic” protagonist option, while Cynical Silly is the Snark Quadrant.)
Cynical/serious seems absolutely insufferable. Or like a hilariously edgy teenage boy, I guess.
Cynical Serious is absolutely the Edge Zone.
(Like, Sentimental Serious and Cynical Serious will both lecture you about the Power of Friendship, but to very different ends!)