Complex indeed--the ice alien has been through a whole heap of trauma by this point in his life that has knotted him up with various personal issues. His grumpy and harsh exterior is as much a direct result of that trauma as it is a cover for said issues. It means he takes being laughed at extremely personally, but he's also mortified for letting even a trace of anything but that cold, hard front show through.

Algidus' gills flare like a cobra's hood as he emits a bone-chilling hiss, one so loud and harsh it rattles ominously in his gill arches. One of his hands tenses, a spark of some strange energy crackling across it "Don't laugh at me!! You didn't see anything. You don't know what you're talking about!"