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schemingreader said in response to my comment on one of her fics:

I love how he shows his feelings when he doesn't mean to, anyway, and that happens a lot when he's high.

Put that way, it rather explains a lot about why many of my favourite Severi are what they are:

• so consumed by desire that he just doesn't care what he sounds like anymore (and the completely-shagged-out!Severus that tends to follow)
• drunk/high/otherwise under the influence of something disinhibiting (whether substance or spell)
• in a fury of epic proportions
• recovering from amnesia/torture/illness/something that saps him of the energy for his usual facade
• desperate enough about something going to be taken away from him that he cracks
• so wrong-footed by an unusual situation that most of his brain power goes to just keeping it together (I like well-done bodyswaps, gender-messing, and time travel, for instance, even though the devices are kind of cliché)

That's not all of them (I have quite a menagerie up here *taps head*), but it was an interesting way of pointing out a common thread I hadn't heretofore noticed.