They say old soldiers never leave the battlefield, and this is very true of you. You have an itch for figthing, and this makes it hard for you to relax when not in action. You always want a clear view of your surroundings and sit with your back to a wall. You have a hard time relaxing or holding an ordinary day job; what makes other people feel comfortable and secure stresses you out. It is easy for you to risk your life for a loved one or comrade, but you are hard to live with. A few days of realaxation is fine, but a lifetime of drudgery is to horrible to even contemplate. What burns twice as bright burns half as long, and one thing is certain; you will die in action, not from old age.
For a character to have an exceptional attribute, outside the "normal" range you must first purchase a specific Pulp Schtick for each sub-attribute. This not only adds a small extra cost, it also gives more or less defined special traits and extraordinary characteristics tied to such high ability scores. Unlike ordinary Pulp schticks, these offer no or very little benefit and some hindrance; they are more flaws than schticks but you still pay for them. If you want to be able to get exceptional attributes but do not want the effects of the schtick, you can pay double price to ignore the effect.
These schticks are considered genre schticks and are not used in all campaigns. See Schticks and Exceptional.