["Okay, you got me. I was stupidly lashing out because I lost someone important to me a few weeks ago and now I don't know what to do with all this festering guilt that I couldn't protect them."

Seems like a totally normal thing to reply with, huh? Nah.

He protects his own emotional vulnerability and makes it so this kid doesn't have to feel awkward about a stranger being upset on first meeting. He looks down at the white spider on his suit, smirking under mask.]

Oh, totally. Isn't that how you face them? By plastering them on your outfits?

[He puts his hands on his hips, glancing around.]

... This place seems to prefer more extreme measures, though.