"You're very kind," Tarantulas says quietly. "I never expected it to happen easily or quickly, but...I came here with the goal in mind of changing myself for the better. To become someone people -- a specific person -- would want to know. But it feels as though, every time I let people close...every time I open myself to others...these scars inside me ache all the more. I worry that in trying to change I may rip myself apart."

Dramatic? Yes. Yet he has never been one to shy from melodrama when speaking the truth of his spark.