[Taryon wants to be polite, but the dark eye grabs his attention the entire time. To the cameras, it looks like their gazes are locked on each other.]

I was a child. I thought I could go in, skill a beast, get lavished in praise, and come home a hero. You know those fairy tales, where the young man goes out into the world and everything works out in the end. [He waves a hand.] My home wasn't attacked that often, so it all seemed like great fun. Who doesn't want to be a powerful fighter when you're young?

Obviously, that changed when I left home and was in actual danger, but I say that my boyhood dream is what lead me here.

[That must is true, although instead of kaiju and traveling a post-apocalyptic world, Taryon had a variety of monsters and demons in the corners of his high fantasy universe.]