Uh, I think I have a few stories I could tell. I don't really know which one to pick, though.

[ He's been through quite a bit and every time he opened up about half of it, everyone around him looked like he'd started defusing a bomb in front of them. ]

Mm... I've got stories about fighting up a gang's headquarters with only a doctor behind me to save someone, I've fought two different killers on different occasions and they're the reason for half my scars, I've gone to a weird predation club... I've been dumped in the ocean for dead, wore a dress and heels on a battlefield, I pulled all my teeth out and then grew them back once... [ That's not even touching on eating someone's leg, but that's not really first conversation stuff to admit... ]

Does any of that work?