Using the gear? Oh no. You might bruise from the straps if you are using it a lot, but seeing as Jean uses a pokemon here to power his gear, he's pretty limited in how long he can use it.
[And bruises, honestly, are just par for the course for them. The old scars Armin has from the gear have been fading. They are still visible here and there, might possibly always be visible, but in other places, they've slowly gone away.]
No, we all joined the military of our own free will. I know that is apparently hard for people to believe here, but it is true.
[Twelve years olds can totally make decisions like that. He's also quiet for a few moments, weighing the words in his mind.]
When I was ten, Titans broke through the outmost wall surrounding our homelands. They destroyed the city I lived in and the people who survived had to retreat back behind Wall Rose. Humanity lost a lot that day. I was lucky. I didn't lose anyone when the Titans destroyed our city, but my friend lost his mother. Part of the reason things were so bad is because people had gotten complacent. We had been safe behind the walls for over a century, so some people started disregard Titans as a problem. They started to think that, as long as humans stayed behind the walls, we could never be hurt.
[A mistake, obviously!]
Because people thought like that, we didn't really have any competent, trained soldiers standing by in our city. There were some of them to handle little incidents, but most of them were lazy and drunks. We also didn't have any artillery on top of the wall or evacuation plans ready.
After all of that happened, Eren swore he was going to destroy every last Titan. He didn't want anyone else to die like his mother had died. And I agree with him. I don't know what someone like me can do, really, but if it might change the future for humanity, I want to help. Even if it is just in a little way, I want to do my part.
[He averts his eyes, looking a little embarrassed.]
And... I suppose I had some private reasons as well, but those, honestly, aren't really that important. Not compared to the overall picture, I mean.
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[And bruises, honestly, are just par for the course for them. The old scars Armin has from the gear have been fading. They are still visible here and there, might possibly always be visible, but in other places, they've slowly gone away.]
No, we all joined the military of our own free will. I know that is apparently hard for people to believe here, but it is true.
[Twelve years olds can totally make decisions like that. He's also quiet for a few moments, weighing the words in his mind.]
When I was ten, Titans broke through the outmost wall surrounding our homelands. They destroyed the city I lived in and the people who survived had to retreat back behind Wall Rose. Humanity lost a lot that day. I was lucky. I didn't lose anyone when the Titans destroyed our city, but my friend lost his mother. Part of the reason things were so bad is because people had gotten complacent. We had been safe behind the walls for over a century, so some people started disregard Titans as a problem. They started to think that, as long as humans stayed behind the walls, we could never be hurt.
[A mistake, obviously!]
Because people thought like that, we didn't really have any competent, trained soldiers standing by in our city. There were some of them to handle little incidents, but most of them were lazy and drunks. We also didn't have any artillery on top of the wall or evacuation plans ready.
After all of that happened, Eren swore he was going to destroy every last Titan. He didn't want anyone else to die like his mother had died. And I agree with him. I don't know what someone like me can do, really, but if it might change the future for humanity, I want to help. Even if it is just in a little way, I want to do my part.
[He averts his eyes, looking a little embarrassed.]
And... I suppose I had some private reasons as well, but those, honestly, aren't really that important. Not compared to the overall picture, I mean.