[Though it is actually fortunate they are on a beach, even a mostly rocky one. It means Armin can use a piece of driftwood to draw three rough circles on the ground, each enclosing the others.]
First I'll have to tell you have I grew up. I grew up in a world that believed that most of humanity had been eradicated a century ago. In fact, we believed we were the only living people still left on the planet and what saved us was the fact that we lived behind the Walls.
[Armin points at his rough drawing with the piece of driftwood.]
Each Wall was fifty meters high and I'd say about fifteen meters thick, and they completely enclosed all our territory. I grew up here, in a small border town called Shiganshina.
[Here he points to the most southern point on the outmost wall.]
The reason why we lived behind the Walls and why nobody was ever allowed to leave is because the world outside the Walls was titan territory. Titans are... or at least, the way we understood them at the time, huge mindless monsters. Most titans are anywhere between three and fifteen meters tall, though exceptions exist.
[He adds another drawing, one of a rough, humanoid shape.]
Titans roughly resemble humans physically, though that is where the comparison ends. As I said, they are huge. They also don't require any nourishment as far as we can tell -- in fact, they don't even have a true digestive system-- and derive their power from the light of the sun. Their intelligence varies somewhat, but all are incapable of communication. In fact, for the most part they are driven by only one desire and that is to devour every person they come across.
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[Though it is actually fortunate they are on a beach, even a mostly rocky one. It means Armin can use a piece of driftwood to draw three rough circles on the ground, each enclosing the others.]
First I'll have to tell you have I grew up. I grew up in a world that believed that most of humanity had been eradicated a century ago. In fact, we believed we were the only living people still left on the planet and what saved us was the fact that we lived behind the Walls.
[Armin points at his rough drawing with the piece of driftwood.]
Each Wall was fifty meters high and I'd say about fifteen meters thick, and they completely enclosed all our territory. I grew up here, in a small border town called Shiganshina.
[Here he points to the most southern point on the outmost wall.]
The reason why we lived behind the Walls and why nobody was ever allowed to leave is because the world outside the Walls was titan territory. Titans are... or at least, the way we understood them at the time, huge mindless monsters. Most titans are anywhere between three and fifteen meters tall, though exceptions exist.
[He adds another drawing, one of a rough, humanoid shape.]
Titans roughly resemble humans physically, though that is where the comparison ends. As I said, they are huge. They also don't require any nourishment as far as we can tell -- in fact, they don't even have a true digestive system-- and derive their power from the light of the sun. Their intelligence varies somewhat, but all are incapable of communication. In fact, for the most part they are driven by only one desire and that is to devour every person they come across.