When I was ten, titans attacked the Wall around the town I grew up in. I told you the Wall was fifty meters tall, right? That's why, even with the titans roaming outside, most people felt absolutely safe. Because they believed that no titan could ever breach the wall.
They were wrong.
When the titans attacked, they were led by a titan we call the Colossal Titan. It's sixty meters tall, tall enough that I saw it on that day, peering down at us from over the wall before he [a slip of the tongue] destroyed the gate. We lost all of Wall Maria that day. [Armin draws an X over the southernmost point of the wall.] With the gate destroyed, titans could flow into our territory for the first time in over a hundred years. Those that could, fled behind Wall Rose, but we lost a lot of people that day. And a lot of our farming land.
My best friend's mother died in the attack. Debris from the wall fell down on their house and she got pinned underneath. If it wasn't for Mr Hannes, Eren and Mikasa would've died too. He's the one who carried them away when they kept trying to get her out from under the house.
[What he doesn't say is that the only reason Hannes even knew Mikasa and Eren were there was because he had gone to find him.]
billy mays voice BUT WAIT THERE IS MORE (TRAUMA)
There is more.
When I was ten, titans attacked the Wall around the town I grew up in. I told you the Wall was fifty meters tall, right? That's why, even with the titans roaming outside, most people felt absolutely safe. Because they believed that no titan could ever breach the wall.
They were wrong.
When the titans attacked, they were led by a titan we call the Colossal Titan. It's sixty meters tall, tall enough that I saw it on that day, peering down at us from over the wall before he [a slip of the tongue] destroyed the gate. We lost all of Wall Maria that day. [Armin draws an X over the southernmost point of the wall.] With the gate destroyed, titans could flow into our territory for the first time in over a hundred years. Those that could, fled behind Wall Rose, but we lost a lot of people that day. And a lot of our farming land.
My best friend's mother died in the attack. Debris from the wall fell down on their house and she got pinned underneath. If it wasn't for Mr Hannes, Eren and Mikasa would've died too. He's the one who carried them away when they kept trying to get her out from under the house.
[What he doesn't say is that the only reason Hannes even knew Mikasa and Eren were there was because he had gone to find him.]