[Pupate? Of course Armin is familiar with what pupation is. As a young boy he had spent hours laying on his stomach in the grass, watching caterpillars devour leaves before spinning a cocoon and finally emerging as butterflies. Had Terezi undergone something like that? Does she normally have wings? Was she once similar to a fat caterpillar devouring everything in its path? He makes a mental note to ask her later.]

I suppose--

Where I am from, humanity has been nearly completely eradicated by creatures we call titans. We are told that 100 years ago, our ancestors managed to construct three walls behind which the remaining humans could live safely away from the titans. But five years ago, the titans broke through our outer most wall and humanity lost one third of its land. I think that, yes, some people would describe our conflict with the titans as a war but--

[He is quiet for a moment.]

When a fox attacks and kills a rabbit is that war? I would not call it as such. It's merely the natural relationship between predator and prey. Our relationship with the titans... it feels more like that of a fox and a rabbit. To call it war would imply a goal... a structured intelligence and a reason why they attack us. But that is not true for most titans. They simply wish to eat us, nothing more.