[This is not the petulant protest of a boy who's trying to appear brave. Armin is a little frightened and he admits it. This situation is new and he's been ripped from his whole life and the people he loves again and he doesn't understand the way this place works yet. Maybe he's wrong to assume it's the same as the places he's been before, he can't discount that he might be making a wrong presumption. But more than anything, he's determined to survive. He's disgusted and frustrated and from those feelings come fierceness.
He's been through too much to let this place defeat him. Even if he's so alone he wants to throw himself out of one of those - what are they called? - airlocks. He never will, because he has to fight.]
I'm just trying to think ahead and be realistic. They're giving us a lot of awesome things, opportunities, new technologies. But no one would do all that without wanting something explicit in return - without expecting our loyalty and compliance. Hoping for the best is okay as long as it doesn't lead to complacency, but... not imagining the worst means you might not have a plan for it when it happens.
[And that's Armin. His ability to catastrophize means he has a contingency plan for every possible disaster. It's absolutely a form of anxiety, a symptom of his PTSD, but the truth of it is it's saved his life, and many others, too many times to let it go. Plan for the worst, because it's always around the corner. That his technique as a tactician.]
And as bad as I've heard it gets around here, that means people can and probably will die.
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[This is not the petulant protest of a boy who's trying to appear brave. Armin is a little frightened and he admits it. This situation is new and he's been ripped from his whole life and the people he loves again and he doesn't understand the way this place works yet. Maybe he's wrong to assume it's the same as the places he's been before, he can't discount that he might be making a wrong presumption. But more than anything, he's determined to survive. He's disgusted and frustrated and from those feelings come fierceness.
He's been through too much to let this place defeat him. Even if he's so alone he wants to throw himself out of one of those - what are they called? - airlocks. He never will, because he has to fight.]
I'm just trying to think ahead and be realistic. They're giving us a lot of awesome things, opportunities, new technologies. But no one would do all that without wanting something explicit in return - without expecting our loyalty and compliance. Hoping for the best is okay as long as it doesn't lead to complacency, but... not imagining the worst means you might not have a plan for it when it happens.
[And that's Armin. His ability to catastrophize means he has a contingency plan for every possible disaster. It's absolutely a form of anxiety, a symptom of his PTSD, but the truth of it is it's saved his life, and many others, too many times to let it go. Plan for the worst, because it's always around the corner. That his technique as a tactician.]
And as bad as I've heard it gets around here, that means people can and probably will die.