It is the same where I am from. So I can understand how significant it must feel to him. Being forced to deny part of who you are is always difficult.
[Not that Steven and Armin's worlds are analogous. Where Armin is from, such things are not talked about at all. Certainly, Ymir had always joked about marrying Christa, but nobody had ever really taken that serious as it was Christa, the person who could tame any wild beast. Though Armin suspects now Ymir had hardly been joking.
Of course, such behaviour had also existed in their world. But it was something kept away, something eccentric to be hidden and denied in the light of day.]
text;
[Not that Steven and Armin's worlds are analogous. Where Armin is from, such things are not talked about at all. Certainly, Ymir had always joked about marrying Christa, but nobody had ever really taken that serious as it was Christa, the person who could tame any wild beast. Though Armin suspects now Ymir had hardly been joking.
Of course, such behaviour had also existed in their world. But it was something kept away, something eccentric to be hidden and denied in the light of day.]