Discussion Characters / FireEmblemThreeHousesByleth

And now I start making my overhauls to character pages.

I changed all instances of Nabatean(s) to Child(ren) of the Goddess, the term used in the game.

I removed spoiler tags surrounding Enlightened One because that isn't a spoiler.

I changed a bunch of reference to Edelgard to the Flame Emperor to conceal spoilers.

Tropes removed:

• Expy: They have many parallels with Shulk. Wielders of legendary swords who have the ability to change the future, were motivated by revenge for the loss of a loved one, and have technically been dead for all of their life, only being kept alive by the soul of a God who they are meant to be a vessel for. Said God's soul was placed inside them by a supposed parental figure who is Long-Lived. The difference is that Sothis is ultimately benevolent and Rhea isn't inherently evil, while Dickson and Zanza were both pieces of work and ultimately irredeemable.

That's a stretch.

• Likes Older Women: Male Byleth can S-Support Shamir, Catherine, Manuela, Flayn, who is Really 700 Years Old, and Rhea, all of which are implied to be older than him. And if we count her, Sothis. Female Byleth has an inverse, being Hanneman, and Seteth (who is Really 700 Years Old). Female Byleth can also S-Support Rhea.

This trope is for people who prefer an older romantic partner, not merely for one who is up for one.

• Mr. Fanservice: Male Byleth is quite the handsome man.
• Ms. Fanservice: Female Byleth definitely looks the part, having the second largest bust out of all the female characters, and an outfit that showcases her legs and her figure quite nicely.

Merely being attractive does not make one Mx Fanservice. Also, you have seen Manuela, right?

• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Of Ike. Both are children of mercenaries, raised to that life but otherwise sheltered from the wider world, to the point that both of them are clueless about what should be basic knowledge of their world—Ike has never heard of the Laguz, and Byleth has never heard of the Church of Seiros. Both are no-nonsense, level-headed swordfighters who rarely let their emotions affect them, but both go into a blind rage after the death of their father and need to be bailed out of a bad situation as a result. Both were affected emotionally and mentally by the chief follower of their world's goddess as children—Byleth was implanted with a crest stone to save their life, while Sephiran wiped out Ike's memories of his father killing his mother in a berserk rage to save his sanity. Both start out as untested leaders, and end up proving themselves to be so skilled at the role they literally turn the tides of war, serving as advisors and generals to the leaders of whole countries. Both of them wield goddess-empowered swords as their iconic weapons, and both are eventually empowered by a goddess directly. The cherry on top? Jeralt, Byleth's father, is a substitute for Greil, Ike's father.

Byleth doesn't replace Ike in any way since Three Houses is a whole seperate continuity.

• Tangled Family Tree: Byleth's origin is rather... complicated. They were born of an artificial human given life by Sothis’s heart in an attempt to create a vessel for Sothis, and a human who Rhea transfused her blood to in order to save his life and grant him her Crest of Seiros. The combination also made them the ideal vessel to house Sothis’ consciousness and while all this practically made Byleth a Child of the Goddess, it appeared to stop short of actually making Byleth relatives to them. This evident in that Seteth only mentions Byleth could "become" their kin depending on how they develop. Flayn in particular notes in their support that they can sense something familiar in Byleth, and raises the possibility of being distantly related to them (and later recognizes they both have special blood and must have similarly unique origins), though in their S-support there are implications that it is Sothis she was sensing as she asks for assurance that Byleth is not actually Sothis before accepting their proposal.

Byleth is no more related to Rhea than the monster is to Frankenstein.