It’s fair to assume they’d be legitimate teachers with no creepy intentions who, through the vicissitudes of life, end up inadvertently falling in love with their students. As such, we can expect the same purity and lack of reality from a hypothetical Byleth that has a personality.
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The three real main characters in this game all have pure motivations and genuine desire to improve the world (yes… even Edelgard). In Fire Emblem games you will not only find unreal things like dragons and magic, but also straight up impossible things such as kind-hearted rulers that care about protecting and improving the lives of their constituents. There is however something innately perverse about Byleth, it’s just not the fact they’re a teacher, but rather the fact they’re the player.Ģ) Player avatars are inherently creepy, and so are dating simsįire Emblem is a fantasy game.
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We don’t know what they enjoy outside of the very few things we the players are allowed to do as the character, which is why so much Byleth fanart involves fishing, cooking, or drinking tea, the few hobbies we indulged in while playing as them. We can’t deduce what is it that Byleth wants out of life because the avatar has no life and exists purely as a videogame terminal. It is equally as valid to assume they could be a straight laced no-nonsense teacher or a deviant who preys on children, because no conjectures can be traced to their personality, as it doesn’t exist. At best they’re given 2 or 3 text choices at any given time, and any bipartisan conversation that involves them is more of a soliloquy by the other character, with the player input being largely irrelevant to the flow of the conversation aside from changing the very immediate reaction that follows that same input.Īs such, the notion that Byleth is a creepy teacher who’s grooming their students to be their personal sex slaves is misconstrued in the fact that Byleth simply has no real motivations, hence no intent. They held conversations with the other characters, they expressed themselves in regards to the events that happened to them, some would even dare to argue they were better written that some other characters in their respective games if only because their heightened importance to their respective plot lines inevitably helps them have more dialogue, and even a bad writer has to stumble into writing something good eventually which means in some scenes they’re able to overcome the barrier of being bland by design.īyleth however has none of this. Robin and Corrin were proper characters as much as every other character in their game.
#BYLETH RADIANT ONE SERIES#
Surely enough in previous installments of the series you had Robin, Corrin and Kris, but their situation was partly different. Byleth’s “character” is purely an afterthought to their role as the Player Avatar. In a game filled with wonderful dialogue that fully exposes character motivations for a massive cast, it’s hard to think of this one silent teacher as a real character that normally exists in that world. To address the elephant in the room, Byleth is literally a non-character. While I don’t share this sensibility, I do think it’s an interesting topic to think of so I’d like to explore why these people are correct in their conclusion that Byleth is creepy, but entirely wrong in their logic-path to it.ġ) Byleth is just not an actual character They arrive at this disgust due to the parallels it traces with real life teachers who take advantage of their students.
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In the past couple months it’s really gotten my attention the fact that some people cannot stand looking at images that depict the teacher character from fire emblem three houses (Byleth) with their students in a romantic manner. Clickbait title: if you thought Byleth was creepy, wait until you read this!