Byleth in CF being a reference to Mahayana's Bodhisattva would be nice and all except for the fact that Byleth committed sins. They chose to side with the person who was complicit in a lot of the bad things that happened in White Clouds including kidnapping, forced transformations, assassinations and grave robbing. Not to mention the developers outright say that the game supports Silver Snow and CF is the Hegemon path which has a bad connotation.
(cont) Byleth chose the path of ignorance considering that a lot of what Edelgard says is outright misguided. She says that Nemesis was a noble bandit who's fight with Seiros/Rhea was a simple dispute when in reality it was because Nemesis almost genocided an entire race and used their bones to forge weapons. And that's not even getting to her racism/speciesism towards the Nabateans whom she calls vile beasts and not humans and celebrates their extinction in her S support.
In CF, you're choosing to side with a misguided imperialistic racist/speciesist who thinks she has the answers when she doesn't and you go along with it and not question anything she says. So no, I don't think Byleth becoming human has to do with Bodhivista as much as it might look like it does. It's because they chose the path of ignorance and instead of learning more about their origins and the history of Fodlan, they chose to believe a nationalist and brought Fodlan to a cycle of darkness.
When i woke up this morning, there were notifications in i got emails from tumblr, and i was like, oh, right, i had a tumblr, lol.
Anon, if you disagree with my old post, then it's fine, you're free to think so. I don't care if you think CF is the misguided path and the cycle of darkness and all, to each their own. As i hv said in that very same post, you can say whatever you want, just please leave (wrong interpretation of) Buddhism out of it.
If you hv read the whole post, then you'd know too, that the reason why i even made that post, was because there were people making connections between Enlightened One and Buddhism, but they had wrong interpretations of Buddhism and passed it as if they were right. It got to the point that those theories were spreading to other forums, in which the first time i found out about those Buddhism theories was in other forum.
So, i looked in tumblr, found some theories regarding Byleth and Buddhism, and from reading them, i came to conclusion, none of the people who wrote them were Buddhist or even had ever learned Buddhism except from some google search. They took their google search results to form theories that fit their own hearts desire instead of really looking to understand the truth of Buddhism, and yet, they had the audacity to presented them as the truth in Buddhism and acted know-it-all.
Anon, i didn't make up the class, the devs did, if you don't like the connection between Byleth and Buddhism, then it's simple, really, leave it out. When i played the game, i didn't take it that serious, it was like, oh, a cool reference, and that was all. My old post was meant for those who were misguided in interpreting Buddhism, not those who don't think there is something more about it other than a cool reference.
Anw, anon, i really don't know why you even sent me this ask. To say i'm wrong and you're right? To say Buddhism teaching is wrong? Or just to make it known how much you hate CF and everything that entails? I'm not sure, as i hv said before, I don't care what you think about CF as long as you don't spread wrong Buddhism interpretation.
