Finally Got Around To Making That Goddess!idol!byleth For A Dimileth Pic I Did Recently. Shes Wearing

finally got around to making that goddess!idol!byleth for a dimileth pic i did recently. She’s wearing the blue cuz the bleu eagles house are possessive mofos who are keeping byleth all to themselves cuz that’s how it be. Everybody is yandere for Byleth and they’re just tryna survive this bold new world of people asking for blessings. 

Team SSSBN headcanons from Twitter

AHAHAHAHA YES PERFECT I LOVE THIS

Me: (smiling maniacally) I should do something with his

I really liked the picture you reblogged with the Sothis Cult worshipping Byleth/Cult!AU. How do you think that would come about? Maybe Jeralt decides not to leave and Byleth is raised in the church (maybe in secret for safety reasons?) and then is debuted when the Lords join the school? Because what better way to ensure the Goddess is safe then to socialize them with the future leaders of Fodlan? ;D

Byleth being raised in the Church, under Rhea’s strict care, is probably exactly how such a situation would come about.

As far as Rhea is concerned, Byleth is the success that she’s finally reached, a clear, living, body for the Goddess that can hold the power. All she has to do is wait for Byleth to be grown enough to sit on the throne, and then she’ll finally have her mother back. 

Rhea’s interactions with Byleth, and her supports, clearly show exactly what she sees in them. Byleth is her mother, reborn. It’s up to interpretation whether she sees Byleth, themselves, as the Goddess just without memory, or sees a living body walking around that will house her mother.

I think, based on her dialog and the scene where she cradles a wounded Byleth in her lap and tries to comfort them, and based on her repeated use of the phrase “…you are my…”, I believe that she does, in fact, see Byleth as her mother reincarnated into another form and just bereft of the memories that make them Sothis.

…and she’s not even wrong if that’s what she believes, because that’s exactly the situation.

So as far as Rhea is concerned, she basically has her mother, the Goddess Sothis, back. They just need time for the Divine power to awaken.

As much as Rhea would like to keep Byleth secret, it’s pretty obvious that there’s a kid she favors running around. Especially with Jeralt freely having the ability to raise the kid himself within Garreg Mach. Everyone knows Rhea favors the child, for whatever reason. Most speculated, at first, that there was a blood relation of some sort.

But then Byleth starts getting older. 

Byleth is a strange child. They don’t smile, or cry, or do things a child would typically do. They seem almost too old for their small body, and their gaze pierces the soul. They’re almost too skilled at swords and magics, and it’s somewhat unnerving. 

Rhea clothes Byleth in the types of outfits Sothis used to wear. Long blue dresses, anklets, braids in the hair, and flowers and crown. She makes a lot of the clothes herself.

Jeralt is…unnerved by the way Rhea dotes on Byleth, the way she dresses her. He tried to ignore it at first. After all, Rhea created their mother, so that kinda make her Byleth’s family, their grandmother or something…right? And she clearly knows more about clothes and stuff for kids than he does.

But it’s…creepy. He knows something is up with his kid, he knows Rhea knows what it is, and there’s only so long he can go without answers.

He demands to know one knight, after Byleth is tucked away in bed, in an apartment Rhea had personally constructed for them, that he meets her to ask what in the name of the flames is going on with his kid. 

Rhea is vague at first, but Jeralt is pissed, and persistent. She finally opens up after hours of needling. 

Byleth is the goddess reborn, and once she’s grown, she’ll awaken her powers and memories.

It was supposed to be said in private, in confidence, in secret.

The nun that overheard them from where she hid behind the turn of the wall either didn’t care, or didn’t realize. She just rushed off to tell the others what she heard from the Divine Archbishop herself.

By noon half of Garreg Mach has heard the rumor, whether they believe or not is mixed, because it was just one nun that spread the word, but still, half believe and are looking at tiny Byleth with her too fine clothes and her too serious face in a different light. Half the monastery is convinced now, and start treating her as they would the goddess herself.

There’s fierce debate over the matter, accusations of blasphemy. Jeralt is becoming more and more creeped out by this, especially when people start thinking he should be sainted or something. He’s heard the word “Father of the Divine” uttered when he walks by and he doesn’t like it.

Things really start getting out of hand with fights and debates. It gets to the point where Rhea has no choice but to speak on the matter.

It’s too late to hide the news, so she confirms everything.

It…makes things so much worse. Now it goes from half the people worshiping this child to ALL of them. The skeptics are isolated and shunned by their peers, rumor has spread beyond the walls, devout believers are flocking the doors, and even those who don’t believe are visiting just to get a look at this “goddess”. 

Jeralt tries to set fire to the place and run away with Byleth, but there are too many people to do that now.

It gets to the point where they have to hide Byleth for the next several years in the most private and exclusive part of Garreg Mach and refuse to debut her. Seteth is brought in to help handle the overwhelming demands to see her and help run the suddenly much larger establishment.

Years pass like this, with Rhea refusing to let anyone see the “Goddess Reborn”, stating that she’s not ready.

Things get pretty cultist within the church itself, despite Seteth and Jeralt’s best attempts to stop that shit. Jeralt can’t take two steps outside without someone trying to get him to pass a prayer on to his kid.

Then, Byleth starts having the dreams. About the war, and the girl on the throne that wears the same outfit as her.

Rhea is delighted, but Jeralt can only despair.

Jeralt is out in Rumire Village, trying to solve an issue with bandits, when he meets the Lords and saves them. They recognize him, and it’s the first time in years he’s been recognized as the Blade Breaker than the Divine Father, and skepticism they all seem to have for the latter title makes him like them instantly.

He personally escorts them to the school.

When he gets there, Rhea, without his permission, decided to fucking debut his kid as the Goddess Reborn in front of the whole damn school and he may very fucking well kill everyone in this monastery out of sheer fucking frustration.

Rhea pulls him and the three little Lords aside and states she intents to have Byleth in a house of the kid’s own choosing, as a way to interact with humanity now that she was coming in to her own power. Jeralt doesn’t have to patience left not to snap at Rhea in front of the kids, especially with the way that Edelgard kid is eyeing Byleth like they’re a roach, or that Claude kid raises a skeptical eyebrow and looks at them like a lion that found it’s prey, or that Dimitri kid can only smile skeptically. He doesn’t know what the fuck is going on anymore, and Rhea should have waited for him. What is she even thinking.

It’s going to be a fight, later, but Byleth is right there, looking at the lords, and then at him, silently asking for his opinion. 

“I don’t know, pick the Blue Lions I guess, I don’t care.” Jeralt waves off, because he’s going to have a fight with Rhea when this is over, and Blue Lions seems least harmful for now.

Byleth nods silently and walks up to Dimitri, choosing to go with him to the Blue Lion house as a classmate. Dimitri, can only nod, bewildered, and try and tentatively treat her with the respect a supposed Goddess deserves. Though he, too, is skeptical of all this.

Some students already believed. Marianne approached silently, eyes tearful when she met Byleth, and Ignatz nearly dropped his paintbrush he was so eager. Mercedes takes one look at Byleth and doesn’t know whether to bow or not, or even if she should speak. She wasn’t ready for this honor. Felix only scoffs, not believing for a moment in all of this.

He’s the first person to every bluntly ask Byleth if she’s really a goddess.

“I don’t know.” Byleth replies, and that’s all she ever says on the matter. 

(It’s not a shock to her when Sothis awakens at last and she learns the truth, she’s been prepared for years).

Dimitri tries to make the other students treat Byleth normally…but it’s…difficult for them, to say the least.

It only becomes more difficult as time goes on, and Byleth pulls some impossibly impressive feats.

Still, Dimitri tries to treat her like anyone else, because he needs to, maybe, or because he doesn’t believe (or because he thinks he’s falling in love with that smile and he can’t let himself believe, or else he’ll lose her), but the evidence is mounting up higher and higher.

Until there’s a moment, where she rips a hole in the sky, that no one can reasonably deny it any longer.

Dimitri at the end of the Azure Moon Route with Byleth

RWBY but the cast are stuck in the plot of Riverdale

Dimitri: I'm a bear! I'm a bear!

Edelgard: You wish you were a bear, you stupid twink!