Most biology degrees have a pretty rigorous chemistry component, at least compared to high school requirements, and it’s his job to prep for the class.
It is a little different when your origin story is very obviously a mediocre conman having his shitty cons described by multiple eye witness accounts and having your myths be 2000 years old with no first hand accounts.
The swastika wasn’t owned by Hindus. It’s not even "owned’ by Dharmic religions in general. It was simply a very popular symbol that could be found in basically all cultures, including Native American cultures.
Do you know what event actually popularized it the most in Europe and directly led to it being co-opted for hate?
Schliemann’s discovery and excavation of the city of Troy, which included nearly two thousand depictions of the swastika.
Idk, I think this meme is acceptable under the premise that clearly evident truth with mountains of proof can’t possible be a political wedge issue, right?
The problem in that case is I absolutely can’t talk about the problems with it without spoiling the ending and quite a lot of the drama from the third book, but I will say I enjoyed the series quite a lot, teen drama and all, until #3.
I’ll also say if you loved the combat in the second book you’ll love some 40k Space Marine novels because it was basically just a typical Astartes drop pod assault, including the MC melting a guy’s face with definitely-not-a-Betcher-Gland.