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Maybe it’s while Atreus is gone and he’s feeling admittedly lonely, but Kratos begins to spend more times with the wolves.

It started because Freya said their fur was matted and how that could lead to disease and he couldn’t let that happen. He wouldn’t make them suffer like that nor would he fail his son like that. So, he begins to brush them with a comb he saw Atreus use for them once.

At first the two girls seem confused, Speki not all that happy with how rough he was at first but forgiving him quickly when he used more caution. She was as well behaved as ever after that, if not testing the man with her numerous licks.

Svanna refused to roll onto her back the first time, still not to sure on her masters father, but after feeling his gentle hands cup her maw and give a sound border lining on a coo upon her whining, she gave in. He wouldn’t approve of such sounds when they were ‘working’ but seemed to find them amusing otherwise. So, upon him bringing out the brush she would roll right over and from then on actually refused to not be that way.

Kratos also learns that Svanna prefers chicken while Speki likes deer and starts to make sure they get what they both prefer. The one time he mixed it up they both looked at him with such sad little eyes it reminded him of his son and he gave them double of their preferred meat.

Mimir would have loved to make fun of his friend when he first let the wolves into the house, breaking his own rule, but that night wasn’t the time. Kratos had awoken from a night mare with fear in his eyes and stormed out, coming back just moments later with the wolves at his side. They slept next to him on the floor and waited until he was ‘asleep’ and then jumped to cuddle up with him.

Mimir waited until a week later and it happened again, this time with him letting them have dinner isnide because it was ‘too hot for their fur outside’. Only then did he tease his brother, acting like he didn’t see him clutching the wolves fur as if it was the only thing keeping him alive.

Fur, that he also noted, was much cleaner and fluffier than it had been even before Atreus left.

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Kratos: I expected better from you.

Atreus:

Atreus: Well that's on you because I had nothing to do with that

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Thinking about this song but from the perspective of Baldur about his mum

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I love the idea of Atreus being like Percy Jackson in the wha that from his perspective he’s just some guy whose trying to the right thing but to everyone else he’s actually fucking terrifying and an unstoppable force

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I really want Kratos to have a calm, peaceful death. Not in a glorious battle or by something small a stupid (like a rusty nail) but I want him to be at home, to have just had dinner with his son and Mimir, to ah e made peace with Sindri and Freya. It could be that he’s old or maybe it’s that in his found peace he’s able to just… go.

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CW: mentioned suicide attempt

Thinking about how Kratos would explain his scar to his son. Personally I don’t think it’s from when Zues attacked him, but from the end of the Greek series where he tried to take his own life.

I know that Atreus probably wouldn’t ask very outwardly, but as he grows older and Kratos becomes better with accepting his past and himself, I want to know how it would go.

Would Kratos admit he didn’t want to live?

Would he tell his son all the reasons why, including his daughter?

Would he plead for his son to never try to do the same thing, no matter what his failures may be?

I just want to know, just like how he would explain how he wasn’t the marked one because of his red tattoos, but because of the ash in his skin.

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I know that at least in the Marvel Comics that Loki is gender fluid, and I’m not sure if that was ever something in Norse mythos but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was.

Either way, this makes me think of GoW and Atreus. First I thought about him learning to shape-shift to be like other people, similar to Zues or Odin, and discovering that he’s comfortable in different genders. Maybe he experiments a bit and makes a female version of himself and halfway through ends up in some kind of mix between and thinks, “hey, I kind of like this as well”. With Anga they shift all the time to what they feel like, either for a few minutes or full days, but he’s scared to do so around the others. Either Mimir figures it out and tells Kratos or the man himself just knows his child well enough, but either way he ends up telling him the story of Caeneus. He explains that he was born a woman and that he was one of Poseidon’s many lovers. He made him a man when Caeneus confessed to their gender, while also making him invincible. It was of course a trade, when he was still a woman he had to have sex with the sea god, but alas it worked. Kratos knew the man and was for a time his friend, and Caeneus taught him many things of how the gods could be wrong about love and gender.

Atreus feels safe to come out to their father then. Kratos struggles with the pronouns and still holds some ignorance, but he tries and that’s all that matters.

Alternatively, I thought about the difference between Atreus and Loki. Atreus is the son of Kratos and Faye, lover of animals and saviour of friends. But Loki is different, Loki is powerful and smart, able to trick mighty gods and defeat even greater foes. Loki knows that Kratos is power incarnate, but it’s woman like Faye and Freya who truly show how cunning and steady you must be. So, with his new found power and comfort of another gender, Atreus decides that he will forever be the boy and man his family knows, but that Loki will be a woman as wise and powerful as the gods before him. She will be quick and decisive, as regal and elegant as she could be ruthless and unyielding. Both will hold kindness and compassion, one will just wear it with a smile and the other with a grin.

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Personally I don’t think Kratos and Freya should be a couple purely because of two reasons.

First is the most obvious to me, that Kratos just lost his wife and has already been through that grief once before, I don’t think it would fit who he is and has became for him to just… move on. Plus, while he’s not shown to be sexist, he is still a man from Sparta and I’m sure he does see sex as a seperate thing to love and as such has probably not had many female friends or allies that he hasn’t laid with.

Second and most important to me is that Freya deserves to trust a man without being tied to him. She obviously trusted her brother and all, but they had their issues and were always going to find a way to work with one another. Mimir didn’t really mean to, but he’s failed her over and over and will always be the one who put her with her ex husband. I don’t think we’ve seen anything about her having any other lover, but even if she did I feel that after her last relationship she deserves to just exist as her own being without her son or his father. I want her to have a man that she can trust to not hurt her, at least not on purpose, and who will not expect anything from her in return, especially her homeland.

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Atreus noticing his fathers soul is different to everyone else’s. It’s obvious that it’s because he’s from a different land, but even then he can tell something is… odd. It’s almost like there is a separate part to his soul that exist in its own way, to do its own thing, twisting and spinning and circling his own like a dance. He thinks it’s might be like how most souls he knows have a guide but that doesn’t fit in his mind. Eventually Freya calls out his stating that she, Kratos and Mirmir had all noticed and he shyly voices how he’s noticed how his fathers soul is different.

Kratos hums before explaining, “In my home land, we were made as one being that would be split in half, creating what you might call a ‘soul mate’. Our souls are torn in half, but overtime will be fused to either our other or adjust to a life of solitary.���

They enjoy the story, with Mirmir being the one to explain how humans were made with four arms and legs and so on, something Kratos didn’t seem necessary.

Atreus nots but then asks another question, “but… there’s like this glowing thing too, it’s orange and really really bright. It moves a lot but it doesn’t seem connected to you. Is that your guide?”

Kratos is silent for a moment, making them all think that he’s going to shut down the conversation, but he surprise them by continuing, “In my home land there were creatures called Pheonix. There was one for each god born, an endless creature that would be reborn upon death and had the power to heal a god. Most of them forced their Pheonix to give their lives and their ability to be reborn in order to be stronger and live longer…”

He trails off but continues despite his obvious grief, “Ares, the god I served, hid his Pheonix beneath a lake of ice. He chained her, tortured her with water and ice, with no air for her flame and no heat for her heart. When I killed Ares I was told of her, I chose to save her as I thought of… my past. I took her from the ice, broke her chains and took my blade to her chest yo revive her fire. Unlike the other gods I told her to live freely, but she instead chose to serve me after I showed her mercy. She did my bidding, as my right hand, spied on my foes and burned my enemies when I was unable. She was cruel herself, enjoyed collecting bones and jewels from her victims, but she was still a child. Old to a human, maybe, but she had the mind and body of a child despite her brutality. During my fight with Poseidon, I was killed. My heart was ripped from my body and yet, despite how much I begged her, she gave up her live and her chance of revival to save me. She ripped apart her very being, infusing her flame to me so I would live… I tortured Poseidon for it, but at the end I knew the choice was hers. Part of her will always be with me, though we will never meet again.”

They all sit in silence for a while, contemplating and taking in his story.

#god of war #god of war ragnarok #god of war kratos #god of war atreus #kratos #god of war freya #god of war mimir #I’m a little obsessed with phoenix’s #like a lot #phoenixs

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Atreus has three dogs, one of which is a giant who can go literally anywhere he wants. Yes, technically Kratos presumably takes care of the other two while Atreus is on his journey, but consider…

Atreus has finished his long journey, finding all the giants and preparing to find them all new homes, new bodies, but first he wants to go home. He misses his father and Mimir, wants to tell them of the journey he’s faced so far. So, he does. He’s so happy he hugged by his father, to jump up and wrap his arms around his fathers neck and be squeezed gently. He grins so wide it hurts when he sees Mimir, happily starting to talk about ally he things he’s seen when suddenly-

“Mwuur?”

Jumping onto his fathers shoulders is the most majestic looking cat he’s ever seen. She’s small, fluffier than any other animal, and as white as the skin of his father. Her eyes are pure blue, striking and almost unnerving. Her long tail brushes against the back of Kratos’s head as the sweet little lass rubs her chin against his beard, her favourite scratching post.

What surprises Atreus the most though, is when his father lifts a large hand up to carefully pat her soft ears, causing a purr so loud he recons Mimir could feel it.

At his curious eyebrow raise, his father gives as good as an explanation as he can expect from him, “Found her. I have named her άσπρο. It means white, in Greek.”

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I love the fic possibility in Kratos telling Atreus not to touch The Blades of Chaos, especially their handles. When Brok or Sindri and even Surtr work on them he never lets go of them, keeping the handles covered with his fingers. Maybe he doesn’t know what will happen or he knows exactly, but eventually something happens and Atreus picks up one of the blades by its handle, maybe without thinking cause he’s in a fight or he simply just forgets, and is subtly the weapons chains fuse into his arms. Kratos heard his screaming and manages to get the blades off him, but the wounds have set and scars are going to form.

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A really important thing that I have learnt is the difference between how people process things. There are many ways, but there’s two groups I find people fall into. The first reminds me of Atreus, which is talking. Saying things out loud helps him to understand things, to see them easier and flesh them out. Kind of making them ‘real’ in a way. The other group is where I see Kratos and personally myself, thinkers. Pondering and sorting things out inside your head as a means to understand it. Figuring things out inside your mind can be a lot easier then talking about it because you need to get things correct in your mind first before speaking it.

The way Thinkers and Speakers can clash is really hard to deal with but defiantly not impossible.

Just a thought~

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Not me jsut realising that Kratos being the ‘Marked One’ probably meant his white skin and not the red markings

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I don’t think that Kratos would kill all the Aesir gods if Atreus died, just the ones involved in his death or just the one who killed him. Not because he learnt his lesson or knows better, but because he wouldn’t want to hurt the world his son and wife loved so deeply.

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Thinking about Kratos teaching Atreus to drive and he shut royals the entire car and they’re just stuck there like

Atreus: are you mad…?

Kratos: no.

Atreus: I feel like you’re mad?

Kratos, hanging upside down in his seat: think what you like.

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They find the remains of an old Greek Temple that holds different pictures of the gods. It had been hidden in the waters until it washed ashore and Kratos goes with them to explore. He tells them of some of the gods such as Hera and Hades, as well as some whose paintings are either not present or impossible to see. He speaks little of Zeus and none of them, Mimir, Freya and Arreius, bring him up afterwards.

They get deeper into the broken up hall and Freya finds a painting of him, taking up a hall wall yet hurried in the back. They all walk over when she calls out and take in all the details though faded and broken. He’s standing tall with his hands at his side, face blank aside from a sternness and eerie light in his eyes. It’s different to all the others who help objects or smirks of power, he seems much more like a man all too aware of what he is, being either spiteful or resigned to it. They take in the blood red markings that have faded to a dull pink and the red and gold attire he wears. The symbol of a spartan resting on his belt.

What they all note more than anything else is the being by his side. She looks like a young girl with black and red hair like burning coal, bright blue eyes piercing in a contrasting cold. Long black nails adorning her hands curl around his wrist, close to cutting into his pale skin. She wears a Toga that layers to resemble a fire, much like the flame surrounding her feet and trailing up her legs, mirroring the blood at Kratos’s. They feather like detailing, as if she has wings wrapped around her. Her eyes are bigger than they should be, with slit like pupils and thin mouth agape slightly to show sharp, thin teeth. Her face looks haunted, as if her very being is dead.

Atreus asks the obvious question on their minds, “Who is she, father?”

Kratos, for the first time since entering, looks reminiscent and fond as he speaks, “Acrasia. Just as Odin has his crows and Hades had Cerberus, I had Acrasia. She was a Phoenix I rescued from a cruel god before my ascension. Cursed to forever be a child and never age nor die, she was abused by most. They sought her flame and healing, which could make a mortal live as long as god and a god live forever. I saved her and, upon me not demanding her power, she chose to stay by my side. I taught her life, as it should be, and in return she spied on my enemies. I never ordered her to, but she wished to repay me and held a hate for gods that rivalled my own. A Phoenix does not die, nor burn out, so when I made choice to fight the gods… I sent her away. She needed not the sight of bloodshed but of peace, which I did not want. I… do not know what happened to her after it all.”

They look at the girl again, now knowing she was a being of endless power and wondering how she looked so small and weak. Kratos holds his hand to the painting, at her small face, and speaks to his son, “I would not have accepted you as my child if she had not taught me my own patience. I fear I would have never let your mother love me if she didn’t show me how ones past does not become them. I owe her more than even I can comprehend.”

He walks out, saying something about preparing dinner, leaving them all to ponder his words. He seemed to want to leave it, but unlike the topic of Zues, this seemed more out of regret or respect.

Atreus is ignited with a hope and, with the help of his friends, sets out to the Acrasia. If the temple survived, perhaps she did too.

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Kratos realising that some of his sons abilities stem from his own father. Zeus used shapeshifting to do a number of cruel things, he used it to trick and spy on enemies, torture his people, assault and violate people like his mother. Atreus can shift as well but when he does it, he uses it to protect. He uses it to keep his family and friends safe and as a way to hide when he’s scared. Kratos thinks of how Zeus is still having an impact on his life, how part of his fathers blood is running through his own sons veins. He thinks about the cycle of a gods life, of abuse and war. Then he looks at his son and he realises that his own power is there, as well as his beloveds and new power, unique to his son. Atreus is using the power he once feared to do better, to help and heal. The power of Zeus, of Kratos, of Faye, it all runs through him and he makes it his own. Kratos used the rage of gods as tools for years, always to hurt. Atreus isn’t him though, he’s better. He’s better than them all.

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