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Somewhere in pre-Ascension

Ares @ Alecto: In rage and insanity we will give birth to a warrior who will take down the very walls of Olympus.

Alecto: *rode him like a boy

Alecto *microwave ping*: here

Orkos: hi dad, hi mom and the other two moms, I love you!

Ares: dammit my loins, I conceived a sweetheart again, Zeus will strike him down and kill literally in half second, I should foresee this, I have only two fully divine sons who became warriors, why, what's the point...

#god of war #gow #ares #ares god of war #Orkos #god of war ascension #Gow orkos #Alecto queen of the furies #sorry not sorry

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Give me God of War!! (Ares OOAK, Part 3)

What's going on here? IT'S FINAL

Part 1 - Head | Part 2 - Armor

Million years ago, somewhere near the New Year Eve, when my ooak Ares's armor was complete, I was like: "naaaaaaaaah, accessories will be easy to make". It was a huge underestimation of the situation, as it can be seen now.

I actually had no particular reasons to do it, I mean, his sword would be enough to feed my appetites, but I was like 'I am already decided to make his weapon anyway, why not to replicate attributes of his spider personality from his bossfight with Kratos??'

It was the time when I still had a smile on my face, because at that moment it were problems for the 'future me', and at the first week of January I was very excited about the new challenge. Let's see what we had here under the cut!

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Sword

I decided to start with the thing, which don't need to repeat the same process 6 times

Everything looks pretty understandable, if you decomposite such a simple weapon as a sword. You need to make a handle, you need to make a blade. Intricate design of the handle is required! But the blade sat me on a couch and made me think.

The first thing that you see, when you look at the 3D model, his sword is hecking huge. Like it is half of Ares's own height or maybe a little more and he should not just be able to hold it in his hand, but to stand with it. Doll specifics. You just can't make things heavy. (And I don't really use doll-stands for shelf storaging. I mean if your doll have her own legs, it should stand properly on them by herself.. maybe it is not very clever, who knows..)

Secondly, the blade is actually formed from a fire which flows from all four dog's mouths. If it is a fire, it should be slightly transparent, but have an orange color. And have a wavy relief.. But still be a physical blade. While I thought what material should I use, I made a handle. Ares, you are a dog person, we got it (I guess Cerberus is not safe from pets and playing with fireball every time Ares visits his uncle in the underworld)

After two failing attempts to make sword's blade from the hot glue and epoxy resin I decided to scare plastic with scissors. Actually it turned out very nice. Then I needed to save transparency of the plastic after coloring and make a flamy relief. And glue everything together, sticking fire flows to the dog's mouths. Like this!

It was faster then I thought. ___________

Spider legs

Okay, things became complicated here. First of all, I had a very important question for proforma.

Ares has only 6 insect legs. Is he a spider.... 🕷 or is he a scorpion? 🦂

Spoiler-not-spoiler, he is a spider 🕷 if you thought about it too. Because if we compare his beast anatomy with spider anatomy, we will see that Ares's human legs are the 'missing' 4th pair of "walking legs" (total: 8). And his arms are the palps (which spiders uses for stuffing mouth with food. Or doing palpation, lol).

Secondly, I was a naive summer child, I was like "I will do them in a couple of weeks. I even made a workpieces in one day! And a draft mount for them, which is going to be somehow installed on his back. I need just one or two weeks to finish everything, right??"

AFTER A 2 MONTHS of frustration I admitted to myself that I don't like.. everything about my first view of the finished piece. Put our naivety aside. There were critical points I thought:

Legs need more points of articulation.

They should have relief and blade-like fire tips. We will stay close to the concept art, but god dammit no more dog heads, I see them at the lower pair of legs, but we ignore they are here. It is just too much of dogs, we have plenty enough already.

Ares should be able to stand by himself with them. It means legs should be light-weighted despite their size, and they should be firm at the same time. And there is 6 of them, which means even a small weight will be x6 times multiplied.

We need to attach them to the back normally in the aggregate with the already existing armor and horizontal installing, maybe using an additional slings. Also we need to show how his spider legs distorted and broke his armor between his shoulder blades.

Modification should be removable, cause I want Ares 2 ways, in his own persona look and in his spidersona look.

This plan showed that there was actually a LOT of work to do.. And I decided, eh, let's make legs again with the new concept of articulation.. and a new back piece. Then we'll figure out where to go next..

A MONTH LATER, being very frustrated again, I suddenly found a perfect workpieces for the tips of the spider legs, group up and made an effort!! Sometimes in customizing you just need to find a right piece of plastic to push the project further.

Legs (before and after), back piece and intermediate assembly:

Quickly (before I lose a grip again!) increasing a thickness to the legs, creating a reliefs, and always remembering that I need to leave it as light as possible. Actually my brain creacked at this moment, gladly I could feel how close I am to the finish!

One more assembly before painting. By the way, each leg had an individual relief, like an individual fingerprint on each finger. Just a small detail, which i like a lot.

And it is fine! Two painted back pieces of armor, "normal" and "spider". Love, how wavy 'metal' looks, like his back under the armor was destroyed too. (His face had really painful expression when he grew them before the fight with Kratos. And there was blood on them)

And a final assemble! Turn on his music theme "Duel with Ares" and MEET HIM in his "beast form"

Oh, you forgot your sword, baby. Here you are. Are you happy now?

It is really difficult to make a good photos of him in action. For the more free posing he clearly need a stand, but, well, for the first time I have a lot of good photos.

It is ironic that making these accessories really needed a couple of weeks in total, but ate more months than a whole armor. And I am very proud that I finally finished this customizing progect. With all of my love to old GOW games I want to say that Ares is gorgeous, he deserves million art and fanfics, he taught me how to love character again, he...

He is not happy. Why? What do you mean I forgot the main "accessory"? We have NECA Kratos at home!, isn't it enough?...

....he said it is defenetely not enough, agressively clicking with chitin. Look at him, he feels so lonely without his perfect warrior... Looks like Skeletor will return with Kratos next time! %) because somehow Kratos IS already here, I mean his head and body... Was it my cruel plan from the beginning??

God help me Stay tuned, people

#god of war #gow #ares #ares god of war #greek gods #greek mythology #ares deity #upn the sky handycraft #action figures #kratos

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It is not so much time passed since my return to tumblr, thanks to god of war games, but I feel like I want to chat or answer some questions! About fandom, craft or any other stuff.

So if you wanted to know something, but was too afraid to ask, it is your time now, do it freely!

#ask me stuff #Why not?

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I have a red end on my pencil, but it was too late to change it

Ares is here again and he is very pleased, who knows why

#Baby! #ares #god of war #gow #ares god of war #ares deity #greek gods #greek mythology #Oh no he is doing uwu

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#He is very serious #Knows very well who the true monster is #I want to take more photo #But I need to finish his spidersona attributes #god of war #gow #ares #ares god of war #upn the sky handycraft #greek gods #greek mythology #ares deity

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#ares #kratos #Aretos #Oh gosh oh damn #boyfriend-in-arms is here #Sending flaming hearts like Hi spartan! you are almost a man now. ❤ #ares god of war #God of war #Gow #gow kratos #gow ragnarok

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The way you draw Ares is sexy and I appreciate that. Had to get it off my chest

I appreciate your confession ❤ Thank you, Anon! Ares is sexy and he can't be another way

#ask me stuff #ares #ares god of war #greek gods

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Aw, I haven't noticed before... Faye started to weave a tapestry, probably when she had fallen ill and had to stay in a bed, but she died and didn't finish it, and now it is just hanging on a wall near her bedside :c

#how sad.. #she just started it.. just 1/3 is done #all of it looks like illness took her very quickly..( #faye gow #kratos #god of war #gow #fayetos #god of war ragnarok #gowr #laufey the just #kratos gow

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I just have a thought that WHAT IF when Kratos told a story about Trojan war and mentioned that this was a "war over forbidden love", he meant not Helena and Paris, but Achilles and Patroclus?

It wasn't actually "forbidden" I suppose (maybe we can consider it as "it was forbidden to give up warrior duties for love and they were destined to beautifully die in the battle or because one of them was a demi-god and the other was mortal"), but.. a whole fuckin Achaean side cried over them?? And shipped them with a huge drama?? And "Illiad" was everyone's favorite fanfic about it

#I am very sorry about it #He said the book was better!! #god of war #kratos #gow #god of war ragnarok #kratos gow #gowr #I mean are we really believe that Kratos could like Paris as a person? #Helen was a Queen of Sparta #Spartans would never ship their Queen with someone who is not the King of Sparta and moreover kidnapped her #I AM SORRY FOR THIS POST OKAY?

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Kratos after Valhalla

Okay, in post canon I wish for one thing.

I wish Kratos start to slowly returning to his roots after many sessions of therapy in Valhalla. I mean in a good way, not to his trauma, but to his ancestry.

In Ragnarok he had allowed himself to speak about Greece, when it is safe. But in Valhalla he got nearly in a full contact with his homeland. With his memories, with his mother tongue. With his spartan-self.

I mean he denied his greek origin for the hundres of years, not only as an olympian god, but as a man of his culture, because he saw only what he has lost back then and what he has destroyed with his own arms. He was agree to become a foreigner without a name and a past, but his homeland always was a part of him. Hidden and revealed by the Lady of the Forge when she crafted Draupnir for him.

I kinda see Norse saga as his personal journey of reconnection with his descent.

From complete closeness about his origin to sharing his memories one by one about the food, about the literature, about Sparta. To using spear - the first weapon he learned in his life as a Spartan. To facing and LIVING his memories of Greece directly in Valhalla.

And I wish to see him going further and further.

Red chitons or cloth around his hips instead of a trousers. Golden meanders at his clothes, which he embroidered or paint by himself. Bare feet, sandals. Playing flute of lyre he made. Evenings with telling the myths (shock-content about Olympians). Spartan war dances among his friends and teaching Freya to dance it with him.

That would be beautiful... 😭

#god of war #gow #kratos #god of war ragnarok #gowr #kratos gow #god of war ragnarok valhalla #gowr valhalla #freya god of war #mimir #mimir gow #freya #kratos x freya

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Ares: *minding his own business Kratos: *dramatically crying for help somewhere on earth Ares: Are you serious? Right in front of my salad? Ares: *throwing away all his business and running to an aid ___

Yes, here is Ares/Aphrodite and eating some sea salted salad, because as Haephestus said in GOW3, Ares is a conquered god of war. And Ares kinda feels absolutely not ashamed of it, you know. But at the same time he has duties in his domain and plan of Olympus's fall.. And he wants to live his life in between. Anyway, the point is that time is running a bit differently for gods and for Olympus, okay? That's why Ares managed everything during the Kratos's prayer and jumped from the sky right in the moment to save his life. A god of good endings!

#god of war #gow #greek mythology #ares #aphrodite #kratos #ares x aphrodite #i regret nothing and I think about them a lot in god of war game canon. Aphrodite just loves this red-haired dork #ares god of war #aphrodite gow #sorry for handwriting I hope it is readable #greek gods

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Wanted to draw Lysandra, after a couple of months since her and Kratos's wedding. You know, it is wedding tradition for spartan brides to cut their hair very shortly (somewhere written they should be shaved very closely to the scalp). She did that too. Her hair is slightly grew up since then, and Kratos gifted her blue hair band which she wears in the first games. Actually, all this time he cheered her up about her man-like look, because she is the most beautiful woman and love of his life anyway, and if she were a man, he'd find her a place in his army and never left her alone.

#This art took my life.. Lysandra is very difficult to draw #better luck next time #god of war #gow #lysantos #lysandra god of war #kratos #lysandra

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Olympian gods: *blesses Kratos with gifts

#Kratos's portraying in the book is absolutely precious #kratos #kratos gow #god of war #gow #He chose Zeus then

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Ares is just a big mama's boi and I am hyping over it Her firstborn. Her puryfied love and pain and righteous wrath. Her answer to Zeus's assault and their marriage trauma. Her little boy. The man who will never hurt her. Forever loyal and always at her side. It is not easy, when mother makes a husband out of her son, but being chosen for this role, chosen to carry Hera's desires, agression and saddness, Ares loved and accepted her the way she is. Even if it was just out of fear to be rejected... _ It is just painful to think that Hera presumably was in a drinking bout for the 13 years in a row after Ares's death. She has to be one of the most beautiful goddesses, but in GOW3 we (and Kratos) see her looks like she has lost her eternal beauty and youth. "Since you've killed my son Ares..." Commonly see comments that Hera was just drunk and pityful and died pityfully as well. I'd say, she died full of regrets, but at the same time fearlessly, because her biggest mother's fear has already came true.

#god of war #gow #ares #ares god of war #hera #hera gow #greek mythology #greek gods #gow 3

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This post made return to the codex and one more time!! GOW Ragnarok and Valhalla blowed out my mind!! Valhalla's codex literally illustrated by Kratos, well, there is a bunch of Atreus's drawings too, but mostly Kratos do it himself and it is very interesting to analyze. ___ First of all, if you didn't notice, there is Kratos's greek handwriting on his drawings

Actually, sometimes it seems just like compulsively written letters, but nope, his handwriting completely shows his character and how busy with thoughts is his head all the time, like FASTER, FASTER!1

Just for comparison, here is Atreus's nordic handwriting

But let's return to Kratos's art style. His drawings are not very detailed in comparison with Atreus's and lineart is rougher and bolder, but the are very accurate anyway. Also his works are obedient to the certain rules, the more thoughts or feelings about the subject he has - the more angled geometry he put into it. Generally he draws square meanders - classic antient greek patterns, and when he draws these, he is THINKING and worrying.

Whrn his mind is calm, his drawings are just sketchy. Nothing special besides lil single meanders here and there. Kratos rarely do shades, and even more rarely do hatching. And his drawing are not very dimensional. Raeb by Atreus - Dead legioneer by Kratos

Also Kratos doesn't draw faces and hands properly. But in Valhalla his mind is pushing to the edge and his drawings sometimes starts to shows unspoken emotional responses about the things he forsed to remember.

Let's look at Helios.. GEOMETRY AND SYMMETRY appears. Meanders (agressively?) "looks" outside, seems like he didn't want to take efforts over this (but still made these drawings good %)). Honestly, he put more precision in drawing Ares's dead soldiers than in these two pieces. Understandable. Ares's soldiers can't speak.

OKay, we all know what Kratos feels about the Olympians, and here you can see the difference in a mood Orkos's stone, first lining of stone is rough, but then refined over it with a more precise, hard, black line, and all trapped in a circle. It is the first fully complete circle he drew, and all meanders "looks" inside (autoagression maybe or just a need to calm himself with familiar patterns? maybe both).

There is very much anxiety and saddness here, oh, and by the way, that's how Kratos see himself - an uneven, blurry shadow with swirling darkness inside - a "ghost" in one word

More geometry. Pandora drawing in a big BIG meander depicting a "maze". Small meanders "looks" inside again (autoagression?/need to calm himself?/both?) Oh and he wrote her name here.. Πανδώρα This drawing is not so compulsive as the previous, more thoughtfull. His actual frustration can be seen in this big "dot" near her name. Like he wanted to write more, but changed his mind. And the lowest meanders are inverted upside down like he forgot the direction he drew them.

Lysandra's pendant and Calliope's flute drawings Geometry, symmetry Pendan't patterns seems more trembling, insecure as he said he feels about his wife (but I also see "heart" shapes in it). His hand is more steady at flute drawing

What else did I found... After reviewing Ragnarok codex wishing to compare their art style, I noticed this piece. The Lyngbakr drawing made by Aterus, with his handwritings, fine detail, his significant swirls and wait- MEANDERS? this square geometry looks very outcast here, like it were drawn over swirles and circles turned into squares.

If you look at the banch of Atreus's drawings, you'll that he just doesn't draw square patterns, only round ones like waves, and these pointed ones which looks like uh claws?.. and and very rarely - schematic runic patterns

Well, if we remember, Lyngbakr's story impressed(?) Kratos very much.. Maybe Kratos returned to this pages in the codex and uh thoughtfully uh intervened in his son's drawing. %) Anyway, it was the single episode in Ragnarok codex and it can be just a coincedence, BUT THEN WE LOOK AT VALHALLA CODEX AND WHAT IS IT? Kratos is messing around with his symmetric geometry and meanders on Atreus's drawing again. He just misses his son, let's forgive him. And his scribbles are so dim like he tried to erase them..

Thinking about how Angrboda asked Atreus if Kratos draws and he laughed and said "no" but we see Kratos' journal and there are beautiful drawings of things he is describing haha

#Kratos #kratos gow #Atreus #gow #gowr #god of war ragnraok #lysandra god of war #gow calliope #god of war #god of war valhalla #god of war ragnarök: valhalla #gowr valhalla #atreus gow

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Athena is just very happy that they will spent eternity together on Olympus. Kratos is just a bit autistic as always is not used to see her face to face. He spent last 10 years speaking to her statue.

@spoorotik2, for you 😭❤

#If you ship them you ship them. I ship them indeed. #athena god of war #Athena #kratos #god of war #gow #kratos gow #god of war ragnarok #gowr #Kratos x Athena #greek gods #greek mythology