Is Kratos A Bad Father
He chose to not keep tabs on his wife and kids.
Is kratos a bad father. I sympathize with him in that sense. Kratos is first mentioned alongside his siblings in hesiod s theogony. Sure kratos murders a few bystanders to get there but ultimately what he does is for the greater good. I was expecting to find out his mother was a norse goddess or at least a demigoddess and his illness was because the two bloodlines of greek and norse divinities weren t mixing perfectly.
Kratos chose to become aries bitch because he needed help and was too much of a coward to accept death like a man in the midst of a battle he lost fair and square. He chose to do aries dirty work without a second thought. There are times in the game where it feels as though atreus is raising kratos giving his father the resources that kratos himself was not taught as a child while having the tremendous pluck to challenge his father s anger. Speaking of was i the only one expecting his illness to be the superman returns problem.
Then comes the sequel where he s doing the exact same thing ares was doing in the first game. Kratos meanwhile is exactly the sort of dad you d expect. According to hesiod kratos and his siblings dwell with zeus because their mother styx came to him first to request a position in his regime so he honored her and her children with exalted positions. How is kratos not a good dad by modern standards.
As kratos journeys back to midgard mimir pieces the relationship kratos had with athena his fire blades zeus being his father and the ash white skin he realizes he is hanging on the hip by none other than the ghost of sparta himself. Also kratos is a spartan so he would have thrown atreus off the cliff as soon as he found out he had asthma but he didn t. Kratos encounters an illusion of his father in helheim. Kratos may be a dad now but his journey to fatherhood won t be complete until he delivers some truly awful dad jokes.
This is a matter of kratos being a terrible father. This isnt a matter of love and hate. We teamed up with kratos voice actor christopher judge to make our daddy. He is the son of pallas and styx.
I had to teach my dad to be a real person too. Kratos and his sister bia are best k. Gruff loveless occasionally begrudgingly protective or tender to his son. He never beats or spanks his son.
What the hell is the modern standard. Even beginning kratos is a good dad. He speaks in the sort of terse quotes that cops post on facebook stuff about honor and the might of our enemies and the nature of battle. And then the game wants me to get behind him when zeus betrays him and when kratos wants revenge.
He took his bow away for a short while but gave it back to him when he earned it. He also murdered his previous child. That was really ares fault. Let your kid get away with everything.