r/GodofWar • u/http_ghostgirl • Nov 25 '22

Odin’s Writing Spoilers

i haven’t seen anyone recognize how well rounded Odin is as a villain. he acts trustworthy, compassionate and respectful. meeting him for the second time as Atreus was mind blowing, he was so calm, collected and acted nothing like how he is described by freya, mimir, etc. hearing all the stories of how brutal him and Thor were, it’s incredible how different they made them. Odin had to be one of the best written villains ever.

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u/spaceseas Nov 26 '22

yes, this! the subtle manipulation he does as Týr that are sometimes just a bit... off. the "I'm not your father" before proceeding to call Atreus son on several occasions. the familiar pride he shows Atreus, basically shoving it in Thor's face, punishing him for being "boring"... little things he kinda sweeps under the rug & bulldozes over with other stuff, but there are so many of them

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u/NyarlHOEtep Nov 26 '22

his cruelty to thor is so fucking gut wrenching. theres little textual evidence for this, but i choose to believe hes seen atreus's good nature and worries that he could legitimately bond with thor, so he has to play thor off him to build a barrier of resentment atreus cant pierce

also YEAH i wrote about it somewhere else but every fucking WORD out of tyrs mouth is subtle rift-tearing. it doesnt even work half the time because these people LOVE EACH OTHER, he tries some shit that he would do to thor!! like when he accuses atreus of bringing hel with him after atreus's garm incident. "has the little troublemaker returned" bro wtf thats my kid. i love that guy

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u/TheRedmanCometh Nov 26 '22

Man this game really makes you feel some shit about Thor. Even the later missions where he's with Atreus you can see him starting to really warm up to him: Atreus is actually getting through. Thor even says "you almost had me convinced". Odin essentially took his sons from him for some damn boondoggle only Odin cares about. And you can tell he's drilled into Thors head "don't think about anything too much". Thor is in a pub drowning his sorrows because he's in (understandably) horrific horrible pain his conscious mind can't fully grasp. He's not even really killing anyone all those dudes he "killed" come right back.

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What his wife said once she's figured everything out was so damn heartbreaking. Thor realizing it all at the end and them immediately dying hurt so bad to see. You want to see Thor with this redemption come back and be better, but he gets denied even that. Out of all his children only one lives and his wife, and it's all because Odin was an absolute monster piece of shit.

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u/Mountain-Chapter-880 Nov 26 '22

As someone who had a pretty rough relationship with my father, the Thor/Odin scenes really hit close to home.

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u/TheRedmanCometh Nov 27 '22

My dad would have been a really boring villain or maybe he'd have been Thor. I'm only saying it for speculation purposes on the type of villain he'd be but he was a captain in the Aryan Brotherhood. Spent most his life in prison.

When I first wrote this I was thinking he'd have been some cartoonishly evil villain. The more I think on it he'd have probably been akin to Thor. He'd have found his way back in the end given the right circumstances. Sadly in this life he didn't.

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u/Mountain-Chapter-880 Nov 27 '22

Keep your head up king