#god of war 2022

[6blackfilin9]

Out of the blue

He was just out of the blue

[worthitino]

All-Father!Kratos headcanons because im obsessed.

* kratos attempts to be everywhere at once, constantly trying to broker peace independently. he feels as if he's doing a terrible job at being a mediator for fair discussion when in reality he's trying his best.

* kratos travels around the nine realms DAILY. it's to the point he has a home or a place of rest in each place.

* he once passed out from exhaustion because he's not used to talking to that many people, considering it's been YEARS since he was a spartan general leading thousands. thrúd had to drag him to his bed because she's the only one strong enough to even move him.

* tyr gifted kratos the bifröst eyes after seeing how much effort he's putting into healing the realms. he knew kratos from his youthful days of anger, but seeing him grow? it warranted something more meaningful. kratos accepted the gift. tyr also did the process of inserting the eyes. kratos had to get hammered.

* kratos is a caring parent to huginn and muninn. he cares a great deal about his animals and makes sure they're all fed. he hopes his example spreads to others (COUGH, RAIDERS)

* kratos does have a primary home. it's located in the realm between realms (not sindri's house) - it has a bedroom, kitchen and study but the real kicker is that there's a mini interpretation of the yggdrasil tree in a seperate room, in which there are doors to the each of the nine realms. kratos uses his new bifröst eyes to travel with these rooms.

* kratos has a golden shoulder guard that he slots mimir in during diplomatic meetings. its removed when kratos knows he is going to battle and is primarily used for special occasions.

* like most kind gods, kratos tries to read every prayer and see every offering addressed to him. he attempts to make such prayer come true via blessing, but he isn't used to turing the tides to favour when it comes to peace. he does try, however.

* kratos with glasses? more likely than you think.

* when atreus returns, he sees the progress his father has made and can't help but shed a tear.

* speaking of atreus, kratos always has a room for atreus in his multiple makeshift homes. he misses his little boy :-(

[theautisticcentre]

Heimdall this, Kratos and Atreus that- Where's the respect for this man?!

[kellymilou]

The BOY sketch I completely forgot to post until now 😭. Nah but seriously, love Atreus. Might try to draw the other GoWR characters in the near future!

[atreus-kratoson]

Atreus is a rapscallion

[kasmirkozel]

*trips and these fall out of my mouth*

Mr mimir, the Mimi.

[fluidfox123]

Into The West by Annie Lennox should be an Atreus and Kratos song I will die on this hill

[atreus-kratoson]

Even if Atreus is like 16-17, this is exactly it.

Edit: I should preface, I'm going by Sunny Suljic's age, since he's 17, so I'm saying Atreus is pretty much the same age. Heimdall is an asshole there's no question. Even if Atreus was an adult, bullying is never a good thing 👎

Atreus when he sneaks into Asgard and is immediately bullied by Grown Adult Heimdall

[purrichi]

Huginn, Muninn, let’s blow this popsicle stand

[lornaka]

Playing Ragnarok truly was a big highlight of this past year for me, so it's only fitting my last artwork of 2022 is this one :)

[zazikels]

🐺🤍

[atreus-kratoson]

merry christmasday ⛄

happy holidaymas 🎅

[yellowocaballero]

Writing update

I should probably give an update because things been slightly whack. Roughly, in order:

Was having issues with my medication, and writing got really difficult. Wanted to write Naruto, could not. Continued writing that Jason Todd story because what am I going to do, not write?

Fix medication issues. Feel like I can write again. Open up literally almost fucking random word document, see that it was the first paragraph of the More Than Zero rewrite (the story from my Star Wars No Chip AU) that I never did.

Go nuts.

Sixty pages into doing the rewrite, I decide that actually this story cannot function at all if I don't stop writing it and go write an entirely different story, which is somehow necessary for the quality of this story. Time to write the one of the many other No Chip AU stories I never got around to writing.

Go nuts.

40k of the Neyo story now exists. It's good, mostly.

Realize at this point that I cannot post a 40k fic on Tumblr and that the complete series is now clicked into my mind as an anthology, which means that it needs to go on AO3.

For several different reasons, one of which is admittedly marketing, I would like the series to stand on its own, so I need to completely rewrite the Order 66 story to establish everything about the universe that the ordinary roleswap fics established.

Realize I've gone nuts.

Decide to completely rewrite the Order 66 story anyway, it is at least twice as long and basically completely different.

As I do this, I realize that now the Rex buildingsroman story doesn't work at all, so I need to cut one section of that and rewrite a portion of it as well.

I would also like to make some semi-significant changes to the Bly story.

I am currently in the state of going nuts and will continue to be going nuts until some undetermined point in the future, at which point I will post every single fic in one story on AO3. There will be a metanarrative.

Decide that I was completely correct in aggravating literally everybody by refusing to post this on AO3, because if I had posted it on AO3 then it would have been way more difficult to rewrite all of this. I also feel a lot more confident in the quality of the rewritten versions and have, fortunately, improved over the last two years as a writer.

I think.

SO YES, I WILL BE POSTING IT ON AO3 THIS TIME. OKAY?

This is all BIG news for like maybe three people. All that to say, I will not be posting anything for a bit and then So Much will be posted. The revamped series should stand on its own and not need any knowledge of its parent AU. This is why I've disappeared off the face of the Earth. I will come back with Star Wars.

[theautisticcentre]

TRAGEDY VIA ODIN

Father!Kratos x GN!Reader, Little brother!Atreus x GN!Reader

Warnings: Angst, AU, Death, SPOILERS FOR GOD OF WAR: RAGNAROK AND GOD OF WAR (2018)

Summary: A rant from you at Týr ends in tragedy.

Notes: In this AU, Odin ends up killing you instead of Brok.

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"He does hate surprises..."

"...Hold on," you said, as you walked in front of Týr, "I wanna hear about this way into Asgard you know." Throughout your groups entire journey, Týr had apparently had a way into Asgard he neglected to share until now, which ate at your mind like Brok did to Fuckin' Gratitude.

"Well?" "It's an ancient path. We can't reach it from here," responded the norse God of War, as he turned to walk away from you. However, you were still unsatisfied. "If not here, then where?" Tyr turned back to you and said, "Let me collect my things, and I'll show you." "You don't have anything," you perceptively pointed out, before continuing.

"And by the way, that mask. Give it here," you angrily said, before you took the wooden mask from his hand and throwing it onto the nearby table. "You didn't earn that mask. My brother did." Atreus quickly moved to separate you two, and told you, "Y/N, it's OK..." but you angrily responded, "No, it's not, Atreus! This isn't right. The pieces aren't connecting. Like- Hey, what's with you calling him "Loki"? You know his name!"

Týr slowly turned away from you. Your rage reached it's peak as you gently pushed your brother aside and stormed up to Týr to continue your rant.

"Hey, Týr! Answer me!"

Before you could react, a magical knife pierced your chest.

"DO YOU NEVER SHUT UP?"

You fell to the ground as the truth unveiled to the others, as Týr's form devolved to reveal Odin. Atreus was quick to rush to your side, as Kratos and the others rushed to confront the All-Father. "Of ALL the things-" "Odin! If my son/daughter/child dies..."

Your focus quickly turned from the confrontation to your younger brother, who was desperately trying to heal the wound, or close it, or do anything. Flashes of your time with your brother came to your mind, from when you first held Atreus, to when you and your father both helped him hunt a deer just after your mother passed, and most of all, of your team up in your final battle against Baldur. As the tears fell from your eyes, you couldn't help but smile at how far he'd come.

"Y/N, please, hol-hold on...Maybe if we go back to the Lake of So-Souls, we can-"

"No," you groaned out to Atreus, holding his cheek. "Wh-why are you smiling," he asked in tears. You let out a slight chuckle, and responded, "...Because of you...Look how far you've come...I'm so...proud. And mom...would be, too..." As you smiled, you ended up coughing up blood.

"No, no!...Father..." By now, everyone was near you, with Atreus and Kratos right by your side. "Y/N...son/daughter/child...I-" "Shh..." was your response to your father, as he held you. "Father...thank you...for helping me and...and Atreus...survive..." You could feel your strength to even breathe slip by the second, but Kratos kept his hold on you tight. "Y/N, you must hold on. For us. For-" You help Kratos' cheek, your eyes practically waterfalls now.

"It's OK...You...you can let go..." you said as you moved one hand down to your father's, and another to your brother's.

"I'm...I'm going to see mom now..."

And with that, you let out one last exhale, and slipped away.

"No! Wake up, Y/N! Wake up," screamed Atreus, as he shook your body.

"Wake up!"

"WAKE UP!"

"WAKE UP!"

"Wake up, Y/N..."

"...Mom?"

THE END.

[sad-endings-suck]

One of my favourite details from the original Red Rising trilogy, is that no one ever came close to guessing or even suspecting that Darrow wasn’t a gold.

It shows the inherent flaw in their sense of superiority. Octavia had Darrow right there in front of her, with an Oracle wrapped around his arm, and even though she suspected he was a Son of Ares, she never asked if he was anything other than gold, didn’t even come close.

Adrius and Virginia are geniuses, but still, neither of them could have possibly fathomed that Darrow was a red until they had the concrete evidence of his carving right in front of them.

To this day (in canon) the only reason anyone knows Darrow is a red carved to be gold, is because the video evidence of his carving was leaked (initially from Harmony, and later from others).

No one, no matter how intelligent, practical, paranoid, cautions, clever or skeptical, ever figured out about Darrow’s carving through their own suspicion or means of investigation. They were either in on it from the beginning (Dancer, Mickey, Quicksilver, etc) or they were shown video evidence. No one figured it out themselves or “unravelled the mystery” so to speak. Because no one even knew there was a mystery.

And before people say “it was extremely unlikely, they had no reason to suspect” Yes, Darrow’s carving was incredibly difficult and expensive, but the same procedure was performed on Titus not long after, so how rare or hard could it be? We even get a dialogue from Mustang in Golden Son in which she details that different colours go to carvers all the time to have “intrinsic” parts of themselves altered, far more often than the public realizes. So the possibility should have been on Octavia’s radar, but it wasn’t, because she simply couldn’t fathom it. It was too obscure.

How could a red be the spitting image of what gold society idealizes? How could a red be so tall, strong, and beautiful? How could a red graduate top of the Institute, become a peerless scarred, a Lancer, her own grandson’s celebrity hero? Neither her nor Nero or Lorn or even Adrius were capable of even entertaining the idea. It was not a thought that was ever going to occur to them naturally.

And I really love that, from a narrative perspective, because it says so much about how the Society operates and upholds itself. It says so much about how high on their own egos golds really are. It says so much about how the colours are not as different from one another as golds would have them believe.

Cassian Andor: What? To steal from the Empire? What do you need? A uniform, some dirty hands and an Imperial tool kit. They're so proud of themselves, they don't even care. They're so fat and satisfied, they can't imagine it.

Luthen Rael: Can't imagine what?

Cassian Andor: That someone like me would ever get inside their house, walk their floors, spit in their food, take their gear.

Andor (2022-)

[thebatbaes]

[ Damian Wayne as Batman in DCeased: War of the Undead Gods (2022) #8 ]