#he wasnt taught how to treat people properly even if he has a massive amount of empathy

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sorry forgot the disclaimer: this is speculation. and i may not remember everything said and done in the game since i finished it a bit ago and i dont have power due to wrecked snowstorm so i cant go back and play it rn. this is speculation and thoughts!!

i may or may not elaborate on this later but i feel like an important aspect of sindri and atreus’ relationship and atreus’ obliviousness on how bad of a friend he was is because one: he’d never had a friend even his own age before sindri and brok,

two; sindri is a full grown adult, and there’s different levels of power there that sindri should have used to advocate for himself when he felt used or unappreciated. and although he isn’t atreus parent, he’s looked at as family, and every paternal/older familial figure has an opportunity to teach the children how to act properly and when they do something wrong, especially when kratos wasnt around when sindri was helping him search for Tyr. and three:

kratos does not set the best example on how to treat people, even though he is trying to “be better” as he says so often in the game.

faye was never around other people with atreus to properly show her son how to treat and act around other living people, but its still obvious that he gets his surplus of empathy for others FROM faye. but the second he’s around kids his own age, he acts VERY different than he does around sindri. its because he doesnt look at them as, how he says to angrboda, “uncles”. his view of them as family and his view OF family is very different to how he views peer friendships, because he doesnt expect anything from them.

sindri and brok have a similar role to kratos in atreus eyes: providers. they help protect him and his father with their skills and he views that as a thankless job because it’s just nature, like his father protecting him. father never expected thanks for keeping him safe because it’s his role similar to how mimir is another father in atreus’ eyes because of how he teaches him and cares about him, AGAIN, without expecting anything in return. and atreus treats sindri and brok the same way because he views them as family. while brok never seemed to be bothered by this and when he was he said so aloud, sindri was, and his failure to speak up for himself as well as atreus’ terrible socialization skills and social influences caused their relationship to shatter.

tldr: we see how kratos influences atreus and some of the time, it’s not for the better.