all odin’s children need is validation from someone they like and then they become kinder more loving people. jane, mobius and ying li & wenwu can literally fix them i swear.
i love the awakening trio in nohr and how they all got character development in three entirely different directions like laslows in every support trauma dumping, being a walking awakening reference, constantly spouting shit like “is my life even real. do my friends even miss me. would my mom still love me if i were a worm” while selena is in the next room over challenging anybody and everybody to fight her like this girl trying to start something with a serial killer, a fucking werewolf, a WHOLE ASS PRINCE like she grabbed her mommy issues by the neck and decided this was the best opportunity to finally take out her rage. and then u got odin, slutting it the FUCK up, absolutely slaying, slowly blurring the line between owain and his dnd persona like i think i can count on my hand how many times he broke character, its so ingrained in him he genetically passes it down to his daughter. my mans has MASTERED his coping mechanism (and also somehow seems the most emotionally stable of the three? is that just me) like he saw a chance for a new start and immediately turned to page 347 of the manual of justice, picked his favorite oc, and said “me now” and put on the most whoreish outfit anankos had
Wow oh wow this episode was pretty amazing. One of the things I really liked was showing how Odin was a piece of shit to all of his children especially Hela. It really shows how he really only saw them as tools of destruction for rea domination instead of people with actual feelings. And I love how Hela showed great signs of PTSD from Odin in her flashbacks and showed how scared of him she was but in the end she conquered her fears of Odin and became the Goddess of Light I think based on the color scheme of her outfit. And I was actually a little worried if Hela and Wenwu were gonna get together 😅 But they didn’t. This episode was awesome! Definitely recommend watching this one.
the imposter tyr twist is really devastating generally but also really fucking funny if you think about it too much. I keep imagining odin disguised as tyr when the dwarf brothers admit to stealing draupnir and on the outside being all calm like “so YOU stole draupnir?” but on the inside being like
Honestly Heimdall's actor is fantastic but what really made me love that final fight with him is how similar he is to Hermes (like if GOW Hermes ran his mouth more) in terms of movement and abilities. I'm sure that little bit of similarity was intentional, since the game has been setting up everything for Kratos to slip back to his old self. The spear, a familiar kind of foe, beating him to death in a VERY similar way to the Kratos of previous games...if anything I'm surprised that the beating was just an arm cut off and few solid slams of his head into the ground before choking him, compared to the PTSD-induced "turn his head into hamburger meat" level I was expecting by the end of it lol
Also, Heimdall himself is very interesting when it came to his loyalty to Odin. He's able to read others with such clarity, so Odin being a manipulative piece of shit should be apparent. Yet it doesn't seem like Heimdall sees that when he looks at Odin. I hope the game can touch on that: is it due to loyalty making him blind to Odin's true nature (it'd be a nice bit of irony) or is Odin genuine when it comes to Heimdall's gaze? Or does Heimdall view Odin's manipulation as having a higher purpose because that's what Odin truly believes?