One of the biggest reasons why Kratos was able to actually defeat the Olympians easier to compared to the Norse pantheon is because they’re not really trained combatants. The Titan war was thousands of years ago, and frankly, besides Ares and Athena they’re probably not training much in traditional combat. Unlike, the Æsir, where they’re constantly sparring and fighting is what they live for. Thor could easily tear them apart.
The Olympians are spoiled and too dependent on their godly powers. They can’t fathom that they could die while the Æsir prepare for it. It would be interesting to see Rome because that society is focused on war, much like Sparta. The Olympians would’ve learned from this. Rome conquered over thirty countries. Even Mercury would probably be formidable, or at least, better trained than Hermes was.
Aphrodite was a war goddess in Sparta but in Rome she is their mother much like Mars is seen as their father. Ares was immature and reckless, Mars is mature and strategic (probably compensating for the lack of Athena/Minerva). Them tag-teaming Kratos and Freya would legit be the hardest fight of Kratos’ life, and he already struggled against a depressed Thor.
thinking about greek saga kratos again. thinking about the (canon) fact that he knows how to play the lyre but won’t. thinking that maybe he really enjoys music but couldn’t pursue it because of his spartan duties. thinking about calliope and her flute that kratos carved for her, and how in greek mythology calliope is the muse of music. thinking a lot.
The thing is, sure Heimdall could beat Hermes in a fight, but it would still end with him becoming the Olympus court jester. Freyr would fight Ares to the death in order to be Aphrodite’s little pogchamp, though.
me when the man who lost his family through extraordinarily tragic circumstances, tried to kill himself to escape his memories, lost his homeland, his wife and child again, his brother, was betrayed over and over again, slain by his own father several times, almost killed himself a second time, lost another wife, and nearly loses his son chokes up while telling his son a bedtime story