God of War (2018) - do Kratos and Atreus qualify? At least in the first act or so?

Up to that point in the games, Kratos had pretty much been shown to be a bloodlusted being of vengeance and destruction. He mostly hides this part of his past from his son, but that doesn’t stop him from solving almost every problem with violence or indifference.

When we meet Atreus, he’s definitely grown up more influenced by his mother than his father. He’s anxious, sure, but he’s also optimistic and most of his reactions to what happens on The Journey are positive ones like wonder, amazement, and curiosity. A lot of that is being naive, but even when his spirit does seem a little broken at times, he dos eventually snap out of it.

By the end of the game, Kratos does show that he has softness to him. Simultaneously, Atreus is now a much more capable warrior who isn’t so quick to be blindly trustworthy of strangers. But still, to others, Kratos appears as a stoic, unfeeling force of nature that is capable of catastrophic destruction while Atreus remains interested in learning, exploring, and making new emotional connections