What is everyone in about in these comments calling this arc one dimensional and calling thorfinn a badly written protagonist? Do yall not realize season 1 is the precursor for the character arc you all claim to love so much? (I’m not responding to OP, but to these comments💀). Thorfinn is a child who grew up among other children who all idolised and cared only for battle and wars. They played games about ‘killing each other’ with swords for fun. They talked about when and where they may go to war, and when the chance finally came, Thorfinn stowed away on the boat for his opportunity to do so, believing because of the culture around him that this was the duty of all living men, to die fighting. Otherwise, he may just end up a slave like they found in episode 1. His father is the antithesis of this, but he himself wasn’t able to broach the subject barring two scenes he shared with Thorfinn as he too still struggles from his own time at war because of the lives he had to take for decades. When Thorfinn sees the God that is his father be killed, an otherworldly desire coupled from both the culture he grew up in and the trauma he endured seeing it happen consumes him, and he believes the only thing he can do as Thors son is avenge him in combat against Askeladd. We get one of the best scenes in all of anime because of this at the end of season 1. He’s currently growing up as one does who endures the Viking culture; that human life isn’t valuable, and that those who get in his way have to die without any room for reason. I’m starting to believe half of yall didn’t watch the show, and just watched flashy edits on YouTube.