Because nothing is safe from my clutches, here is my anthro-gender bent version of Kratos from the God of War franchise. Essentially the same story as Kratos from the games. As the greek word κρᾰ́τος (kratos) is both masculine and feminine, she keeps the name.

Art is by  Rubbermage

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Born in Sparta, lost her sister to Ares and Athena at young age, took on her birthmark as a branded tattoo over her fur. Late on in life she'd take a wife and have a daughter. This daughter would become stricken with a plague, and kratos would go on a quest to get Ambrosia to cure her. Along the way she'd cross paths with a barbarian, but she'd ultimately be victorious.

In time the barbarian would find their way back to kratos, after she spent many years fighting for Sparta to make it known through the land as the most feared and strongest city-state. In this battle with the Barbarian, she would very nearly lose. However, before she lost, she'd call out, call out to the god that had taken her sister all those years ago, and devote herself to them, in exchange for the slaying of her enemies.

Ares accepted, and bound Kratos with the Blades of Chaos, and slaughtered the barbarians armies for her. Over the coming months Kratos would be an avatar for Ares, slaughtering all in her path in the name of the God of War.

This would all change when she and her Spartans ambushed a city of Athena. Warned by an oracle to not go into the temple of Athena, Kratos nonetheless ignored the warning and went in regardless, and in doing so she slaughtered everyone inside. Including her wife and daughter. After doing so, the ashes of her family bound to her skin and fur, and she became known as the Ghost of Sparta.

This would set Kratos on the path to killing Ares. Before she could do that though, she had to deal with the fates, and the oathkeeper who held her oath to Ares which prevented her from doing anything. A son of the fates and Ares would come to her, and through them learn the only reason that Ares had saved her was to wage war upon Olympus. She didn't have interest in this, at least, not yet, so she went on her journey with the son of Ares and Alecto to destroy the fates, only to find out in the end that the son was the one who held the oath that kept Kratos bound to Ares. She had to kill the person who helped her the most during this troubling time.

She spent the next decade of her life doing as the gods asked in an attempt to rid herself of the nightmares of her past, and waiting and searching for some way to get revenge on Ares. Interestingly enough, things turned out working out partly in her favor, and after slaying the Hydra, Kratos was given a final task of killing Ares with Pandora's box. When Kratos asked if this would finally absolve them of their nightmares, Athena gave a vague nonanswer about 'absolving her sins'. Not wanting to lose this opportunity though, kratos went through with it, and started on the long journey through Athens, the desert of lost souls, and eventually, Pandora's Temple, kratos finally found and opened Pandora's box.

Well almost. Before she had a chance to do so, she was struck through the chest by a large pillar thrown all the way from Athens by Ares, pinning her against a wall and killing her. Her last sight in the mortal world was Ares' harpies taking Pandora's box away.

Not one to give up so easily though, even as she was falling into the underworld she fought on, and eventually clawed her way back up to the realm of the living, with some assistance from a seemingly senile grave digger. She made her way back to the city-state Athens proper, and opened up Pandora's box. After a long and grueling battle, during which she had the Blades of Chaos wrenched from her arms, she slew Ares, her final utterance to him telling him that he succeeded in making a great warrior.

She then confronted Athena, who told her she was absolved of her sins. Asking if her nightmares would end, Athena told her no, that not even the gods had the power to remove such horrors. After learning of this, she did the only thing that she thought of that may end the horrors she saw every night. She climbed up to the top of Suicide Bluffs and made an attempt to jump off.

Before she could die though, she was saved by Athena, and brought to Olympus where she was offered the position as God of War. She accepted the offer, and took up the throne of the dead god.

Sometime after this, she heard of a disciple of Ares wishing to use Ambrosia to resurrect the old God of War. Having none of this, she herself travels back to Tartarus to find and destroy the Ambrosia tree to keep the God from coming back. Along the way she had to fight off her old army, or at least the members of it whom had fallen in the original quest for Ambrosia. She managed to defeat them, and eventually had to incinerate Gyges, one of the three Hecatonchires, using the Flames of Apollo, destroying what remained of the Ambrosia and killing Gyges permanently.

Soon after she compelted that quest, she began receiving visions of her mother in Atlantis. She quickly began to make her way to the underwater city, only to be hindered by Athena on the way there, but she ignored the goddess asking him to reconsider his voyage. Her ship was then attacked by the Scylia, whom Kratos just managed to chase off. That night, she had another vision, this time of her sister, way back when they were training to become Spartan warriors.

Eventually she found her way to the place her mother was being held. It was here she was told her sister was still alive, held captive and tortured in the realm of the dead. She also revealed that Kratos' father is the one who took her here, but before she could say who Kratos's father was, she was transformed into a horrendeous monster that attacked Kratos, who had no choice but to defend herself and mortally wound the thing that was once her mother. As she lay dying, her mother thanked her for setting her free, and urged her to go find Deimos.

Kratos, enraged by the gods taking another member of her family, embarked on the journey to save her sister. As she left Atlantis, she encountered a titan Thera. Seeing nothing but red, and a way to get more power, she jammed her Blades of Athena into Thera's chest, freeing the titan and getting Thera's blade.

She then met with Scylia again, and this time she killed it to ensure it could follow her no longer, before continuing on their way home to Sparta. Before she could reach there, however, she was stopped by Erinys, daughter of Thanatos. Kratos was having none of her shit and dispatched them before continuing onto Sparta, where she killed both the Piraeus Lion and a Dissenter, before entering into the Temple of Ares, currently undergoing changes to become the Temple of Kratos. Here, Kratos gained the key needed to save her sister.

Kratos then made her way back to the sinking city of Atlantis, powering through heavy storms brought about by Posiedon in wrath for destroying their city. The sea god then spoke to Kratos, telling her she would pay for what she did to their city. Kratos disregarded this.

Sometime later, Athena would come to admit it was her and Ares who had taken Kratos' sister all those years ago. This only further increased her hatred of the gods. She made her way down to the Domain of the Dead to save her sister, only to be attacked by them for supposedly abandoning them when in need. Seeing the fight taking place, Thanatos snatched up Deimos and took her away. Barely able to stand, kratos followed Thanatos to the Suicide Bluffs and managed to save Deimos from falling to her death.

The sisters reconcilled, and fought against the god of death, though through numerous tauntings in the battle, revealing to kratos she was still nothing more than a pawn in the game of fate being played by the gods, Thanatos managed to kill Deimos. This pushed Kratos over the edge, and resulted in her killing the God of the Dead.

After putting her sister into a grave dug by the same grave digger who helped her escape Hades in her quest to kill areas, Kratos considered killing herself on the Suicide Bluffs, but simply fell to her knees, and said 'What have I become' to herself, at which the grave digger responded 'Death, destroyer of worlds.'

After this kratos would isolate herself from other gods, and focus upon helping Sparta in combat. This came to a head at the seige of Rhodes, where an eagle robbed her of her great size and much of her godhood, placing it into a large statue which she had to fight. She managed to do so, but only through giving up all the rest of her godhood into the Blade of Olympus. The battle left her mortally wounded, and she limped towards the blade to get her power back and save herself, but the eagle swooped down and revealed itself to be Zeus, who after a short monologue, stabbed Kratos through the heart.

Never one to stay down for too long though, she made her way back to the mortal world with a bit of assistance from the titans. It was from there she learned about the sisters of fate, and their ability to travel back in time. learning this, she set off on a journey to find them and get their power to get her power back from the Blade of Olympus.

On her quest she'd free and kill Prometheus, kill Theseus, and for the third time in her life come across Alrika the Barbarian. She killed him again after another long fight, she managed to kill them again, using their own hammer to shatter their skull.

She then obtained the golden fleece, the head of Euryale, sister of medusa. She was again implored by athena to not listen to the titans and to cease her quest for vengeance, but she ignored it all, and continued on. She would eventually come across her half brother Perseus. It was a short fight.

She then meets a demented Icarus, and tears the wings from the old mans body, using them to cross a chasm and land on Atlas. The titan nearly crushed Kratos, before the latter informed them she is now an enemy of Zeus as well, when the Titan gifted Kratos some of their power and lifted them to the surface so she may continue on her way to the Palace of the Fates.

When they were nearly there, they were stopped by a shadowy warrior. They engaged in strong combat, but the warrior eventually fell to Kratos's blades, where it was revealed that it was the last Spartan warrior, who told her that Sparta had been razed by Zeus, dying shortly after the words left their mouth.

After this Kratos finally met with the fates, and after a very long and drawn out battle between the three, a battle that raged through time itself, but with Kratos ultimately as the victor. She'd then take her timeline on the loom of fate and loop it back to when Zeus killed her originally, and went back to battle the king of the gods again.

Another long battle took place, though it ended with Athena sacrificing themselves on the blade of Olympus to save Zeus, to save Olympus. Even further enraged now, if that were possible, she calls out to the heavens that the reign of Olympus was over.

Soon after Athena's death, Kratos would go on to storm Olympus with the reborn titans. The first god she'd kill is Poseidon, who attacked Gaia. She beat her uncle mercilessly, and even as he was begging to be let go, crawling pathetically back towards the sea she showed no care, gouging out his eyes with her thumbs and snapping his neck, before tossing what remained of his limp form into the ocean.

She climbed back onto Gaia, but when the latter got attacked by Zeus, she revealed that Kratos was nothing more than a pawn to help them reach Zeus, which put all the titans on her hit list as well. She fell into the underworld, but luckily Hades was on her hitlist too at this point, so she decided to make the most of it and end him.

After killing her other uncle, using his own claws against him, she made her way back up to Olympia. Here Gaia was failing in her assault against Zeus, and begged Kratos for help, after Helios flew by Kratos and pelted her with fireballs. Kratos responded to Gaia by telling her that it was HER war, not Gaia's, and that the titan was the pawn, before she sliced off the roots of the Titans' arm with the blade of Olympus.

She made her way back to Helios, whom she found in battle with another titan. She used a catapault to launch the god into the titans grip and injure them, before treking through the city to find them. Using a cyclops to break through what defenses the god had left, she then humors their begging by asking where she could find the flames of Olympus. Helios dodged the question, then told a half truth and talked down to Hephestus, at which point Kratos told them that they had outlived their usefulness, and proceeded to tear their head clean off their shoulders with her bear hands.

A titan attacked Kratos shortly after, for attacking Gaia, forcing the wolf to kill them.

Kratos then made her way towards the labyrinth where, after much taunting and teasing by Hermes, killed them, slicing off their legs and taking their boots to obtain the gods great speed.

Not soon after doing this, she came across Hera, and her son, Hercules, the latter towering even above the titanic 8'6" Kratos. The size mattered not though, the former God of War eventually managing to not only rip of her half brother's armor, but to take their weapons, the nemean cestus, and using them to beat the half blood into a bloody, unrecognizable pulp.

Then she took a break from killing gods to have sex with Aphrodite, and then go on a quest to get the Omphalos stone. This turned out to be a wild goose chase but the managed to kill Cronus because of it so it wasn't worthless.

The forge god was in great fear when Kratos returned, as it had been intended as a suicide mission, though they followed through on their promise to use the stone to make a weapon, though they immediately attempted to kill kratos after the fact. Learning nothing from the other gods though, hepheastus failed, and kratos killed them on their own anvil.

Kratos used the whip to move through Gardens of Olympus, where after some puzzle solving and annoying words from hera, snapped the queen of the god's neck, letting all plant life to die on the planet, before continuing down into the labyrinth. After meeting with the maker of the maze, she does a bit of puzzle work, unintentionally sets off a trap that kills the maker, and frees pandora, she then travels back down to the underworld to remove the three judges and allow Pandoras box to be raised back to the surface.

Hesitating when it was time to let Pandora into the flames to open the box again, she almost stopped them, though the little girl ran away, only to be blocked by Zeus. Father and daughter, Zeus and Kratos engaged in fierce combat, the latter only being pulled away when she saw Pandora nearly about to jump into the flames of Olympus. Not wishing to see another little girl die from her actions. Always one to give into her anger though, just a little tempting from Zeus was all it took for her to let go of Pandora and go back to beating the bastard.

It turns out though that the box was empty, and Kratos had nothing. Zeus walked back to the balcony overlooking the world, and scowled at the chaos the world was in, lamenting the work they'd need to do to set everything right. Kratos eventually reappeared to fight them again, though in the middle of the battle, Gaia appeared as well. She consumed both of the gods, who would eventually wind up by her heart.

They fought in her heart chamber, and after a long battle, Kratos managed to impale both Zeus and Gaia's heart with the blade of Olympus, killing both of them.

Zeus, like her daughter, wasn't one to stay down though, and arose as Fear Zeus, taking hold of Kratos and poisoning her with fear. Had it not been for the power of Hope that she obtained the first time she opened the box all those years ago, she'd not have made it. But she managed to break out of her fathers grasp, forcing her fathers spirit back into his body, and then proceeded to beat him, mercilessly, until all that remained of the King of Gods was a puddle of gore.

Athena appeared to tell Kratos of the power of hope, and how she was the only one who could use it well and wisely enough. Kratos, having absolutely no trust for any of the gods anymore, stabbed herself with the blade of olympus to let the power of hope spread to the mortals of this world.

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Many, many, many years later, Kratos would re-emerge in a land ruled not be the greek gods, but by the norse ones. It is a world far off from where she was born, a different universe even, with its own primordials and creation myths running parallel to that of greeks.

For most of her life, she lived in peace there, finding another wife, Faye, whom she sired a child with, Atreaus, whom Faye originally wanted to name Loki.

Wanting to move past her anger, she went into the forest often and trained herself to not attack, only to defend, becoming incredibly frustrated with herself whenever she failed.

Eventually though, Faye would eventually die, leaving Kratos to look after Atreaus. The first task to do was to cut down the marked trees, and use them to burn her wifes body as per her request, so she may carry their ashes to the highest point in the nine realms.

Soon after the trees were down, however, Kratos would be confronted by Baldur, a stranger to them at that time, who would prove to be a challenge to the out of practice god who had spent the last few dozen decades practicing holding back. Even still, they managed to eventually kill them, at much cost to the land and her present physical condition. This also convinced Atraeus that it was not safe in the woods and they were to leave for the mountain peak now.

They'd come across a witch after shooting a rare boar, who would let them know that the darkness that filled the mountain could only be breached by the light of Alfheim. Disgruntled by this, Kratos would nonetheless take Atreaus with her to the land of the elves and obtain the needed light, before returning to the mountain to forge the path up.

Upon reaching the peak, they'd hear Modi and Magni for the first time, as well as coming across Mimir, the wisest man in Midgard. They quickly came to the conclusion the best course of action would be to decapitate the man, and have the witch resurrect him. They also learn that the mountain they had climbed was not the highest point in the nine realms, but that that point resided in Jotenheim, a land nearly impossible to reach.

The quest to get to Jotenheim leads them to the corpse of Thamur, where Kratos and Atreaus officially meet with Magni and Modi. The fight is long and intense, but ends when Kratos buries her axe deep into Magni's skull. This causes Modi to flee in terror, though in rage at the taunts the former flung at their mother, Atreus tries to shoot them with their bow, only to devolve into a coughing fit.

Kratos and Atreaus manage to make it back to Tyr's temple to attempt to find a door to Jottenheim only to be ambushed by Modi again, with Atreaus temporarily tapping into Spartan rage only for it to burn up in them, causing them to pass out, which in turn causes Kratos to tap into her own Spartan Rage and knock Modi back against a wall. In the past she'd have chased after him, but at the moment getting Atreaus help came to the forefront. She quickly brought them back to the Freya's hut and begged for her help to heal her child. She then learns she has to travel to Helheim to retrieve the heart of the bridgekeeper, but that her axe would do nothing. Dreading the thought, she knows what she must do.

She takes a boat back to her home, and hesitantly get her blades of chaos wrapped back around her arms, wincing at the memories that come flooding back as the still hot metal touches against her fur. She withstands it though, and after clearing out revanents at her home she travels to helheim to dismember the bridgekeeper, bringing the heart to Freya to heal her child.

After a talk with freya, and a bit of self reflection, she finally reveals to Atreaus that they are both Gods, but that she was attempting to act as just a mortal here to move past the mistakes of her past. Atreaus takes the news a little too well, growing cocky and arrogant at the news of being a god.

Underneath Tyr's temple, kratos finds a greek pot that told of her own story, along with a vase of wine. She smashes the pot and keeps the win, continuing onwards to get the thing needed to get to Jottenhiem.

When they return to the mountain to get back to the jottenheim gate, they meat Modi, who'd been beaten near to death by Thor. Atraeus's arrogance shines here, where they finally kill Modi after the latter taunts a few more times by stabbing them in the neck and kicking them over a ravine.

Kratos scolds her child for doing such a thing, telling them they only taught them how to kill in self defense, never as an excuse, and that there are consequences for killing a god. This anger Atreaus who demands to know how Kratos knows of the consequences for killing a god, to which Kratos simply tells them to watch their tone.

When they get back to the summit, Baldur once again appears to attack them, and they destroy the gate to Jotunheim. Baldur then kidnaps Atreaus and forces Kratos to free jump off the mountain onto the norse god's dragon, crashing it into the lake around Tyr's temple and the bifrost gate. Baldur is already inside, and attempted to lock in the bifrost to Asgard, though Kratos knocks them aside and sets Helheim as the destination at the last second instead.

After a long trek through the frosted underworld, and a journey on a flying boat where Kratos meets with her father yet again, or a nightmare version of them, she and her child make it back to the world gate and travel back to midgard.

They manage to find the lost gate to Jotunheim in the realm between realms, but learn that the gem needed to travel there was recently eaten by Jormandurr. So the duo travels into the belly of the beast. Shortly after getting the gem, the snake shakes three times, before collapsing and spitting them out.

When they are out, they learn it had been done by Baldur, who was back from helheim, who then engaged Kratos and Atreaus in combat, his mother, Freya, begging them all to stop. In the scuffle, baldur punches Atreaus, and begins to bleed heavily. A mistletoe arrow had been used to hold his quiver up, and when Baldur punched him, it broke his curse of feeling nothing, leading baldur to go insane with the sudden sensory overload.

The longest and toughest fight of Kratos' career thus far, it eventually came to an end with Baldur, badly beaten and in a headlock, when Atreaus reminds Kratos, "He's beaten. You don't need to kill him." Kratos responds with a nod, and instructs Baldur to never return to the pair, and to not harm his mother.

He immediately ignores the second part, his mother begging him to kill her if it'd give him happiness, but kratos is not going to allow the cycles of matricide and patricide continue within the gods, so before Baldur could kill freya, she takes his head back under her arm, and utters just two sentences. "The cycle ends here. We must be better than this." before snapping the gods neck; baldurs final words uttered being "snow" as a single snowflake fell onto his cheek as the light drained from his eyes.

Freya, distraught from losing her only child, promises to bring down all of hel on kratos, and parade her corpse to all the corners of the nine realms.

Kratos disregards this, and continues back on the journey to Jotunheim. They manage to get there, finding it abandoned, and learn everything that happened had been prophecized long before hand. Once the ashes of her wife are scattered at the peak and they make their way back down the mountain to midgard, Kratos makes a note to herself to deal with the Norns to not have to deal with the predicted fate of her own death. She's old, but she is not ready to die just yet.

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