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Powers and Abilities

Being a demigod, Perseus possesses supernatural strength and agility. He also uses a large variety of items given to him by various Gods . In the first part of the battle, he uses Hades' Helm to turn invisible. While Kratos can't see him, he then throws projectiles at Kratos with his sling. After Kratos destroys the helmet, Perseus still has his sword and shield . After Kratos breaks his sword, he then uses the shield to reflect the light of the sun, which can then blind Kratos momentarily, leaving him open to attacks.
Perseus was a demigod son of Zeus and was a powerful and legendary hero, known to have defeated the Graeae trio aswell as all kinds of monsters that Ancient Greece had to offer. He was one of the heroes considered by Poseidon to task to kill the Hydra and was known among the dieties of Greece to be a powerful warrior among mortals.


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Personality

As many who traveled to the Island of Creation, Perseus was desperate to change his fate, in his case to save his loved one. After his entrapment in the Hall of Atropos, Perseus goes mad but is still able to produce rational thoughts as before he attacks Kratos he reasons with himself, asking the question what the presence of Kratos means.
While the circumstances of Andromeda's death aren't explained in the game, Perseus seems to feel entitled to her affections despite only having met her for the first time on the day of her sacrifice. This shows that his relationship with Andromeda was more a case of obsessive love than a genuine relationship between the two.
As most heroes in the God of War series, Perseus is very confident in his own skill and quickly underestimates the abilities of Kratos. He also doesn't believe that Kratos should have been granted the chance to kill Ares as he finds this too much praise for the Spartan. However, in his fight with Kratos, he saw the Spartan's strength and realized his error in his judgment. During his fight and before it, Perseus is arrogant and petty. Frustrated by his lockdown and in the lack of any sign of the Sisters of Fate, he picked a fight with Kratos for no other reason than to bask in shallow glory that would be useless for his intended goals, and even resorted to infantile taunts while under the protection of his helmet. It was only after losing this equipment that he became increasingly more desperate and less confident, showing Perseus was highly cowardish and dependant on his armaments to do the work for him.

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Greek Mythology

In Greek myth, Perseus was the famous hero who killed the Gorgon , Medusa . Born a son of Zeus and a mortal woman, Danae, he was commonly said to have accomplished this feat with a variety of magical items lent to him by the gods, including a helmet of invisibility, the winged sandals of Hermes , a magical sword, a special pouch to store Medusa's head, and a reflective shield that allowed him to find and kill the Gorgon without actually looking at her and turning to stone. On his way back to save his mother from the advances of a king named Polydectes, he found Andromeda chained up on some rocks. She explained to him that she is the daughter of King Cepheus and Queen Cassiopoeia of Aethiopia. When her mother boasted that her beauty surpassed that of the Nereids, the sea nymphs, they complained to Poseidon, and, as punishment, he sent the sea monster Ketos (Cetus) to ravage the land of Aethiopia. Desperate to save his kingdom, Cepheus consulted an oracle who decreed that only through sacrificing his daughter will the kingdom be spared. Thus, Andromeda was left to be eaten by Ketos. Perseus used Medusa's head to turn Ketos to stone and took Andromeda as his wife after petrifying her uncle Phineus following a quarrel. He then used the Gorgon's head again to turn Polydectes and his court into stone, thus saving his mother. Together, Perseus and Andromeda had nine children: seven sons and two daughters. One of their sons, named Electryon, had a daughter named Alcmene who would become the mother of Hercules , through Zeus.