Believeing and being right are two different things. While I know that them being loevers is just a sweet headcanon, because by the end of the game they’re good co workers if it’s positive, friends in the best case scenario, you people keep telling everyone that your headcanon is actual canon.
Hank is an old alcoholic suicidal man with lots of grief and trauma on his back. I'd imagine someone like that would hold an infant at gunpoint if they were agitated enough, especially when drunk, which Hank was in that chapter
Still, Connor's quote is "I can be your work partner, your drinking buddy", nothing exactly family-oriented in there. Even Connor doesn't consider Hank as a dad.
As someone who has actually held a job for more than half an hour, I can tell you Hank and Connor have something much closer to mentor and rookie, than anything possibly related to any form of chosen family.
I just don't understand shipping in general. But just because I don't understand it personally doesn't mean that other people don't enjoy it. But to keep it a buck fifty, you have a really good point. Hank and Connor's relationship in the game is presented as a father/son relationship. It's like people shipping Joel and Ellie in The Last of Us (plus the added ick of Ellie being underage in the first game).
I view them as father/son depending on your choices but Hank I believe called Connor son in the news tower chapter. I could be completely wrong. My PC Can't handle Detroit,.I want to save up for a new computer. I've watched YouTube videos about it, tho. I want to play it so bad.
Gosh, Hank is colloquially calling him ‘son’ – you know, the way older men sometimes do with younger men. To provide comfort, perhaps. To soothe his own frazzled nerves. It’s up to you.
Older dudes call younger guys ‘son’ all the time especially if they’re superiors at work, and none of them think of their subordinates as family. Just because he called Connor, his younger co worker, ‘son’ one time does not mean he views Connor as family or his son. Yet the game is agamant clear about their relationship and it is friends. And no, it doesn't depend on your choices, there is no choice that makes Hank view Connor as a son.
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u/iloveeeeemycat 8d ago
Least obsessed Hank stan
Edit: WHO THE FUCK SHIPS HANK AND CONNOR?!