HankCon IS my VITALS

Found family is one of my favorite tropes, but can your partner not be your family? Is your partner not your friend, your confidant, and the person that helps you heal and uplifts you? Those things aren’t locked to just platonic or familial relationships. In terms of HankCon,

I think their story is one of the best examples of healing. Hank has lost everything to androids, he hates them and the world. Until you have Connor, who comes into his life and not only helps save the Android race but Hank too. He becomes his friend, his partner in crime (literally), and in my opinion, his romantic partner that loves him in all his flaws and pain.

I think a man falling in love with an Android, after having so much pain and hatred toward them, and having THAT person be the one to heal and love him is a beautiful story and it’s unfortunate it gets so little respect in some areas of this fandom.

The most interesting part is also that people who are usually against HankCon, they seem like the ones who are applying their personal feelings and issues to the characters.

They’re so desperate for Hank to see Connor as his son that they’re willing to ignore actual, thought out theories and interpretations; as well as harass and bully those who see them as romantic. They take it as a person offense and that’s weird. Maybe they’re the ones who have “daddy issues” (because it is the strongest argument they usually use against shippers) since they need Hank to be Connor’s dad so badly.

I, personally, don’t need another father. I don’t want Hank to be my father or see him that way. I’m an adult who sees these two other adults as romantic.

There is a difference between something the game establishes and something fans infer. For example, saying Gavin dislikes Hank because Hank "got his rank for doing nothing" is not really a canon fact. The game doesn't establish that Hank earned his position unfairly or that he was only kept around for no reason.

Hank is clearly in a bad place during the game, but he also had a long career before that. His rank didn't come from the worst period of his life. He earned it before Cole’s death and before the state we see him in during the game. His current struggles do not erase the years of work and experience that came before them.

The same goes for the idea that Hank must have pointed a gun at other people before. Gavin saying "this time" can suggest Hank has gotten away with things in the past, but it doesn't prove a repeated pattern of that exact situation. That is an interpretation, not confirmed canon.

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