1. How does your character think of their father? What do they hate and love about him? What influence - literal or imagined - did the father have?
4. What type of discipline was your character subjected to at home? Strict? Lenient?
Character Solidifying || Always Accepting
Gavin's backstory is still a wee thought in my mind, so these may be subject to change, but this is what these kinds of memes/questions are good for!
1 - Gavin didn't know his biological father, I think. Something he doesn't think about too often, but in his youth he was certain he wouldn't like the man if he ever met him. (And sometimes he wonders if Elijah is just like him, which means he really wouldn't like him)
He grew up with a few male influences across his life, but none of them were particularly great? Abuse was present, from one of them. It put a lot of anger in Gavin as a teenager and young man, but unlike the father-figure in question, his anger was never really geared toward abuse. In fact, he had a habit of getting into fights with other assholes, usually abusers. It is part of what pushed his interest to being a cop. If he could manage to rein in his anger, he'd be a great cop and do his best to clean up assholes like that from being able to hurt others.
A few of those father-figures were okay, but nothing lasting except for a love of motorcycles, muscle cars, boxing, and occasionally, drinking himself blind.
Additionally: Hank was something of a brother/father figure to him, too, when Hank was on his rise to Lieutenant, working on the Red Ice cases and cleaning them up. They grew apart a bit after Gavin lost his partner in the undercover job that went south, and a bit more after Hank's fall from grace after his son's death. Gavin wasn't good with the grief, either, but he did manage to be a drinking buddy for Hank from time to time. Even if it was hard to watch him wasting away like that.
4 - Discipline at home was depending on which father-figure was in his life at the time. The abusive one was strict in an unhealthy way, of course. The one in his life in his later teens got him into boxing, helping him redirect his anger into training, working on his body.
His mother was a tired, retiring kind of woman who struggled with her wild and rebellious son, but Gavin wanted to try to do better than the men in her life. Even if she wasn't always the best with discipline, the other influences in their lives gave him examples to follow, for better or worse. She did manage to teach him SOME manners and graces, but its not something you really see in a guy like Gavin very often.
(The side of him we see most in the game is driven by his dislike of androids. Some subconscious toxicity from the abusive figure in his younger life peaking through in unexpected ways in the way he handles androids. He's not like that with woman, or anyone (human) that hasn't done anything wrong. If you're a criminal though, you kinda lost your right to proper decency, though he doesn't abuse his power as a cop.... much.)
