#buzzofjanet

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meta: family (past)

(( -responds to meme fifteen days late with pitch black coffee-

Okay so, Hank’s family is... mostly built on fanon, extrapolation, and an amalgam of two different sources. There’s honestly not a lot of canon information about his family and some of it is actually conflicting because there’s a throwaway line about his mother being dead, but no other mentions of her (and the line is in a weirdly ooc issue anyway and said by yellowjacket, so it’s not like? reliable?). Going under a cut because i got long-winded.

But basically, the two main depictions of Hank’s family are in Ant-Man: Season One, which was... not a great issue, but also not terrible imo. It had Bill in it, which is always good. There, Hank’s parents are named as Warren and... I wanna say Martha? And Warren is a total shithead who heads up taking a bullet for Hank and dying and Hank’s v conflicted about it. And there’s a mention of Warren kicking Hank’s mom out because she’s not useful (???).

The other one was a flashback from the post Age of Ultron things and there Hank’s parents are named as Brad and Doris and Brad is... still kinda a shit? And Doris doesn’t do much and Hank’s grandmother, Angela, is the main person encouraging Hank to be imaginative with his inventions, while Brad is more like “wake up you need to make money”. Then Angela dies and Hank is sad and spends a long time trying to make his dad proud by making profitable inventions rather than doing what he actually wants to do with science (which is probably the mentality that leads him to initially pitch Pym particles for military purposes, rather than literally any of the applications).

So the common threads are asshole dad, pushing Hank to apply his intellect to financial success and recognition in the scientific community and a mom who’s affectionate, but for whatever reason, absent. As for the rest, I kinda fuse the continuities together, with Brad and Doris divorcing shortly after Angela’s death, partially over disagreements in how to raise a child and partially because Brad is a dipshit who doesn’t treat depressed people very well and I headcanon Doris as having depression (which makes the “not useful” comment take on a new, gross light -_-).

So Hank lacks a good model for how a functional family is supposed to look like, which is part of why he never intended to have children. He was worried about turning out like his father and fucking his children over. And then there’s also some internalized ableism where he doesn’t think he should have children because he’s mentally ill (though he wouldn’t tell another mentally ill person not to have them because being an asshole to someone else = bad, whereas being an asshole to himself = okay).

His mother’s depression is also part of why he had such an extreme reaction to Greer cutting him out of his children’s lives for a bit recently. Because he’s spend so much time worrying that he would turn out like his dad, it never occurred to him to worry about becoming his mom--forced out of his family by mental illness and ableism. Though I must stress that Greer is nowhere near as much of an asshole as Brad was.

The other other thing about Hank’s family in the past is that I headcanon Janos (Maria’s father) as being a somewhat father figure towards Hank, somewhat filling the gap that Brad left until being literally blown up.

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❝This ain’t Burger King. You can’t always have it your way.❞

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@buzzofjanet

❝ Hi mom, I’m Scott. - See, I was trying to make a dad joke there but, you know what, forget about it.  ❞

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                      ❛ why should you trust me? you  shouldn’t,                                   it is my duty  to EARN your trust.  ❜

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❛  UH-UH.  NO  FUCKING  way.  ❜  jess flings her hand up, open-palmed.  the bend of her elbow is severe, expression unyielding.  her shoulder tilts in over her chest  &  the dark curtain of her hair tumbles over the top ridge of her cheekbone as if it could shield her.   ❛  i’m not getting into one of those costumes.  i’d rather walking around bare-ass naked before strapping into spangly spandex. ❜