#oldmandroid;;android!hank

[oldmandroid]

‘ do you have any tattoos? ’

Interview ?'s || Always Accepting

[ 🔷 ] Android Hank in his base verse does not have tattoos. (though there could be the possibility of tattoos depending on the verse and situation....)

[ 🥃 ] (I don't remember of Hank is revealed in canon to have any tattoos...)

"Yeah, I got one or two. Back in my younger days, before I got on the cases that got me to Lieutenant, anyway. Good luck figuring out what they are and where though." Hank knocks back the rest of his glass and snorts in amusement at himself.

[oldmandroid]

‘ any pet peeves? ’

Interview ?'s || Always accepting

[ 🔷 ] Being told to shut up, or things like "how do you know?" when more often than not, he does know or can find out easily enough.

Casual disregard for others' wellbeing. People that put others at risk absolutely make Hank's processes go a little haywire. He'd grind his teeth in irritation probably.

Talking around him like he's not there. He has come to understand that this is a common issue with people who do not acknowledge that androids are in fact paying attention at all time and can hear and comprehend almost anything said around them. But for him, who has a little more agency with his social protocols, its especially irritating to be part of a conversation and then seemingly pushed out by someone who doesn't want to actually let him input relevant information to the topic at hand.

[oldmandroid]

‘ the most embarrassing thing that’s happened to you today? ’ (either one or both)

Interview ?'s || Always accepting

[ 🔷 ] Hank was clearly processing what would constitute an android equivalent of human embarrassment, but he wasn't certain of anything of the sort had actually happened. Well, perhaps...

"I was kicked in the shin by a child. I'm not sure if I should be embarrassed for myself or or the child, it seemed to have hurt their foot when they did it."

[ 🥃 ] "Stubbed my toe by tripping on a sock and running into the treadmill I haven't used in a couple years."

[oldmandroid]

From xXx || @howtodisassembleyourdeviant : human!Connor

Connor took a sip of his fourth cup of coffee, listening to the android drone on about ‘integrating’ and ‘social norms’, wondering if they had any idea just who Hank was being partnered with when they assigned him to the police force. The fact that Connor actually enjoyed his jokes is proof to him that Hank probably would not integrate well with other humans. 

“I hate to break it to you, but most humans find ‘dad jokes’ to be annoying,” Connor says, setting his cup of coffee down, “They are very much under-appreciated.” His dad used to tell him bad jokes like that. They remind Connor of him. The human laughs loudly at the next one, turning a few heads. If he wasn’t careful, he was going to give himself away and Fowler will send him home, “I’ve never heard that one before. I got to remember it.” He’s sure Chris will appreciate it. 

[ 🔷 ] Hank watched Connor as he spoke, raising his eyebrows at the mention that most humans didn't like "dad jokes". Interesting to hear him say that, because the statistic based on number of views for videos of such jokes would lend that quite a few humans did find them funny. Or, found some interest in watching them at the very least.

"Most people need not worry--I assume those who do not appreciate them would not have asked me to tell any in the first place." He was glad, however, that Connor found enough humor in it to chuckle, rather than having a negative reaction it it. "You seem to enjoy them well enough, though, so its not a loss, right?"

[oldmandroid]

A morsel of headcanon for android Hank

Considering the several moments in the game's storyline where Connor has to connect to and/or override damaged/deactivated/hostile androids, I was thinking about how Hank would approach similar situations...

I think he would struggle with doing so, possibly finding it uncomfortable in some way. Some level of empathy for the state of them when he encounters the damaged/deactivated ones. As for overriding potentially hostile androids, against their will, he would consider it wrong to do so.

He will do it, because he must. If he does not, his software stability will suffer for it, going against the coding he was programmed with. But... there comes a point when he decides maybe that instability is worth it after all...

Eventually, he'll go things because it's the right thing to do, and ignore the instability errors in favor of the confidence it gives him. A sense of self, of real purpose. So what if it doesn't line up with the purpose he was created for? As long as he does things that are for the right reasons, for good, it doesn't matter that it's not quite what was intended...

Right? ⭕ S̷͕̼͈̝̲̏͐̈́ŏ̴͕̞̳f̷̺̗͒ẗ̸̡̠̘͍̤̓̈̆w̶͇̦̅͆̑ả̷̢͖͙̥̤̍̈͝r̵̫̒͛̓̃̀ē̴̲͖͊́̐ ̵͇̣̱̩̰͋̇͑͘I̸̟̟̣͚̫͒́͘̚n̵̨̩̖̰͚̈s̷͍̦̾t̷̮̫͒à̴̧͎̺̗͈͝b̵̛͇̝̪̌̾̈́i̵͙͙̘̣̠͌l̶̦̟͓̥̺̅̓̕i̸͓̪̺̫͘͜ț̴̢̝̇ỵ̶͛͌̌

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"what're you looking at, Android?" Connor was slouched over his desk, pen in hand as he sluggishly tried to write some papers that were due last night.

Hank stopped analyzing and inputting data to, he hoped, surreptitiously watch his human partner work. The man looked miserably tired, a curious pinch of his brows brought him to turn his head enough to look at Connor more directly.

Though unnecessary, Hank swallowed visibly when Connor called him out on staring. “Just... Concerned you were about to pass out on the desk there, that’s all, Detective.”