LMAO, oh good!! GUESS WHO THINKS OF HIM AS A BIG BROTHER. That's right, this one right here. Hank's definitely the strongest CR Viva has outside her team; I still don't know how it happened fast as it did, but like, you know how she gets about Joel? Where she forgives him all sorts of things so long as he doesn't abandon her? APPLY THAT TO HANK. He could be the beast he supposedly looks like (which she still doesn't see tbh), or he could be hyperaggressive and kill people easily and she would just shrug and go "okay".
So. Keep worrying about her situation, 'cuz it ain't changing anytime soon. Fortunately most of their interactions—barring the recent somber ones—are the kind that make her forget the kind of shit she's supposed to be remembering. When he told her that bit about never really getting over the bad memories, rather just learning not to focus on them so much... that was really good for her! She's still torn up over what happened to Tess and her own situation in general and especially now that GM happened and she's relearning how scared she is of dying.
BUT HANK GOT SHITKICKED IN THAT GAME so she's kinda angry on his behalf more than her own. She's afraid of losing him, even if he doesn't make a conscious decision to leave her. This entire PLACE is working to fuck over the one thing she knows grew organically (HA HA HA THAT'S A PUN I'M HILARIOUS). Viva cares ferociously and deeply about Amalthea and she will rip people's throats out if they try to hurt them outside a game, but the fact is she woke up on that team not knowing what anyone was like or if she'd even like them, but no matter what she'd have to cooperate with them as a team. Hank, though, warmed up to her pretty darn quick, even before she heard about stuff like alliances and learned he was technically allied to Amalthea.
All this is a really roundabout way of saying that if you took Joel and removed the ruthlessness and killing innocents and the lying father figure aspects of him and just kept Ellie's jumping-into-rapids-when-she-can't-swim protectiveness, that's how she feels about Hank. She wants to give him more reasons to keep on smiling ("so you do have a laugh") and has resolved to do her damn best to make sure what happened to Gulgallana doesn't happen again, ever. LOVE HER, HANK. You're her superhero.
Any threads you want to do in the future?? A conversation they should have, or a memory they should share? More puns? TELL ME!!!
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So. Keep worrying about her situation, 'cuz it ain't changing anytime soon. Fortunately most of their interactions—barring the recent somber ones—are the kind that make her forget the kind of shit she's supposed to be remembering. When he told her that bit about never really getting over the bad memories, rather just learning not to focus on them so much... that was really good for her! She's still torn up over what happened to Tess and her own situation in general and especially now that GM happened and she's relearning how scared she is of dying.
BUT HANK GOT SHITKICKED IN THAT GAME so she's kinda angry on his behalf more than her own. She's afraid of losing him, even if he doesn't make a conscious decision to leave her. This entire PLACE is working to fuck over the one thing she knows grew organically (HA HA HA THAT'S A PUN I'M HILARIOUS). Viva cares ferociously and deeply about Amalthea and she will rip people's throats out if they try to hurt them outside a game, but the fact is she woke up on that team not knowing what anyone was like or if she'd even like them, but no matter what she'd have to cooperate with them as a team. Hank, though, warmed up to her pretty darn quick, even before she heard about stuff like alliances and learned he was technically allied to Amalthea.
All this is a really roundabout way of saying that if you took Joel and removed the ruthlessness and killing innocents and the lying father figure aspects of him and just kept Ellie's jumping-into-rapids-when-she-can't-swim protectiveness, that's how she feels about Hank. She wants to give him more reasons to keep on smiling ("so you do have a laugh") and has resolved to do her damn best to make sure what happened to Gulgallana doesn't happen again, ever. LOVE HER, HANK. You're her superhero.
Any threads you want to do in the future?? A conversation they should have, or a memory they should share? More puns? TELL ME!!!