Okay so something thats been on my mind for a while: Hank Loomis
I headcanon that Hank Loomis isn't an abusive parent in the overt way, but is just a general, seemingly harmless, spineless loser of a dad. To the point where it's a legit problem.
The kind of white guy who says, "Workin' hard or hardly working?" And genuinely thinks its funny.
Or he'll say "Gosh!" Unironically when he's surprised, or "I'm so forgetfull, I'd lose my head if it weren't attatched to my neck," with a little chuckle as if that justifies the fact that he doesn't know his only child's birthday.
Like he literally doesn't know that Billy's favorite color is red, so he buys him blue bed sheets cause thats a boys color, and blue shirts during back-to-school shopping spree's, and a blue lunch box for school and shit.
It's not violent, it's not extreme, its hardly noticable. But it's not good at all.
The kind of dad who's called his son (again, his ONLY child) "sport" or "champ" more than 'Billy' and talks to him about shit he doesn't even know that Billy's not into, like football, trying to establish a superficial father/son relationship that he's not even interested in.
And that, to me, is EXACTLY why Billy blames Sidney's mom for ruining his life (that and he's a fucking misogynist)
Because come on, you're telling me that guy cheated on his wife? THAT guy??? Him?
The guy who finds parallel parking intimidating stepped out on his family? Broke his mariage? Had the guts to have an affair??
No, not in Billy's mind. There's just no fucking way that spineless jag off would have done it. Even could have done it, without cohersion
She had to make him in some way; seduce him.
She did it. It's her fault! That bitch ruined everything!
Anyway that's my headcanon for Hank. I don't hear a lot about other people's opinions about Hank, he hardly gets mentioned, buts thats me.
I have a ton of other head canon's for other characters, and I like incoperate them into my writing, including this one (I personally like writing Billy's micro-agressions against Hank. One big one being that when Nancy left he stopped calling Hank 'dad' all together and now only calls him 'Hank'. Also completely ignores any attempt Hank tries to make to salvage their already strained father/son relationship) it's loads of fun
Pour one out for character study, and complex relationship dynamics. I eat that shit for breakfast
