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fluffydeoxys · 12 hours ago

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personally I think Hank doesn’t remember anything before the madness now, like the memories are entangled in this impenetrable static. After being butchered and sundered into so many parts, his memories are already very fragmented, but specifically trying to recall anything before MC1 is almost physically painful.

So when Hank is around Doc, there’s a bit of this unspoken loss between them. Doc would remember that past (or what’s implied at least, considering the whole real estate thing), but Hank doesn’t. Instead, it just feels this subtle sensation that something is missing.

#_text #it feeds in nicely with Hank seemingly not caring about its surrounds. it’s a personal choice but also #as a consequence of its mental state. your S3LF is insoluble so memories accumulate almost infinitely #until things start to fray and crack. things start to lose shape in your mind. and arguably I’d say the dreams of the old world are dying #too. Hank is running on instinct and driven by the charter and idea of madness. bloodshed for the machine #it’s a wonder Hank recognises Sanford and Deimos at all really even if it’s just as ‘that one’ or ‘this one’#I mean Hank even before MC3 was killin people n shit but I attribute that to my personal headcanon/concept #of Hank being ‘of the Machine’ - a ‘sleeper agent’ in a way that only awoke and came into play to begin this narrative #to churn blood and send the many down into the other place. to begin a story - an inversion of Zero’s ‘end’#plus one thing I can finally personally see as a reason why Hank would even stick around Doc - this burning sensation of #I think I should know you.#edit: changed it to MC1 rather than 3 cus i realised sheriff stuff is 1-3 and evidently hank still recalls that in MPN #and i imagine a majority of hank's ““normal”” life predates 1 anyway. the deterioration probably starts around 6-7 when the main split #of consternation and antipathy happens. on top of the revivals that had already happened before this

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