#cant have good fat characters in detroit

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Also kinda random and only tangeantalky related but can i add that this is also why i dont like connor x hank from detroit become human? Obviously its not pedophilia, but its still an unhealthy age difference for a ship. Connor looks like he's barely started his 20s and Hank is like 40 or 50?? And they constantly play up Connor's inexperience due to being an android, so it draws attention to the damn age gap and makes it seem even bigger than it already is!

Like ive seen people saying 'oh people only hate connor x hank cos something something fatphobia hank isnt conventionally attractive'. No wtf thats absolute nonsense?? Hank is my favourite damn character and i'd love to ship him with someone if there was really any moment he interacts with another person the same age that isn't just mutual hate. I mean man i fuckin found myself shipping him with the one burger kebab shop salesman cos apparantly they have some sort of friendship, right? So like please dont accuse me of hating my favourite character or promoting predjudice against my own body type just because i think dating someone LITERALLY OLD ENOUGH TO BE YOUR DAD when you're only the very youngest definition of adult is MAYYYYyyyyBE a little unhealthy?!

Tho also again i can understand how younger fans could probably fall into this stuff without knowing the implications. And also how it kinda has that similar situatiin of 'well its the only option' since hank and connor are like the only well written people in the game and i guess i could see people reading that as them having good chemistry rather than the canonical love plots just having reaaaaallly shitty chemistry. There's also (at least potentially) no other close male friendships to use for shipping unless you headcanon backstories for one scene npcs like i do. The only other options are Simon (who can die early on due to a random choice and get no chance to bond with your character) and i guess Connor and Markus (who dont even get to meet until the very last chapter of the game, and only talk like once) Kara also has literally no shipping options except Luther, and there's so few female characters in the plot that she only ever meets one other woman and she's also a far older parental figure. So yeh i can get the idea of 'it sucks but therecs no other option'. Or hell i can understand if some people just look at those designs and perceive their ages differently, like to them connor looks older or hank looks younger, i dunno. And the emphasis on connor's innocence and hank always calling him boy and son doesnt ruin it for them, i guess.

But like.. If i can understand that, can you guys please understand that people have legitimate reasons to feel uncomfortable with the ship? Its not all 'oh wah theyre just homophobic oh they just hate hank cos he's fat'. Just like how i've seen people saying that the worry about problematic/badly handled racism elements in the plot is 'just hate' and acting like..yknow.. people arent criticizing A SPECIFIC THING and giving actual reasons for it! And a lot of people criticizing these things are not even haters at all! Hank is my favourite character and i dont like this ship with him. I can see lots of good parts in the game even if i criticize other ones. You cant preach 'stop the hate' while acting aggressive to fans for daring to have anything but 100% glowing praise 24/7.

Ehh sorry i didnt mean this to come off as so aggressive but i guess whats done is done. Im not gonna tag this or anything cos this is just my personal rant and i dont want it to end up in the tags for people who like this ship.