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“You should stop drinking, Lieutenant. It could have serious consequences for your health.”

“That’s the idea.”

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Connor and North in DBH [+ part 1]

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if anyones been trying to talk to me abt anything sorry i can't see it it's been like this for days and ive yet to work up the brainpower to open it 😂😂

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for the fandom asks, 5 and 22?

hiiiii thanks for ask!!!!!!! boy u also came in quick xP after seeing my answers i suppose (thx!!)

5 (something you see in fics a lot and love) - ok so obv i already did this in the prev one u didn't see bc i hadn't posted it yet lol but ill try again anyway!! .....ok so i scrolled thru some of my ao3 bookmarks of dbh and literally like 90% of it contains either smut or trauma. lmfao. help. ...oooh i love badass connor! but i don't see enough of him tbh so it doesn't qualify for the "a lot" part....... raugh!! it seems the two categories are typically mutually exclusive for me lol. probably my own fault for being an annoying hipster tho xP i scrutinize popular ideas WAY too much. uhhh i do love autism connor fics, ive seen them about and i just. eat up all autism hc fics lol so im glad the fandom does that

22 (the fandom friend you've known the longest) - oh dear me.... i have no sense of time! or uh. what qualifies as friendship 😭 but i sought out @iwonderwh0 when i saw them first getting into/back into (idr?) dbh and was like "wow! same boat! let's be into dbh together!" and now we're mutuals so :3 worked out just fine for me anyway i don't have any like regularly-talking super-close friends in dbh tho i just spam my outside-of-the-fandom friends with my insanity sometimes while they listen politely lmfao

anyway apologies for the rambly nature if it's incomprehensible, but if anyone wants to send me more here's the post <33 https://thiriumhound.tumblr.com/post/747618958223540224

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5, 6, and 7 for the love-your-fandom asks if you want to! I finished connor by systemic dreams recently since you’ve recommended it in your tags before, and…. I am in awe lol

OH MY GOD ANON I WILL SCREAM THANK YOU FOR READING IT IM INSANE IM UNWELL FOR THAT FIC CHANGED MY DBH LIFE-

ahem anyway uhhh ask game :3 tysm for sending an ask!!! and sry it took so long.... ^^;;

5 (something you see in fics a lot and love) - ooughougouh ummm connor whump?? is that too easy??? see i can't think of smth i see a LOT and LOVE.... ooooh actually good smut. there is a lotta good smut out there LOL this fandom is a great kinda horny sometimes. (thank you mermay 😳)

6 (something you see in art a lot and love) - ........ oh lord im so sorry artists everywhere i cannot think of Anything. brain blank as hell. this fandom has some damn good anatomy though, and badass aesthetic. and any art emphasizing their android nature (goes w fic as well)..... hell yeah 👀 once again my issue is at least partially the requirement by the phrasing of the q that it is both smth i see a LOT and smth i LOVE lol

7 (your favorite tropes to read/write/draw) - ok ok ik i already answered this one in the prev one but why shut up when i can keep talking ok. uhhhh as stated above i love when androids are treated as androids, and as such here i love this sorta "interspecies" dynamic it makes. the trope of a normal guy trying to understand this foreign, incomprehensible sort of person... i love when their differences aren't downplayed or erased but rather accepted and adjusted to, even if with difficulty. brings about a unique kind of relationship i can't get enough of (not specifically talking ship).

i hope those answers made any sense here's the post w the qs if anyone wants to send me more!!!! https://thiriumhound.tumblr.com/post/747618958223540224

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....yall im going thru my drafts n finding a lot of misplaced not-dbh posts in there so uhhhh i hope i havent actually rbd a bunch of those??? if u see em pls like put a link in replies or smth so i can move em off here 2 the correct blogs <:/

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It's easter

Time for androids to turn into their egg form and paint each other

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heya!! for the fandom asks: 7 + 16!

dang you were quick! (yeah i saw u send this in like RIGHT after i rbd the post but uhhh yeah i took a min ^^;; sry 4 the wait!) aaaanyway ok!

7 (your favorite tropes to read/write/draw) - ohhhh boy it's gotta be like. angst. angst galore. whump. hurt/comfort. if there's no pain there's no spice. i don't typically like interpersonal drama too much tho (as much as i praise it out loud sfkld) bc it gets to me xD i like when a character is hurt, hides it, then gets support in the end (or it's too late...) anyway yeah no pain no gain 🤘 i swear i have other tastes i just forgot rn ngl SDLKFJS

16 (a tiny detail in canon that you want more people to appreciate) - uhhh off the top of my head the fact that connor loses his tie for no reason after cyberlife tower! to me that implies he doesn't actually like it/it's connected to his life in cyberlife for him. it also could've just come off in whatever conflict got blue blood on his jacket tho (yeah it's there if u look w freecam). also not a tiny detail but if everyone could notice connor's usage of words like "gonna" it would be epic- WAIT NO I HAVE A BETTER ONE. EVERYONE ACKNOWLEDGE CONNOR'S EYEBROWS RIGHT NOW THEY'RE SO IMPORTANT HE EXPRESSES SO MUCH W THEM IM CRAZY IM INSANE im so sorry every other character in the game i have a connor addiction. uhhh also markus actually basically never smiles after leaving carl iirc why don't we pay attention to that too <3 i don't have any kara fun facts except salty ones so oop... ah is it okay i gave u 50 fun facts instead of one l o l man i feel like i didn't choose good ones either 😭 might come back and scream some more if i remember smth good. tho tbh uhhh actually i can think of 50 more but theyre all just "look at this microexpression connor made in scene 235" and that's. a bit pathetic LOL

anyway the ask game if anyone else wants to send me more <333333333 https://thiriumhound.tumblr.com/post/747618958223540224

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Connor isn't technically even "secretly" vain, his vanity is like the central pillar holding the whole construction of his being. Keeping him vain is the secret if keeping him loyal.

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Curiously, despite it being one of the most common tropes in android media overall, dbh doesn't feature ANY canon romance between human and android (I'm talking about the actual game, not cut material) which is honestly kind of amusing, like, we never even hear mentions of such thing existing (there are examples of npcs complaining about people lusting for androids, but it's not the same thing), and on the contrary, dbh features a couple of android/android romances which is much less common thing to come across in android fiction.

Just an observation.

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Still upset and miffed that there wasn’t more uproar if Simon gets left behind/shot at Stratford Tower from the original androids of Jericho.

He’s was their leader for YEARS— Josh was the only one to be genuinely upset about leaving him/killing him. There should’ve at least been some more back and forth with some of Jericho’s residents. Androids who were now weary on following Markus cause ‘look what happened to Simon, he trusted Markus. What if we’re next?’

I just think the people of Jericho should’ve had more interaction with Markus instead of being people to talk at.

Josh only followed Markus and North on that first raid after Simon agreed to. His opinions matters to the others and I just think the story would’ve been interesting if you were trying to sway the people to trust you again.

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"There are thousands of androids at the CyberLife assembly plant. If we could wake them up, they might join us and shift the balance of power..." "You wanna infiltrate the CyberLife Tower?" "They trust me... they'll let me in." "Connor, that's sulclde." "If anyone stands a chance of infiltrating CyberLife, it's me." "If you go there, they'll kill you." "There's a high probability... but statistically speaking there's always a chance for unlikely events to take place..."

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"We have to blow up Jericho, it's our only chance!" "I'll go." "What, Connor, no. You-" "See if you can help the others. I'm gonna find the detonator." "Okay..." "Don't worry... I always accomplish my mission."

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Thinking today before I go into work about how I just want to see a fic that explores Connor and Hank's relationship (however you prefer for it to be portrayed) in the post-canon, but specifically within the context of them being unhealthily co-dependent upon each other. I think for the best effect, it would have to be written from an outsider's perspective-- or even, multiple outsider's perspectives, because that would be the only way for this slow realization to be shown as this growing horror amongst the people that Connor and Hank interact with on a daily basis.

Like, at first glance, you might think it was cute or something. They're clearly incredibly close and practically live out of each other's pockets. People make jokes about them being attached at the hip, or married, or just generally being life partners who found each other at a very strange time in their lives. But then this weird wrongness starts to settle in over time, because it's not just that they spend every waking hour within sight of each other but that they don't seem to function well when they are forced apart. It's not that they choose to live with each other, but that they can't live without each other and that watching their eventual reunion isn't so much a heartwarming hug as it is witnessing an addict in the throws of withdrawal getting their first hit of heroin in weeks.

And then the rumours start. People talk about those four months where pair of them went on a 'vacation' and how it seemed to coincide with the time where CyberLife employees started to go missing. Or how Hank walked out of a strategy meeting where it was discovered that Warren's forces were planning a malware hit on the system that controlled Connor's ability to regenerate himself, returning two days later a signed armistice from Warren herself clutched in a hand that's knuckles looked like ground meat. Or how Connor had somehow found a perfect transplant match for Hank's perforated lung in the middle of a hopeless firefight, and performed the surgery himself while holding off a battalion of soldiers that were knocking at his door.

Slowly but surely, people start to realize exactly what is going on between Connor and Hank, and it's terrifying.

And the fic ends with a conversation between North and Josh in a repair depot, where North is getting a new set of legs after her original set were blown off when she ran into a mine field to drag Hank out of it, risking her life to save his in a move that utterly confuses Josh. Because these two may of had their differences before the war, but after a long discussion the two had finally come to see eye-to-eye by understanding each other's perspective. So Josh knows that North will work with humans but she would never feel for them enough to actually give her life for one. But she just did with Hank, so what gives?

For a moment, North doesn't say anything, just stares at her new foot and flexes her toes back and forth. Then, she looks up at Josh and tells him, "I didn't do it for Anderson."

"What do you mean?"

"Josh... Do you have any idea what Connor would do if that human died?"

Josh locks up, his eyes wide and his jaw clenched, the horror of it all descending upon him in a single, terrifying instant.

"The war crimes alone would set our cause back a decade," he finally manages to eek out.

North nods, grim and grey, "Those two either die together or not at all, because if they were to go separately... I don't think that there's a force in this world that could stop the other from what they would do next."

Because what if we took the fact that Connor was willing to sacrifice the most vital weapon in Jericho's arsenal for the life of Hank Anderson and that Hank is willing to sacrifice any and all morals he has for someone that gave him hope for the future... and we just ran with it?

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