Hannibal and Face

[juniberry]

I don’t but it goes against a lot of people’s head cannons. When we see him calming BA or treating him as an equal and especially how Hannibal is during lease with an option to die Hannibal takes the ‘father’ type role with BA. Then Murdock, entertaining him, Hannibal going along with the gimmicks but one word from Hannibal and Murdock snaps back to reality. Again like a father reining his son in.
For me father is the wrong word, mentor, confident, friend and protector to his men. It’s like a kid looking at their faviourite teacher at school, they respect them but they don’t see them as a father. So I think Face is treated the same by Hannibal as the other men and I don’t buy into a father figure. The relationship Hannibal has with each man is close and special and unique to what each man needs.

[amyk]

I think he is a father figure to all of them in some way, but I still like to think there is a special bond between him and Face. Maybe it's because of Face being an orphan and not knowing any biological relative growing up, whereas both BA and Murdock seem to have had someone in their lives that was a father and/or father figure to them growing up. We don't really hear about Murdock's father, but a lot of people seem to believe that he was raised by his grandparents after his mother died.

[HoudiniDerek]

I would say he fits the definition of a father figure, but I think that is brand of leadership inspired the men more than anything and their relationships with him.