Hank Summers should’ve been a ex soldier

This is a follow up to my Buffy should’ve been set in a city post.

I recently began thinking about Hank and what I would’ve done with him as a character.

I personally would’ve made him a ex soldier with PTSD. I would’ve based him on Frank Sobotka from The Wire.

Basically, in my head-canon, Joyce and Hank meet on a night out in Pittsburgh with their respective friends. Hank is a young up and coming soldier at this point, and within three years they marry and a year after that, Buffy is born.

However, Hank begins to slowly develop PTSD, and decides to leave the Army due to his condition worsening. Sadly, his marriage to Joyce suffers, and eventually they decide to separate after his PTSD gets out of control.

Soon after his separation, he briefly falls into depression, but then picks himself and enters a relationship with a lady called Theresa, and they marry, with Theresa becoming Buffy’s stepmother.

Hank and Theresa end up having three daughters, which gives Buffy three stepsisters.

I’d have Hank be a part time character, occasionally dropping in to visit Buffy and even helping the Scoobies with certain problems from the Hellmouth.

Hank would’ve been played by Dennis Quaid.

PS: In my version of Buffy, she comes from Pittsburgh instead of LA, and her and Joyce move to Chicago.