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Player Info

Player Name: Nat

Contact: Discord: Ammeschan

Link to Reserve: Cytes invited me

Other Characters: N/A

Character Info

Full Name: Keigo "Hawks" Takami

Age: 23

Canon Point: Sometime around chapter 255-258, while he is in league with the League of Villains, before everything blows up in his face, literally.

Series: My Hero Academia

CRAU?: No

Chosen Key Power: Weapon

Characters Chosen Reality: Was sorely tempted to put the open sky here Hawks' piece of reality will be one of his favourite places - Fukuoka Tower, especially the highest observation deck. While it's not a very wide tower, it's definitely tall. Preferably with a view of Fukuoka at night, even if one can't just fly off into it.

Game Questions

The following questions are to give mods insight on how you plan to roleplay your character, and we will also designate to them their constellation based on this app.

What is your character's in-canon ambition?

Hawks' primary ambition throughout his life has been to be a hero, but with the state of hero society that has become glaringly obvious to him as he got older, being a hero is not enough. He wants to change the world into a place where heroes are no longer needed, where heroes have time to relax because the societal problems that cause people to turn for villainy are improving. This is a lofty ambition that involves rooting out corruption and getting at the heart of human nature itself to get other people to care about those around them. His methodology has been to prod people, push them in that direction by being a nuisance because his personal circumstances are not ideal.

Who or what is your character's greatest weakness? Something - anything, that serves as their Achilles' heel.

As a literal weakness, fire is a terrible match up for his quirk and always has been because his feathers are very flammable - but as a more abstract kind of weakness, Hawks' self-sacrificial nature is a problem that has overshadowed much of his life. He can tolerate all kinds of abuse and suffering as long as it's him and not someone else. If he can rationalize it as necessary, then it's okay for him and so the threat of harm to people around him is a decent way of getting him motivated. He'll throw himself into just about anything if it's to save another person. Anything for the greater good.

If your character encounters a problem, how do they handle it?

Hawks is an intellectual type, despite the fact he has a non-standard education and a persona that is meant to make him seem like a vapid airheaded playboy, which means he's the type to consider 100 different outcomes to potential actions in the time he has to make the decision and he tries to act accordingly with the least amount of collateral damage. Most of his problems have been dealing with villains, to which he takes a rehabilitation approach to their actions in his desires. In practice, he's beholden to the Commission and orders are orders. If he cannot talk down a target and his orders are to kill them, that's what he will do. When it comes to personal problems, Hawks is more likely to avoid and shy away from them for as long as he can, because as long as it's not affecting anyone else he can avoid dealing with it.

What is the deepest truth your character refuses to acknowledge? What lingers in their unconscious self? Do they fear it, accept it, or avoid it? Would it shatter everything they believe in if it unravels or is unveiled??

There's a lot of truths surrounding Hawks' past that he refuses to acknowledge, and they all wrapped up in his childhood. Both of his parents left scars behind but his mother's actions are particularly bad, considering she trafficked him to the Hero Public Safety Commission in exchange for a comfortable life where she didn't have to work again. His relationship with Tomie and his relationship to the Commission are two things that are intertwined in a mess that Hawks doesn't seem able to untangle. He's openly avoiding Tomie, despite whatever sneaking around he could do - he's never chosen to reach out to her and he's got a lot of guilt and regrets associated with this, including the fact he blames himself for her state and him being unable to help her despite the fact he was roughly six years old at the time.

As for the Commission, he's their property, little more than an asset. It's something that while he rationalizes deeply, he runs from the underlying problem that this level of corruption is exactly the kind of thing he should be fighting against. He avoids the reality as much as he can, but he's also accepted this is how things are and he will do as he's told. He is afraid of the Commission itself, enough to allow this continue and who he would be outside of this role. Unraveling this would take a lot of time for him to process, but unveiling it would be disastrous for the Commission. He doesn't really care what happens to him, although it would surely hurt his career deeply, but it would look bad. On a surface level, Hawks understands all of this is wrong, but beyond that he's been conditioned to care about protecting them, even though he shouldn't.

If your character finished their Journey, do you feel that they would be satisfied at the end of it?

At this canon point, Hawks has not finished his journey, but as My Hero Academia has ended, the conclusion of his journey is known. I think the way it ends for him is both tragic, because he definitely got a raw deal out of the entire story, but also he took a path that was going to be the most comfortable for him, despite the fact he could've done anything. I don't know that I would call it satisfying, but rather he would find it safe. He's stayed in the confines of the life he's always known, but all of the underlying problems are still bubbling under the surface. What he does find satisfying, is that he's put himself in a position to help his goals of changing the world, but anything dealing with changing his personal life he's completely shied away from. I also think it's bad for him in the long term to remain isolated from everyone, but he's chosen to stay in the place he always was, clinging to some semblance of familiarity.

ONLY ANSWER ONE of the Four, there are two groups[ROLEPLAY]: Which question would your character WANT to answer, and then have them answer it.


4. If your world or Universe was already dead, and there was no one else left to protect other than yourself. Would you feel it is worth protecting? Why or why not?

I'd probably ask why me? I don't mean that I'm throwing my life away or anything, but I just mean that I'm not special. Why choose me? There are so many more amazing people out there, better people than me that should be saved. People who have a good future. I'm not any of those things. I get by being cute and fast, but that's hardly the most important thing out there. There are better heroes than me. I'm not someone who needs to be saved above anyone else, or at all really.

Is there a way to get the world back? To save someone, anyone at all? I would do that. That's what I would do, and if they could pick anyone to save from our world alone, they should pick someone much smarter than me.

ONLY ANSWER ONE of the Four[ROLEPLAY]: Which question would your character WANT to answer, and then have them answer it.


4. Does it bother you to see everything wrong with the world, and be unable to change it? What would you do if you could? What have you done, so far, to change it?

Of course it bothers me. There are a lot of things wrong with the world as it is, a lot that can and should be changed, but people aren't willing to do it. It's annoying, and frustrating, because some things could just be avoided if people cared a little more about their fellow man, you know? There's things I would like to say, to speak out about, but I can't. My wings are tied, so to speak. I can't be seen making trouble for the Commission. The best I can do is incite other people to do it. Share my thoughts and hope that someone else takes up the mantle.

If I could do anything at all, I would use my influence the right way. I would tell people off for being jerks about other people's quirks or mutations. None of that matters. They're still people. I would help more with impoverished people and get more resources to them because no one should have to live like that. I would work hard to help those that take the wrong path to try and find a way back to being productive members of society. I want everyone to have a good life, and right now they don't.

The only thing I've been able to do is help around Fukuoka. It's not much. I know it's not enough, not good enough, but I'm just limited in what I can say and do, so I can't really bring the heat down on the Commission as much as I want to. And other heroes? I wish they focused on this more. The job should be more than just catching villains. There's always going to be villains, but some of them are just desperate. If we could take that away then things would be better, for both the heroes and the people.

Again, please just pick one question that feels most representative of your character and have them answer their perspective. Each answer should be a small self-roleplay. We are looking for inner monologue; present this as if they asked themselves this question.




What aspect of the group interests you the most for your character?

I was excited to share a game with Cytes and Mog again, although the setting and power scaling is interesting. I'm not sure how Hawks is going to fit into it but that's the fun part, taking him out of his comfort zone.

Examples

One TDM top level right here.

Abilities - Remember to fill out abilities in a separate comment like in this example. There is also another example at the bottom of the application page.

Note: The comment is going to include all of his abilities because I'm not sure I'm tiering them right. Please don't hesitate to correct this.