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[velocityraptor]

❥ Character Information

Character Name: Keigo "Hawks" Takami
Character Age: 22
Character Species: Heteromorph
Current Health: Great
Outfit: Hero Outfit : A golden yellow coloured pair of baggy pants and an aviator jacket with a fur collar and lapel, a tight yellow and black t-shirt, black leggings, black boots and gloves, yellow goggles and sound dampening headphones.

Character Canon: My Hero Academia
Link to History: Right here.
Canon Point: Sometime around chapter 255-258, while he is in league with the League of Villains.
Canon Iteration: Original canon

❥ Folkmore Roles & Attributes

Skills:

* Espionage
* Assassination
* Interpersonal Communication
* Manipulation
* Public Relations
* Business Savvy
* Modeling
* Performance

Canon Abilities:

* Quirk: Fierce Wings
* Telepathic control over his feathers including how soft or hard/sharp they are
* Flight
* Superhuman Speed, recognized as one of the fastest in the world, his fastest known speed is close to 900 km/h, and he says he can go faster.
* Extremely acute long-range vision
* Additional senses: While he sees and hears with his eyes and ears, he can also do the same with each of his feathers, using echolocation and picking up the vibration of voices which makes him an incredibly effective spy. Through small movements, breathing, heartbeats, etc. he can completely visualize the size of a person in trouble, the location his feather is in and decipher separate voices. He can do this with every single one of his feathers all at once (which is why his 'normal' hearing is often cut off).

Role: Myth
Role Qualities/Attributes: Hawks will manifest claws on both his hands and feet that he will not be able to clip off, sharpened canine teeth, as well as a bird's tail of black feathers, the feathers acting the same as his wings when it comes to their ability to be used. He will also gain resistance to poisons and gases.
Role Reasoning: While Hawks literally becomes one of the avatars for change in hero society, at this point he still represents the dark and hidden side to hero society. As an optimist, he recognizes that things need to change. He pushes other heroes to change through his somewhat erratic behaviour in an effort to make people break the mold of how things are being done right now. His actions are meant to make the pro heroes realize that the present way of doing things and platitudes just aren't enough, and that the people's support is what should matter the most. This suggests he's not at all pleased with the status quo of how things are going in society for the moment and he wants to affect change.

❥ Personality

OPTION 2 QUESTIONS (PICK 4-5) 100-300 WORD LIMIT EACH:

What was the most traumatic experience your character endured? How did this change them?

While difficult to pinpoint one experience exactly, definitely the most impactful traumatic experience was when his mother sold him off to the Hero Public Safety Commission. Not only had he been abandoned by a parent who didn't really want him, but at the same time she completely sealed his fate to be enslaved to the Commission presumably for the rest of his life.

From that point on, his life was completely in their control. They stripped him of his name, even having his mother change her name and given a very comfortable life somewhere safe. They went through painstaking training to give him the necessary skills to operate as a very public hero, including his personable skills. Everything about his personality, appearance and lifestyle is curated and decided upon by the Commission. They own his agency, his apartment and him. He receives his orders and executes them, while being under constant surveillance. While they could hide him away in the underground like his predecessor, they took a different tactic by making him an extremely public hero, something that would add to the level of control.

It's not just the Commission that's constantly watching him, it's the public and Hawks' role is to play his part as the cool, easy-going playboy that everyone wants to see. While he occasionally expresses light frustration, he finds himself completely at their mercy, only remarking on the farce of them ever 'asking' him to do things. They all know what this is. Managing to keep his optimism, he hopes for a world where the heroes won't have to do everything and even they will have time to kill, and a world where someone like him wouldn't be necessary.

What experience challenged your character's core beliefs? How did they handle this or change from it?

While the true impact of his actions for Hawks won't be felt for another handful of chapters, during his time with the League of Villains, he had the opportunity to get close to the members, particularly Twice. Although Dabi was his contact, once he was permitted to join the Paranormal Liberation Front as an operative, he spent most of his time with Twice. He was there to investigate and funnel information to the Commission, but as his target, Twice came to see Hawks as a friend, someone who would take the time to go over information with him. This allowed Hawks to mine him for information very carefully, but also it gave him insight into the villain.

Twice seemed to be less of a heartless murderer and more of a person in dire need of mental health support. He was also the most dangerous member of the League of Villains on site, and while that made it vital for Hawks to keep his eyes on him and befriend him, it gave him a deep feeling of empathy for the man. Not just that he came to trust the wrong person - he always knew he was going to betray the members of the League.

Despite all of his training, it's these things that would lead Hawks to extend to him an olive branch, a way out of the situation even though he had orders to kill the man. He would go so far as to offer him help when he finished his prison sentence. These are not things Hawks typically does, because he would be in deep trouble with the Commission at the end of it, should Twice accept his overture.

What is the most important and defining relationship(s) in your character's life and why?

I think with Hawks it's less that his relationships are important and defining and more like they aren't. He shares some level of friendship with the pro hero Best Jeanist, enough that the other trusted him to use him as bait during his mission and enough that he took him to his mother's home, but due to surveillance, it's likely that this relationship has a level of superficiality to it. He gets along with other pros, he's cooperative and genial, but he's not especially close to any of them.

As a child he admired Endeavor, for proving to him that heroes aren't just in stories they are in fact real, but as much as Endeavor saved him once, he didn't do it a second time. He sees Endeavor as someone who is flawed and needs a push to actually take the number one spot properly, because for some reason there was no All Might succession plan. It's to that end that he begins manipulating the man, but he also doesn't think he's terribly smart. He has no desire to stand in the spotlight he's in, that's why he works to ensure that Endeavor takes his proper place as the face of hero society. This small thought is antithetical to what the Commission wants him to do.

Outside of this, Hawks is beholden to his owners, and as such he doesn't really have intimate connections with anyone. This allows him to up and disappear on long term missions, but he has the skills to get in and make temporary friends and bedfellows as the need arises to get the job done. Considering how chatty and eager he is when he does get a bit of individualized attention, it's likely that Hawks is very lonely.

What is a headcanon (or two) you feel strongly about and that you prefer playing your character with? How is this supported in canon and why do you think it benefits the character's story?

Hawks' actual quirk is his ability to manipulate his feathers - he's a proper heteromorph and there is suggestion in his behaviours that there are likely more bird-like traits that he is not using. Society at large has a discomfort with heteromorphs in general and it would seem likely that the Commission would ensure that Hawks looks as ordinary as possible, outside of the wings, so that he can seem far more safe and accessible to the public at large.

He finds himself longing for the air, feeling a call with a literal itch of his wings if he doesn't fly before too long. He has piercing, hawk-like eyes, accented with marks on his face that he hides behind his goggles. His vision is another raptor trait, as is his diet of consuming primarily meat with a strong preference for poultry. When he's on his own, he can be found perching in high places, which is bird-like behaviour. It's incredibly likely that he has other traits that have been trained out of him or modified periodically due to the reasons outlined above, like cocking his head to the side which he's done before but corrected quickly, gathering soft materials into a nest, stress gripping, making any bird-like noises, keeping his nails trim and neat so he doesn't develop talons and any wispy feathers that might grow in his feather-like hair would be removed to maintain this perception that he is very much an ordinary human with wings.

This would be in line with both the plotline around how society views people who are different from them, as well as something that would not be outside of what the Commission would do as they control every aspect of his life. Hawks likely has no agency at all, no ability to make decisions on his own because stepping out of line would lead to consequences.

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