Hawks!…

woahgh.. old hawks stuff in my forgotten files.... epic

Corrected results for the Super poll event:

Hero name is the same

Quirk ranking: Shoto and Deku swapped places

Best chapter - we have 3 new winners instead of the previous ones

We finally got the manga volume inside cover ranking

This poll is a total mess, I don't trust anything they announce at this point.

Toga's last love will always be Uraraka.

if i wrote fics, i would def write about the endeavor hawks dabi triangle and make it about how dabi can get under hawks' skin like no one else and endeavor has to witness that and hawks loses his mind because he doesn't want to lose his nonchalance in front of mr. endeavor out of all people, and dabi just leans back and watches hawks be so weird about that man with morbid fascination like waowwww, you have no idea who my father really is but also waowwww, my father really saved your life and i can see why you feel indebted to him, i used to see him as my personal hero too. and endeavor is in the middle lost as hell because there hasn't been a single instance in which he truly understood his son or his wannabe son on a deeper level, he just knows there's sth weird going on and he doesn't even know yet that his son is gay ugh MUCH to unpack

there for you and me

He has his hero suit under the biz suit, a sword at his back, has resumed being cheerful & expressive, & continues to be called “Hawks.” I’m still digesting all of this. Many change but also not much at all.

I'll be actually serious in answering this - yes, some of the development is lacking, but I also think there's a step in the right direction.

I've said over the years a lot of Hawks's issues are over agency and choice, yes?

He spells out here: he cannot refuse. In some ways it's because he as a person (as Hawks/Keigo) could never just sit back and not do anything, but also because they won't let him. Let's remember what else is in this part of 192 because I think it shows how clear the relationship is.

He's bowing. He's acknowledging his subservience here. He's below her.

One of the worries of the manga with Hawks's narrative is that he would always fall into this pit of letting other people make decisions for him no matter what. I strongly believe he essentially also caged himself here because while he could break out, there were consequences.

However, let's look at Hawks's "breaking free", which I think was illustrated to be looked at along with these panels.

While I argue Keigo isn't free here, not of the cage he's imprisoned himself, he is literally free of anyone ordering him to do anything he doesn't want to again. Nagant even mentions he must have been ordered to do horrible things. So, I do want to say that one the biggest issues, it seems, at the end was Keigo not having control of his own life.

While I do think there's more he could be doing, the idea that he can make his own decisions, that he's now so high above everyone that his life is no longer as expendable as it once was, might indeed be an improvement.

I'll save this for a longer meta, but Keigo was always curious for being a caged bird who couldn't fly free in his imagery, but his skills were always impeccable control - over his quirk and over others. The manipulation was really what caught my eye initially. And it provided lovely irony for someone who hasn't ever really controlled his life and desperately believes he can't.

He could have said no. Mera was there, even if he sorely needs a nap. Hawks doesn't have to or need to be the new Prez/Chairman. I think he wants to be, because he realized he can't shape the society he stated he wants all along from where he was. That it was the people running the society who made him false promises and maybe he can do better. Can he? Pardoning La Brava and Gentle is the right step. Retiring the Hero part and likely making "heroes" less prominent in their society is a good step. Allowing Nagant to whatever she likes is a good step. We need to see what happens with Toga/Spinner/Compress as well, because Hawks now controls their fates, too. He has a lot of work to do. He has a LOT to make up for. But he can do more like this, than as a hero. He doesn't need his wings to cause change. Just the mouth and sharp wit he had all along - and that made him interesting in the first place. And that's why I think this final image pulls it together. It is literally the image above, but a very different sort of Keigo. Maybe it's the light-hearted one we should have wanted all along.

Girls with no drivers license </3

Birds

uhhh something something a disaster ruins society uhhh excuse for hawks to have a cool survival outfit