#Rescue Hawk

[nocternalrandomness]

US Navy HH-60H Rescue Hawk at Nellis AFB

[vaguely-concerned]

my only regret is that varric can't be around to see the rpf (ha-hem 'friendfic') that will inevitably get written about rook and the lighthouse crew. he deserves to know what a mark he left in the world. varric tethras was many things to many people. friend. ex (level of divorce not always congruent with actual state of having been married). storyteller. occasional unwelcome tagalong. viscount of kirkwall for nearly a decade (oh yeah!). literary icon. merchant prince. son. brother. friendly neighbourhood gangster and mother hen to the most conctentrated group of disaster bisexuals on the planet. lover. hater. committed centrist (affectionate and derogatory). hawke's forever guy (deep queerplatonic intent). but first foremost and always king and patron saint of the rpf writers of thedas. rest in peace bff of all time you did great

[enormousgrapefruit]

replaying dragon age 2 with full knowledge of all the cut content, wasted potential, and (likely) death of the franchise

[stonesense]

ignoring that isabela wouldnt say any of that whenever she says something i want to hear

[keywestwildlifecenter]

This Short-tailed Hawk was rescued down on Hilton Haven. The patient had possibly been in the water before rescue and is receiving care in our clinic. www.keywestwildlifecenter.org

[evilkitten3]

au where team hebi agrees that it's a bad idea to leave kabuto unsupervised.... so they drag him along. as the team mascot

[bettydice]

At Nightmare's End [9/9] COMPLETE

Pairings: Fenhawke and Solavellan Words: 24k Rating: Mature Summary: In order to save Hawke from the Fade, Fenris has to accept the help of the person who left her there: The Inquisitor.

[READ ON AO3]

Fenris woke in a bed. Everything was quiet. Above him, a familiar ceiling.

When he turned to the side, Hawke was next to him, sleeping.

It felt like a dream; he’d wake any minute now. But he knew, he knew it wasn’t. 

He took in the fragile state of her body. Now, in her own bed and removed from the bleak wasteland, the sight was much harder to bear. It seemed impossible that she'd survived such torment. 

But her face was peaceful; the nightmares hadn’t followed her here.

She was alive. She was home. 

And finally, finally Fenris could let himself feel everything he'd needed to suppress to make it through. He held her hand, looked at her sleeping face, and wept.

[hella1975]

Hella are you a hawks has bird traits and an avian quirk truther or do you personally write/just believe him to only have a wing based quirk? I know in a lot of dabihawks fics a lot of people write him as having a bird mutation similar to tokoyami, instead of it just being wings and was curious what you thought

i know my truth and that truth lies in trawling the 'hawks acts like a bird' tag

[usafphantom2]

MH-60R SEAHAWK with HSM-48 out of Jacksonville at MAXWELL AFB. (E. Figueroa)

@kadonkey via X

[nocternalrandomness]

US Navy Rescue Hawk in the Persian Gulf

[rainbow-squirrels-7]

Hawk’s PMD teams masterpost:

Thanks to @flutterclouds for inspiring this (they sent in a few asks about my guys)! Anybody reading, feel free to ask me about my teams as well, for more info that isn’t provided under the cut!

Check out #hawks teams for more art of everybody!

Red Rescue Team

Team Go-Getters

Greenley (Cyndaquil, Hero) (he/him)

Cecil (Pikachu, Partner) (he/him)

Originally unnamed in my first GBA file of PMD RRT. I also wanted Torchic my first time playing the game, but I tried the quiz for what felt like hours and couldn’t get it so I settled for Cyndaquil

Named Go-Getters after the adorable anime episode

Both of them are troublemakers but their hearts are in the right place

Next to Team Ruby, they’re probably (in-universe) the strongest out of my teams

Greenley eventually evolves into Quilava but not Typhlosion. Cecil doesn’t evolve

Explorers of Time

Team Sapphire

Eugene (Piplup, Hero) (he/him)

Jessibelle (Pikachu, Partner) (she/her)

Originally unnamed and were Team Poképals

Eugene is actually an adult (perhaps 30+ as a human in the future) rather than a child or teen. Jessibelle becomes more of a daughter figure (still best friends obv) over the course of their adventure

Jessibelle has a big straw hat with a big bow that she wears at the beach. That’s her favorite place and she loves to look for sea glass

Eugene definitely pulled a “don’t you touch my DAUGHTER!” during the final Dusknoir fight and surprised himself and everyone else

Jess called Eugene ‘dad’ just as he was disappearing

Explorers of Sky

Team Ruby

Cassandra (Eevee [Sylveon], Hero) (trans female, she/her)

Katya (Vulpix, Partner) (she/her)

Originally unnamed. Do not remember their original team name

Katya was originally the Hero in my first EoS game, but I played through what’s out of the rom hack Seven Symphonies and played as Cassandra (as a Sylveon) and wanted to make Cass the leader

In my first EoS file, they got to level 100, along with their beloved Shaymin teammate

They’re so in love you guys

Cassandra was male as a human and upon turning into an Eevee, discovered that she doesn’t think of herself as male and transitioned

Darkest Before the Dawn

Team Emerald

Cinder (Eevee, Hero) (she/her)

Percy (Riolu, Partner) (he/him)

The team I draw the most

Percy never showed up in DBtD, so his personality wasn’t really explored. He’s kind of reserved and shy. He’s very much in love with Cinder but Cinder is hopelessly oblivious (she’ll figure it out)

Cinder is an ADHD queen

Cinder’s tail is slightly thinner than Cassandra’s and Celeste’s (whoa all my Eevees have C names) and she has more muted colors compared to other Eevees

various YouTube videos

Team Song

Valentina (Torchic, Hero) (she/her)

Celeste (Eevee, Partner) (she/her)

I’ve never actually played a game with them, they’re just who I draw for any PMD PMVs I make

They have no set colors

Gates to Infinity

The Hope

Echo (Axew, Hero) (she/her)

Seth (Oshawott, Partner) (he/him)

Echo is a huge nerd

Seth is himbo extraordinaire. He’s clumsy and impulsive but very loveable

Echo speaks with a lisp due to her tusks and also occasionally gets migraines

They have thicker scarves than the rest of my teams cuz the Mist Continent is chilly

Super Mystery Dungeon

The Forever

Ember (Torchic, Hero) (she/her)

Sage (Bulbasaur, Partner) (any)

I believe this was their team name

They are the embodiment of tall and lean and short and squart

Sage keeps art supplies in their bulb

Ember doesn’t talk much, especially compared my other Heroes

[revvethasmythh]

it's been weeks and i'm still so compelled by the background storyline of hawke going to weisshaupt after here lies the abyss. like. it makes no damn sense. maybe if hawke has a living sibling who is a grey warden, you can twist the logic of it, but i did not have that and also hawke said she wanted to make sure corypheus died and neither staying in the fade NOR going to weisshaupt really accomplishes this goal. like there is NO reason for hawke to be up at weisshaupt, this is not in her lane, this is not her business, her skin is NOT clear, her crops are NOT watered. the wardens are not the responsibility of your Just Some Guy from Kirkwall who has potentially zero connections to the wardens at all except for that one time they super causally tried to use her as a blood sacrifice (maybe she and the first warden can laugh about it some day, but somehow i doubt it!).

BUT. but. the mental imagine of hawke going there and then her sibling (if alive) and her love interest ALSO going there, just to meet up with her, makes it so bonkers funny i don't even care if it doesn't make sense. wtf do you mean hawke family reunion relationship drama in the austere home of the wardens where they all show up and then the entire leadership of the wardens suddenly implodes as civil war breaks out and then their asses get STUCK there. wtf do you mean hawke inadvertently sticks her ass in the middle of yet another civil war while simultaneously having to patch things up with her LI and deal with a sibling dynamic at the same time. hawke can't catch a fucking break istg. it's just her, her sibling, and her LI as their own little three person party while some truly WILD shit goes down and the epilogues are all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ about what happens other than like two lines that put the most insane images into my head. there's a sped-up video of this going down in my mind with the benny hill theme playing in the background. why does varric talk like hawke is still at weisshaupt during trespasser, which takes place two entire years after hawke was meant to go there to give a basic report and then dip. how is this THE most hawke thing to ever happen and we're just. told nothing more about it except that varric got One™️ message from her via an entire smuggling syndicate that essentially says "damn, shits crazy here" and that he assumes hawke will walk away from the building while it's exploding sometime in the near future because apparently the conflict there is not yet resolved. again, this is TWO YEARS LATER. like trespasser is fun and all but truly can we revisit wtf this was all about because WHAT

[cityandking]

I still can't quite nail down a vibe for my rook during the game itself (something something inconsistent game writing) but as soon as I got the tidbit that LoF!rook was a galley slave before joining the lords my brain exploded into a complicated network of supposition and coincidence, which includes:

rook was a tevinter slave

rook ended up with the lords of fortune under isabela's leadership

fenris was hunting slaves post-DA2

fenris is friends with isabela

isabela fobbed rook off on varric pre-veilguard

isabela brings up merrill in front of rook

which obviously must lead me to the conclusion that fenris (and hawke) rescued rook from slavery some time after DA2 and rook knows* the whole kirkwall gang

*she's definitely met merrill and varric pre-veilguard; I don't think she's ever met aveline in person but she's heard so many stories that it's almost like meeting aveline

[flowersforthemachines]

shot to death in the public forum of a youtube comment section

[keywestwildlifecenter]

One of twelve Raptors currently under our care, this first-year Broad-winged Hawk was rescued down in offshore waters by Fury Water Adventures Key West. The patient has responded well to treatment since being admitted to our clinic waterlogged and with a low core temperature. www.keywestwildlifecenter.org

[iheartvmt]

So this afternoon I was chilling in my Mom's little backyard, the whole family, dogs and all, were there because it was my nephew's 8th birthday party (plus a surprise little belated Happy Birthday party for my stepdad and me, who had birthdays earlier this month), the kids were all playing in the above-ground pool...

And a freaking *hawk* stooped onto their TMNT ball, flopped about a bit, and then flew up to sit on the fence like 5 feet away from the pack of screaming, splashing little boys.

Needless to say, that's not normal hawk behavior.

Then it tried to stoop on the ball again, with similar bad results, and fluttered atop an old canopy thing folded up against the shed. We were all keeping an eye on it because wtf? It was sitting a little hunched so I thought "Maybe it's just overheated and dehydrated," and I set a bowl of water next to it. It ignored both my approach and the water.

Then it started eyeing the dogs, tilting its head this way and that as they ran by playing chase. Most of the family dogs are much too big to be taken out by a little hawk, but my two dogs are on the smaller size. Still too big for a hawk to carry off, but if one were desperate enough it might give it a go and do some damage.

Before we could shoo it away, it stooped on the largest dog, Oreo, a 70 lb pit bull/husky mix! O.O

Fortunately for the bird, Oreo was too startled to do anything but yelp, shake it off her back, and run under the table. (Don't worry, Oreo didn't have any injuries, except maybe to her pride!)

It didn't fly back to a perch this time, just sat on the ground hissing amidst the chaos of dogs and very loud humans.

Rin, my newest dog, is an 11 lb poodle mixed with what I'm now certain is terrier, and she ran straight at it, barking and ready to tear it up, talons be damned, but my stepdad scooped her up before she made contact.

I quickly grabbed my cousin's shirt from a beach chair and caught it up (while the other adults impressed upon the kids that this is something You Do Not Do, Auntie is a Professional). As it hissed and snapped at me, I could see it had some kind of white plaque in its throat, and its mucous membranes were bright red, either from stress or possibly stomatitis :(

Then Mom -- well used to animal shenanigans by now, bless her -- appeared with the cat carrier and held it for me so I could get the hawk inside and carefully free the shirt from its talons.

After setting the carrier in a quiet, shaded spot away from the party, I called the local rehabbers on the game department website who are listed as licensed to care for raptors, all of which were currently full. Well, crap. So then I called the Wildlife Center of VA, but it was already after-hours, and I had to leave a message in their non-emergency box (I tried the emergency line first, but the voicemail message has a very clear set of what qualifies as a true emergency, and this wasn't it so I didn't bother the poor vet intern on call). They'll call back during their regular hours tomorrow, and I'll drive it wherever they tell me to take it.

In the meantime, I have a very unhappy hawk in a cat carrier in my bathroom 😬