#and the issue is that I /can't/ get the requirements for applying to the astronomy degree in that time

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[kadecre]

Universal Hawks Headcanons by Matter of Importance

(That Will Span All of My Fics)

The man can cook.

He uses y’all. (This is canon)

He has ADHD and is autistic. (Covering his mouth with the collars of his jackets and the little foot rub he does (like that one time he was perched on a power line) are all tics.)

Unless otherwise specified, Keigo Takami is trans and uses he/him pronouns. *

Keigo is panromantic asexual.

He has freckles.

Adding on to 3) he has sensory issues. If a fabric is off in any way, he will hiss and claw at it until the offending fabric is either off his body, or torn to shreds. Which ever comes first.

Chicken nuggets are his safe food. He only says he likes fried chicken so he can seem more adult, but if given the option between fried chicken and dino nuggets, it’ll be the nuggies every time. No hesitation.

Keigo can't taste spice, like at all. He can taste other strong flavours, but birds don't have the sensory buds to taste spice, and since he has an avian mutation, this applies to him as well. He lies about having a high tolerance but in actuality, he just can’t taste it.

On the flip side, he is a lightweight when it comes to alcohol. Keigo doesn’t like the taste of alcohol to begin with, and he doesn’t like not being in control of his actions. So unless he is in a social setting where drinking is required, like say a gala, he avoids alcohol. However, the few times he does partake in drinking, it’s never more than two, and it’s only enough to get Keigo to relax. Once his senses dull a bit, he switches to juice or water. Outside of cooking wine, alcohol will not be found within the Takami household. You want a drink that’ll take the edge off, you grab chocolate milk.

Keigo has a collection of shiny rocks and cool trinkets. He has a full library of books about geology and different crystals and minerals.

He loves astronomy. During nighttime patrols, Keigo will fly high above the light pollution and cloud bank, so he can have an unlimited view of the stars.

Keigo’s hair is much wavier and a bit longer than canon. He ties it up a lot when at home or in the office. He sometimes throws on a headband to push his hair back or just uses his visor.

He has a crooked smile (caused by a dislocated jaw that didn’t heal properly when he was a child) but it just adds to his “boyish charm” (the media’s words, not his).

He has talons on his hands and feet, as well as fangs perfect for tearing through flesh, (his quirk is that of a raptor, are we honestly surprised?)

Keigo suffers from sensory overloads and gets headaches/overwhelmed easily, so he carries noise canceling headphones with him at all times.

When he is home or in the office, Keigo wears a special pair of glasses that block his enhanced eyesight. It lessons the strain on his eyes and dials it back to a normal human level.

Despite being lean, Keigo is heavy. His bones are hollow, to allow for flight, and with his wings (5.5 meters (18 ft) wingspan people, those pretty wings aren't light) and the way his diaphragm is set up (large lung capacity for high altitudes as well as bone structure) Keigo weighs close to 104.3 k (230lbs).

His wings are really expressive. Keigo’s face won’t give him away, but his wings will.

When he doesn't want to be recognized, Keigo will shed his wings, often keeping them small enough to hide under his clothing. However that doesn’t mean he’s unarmed. If there’s one thing he retained from his time with the commission, it’s to never be unarmed. If you see Keigo without his wings, that doesn’t mean that he doesn’t have feathers on him.

He’s a plant dad! He was scared at first to keep something alive in his apartment, but he went out one day, agonised for an hour about buying a plant, and then ended up getting talked into buying a few by the cute person who helped him calm down in the plant nursery.

Keigo’s love language is food. The man’s practically a Michelin star chef, of course he shows his love via food.

* There is one fic, as of 21/12/2022 where Keigo is cisgender, however, it is not published at this time.

[uboat53]

TIP FROM A SCIENTIST #1!

(For those interested in my qualifications, they are as follows: B.S. Aerospace Engineering, Concentration Astronautics, and B.A. Physics from California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo. M.S. Mechanical Engineering from California State University, Sacramento. Adjunct Professor of Astronomy at Sierra College)

I want to talk for a moment about the phrase "follow the science" and why almost anyone who uses it isn't actually following the science. The reason for this is simple, science and scientific results doesn't/don't actually tell you what to do.

Let me give you an example. Let's say we have a safety device that scientific research tells us reduces the risk of serious injury in the case of a failure of the main device by 45%-55% (this represents a 5% margin of error from the 50% average value). Scientific research also tells us that the failure of the main device occurs 0.0056%-0.0043% of the time for normal use and that the average person uses the device 130-160 times per year. Research also shows that the safety device currently costs an average of $98-$102 and that widespread production would reduce this to $8.00-$11.00 per unit.

(NOTE: None of this is real, I just made up a situation and some numbers to illustrate the point, don't get too hung up on them.)

That's lots of specific information with well-defined margins of error. So, notice what isn't there? That's right, science doesn't tell you if you should use that safety device. It also doesn't tell you if we should require that safety device to be included with the main device.

These are what we call judgement calls. Science can tell you with differing degrees of accuracy what the risks and likely outcomes are and how something affects those risks and outcomes, but it can't tell you whether those risks and outcomes are acceptable or whether mitigating or altering them is worth the cost. People have to decide that for themselves or, in the case where the decision has to be made as a group, try to find a common decision that the interested parties can live with or, if they really can't agree, a new equilibrium needs to be found that can provide some kind of agreement.

Following the science will lead you to reasonably accurate information, but it won't actually make the decision for you. The process that does that is called politics.

This applies to just about everything that science covers. Scientists are really good about telling you what something is, how it works, and how it's affected by various factors, but you have to decide what to do with that information. As a society, we need science in order to agree on a common framework for agreement or disagreement, but it's never going to resolve all of our disagreements. Someone might find a 2% risk acceptable and someone else might find it unacceptable.

We DO need science to shape a discussion, but it can't take away the need for that discussion. We have far too many people disagreeing with the basic information that science provides these days, but those people are not the same as the people who disagree over what that information MEANS. The second is perfectly reasonable and even necessary while the first is a problem.

Anyways, anyone who tells you that "following the science" will resolve the issue, usually by claiming it will lead to their preferred outcome, is trying to force you to do what they want without doing the hard work of actually convincing you. It's a huge red flag that their argument might not actually hold up.

And this has been a TIP FROM A SCIENTIST, I hope it was useful. Let me know if you have any questions, comments, or concerns about any of the information here!