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Mera and Hawks Ancient Rome AU

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I gotta admit I come back to MHA because I saw a DbiHwks TikTok and thought they're a hot ship and they look so cool. Not expecting to fall into Endhawks hole tho. But DbiHwks is a nice government-assigned promotional hot twink pair.

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I literally drew this while doing driving test haha

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Female version of Hawks and Dabi. Phone scene.

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Horikoshi is such a Westernboo cuz why the main city of your manga is the Star wars planet that Darth Vader lives lmao.

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loverboy

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mutuals our souls are aligned i mean hi

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Can I say Hawks' best faces are always when he's around Endeavor-

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After the DabiHawks shippers took on the “he’d hate Endeavor if he found out his past then ttly became a villain!” I’ve had this rage about the subject lol. Endeavor is not Enji. That’s been stated by even Natsuo and a lot by Shouto. Hawks is a fan of Endeavor the hero and he’s shown to be great at compartmentalizing so I don’t think it’d matter much to him. (Like how Deku was.) Especially since Endeavor became self aware and is changing. Really what we need is more background. HORI! 😡

"That last ask reminded me how much I dislike fanfics' portrayal of Hawks' reaction to Endeavor's past, lol. I guess that's more to do w/ people hating Endeavor but they forget that these two have a good relationship that goes beyond hero worship by now. Endeavor cares for Hawks and Hawks got to see his change, to support and trust him. That's why the reveal will be extra painful and Hawks' reaction cannot be predicted, it's very complicated." -Another Anon (We'll call you A2)

All this interaction and just from something I plunked down in my blog without major tags? I really do have a significant amount of people who read my stuff, thanks everyone!

Tw: Abuse of various kinds

Before responding I'd like to take a step back and frame this is real-world terms for a second: abuse is rampant in our local communities even if you may not realize it. Both my parents came from backgrounds with abusive parents/step-parents - some of which was on par with what the Todoroki's went through. That scratches the tip of the iceberg of people I personally know who have suffered some sort of domestic abuse, including myself, let alone the people I know of who have experienced it.

We really need to be sensitive to the fact that some respond to Enji the way they do because they don't see a fictional character with a story and message to tell in the larger scheme of the series - they see their own abuser, that person who on whatever level ground them down and made them feel like something less than human for however long and may even still be doing so. Have compassion for these folks. Not every Enji-anti is a cancel culture party planning purist ambassador.

Hawks is a comfort character for a lot of people, and many have used his ambiguous/mysterious personality as a blank canvas to project their woes onto and triumph over them vicariously through him. I've even done so. When his canon past came to light, a lot of them doubled-down on it, believing their victory was near. For those with open wounds, vehemently rejecting that abuser is a common cathartic release dream - especially if they've only recently come to terms with the fact that they aren't the ones at fault for what they went/are going through. Anger is a normal reaction.

For many of these people, the idea that someone who had it in them to do THAT to a human being could EVER, ACTUALLY want to change and CAN change is, frankly, actual insanity.

On the other side of the coin are people who believe that while those individuals need to have consequences of some kind for what they've done, they are allowed to make strides to improve who they are moving forward. They can never erase the evil they've inflicted on others, and it's up to their victims to decide if they forgive them individually; but never letting a genuinely remorseful person try to be better one day at a time leaves the world at least as ugly as we left it.

You had a good word for it, A2 - it's complicated.

Part of forfeiting your right to forgiveness as a former abuser includes not only giving up your right to be forgiven by your victims but by anyone you lied to as you commited and hid the abuse.

To A1's point, Enji and Endeavor until recently have not been the same person. He's Enji Todoroki first, and he lied to everyone to maintain his image as Endeavor the hero. In fact, he sacrificed the integrity of Enji to exist as Endeavor, so Endeavor the hero is not free of the crimes of Enji Todoroki.

For someone like Hawks who may have looked up to Endeavor, after coming to the conclusion that Papa Takami was a garbage human being, and thought "That's what a good man looks like! He would be a good dad to me if I was his kid," he would be justified in not forgiving Endeavor/Enji for implicitly lying to him for years, enforcing a false version of reality that lead to him selling his freedom as a child and not fighting back harder when he was older because to Hawks they are the same person - if you're this good to the public, you're this good in private. If Endeavor did all this, lied to Keigo and the public, with the HPSC's blessing, Hawks has the right to spit pure venom because in his mind you can't separate the hero from the person. Recognize that there isn't anything of Keigo Takami that isn't Hawks, and Hawks exists at the cost of Keigo Takami. If Hawks goes down, so does Keigo.

"If it means getting my hands dirty to put the minds of others at ease, I'll gladly take on this task."

The series is trying to tell us that, too. Have you noticed that none of the "big three" have real hero names atm? They're Shouto, Bakugo, and Deku. Even Izuku's choice to be called Deku is symbolic in this sense. Deku isn't a hero-proper, he's just Deku doing what Deku does because that's who Deku is. Call him by any other name, that's who he is at his core, it's who he was before he ever got a quirk, and it would be that way if he was recognized as a proper hero or not.

The HPSC has tried to strip Hawks of Keigo Takami unsuccessfully because they can't - if anything, by choking out Keigo Takami's ability to exist outside of Hawks they've reinforced a sense of personal identity and responsibility over his own actions that they can't undo. All Might only exists because Yagi Toshinori wanted to create a paragon, and in feeding All Might's existence Yagi Toshinori withered away. And on the same note, when Jin Bubaigawara reached the end of his rope and had nowhere to go and no one left to turn to, he became Twice and found a place that wanted him.

Now, Jin felt like his own most ideal version of himself as Twice, and even despite his laundry list of crimes up to and including murder Hawks still felt he was worthy of redemption - even just the chance for it. Will Endeavor, whose list of crimes also stack up in similar fashion also be worthy? Does it matter what you call yourself or what you've done that matters, or does it come down to what you want to do and who you want to be that counts?

It's hard to tell. It's complicated. We'll just have to wait and see.

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Sometimes I wonder if some of Western Endeavor antis actually have real life experiences.

The point of Endeavor's character is that he represents a very common issue in Asian culture: strict, abusive dads. It's not said or explored further in the manga, but Asian people can easily get the implication that Endeavor is those type of traditional stern patriarchs that used violence as a way to raise their children. Think of his house: a traditional Japanese mansion. Why didn't Hrks put him in a different house architecture? It's because of the implications, duh!!

But the point is, East Asian countries have an unhealthy and unbalanced tradition around the relationship between parents and child. The child should worship their parents as their gods, but the reality is their parents abused them in some way and leaving them traumatized. Generations upon generations were raised in physical violence from their parents, it became a *norm*. People are ingrained in their head that beating your children is okay. I've seen older men who I thought were goodie-two-shoes but beat their wives, and their wives think it's normal! Actually, advocating to treat your children with tenderness and understanding is a freaking new concept in these past 10-15 years here! Endeavor is a traditional man, so he thinks it is okay to beat your children to teach them. It's a real issue that traumatized children grow up to become abusers themselves. It's not rocket science to wonder why Enji hasn't realized the wrongness of his way until he's in his 40s.

Yes, those types of men exist. He is not some pookie bear creepypasta fat drunkard abusive asshole that you often see in Hollywood media. He could be your neighbor, your uncle, your co-worker, ect.

But, the point is! The point is Horikoshi wants to write a positive story! To write something new, something as a hope for society. So he writes the abusive dad tryna become good. It's not really an ABSURD thing to do, is it? Why are antis acting like bad dad trying to say sorry is the most bizzare thing in this story?

Edit: Well, people can like or hate a character how they want. I'm not reducing Endeavor to "uwu victim of the system", this man has his calculated way of thinking as well. But his behaviors are nothing new or rare and can be seen commonly in real life. It's a real life tragedy that abuse is common. But Endeavor, the fictional character, is trying to change, and he unironically became a symbol of hope for systemic change because of that. I don't like Endeavor because "omg he beats his children and wives so cute!", no I like him because he is an abuser who tried to change and atone, which set him different from most real people.

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Just saw a big D*biH*wks artist on X said Hawks was created to be a main character forced to be a side character 😭 Here's why I don't agree with this statement even tho Hawks is a really fascinating character himself.

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Why do you think Hawks was redesigned to be more detailed and prominent when his earlier design was just npc bird hero?

Why was Hawks given a proper introduction much later in chapter 184, just in time Endeavor's character arc was about to take a major step forward? Wouldn't it be more interesting he had been seen earlier, doing his hero works, so it'd be more devastating when his "betrayal" was revealed?

It's simply because his character was created around 1, Endeavor specifically and 2, for MHA's new phase.

Regarding 2, when All Might retired, the MHA world entered a new era of heroism. The story was getting darker and darker. The top 1 hero being an extremely flawed and imperfect person. It's the perfect opportunity to show the darker side of the hero society by introducing a morally grey character aka Hawks.

HOWEVER, this scandalous line of work isn't really emphasized much later when Lady Nagant was introduced. The author constantly made excuses for Hawks' actions to be justified. So he is not really an outright dark character like people expect him to be. Why?

It's because of 1, the author wants to paint Endeavor as a good hero. Endeavor is the type of character who requires interaction from other characters to flesh out his identity because he is the embodiment of a THEME: Can a flawed hero and a man who made a horrible mistake deserves a second chance? A theme which he is the poster child of, and other characters are different little branches. His 4 children and wife already represented various types of abuse consequences, but with Endeavor's sudden desire to be good, the family went through a transitional period. Fuyumi hopes, Shouto and Rei contemplates, Natsuo refuses and Touya revenges.

But that's just his own family, what about outsiders? How to make Endeavor the hero looks better to show that his desire to change is *encouraged*? Fuyumi isn't enough because she is his child anyway. So here comes Hawks.

At first, he made fun of Endeavor, since readers still thought of him as a bitch at the time. But he also praised Endeavor like crazy, which gives Endeavor character needed positive approvals for his eventual atonement. It's emphasized much more later in the hospital scene, when Hawks learned the truth about the Todoroki family, yet he still acknowledged that Enji is trying to improve and become his supporter as a result. It all translated to the theme that: yes, he is encouraged, yes he deserves a second chance if he is willing to change.

But why Hawks specifically? Some people are mad because he forgives Endeavor. They think he has a legit reason to hate Endeavor. Why Hawks must act this way? We can argue that Endeavour can be forgiven by any other hero, right?

It's because, ultimately, Endeavor and Hawks are created to be a pair. Imagine them as the lead detectives in a mystery TV shows. Each one of them props the other up. They're a pair, BUT, an infamous pair of heroes. A pair of misdeeds and darkness, that ties to the darker era of MHA at the time. Endeavor, despite his effort to change, is still considered as a "bad influence" (consider the villains that are drawn to him). So, from character creation POV, his "sidekick" character should be written to have antagonistic properties too. It's like "See, there are other heroes that are shady like Endeavor too, he's not the only one. But Endeavor isn't doing assassination shits, and that makes him kinda better a lil bit." -> Endeavor's relation to the theme yadi yada.

But they're both in the protagonist sides so they need to also be good.

So let's talk about Hawks. He is like Lady Nagant but good. We all know the HPSC does shady things in the dark to keep the peace. Hawks would be perfectly fine if the story introduces him like Nagant, killing bunches of people and shit and fans would still love him anyway. I personally think it's not necessary to repeat the HPSC thingy again in Dark Deku arc, but since the author's accidentally made Hawks too "light", he needs another darker character to make the point about the HPSC. It all comes back to Endeavor's character arc. He needs to be portrayed as good, so Hawks (who has established himself as Ende's supporter) can't be shown to be too dark. If he is, people will think even more negatively about Endeavor as a bad influence.

Nagant asked, "Why are you so positive, Hawks?", and he replied, "Endeavor, lol".

It's no random that the author chose Hawks to have Endeavor plushie, and had Hawks' villain father arrested by Endeavor too. It all serves Endeavor's character arc. It tells the readers that Endeavor still has a GOOD INFLUENCE too, and he still has a chance to prove himself right. If he was a Lady Nagant copy, a character that serves ONE purpose of exposing the darker side of hero society, he would not forgive Endeavor. He would be a different character: someone dangerous and distant and hot just like how most people imagine him to be.

But where would Endeavor go without Hawks? He would be lost, frustrated and isolated. Hawks is here to soften the image of Endeavor and represent Endeavor's vulnerability and emotional openness.

I kinda rambled too long and think I've made my points already so no conclusion lol.

TL; DR: Hawks is a secondary character created to be Endeavor's PR Manager and people can't pretend his association with Endeavor is non-existent.

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Okay Hrks, Hawks is just Enji's regular "drinking buddy" and he visits his house a lot especially when Enji is alone in his big empty house like okay Hrks

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Doodles

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Unfortunately Gen Z's version of dancing to music at the club is ... Wearing headphones listening to TikTok edits, I fear

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Ships so good it makes me write poems and shi

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Todorokis rocking turtle neck sweater

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Endeavor and Hawks (MHA) as Kakuzu and Hidan (Naruto).

Btw, with Kakuzu Enji in mind, it’s so weirdly fitting that Kakuzu Enji would have 4 other hearts from other family members? Just like Kakuzu has 4 other hearts. So here is Shinobi Touya fighting his Akatsuki father lol.