I think with the Hawks stuff, it's because Hawks doesn't want to think of himself as a victim in those terms. He feels saved by the hero system; he genuinely believes in it as a force for good. In a sense, he's pretty much an incredibly marginalized person who got incredibly lucky and thinks everyone has the same opportunities under the system that created people like him. In the summary he keeps saying he has no connection to the takamis... he has severed the past and it doesn't apply anymore.
True, true... I always thought that the parallels/differences between him and Dabi were really interesting. While Dabi realized how awful his circumstances were and managed to get away from that and fight back, Hawks never managed to get out or even fully realize his situation.
It’s absolutely realistic and tragic, though I’m just wondering what it would take for him to understand that killing Twice and defending Endeavor were/are not great choices (or if he will understand that at all?).
