I've seen a comment before that was "how is Hawks even top ten?" on a clip of him saying he's not great against power types. It made me want to chew through a brick wall.
Hawks helped like 7 different situations in the back of his mind while having a conversation with Endeavor- a conversation that was crafted on lies to trick him into a fight. A fight that he was setting up with Dabi as he worked undercover with one of the most dangerous villains in Japan. In said fight he saved like 50 some people in an instant from a collapsing building, literal seconds of decision making and execution that went perfectly, and then fought to keep more civilians safe and then proceeded to be the hell Endeavor needed to win the fight.
Hawks works as a rescue hero. He also works as a detective, seen in the movie. He got the 1a students help before a single other person realized they were in danger. Hawks works faster than any of his sidekicks can help at all. Hawks works faster than a camera can keep track of.
Hawks fought Dabi, his greatest weakness, in a closed area, while also dealing with Twice, and came out successful although with injuries. And then with this injuries, he gets back to work before he can even talk. Planning and strategizing.
With four feathers in his back, he is still working. He's there for Nagant. He plans on how they're going to take down AFO, and then proceeds to show up to a fight against one of the greatest villains in history with nothing but two swords. And he does it, he breaks AFO's mask into pieces with two basic ass swords, and shatters a sword in doing so. He forced AFO into a bad position and is now facing him with no feathers left and one sword. What does he do? Immediately thinks to start distracting him with talking and that's where we leave it off.
I so, so, so, desperately need Hawks to be done justice here. I need Horikoshi to pull through and allow Hawks to do what he needs to do here, whatever that is.
Because Hawks is an insanely amazing hero. The way he got here was horrible, shouldn't have happened, and shouldnt be praised, but that doesn't change what has happened. Without the work he did, the message he got out that Dabi literally admitted to never expecting, he enabled all of Japan to survive. We saw what happened, can you imagine what would have happened if Hawks was not involved here and the PLF and Shigaraki completed every preparation and instigated the attack on their terms? With the completed high ends? With Twice? That'd be it for real, no doubt. Deku would not even be ready to handle Shigaraki at all. Hawks allowed for that.
So as the chronically, terminally, embarrassingly down bad Hawks stan I am- I need people to stop dismissing him. What he did was absolutely crazy. Goddamn. I don't care if you don't like Hawks, but that doesn't change all he's done. Hawks is the youngest hero to reach the top ten, and he literally saved Japan.
