The things we did for “justice” that time can’t heal...

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His agency’s floors are so polished that you can see your reflection:

Hawks began investigating the nomu before he was assigned the mission to infiltrate the LoV:

^^ Tokoyami’s first internship with Hawks was post-Sports Festival, during the Hero Killer Arc. Hawks was assigned the infiltration mission post-Kamino.

Hawks is noted by the HPSC and by Endeavor for how much he snoops around, and Hawks pretty much tells Midoriya that the secret to being speedy is to anticipate what’s about to happen, which requires staying up to date.

He lets his fans touch his wings without asking:

His fans also tend to be on the young side.

He makes the gesture of removing his visor when he’s being particularly honest:

Once his visor is on or off, I don’t see a distinct relationship to his honesty, but when it transitions, it’s pretty distinct.

He gestures a lot with his hands:

I’m out of the hospital! I was released a little while ago and needed time off to get things in order and prepare for the rest of my treatment. Saying a lot of stuff is going on is an obvious understatement so I’m going to cut to the chase. We made it, but I’m still counting it as a loss. I don’t have a boss right now so right now I think it’s time to be clear. We’re going to get the bottom of this. Nothing like this should have ever happened, and I don’t want it ever happening again. I know you guys want my opinion on Endeavor and on Dabi, and all I can give you is my story since Dabi also accused me of being a copy of my father, a man I lost early in my childhood. Right now I don’t want my words to be taken the wrong way so I am focusing on actions. To solve the problems. I don’t need to list them all here. Not only have I been saving the messages I’ve been using to speak since losing my voice, I’m salvaging my recordings and tracking data from my infiltration of the League as well as my prior communication with the HPSC. I want to be transparent about this case and we need raw honesty instead of the secrets and skewed stories working together to instill fear in others. It’s not gonna be easy but I want to show more of myself without it being swallowed up in publicity. I’ve shown my true colors in some places. But long story short, I want to do better. I wish Jin didn’t die. I’ve been thinking about him all day, every day. I lost my best friend and I hate what happened. My plan was to immobilize him and carry him to the hospital, away from the war. Everything happened so fast and I hate myself for what happened.  There’s a lot of other things I need to sort out, but that’s going to take time, just like growing the wings back. Still my signature speed, except I have a new signature. For now, call me Walks. Okay, pun aside, it works. I’m gonna be walking everywhere for a while, and this is something I’m gonna have to walk through and many of us can walk together. Be patient with me.

I’ve talked before (many times) about how it doesn’t feel realistic or genuine, but it also just doesn’t fit with the narrative arc we’re diving into that’s about corruption in the hero system. Like, if Horikoshi is going to write this arc as condemning corrupt heroes, why would he decide to do that right after redeeming the most corrupt hero we’ve seen?

It especially doesn’t feel genuine when you put it up against Hawks, who is currently living up to his status as an Icarus allusion. Endea\/or faced no real consequences for his actions, did very little to make amends, and never gave up any of his power or control. Hawks, however, is currently on the brink of losing literally everything. His quirk is most likely gone, he’s failed the HPSC and will probably be discarded as no longer useful, he almost definitely won’t be able to continue hero work, and he’s got about a million death flags. And, unlike Endea\/or, Hawks has been shown to struggle with his actions from the beginning

Not to mention that the Dabi is Touya reveal hasn’t happened yet. When this happens, it will absolutely turn people against Endea\/or, especially if Dabi gives literally any information about what his childhood was like. And given that Endea\/or has never given up his power, I think Dabi will be the one who takes it from him

You know what, I've been craving writing some slightly meatier meta lately, and this is just the kind of topic to scratch the itch. Spoilers ahead for the manga.

Now, I've mentioned before that I don't think Hawks canonically has bird feet. I do like the idea of him having more obviously avian traits, but besides his wings, eye markings, and hair texture I think anything else is all subliminal in canon. That is to say, this isn't "Haha, you're wrong" but more of a, "It is with a heavy heart I regret to inform you" kind of deal.

And with that, I regret to inform you his Shifuki page leads me to believe he has very lean human looking anatomy in what looks like wide-legged straight jeans that are bunching around the neck of his high-tops. Nevertheless, I do posses an explanation for what you're seeing as well as my evidence Hawks has normal human feet.

To address his curvy legs, it's simply a quirk of human anatomy that at the right angle the human shin appears to angle inward. In drawing - especially gesture drawing - a common principle is to stagger "curved" and "straight" lines to create a natural and organic flow to the body. This picture I found of a male and female dancer demonstrates that very well.

Thanks to the calf and knee muscles anchored around the joint and tapering out to more sinew and ligament tissues which lie close to bone around the ankle you can get this curvy shape (usually between 3/4 and 7/8 rotation like in his left foot pictured below) and the whole leg tends to generally slope backwards at the knee when standing straight. The clothes he's wearing also play into this illusion because of the way fabric will fall and bunch when influenced by gravity and friction with itself and the body.

Likely, he just has a very lean kind of muscular build unlike the beefcake Endeavor or peak All Might are sporting. He's built to be fast and light, not powerful and immoveable.

As for his feet -

[Sketch updated thanks to an inaccuracy caught by someone who brought it to my attention]

I've traced over his anatomy and roughly sketched typical bird anatomy next to it. Now, the severity of that backward angle has plenty of play in it seeing as we're talking about fantasy Frankenstein anatomy and the fact that some birds do sport very tall, straight legs such as this fancy, leggy, showboy:

(The world of show pigeons is wild, y'all.) But more important to me is the structure of the toes.

Most birds are anisodactyl, meaning that they have three toes pointed forward and one toe pointing back. Birds of prey - hawks and eagles in particular - are, exclusively anisodactyl to my knowledge. Relatively few types of birds have toes that all point forward, and those that do are usually adapted for a specific lifestyle.

Glance back up at the shape of his foot that I've outlined. The shape is completely flat in the back where his ankles connect to his feet and his sneakers don't look any different from a standard shoe for human feet which would make me wonder where that rear-facing toe is supposed to go. Even if this toe was supposed to be small, I'd be concerned for space as well as his center of balance given how tightly long, thin toes would have to be bunched up in that shoe and then support his whole weight as he walks and is generally active. His shoes are also consistently shaped and behave human throughout the series and in any frame we see of him. If anything, the fact his feet appear so small further supports the idea they're boring old people feet.

Further evidence are his hands. Hands and feet are normally radically different body parts to begin with, but my point comes from a character design perspective. Hands are much more visible so if Horikoshi wanted to make Hawks' design to be "a little bit of bird everywhere" as the bird feet would support it would make sense that we'd probably see the presence of talons, scales, longer and bonier fingers, etc. But once again, his hands are no different than yours or mine so it doesn't make much sense to think Horikoshi is secretly hiding these bird feet in his shoes where it's harder to make an excuse to show them off when there's nothing to see under his gloves.

If Horikoshi really wanted to push the bird anatomy hybridization he probably would have gone with something a lot more like this picture Kadeart drew which combines more feather interspersed across his body with scales and talons integrated into more otherwise human anatomy. (Seriously, go check out her stuff if you haven't already. It's a gold mine of quality Hawks content.)