This week, Lady Nagant posed Hawks an interesting question. As I pointed out before, the difference between Hawks and Lady Nagant is that Hawks still manages to cling onto his hope that a better society can be brought about - but, how does he do that?
To be honest, I was slightly disappointed in Hawks’ answer when I first read the leaks - not because it was out of character or anything (him attributing it to 🧸is exactly what I would expect of Mr. My-Back-Isn’t-Broad-Enough, who can’t see how incredible he actually is), but because it doesn’t do much to really answer Nagant’s question, or at the very least, show her a way so that she can regain her glimmer in her eye.
(Note: I do like the official translations of this scene)
So… what was Hori’s message here? Rather than showing how Hawks refused to let civilians die when he 100% had permission to so if it meant he might get in with the League, or how when he had orders to kill Jeanist, he decided to enact an absolutely crazy risky scheme to keep him alive, or how when he confronted Twice, he tried to give him an alternate way out and only killed him as a last resort (a trained, brainwashed assassin would have killed him when he first cornered him)…. Horikoshi flashes back once more to the Endeavor plush.
I think the answer to Lady Nagant’s question, of how to hold on to hope when all hope seems lost, goes back to this series’ theme of remembering your origins.