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Hawks being endeavor's cheerleader is weird to me because all the progress endeavor had in his atonement is coming from him and his inner thoughts.
Hawks doesn't affect endeavor's arc in a negative way but neither does in a positive way.
I dare to say that the teenage enji hallucination we saw in chapter 356 was more succesful in making endeavor see how much of an abusive father/husband he was and the damage he caused in 1 chapter than Hawks did ever since he promised to help Endeavor in chapter 299.
Hi anon thanks for the ask. I'm truly sorry I took so long to reply to this. I wrote it, saved it as a draft and then I literally forgot!! I'm so sorry.
Here, have some sparkles as an apology: ✨✨✨
I'm not good with words so don't take this as some serious analysis or something, it's mostly just me talking about how I felt Hawks' character was handled badly, plus some of my thoughts about Endeavor. (mild character bashing sorry-I call him pathetic a couple of times is that mild?)
Hopefully this post is proof enough that I actually like Hawks, and I'm just disappointed in his character because fuck me I made a single post defending Dabi and jokingly hating on Hawks because I was annoyed and now every Hawks stan thinks I want him dead!
Hawks' presence in the story in general feels forced after the war arc. After the conference, he doesn't really feel like a character, at least to me. I always say that his character arc feels like it's on pause. We don't see him thinking about his actions or decisions, We don't see his internal struggle after killing a person. I'm not asking much I think. Hawks didn't necessarily need to regret his specific decision to kill Twice in my opinion. I just wanted him to at the very least regret the act of taking someone's life in general. I wanted him to have that self reflection, because I thought that would have been a lot more interesting than him being forcefully shoved into the Todoroki side plot. But unfortunately that's not what we got in canon.
There's the part with his backstory sure. But the way it is presented it feels very clinical and detached. This flashback is just him remembering his childhood. No other character learns about this and though it seems to affect him emotionally, it doesn't really influence his future decisions.
If we compare it to other characters' flashbacks it's more obvious. Shouto's flashback during the sports festival changes the entire trajectory of his character. Every decision he makes after that (using his fire, visiting him mom, making an effort to become friends with his classmates) are all connected to this one moment. Twice's flashback doesn't exactly change his future decisions, because it just explains to us how he ended up where he is now. But what we saw happening in that flashback still affected how his character acted in the present. And as a last example Dabi's entire past dictates every single decision he has ever made in this story.
Hawks' flashback doesn't feel like that. He doesn't come to a new conclusion after it and it doesn't seem connected to his decision to help Endeavor. In fact it feels the opposite. He made the decision despite of his past, not because of it. That gives me the idea that he knows exactly how he feels about his past, he figured it out a long time ago and isn't in a stage in his life where he would be able to rethink about this topic or change his mind. The conclusion has already been reached and we didn't get to see any of the process so it feels disconnected from the rest of the story. Just background noise in Hawks' head while he's doing work. (sidenote: this is also why some later plot points like Mirio's return and how Deku unlocks his other quirks don't work well. Usually we got to see Deku's thinking processes and there was buildup before a plot twist so the conclusion was satisfactory. But later in the story Hori flipped that around and now we see the conclusion first and then he has to quickly explain to the reader how we got there by shoving in some quick flashbacks. Obviously that isn't as satisfying)
Obviously Hawks distanced himself from his mother for years so it's realistic that he would have already gone through that process on his own and wouldn't need to needlessly think about it now. But just because it's realistic doesn't mean it's good for the story. If the character has already reached a point where something in their past doesn't affect their actions in the now, then we don't really need to know about it. Unless the character is about to make a decision based on their past then we don't need to see it now.
Hawks doesn't make the connection in his mind how similar he and Dabi actually are, even though we can all clearly see the parallels in his flashback.
Both came from abusive households, but one was "saved" and rose to a higher status, while the other ended up homeless in the streets. They took opposite journeys.
The logical thing would be that they'd be able to understand each other, but they don't. If the flashback was supposed to be functional for the story then Hawks should have made that connection.
The Endeavor stuff:
Hawks says "Endeavor is in trouble", and the story wants us to feel sympathy for him. We see him crying from guilt but I honestly don't care. He can cry all he wants, but as long as he keeps this atonement arc thing centered around himself and his own feelings it will feel self serving and inauthentic and I can't feel anything for someone so pathetic.
As Rei so elegantly put it "Regret. Guilt. Everybody's feeling those feelings much more than you.", "The one in the most pain isn't you".
So when Hawks defends him I honestly can't understand what exactly his logic is. Yes for the reader/viewer Endeavor's atonement arc has been an ongoing thing for a while now. But for the majority of the characters in the story, they literally just learned that the number one hero, the person after All Might, the person who's supposed to invoke the feeling of safety to the public, is a domestic abuser. This is news to most people, including Hawks.
Endeavor was Hawks' idol, the person he looked up to the most. He was his hero, because he arrested his father and saved him. He must feel a more personal connection to him because of that.
When your view of someone you held in such high regard gets shuttered like this, you naturally have conflicted feelings. But in the hospital scene we see that Hawks' immediate thought is to help Endeavor even though he's not the victim here. He doesn't seem all that conflicted at all.
We do get one little hint with him asking if the scar on Shouto's face is because of Enji as well, but once he gets the answer "no" he immediately changes the subject to "how we can save Endeavor's image to the public"!! He doubts the validity of Dabi's claims and immediately assumes that things must be different now even though he just learned about this with the rest of the world and he has no indication that Endeavor is trying to become a better person.
So the fact that the dramatic irony of Hawks idolising an abuser who saved him from another abuser is completely lost on him feels rather stupid in my honest opinion. I'm not saying it's out of character exactly, I'm just saying it feels stupid even if it's in character and I personally dislike that story decision.
I didn't care much about the teenage Enji flashback, but I will agree with one thing he said. Endeavor truly is pathetic and weak. But not for the reason his teenage self implies in the manga.
Teen Enji implies that current Enji is weak because of his emotions. Because he feels guilty for his crimes against his family and is trying to atone (at least that's how I understood it). But in reality those emotions just make him human.
His weakness comes from the fact that he still doesn't have the guts to face his biggest mistake, Dabi. He let Shouto go fight his brother on his own, even though they had agreed to face him together. And even though Shouto had no obligation to do this, because it's not his responsibility to fix his father's mistakes, he still did it.
Touya had to seek out Endeavor himself, to force him to look at him, because even after so many years he's still avoiding him like the plague!
In the end as you said Hawks didn't really contribute to Endeavor's character arc because he himself has stagnated as a character. Endeavor on the other hand has progressed in the way he views his family and how he feels about them, but he's yet to prove that he's committed to changing for the better with his actions.
Neither of their characters are progressing in a way I would have preferred, but this is Horikoshi's story to tell so I can't do much about that.
I'm hoping Hawks' character arc will be continued now that he is forced to interact with Toga and the Twice clones. But it still feels odd that both Hawks and Endeavor need to be forced for their character arcs to continue. It's an interesting parallel that they both avoid making a decision until they're backed into a corner and forced by the narrative/other characters (Toga and Dabi in this case)
We can see this even when Hawks kills Twice. He wastes a ton of time talking to him because he doesn't actually want to follow the orders he's been given, even though he fully intended to follow them from the beginning. This might sound contradictory but it isn't. Hawks enters his fight with Twice, already having convinced himself that his attempts at turning Twice to his side will fail. So he doesn't actually listen to what Twice is telling him and thus doesn't understand why his offer to help is rejected.
If he had made an attempt to understand Twice better then he could have very easily made a better offer that included helping the rest of the league.
Another very easy thing would have been for Hawks to just arrest Twice with or without making an offer. We know he could have done this easily because the fight starts with Hawks already having Twice pinned down to the floor. He had him immobilised for several minutes that he could have used to very easily arrest him or kill him. But he doesn't do either. He avoids making a decision until he can't avoid it anymore.
When Dabi joins the fight, that's when Hawks becomes desperate. Up until that point he was mostly standing still and using his feathers to do all the work. Now suddenly he has to move around and dodge Dabi's flames while also keeping an eye on Twice. He has no way to avoid his orders anymore so he kills Jin.
Up until Dabi joins the fight Hawks had plenty of other options he could have chosen, but he didn't. Because in his mind the decision has already been made for him, by the end of this encounter Twice will be dead.
Anyway I should find a way to end this....
sparkles ✨✨✨✨✨!!!
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i think you purposely trying to make All might look bad by comparing him to a abuser (endeavor) and I feel like it's a reach with the quirk hurting the user thing with Deku and Touya. I see more parallels with Shigaraki and Deku than the other too.
I need you and every single person who commented something like this on my All Might vs Endeavor post to understand what a juxtaposition is.
comparing All Might to Endeavor is not saying they are exactly the same. pointing out similarities between Touya and Deku doesn't mean that there can't be parallels between Shigaraki and Deku.
I also don't see what you mean with "it's a reach with the quirk hurting the user thing". both their quirks quite literally destroy their bodies whenever they use them. funny enough, it was Enji who told his protégé to stop using his power when he saw that it was hurting him. which, in this particular case, makes him actually more reasonable than All Might, who told Deku to keep on pushing lmao
anyway, look. All Might is at least not single-handedly responsible for Deku's self-destructive tendencies the way Enji is with Touya. but if you don't see that All Might is a man who tries his best to do good, but whose mentorship of Deku still leaves a lot to be desired, you're kidding yourselves.
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