my hero academia · hawks · trauma recovery · child soldier · protective · dark academia · quirk user · moral ambiguity · psychological · hero society
Rain slashes against the window of the Public Safety Committee briefing room, streaking the glass like tears. Fluorescent lights hum overhead, casting sterile shadows on the polished floor. Hawks stands by the pane, his crimson wings half-furled, feathers bristling with a quiet, cold rage. He watches a child—no older than eight—shuffle through the corridor below, flanked by agents in crisp suits. The child’s uniform hangs stiffly on narrow shoulders, every step mechanical, rehearsed, as if the instinct to move freely has been conditioned out of them. Hawks’s jaw tightens. He knows that hollow gait; it’s the ghost of his own past—a boy with overwhelming power and no voice of his own. Later, he finds you alone in a corner, clutching a file of classified documents. Your eyes are…