this is why hawks' misison fails
imagine overworking Hawks
I've been thinking again about the meaning of Shouto's and Touya's birthdays. What if Shouto's birthday is 111 because it's like the winning combo on a slot machine (getting three ones is a particularly good sign in light of Endeavor's aim to raise a son to be No 1) and Touya's birthday is 118 because he's only "almost perfect"?
And then I did some further research, and sure enough, the in the 18 in Touya's birthday the kanji for 1: 一 (ichi) and 8: 八 (hachi) can be found in the following Japanese gambling phrase:
一か八か = ichi ka bachi ka, “one or nothing”, or literally “one or punishment” - i.e.: a high risk gamble or something like "go for broke".
As in the phrase:
一いちか八ばちかやってみよう。
Ichikabachika yatte miyō.
I’ll take my chances.
So now I'm 99% convinced that Shouto's and Touya's birthdays are a refence to Endeavor gambling with the kids as if they were prizes in a pachinko slot machines / was playing child gacha?
(Also - Hori's sick sense of humour)
Angel of Death
Fucking enormous piece that I am SO proud of but my GOD it killed me to make it!!! This was a weekly prompt for a MHA OCs server I'm in and it took me basically the whole week to do it 😭
Don't EVER let me draw this many ppl in one image EVER AGAIN!!!
(And now for the close-ups)
In order we have: Toko and Shoto, Hawks and Angel, and Ren and Dabi (I haven't talked much about anybody besides Toko on this account but psh,,,)
Would you believe that everyone in this image is masc 💀
Apparently this new epilogue is a few years later than the one we saw so Keigo is approximately what, 33? 34? Older than Jin and Aizawa were. And yeah he looks like he's in his-mid thirties, his scars healed really, really well (you barely see the gunga one) and he's finally managed to grow a beard.
However my favorite thing about this is that he's energetic and happy which is not what we expected since Mera looked half-dead so I am very happy to see Keigo's clearly on the Japanese Salaryman Happy Pills.
Also he took his fucking costume off so maybe he actually did go to therapy.
Everyone looked at their trauma in the eye except Hawks. I'm going to be sad if no character changes are addressed.
I'm still thinking that Hawks' endgame will be tied to saving Toga one way or another - as something he knew Jin would have wanted to do.
Like to me, this scene looks like Hawks tried to offer himself as a "sacrifice" to see if that calms down Toga/Twice feelings of wanting revenge.
But in the end, it wasn't revenge that Toga needed, but acceptance. Ochako could accept her as a person, but she's only a student. Arguably, Hawks as No 2 hero, and influential person in the HPSC could do something about Toga having a place to live in the world.
I don't think Hori put this panel here for nothing - Hawks' ending I think will have to do everything with what happens to villains. He's tied to this theme both through his birth as a marginalized child, his experience of how a symbol doesn't reach those peripheral parts of society, but then also his friendship with Jin, with seeing close the bonds of the villains, as well as his ties to the Todoroki family.
Hawks is part of the main cast - Hori is tying up all kinds of side characters. I'm certainly expecting Hawks to get a conclusion.
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