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vriddyEven for Hawks, who's been under surveillance from the moment he stepped into a Commission-provided dorm at age seven, what the PLF is doing to him a lot. It's not just the absolute absence of privacy. It's the 24/7 observation by people who hate him, want him to fail, and will know how to make it hurt when they kill him.Also on AO3.
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whumpexOvertraining already hypersensitive feathers is bound to have long-term consequences. Hawks is utterly miserable, utterly on his own... and has been lying to himself for so long now, he kind of forgot the truth.Also on AO3.
vriddyunsent_letters_exchangeAt sixteen, a week after being taught how to break into a computer, Hawks breaks into the Hero Public Safety Commission's database to look up his own file. Whatever he expected to find in there, it didn't include dozens of letters from his mother.Also on AO3.
vriddySometimes, the world of dreams is scarier than the ruins of the city around them. Eri hides on a rooftop, away from the kind people who may ask her questions. Hawks happens to choose the same one for his own reasons.Also on AO3.
vriddyLittle Keigo flies to the ringing phone, wondering if he should pick up. The caller's name is Miruko. There's a picture under it, of a woman with rabbit ears and a hero costume grinning and holding a man with a nest of golden hair and large red wings in a chokehold. The man is laughing. The man is Keigo. It has to be.
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De-aged Hawks wakes up as Keigo and tries to get his bearings. Miruko comes to help.
vriddyHawks wakes up, surrounded by the League. They're worried about him, except he doesn't remember ever getting that close to them.
vriddygenfreeformexchangeHawks and Miruko are fighting villains when Hawks gets hit by a de-aging quirk that turns him back into a child, without any of his adult memories.
vriddyCaptain Keigo wakes up with a surprise visitor in his quarters.
vriddysunshine_challenge 2023, Prompt 3vriddyWhen the Commission tosses Hawks away, leaving him to carry alone the entire blame for what went wrong with the raid, Hawks isn't surprised or saddened. Love has always been conditional in his life.
When Dabi shows up, years after Hawks disappeared from public sight, now forgotten and forsaken, Hawks figures it's going to be more of the same.
vriddy"Some people found out the nature of our village," she said. "And then you showed up. The symbol of everything they hate."Sometimes, Hawks investigates remote towns and villages, dreaming of a future in which he can live in one, anonymous and at peace. He knows it’s a dream... but he doesn’t expect it to come crashing down on him so quickly.
"A hero?"
"Worse," she said with a pained smile. "A successful person with a heteromorphic quirk."
