I really think - and for now, we don’t have much, that there’s a lot pointing to Hawks’s…honestly maybe unhealthy idolization of Endeavor being connected to wanting a father figure. It’s really, really likely the Takami Thief Ending was talking about was Hawks’s parent (probably a dad), and the kind of…masculine admiration Hawks shows towards him makes me wonder if somehow throughout the fallout of a father being defeated by Endeavor, Hawks started wishing Endeavor was his real father. Maybe there was enough issues with his real father than he would have preferred the man who took him away.
The Todoroki kids aren’t really talked about in the public eye, unless they are Shouto, who is clearly his father’s favorite in the public eye.
Part of me wonders if Hawks isn’t privately, in the depths of his mind, constructing a fantasy where it’s just that - he can be Endeavor’s child, and have a family, siblings (just like Shouto, the only Todoroki child he’s met). It’s a little bizarre but if we’re honest about it, so is Hawks’s behavior to Shouto throughout the main manga, the spin off, and the light novel, now.
I don’t think it’s too extreme when we think about so many ‘stans’ who get invested in their fans’ personal lives. Who memorize the names of family members, personal details, etc. Who wish they were part of it somehow. What that also means is that it’s an unhealthy expectation too - reality is never as good as fantasy. If Hawks does harbor this sort of fantasy, what does it mean if it breaks?
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