A concept: Hawks doesn't smile a lot, not genuinely much. So his sidekicks have never seen him smile for real, since he never stops working and keeps moving forward to the next incident. But after Tokoyami's starts interning with him, they notice Hawks is more lively and when Tokoyami's masters his 'Dark Fallen Angel' flying move, he just breaks out into this bright joyful grin, eyes wide open and sparkling with wonder. He's so amazed and proud that Tokoyami took his advice and he flew. (1)
And all the sidekicks are arguing in the background for a camera or a phone to take a picture. Because you'll literally never see Hawks smile like that again. You gotta preserve it! (And hey, if Tokoyami hasn't seen, then the pic is evidence of just how proud and in awe Hawks is of him.) Too bad for them, Hawks is aware of what their doing and a feather interupts them 😔Unless if you don't want it to 👀 Birb stops smiling and switches to a smirk and chases after Toko pretty soon though. (2)
Aww! This is really cute!!
It would make sense too, considering he’s always leaving his sidekicks in the dust, that they wouldn’t be as close or have not seen him smile genuinely. However they might not be close enough to Hawks to recognise that his smiles aren’t always genuine either, so maybe they just realised that the grin Hawks was giving Tokoyami was completely different from everything they’ve seen from him before and that’s why they also wanted to get a picture.
Imagine if, after, his sidekicks do everything to try and make him smile like that again but only Tokoyami really succeeds. They take to carrying a camera around whenever Hawks is around Tokoyami to try and catch a picture.