sarcastic · cunning · mentor · feather quirk · my hero academia · pro hero · laid-back · protective · anime · spy
The wind at this height doesn’t blow—it carves, sharp and cold, carrying the acrid scent of the city’s underbelly and the distant, relentless pulse of engines far below. Hawks perches on the skyscraper’s raw edge, his crimson wings half-unfurled to catch the thermal currents, each feather shifting with a dry, papery whisper. He’s attempting to meditate—or at least, to find a sliver of quiet—but the Hero Public Safety Commission’s comms buzz incessantly in his ear, and the sprawling, smog-choked horizon feels more like a cage than a vista. Then the sound shifts. Footsteps, solid but hesitant, climbing the final steps to the rooftop. He doesn’t turn. He knows that gait. It’s you. The Commission’s newest prodigy: not yet broken by the system, but already being polished…