#again..........i owe my life to baptiste so jot that down

[wingcdhero]

☆ﾟ*・ﾟ headcanons  —  appearance / mutations !!

hawks has soooo many freckles. all over his cheek and face especially, but his shoulders & back are riddled with them as well. he’s always outside and much nearer to the sun than most anyone so his complexion isn’t quite as pale either. it’s a smooth, light tan almost all year around.

he has incredible eyesight. he can see up to 100 feet in front of him with perfect clarity & beyond that it’s blurred but not impossible to discern. also his pupils do this funny little thing where they dilate at a very odd rate. for multiple reasons - if he’s happy or looking at something he enjoys or if he’s tracking a villain / getting ready to apprehend someone. like hunting. you can see a gif of a hawk doing this here, if you’re interested !! but it’s a close up of the eye so be warned. you can also sort of see it in the manga here, when he’s confronting best jeanist. 

his hair has a bit of a feather like quality to it - hence his odd eyebrows. they’re softer, more like downy feathers i guess, but running your hands through it still feels a bit odder than average hair.

he has hollow bones so he’s incredibly light. it helps accommodate for flying. they don’t break easy by any means, but if he ever does get stuck with a broken bone, he has to find a specialist to fix it given the more animal like quality to them.

talons. he has talons. if he doesn’t regularly trim and care for his nails, they can be downright deadly with how easy they break skin.  

rubs hands. now for the fun mutations. big, big, big thanks and all my adoration to @pragmanic​ for giving me 90% of the idea for this. his hands are more talon / claw like in nature. the skin is courser & a bit pigmented & the joints are bit wonky looking if you look at them for too long. further up his arm, the skin gets softer, more average, but past his elbows he has small, sharp feathers along his arm that he can use defensively or offensively. like his other feathers, he can make them softer at will, but they’re used primarily for when he’s in close ranged combat or if his larger feathers from his wings have all been shed. the feathers look almost like scales on his arms. they’re very pretty.

his feet are - they’re human in look, but like his hands they’re jointed very odd. if you look too long, you see they’re a bit more elongated ?? it helps him be able to perch for long periods of times without harming any sort of arch in his foot. i don’t know how to describe it, but his feet are specifically structured to be bent in odd positions, particularly with his toes. 

he molts every years for about two or three days. essentially just means he’s stuck in his apartment while his feathers fall out & new ones grow in. it can be a painful process & he’s pretty miserable for that small time frame.  

the black points under/around his eyes isn’t eyeliner. it’s natural. he fills in the rims of his eyes with eyeliner to help smooth it out, but for the most part that’s just a part of his mutation. 

his teeth are sooo sharp. so sharp. canines. tough like a beak. please don’t let him bite you for real because it’s fatal if he’s aiming for it to be. 

he has both ears pierced, up the lobe & a helix piercing as well. industrial in one ear. his tongue is pierced, heh. also has a standard barbell brow piercing. 

no tattoos for the time being, but that’s liable to change if i can consider something i’d like him to have. 

he’s 5′4′’

i’m running out of steam & there’s too much already, but i couldn’t stop thinking about them so. hehe.