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[mikeana]

It looks like Hawks managed to break free of the HPSC’s control just in time. 

This is just a theory, but I have a feeling that - should the PLF have been successfully captured and the Commission never destroyed, they would have begun to give him assassination orders like they did to Lady Nagant. In fact, I believe taking down the PLF was supposed to be his first mission / test towards becoming their next ‘pro hero assassin in the shadows’.

At the end of the Pro Hero arc, we see Hawks’ flashback where he was given orders to infiltrate the League of Villains. From the context of this conversation, and the fact that he’s bowing and agreeing to ‘corrupt himself’ to prevent tragedy and give people peace of mind, I assume that this is the first time Hawks has ever been given orders that really would require him to ‘dirty his hands’ for society. 

However, while he cooperates, we also know that he isn’t the cold-hearted person willing to sacrifice other’s lives to maintain peace, like the HPSC thinks he is. He defies his orders to allow civilians casualties by saving everyone during the fight against High End (and at a critical time when he was supposed to be infiltrating the League, no less), and keeps Best Jeanist alive (when he could have killed him) by having him undergo an experimental semi-nomufication surgery. Up until his fight with Twice, he keeps his hands clean as much as possible - and during his fight with Twice? We see him offer the villain a way out should he surrender (which unfortunately, we know Twice never would).

Looking back, I wonder if Hawks actually was given orders (or trained) to assassinate certain members of the League of Villains. I was always under the impression that Hawks chose to corner Twice of his own volition, since he posed such a huge threat to their mission and the safety of society, but if he was actually given orders to take him out (or trained to the point that he knew this was a scenario where assassination might save hundreds of lives), then that makes their fight all the more interesting. It also makes Hawks’ hesitation throughout the fight even more meaningful - he went in with the knowledge that he needed to kill Twice, but hesitated and couldn’t actually go through with it until he was trapped in a situation where Twice was running away to create a clone army and he had no other choice (unless he wanted to watch a massacre).

It also adds a lot more meaning to the HPSC’s demise - because Hawks was too good-hearted to become an assassin / kill Twice without any hesitation like they trained and wanted him to, he ended up extending the fight to the point where he gave time for Twice’s Re-Destro clone to destroy the HPSC. It’s extremely ironic and well... karma (and we continue to celebrate the HPSC’s demise 🥳).

Words can not describe how happy I am that the HPSC is out of the picture. I didn't think that Hori would go this far to paint their corruption - but damn, I am glad he did. It also goes to show why exactly Hawks stayed with them so long (if the obvious ‘they were his best shot to create the peaceful world he wanted’ and ‘they were supporting his mother’ weren't satisfying enough), as defying them would have meant Tartarus and/or death (since he knew too much... I’ve had a theory that this was the case for a while now and still can’t believe it is canon h o l y -). He really ‘broke free of his shackles’ just in time.

It does make me wonder how much he actually knew of Lady Nagant’s story - he’s definitely pieced together “HPSC = Bad” by the time we first see him (he calls them out on the fact they know he can’t betray orders for f*cks sake - he’s not their mindless puppet), but did he know what would likely come from accepting his task to ‘dirty’ his hands for hero society? When he was called to the HPSC’s office that day, did he feel a sense of dread? A sense of ‘this is it’? When he’s thinking to himself at the end of the encounter “I am Hawks, the man too fast for his own good”, was he thinking “my life is so fast and there is a good chance I will die soon - if not on this mission, then after it?”. I don’t completely think he would go through and become the HPSC’s private assassin because of the hesitation / avoidance mentioned before so... did he figure that he was getting close to the end of his life??? Because... damn. Please live a long life birdie ;-; <3