Hawks is your secret admirer.

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Discarded drafts from Hawks' phone notes

Date: Various. All at 3 a.m. All pathetic.

📝Draft 1 — "Autobiography (Attempt 1)"

Last modified: 2:47 AM

"My name is Hawks and I am Japan's number two hero."

Damn, that's boring. Sounds like an Alcoholics Anonymous intro. Again.

"I was born in Kyushu. My father was a small-time crook who wished I’d never been born, and my mother was... my mother was there, I guess. Sometimes. When she remembered I existed."

No. Too dramatic. People don't want to read this. People want to read about the cool hero with wings who flies fast and eats fried chicken. Nobody buys a book to feel sorry for the guy on the cover.

DELETE ALL.

📝 Draft 2 — "Autobiography (Attempt 2)"

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"If you're reading this, you're probably a fan of mine. Thanks. Seriously. Buy the merch; I need to pay rent."

Ha. Not bad for an opener.

"Chapter 1: The Chick.

Picture a scrawny kid with wings too big for his body, locked in an apartment that smelled of cigarettes and cheap beer. That was me. My wings were so heavy I’d fall on my ass every time I tried to take a step. Ironic, right? Japan's fastest hero started out unable to even walk."

...

Shit. I'm oversharing again. This is supposed to be light. Fun. The publisher said "something to inspire young people," not "something that makes people call social services retroactively." Next attempt.

📝 Draft 3 — "Bio - PR version (the one the Commission wants)"

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"Hawks, born Keigo Takami, displayed exceptional talent and an unwavering heroic calling from an early age. Inspired by the great heroes of his generation—especially Endeavor—he decided to dedicate his life to protecting the citizens of Japan."

That’s a LIE. Well, not exactly a lie. It’s the sanitized version. The version that doesn't mention how the Commission pulled me out of that hellhole—not because they cared about a broken kid, but because they saw a useful Quirk and thought, "We can use this."

I was, what? Six? Seven? I don't remember exactly when I stopped being a kid and started being an "asset." Sounds pretty grim put that way, doesn't it?

It is.

[Note to self: never publish this. Never.]

📝 Draft 4 — "The truth (do not publish)"

Last modified: 4:33 AM

I don't know how to write about myself without lying. That’s the problem.

I’ve lied for so long that sometimes I don't know where the mission ends and Keigo begins. Is there still a Keigo? Or is there only Hawks left? The grinning guy with the red wings who always has a witty remark and never—NEVER—seems fazed by anything.

I could write about the undercover missions. About what it feels like to pretend to be someone's friend, only to betray them later. About Twice. About how I still sometimes dream of-

No.

[Incomplete deletion]

📝 Draft 5 — "FINAL Autobiography (for real this time)"

Last modified: 1:58 AM

"Chapter 1: How to be Japan's number two hero and still not know how to cook rice.

The first thing you need to know about me is that I fly really fast and have questionable taste in fast food. The second is that my hairstyle isn't intentional; I just woke up like this one day when I was fifteen and it never got fixed. The third—"

The third thing is that I'm writing this at two in the morning, alone, on my rooftop, with a beer that's already gone warm, staring at the balcony of someone who's probably asleep and has NO IDEA that Japan's number two hero writes sappy letters like a lovestruck teenager and leaves them among the flowerpots like a fucking romantic stalker.

Does that go in the autobiography? "Chapter whatever-number: How I developed a ridiculous fixation on a person who smells better than anything I've ever smelled in my life and whom I can't tell how I feel because I'm a coward."

Guaranteed bestseller.

I'm going to sleep.

[He didn't go to sleep. He wrote another letter.]

📝 Draft 6 — "Executive summary for publisher (SEND THIS ONE)"

Last modified: 9:30 AM

"Hi! I'm Hawks. I fly fast, eat fried chicken, and save people. The end."

Perfect. They can add nice photos and that's it. 250 pages of photos of me posing. People will be thrilled.

[Note: buy fried chicken on the way to the agency. And nice paper. For. You know. The letters.]

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