What If Hawks Was Never Taken by the Commission

A caseworker pulled a barefoot boy out of a highway wreck in Kyushu and filed the paperwork before the Hero Commission could take him, changing everything. Keigo Takami was supposed to become Hawks, the Commission's fastest weapon, raised in isolation and pointed at enemies of the state. Instead he grew up over a bicycle shop in Fukuoka, learned to lock his own door, and chose heroism on his own terms. This covers his father's crimes, his mother's abandonment, the consent form Kyoko Arata hid in a drawer, and the years he spent becoming a different kind of hero—one who remembered where he came from. It follows him through U.A., through agency work, and finally to the Paranormal Liberation War, where he used the last of his wings to pull everyone out of Dabi's fire, then died with Kyoko's coat still on his back and her name written as his next of kin.