Follow Your Passion: A Seamless Tumblr Journey
Lmao Dabi saying some shit like "you're mine" to Hawks trying to come off all sexy and hot and Hawks being sent into an existential crisis about how the commission owns him and now Dabi’s claiming to own him and how he'll never be able to exist as his own person with his own identity.
Ok ok so I headcannon for Hawks that silence is unwelcome because it causes him to think. Not having anything to distract himself from the constant anxieties and worries that plague his mind is borderline painful.
So in his spare time he avidly listens to music because he needs something to combat the silence. But he still feels the need to stay aware (because of his commission background and constant paranoia) so he therefore needs to listen to music that will guarantee there isn’t silence but still allow him to focus somewhat.
And what music is loud yet not distracting? Death metal!
Most people cannot read nor work while listening to music because the lyrics distract them. Therefore classical music and jazz is suggested to work to because there aren't lyrics.
But, if you listen to metal where there is so much screaming you cannot comprehend the words, it has the same effect.
And because Hawks is all about going fast, the tempo of the music would suit his mind better than classical or jazz.
Therefore listening to death metal would allow Hawks to stay alert AND never let his mind be silent!
(I totally headcannon this based on that logic and not the fact that I myself listen to death metal and want Hawks to also)
I genuinely find it so interesting how in Modern AUs of DabiHawks, Hawks tends to be like rich or well-off and Dabi’s either just scraping by or middle class.
In my mind, Dabi is forever the privileged rich one and and Hawks is the one fighting tooth and nail to survive because in their formative years, that's what they were.
It is so important to people's mindsets and personalities how they grew up and what they were introduced to in their main stages of development. People are shaped by their experiences, but the early ones in which you're still trying to comprehend basic concepts and define what everything is are so much more impactful.
Therefore I always have seen Hawks as someone who even when wealthy, is heavily connected to his experience in poverty as a child and never takes what he has for granted. While I view Dabi as someone who even with his less than wealthy experience (idk if he was homeless or found somewhere to stay after he 'died') still carries some bias with him from his rich background.
Anyway, in modern AUs I usually characterize Hawks as struggling and Dabi as rich.
(Also this all came to be because I read a dabihawks fic that had a mini rant about Hawks being an out of touch rich person with so much wealth that he couldn't understand regular people's struggles and I was like wtf he literally grew up in poverty)
Ok so one of my absolute favorite dabihawks takes is that Dabi burnt Hawks wings off (permanently in this au) because he saw that the commission was hurting Hawks and knew that the only way Hawks could get out was if he was useless to the Commission.
Therefore, he burnt off Hawks's wings permanently without telling him or alerting him beforehand because he knew Hawks would object (bc in Dabi’s mind he was brainwashed).
And that being the motivation behind Dabi’s horrendous act fills me with such vindictive joy because think about it:
Dabi resents his father for training him to be a hero all of his life then dropping him when he found someone better.
In Endeavor's mind, he wasn't wrong in what he did. Toya was the collateral to a better future. His quirk hurt him and therefore he would've been happier as anything other than a hero. Endeavor uses the power he holds both as a parent and as the number 2 hero (at the time) to stop Toya's training and then sweep him under the rug. He did what he thought was right without asking how Toya felt nor thinking of the consequences.
And are Hawks’s wings not just the collateral for the supposed happy life he will live after? Is Dabi not just exercising absolute power onto someone whom he does not understand? Dabi is doing what he thinks is right (not what is right, but what he believes is right because there is a difference) and not caring for nor assessing the consequences of his actions.
He is forcing a future onto Hawks that he believes is better just like Endeavor did to him.
He demonstrates the behavior that is usually characteristic of heroes with ignorant savior complexes that Dabi (and all villains) hate.
He mirrors his father's behavior and cannot see that because he is both blinded by his hate for Endeavor and the love he feels for Hawks because Hawks will be getting a better future (he does not have the fucking authority to make that decision).
(I also imagine Hawks in his empty apartment on the floor, struggling to keep himself upright while screaming this at Dabi. And breaking a little inside because Dabi isn't just like Endeavor, he's like the commission, also in this sense.)