Keigo Takami

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Keigo Takami is a male anime and manga superhero who features in My Hero Academia.

Biography

Wing Hero: Hawks.

Keigo Takami (Japanese: 鷹たか見み啓けい悟ご, Hepburn: Takami Keigo?) was a male human born on the island of Kyushu, Fukuoka in Japan in an age when Quirks manifested in humanity. His mother Tomie conceived him when she helped harbor his father after he had committed a murder. The floor of what's assumed to be Keigo's childhood home was shown to be littered with garbage, broken shards, and alcohol bottles, and Keigo himself was portrayed as an expressionless, quiet child. Keigo experienced a traumatic and abusive childhood, being forced to stay home at all times in order to ensure he didn't rat his father out. At some point in the past, his mother decided to take him outside after he kept insisting and purchased an Endeavor doll for him. Because of this isolation from the world and no interactions with anyone else besides his parents, he grew up watching heroes on television and believed they were only fictional characters. One day, Keigo felt his feathers tingling and went into the city, suspecting something was happening in the city, but returned when he discovered it was nothing. Upon returning, his father yelled at him for leaving the house and suspected Keigo ratted him out, and despite saying he didn't, Keigo's father ordered him never to leave the house or interact with anyone. When Keigo went into a corner, his father kicked him, telling Keigo never to turn his back on him while muttering how he'd be free if his son had never been born. Keigo endured all of this abuse from his parents, suppressing his emotions and hoping to avoid becoming broken like they were. Shortly afterwards, his father was caught and arrested by Endeavor. Upon learning this, Keigo was greatly shocked since he'd always believed that heroes were fictional, being even more impactful since the hero who'd arrested his father and saved him from the life of abuse was none other than the man whose plushie he carried. Keigo and his mother were forced to flee their home out of fear of being arrested for harboring a fugitive. Since Tomie didn't have any proper skills to make a living, the two were forced to live on the streets. When Keigo told his mother they should go to the police, Tomie replied that he get them some money, however it took, asking why she had Keigo in the first place and what use his wings were. This statement made Keigo angered and determined to be useful, so he went out and saved the lives of many people from a high-speed car accident. The public was shocked to discover the savior was a young child, and Keigo was approached by the Hero Public Safety Commission. After being informed of the situation by Keigo, the commission approached Tomie, offering both of them compensation and protection so long as they abandoned the 'Takami' name.

After the incident, the Hero Public Safety Commission separated him from his mother and decided to train him as a hero. It was stated that the commission drilled interpersonal skills into him from a young age, so he could master the art of deception and infiltration. The commission forced him to abandon his real name and made him undergo years of hard training, which he accepted in order to be a hero like his idol, Endeavor. Keigo soon started his own hero agency around the age of 18. By the second half of that same year, he managed to reach Japan's Top 10 Pro Hero rankings before the age of 20, making him the first to be in the Top 10 at a young age. Four years later, Keigo reached the No. 3 Pro Hero rank, only behind All Might and Endeavor, without even trying. Unlike many heroes, Keigo was never really interested in being the strongest or being like All Might; instead, he admired Endeavor.

In November, Hawks is present in the second half of the year's Hero Billboard Chart JP. During the event, it is announced that Keigo rose up one rank to No. 2 in the Top 10 hero ranking. Disinterested in the speeches of the other heroes, Hawks interrupts Edgeshot and takes the microphone. Hawks flies above the podium and gives a speech about how the approval rating system is the most important of all and how he disdains the speeches of the other heroes. Hawks flies down and hands the microphone over to Endeavor. After Endeavor's assuring statement, Hawks applauded him. Backstage in Endeavor's room, Hawks is talking to a displeased Endeavor, since he enraged him during the event. Hawks explains that he tried to help Endeavor on the podium as he sees that Endeavor is fit to be a new leader to support everyone after All Might's retirement and expresses that he sees himself not fit to have that role, preferring to be in the lower ranks. Before Endeavor leaves dissatisfied with him, he requests Endeavor for a team-up as there has been an increase in concerning sightings in his area, reminding Endeavor about the Nomus, to the Flame Hero's shock. Hawks brings Endeavor to Kyushu where he decides where they will eat to discuss the proposal of working together. As they walk, Hawks uses his feathers to assist and rescue. He effortlessly takes out an extreme follower of Destro's ideology, he saves a dog from being run over and helps a granny to climb the stairs. It also turns out to be very popular, since many people approach him to ask for autographs or to take photos with him. Endeavor tries to do the same with a fan of his, but it turns out that the hardcore fan dislikes his new persona because the "real Endeavor isn't supposed to give fan service", and leaves disappointed. Later, while eating lunch at a yakitori restaurant at the top of the Umai building, Hawks laughs at Endeavor's experience. His carefree attitude starts to anger Endeavor, who demands him to tell him about the Nomu. Hawks tells Endeavor about the appearing rumors of the Nomus around the country instilling fear in the civilians and asks Endeavor, as the No. 1 hero, to verify the rumors and show the citizens that there is nothing to fear.

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Keigo Takami was a man of average height with a slim and narrow build where he had feathery ash blonde hair messily swept backwards and notably thick eyelashes as well as a faint stubble on his chin. As a Pro Hero, he came to be known by the hero name of Wing Hero: Hawks (ウィングヒーロー ホークス Wingu Hīrō Hōkusu?).

He often acted laid-back though was actually on constant alert. Hawk tended to appear quite relaxed even in situations of great pressure.

Takami actually trained endlessly to maximize the techniques in which he used his wings, refining his rescue, support, and combat abilities.

It was due to his optimistic side that he often wanted to find the good in others.

Powers and abilities

Keigo Takami was a human born with a Quirk (個こ性せい Kosei?, lit. "Individuality") that afforded him a special power. In his case, this took the form of Fierce Wings (剛ごう翼よく Gōyoku?) which granted him a pair of large, bright red, feathery wings on his back. Not only was he able to use them to fly but was able to telekinetically control the movement and nature of each individual feather. This allowed him to achieve various feats with them such as hardening them into a blade-like state where he could shoot them out as projectiles or use them to control the speed and trajectory of a target. Each feather was considerably strong where a single one was capable of carrying a medium-sized object such as a rock or a human being. Larger and heavier objects required Hawks to deploy multiple feathers in order to lift them. He was also able to feel the vibrations in the air through them in a manner similar to echolocation which allowed him to sense the locations of people.

He could plucks out two long feathers from each of his wings where he manipulated their nature and uses them as swords to cut through his target.

The more feathers he shed led to his wings gradually shrinking and thus impairing his ability to fly. He was able to grow new feathers but if he lost all of them then it took at least two days for them to grow halfway back.

As a child, he was taken in by the Hero Public Safety Commission who made him endure hard training which included being drilled in interpersonal skills so that he could master the art of deception and infiltration.

As a youth, he was taken in by the Hero Public Safety Commission (ヒーロー公安委員会 Hīrō Kōan Iinkai?) that was a law enforcement agency responsible for managing the interactions between heroes and society as a whole and for investigating the most dangerous cases of criminality. They came to train him to be a Pro-Hero and an agent sent toa chieve their goals. Such was his skill that he rose to the rank of 3rd of Japan's Pro Heroes before taking the spot of No. 2 after All Might's retirement. He was only 18 years old when he became one of the top 10 Pro Heroes in the country.

Notes

• Keigo Takami was created by Kōhei Horikoshi where he featured in the setting of the My Hero Academia universe.

In other media

Television

Films

Video games

Appearances

• My Hero Academia:

External Links

• My Hero Academia Wiki Entry

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