Keigo Takami
Keigo Takami is a male anime and manga superhero who features in My Hero Academia.
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Biography
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.
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.
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 My Hero Academia.
In other media
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Appearances
- My Hero Academia:
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