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#like i think he tries to keep a certain distance but tokoyami and endeavor were both privy to some of his values
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If I may, that idea of thinking Hawks is isolated comes from how it feels like he didn't connect to people on a personal level, leaving his sidekicks and Tokoyami behind at first, only meeting Endeavor at the rankings and putting up a facade the whole time. The confirmation of him and Jeanist being bros is pretty recent! Before, the fandom got swept up into thinking Jin was the first close person to him, the chapter being titled "friends" didn't help, and we assumed only an isolated man would be
+ chosen for a mission like this. Because if you have a double agent whose close to people, they can be used as leverage. And you're expected to cut ties for the entire duration you're undercover. (Now this. I'm over the moon to realize this means Hawks and BJ's relationship developed before Kamino. How did THAT happen, I wanna know what made who look at whom and go "yeah we friends, keep scrolling.")
Yeah, I kind of get why people saw him as isolated but I still never completely agreed, at least not to the extent that some people saw it. 
Endeavor and Hawks only met at the rankings, but their relationship was always written as really significant for both of them. Hawks was introduced as part of Endeavor’s character development, and there’s a lot of emphasis placed on the fact that Endeavor was able to “read his expression” and figure out his message about the PLF. There was significant trust there from the start.
Tokoyami is similar. They only bonded recently, but there was a lot of weight put into how highly Tokoyami regards Hawks, even before the raid (although I totally understand ppl not putting as much significance there due to the fact that Toko’s a kid lol).
Imo, Jeanist and Hawks were AT LEAST implied to be friendly with one another before this, considering Jeanist mentions Hawks doesn’t come visit him often (whether that means they they aren’t too close or just means that Hawks doesn’t usually meet him at his apartment is kinda up in the air). Same way that Hawks and Edgeshot are implied at the rankings to be friendly as well. I definitely agree that we only got to know how close they are fairly recently though.
I think it’s a product of how Hori writes a lot of his friendships? There are a lot of relationships between the students that get kinda overlooked as well b/c they’re only mentioned in small moments like that. 
I guess I just never bought that Twice was his first real friend, or that their friendship was somehow more genuine or more important than the ones Hawks had with other characters. He’d had pretty similar bonding moments with Endeavor and Tokoyami, who arguably understood Hawks’ character a lot more that Twice ever did as well.
Looking back, I think a lot of my issue with it is just that I think it super contributed to how much ppl misread Hawks’ character lol.
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