Nighthawk

***FACE YOUR FEARS***

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Nighthawk is the latest hero in Overwatch, he's a scientist who fights with chemical bombs and a tranquillizer rifle. His abilities allow him to create a chemical gas that poisons his targets and create paralysing effects.

## Appearance

Nighthawk has a black, braided undercut that has been slicked back. He wears a a rebreather/half face gas mask with yellow lens goggles. He also has blue eyes. He also has his custom chemical formula tattooed on his inner left forearm. Outside of battle, he wears standard lab equipment. In battle, Nighthawk wears a standard black and red Talon combat suit, with a bandolier that contains his vials of chemicals. Under his mask, he has a moustache with a stubble.

His torso is a sleeveless, metal chest armour that allows him to construct and deploy a hawk-like drone from his back. On both of his wrists, he wears metal gauntlets; one that allows him to see through his hawk drone. Both gauntlets have retractable claws that resemble hawk talons, the gauntlets can poison his target with the toxin. His knees are protected with metal plates, and external steel cap boots, which are also designed with talon-like spikes.

## Personality

Nighthawk is an unscrupulous, serious, and ruthless individual with a "needs must" mentality. He believes that people are too scared of their own potential as a species and firmly believes that it is his duty to purge the world of the weak, the cowardly, and the treacherous. Nighthawk sees Overwatch as weak and flawed because they never took the initiative in protecting humanity and he believes they are just spending their time waiting for commands as innocent people suffer and die because of their inaction.

Nighthawk is largely independent and hard-working within Talon, he believes he has the absolute authority on what is good for humanity. Nighthawk is convinced that his work benefits the greater good, no matter how many are hurt or even killed in the process because he knows suffering is the key component towards the success of the species. Nighthawk knows that he has no equals within Talon and he takes it upon himself to enhance the weak and cowardly members of Talon through his experiments.

Deep down, Nighthawk sincerely believes he's doing the right thing by forcing people to face their fears, as he insists that he's giving them the strength to protect themselves and giving them the courage to protect each other. Nighthawk believes he's making the world a better place and inspiring others to be better and more courageous in the face of danger. Nighthawk ultimately wants to prove to the world that he can save it from itself by using his formula to make the superior human being, one who is immune to pain, immune to fear, and devoid of moral values.

## Story

Azikiwe Temitope was born and raised in Liberia, he was instilled with bravery and patriotism by his father and instilled with a fascination with chemistry by his mother. When he came of age, he joined the military and rose through the ranks and became Sergeant of a group of soldiers. During the omnic crisis, he and his team were attacked by omnics, despite Azikiwe's best efforts to rally the team, he was abandoned and forced to fight by himself. He was eventually rescued but he had suffered severe PTSD as a result. This event caused Azikiwe to develop a deep resentment towards cowardice, treachery, and what he perceives as weakness.

After the crisis, Azikiwe left Liberia and joined the United States where he fulfilled his chemistry fascination by becoming a research chemist, where he soon worked under the US government in the chemical weapons department. He was placed in "**Project Nighthawk",** a secret government project that utilised chemical warfare against the omnics. He revelled in this new, ruthless environment and eventually perfected his formula and named it "Despair". What the public didn't know, however, was that Azikiwe was given humans and omnics to experiment on. Word eventually got out to the public about Project Nighthawk, forcing the government to cancel the project.

Azikiwe was infuriated, he stormed the office of the director and demanded answers as he firmly believed the chemical was perfect and safe to use. Suddenly, the building was attacked by Doomfist and Reaper, who put the building under siege with 18 soldiers. Seeing the chance to experiment with Despair, Azikiwe poured the chemical into the air conditioner and the chemical quickly flooded the building, leaving only Doomfist and Reaper as the team's sole survivors, as the soldiers killed each other through panic and in-fighting. Reaper was knocked out by Doomfist, who managed to break into the director's office by himself. However, rather than kill Azikiwe, Doomfist killed the director instead and offered Azikiwe a place in Talon. Azikiwe accepted the offer without question and became one of Talon's leading scientists.

## Weapon: Tranquillizer rifle

It does 75 damage, holds 10 rounds per clip, 1.25 shots per second, 130 m/s projectile speed and lasts 0.85 seconds. It also has a venomous aftermath, as it does an additional 5 total venom damage.

## Passive Ability: Scout

Nighthawk summons his mechanical hawk to scout the area, which highlights all enemies for 30 seconds. This ability takes 4 seconds to recharge.

## Abilities

* **Distortion:** Nighthawk throws a gas bomb. When targets are within the gas they are slowed down by 50%. This affects their movement speed and reload speed, this also does 60 total damage to targets if they stay in the gas for the duration. The ability takes 14 seconds to recharge.
* **Night Night:** Nighthawk throws a vial of chemicals that turn into a yellow smoke, paralysing anyone within it's 6 meter radius. This lasts 5 seconds and does 10 damage per second. This takes 8 seconds to recharge.
* **Injection:** Nighthawk slashes his opponent across the stomach with his claws, injecting them with his formula that stuns them for 4 seconds. This can do 40 damage and take 4 seconds to recharge. This ability also creates 2 duplicates of Nighthawk so he can retreat to a safe distance.

## Ultimate: Smoke and Mirrors

Nighthawk summons his mechanical hawk that flys around and disperses a 15m wide yellow cloud of gas that poisons and blinds targets. The hawk will then divebomb into the smoke and attack everyone within it. The smoke itself does a total of 50 damage, while the hawk can do up to 250 damage to all targets. The smoke also inverts the controls of the targets.

If the hawk is destroyed during the ultimate; it will then swoop into the air where it will then fly straight down, causing an explosion that does 300 damage when it collides with the ground. Throughout the ultimate, Nighthawk is able to see everyone in the smoke and they are highlighted to his team.

## Audio Hallucinations

When certain heroes are exposed to the gas, they can hear different voices:

* Torbjorn: Brigitte screaming and his wife tormenting him for being away from home.
* Ana hears Pharah screaming and expressing anger over being abandoned.
* Reinhardt hears Brigitte screaming while also hearing the voice of Balderich expressing shame for choosing him as a successor and for causing his death.
* Brigitte hears Torbjorn berating her for choosing to be a squire over being a mechanic.
* Pharah hears Ana expressing pride for abandoning her and telling her she'll never be an Overwatch agent. She also hears multiple voices blaming her for their deaths.
* Tracer hears Zenyatta and Genji blaming her for Mondatta's death, she also hears Emily screaming in fear of Talon agents.
* Winston hears his father mocking him for trying to be a scientist and blames him for his death.
* Hanzo hears his father haughtily tell him that he was never strong enough to finish what he started, he also hears Genji beg for mercy.

## Trivia

* Originally Nighthawk was intended to be British due to the country's association with dogs. However, this was changed to Liberian for spontaneous reasons.
* His hawk drone resembles a Black Sparrowhawk
* Nighthawk originally had the chemical formula for LSD tattooed on his arm. Rather than his custom formula.
* He's also known as "The hound of Talon" and "The Talon bitch".
* Nighthawk was inspired by The Scarecrow from The Batman comic series and Project Hound from TV series Sherlock. Nighthawk's distorted voice during the ultimate was based on Ulysses' from Fallout New Vegas.
* The hawk has a black fog emitting from its beak and its eyes are also yellow. During the ultimate Nighthawk's eyes also start glowing yellow and his voice drastically deepens.
* Smoke and Mirrors was inspired by The Snowblind from God of War PS4.
* The hawk-drone was inspired by the Falconer predator from the 2010 movie Predators.