Hank Hall (Hawk)

# Hawk

## Hank Hall

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Insert Quote or Description of Hank here ~ Alfie

## History

### Early Life

Hank Hall was born in Washington DC. He was raised here, living alongside his mother and younger brother Don. He never knew his father. They were living in a poor neighborhood, and yet they weren't unhappy, in the first years of their lives at least. Though it all started to change when their mother pushed both he and his brother to academically surpass themselves, making them accepted in a prestigious private school, even then it was alright: The only thing that mattered to him was the pride in his mother's eyes.

Soon, he and his brother would engage in the School's football team, The Hawks, and it's where it started to go all downhill for him. While he was skilled at this sport, he was considered a prodigy at just 10 years old. But one day, he would one day find his brother about to be abused by their coach in the lockers. Hank took his place, this event greatly traumatized the young boy, and greatly changed him. He never wanted to feel that weak and helpless again, and wanted to be able to protect both his loved ones and himself. So he stayed on the and he pushed himself on and out of the field, pushing up to his limits, and that when he was just a kid.

### Going through the Motions

But two years later, another tragedy will strike: his mother, gravely ill due to a cancer, passed away, he took the responsibility of taking care of himself and Don. Years later, he graduated and made it to college, alongside his brother as always. He still was practicing football, in the team's college. But while his body and physical abilities were already considered  for his age, he received many head injuries, which ultimately caused him to collapse when his brother confronted him. He was sent to the doctor, who gave him pills and advised him to take some time away from football. Hank initially paid no mind to those advices, but Don took the matters into his own hands, and informed the athletic director of the college of his brother's condition, causing Hank to be suspended from the team.

### Finding a new outlet: Being Hawk

Not long after, Hank couldn't cope anymore with all his trauma and pain, as football was a great way to release all his anger. All the guilt he felt for sacrificing himself in the locker room when they were kids was now out, and his brother, greatly worried for him, proposed for them to go after the criminals in their neighborhood, thinking it would help his older sibling with his anger, and it would make him use his anger in a good way: to stop criminals. So their first patrol was in 2011, where they stopped their first criminal, as their new alias: Hawk and Dove.  Over the years, they would make a name for themselves, and were considered as vigilantes, ones that you better not cross. Hank felt happy for the first time in years, he had finally found a good way to support all his guilt and pain, and he was good at it. A body in peak condition due to years of training obviously helped.

### Picking up the broken pieces

But sadly, the reality of life would catch up to him, and one day, after a patrol that turned badly, he lost Don. On that day, it was not just a brother or a best friend that died, but his second half, a part of Hank Hall died alongside Don, a part that allowed him to go forward. Hank butchered his brother murderer, and from now on, he kept continuing fighting crime as a vigilante, but became way more harsher in his ways. All his trauma and failures came back to him, to haunt him. It made him turn towards alcohol and smoking as an unhealthy coping way. Now he is just a broken man trying to hide how much he truly is by fighting crime.

## Powers and Abilities

### Abilities

* **Expert Hand-to-Hand Combatant:** Thanks to his years passed as a football tackler and to the training he did, he developed impressive fighting skills
* **Peak Human Conditioning:** Hank's body is considered as its peak in terms of human conditions. It is once again thanks to the training he imposed on himself at a very young age. He also uses all his anger as a fuel to keep going on in fights, making him hit harder and permit him to go for longer.
* **Peak Human Strength**
* **Peak Human Speed**
* **Peak Human Stamina**
* **Peak Human Reflexes**
* **Excellent Culinary Skills:** He had to learn to cook at a young age for both himself and his younger brother.