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This one is for my dear friend , who has always gone out of his way to be a downright amazing guy to me. A long time ago, he drew me a totally awesome comic about the Rawk, and even put me in it!

He recently touched it up, and as thanks I wanted to draw him something. While he only wanted to see me draw baby Rawk Hawk, I got a little carried away and decided to surprise him.

While I'm at it, for the interested, I'll go ahead and share the bit of backstory my mind has whipped up concerning the good old jerk... hey, I've drawn him so much, it's impossible that I wouldn't have thought of it. You know me.

PS: I tried adding some color, but I didn't think it added much, and I think it looks cool in black and white like this. You guys all know his color scheme >_>

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I don't know if being a jerk is hereditary, but if it is, there may be no better proof than the notoriously antagonistic brute Rawk Hawk, whose father was cheating and lying before he was born, albeit in the arena of marriage: his fights were waged with his wife, and not in the ring. And you can imagine that once said wife laid an egg, that "father" - he could be called such in a biological sense only - skedaddled as fast as he could.

So it came to pass, that he was never around to see that adorable little ball of feathers crawl from the egg. Ryan Aurelius* Hawk, although never knowing a dad, was a happy child in his mother's care. However, as the fledgling grew older, his mother fell into depression and disinterest in him. Perhaps because he reminded her so much of his father?

With little attention and care coming his way at home, the boy strove for the affection of others any way he could. Rather than falling into low self-esteem himself, he developed a cockiness that was at first hollow and baseless, but then quickly evolved into a self-sustaining loop. Relying on what he recognized as his blessings, good looks, nice hair, and an ostentatious and energetic nature, he became a schoolyard bully and the paragon of "bad boys" and "cool kids", the kind that shyer and nicer boys lament that the girls somehow cannot resist, and that all regard with either admiration or disgust, but always fear.

Eventually, his yearnings for the attentions and affections of others had become an addiction, which led him to the best of all places to ease these cravings: the Glitz Pit. Decked out in some punky accessories (especially the spiked wristbands and such, which we must remember in that world scream an affiliation with Lord Bowser and therefore evil and rebelliousness, whether or not such a bond actually exists) and calling himself the Rawk Hawk, he immediately captured the attention of Grubba, who saw in the young man a capacity for winning over and manipulating the crowd not present in the more humble and noble Prince Mush. It was Grubba who eventually guided him to his more "Spartan" look, as he felt it had a wider appeal, if it fit his name less.

So it was that Grubba took the cocky young bird into his tutelage. The Hawk recognized that he had, almost instantly, become the promoter's favorite. He accepted Grubba, in fact, as the father figure he had never had, taking his Southern hospitality and paternalism at face value - not realizing until much later, after the intervention of Gonzales, when Grubba's true motives were revealed, that it had all been an act. Did this have an effect on the narcissistic bird? More than he ever let on.

After all. He really doesn't have anyone to love but himself.

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*Aurelius is his German name <3 I just love it

Rawk Hawk (c) Nintendo/Intelligent

Description
This one is for my dear friend , who has always gone out of his way to be a downright amazing guy to me. A long time ago, he drew me a totally awesome comic about the Rawk, and even put me in it!

He recently touched it up, and as thanks I wanted to draw him something. While he only wanted to see me draw baby Rawk Hawk, I got a little carried away and decided to surprise him.

While I'm at it, for the interested, I'll go ahead and share the bit of backstory my mind has whipped up concerning the good old jerk... hey, I've drawn him so much, it's impossible that I wouldn't have thought of it. You know me.

PS: I tried adding some color, but I didn't think it added much, and I think it looks cool in black and white like this. You guys all know his color scheme >_>

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I don't know if being a jerk is hereditary, but if it is, there may be no better proof than the notoriously antagonistic brute Rawk Hawk, whose father was cheating and lying before he was born, albeit in the arena of marriage: his fights were waged with his wife, and not in the ring. And you can imagine that once said wife laid an egg, that "father" - he could be called such in a biological sense only - skedaddled as fast as he could.

So it came to pass, that he was never around to see that adorable little ball of feathers crawl from the egg. Ryan Aurelius* Hawk, although never knowing a dad, was a happy child in his mother's care. However, as the fledgling grew older, his mother fell into depression and disinterest in him. Perhaps because he reminded her so much of his father?

With little attention and care coming his way at home, the boy strove for the affection of others any way he could. Rather than falling into low self-esteem himself, he developed a cockiness that was at first hollow and baseless, but then quickly evolved into a self-sustaining loop. Relying on what he recognized as his blessings, good looks, nice hair, and an ostentatious and energetic nature, he became a schoolyard bully and the paragon of "bad boys" and "cool kids", the kind that shyer and nicer boys lament that the girls somehow cannot resist, and that all regard with either admiration or disgust, but always fear.

Eventually, his yearnings for the attentions and affections of others had become an addiction, which led him to the best of all places to ease these cravings: the Glitz Pit. Decked out in some punky accessories (especially the spiked wristbands and such, which we must remember in that world scream an affiliation with Lord Bowser and therefore evil and rebelliousness, whether or not such a bond actually exists) and calling himself the Rawk Hawk, he immediately captured the attention of Grubba, who saw in the young man a capacity for winning over and manipulating the crowd not present in the more humble and noble Prince Mush. It was Grubba who eventually guided him to his more "Spartan" look, as he felt it had a wider appeal, if it fit his name less.

So it was that Grubba took the cocky young bird into his tutelage. The Hawk recognized that he had, almost instantly, become the promoter's favorite. He accepted Grubba, in fact, as the father figure he had never had, taking his Southern hospitality and paternalism at face value - not realizing until much later, after the intervention of Gonzales, when Grubba's true motives were revealed, that it had all been an act. Did this have an effect on the narcissistic bird? More than he ever let on.

After all. He really doesn't have anyone to love but himself.

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*Aurelius is his German name <3 I just love it

Rawk Hawk (c) Nintendo/Intelligent