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[big_hiro_6]

⌈ PLAYER SECTION ⌉
Player: Belmont
Contact: pm this journal, draculabackwards, Discord Belmont#0569
Age: 41
Current Characters: Auron


⌈ CHARACTER SECTION ⌉
Character: Hiro Hamada
Age: 14
Canon: Kingdom Hearts 3 (which includes the entirety of Big Hero 6 as backstory)
Canon Point: After Sora's adventures in SanFransokyo

Background: https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Big_Hero_6
https://youtu.be/-P9g-liArpE
(The video shows all the cutscenes during the San Fransokyo portion of the game. I cannot seem to locate a wiki that sums up what Hiro does and I know Ryoko just started the game so I wanted to avoid spoilers as much as possible.)

Personality:

Hiro seems like your typical young teenager: friendly, enjoys taking risks, occasionally awkward and sometimes doesn't pick up after himself. Except he also moonlights as a super hero, one of his best friends is a healthcare robot and he's taking college level classes. Wait, what?

To start with, Hiro is extremely intelligent. Enough that he graduated high school at 13 and later started college at SanFransokyo Institute of Technology. He appears to enjoy engineering robots most of all, having created his own remote control robots and later a horde of microbots that could be used for large scale construction. Whether he's fiddling with a 3D printer, writing programs on a computer or just sketching ideas on a notebook, he's fairly adept with complex subjects.

Coupled with that extreme intelligence is a severe lack of motivation for things that do not initially interest Hiro. One would think that being so intelligent, his next stop would be college. Instead, he spends his time tinkering with robots to engage in fights for money. Which is illegal, but Hiro appears to both enjoy the challenge and the opportunity to trick people into underestimating him. It's not stated outright, but it appears that because high school did not give him a challenge, he assumed college would be the same. Once something does pique his interest, however, he pours all his efforts into wanting to succeed. Whether it's actually trying to get into his brother's “nerd school”, tracking down a super villain or creating armor and testing weapons, Hiro will try and fail and try again until he's satisfied with his progress.

Hiro idolizes his older brother, Tadashi, who is both his brother and a sort of parent at the same time. Even when they aggravate each other, Hiro still listens to Tadashi. His older brother is often a source of a lot inspiration to do more and be more. Some of the greatest lessons he's learned from him were “try to see things from a different angle” and “someone has to help.” When his brother dies, the bottom drops out of Hiro's world and he falls into depression. Instead of wanting to attend college after finally earning the chance, he sits in his room. Without that motivation from his brother, college became something that no longer interested him.

When he meets Baymax, the healthcare robot his brother had been working on before his death, he slowly works through his grief. It isn't easy and Hiro would likely not be able to do it on his own. In fact, Baymax takes it upon himself to be that new inspiration for Hiro to rebuild his life after Tadashi's death, putting him back in touch with Tadashi's friends so as not to be alone. So it's a double gut punch when Baymax also has to leave for good, this time trying to save Hiro's life. However, as terrible as it is, Hiro accepts what has to be with a lot more strength and does not let that loss drag him down. While he does eventually rebuild a new Baymax, he had more or less decided to grieve constructively and move on with his life.

Before having the strength to accept loss, however, Hiro almost got someone killed because he thought he found the person responsible for his brother's death. He didn't listen to the people around him and overrode Baymax's programming to only concentrate on an attack program. This turned a friendly healthcare robot into a terrifying machine that wanted to take out everything. This action almost broke the friendship with the entire group and only with Baymax's gentle prodding did Hiro face up to what he'd done. It's also when he realizes that all of his anger cannot bring back his brother, as much as he would want to otherwise.

Being a super hero is a giant part of Hiro's personality. He's still learning the ins and outs along with his friends, but it's something he's been driven to do as a result of “someone has to help.” It's also an offshoot of “try to see things from a different angle.” At first, Hiro thought of a different angle to try and solve the mystery of his not-so-missing microbots and in turn, try to answer new questions about his brother's death. He and his friends took on the mantle of superheroes to take on a super villain. But as time went on and things got increasingly more serious, Hiro began to realize that sometimes, someone really DOES have to help and sometimes it's you, even if you're just a 14 year old kid. Even when at the end of the movie, he loses Baymax, they both saved the daughter of the super villain who'd been presumed dead.

Doing this action for himself because he feels IS the right thing to do is biggest change in Hiro's personality. It changes him from someone who'd been mostly motivated by what he wanted for himself into someone motivated to try and do good for other people. So he can still be highly unmotivated on occasion, but it's balanced out with a bit more empathy for other people and an ongoing belief to try and follow his brother's example.

With regard for Kingdom Hearts 3 (spoilers):



The game takes all of Hiro's personality growth in the movie and continues to build on it. While he gets along with Sora pretty well – although to be fair, Sora could make friends with a rock and it'd be wonderful – he's also voice of reason to balance out Sora's goofier personality. Hiro has basically taken it on himself to be the leader of Big Hero 6, giving Sora guidance and an AR helmet to help him with the city's sudden Heartless problem.

Hiro takes up more of a mission control type of role, trying and failing and trying again to get to the bottom of what's happening in town. He's also more comfortable around his older friends. When the group of them are taking a moment to rest, it's Hiro who explains that all of them try to follow Tadashi's example of helping people. Also that his brother lives on in the things he created and the rest of them, which dovetails nicely into Sora's own problems with the heart.

The most important growth for Hiro in this section is when what Sora's party believes to be Replica Riku finds the fighting program and the first Baymax. He never actually says it in the movie, but in the game he finally and clearly states that Baymax is his family and should never be used to hurt people. When the first Baymax is finally subdued and Hiro has to face the results of his work, his friends tell him he doesn't have to destroy the corrupted chip that forms Baymax's personality. Hiro instead says that no, destroying the chip is the right thing to do as it's what his brother also would have done. It's not something he wants to do, but feels he has to do.


Abilities: Hiro is extremely intelligent, taking college courses and (eventually) inheriting his brother's workshop. Although he won't have access to computers in game, he is not above writing out and engineering plans with pencil and paper, so he has enough engineering know-how to attempt to make robots. He'll attempt to figure out how a lot of things work and try his best to recreate or improve on designs.

He's also prone to trying to look outside the box for solutions. Other than that, he's a pretty normal 14 year old and average in terms of physical strength. If he's allowed his armor, it makes him more durable in a fight but that's about it.

Alignment: Daimonia. Most of Hiro's character development comes with dealing with (or not dealing with, at first) the death of his brother and the grieving process. Only over time is he able to find joy again.

Other: Ba-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la


⌈ SAMPLE SECTION ⌉

General Sample: https://memepatheias.dreamwidth.org/13602.html?thread=6567714#cmt6567714 – TDM
https://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/5612343.html?thread=2457407799#cmt2457407799 – Bakerstreet thread with a Zack Fair

Emotion Sample:
https://memepatheias.dreamwidth.org/13602.html?thread=6788898#cmt6788898 (contains KH3 spoilers)
There is also this non-spoilery example under Hiro's TDM:

F1. Umbra Academy

[You better believe Hiro signed up for this class as fast as he could. The chance to use super powers without technology? Heck yeah! His friends would lose their minds if they were here...

There's a sensation of being tethered to the ground. Unmoving. It's tempting for Hiro to let his sadness keep him down and hold him still. But he'd heard that everyone would be fine back at home, so he takes a deep breath and makes himself walk forward.]

My name is Hiro Hamada and to be hero, you have to realize that you're doing it because someone has to help. Even if you think you can't do a whole lot now, doing something is always better than doing nothing.


Questions:

Is Hiro allowed to bring Baymax with him? Or is that a regain in time? I'd heard that there'd been a previous Hiro a long time ago that had Baymax with him so I wasn't entirely sure how that would work?

Also, can Hiro come in game with his Big Hero 6 suit? If Baymax is allowed in game, can he also come with his Big Hero 6 suit?