William and Sly AU: there's also flying islands. This is annoying at times for Hiro because he has to climb up prickly pine trees to REACH some of these islands. Why is there a bridge from a place that can only be reached with flight anyway. And then there's the times he falls and has to climb ALL THE WAY BACK UP.
I bet he was REALLY happy once he got those wings and could avoid that mess.
Maybe he makes a point to ask Tadashi, in his own foxy way of course, to redo that wings spell in the future when he really needs to go out and collect things in all the random places. Because they are so freaking convenient, and for a magical elf like Tadashi, it should be a relatively simple spell, right?
(Baymod note: Sorry I added in a Read More because this one is a bit long)
William and Sly AU?
Elf Tadashi moves into a cabin in the wilderness, well away from most other people, to work on a magic related project, because the magic harmonics for the unfinished project would be really dangerous for humans.
He meets a sapient fox when he sneaks into the cabin and starts eating all Tadashi’s food. No, really.
Little guy’s food was being stolen by gnomes. Gnomes are small winged beings that hoard and hide mushrooms, and are actually the reason the place is mostly wilderness despite all the ruins; they chased everyone else out by playing merry magical HAVOC everywhere and stealing and hoarding everyone’s food.
Tadashi responds to that by setting up a system of runestones to get to a cave that he then blocks off, so it’s only accessible via the runestones. He also names the fox Hiro, because he’d had his name removed by a gnomish spell (really, really cruel). Hiro chirped nonstop all day and decided to do something in return for Tadashi: he gathered the fairyflies, small glowing magical insects, required for lighting runestones.
Runestones have a limited range; he needs 13, including the one in his house and the one in the cave, to get there.
And then one day, the runestones suddenly stop working. At first Tadashi thinks it’s just a standard fluctation, so he goes out to recalibrate the spell, and promptly gets ambushed by a darkling.
To a human or a sapient fox, darklings are harmless. To an elf or a fairyfly, darklings can be lethal.
Tadashi’s fine but he can’t head towards the runestones at all and the gnomes had worked together to block the other way out of the valley so he asks Hiro for help.
Hiro rushes out, first to collect everything useful in the non-runestoned side of the valley (that he can reach), then to try to reactivate the runestones, fairyflies swirling bound around him like captured flames while he searches the cave-ridden hills; the gnomes hid the caves with illusion spells, but they’re better against eyes than noses, and as a fox Hiro can sometimes sniff out the holes. Other times he just noses against walls and sees if his nose goes through.
All Tadashi can do is wait. And draw a magic map, hoping that Hiro will come back safe.
It works; not only does Hiro reactivate the runestones, but before each activation he thoroughly searched the area around each stone for darklings, and used the light magic charge from runestone activation to kill them.
He can’t keep the charge bound around him forever, though; there’s a reason it kills darklings. It burns. At first, it’s just a faint pleasant warm sensation, but it quickly builds.
The spell he uses to catch the charge gives out moments before he would, releasing the magic in a flash of sparkles and light; if he wants to make the woods safe again, he has to catch the darklings before the spell dissolves.
Hiro manages fourteen out of fifteen.
The darklings can’t hurt him; but they can eat the fairyflies surrounding him, and he needs five to activate each runestone. Thankfully they’re common.
He visits Tadashi after each runestone activated, checking on him, giving him edible mushrooms that he found (the ones he didn’t eat anyway) and even getting the magic map.
He finds a temple with a heavily enchanted dias, meditating on it to accept the spell and gaining temporary translucent feathery wings. He’s not a good flyer, he really just glides, but he can get to a LOT of bizarre places and no gnome stash is safe.
Eventually, he gets to the ominously unlocked storage cave.
Attempting to activate the runestone causes a giant snake monster to attack him, only to phrase clean through taking only the fairyflies.
It smells like darklings; someone’s made a darkling queen.
Hiro repeatedly activates the runestone, running into the semisolid snake again and again and again, dumping the white magic charge into it over and over, feeling to burn start to linger even as the thing drains the magic from the stone and local magic levels drop.
It bursts eventually, a cascade of sparkles, and Hiro barely has it in him to teleport all the way back. He collapses on Tadashi’s bed and has a well earnt sleep, unaware of the fact that the one darkling he missed is dividing.
Several months later, Tadashi’s been forced to make an invisible wall across the valley side, making that side of the valley only accessible via runestones; the gnomish wall is gone, it’s safe. His journal, containing his project notes goes missing; gnomes ripped it up and scattered it.
Tadashi made the mistake of trying to trade it for a spell. Namely, Dissolution.
Dissolution seals up openings with a weak but solid copy of the surrounding walls. The gnomes use it on their caves, but on the first one they seal, they forget to remove the keep out sign, allowing Tadashi to find out what the heck is going on. Tadashi can’t burst the spell, he’s too magical, but Hiro’s got weak enough innate magic that his running footsteps or him shoving his nose and forepaws against the dissolution wall is enough to break it.
Hiro goes out to find Tadashi’s journal.
He quickly finds: a bomb, lots of mushrooms, a few journal scrap, and an amhni, removed from the pole the gnomes would have put it on.
Given what happened at the last temple (he’d liked those wings), when he finds a small temple, he’s willing to ask the spirits inhabiting it what they want.
There’s an ohnem there; they speak in rhyme and riddles, and this one wants something. It’s actually trapped in several runestones, which are in turn trapped in rock. Blowing up the weak rock around each of the four runestones would free the ohnem of their wrongful imprisonment.
Hiro blows up the rock on the cliff edge stone, and keep searching.
He finds another temple; this one’s got another ohnem in it, and the riddle is about the amhni. They are supposed to form a rough diamond, with an amhni of each of the four elemental magic at each amhni pole.
Hiro also finds dragon statues; he can feel the fire magic trapped within, and he knows that if he lets the fairyflies following him free, he’ll be wreathed in flames, kept from burning by the dragon’s blessing.
And he finds chunks of inexplicable ice, with pixies frozen in them.
Then, near a cliff edge that he can’t climb, he finds another temple. The ohnem in this one claims, via riddles, that something froze their four pixies, but they’re still alive, and they ask for them to be freed.
Ohnems return their favours.
Hiro blows the runestones free; he can use them.
He sets each amhni on its pole; he can see things he wants or needs outlines in intangible sparkles that travel far enough away that finding dissolutions is now trivial.
He wreathes himself in flame, again and again, and sets the pixies free; the ohnem gives him pixie style flight.
It’s an interesting feeling, being able to, if you choose, find purchase on thin air.
Hiro finds journal scraps hidden in places that only true flight could find. He finds them in chests encased in rock (did the gnomes trap the ohnem? Why?) and frozen in magical ice.
By the time he returns to Tadashi, he’s almost gotten used to the feeling of leaping off of air or being wreathed in flame.
Tadashi reassembles the journal, unaware that Hiro read ALL OF IT, and the gnomes crown Hiro Mushroom King because they are not entirely stupid and risking getting Hiro angry as opposed to concerned was stupider than they were.
Submitted by: Longpost Anon
(Oooh, I’ve never played these games before, but now I’m intrigued. Especially with all the magic and spells and A FOX YESSSS
Oh, but what if the darklings were something like microbots? And the darkling queen was Yokai? Maybe the gnomes could be teeny little Yamas or something
But hey, if Tadashi’s an elf, at least he finally has an excuse for those big earts of his XD
Lets start at their magic… Hiro and Tadashi’s mother is adept at Doll Attack magic but she was only able to teach, through the help of Cass’s Archive magic, “Doll Attack: Puppeteer” before she passed away from a fatal wound.
The Hamada Brothers’ father on the other hand is very masterful with Molding magic. Like molding the elements to whatever shape they want. With Cass’s help she was able to transfer his knowledge to his sons before he too passed away.
Before Passing away, Cass was able to take care of the brothers until Hiro was 14 and Tadashi was 19, and the brothers were taken to a magic healer who taught Tadashi healing magic.
Tadashi was able to make Baymax by combining “metal make”, “ice make” and “wood make” one after the other. With the help of “Doll Attack: Puppeteer.” Baymax was born.
Tadashi then prefers to use the healing magics he learned from their caretaker after Cass died
Hiro on the other hand, prefers to use Metal Make over the others and use Doll Attack: Puppetry to fight,
Both brothers are also able to use their molding magic during battle.
For The Story
A dark guild raided the Hamada household and managed to fatally wound the Hamada parents and poison Cass. In their last acts as parents, with the help of Cass, they were able to transfer whatever knowledge they have to the brothers. But mommy Hamada died before she could complete the process.
a decade has passed and Cass’s poison took effect and passed away. During the decade, Cass secretly passed her knowledge of Archive magic to the brothers.
An unknown magic healer taught Tadashi healing magic.
Hiro was a trouble maker during the decade so they coerced the brothers to join the dark guild.
Eventually Tadashi decimates the Fairy Tail members he encountered. He made use of Lucy’s Gemini and let it mimic him.
With the combination of his molding magic and his Baymax, Fairy Tail didn’t stand a chance.
Tho Tadashi left the group unconscious but Tadashi covered the bare bodies of Erza, Wendy and Lucy. while Gray, Natsu and Romeo were the only ones that were lucky because only their shirts were gone.
This way, he can get the help he needed.
Fairy Tail eventually rescues the Hamada brothers and inducts them to the guild.
PS… FAKE E.ADD SO DON’T QUESTION XD
Submitted by: Mala Anon
(I’m sorry, I think I’m a bit confused. Which fairy tale is this based on?
But OH MY GOD, YOU KILLED AUNT CASS? AAAAAH HOW DARE NOOOOOOOO
Poor babies. Even with magic, they’re going to grow up messed up without her. Which is what I think is happening to Tadashi here? He became evil? I can’t imagine decimating people is a good thing after all. TADASHI NOOOOO)
A dragons AU... Tadashi is still Hiro's older brother. People kidnapped Tadashi in the hopes of luring Hiro in. Cue the Dragons with Hiro on top of the Alpha storming where Tadashi's held captive.
They took Tadashi when Hiro was younger because they were trying to figure out how he was able to use magic like a dragon without consequences. They would have taken Hiro too, but Tadashi managed to hide his little brother in a crate before they realized that he existed, and so they only took Tadashi.
But then, after Hiro becomes more well-known as the Boy Who Flies With Dragons (he totally rides around on Baymax’s back like all the time), the people who took Tadashi realize they have someone else they can experiment on. So they let it slip out that Tadashi’s alive, trusting their network to make sure that Hiro hears the rumor. And then they sit and wait for their prize to come to them.
(They may or may not also be the group hunting dragons. Depends on how complex we want this AU to get XD)
Science fantasy AU where magic is a thing. There’s several types of spells; permanent spells, which remain on the target, affecting it, until cancelled or until they wear off, and instantaneous spells, which, once done, have to be counterspelled. Permanent spells lack proper ontological inertia; removing a permanent shrinking spell will cause the target to grow to their true size in a few seconds. An instantaneous shrinking spell cannot be removed so much as countered (it’s done its effect, it’s finished and gone) and once done, have ontological inertia. Hiro and Tadashi have magic ability and both have minor magic surges.
Magic surges result in wild magic that can do things that human mages then can sometimes take years to develop ways to replicate-most spells were copied from the effects of magic surges.
Hiro’s are stronger overall, but as he has the potential to be a VERY powerful mage, it’s to be expected; they mostly just levitate objects, make random things glow or change colours or stick to each other, and are easy to handle by whoever’s not surging (this includes Aunt Cass). The effects of both boys’ surges are easily reversed, or naturally wear off in a small period of time.
Then they discover the hard way that a then six-year-old Hiro’s peanut allergy includes the bizarre (and reasonably rare) symptom of ‘powerful magic surges’. Opps.
It’s very difficult for Cass and Tadashi to reverse and manage the effects of the surge, and while trying to corral an animated table that had sprouted claws and was taking swipes at Mochi and the walls, they fail to notice that Hiro’s shrinking.
He stops at the size of a large mouse, and it’s an instantaneous spell.
The first day’s the hardest; they have to adjust, and quickly.
By the second day, Hiro’s got a warming spell on him, keeping him at a comfortable temperature, and a simple weak protection spell that made him slightly tougher and stronger.
By day five, a professional mage had boosted the protection spell until Hiro was twice as strong, and tough enough to survive being stepped on. (A Lucky Cat customer with poor eyesight thought he was a mouse and tried to squish him. )
Aunt Cass starts homeschooling him, and getting in tutors to help; meanwhile Tadashi sews Hiro brightly coloured clothes so that Hiro doesn’t get mistaken for a mouse again (splinting a broken arm the width of a toothpick is HARD).
When Tadashi graduates, Hiro insists on going to SFIT with him-as in, riding in his pocket.
Not having been bullied as much as canon Hiro, this Hiro is much less nervous and insecure, and so doesn’t fake confidence.
The first people he has a proper chat to are the Nerd Herd, who he meets because they’re sharing a lab.
(Fred will forever deny squeeing at the sight of a kitten-sized 13-year-old kid sitting on Tadashi’s hand and smiling nervously up at them. )
They quickly become friends.
Submitted by: Longpost Anon
(Awww, I’m basically picturing the scene in Cinderella where she makes tiny clothes for the mice. Only Cinderella is Tadashi, and the mouse is Hiro. I bet Tadashi goes out to fabric stores with Hiro in his pocket, and they pick out the craziest, brightest, funnest bits of fabric from the scrap bin for super cheap, and take it home and just go NUTS with it. Hiro probably has a lot of really wacky ponchos from when Tadashi was just starting out and learning to sew
If he ever grows back to normal size, he will definitely end up still wearing wacky coloured things. Because that’s what he’s used to.)
That one magitek cyborgs AU would probably have Aunt Cass training the boys by telling Hiro 'try and get the gummy bear from me, while Tadashi tries to stop you'. Tadashi's not allowed to just tell Hiro to not get the gummy bear, or to touch the gummy bear. At first he just freezes up, then he starts doing stuff like hugging Hiro (and holding him out of reach of the gummy bear).
Awww, non-violence methods, atta boy Tadashi. That’s using your noodle instead of your terrifying violent magic cyborg powers XD
There’s still a music montage though, right? Because everyone knows you need a music montage when you’re training
Magitek Cyborgs AU: Yeah, they're traumatized. Aunt Cass takes weeks to realise that it was Tadashi who was the cause of the mangled mess in Hiro's room; she just figured that someone had attacked and Tadashi had managed to drive them off. She gives the boys a big hug upon realising that their situation had been so bad that they felt they HAD to do that, but only after promising to teach Tadashi how to use only enough force to make people back off, and no more.
And thus, TRAINING MONTAGE! Oh man, now I want to see a scene where it’s Aunt Cass training them like Phil in Hercules or something, just bossing these super powerful kids around even though she’s smaller and weaker because they love her and respect her, and she knows what she’s doing.
Plus Aunt Cass in a sweatband with a whistle, shouting at them through a megaphone. What’s not to love?
Mage!Hamadas: Tadashi still died, his reserves running out and the area of his drain radius left totally depleted of all magic as his fireproofing and cooling spell was overwhelmed by the fire. He'd almost made it back out. The Big Hero 6 had magitek gear, with all the suits able to work solely off of magic, or solely off technology, as needed, as well as a hybrid of both. And scientists who were not Hamadas began to study magic.
So it’s still an angsty AU? Awww :(
But hey, cool, movie plot with magic, I can dig it. MAAAAGIC
