#marked!callaghan

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Marks AU stuff

Other submitter’s thing with Marks being symbols and Wasabi being a hero mark and Gogo being a villain mark is a spinoff marks AU. Things that don’t contradict normal marks AU canon might end up there too though, because some of their ideas are really good, like marked Cass and Tadashi, flying moped, Demon Brothers, Callaghan’s other powers, evil hero marks which need a better name, mark regeneration, and Callaghan’s mark being on his hand.

The thing with Callaghan’s motives worrying Gogo didn’t have anything to do with Hiro finding the idea twistedly sensible. Hiro just thought it was bonkers. Gogo, on the other hand, is also a hero mark. Hiro got creeped out by an evil villain mark’s thought process being too twistedly sensible, Gogo got creeped out by an evil hero mark’s thought processes being too twistedly sensible, but Gogo gets comforted by Hiro who’s been there, done that, gotten the creepy tshirt.

Cass ends up joining the DND group. It’s actually pretty amusing, they’re playing an evil campaign where the GM has a laptop open because Tadashi (still in hospital) wanted to play and has access to Skype. Wasabi is unsure if she’ll be OK with the group’s usual shenanigans (he once made Honey’s critical fail summon a chlorine trifluoride elemental underwater, everyone died), but then she discovers Charm Person and a quirk in the Bluff mechanics.

Evil hero mark urges are the ‘order and control’ part of hero mark urges, minus the ‘make things better’ part, and often pared down to just ‘control’. That’s why Cass was giving Hiro and later Tadashi three minute groundings.

And she suddenly has an evil character, with Charm Person. The scariest thing is, she’s still the only sane woman in playstyle. She’s playing a LAWFUL evil character after all. She just makes random NPCs believe that they’re in a totalitarian state like the High Efficiency Baymax AU, or that there’s an invisible bridge there that they need to walk over to get something, or that their allies are actually their enemies. All with the same gentle smile on her face. This is creepiest to Tadashi because that’s what Callaghan was doing at times. It’s part of his lecture power.

Tadashi’s still really, really thin when he’s discharged from hospital. He also gets weird cravings for a bit, as he’s not just rebuilding fat, he’s rebuilding muscle and bone and even organ in places and he needs stuff like certain isotopes. So, wacky cravings. This is annoying when he wants things that stopped being sold years ago. Not so much when it gives Cass an excuse to cook lots of her favourite. It takes Tadashi a long time to fully recover, and he goes through a phrase where he weighed himself twice daily because he wanted to track his recovery.

Evil hero marks look the same as normal hero marks except for the blood red rings, because if they went white they’d be indistinguishable from villain marks.

Some people use slurs, like tarmark for people with black villain marks, redring for evil hero marks (who aren’t all evil), bleachmark or bonemark for white villain marks, bloodmark for red villain marks, blanks for unmarked people, and I honestly have no clue if there’d even BE slurs for normal hero marks.

Callaghan’s thing is strengthened by the explosion for a bit so that it’s a Compelling Voice and not a Charm Person, but it goes away after a week. That’s when he does the prison break.

Someone ends up resisting Callaghan’s power by singing. No, really. It’s hard enough to mind control someone repeating a survival mantra, and it’s harder to mind control someone who is singing, as their brainwaves sync to the remembered music while their language centre is totally occupied by the song. Also they were loudly singing Freewill, which was BOTH at that point, and could barely hear him over their own singing. And it distracted Callaghan, it is hard to concentrate and talk while someone is singing over you. Callaghan gets annoyed and storms off in a huff to go sweet talk someone into giving him useful stuff.

There’s barely any media that has unmarked human heroes or player characters or whatever. You CAN make unmarked or villain mark characters in DND and the like but most things have hero mark heroes and often character customization only allows for hero mark characters. Mirror’s Edge is an exception, Faith is a villain mark. It is VERY popular amongst villain marks because of that.

Submitted by: Longpost Anon

(Wow. Seriously, this AU is getting huge, with the lore and the backstory and the worldbuilding. You sound like you’re about ready to turn this into a fic, you’ve definitely got all the material there! Please let us know if you do end up writing this!

- Baymod)

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Marks AU Megapost Take 2!

There’s another bunch of Marks AU messages in the inbox again so I’m tackling them all at once! Here we go!

Speaking of Marks AU ... I'd actually figured there'd be a hormone that ONLY hero marks had much of, and a counterpart for villain marks. (Also, the actual mark itself will heal until good as new if injured, so scars there don't stick. ) Anyway the marks hormones are rapidly reabsorbed when the marked person satisfies their mark urges, and build when the person isn't. They desensitise to repeat things and have to shake it up every so often, but can endlessly swap between two things.

It would make a good biological marker then, like you could identify a person as being a Hero or Villain mark through a blood test (like, say, if the part of their body with their mark had been amputated or perhaps at crime scenes). Oh no, I better cut myself off before I actually try to develop the biology of this, including enzymes and receptors. Bad science brain, bad!

Haha yeah sorry whoops. Marks AU is eating my creativity. Yeah I'm Longpost Anon, I probably should've asked for Marks AU to be tagged Marks AU on that first post, but I didn't because I didn't realise it'd escalate SO DAMN MUCH MARKS AU WHY. Although it is nice that the most recent marks AU post is actually tagged Marks AU. (You can save the retagging until you aren't burnt out on Marks AU. )

I am definitely going to have to go back and retag a BUNCH of stuff. Hopefully right after I post this XD

If the Marks AU trend continues it's gonna be the Big Hero 6 equivalent to Gravity Falls Transcendence AU. With its own blog and fic and AUs of AUs and everything. I'm not sure if that's a good thing. - LA

Wouldn’t that be something? Tell you what, if someone actually makes a Marks AU blog, I will definitely post a link for it. Because that would be cool.

Marks AU Gogo probably does have powers, actually. Maybe something like she can make shadow constructs? But she doesn't train the power, or even use it all that much. Her little brother is scared of the dark, and she's gotten used to not using her power as it scares him.

Oooh, interesting. It’s nice to see GoGo with powers that aren’t automatically associated with speed, keeps things fresh. And that’s a really good reason to be rusty with her powers. Maybe the nerd herd don’t even realize she HAS powers because they’ve never seen her use them, and it’s not like she talks about it.

There are a lot of varying Marked AUs... but I can definitely tell which one is canon.. what I can't tell is which AU is the canon location of the marks. In the recent one is Tadashi's mark is located on his lower back. Another's was on Tadashi's chest and Another was huge that part of the mark showed on his neck. Please consult OP about that XD

The one with the mark on his back was submitted by Mala Anon, and Longpost Anon has officially taken credit as the OP, so I’m going to tentatively say that the one on the back is alternative canon, and the one on the chest is original canon. Although for all I know there’s a third anon getting in on this and there is yet another location of his mark. Basically it’s all up to imagination, I think XD

The mark urges in Marks AU seem to be more of marks specific psychological needs.

I’m not sure what you mean by this? Like, they’re biological in nature? Yeah, I think that’s kind of how the world of this AU has developed. Marks are inherently part of people’s biological make-up in this AU

Most Notable Evil Hero Mark was the Philippines's Dictator President who declared Martial Law on the whole country. He had clear intentions but prejudice against Evil Hero Marks have tainted his rep and caused his downfall. Yes. Once in Every 30 years a Mark Changing event happens. No one is born with the "Evil" Hero mark or "Evil" Villain mark.

Ugh, sounds like a real jerk. And yeah, the mark-changing phenomena is probably one of those things that scientists are scrambling to understand, but they just haven’t quite unlocked the mystery yet. So it’s subject to a lot of crazy theories. Some people even speculate that “evil” marks are caused by the Government as a means of identifying those that “know too much.” Oddly enough, these are the same people who wear tin foil hats

Cass's Hero mark urges are always fulfilled when she's in the store, conducting honest business. But once she got the Evil Hero Mark, she'll randomly ground Hiro or Tadashi for no reason and the boys understand because its their urges. But after 3 minutes the punishment is lifted.

Poor Aunt Cass. She probably feels awful that she’s taking out her new mark urges on the boys. Thankfully as Villain Marks, they totally understand what that’s like. Maybe they even help her find better ways to satisfy the urges. Although getting grounded for 3 minutes is a small price to pay if it helps Aunt Cass feel better

What if when Aunt Cass walked in to Marks AU Tadashi hugging Hiro (and the blocky disaster on the laptop) Tadashi was crying? They're not sad tears, but Hiro's upset at them anyway. After all, if someone cries in relief, they must've been feeling awful.

She just rushes in and joins the hug, because her boys are upset and she’s gonna comfort them however she can. Hugs are a very effective method in the Hamada household.

Marked Callaghan's powers can be described as 'you LISTEN to me' (with the lectures, that bit of the art post is canon! ) and 'physics listens to ONLY ME here'. Combined with the fact that he's basically the archetypical out of control, mark urge ruled Hero Mark, and you get a very dangerous supervillain. (Hiro really wants villain marks and hero marks to be changed to something else. Sharps and pastels? Chaos and order? Just not villain and hero, those words are too useful. )

Yipes, yeah, that’s creepy as hell. Congrats on making Callaghan somehow even MORE scary and dangerous than the movie version. Maybe after BH6 stops him, Hiro has a bit more pull with the public to change the names, though it’s probably still going to be a long, slow, uphill process. These things stick.

What if marks AU Hamaparents were really prejudiced against villain marks, like, to the point where they'd call their own marked children tarmarks? They disowned Aunt Cass because she was not a markist jerk. Both the Hamabros are very confused and happy to be in her care. The first mothers day with her, they put so much effort into making it good that Tadashi ends up using up too much power with his lights and nearly passes out. He's fine after a snack and a nap though.

Oh my god, I have the most horrified expression on my face right now. Who would DO that to their kids? RUDE. But the rest of that is just so cute I feel better already XD

In the Marks AU, the boy's mother was a hero mark and their father was unmarked. Neither really knew how to raise a villain mark, and so when Tadashi got his mark at age two and he was a villain mark, they started punishing him for making giant messes and rewarding him for bottling his mark needs. When Hiro got his mark at two, they started the same process. A week after taking them in, Aunt Cass realised why they kept staring longingly at things. The beads and glitter took weeks to clean up.

This is somehow both better and worse parenting than the one above. At least this one is out of not knowing any better and not from malicious intent. Still, Hamada Parents, noooooo ;_;

Marks AU: A hero mark going bad is considered a great tragedy, extremely difficult, and the early stages tend to either not be noticed, waved off as 'oh everyone does that', or even celebrated. A villain mark going bad is considered almost inevitable, and most villain marks are taught from a very young age how to bottle their mark needs and that one day they WILL give in. Gogo is very scared once she realises that Callaghan was showing obvious signs of being on the edge of losing it for YEARS.

It might in fact be a form of mental illness in this AU. Like, with proper therapy and treatment, ‘going bad’ can be reversed, and people can recover from the downward spiral, but misinformation, prejudice, and just plain stupidity prevent people from getting the help they need. Everyone assumes that the downward spiral is a character flaw, rather than a result of an imbalance in the mark hormones in their system. There are a few groups that have sprung up in recent years that are fiercely trying to correct misconceptions, but it’s been very difficult.

Imagine, in the Marks AU, a police officer starts talking to the BH6 group about something Callaghan did (he convinced a guard to let him out, organized a prison break, and is on the loose again). They say they don't know Cal's motives and then between them, just speculating, Gogo, Fred, and Hiro manage to work it out. Gogo understands Hiro's nervousness slash horror at his working out of the criminal villain mark's plans after that. Such a tempting, twistedly sensible line of thought ...

She points out that it wasn’t just him that worked out Callaghan’s plan though. So Hiro isn’t exactly the same. And besides, if being able to think like Callaghan means he’s going to go bad, what does that mean about her? Hiro admits he’s being silly after that.

Hero Mark Wasabi visits Professor Callaghan once, as a form of respect to his former teacher.

Callaghan saw an opportunity in this for his revenge, he then started to be friendly to Wasabi then proceeds to mind control the dread-lock man by lecturing (coughRantingcough) about how villain marked people are bad and hero marked people are good. Callaghan’s charismatic and influential that way.

first order of business Wasabi did was put out of commission Villain marked Gogo, she garnered multiplie lacerations over her body, and she slipped into a coma.

This was possible due to Wasabi’s powers, he can conjure blunt blades from his wrists, then with enough will power, he can make his blades turn into plasma blades.

Then Wasabi broke a lot of people, the people whom Callaghan brainwashed, including Callaghan, out of prison.

Revenge against Hiro Hamada and Cass is about to begin.

Oh god, they have to de-brainwash Wasabi? Nooooooo! Oooh, maybe now is a good time to bring in Baymax, he can’t be brainwashed too, and I bet he has ways to break through to Wasabi.

Marks AU Hiro gets accepted back into SFIT a bit after Callaghan is jailed, with a scholarship. He ended up crying happily, which the person who gave him the scholarship thought was a mixture of adorable, heartwarming, and just a bit sad.

He’s just really happy that he can be in school with his friends. The presenter awkwardly patting him on the back gets caught on camera. Naturally, that’s the picture they go with when they publish the story in the newspaper :)

Imagine tiny little Marks AU Hiro begging Aunt Cass to let him get some glitter. For a month Hiro's response to his mark urges is to make a glitter bomb and then set it off on himself. Glitter still sometimes shows up in the Hamada's clothes from the glitter that got into the washing machine. Hiro stops using glitter by a few years into school due to bullies, but he starts again after Tadashi's found because he is dared to put glitter in Tadashi's hair.

Aunt Cass eventually enforces that Hiro can only use edible glitter, because there’s so much of it everywhere that it inevitably ends up in the cafe food. Glitter in her baked goods ends up becoming a bit of a trademark for Aunt Cass and the Lucky Cat. People think it’s really pretty/cool.

Aaaaaaand that’s all of the Marks AU Messages in the inbox right now. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to fix the tags and then pass out a little. *wheeze*

Edit: Okay, the Marks AU have all officially been retagged (by hand because I’m an idiot who can’t figure out the mass post editor). They are no longer under Superpowers AU, but Marks AU. That is all *faints*

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Marked AU Cass has her mark on her palm. To an unmarked person touching a marked person's mark just feels like touching any other bit of skin. Touching the mark of someone who has the same type of mark as you makes the point of contact feels warm or cold, depending on the person, not mark type. Touching a mark of the type you don't have feels tingly. If the people don't like each other it feels unpleasant, if they do like each other it feels pleasant.

A few days since Tadashi’s release from the hospital. A strange phenomenon happened. There was giant explosion right above San Fransokyo. People with misguided Hero marks were changed to Evil Hero marks, the main distinction E.Hero Marks and Hero Makrs is the word evil that surrounds the hero mark. Obviously Callaghan’s was turned into the Evil Hero Mark but so did Aunt Cass’s

I’m picturing like, the actual word ‘evil’ written over and over in a circle around their mark. I hope that’s the idea.

(Does this count as a new mark type? SO MANY MARKS WHAT’S HAPPENING?)

But at first everyone is freaking out, because what does this mean? Did the Hero Marks do something wrong? Was it a trick all along? Will the villain marks change soon too? The world is very uneasy for a while.

All except for Aunt Cass. After raising two villain mark boys and realizing that they’re the best kind of people, she understands that the mark on your skin means nothing about the kind of person you are. So no matter what ends up happening with these new marks, she knows that she’s still the same, and that nothing has changed. Her calm attitude really helps everyone else relax about the new developments and just wait for whatever is to come.

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Villain mark Hiro is probably totally unused to people complementing his mark, or saying that he'd be anything but trouble to the police. (In fact some people would even try to complement him by saying that he'd drive the police nuts when he's older! ) And then suddenly after grabbing Callaghan the police are like 'thank you, his powers are to negate other powers and we wouldn't have been able to catch him without you' and everyone can tell no-one's said anything like that to him before.

Awww! oh my god, that is one of my favourite tropes, the outcast finally being accepted instead of feared just like they always wanted. That’s why the ending of Hunchback of Notre Dame used to make me cry.

But oh man, Hiro would be BRIGHT RED because he wouldn’t know how to deal with this change, he’d be so flustered and cute! AAAH!

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Hero mark Stan cannot fully heal villain mark Tadashi, even with the amulet boosting his powers, but he CAN give Tadashi about an extra day or so of life, which is long enough to get him to the hospital and have him start the heal on his own. (So he survives, although he's hospitalised for a while. ) Also Tadashi does have powers. He can make little globes of light appear from his hands.

Aww, that sounds so pretty. I bet Aunt Cass lets him do all the decorating at Christmas time.

But hey, I can dig scarred!Tadashi. Recovering in the hospital after his long stay under Callaghan’s “care”, slowly regaining use of his body. But he’s got horrible scars all over his body that Fred’s Dad couldn’t heal, and at first he’s horrified and disgusted by them, but Hiro manages to convince him that they actually look kinda cool. (They both know he’s lying, and they’re actually rather noticeable in places, but Tadashi appreciates the effort).

Just heck yes to scarred!Tadashi with superpowers, can’t go wrong with that :D

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Marked Gogo and Marked Hiro end up throwing handfuls of leaves at each other with the intent of getting the leaves stuck on the suit visors. The police ask what's going on and the two look at each other and burst out laughing. Baymax waddles up and says 'their term for such an argument is an honorary sibling argument'. Hiro's like 'yeah no risk of actual harm' and Baymax looks at him and says 'Usually'. (Hiro's wild gestures once resulted in him burning his hand on a soldering gun. )

2. Imagine the team from the marked AU getting into a NERF war with the wall of NERF guns that Fred owns. They forget to set rules. It goes for three days. Hiro, Gogo, and Honey Lemon are tied for most scary players. Hiro’s aim is atrocious. Gogo’s isn’t. Honey Lemon has expert knowledge of chemistry and keeps making weird traps.

3. Hero mark Callaghan capture and torture villain mark Tadashi. Tadashi manages to escape but Callaghan thinks he incinerated Tadashi, so he announced he killed Tadashi, and cue Villain mark Hiro and Hero mark Cass teaming up against Callaghan then weeks later, they found a very malnourished Tadashi, dying. Hero mark Stan and Fred arrives and restores Tadashi to full health using the ancient green amulet Fred found in the attic.

4. You changed the tagging for the Marked AU halfway through; the last post has the characters listed as Marked in the tags but the others just say powers.

½: Oh man, TEAM BONDING YESSSS. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, love me some big sis!GoGo. Maybe GoGo gets fed up with how bad Hiro is at aiming, and teams up with him to keep an eye on him. And besides, she’s gonna need his big brain if they’re gonna figure out how to take Honey Lemon down. She’s a tricky one.

3: EEEEXCELLENT YESSS AUNT CASS GETS IN ON THIS AND KICKS ALL THE ASS I APPROVE. And of course she’d have Hero mark, so Callaghan can’t say anything about her XD

4: Yup! I switched it to help myself keep track of this AU. I never know which ones are going to be one shots and which ones are going to end up having multiple submissions, so I usually don’t start adding unique tags until I know I’m going to have to be able to remember what’s going on from one part to the next. There’s a lot of unique AUs going on, and I’m trying to keep myself from getting mixed up. Hopefully I haven’t made a mistake yet XD

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Hero mark Callaghan ends up being carted off by the police yelling about how obviously all of the police are under mind control because they're not trying to kill Hiro, and how Hiro's planning to destroy the world so he has to go kill any villain marks. The police try to get him therapy. It does not work-Callaghan thinks that no matter what, his Mark means that he'll be the hero and Hiro'll be the villain.

Oooh, yeah, that would NOT be good. Maybe there’s someone in prison who has the superpower of being a good therapist, because it sounds like Callaghan needs superpowered help XD