#wings!fred

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So hummingbirds get super aggressive and territorial when they go through puberty. Imagine hummingbird Hiro dealing with that. He would pick ALL THE FIGHTS. (Also what if he had clawnails. Just little tiny claws. ) He's got just the tiniest little bit of his adult patterning and he's already like FIGHT ME to pretty much everyone who is not a friend.

AU of an AU: Hummingbird Hiro but winged people are on the top and flightlesses are on the bottom instead of the other way around. Hummingbirds, swans, and geese have reputations. Hiro gets a lot of scared looks from wingless people, but he's not quite sure why. And then puberty hits him and he suddenly wants to fight everyone who isn't a friend or a family member. It terrifies him.

Hiro has the teeniest claws heeee. And he’ll kick your ass, he’ll kick their ass, he’ll kick his OWN ass. FIGHT ME.

Thus Tadashi reveals one of the many protocols he’s programmed into Baymax. He knew about what would happen to Hiro once he hit puberty, and so he planned accordingly. Baymax has a protocol for when Hiro gets aggressive that basically boils down to “pick Hiro up and hug him so he can’t get free until he’s calmed down”. It is surprisingly effective.

Hiro still picks fights though, when Baymax isn’t around. That’s when GoGo and Fred, two other winged people, have to intervene because they’re the only ones who can fly after him if he tries to escape.

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Hummingbird Hiro: Hummingbirds do need to go torpid sometimes, although a few hours every few months is enough. Hiro, having not gone full torpid for years, is rather incoherent when he first meets the Nerd Herd. He wears makeup to hide the dark circles, but he keeps slipping into Japanese and forgetting words, both in the sense of accidentally leaving a word out of a sentence and in the sense of calling things by long placeholder names like 'two wheeled moving thing' for bike.

Fred has a perfect sense of direction unless you stick a magnet on his head. Then he merely has an amazing sense of direction. Also, bird people's feathers usually slightly stick up, like with real birds; depending on their mood and the temperature, they can go from having their feathers flattened against their body (looks odd) to fluffed up enough to appear to go up two shirt sizes (adorable).

I just want to see the situation where they figured out that sticking a magnet to Fred’s head messes with his sense of direction? Who’s idea was it? How bored were they? How did they test this theory? Was it GoGo? It was GoGo wasn’t it?

I bet the test was her grabbing Fred and throwing him out a window really fast and seeing if he could hit a target pad on the lawn below. Without the magnet, he smooshed against the target dead on, every time, but with the magnet he was off by like half a foot. And then she wrote down her results because SCIENCE.

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Hummingbird Hiro AU: Winged people tend to get a lot of broken arms or legs, although their wing bones are VERY strong. Also, no, Fred would not bite people. Fred would be a really fancy pigeon breed, like, a Saxon Fairy Swallow or something. He's still obviously a pigeon, and none of the Nerd Herd are pigeon fanciers, so they just assume that he's just one of the many pigeon-people, who DO tend to be poor and can eat pretty much anything. And then someone sees a pigeon show.

Winged people are born with the wings and tail feathered, and by around 14ish the feathers have spread so there’s some on the back of the neck and mixed in with the hair, and some more on the chest and back. Arms and legs are never, ever feathered. Also, actually, Fred would NOT be a Saxon Field pigeon. He’d be a show racer type. The sort that looks relatively normal, but is actually both crazy expensive and able to find their way home from anywhere.Emancipation for winged people took place in different countries at different times, with the freest countries now freeing the wingeds earliest. (San Fransokyo had a bylaw that freed them well before the rest of the USA. )

Hmm, that could work. You’re right, pigeons are kind of EVERYWHERE. That could work. Also I can just picture Fred carrying around bags of bread crumbs and eating them, not because he actually likes them or anything, he just thinks it’s funny

Oh man, winged peoples needed emancipation? Hmmm, that seems a bit strange, considering humans typically thought of winged humans as good things (The goddesses Isis, Nike, many gods, angels, Valkyries), although I guess there’s bad winged things in myth too. Maybe they were kept as decoration? Especially if they’ve got as much feathers as that. CAN YOU IMAGINE A PARROT PERSON? THEY WOULD BE SO COLOURFUL AAAAH