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Hummingbird Hiro thing: if the Tree Incident happened when Hiro was nine, then by the time of the Bay Incident, depending on how much torpor hummingbirds actually need, he could need anything from 60 hours torpor to several hundred. Either way the team are worried at first when Hiro's smiling faintly and unresponsive, more worried when he doesn't gasp for air when they surface, and then very relieved that he's torpid. They don't wake him up for 36 hours, because he looks exhausted.

They take him back to Fred’s mansion anyways, because they may be safe for now, but the mask guy might come back. And GoGo and Fred need time to dry out their feathers before they can fly again, and that makes GoGo super nervous because she needs her wings to defend everyone.

When they get to the mansion, even though Hiro looks fine, Honey Lemon still wraps him up in a billion blankets until just the tufts of his hair are sticking out to help him warm up faster.

What if Hummingbird Hiro's hyperaggressiveness wasn't just a hummingbird thing, but a pubescent hummingbird thing? The aggressiveness fades when their hormones settle.

I’m sure it’s a common thing for most winged people, not just Hiro. Maybe they go through the aggressive phase at different times, based on their bird-type, but it’s not exactly uncommon. In fact, the most common period of aggressiveness could be puberty, because yay hormones.

You should have seen GoGo when she was going through her aggressive phase. Wasabi might argue that she’s STILL going through it, but not in front of her because she’ll punch him in the gut.

Hummingbird Hiro and falcon Gogo end up teaching pigeon Fred and Honey Lemon how to fight. Wasabi and Baymax occasionally helped, whenever they needed someone a bit taller than either Hiro or Gogo. It shows in both their fighting styles: lots of very quick movements, trying to get the fight over as quickly as possible, very few blocks, and lots of dodging. In Fred's case there's also a lot of wing blows, because Hiro likes those.

Hiro likes wing blows, but he’s not very good at them. His wings are tiny and delicate, so he’s more likely to hurt himself than his opponent. Unfortunately he learned most of his wing fighting from watching Tadashi, who as a swan with massive swan wings, was able to do some serious damage with his wings.

So while Fred and Honey Lemon are practicing together against Wasabi and Baymaxm GoGo keeps pulling him aside and trying to help him break the habit of using his wings before he breaks himself. She also has relatively delicate wings as a falcon, so she’s got a few techniques she can teach him instead, thank heavens. Someone protect this small hummingbird child from himself.

Hummingbird Hiro AU: Winged people have a small amount of flight magic, which is one of two types of magic. The other type reinforces things and they have that too on their wings and just their wings. Flight magic makes them effectively lighter when flying so they don't need 20ft of wingspan to fly, and in hummingbirds allows the wings to flap slightly faster because inertia. The other magic's just used to make the big flight feathers stronger so they don't break.

Yeah, it probably takes at least a little bit of magic to make this AU work because otherwise Hiro would never make it off the ground. Not that that’s a bad thing. He can’t get stuck on roofs if he can’t fly, right?

Hummingbird Hiro AU: Abigail is also a hummingbird. She used a combination of the stuff in the pod, the unusual conditions in the portal, and her own natural ability to go torpid to go into hypersleep that meant that she could be revived after years in the portal. (Those same portal conditions resulted in a very sleepy Hiro. Baymax only got out because both of them could flap. )

She and Hiro end up becoming besties while she’s in hospital recovering, because even with torpor the portal world still did a number on her. He comes by to visit, and ends up moaning about how much it sucks being a hummingbird sometimes, how everyone is super over-protective, etc. Abigail is like “I KNOW, MY DAD WAS THE WORST I SWEAR HE TRIED TO WRAP ME IN BUBBLEWRAP” and they end up getting into hour-long bitchfests over their hummingbird world problems.

They end up becoming flight buddies once Abigail is recovered enough to fly, because for once Hiro has someone who can fly like him. GoGo and Fred are great and all, but they can’t hover or go backwards like he can, and now like Abi can. It’s also good for both of them because they both have a bad habit of flying longer than they should and getting worn out, but now with two of them, they take breaks more often to keep an eye on each other.

None of them will say it out loud, but all of Hiro’s friends and Aunt Cass are extremely relieved.

- Baymod

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AU where Hiro has a birth defect in one arm and the other was mangled by the car crash that killed his parents, so he has prosthetics. He makes one set that are basically wings with hands at the 'wrist' and then goes to show them off and knocks stuff over because they are HUGE. Then he panics because he underestimated his wingspan and knocked stuff over. (He can only glide with them until he adds small rockets. Then he tries to wear them ALL THE TIME. )

He uses Baymax as a kind of test subject for future wing prosthetic designs, because if BAYMAX can fly with them, Hiro definitely should be able to.

(It doesn’t come up until later that while the wing prosthetics are pretty cool, they’re very much a problem when he needs regular hands again, that don’t take up too much space and aren’t as noticeable. Whoops. Next step, retractable wings) 

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Fairies.

Like, I have two ideas for this:

Idea one is where fairies naturally existed many years ago, but died out of existence until the 20th century when recessive genes kicked in and people were slowly being born with traits of the classical mythological fairies.

They have rather large and strong, translucent wings that develop within the first few weeks of being born (they have really tiny things that are weak at birth). They can achieve flight with practice, and they are especially sensitive to weather conditions and air currents (thus leading to myths on their weather-bending mythological abilities). Fairies, otherwise known as Homo Sapien Vanessa subspecies, are also built differently where their muscles are more lean and their bones are much lighter.

However, on the downside, fairies are also more easily effected by weather. They get cold faster because of thin, sensitive skin and burn/dry out more easily in arid climates (they prefer humid weather the most). They often use a variety of skin protection creams and moisturizers and have to bundle up just when it gets even a little chilly. While some people find them fascinating, they’re also so low in numbers and misunderstood that people marginalize them (think mutants in the Marvel world).

Tadashi was born with wings in a little slice of suburbia. However, while his parents understood and accepted him, many of the townsfolk did not. For years, he was picked on for his wings, especially once his advanced intelligence came into play. He went to hide his wings and never use them.

However, when Hiro is born, the little baby quickly lands himself in trouble when he learns how to use his wings. Tadashi comes to like his wings a bit more the more Hiro idolizes them, and Tadahi comes to use them extensively to save Hiro when the baby somehow flies up to the roof every other day (Hiro’s a particularly crafty, mischievous baby).

When they’re parents die, however, the two winged children, traumatized enough, are moved to SF to live with their Aunt Cass. Hiro is quickly found to be a bigger genius than Tadashi, and, in order for the two to retain some sanity (because Tadashi was so picked on in school, and he doesn’t want the same for his brother), the two hide their wings.

Then Tadashi gets to high school, and, on the first day, he runs into a guy named Fred, a fellow winged who loves his wings. He wears them out proudly in their shimmery, multi-colored glory, and upon meeting Tadashi, who questions him on the wings, Fred is absolutely ecstatic about them because he can FLY! He can tell weather and, man, does it make him feel like a superhero. Just being around Fred over two years convinces Tadashi to love his wings as well, and he eventually shows them.

Hiro’s got it bad, though, because kids are cruel of others smarter than them and different. However, once he joins Tadashi in high school, Tadashi gets Hiro to meet Fred (because Hiro never met Tadashi’s friends because he was sure no one would want to hang out with the little, annoying brother). Hiro becomes great friends with Fred, and it’s got a greatly positive effect on Hiro. Even when Tadashi and Fred graduate, Hiro spends all spare time at SFIT because Fred’s the mascot and Tadashi goes to school there. Of course, all of the Nerd Herd are fairies, and they’ve all got their tips and tricks to deal with issues that come with being fairy folk. It’s a no-brainer for Hiro to quickly get into SFIT because he’s never felt more safe and secure then being amongst his fellow fairies.

More events occur, but this one is totally left-wing of cannon, and I’m keeping a few secrets to myself.

Idea two is that the Hamada boys are still fairies, but this is a really secret, hush-hush thing that has been passed down their family line for generations. They hide their wings because if they don’t, it’s going to spell certain doom for sure. However, as the events of cannon play out, the Nerd Herd eventually catches Hiro with his wings out when they make a surprise visit with pizza (Tadashi ran down too late to stop them, knowing that Hiro and he will have their wings out whenever they can because they get cramped tucked under their shirts and jackets all day). While the gang is shocked at first, Honey’s the first to gush over how pretty they are, and Fred just starts freaking out because they’re like Wasp from DC comics, and IT’S SO FREAKING COOL! Gogo takes things super chill, and Wasabi needs a minute before he asks for clarification. Everyone accepts the boys, and the pizza party continues as planned.

At the showcase, however, once the fire occurs, Tadashi rushes in again to save Callaghan. However, because of his ability to tell weather fluctuations, he’s able to avoid the flames by quickly throwing off his jacket and punching out his wings to get above the blast (while Hiro suffers a concussion outside, thus making the time distort from his point of view). Tadashi manages to fly over the wreckage, not caring about revealing his secret to his mentor if it means saving a life, but he catches Callaghan in the act. Callaghan, upon seeing Tadashi, captures the fairy to stop him from revealing his plans, but once he gets the young man, he notices the wings.

Callaghan keeps Tadashi locked away under observation because of this new predicament. On one hand, he should have gotten rid of Tadashi to hide his secret, but, on the other, this is his prized student and, as it seemed, a creature no science has ever taken into account. Therefore, he keeps Tadashi hidden while his family, which discovered the charred remains of his jacket at the entrance, assumes the worse and mourns the loss.

After the events of the film, however, while on the island, Hiro is about to jettison out when he picks up on something with his enhanced senses. He detects a certain feeling in the air, something that was missing since Tadashi’s apparent death, and it brings him down from his anger long enough to really analyze it. It’s like a pheramone. He pulls out his own wings and chases it down as his friends chase after him. The feeling gets greater and greater until he locates a room far off, buried deep in the facility. He sees a pin-pad and, with speedy grace, manages to analyze and guess the combinations. When the door is thrown open, another body is there, ready to throw a punch.

Hiro and Tadashi stand their, staring at one another for a long time, before Hiro’s voice cracks and he lunges at his brother. The two embrace in shock, sinking to the floor as Tadashi, who was told his friends and brother were dead after swimming with the fishes, realizes that his brother is ok, that he’s here, safe in his arms. The team eventually catches up, and the tearful reunion ensures.

That night, back at the Lucky Cat Cafe, Cass learns of all of this, and she’s furious and happy all at the same time. She’s insistent that the team let the police handle this, but none of them can accept that. Callaghan is a force to be reckoned with, and there is no way in hell that the police alone can stop him.

So they suit up, and Tadashi, who is healthy as Callaghan didn’t dare want to ruin a specimen of a “new” species, insists on helping. Working quickly, Hiro and Tadashi use the designs for Megabot to enhance Tadashi’s strength in a suit of his own, but, like Hiro, has the ability to unravel his wings (not that the two want to reveal this, but this is just in case). Then, the team rushes out to save the day.

During the battle, Tadashi takes a hit during the battle, and he is knocked out until after Hiro’s gone into the portal. Then, he awakens just as Hiro is in, and he can’t sit by. Throwing bygones to the wind once more, he reveals his wings as he chases after his brother. However, time is distorted in the other realm, so he pops through just as Baymax has taken the hit for Hiro. Realizing that Baymax can’t push the pod out, and Hiro’s wings aren’t strong enough, he has Baymax shrink down (less air resistance) as he and Hiro, together, manage to fly the pod out just in time.

However, when the dust clears, the two are still hovering high above the portal as they let the pod fly into the ground without them. Above, a news copter catches video feed of the two flying, and, quickly, they make their escape while Gogo, Fred, Honey, and Wasabi use the ground chaos to slip out. On the news later, as the nerds, more or less in one piece, sit around the Lucky Cafe watching the news report on their day-saving while sipping Hot Coco from Aunt Cass.

Hiro and Tadashi, thanks to the attention, however, are given a golden opportunity to stretch their wings, no pun intended, more than they have. Whenever they want to fly now, it won’t be in the darkness or behind closed doors, but behind tinted masks above the glittering city scape.

Submitted by: magical-awesome-kid

(Excuse me while I become a screaming flailing mess because YES. YES PLEASE TO ALL OF THIS.

Just, okay like I will admit to being hugely biased towards anything where people have wings because I love it so much, but I totally never thought of BH6 cast with fairy wings, and clearly this was a tragedy because THIS IS BEAUTIFUL TO IMAGINE. Maybe when they’ve got their wings hidden away, they’re pressed against their skin so tightly it looks like they have shimmery tattoos.

God I also REALLY LOVE hidden superpowers/secret magical heritage/that kinda stuff, so I’m practically drooling at that second part. Eeeeexcellent)

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Imagine Tadashi from that AU with the brown wings mantling Hiro. Or Hiro trying to mantle his gummy bears but his wings are too small and he basically just hunches over them with his wings wrapped around his arms. Or Runescratch's swan Tadashi trying to mantle their hummingbird Hiro while hummingbird Hiro tries frantically to get out from under his wings and fight someone.

It’s Tadashi’s way of simultaneously guarding Hiro from bullies, scaring people off, and keeping Hiro from flying off like a rocket. It only works about 75% of the time though, because Hiro is a teeny little bean, and Tadashi can’t usually close his wings all the way around them both. So sometimes Hiro will just shoot out of the hole at the top and go zooming off, and suddenly Tadashi has to chase after him.

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Now I'm imagining chubby Hiro growing a tiny bit (and putting on a bit more muscle although only Baymax can tell) and he doesn't notice how his clothes don't quite fit right anymore but he DOES notice that his wings are acting up a bit. He spends DAYS trying to work out the problem. It's hilarious and adorable. Eventually Aunt Cass notices and points out to Hiro that he's a whole half a centimetre taller.

She starts tearing up because her little boy is finally becoming a man. Hiro is incredibly embarrassed by the mushiness but is secretly pleased. Now that she mentions it, he does feel a bit bigger.

He starts measuring himself, height, weight, whatever, tracking his growth spurt with gleeful eyes, wondering if he’ll ever grow as tall as Tadashi once was.

(He ends up asking Sam how to get his wings to compensate for constantly altering weight, because he never knows when he’s going to grow. Sam rolls his eyes and starts complaining about “people who eat big breakfasts and like to throw themselves off of things without warning”, which confuses the heck out of Hiro, but then he helps Hiro out.)

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andyetilienot replied to your post “AU where everything is the same except Hiro is slightly chubby, which...”

They'd have to make sure Hiro doesn't crash when he inevitably runs out of fuel while he's flying around for hours

It has happened. You KNOW it has happened.

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AU where everything is the same except Hiro is slightly chubby, which means that he's heavy enough to be able to add wings to his suit without worrying too much about the wind blowing him around like a leaf. So his suit looks more like Falcon's suit than his canon suit (it's the wings). He still tags along on Baymax's back for Baymax's first flight, since he's played around with the wings a bit and can help Baymax learn to fly. (Then they can both teach each other tricks. )

Awwww! I’m picturing little chubby Hiro, and what a cutie! Not that Hiro’s not ever cute, even when he’s being the biggest little shit the world has ever seen a part of you is still going “awwwww”

And oh MAN, they’d never get him to land. Could you imagine? He would be airborne, using Baymax as a distraction and when the badguy is too focused on Baymax and the others, zoom here comes Hiro, a little wee babe by comparison to the size of Baymax, out of nowhere to smack into the dude and take them down. Dude would never see it coming. And Hiro would love flying SO MUCH he’d try to figure out as many plans of attack as possible that require him airborne.

OH MAN BUT THEN. WHAT IF. HIRO AND FALCON MET. LIKE, THEY CROSSED PATHS WHILE ON PATROL OR SOMETHING. AND THEN THEY BOTH START GEEKING OUT OVER EACH OTHERS WINGS. AND START TRADING TIPS (Hiro tells Sam the easiest way to maintain his wings and their tech, Sam gives Hiro flying tips), AND THEY BECOME FRIENDS AND THEY GO FLYING TOGETHER AND IT IS AWESOME.

And Sam’s just so excited because now when his wings are on the fritz again, he doesn’t have to go grovelling to Stark to fix them! *cue Sam Happy Dance*

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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.