[OOC] Pixie Led Application

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🦋 OOC Information

Name: Rho
Contact: katoptron / rhokosigan @ discord
Age: 31+
Other Characters: N/A
Invitation: here!
Permissions: here!

🦋 IC Information

Character Name: Hiro Hamada
Age: 15
Canon: Big Hero 6
Canon Point: Post TV series / all shorts
Character History: Wiki link here! Note that the wiki claims he’s 14, but given the TV series covers a full school year AND a summer, he HAS to be 15 by the end of it. I’m working off the assumption that it’s been 1.5 years since the movie ended.
Canon Abilities: Like many other tech geniuses in the genre, Hiro is extremely smart (a robotics prodigy who basically invents superhero armor for all of his friends) but has no natural superpowers.
Inventory: Hiro will arrive wearing his current standard superhero armor, which has the following features:

+ Helmet with HUD and limited scanning/recording (basically just a camera in standard and infrared) and neurotransmitter headband for directing the suit.
+ Magnet gloves for latching onto metal (Baymax, if he were here) and attracting/repelling metal objects over a short distance.
+ Mini-magnetic projectiles with electromagnetic whiplashses (use for grappling, tying up villains, and some extremely awkward slinging around). Also built into his gloves.

Hiro’s gonna find out REAL QUICK that there’s nowhere to plug in and recharge. That will be his first goal in game: try to figure out how to recharge his gear. When dead, his armor’s just fancy hockey padding. He wears standard clothes under his armor (t-shirt, thin hoodie, jeans, hi-tops) and has his phone tucked in his pocket. Also something he’ll need to charge if he wants to access pictures from home.

🦋 Personality

Option 1: Answer the following questions. Elaborate on the answer, especially your characters thoughts and feelings surrounding the answer. For Canon Characters, you can choose four questions. For Original Characters, you will need to choose six questions. Keep the word count to 150-400 per question.

1. Has your character always believed in magic? Do they have something influencing their perspective on the supernatural/metaphysical/spiritual from their past? How do they feel about magic?

Magic’s cool and all, but it’s super not real. Like - okay, sure if someone showed up with definitive proof? Hiro would buy it after prodding it to heck and back with every sensor he can get his hands on, and then especially after finding a way to replicate it. So … here, he’s going to have a denial arc before he accepts that magic can actually do things, and he’s still going to assume it’s Heinlein sufficiently advanced tech even if he’s marginally polite enough not to mouth off in front of the mages. (Most of the time.)

That said, Hiro is nothing if not adaptable. Back home, he went from bot fighter to making a superhero level gadget (microbots) in the span of, like, a month. Since then, there are plenty of examples of Hiro working with science he doesn’t fully understand in the name of collaboration. Like his friends’ superhero suits, which incorporate their tech specialties, or him working with Karmi (biotech specialty) to come up with a nanobot cure. Once Hiro is fully convinced that magic is both real and usable, he’s going to waste no time in shifting to a magitech approach. And frankly, the exercise will be good for him. He’s always at his best when he’s fired up and excited about something new - especially when revenge and paranoia aren’t the primary drivers for once.


2. If your character could ask for one wish, and it's going to be magically granted without any consequence, what will it be and why?

Bring his brother back to life (and return him home safely). Full stop. Tadashi running back into a burning building and subsequently dying was a the defining event of Hiro’s life, and it informs so much of him even now. The fact that his brother is alive in Pixie Led is going to be the main reason why he plays along at first (and will continue to be a dangling carrot in the event that Tadashi drops). Hiro became a superhero because of his brother’s death. Watching Tadashi run into that burning building to save someone who very much did not deserve it informed his own morality too: both in being someone who always helps, and also having absolutely zero patience for people who take advantage of that urge to help, please and thank you. He is never forgiving Obake for using Tadashi’s face against him, and he still has a long way to go before he can forgive Callaghan either.

Note that he definitely includes bringing Tadashi home as a core part of the wish too. Yeah, Tadashi’s his brother, so seeing him in Pixie Led is already great, but he has to be able to share that with the people who love his brother as much as he does: Aunt Cass (their adopted parent) and all of Tadashi’s SFIT buddies who became Hiro’s friends after the fire. And especially Baymax with all his new superhero capabilities. Hiro wants his brother to get the chance to see what his legacy was, and how much of that legacy lives on in Hiro himself.


3. What is your character's most outstanding personality trait, and why?

Hiro is a kid defined by drive Both in how he acts when it’s on but also the glaring gap left when he doesn’t have anything to be truly driven about. Everything else traces back to this core attribute, for good or for ill. In his natural state, Hiro approaches the world with an explosive level of energy: great when he’s focused, just kind of all over the place when not. Either he’s invested and obsessed or he’s completely detached - rarely anything in between. It results in him rebelling against authority figures that he thinks are wrong and just stupid; it means his default mode is doing what he wants and figuring out consequences later. Also, being arrogant enough to think he knows better than the adults in the room. He functions best when he’s got some kind of outside reason for him to focus his attention. The kid’s still fifteen after all.

A year and a half of superheroing has helped him be more capable of finishing long term goals, but he’s still a little short-sighted. Tadashi served as that focus all through Hiro’s childhood; when they grew apart with Tadashi’s enrollment at SFIT, Hiro drifted into pursuits that had more immediate (if dangerous) rewards, like the bot fighting rings. This is also why Tadashi’s death and Hiro’s subsequent depression was so damn hard to work through: with no indication that anything would ever be better again, Hiro just didn’t have the energy to even try. In a way, Callaghan’s revenge plan was an incredible boon for Hiro: it gave him enough of a focus for him to actually apply his massive intellect and helped push him towards living a full life again.

It did also result in Hiro almost being consumed by his grief and nearly killing a dude. That’s the other downside of being someone as driven by his emotions as Hiro is. Positive ones can drive him to be a loyal friend, a stalwart ally and an inventor who can do a world of good with his genius. Negative ones can unravel all of that in a heartbeat. Tadashi’s death resulted in some very dark obsessions taking over even after Callaghan’s plot got him moving again, and facing down Obake has left him extra paranoid about his tech and talents being used for evil. Big drives mean big risks.


4. Your character gets to return home, but when they do they learn that they've been gone for hundreds of years. How do they react?

Oof, not well. If he had a chance to drag Tadashi back with him, he could probably rely on his usual adaptability, but even then? It would be tough. Hiro loves his hometown, his friends, and his school. Does he wish it wasn’t attacked by supervillains every other week? Yeah, that’d be great. But he defends it because it’s home. That’s a heck of a thing for a kid who was frankly an antisocial loner before he made friends with the rest of his superhero team. Without that support network or the framework of home, he would probably be revert to the darker sides of his talents: arrogance isntead of confidence, as he’s forced to rely on his incredible intelligence alone to make people take him seriously. Anger instead of stubbornness, to keep himself safe from the pain of being on his own again after so long being surrounded by friends who keep him in check. Too much of a focus on what he needs to do next instead of the right thing overall. The line between Hiro the superhero and Hiro the supervillain is a thin one, in the right circumstances, and being alone in the future with no clear way home would be one of them.

🦋 Fae Court

List your top three choices for your characters adoptive court. The mods will choose the one out of those three options that seems the most fitting based on your app.

• CHOICE 1
Dawn Court - focuses on Hiro’s rebellious aspects as well as his very real anger management issues. Also, fire powers would freak him and his brother out due to past trauma, so learning to deal with fire powers would be an interesting subplot.

• CHOICE 2
Summer Court - focuses on Hiro’s inventive spark and his identity as a kid who never stops going even when he’s supposed to be doing homework or whatever. Charging himself (and others) up would be a magic reflection of his armor inventing skills.

• CHOICE 3
Autumn Court - focuses on Hiro’s prideful and trickster aspects, and his fondness for all things new and exciting. Animal shapeshifting is always fun to mess around with and Hiro would be a menace if he had access to wings of his own.

Ability: Do you want your character to gain the ability of their court? (Delete the other two options.)
3) Yes, but they either have no ability of their own, or they refuse to trade theirs away; they will buy their court's ability on credit. (No natural superpowers, and like heck Hiro’s gonna turn down a chance to get one.)

🦋 RP Samples

TDM link! He got about 150 comments with a variety of characters (including his brother) so hopefully that’s plenty! I also played him in Mask or Menace … uh … a decade ago? Jesus it’s been a decade already.