#hiro hamada

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Hiro Hamada, a fourteen year old robotics genius, a former botfighting hustler and a student at SFIT.

Botfighting days,

Hiro was an unknown botfighter, he often hustles cash from prominent botfighters, which got him in trouble, until his older brother, Tadashi, saved him from being clobbered.

Hiro was then convinced by Tadashi to stop his botfighting nonsense and apply for college at the age fourteen.

You see, Hiro graduated at the age of thirteen, giving more evidence to his genius intellect.

Tadashi’s death

His brother died in a fire, in an attempt to save a certain professor that the brothers presumably idolized.

After Tadashi’s death, Hiro is so depressed that he’s not eating anything for a few weeks. His brother was his only immediate family left.

His parents died when he was three, and now his brother at fourteen.

A whole mess of things happens, basically Hiro discovers that the fire that broke out the night he was accepted to Tadashi’s school, HIS NIGHT,that killed his brother was not any freak accident and concludes that the masked man set the fire in order to steal the microbots he created that no one was supposed to know until the night of the showcase.

Anyway, when Baymax was reactivated, Hiro said one of his brother’s catchphrases “Unbelievable”.

It is the word that Tadashi often uses when Hiro does something idiotic.

Hiro then forms the team of pseudo-avengers composed of Tadashi’s friends from school, who go out of their way to protect and console Hiro of his recent loss.

Pseudo-Avengers because they’re doing this to put a stop to the man using his tech for something evil and turn in the man who killed Tadashi and Professor Callaghan.

It was during this time that he utters “I just have to look for another angle”, another of Tadashi’s quotes.

That quote was what gave Hiro the idea for creating the microbots, the full quote goes “Shake things up, use that big brain of yours to think your way out, look for a new angle”

Hiro has a perfect distraction, the successful capture of the man in the mask, aptly dubbed “Yokai”.

He creates the team’s super suits basing all of them towards their projects at the school, while Hiro uses his brother’s project.

Giving him another illusion that his brother is still with him, and they create a very good team.

With the discovery of Yokai being Professor Callaghan that Tadashi died trying to save, something in Hiro snapped.

His brother’s heroic sacrifice just turned into a senseless sacrifice, his goal changed from capture to destroy.

“Baymax… Destroy” is the quote he himself uses at the beginning of the movie. This is something Hiro does on a frequent basis while botfighting,

Seeing the error of his ways, the team sets out to try and stop Callaghan from killing someone.

Hiro also says “I guess I’m not like my brother”, its an important detail later.

This is the time where he utters to the team “Use those big brains of your to think your way around the problem, look for a new angle!”

He uses the same quote to the team and make them resolve their respective problems.

Which does work.

So everyone succeeds, now Baymax discovers that Callaghan’s daughter, the person indirectly responsible as to why Professor Callaghan was doing all these, is in fact alive inside the portal.

Hiro uses Tadashi last words to Hiro as his argument to Krei, just like how Tadashi used it as his argument to Hiro.

“She’s alive in there, Someone has to help" 

"Callaghan’s in there, someone has to help”

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People perceive that the movie sends the message of moving on, but can someone really move on if their loved one was forcibly taken away from them? you can dull the pain but it won’t stop hurting.

Anyway, the way I see Hiro’s character growing in the movie is that he never moves on, its as if he’s trying his hardest to BETadashi.

“I’m not like my brother” is the quote you need to go, because that is the biggest indication that he’s trying to be his brother.

He’s trying to be Tadashi.

With the way he says Tadashi’s words to him, its more likely that he’s convincing himself that its what Tadashi would have done.

So in actuality, its not Character development its Character deterioration. He gets better at hiding his pain and grief over losing his brother.

Tadashi’s death is something that Hiro would blame himself over and over. He was there with him he could have saved him, he could have stopped him. Its one of the main reasons he’s super angry at Callaghan, he’s having a major case of Survivor’s guilt.

In fact his anger at Callaghan during that one dark scene, is also aimed at himself, but he needs someone else to blame for it.

So in actuality there was no message being sent by the movie, so Tadashi’s reappearance, outside of flashbacks, in a possible sequel will not destroy any message that this movie sends if there isn’t any in the first place.

DISCLAIMER

I DON’T CLAIM TO BE PROMINENT AT CHILD PSYCHOLOGY, I’M BASING THIS ON SOME EXPERIENCES I HAD AND SOME OF THE SCENE I HAVE SEEN IN POP CULTURE, ESPECIALLY ANIME AND LIVE ACTION DRAMA.

THIS IS HOW I SEE HIRO’S CHARACTER IS IN THE MOVIE.

NO BASHING PLEASE

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Honey Lemon drinking a Strawberry smoothie from the Lucky Cat Cafe

Is anyone still active? I haven’t posted much of BH6 fan art because I haven’t been motivated, but I feel like I may get back to it again soon

Higuel doodles

Miguel:R, E, S, P, E, C, T~

Miguel:FIND OUT WHAT IT MEANS TO ME~

Hiro: You can’t just start a choreagraphed musical number whenever we get into an argument, Miguel!

Miguel,kicking out the backup dancers: Alright, fine! We’ll do it the boring way.