#dashian?

Imagine, if you will, that you’re the son of the most famous robotics expert in the entire world. Well, if you’re Tadashi “Dash” Hamada, you don’t have to imagine.  You are that person.

(Borrowing @baymaksu​‘s drawing of him for illustration purposes.)

Now, also imagine that there’s a new family that moves in right across the street, and your parents take you over to introduce them.  You’re extremely bored because you want to get back to making EMP grenades or whatever will help you be the best leader of the new generation of Big Hero 6 you can be.  Your mom and dad are shooting the breeze exchanging pleasantries and recipes and whatnot, and you just want to go back to work.

And then you see...her.

A girl that you can’t stop staring at.  And she can’t stop staring at you either.

Dark hair.  Tanned skin, almost exotic.  A strand of light purple and lime green going down her bangs.  The brightest electric green eyes you’ve ever seen in your life. Yup, you’re definitely- “Dash?  You OK, bud?” His cheeks were burning red, and he felt extremely hot in his neck.  Panicking, he pulled his hood over his head.  “I-I’m fine.”  He beelined toward the house and went through the front door, ready to splash an entire sink’s worth of cold water on his face.

“...What’s up with him?” “Oh, Hiro.” He turned to Karmi, who was shaking her head in mock disdain.  “What?” 

“Your son has, in the thirty seconds we spent over there, has very clearly developed a gigantic crush on their daughter.” “Really?”  Hiro looked back at the neighbor’s house.  “I didn’t notice.” 

Karmi lightly patted his cheek, chuckling to herself. “Of course you didn't.” -----

Yeah, even in The Future, Big Hero 6 stories of mine wouldn’t be Big Hero 6 stories without some sort of young romance involved in it.

Also drama.  And Dash will undoubtedly be dealing with both. Because we are talking about Vivian Vision.

For those of you who may not know, Vivian is the “daughter” of Vision, and one of three synthezoids that he created to help him become more “human”, along with his “son” Vin and his “wife” Virginia.  They made their first appearance in Vision’s solo comic back in late 2015:

By the end of the the twelve-issue run, Viv would find herself on the Champions, a team of young superheroes that had a falling-out with the Avengers after the events of Civil War II and wanted to do things the right way.  The initial roster consisted of Viv, Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan), Spider-Man (Miles Morales), Nova (Sam Alexander), Hulk (Amadeus Cho), and a time-displaced younger Cyclops (Scott Summers):

(They would later expand the roster in more recent years, but that’s not really the point of this post.)

One of the conflicts in the first Champions run was “Worlds Collide”, a six-issue event where the High Evolutionary set the Earth on a collision course with a Counter-Earth to basically reset the planet, and the Avengers and Champions worked together to save the world. During the course of that, Viv (via the High Evolutionary) gets turned from a synthezoid into a real human girl:

Eventually, the Avengers and the Champions save the day, but it involves Viv sacrificing herself to do it.  Distraught, Vision immediately begins construction on a new “daughter”, unaware that the first one had survived. A lot of stuff happens in the in-between, but the long and short of it is that Viv had somehow turned into data, was able to be ported back to life, and did so right as Vision activated the second Vivian synthezoid. Resulting in what I have previously posted before. This lovely little picture.

One synthezoid Vivian.  One human Vivian. Now, I’m not going to spoil what ends up happening later in the Champions run, but it did lead me to an interesting hypothetical question.

Robots are a commonplace thing with a futuristic city like San Fransokyo.  Baymax himself is a robot, but has essentially become part of the family.  But we clearly know he’s a robot.

What would happen in the line between human and robot was blurred?  If you couldn’t tell the difference between what was flesh and blood and what was circuitry?  What if someone came to the leading robotics expert in the world for help on how to be more “human”?

And what if said child of said robotics expert got himself caught in the middle of the conundrum? Would it end in heartbreak...

Catastrophe...

Or something much, much worse?

Yes, my fanfics wouldn’t be mine without a Hamada becoming immediately lovestruck with a girl two years older than him...and all of the drama that you can fill a story with. But the ultimate question will be which Vivian are we talking about here?  Which Vivian is the girl that Dash’s infatuated with? The human one?

The robot one?

...A mix of both? Many, many questions.  Maybe we should ask someone who knows what’s going on.

Viv?