What's your take if both the Ageswap AU and the Distance AU are combined together?
Huh. This one is a bit difficult to answer because the dynamics are completely switched up.
Hiro isn’t actually all that distant at first. He’s certainly there to help raise Tadashi and keep him safe. The problem comes when Hiro realizes he’s unable to make an emotional connection to his brother as he grows. He’s not sure why at first, because Tadashi is his brother, but he knows something is amiss when he can’t honestly say that he loves his little brother.
The psychiatrist tells him its a form of PTSD, and he’s more than likely subconsciously blaming his little brother for their parents’ deaths. Despite all the help he’s trying to get from his aunt and other professionals, he’s unable to move past this.
So Tadashi grows up with an older brother that can’t give him the love he needs.
But Hiro tries. He tries to make some sort of connection with Tadashi, tries to love him and bond with him, but something in him can’t and he hates himself for it.
Their lives go on. Hiro is set to finish SFIT and is on track for his masters and doctorates, while Tadashi has jumped ahead to the senior year of his high school.
Tadashi is relatively well adjusted, to be honest. Even though it seems like it causes Hiro pain to be around him, he’s had a multitude of friends that helped him out. In all honesty, if it hadn’t been for them, he might have resorted to something drastic just to spite Hiro!
Because even though Aunt Cass explained to him what Hiro was going through, it was hard to not feel resentment at the way his brother treated him. He knew Hiro was trying his best, but it never took away the pain of those cold looks or frustrated growls whenever Hiro’s patience ran out.
But it might just take something drastic indeed to get Hiro out of his shell and reconcile with his younger brother...
In a nutshell, Hiro is the older brother who is traumatized by his parents’ deaths and is literally unable to emotionally connect with Tadashi despite his efforts. This sort of carries over to his relationships with other people, leaving him a loner in school and without any real friendships despite his genius.
Tadashi is actually better off here than the regular AU because his friends help him adjust and take his mind off things, whereas regular AU Hiro didn’t even have that. He openly resents his older brother for his failings, even though he knows that Hiro is trying his best with him, but it’s not enough.
It seems like these two brothers will always be in pain.
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Another take on the fix-it time-travel Distant AU: Tadashi finds himself in a world where Hiro is an only child because the Tadashi in this world died with their parents when Hiro was only 3. So for 11 years, this Hiro has lived with Aunt Cass only. When they meet, naturally Hiro didn't recognize Tadashi at all. The young man is nothing but a mere stranger to the boy.
Tadashi becomes a dirty hobo living under a bridge because he doesn’t exist, and therefore has no money.Kidding!The first time Hiro sees Tadashi, he’s freaked out. When he came back in time, Tadashi has really let himself go in his grief: he’s unkempt, his breath reeks of alcohol, and his personality could only be described as something resembling manic. So Hiro assumes he’s simply another faceless backalley thug.As for Tadashi, he’s convinced he’s simply hallucinating due to the drugs he took before he passed out and doesn’t bother watching what he says. He keeps praying for Hiro’s – and his parents’ – forgiveness for failing so miserably at being an older brother. Of course, with his luck, he’s spouting this to an understandably unnerved and confused Hiro.Thankfully, he’s punched unconscious by a less-unnerved but still freaked out Gogo, and both she and Hiro leave the alleys.When Tadashi wakes up the next morning, with his head pounding and whatever belongings he had on his person stolen, he’s wondering if he finally passed out drunk outside of his home. He heads back to the Lucky Cat Cafe, intent on finding something to lessen his hangover, when he stops in shock.Hiro’s inside the cafe. He’s helping to wait tables. He’s alive.Tadashi doesn’t hesitate and goes inside to see him. He wants to start atoning for his mistakes now.To his confusion, Hiro freaks out when he approaches, and even more confusing, Aunt Cass does too. He’s unable to ask any coherent question, as his aunt chases him out of the cafe with some makeshift weapons.What’s going on? They didn’t recognize him! Sure, his hair is all long and dirty, and he probably doesn’t look any better than a street urchin at the moment, but Aunt Cass would have recognized him no matter what!When he goes to see some of his friends, he’s even more dismayed to see that they don’t recognize him either. In fact, the moment Gogo saw him approach, she shifted her stance into what he called ‘kick ass first, ask questions later’ mode. He wisely retreated.Determined to find out what was going on, he starts looking things up. To his shock, he discovers he’s in another world entirely, and in this one, he had died along with his parents. Hiro grew up as an only child; a child that lost his family but knew the love of an aunt.A child that had nothing to prove to anyone.He can’t believe it. He’s dead in this world. He doesn’t exist legally……Perfect.This is something he needed. Something he wanted. He had a way to make up for his foolishness!He would have to plan things out, but he can make it work. He can make it seem like he was really alive all along, and then he could slowly bond with Hiro…without all the roadblocks caused by his own stupidity.For the first time in months, he feels alive. He’s giddy. He has a purpose now.And he’s going to make this work, hell or high water.
The aftermath of Tadashi's death leaves Hiro unsure of what to feel.
Sure, he feels sad and angry at how unfair the world was for taking Tadashi away, but what surprises him is how weak those feelings are. He's somber and mildly irritated at his brother's passing, but he's not heartbroken in grief.
What he never expected to feel was the crushing sense of disappointment he has. Tadashi ran into the fire without heeding his pleas to stop, something that directly caused his death. Hiro keeps wondering if he's partly to blame, but deep in his heart he knows that Tadashi wouldn't--and would never--listen to him.
The next few weeks have him listless and distracted, almost like he's trying to keep too many thoughts in his head. This agitates him, because literally nothing has changed in his day-to-day life other than the knowledge that his brother was gone; he's never had any friends or anyone to bounce ideas off of (aside from Tadashi, albeit very rarely), so why's he moping so much? He has to snap out of it!
Botfighting isn't quite as exciting during this time. Instead of playing around with his opponents, he's outright crushing them, causing everything to become boring. Yama sees this and tells him to scram, and that he can only come back once he's gotten that big head of his all clear.
At least that's one thing that's still the same, Hiro thinks. Yama at least still shows concern over his well-being, enough to figure out that botfights aren't helping him at all. The fact that the Fujitas shadow him to make sure no one preys on him only cements that fact.
One day, while forcing himself through revisions to a battle bot he's designing, Hiro accidentally activates Baymax. This is his first time seeing him, and he's pretty amazed; scanners, advanced AI, incredible workmanship...it has Tadashi written all over the marshmallow.
But he then remembers that his brother spent all his time building this instead of being around him.
Baymax is slightly confused when he learns that Tadashi is dead, but reassures Hiro that Tadashi is still with them. All it does is make the teenager annoyed, which prompts the nursebot to download the emotional health database and inform him that his aimlessness and lack of energy are a form of mild depression.
Hiro is still impressed with Baymax, despite his annoyance. His scanners must be incredibly advanced, and the database must be huge. Still, looking him over, he can also imagine him decked out as a really wicked battle bot...
No, no...he can't do that. As much as Tadashi ignored him--despised, even--he couldn't do that to his last work.
Things change when they discover the malfunctioning microbot.
At first he writes it off as it freaking out, given that it's the last one he has and that it's possible he missed something in its component, but Baymax insists on following where it's trying to go to. With nothing other to do, Hiro agrees, and the two follow where it's pointing to.
When Hiro finds the microbot manufacturing facility, he's in shock. How did someone manage to swipe these from the expo? How did they know how to build them? Why are they here?
He gets no answers to that, as soon enough he's running for his life from a creepy masked man.
The police don't believe him, leaving Hiro to think of what to do. Baymax suggests seeing his friends to alleviate his uncertainty, but Hiro snorts and says he doesn't have any. But the nursebot has a point...he needs to talk with someone, but who?
He crosses out Tadashi's friends immediately. They know their stuff, but he's never met them personally--not to mention that they aren't his friends, but his dead brother's. Any sympathy they might have would more than likely be insincere.
He could also tell Aunt Cass, but she would possibly react like the police did. It would more than likely take her seeing it personally up close to get her to believe him.
Yama and the regulars at the botfighting ring sound like his best bet. Truthfully, they are probably the closest thing to real friends that he has; even though a lot of what they're doing is illegal, they've watched out for him and helped him with his projects. They probably deserve to know what happened to the microbots.
But it would also place them in danger, which makes him hesitate. He's already resolved to go after the masked man himself, but involving people he's close to is another story. Still...at the very least, he needs to talk to Yama.
Hours later and after an incident in which Yama mistook Baymax as a new advanced battle bot, Hiro explains what he knows and asks the larger man if anyone had sold the microbots on the black market. It's a stupid question, Yama retorts; had anyone in the ring caught wind of it, Hiro would have known immediately. But that makes them both pause in trepidation. If someone had managed to take the microbots and mass produce them without going through the black market, then that left the list of suspects quite short.
Yama cuts to the chase and asks Hiro if he's going after the masked man--who they name Akuma for lack of a better name. When the boy says yes, the larger man tells him that he's stupid and that doing something like this would put his life in danger. Does he want to die a pitiful death like his brother? Doesn't he have family waiting for him? And what about his future? Hiro has an extremely bright future in front of him--a future Yama and the others want him to live to experience--so why would he do this?
Hiro replies that it's because that even though Tadashi was a shitty brother, he still loved him. He has to bring the person who killed him to justice, one way or another.
Yama groans in annoyance, but acknowledges his resolve. But if he's going to take on someone who has the microbots, then Hiro needs a lot more firepower to stop him.
Both of them turn to Baymax, who blinks innocently.
(Continued later.)
