#ginger calloway

When I was thinking about the next generation of Big Hero 6, Dash was definitely the one that took a little more time than the others. Mio is a hothead, even more than her mom and dad.  She’s impulsive, doesn’t think things through (like Robbie), and is quick to fling the quips and heavy-handed sarcasm (like Go Go). Ginger has a lot of Aspen’s personality, but just a little obliviousness about her beauty.  Also, she’s very much a non-fighter like her dad, but not because she’s afraid of it.  She’s more of a pacifist looking for a workaround, but she will kick your butt when push comes to shove. Freida is peppy and likes cute things like her mom, but is also methodical in her battle style.  The reason for this is because she inherits the Power Purse from her comic counterpart (made with the help of Professor Abigail Callaghan).  She likes battling like her dad, if not just to test out what shiny new thing she can pull out of her Hammerspace. Frederick is built like the Fredericksons before him, and will use that with the hardlight dinosaur armor he projects, but he’d rather be nosedeep in a giant novel.  It drives his dad crazy, because superheroes and all that.  Body of a jock and the mind of a nerd.

As I hope came across in The Future, Dash is an incredibly smart person.  He is the child of Hiro and Karmi, after all.

But one of the things that Hiro and Karmi are also very good at is keeping their child in the dark.  So even though history will be writing about Big Hero 6 and their adventures, Dash is going to not have all of the information available.

I don’t say that because I think Hiro and the others are ashamed as to what they’ve done.  On the contrary, they’ve done a ton of good in the city (and the world, as future fics will tell).  But it’s the classic trope of the parents not wanting the kids to go into the superhero business.  This isn’t just isolated to Dash; Mio, Ginger, Frederick, and Freida are similarly kept out of the loop.  Not until a enemy from Hiro’s past shows up will they be able to answer the call.

For Hiro and Karmi specifically, the trauma still shows up, though having each other certainly helps with the coping.  Karmi does end up working/running Sycorax in the future, so she’s gotten over that for the most part.  For Hiro, he sees Tadashi in his namesake.  He’s going to protect him with his life.

There will also be certain events that history is not going to have all of the details on.  The next story highlighting Aspen will center around one of her main comic conflicts: the war between The Blue and The Black.  That alone is going to inflict scars for everyone that aren’t easily healed.  Ginger herself is going to be flabbergasted because she’s the one who got all the way to age 20 (ish) without fully realizing her Blue powers.

Anyway, as we all know, trauma like that just doesn’t go away.  There will be slip-ups and moments of weakness.  And yes, Dash will be there for some of them.  But until he gets the whole story, he’ll be a little oblivious to the matter because his parents have gotten better at keeping secrets as they got older.