#hummingbird!hiro

They take him back to Fred’s mansion anyways, because they may be safe for now, but the mask guy might come back. And GoGo and Fred need time to dry out their feathers before they can fly again, and that makes GoGo super nervous because she needs her wings to defend everyone.

When they get to the mansion, even though Hiro looks fine, Honey Lemon still wraps him up in a billion blankets until just the tufts of his hair are sticking out to help him warm up faster.

What if Hummingbird Hiro's hyperaggressiveness wasn't just a hummingbird thing, but a pubescent hummingbird thing? The aggressiveness fades when their hormones settle.

I’m sure it’s a common thing for most winged people, not just Hiro. Maybe they go through the aggressive phase at different times, based on their bird-type, but it’s not exactly uncommon. In fact, the most common period of aggressiveness could be puberty, because yay hormones.

You should have seen GoGo when she was going through her aggressive phase. Wasabi might argue that she’s STILL going through it, but not in front of her because she’ll punch him in the gut.

Hummingbird Hiro and falcon Gogo end up teaching pigeon Fred and Honey Lemon how to fight. Wasabi and Baymax occasionally helped, whenever they needed someone a bit taller than either Hiro or Gogo. It shows in both their fighting styles: lots of very quick movements, trying to get the fight over as quickly as possible, very few blocks, and lots of dodging. In Fred's case there's also a lot of wing blows, because Hiro likes those.

Hiro likes wing blows, but he’s not very good at them. His wings are tiny and delicate, so he’s more likely to hurt himself than his opponent. Unfortunately he learned most of his wing fighting from watching Tadashi, who as a swan with massive swan wings, was able to do some serious damage with his wings.

So while Fred and Honey Lemon are practicing together against Wasabi and Baymaxm GoGo keeps pulling him aside and trying to help him break the habit of using his wings before he breaks himself. She also has relatively delicate wings as a falcon, so she’s got a few techniques she can teach him instead, thank heavens. Someone protect this small hummingbird child from himself.

Hummingbird Hiro AU: Winged people have a small amount of flight magic, which is one of two types of magic. The other type reinforces things and they have that too on their wings and just their wings. Flight magic makes them effectively lighter when flying so they don't need 20ft of wingspan to fly, and in hummingbirds allows the wings to flap slightly faster because inertia. The other magic's just used to make the big flight feathers stronger so they don't break.

Yeah, it probably takes at least a little bit of magic to make this AU work because otherwise Hiro would never make it off the ground. Not that that’s a bad thing. He can’t get stuck on roofs if he can’t fly, right?

Hummingbird Hiro AU: Abigail is also a hummingbird. She used a combination of the stuff in the pod, the unusual conditions in the portal, and her own natural ability to go torpid to go into hypersleep that meant that she could be revived after years in the portal. (Those same portal conditions resulted in a very sleepy Hiro. Baymax only got out because both of them could flap. )

She and Hiro end up becoming besties while she’s in hospital recovering, because even with torpor the portal world still did a number on her. He comes by to visit, and ends up moaning about how much it sucks being a hummingbird sometimes, how everyone is super over-protective, etc. Abigail is like “I KNOW, MY DAD WAS THE WORST I SWEAR HE TRIED TO WRAP ME IN BUBBLEWRAP” and they end up getting into hour-long bitchfests over their hummingbird world problems.

They end up becoming flight buddies once Abigail is recovered enough to fly, because for once Hiro has someone who can fly like him. GoGo and Fred are great and all, but they can’t hover or go backwards like he can, and now like Abi can. It’s also good for both of them because they both have a bad habit of flying longer than they should and getting worn out, but now with two of them, they take breaks more often to keep an eye on each other.

None of them will say it out loud, but all of Hiro’s friends and Aunt Cass are extremely relieved.

AU of an AU: Hummingbird Hiro but winged people are on the top and flightlesses are on the bottom instead of the other way around. Hummingbirds, swans, and geese have reputations. Hiro gets a lot of scared looks from wingless people, but he's not quite sure why. And then puberty hits him and he suddenly wants to fight everyone who isn't a friend or a family member. It terrifies him.

Hiro has the teeniest claws heeee. And he’ll kick your ass, he’ll kick their ass, he’ll kick his OWN ass. FIGHT ME.

Thus Tadashi reveals one of the many protocols he’s programmed into Baymax. He knew about what would happen to Hiro once he hit puberty, and so he planned accordingly. Baymax has a protocol for when Hiro gets aggressive that basically boils down to “pick Hiro up and hug him so he can’t get free until he’s calmed down”. It is surprisingly effective.

True,  but I don’t think ANY kind of bird flies like a hummingbird, but hey, close enough right? Besides, beggars can’t be choosers.

Awww, but I can see Hiro and Fred bonding a lot in this AU because they both have wings and most other people don’t (and he’s a bit too afraid of Falcon!GoGo to hang around with her too often, she really likes swooping down on him and just carrying him off because she thinks it’s funny. Hiro is less amused)

Maybe that’s how Fred and Tadashi met, because they wouldn’t have met through school. Tadashi was looking for someone with wings, maybe to help Hiro learn how to fly because he couldn’t, and he found Fred. Or maybe Aunt Cass found Fred, and asked him to help because otherwise Tadashi was going to build himself robotic wings of his own so he could show Hiro how to fly, and would probably break his neck jumping off the roof in the process. She offers him all the baked goods he could want, and Fred naturally agrees.

Fred has a perfect sense of direction unless you stick a magnet on his head. Then he merely has an amazing sense of direction. Also, bird people's feathers usually slightly stick up, like with real birds; depending on their mood and the temperature, they can go from having their feathers flattened against their body (looks odd) to fluffed up enough to appear to go up two shirt sizes (adorable).

I just want to see the situation where they figured out that sticking a magnet to Fred’s head messes with his sense of direction? Who’s idea was it? How bored were they? How did they test this theory? Was it GoGo? It was GoGo wasn’t it?

Winged people are born with the wings and tail feathered, and by around 14ish the feathers have spread so there’s some on the back of the neck and mixed in with the hair, and some more on the chest and back. Arms and legs are never, ever feathered. Also, actually, Fred would NOT be a Saxon Field pigeon. He’d be a show racer type. The sort that looks relatively normal, but is actually both crazy expensive and able to find their way home from anywhere.Emancipation for winged people took place in different countries at different times, with the freest countries now freeing the wingeds earliest. (San Fransokyo had a bylaw that freed them well before the rest of the USA. )

Hmm, that could work. You’re right, pigeons are kind of EVERYWHERE. That could work. Also I can just picture Fred carrying around bags of bread crumbs and eating them, not because he actually likes them or anything, he just thinks it’s funny

Fred is NOT a swan. Swans are terrifying. If you so much as LOOK at a baby swan the wrong way the parent swans will try to eat your eyeballs and break your bones with their wings. (They can ACTUALLY break bones with their wings. ) Fred would be a fancy breed of pigeon.

I’m just picturing Hummingbird!Hiro snuggling up in Baymax’s arms and just being carried around for a day while Baymax is following after Tadashi and aaaaah, so cute! I imagine Tadashi and Aunt Cass worry about Hiro pretty much all the time though. He’s so delicate and wee, he’s probably breaking bones all the time.

Oh I know, I’ve lived near enough rivers and lakes to have tangled with swans in the past. They’re almost as bad as the GEESE. But I was thinking more along the lines of birds that are associated with high status, and even if Swans are evil, they tend to be highly thought of.