#powers!hiro

There’s a spell to make an aura tangible, like an extra limb or set of limbs, and the spell makes it so that changing the visibility and tangibility (not connected) of the aura is an at will thing.

Hiro’s aura is an eldritch abomination. It doesn’t actually touch his head, it is anchored to an area about 3 centimetres from his skin. Close to him, it’s like vantablack coloured smoke that somehow doesn’t obscure him AT ALL and always keeps 3 centimetres away from his actual body. There’s no visual noise looking at it, just a black so dark it almost seems to glow and hurts to look at. Looking at it, it’s like there’s supposed to be something there, and there ISN’T. It’s less of a presence and more of a cold absence that can pick things up.

It is a mass of tentacles, the edges of which are somehow visible even when they’re in front of each other. At full tangibility, it leaves frost on things it touches that aren’t him. When he hides or masks it, it folds into the 3 centimetre area until it’s all gone. It extends in front of him and behind him but he can somehow see through it perfectly, even when it obscures everything around him. Looking at him, somehow, impossibly, you KNOW there’s hole in reality black in front of him, but he looks floodlit And only him, anything else covered by it in front of him, around him, or behind him is fully hidden. The three centimetres of visible floor around his feet are tinted grey, along with the anything that appears to be within three centimetres of the outside of the thing.

It seems to have a bit of a mind of its own, to the point where he’ll praise it or tell it off sometimes when it does something of its own accord.

Also the tentacles branch at the ends.

Spells fired into it are dampened slightly unless he actually lets them through, and mind magic spells just disappear, as if fired into the ocean or something, although there’s no ripples at all, they’re just swallowed and never reach him.

He doesn’t use the spell very often. Damn thing’s only good in a fight or when he needs a way to keep stuff cold that doesn’t involve ice spells, and it tends to scare people. He doesn’t want to scare his mob with eldritch abominations.

Submitted by: Longpost Anon

(Oooh, naturally this makes me wonder if his aura isn’t actually due to his depression at all, but something more sinister...

I’m calling it now. The reason he’s got a super powerful aura and somehow ended up as a mob boss for a bunch of supernatural creatures was that it was all planned by some super shadowy council of mythical creatures and powerful demons, because he’s in the middle of some super important prophecy that only they know of, and they can’t afford him dying on them before they’re finished with him. So they manipulate him to give him powers (maybe what he thinks is depression is actually some kind of demonic possession), pull strings and somehow cause both Honey Lemon and the hunters to be in the cafe on that day so that Hiro could save her and end up protected by a huge group of supernatural creatures.

Of course, this begs the question of what the council really wants with Hiro...

Then Hiro discovers that he likes fighting, the poor Institute gets so mangled it’s irreparable, he plays with gravitational manipulation to throw antimagic coated aircraft around and manages to get a single working wingflap in a no magic environment, and then in the shielded beam chamber he teleports Tadashi, Baymax, and himself out, along with a LOT of random stuff, while also blowing up the chamber behind him with three thermobarics that he found, an impact detonator, a telekinesis spell (that fades very quickly once he's teleported off) and a large bit of rubble.

Link to first chapter: http://www.fimfiction.net/story/6515/1/days-of-wasp-and-spider/01—pony-in-a-particle-accelerator 

Chapter titles are weird. And often clever. Book Two’s ‘Killing them Softly’ is about faking deaths, for example.

Submitted by: Longpost Anon, along with:

DoWaS Hiro ends up with hair that looks like the night sky, there's even little points of light like the heliostats (also known as STARs) that orbit. (Heliostats are big orbiting mirrors used for adding extra daylight hours. Sometimes they're retasked at strange hours and suddenly bright sunlight for a few minutes. )

DoWaS Tadashi's strain cracks were microcracks, so sadly the crystal is only visible with a microscope or a magnification spell. It is pretty, though, if you HAVE a magnification spell. Which Baymax has. Also it is difficult for the Hamabros to be scared of Baymax, even if he has their mother's antlers, because he's just. So nice. And he offers up a replacement name for the Masters: 'doggies'.

(OOOOH It’s a fanfic! That’s why I couldn’t find it! I was looking for a short story in some sci-fi compendium or something.

(2) is able to see what the Blessing does. He decides they're people after that. He meets the Brothers when they're in the Institute, with Hiro teleporting around and Tadashi paralyzed, and promptly decides that yeah, he's with them. The werewolves are justifiably terrified. There's a robot that can lift a thousand pounds and has access to medical magic and knows how to use it offensively, and the Brothers, who can track anything by either its stored energy or its density differences from air.

(So I couldn’t actually find what this is referring to? Like, is it an anime? But let’s see what we can do with this anyways)

Imagine though if Baymax’s antlers were actually taken from one of the Hamada Parents. And the brothers can tell when they look at them, so at first they both fear and resent Baymax.

But then he starts helping them and taking care of them and assisting the paralyzed Tadashi, and they realize that he’s really not that bad, and he can’t be blamed for his creators’ decisions. They grow to rely on him, and help him learn about his new ‘patients’, the servitors

The SFIT showcase would have gone VERY differently. Sure, there’s no rewind, but there was definitely a crowd in the background when he was trying to stop Tadashi, and that Slow action would have come in handy.

But that’s assuming things even got that far. If Hiro had powers like that, he would have been making even more of a killing in the botfighting ring (assuming he can somehow apply those powers to Megabot). He’s raking in so much cash that he’s going to have enough to pay off tuition before he even starts. If anything, it gets boring, and THAT’S why he stops, not because Tadashi asked him to. Except without botfighting and without being convinced to go to class yet, he ends up stuck with nothing to do.

Until he’s walking home late one night and hears a scream. Rushing towards the sound, he finds a large crowd standing around a burning building, with a woman still trapped inside. As cliche as this is, Hiro knows it’s his moment. He’s going to become...a superhero!

In my defense, I wasn’t expecting that post-cog AU to be dark either. It just kinda happened :D

As for other people’s powers, those make SO much sense. That’s how Tadashi managed to fill Baymax with all this medical information when it should have taken him YEARS to just learn it himself, let alone code it. And that’s why Aunt Cass’ cafe is so popular. She just knows how you’re feeling without you ever having to tell her, and she always has a cookie for you when you need it.

Oh gosh, this is one of the coolest powers and honestly I don’t think people do enough with this because come on. THINK OF THE POSSIBILITIES, especially if his post-cog powers aren’t limited to human contact.

Imagine, after the fire, Hiro sneaks into the wreckage to search for some sign of Tadashi. He’s grieving, and he’s not thinking clearly, but he wants some form of closure, and he thinks maybe if he can see Tadashi’s final moments he’ll get that. But he learns so much more when his hands brush the twisted and melted metal that is all that remains of the showcase hall.

Think of how fast the plot of the movie would accelerate if Hiro knew exactly what had happened days afterward. He wouldn’t be able to go to the police, because then he’d have to reveal his powers, so he’d instantly be looking into ways to get revenge on his own. Maybe he ends up back in the darker parts of San Fransokyo, because he knows a few people from bot fighting who are willing to do anything for the right incentive. And what better to use his powers for than blackmail material?

Three days after the fire, Yama is ordering his Fujitas to do anything Hiro tells them, and when questioned he refuses to meet anyone’s eyes. The Fujitas learn to fear Hiro just as much as they respect him, and they are quick to do his bidding.

Imagine a much darker Hiro with the power to know your deepest, darkest secrets with the single brush of skin on skin, surrounded by the lovely but deadly Fujitas, ready to get revenge for his fallen brother.

Yup. But he’s gonna flip even MORE when he finds out Hiro’s also got POWERS now.

Tadashi figures out that the Hollowghast were the ones who killed their parents, so with the help of Emma the fire-controlling peculiar, he heads fakes his death at the SFIT fire so he can go off to fight the Hollowghast without getting Hiro involved. Because if their parents were peculiar, and he’s peculiar, that means Hiro probably is too, and he’d be hunted by the Hollowghast as well.

Surprise, surprise, he’s right. (Either Hiro’s intelligence is his ‘power’ or maybe he’s a technopath. Because who doesn’t love technopath!Hiro?). But it takes him way longer to stop the Wights and the Holloghast than he expected, so he doesn’t get the chance to come home triumphantly to his family.

No, Hiro comes looking for him instead. And he’s pissed.