#winged!hiro

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 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.

(2/3): Baymax has wings so he can find stuck flyers-getting stuck is common in youngsters and hummingbirds. Hummingbirds because they can easily run out of energy, youngsters because they can often barely get into the air and have no clue how to fly at all. (Hiro got stuck so. many. times. The very DAY his wings were developed enough for him to fly, he got stuck in a tree flying away from bullies. He went torpid in that tree. When he was freed from the tree, someone started CPR. )(3/3): After the Tree Incident, Hiro started carrying around several bags of sweets at all times, and didn’t go into torpor for years. (He was hospitalised for broken ribs and a punctured airsac. The CPR person didn’t know how to do CPR on hummingbirds or how to tell if a hummingbird is torpid or not. ) In fact, when Wasabi’s van went into the bay, Hiro went torpid to avoid drowning (one breath every five minutes, nuff said) and that was the first time since the Tree Incident.

Ooh, what’s if Fred is winged but his family isn’t and in upper class society it’s very frowned upon. Fred’s parents love him anyways, that’s not a problem, but it’s another reason why no one in the Nerd Lab caught on right away that he was rich, because generally winged folk are considered less cultured. Maybe Fred’s got swan wings though, because there’s still some link between his ‘breeding’ so to speak and his wings.

Oh gosh, yes, giving Baymax wings would be super practical. As would having him carry around sweets. He’s basically designed to take care of hummingbirds, which makes sense because that’s probably what Tadashi had in mind.