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Other characters:Space Dad Takashi "Shiro" Shirogane
Character Name: Tadashi Hamada
Series: Big Hero 6
Canon Point: That bonding moment on the bridge with Hiro, just before the fire alarms go off.
Summary/History: Disney Wikia
Personality:
Have you ever met someone who's just too nice to be real? The kind of person that makes the rest of the human race look bad by just existing? No one can be that sweet with no hidden motivation. That guy that stops to help an old lady carry her groceries when he's already running late, or who'll walk for blocks in the pouring rain without an umbrella because he gave his to someone else who forgot their own. They're so sincere it's almost annoying. A person like that can't really exist outside of a cheesy romantic comedy, right?
Wrong. That person does exist and his name is Tadashi Hamada.
... Alright, that's not completely true, but just roll with me for a few minutes.
Orphaned at a young age, Tadashi had to grow up very fast in order to take care of his younger brother. Now, that's not to say that their aunt, Cass, is an unfit or absent guardian. Not by any means, but when a young woman running a business on her own takes on the sudden responsibility that comes with two small boys? Well, that's a classic recipe for overworked single parent. Being the older of the brothers, Tadashi took on the responsibility of caretaker for Hiro very early, and over time he grew to be exactly the type of role model that Hiro needed. Responsible, understanding, and calm the majority of the time, he's not afraid to voice his displeasure whenever Hiro stubbornly heads down the wrong path, nor does he have any qualms with some minor manipulation if it means setting his little brother straight. It's really only in reaction to Hiro that we get to see some of Tadashi's less positive emotions, and even then, any anger or frustration he expresses isn't so much at Hiro, but on his behalf. Anger because of the dangerous situations Hiro has a tendency to get himself into, frustration at Hiro's lack of motivation.
It's not all serious-after-school-special in the Hamada household, though. While he does take on the part of the male role model for Hiro, they're still brothers, and as such Tadashi has no issues with being, well... a huge dork. He's the kind of guy whose idea of "shaking things up" is to pick you up by the ankles and literally shake you around. Optimistic and ever encouraging, he doesn't believe in dead ends or giving up. Worked yourself into a corner and can't figure your way back out again? Tadashi's the guy you turn to. He's also prone to bouts of unabashed excitement, whether in response to his own accomplishments or those of others. This one has very little shame when it comes to expressing what others might consider embarrassingly positive emotions, even when out in public. Moody teenagers, you have been warned.
Hard-working and very intelligent, he definitely has the brains to back up all that dorky optimism. Hiro's prodigious abilities seem to outshine his older brother's in the film (and even act briefly as a source of jealousy during their early years), but one doesn't get into SFIT just by being a nice guy. Heck, it was Tadashi's interest in robotics that drew Hiro to the field in the first place. Way to get the ball rolling, man. His personal robotics project, Baymax, is the chief example of those brains at work. A learning healthcare companion that Tadashi built and coded on his own from the ground up, Baymax is made with cutting-edge technology and programmed with over 10,000 medical procedures. That's a pretty impressive sounding number, even more so when you consider things on Tadashi's end of the process. Millions of lines of code split between diagnosing injuries and illness, choosing one or more of thousands of available medical procedures, and carrying said procedures out. Tadashi's practically stuffed his head with a whole extra profession in order to channel that knowledge into a robot meant to revolutionize healthcare and better mankind.
He's still a young man, but he's spent the majority of his short life teaching himself how to care for people, and not just through his work in robotics. Tadashi is brave, selfless to a fault, and incredibly protective of the people he's closest to. And pretty much everyone else, actually. Nearly everything he does is done with the well-being of others in mind. Whether he's bowling through back alley thugs on his scooter to pull Hiro out of a rough situation, coming home from the lab early to help Cass in the cafe, or losing sleep over the amount of people Baymax will be able to help if only he could just fix that last glitch, he's rarely looking inward... and that's where that whole "not completely true" thing I mentioned before comes in.
It's a great thing, wanting to help people, and it's something Tadashi genuinely wants to do, but that perfect person described in the first paragraph of this section? No one's really like that, at least not all the time. Human beings have flaws. They get cranky, they don't feel like doing the dishes, and they come with a general assortment of messy emotions that aren't always easily corralled. The film doesn't really give us much of a look at Tadashi's younger years, and it provides nothing at all about his life before Hiro was born, but the prequel manga adaptation gives a little more to work with (not much, though, and the story line deviates from that of the movie, so a chunk of what follows probably counts more as headcanon than anything else). Tadashi lived the first seven years of his life as an only child, and the news that he was to become a big brother was exciting... at first, but with new babies comes a division of attention and a potential source of jealousy. Manga canon states that jealousy outright, especially after Hiro's incredible intellect first began to show. Who wouldn't be jealous of the new wiggly thing hogging all the praise? Whatever envy may have existed, however, changed after their parents died. Such a traumatic experience can really bring things into perspective for a person, and Tadashi was no exception. He set aside his own emotions to focus on Hiro's comfort and care, dismissing those negative feelings from before as unnecessary and unfair. With Hiro quite suddenly Tadashi's only remaining family, what sort of brother would he be if he kept focusing on himself? A horrible brother, that's what kind.
And so began a lifelong trend of setting his own needs aside for the sake of other people. Mostly Hiro, let's not fool ourselves, but life in general is so much simpler that way. If he's looking outward, then he doesn't have to focus on his own issues. Helping others is used as a way to alleviate his own distress (a sort of selfish selflessness, as stupid as that sentence sounds. A need to be needed?), even downplaying his own importance as an individual to instead fulfill the needs of others. Taking into consideration the most extreme action he takes in the film (running into a burning building to try and save his mentor, because apparently someone skipped Fire Safety 101), I'd go as far as to say his case qualifies as a type pathological altruism. Sounds like it should be a good quality to have, but it's possible to have too much of a good thing, and in this case? Too much kindness killed the Tadashi.
ANYWAY, setting aside the possibility of dangerously prosocial behavior, Tadashi is kind, dependable, innovative, and (usually) wise beyond his years, but above all other things? He's a loving and supportive big brother. Every bit of energy that isn't invested in Baymax is focused pretty squarely on his little brother, his best friend and the most important person in his life. They know each other better than anyone else, and Hiro's health and happiness are paramount in Tadashi's eyes. Hiro is his everything, and for all his plans to change the world for the better, nothing makes Tadashi happier than his little brother's success.
Powers/Abilities:
Tadashi doesn't have any supernatural powers. He's pretty physically fit for a giant nerd, but he's as human as they come if you don't count the absolutely insane amount of coffee he's capable of consuming during any given day. He took a few years worth of karate when he was younger, leaving him pretty proficient at self-defense when he needs to be... or Hiro-defense. Let's be real, mostly Hiro-defense. Tadashi is incredibly intelligent and a quick study, especially in situations relating to his chosen fields, and he's no stranger to hard work. He specializes in robotics engineering, meaning he can design, build, and code robots from the ground up. It follows that he must be pretty awesome with computers and general future tech as a result. His primary project, Baymax, is a learning healthcare companion built with the ability to diagnose illness and injury by scanning a patient's physical and biochemical state, as well as apply any of the 10,000 medical procedures he's coded with to said diagnosis. So, yeah... smart guy. Innovative. Has also been known to build hovercraft out of shopping carts and cardboard boxes. Ah, youth.
The presence of a surfboard in his room in the film also suggests that he likes surfing. Not really a shocker considering he lives pretty much right on the coast of sunny California.
Items on your character:
Tadashi's coming in pretty bare bones from this canon point, with just the clothes on his back and what he's got in his pockets. Dorky t-shirt and a gray cardigan under a dark green blazer, plus a brown pants and what look like mint-green Converse sneakers. Top it all off with a San Fransokyo Ninjas baseball cap and you've got a pretty solid idea of Tadashi's usual fashion choices. A reasonable assumption of the contents of his pockets include a set of house keys, a cell phone, and a wallet containing some money/bank cards, school and state ID, and some pictures of Hiro and Cass.
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Other characters:
Character Name: Tadashi Hamada
Series: Big Hero 6
Canon Point: That bonding moment on the bridge with Hiro, just before the fire alarms go off.
Summary/History: Disney Wikia
Personality:
Have you ever met someone who's just too nice to be real? The kind of person that makes the rest of the human race look bad by just existing? No one can be that sweet with no hidden motivation. That guy that stops to help an old lady carry her groceries when he's already running late, or who'll walk for blocks in the pouring rain without an umbrella because he gave his to someone else who forgot their own. They're so sincere it's almost annoying. A person like that can't really exist outside of a cheesy romantic comedy, right?
Wrong. That person does exist and his name is Tadashi Hamada.
... Alright, that's not completely true, but just roll with me for a few minutes.
Orphaned at a young age, Tadashi had to grow up very fast in order to take care of his younger brother. Now, that's not to say that their aunt, Cass, is an unfit or absent guardian. Not by any means, but when a young woman running a business on her own takes on the sudden responsibility that comes with two small boys? Well, that's a classic recipe for overworked single parent. Being the older of the brothers, Tadashi took on the responsibility of caretaker for Hiro very early, and over time he grew to be exactly the type of role model that Hiro needed. Responsible, understanding, and calm the majority of the time, he's not afraid to voice his displeasure whenever Hiro stubbornly heads down the wrong path, nor does he have any qualms with some minor manipulation if it means setting his little brother straight. It's really only in reaction to Hiro that we get to see some of Tadashi's less positive emotions, and even then, any anger or frustration he expresses isn't so much at Hiro, but on his behalf. Anger because of the dangerous situations Hiro has a tendency to get himself into, frustration at Hiro's lack of motivation.
It's not all serious-after-school-special in the Hamada household, though. While he does take on the part of the male role model for Hiro, they're still brothers, and as such Tadashi has no issues with being, well... a huge dork. He's the kind of guy whose idea of "shaking things up" is to pick you up by the ankles and literally shake you around. Optimistic and ever encouraging, he doesn't believe in dead ends or giving up. Worked yourself into a corner and can't figure your way back out again? Tadashi's the guy you turn to. He's also prone to bouts of unabashed excitement, whether in response to his own accomplishments or those of others. This one has very little shame when it comes to expressing what others might consider embarrassingly positive emotions, even when out in public. Moody teenagers, you have been warned.
Hard-working and very intelligent, he definitely has the brains to back up all that dorky optimism. Hiro's prodigious abilities seem to outshine his older brother's in the film (and even act briefly as a source of jealousy during their early years), but one doesn't get into SFIT just by being a nice guy. Heck, it was Tadashi's interest in robotics that drew Hiro to the field in the first place. Way to get the ball rolling, man. His personal robotics project, Baymax, is the chief example of those brains at work. A learning healthcare companion that Tadashi built and coded on his own from the ground up, Baymax is made with cutting-edge technology and programmed with over 10,000 medical procedures. That's a pretty impressive sounding number, even more so when you consider things on Tadashi's end of the process. Millions of lines of code split between diagnosing injuries and illness, choosing one or more of thousands of available medical procedures, and carrying said procedures out. Tadashi's practically stuffed his head with a whole extra profession in order to channel that knowledge into a robot meant to revolutionize healthcare and better mankind.
He's still a young man, but he's spent the majority of his short life teaching himself how to care for people, and not just through his work in robotics. Tadashi is brave, selfless to a fault, and incredibly protective of the people he's closest to. And pretty much everyone else, actually. Nearly everything he does is done with the well-being of others in mind. Whether he's bowling through back alley thugs on his scooter to pull Hiro out of a rough situation, coming home from the lab early to help Cass in the cafe, or losing sleep over the amount of people Baymax will be able to help if only he could just fix that last glitch, he's rarely looking inward... and that's where that whole "not completely true" thing I mentioned before comes in.
It's a great thing, wanting to help people, and it's something Tadashi genuinely wants to do, but that perfect person described in the first paragraph of this section? No one's really like that, at least not all the time. Human beings have flaws. They get cranky, they don't feel like doing the dishes, and they come with a general assortment of messy emotions that aren't always easily corralled. The film doesn't really give us much of a look at Tadashi's younger years, and it provides nothing at all about his life before Hiro was born, but the prequel manga adaptation gives a little more to work with (not much, though, and the story line deviates from that of the movie, so a chunk of what follows probably counts more as headcanon than anything else). Tadashi lived the first seven years of his life as an only child, and the news that he was to become a big brother was exciting... at first, but with new babies comes a division of attention and a potential source of jealousy. Manga canon states that jealousy outright, especially after Hiro's incredible intellect first began to show. Who wouldn't be jealous of the new wiggly thing hogging all the praise? Whatever envy may have existed, however, changed after their parents died. Such a traumatic experience can really bring things into perspective for a person, and Tadashi was no exception. He set aside his own emotions to focus on Hiro's comfort and care, dismissing those negative feelings from before as unnecessary and unfair. With Hiro quite suddenly Tadashi's only remaining family, what sort of brother would he be if he kept focusing on himself? A horrible brother, that's what kind.
And so began a lifelong trend of setting his own needs aside for the sake of other people. Mostly Hiro, let's not fool ourselves, but life in general is so much simpler that way. If he's looking outward, then he doesn't have to focus on his own issues. Helping others is used as a way to alleviate his own distress (a sort of selfish selflessness, as stupid as that sentence sounds. A need to be needed?), even downplaying his own importance as an individual to instead fulfill the needs of others. Taking into consideration the most extreme action he takes in the film (running into a burning building to try and save his mentor, because apparently someone skipped Fire Safety 101), I'd go as far as to say his case qualifies as a type pathological altruism. Sounds like it should be a good quality to have, but it's possible to have too much of a good thing, and in this case? Too much kindness killed the Tadashi.
ANYWAY, setting aside the possibility of dangerously prosocial behavior, Tadashi is kind, dependable, innovative, and (usually) wise beyond his years, but above all other things? He's a loving and supportive big brother. Every bit of energy that isn't invested in Baymax is focused pretty squarely on his little brother, his best friend and the most important person in his life. They know each other better than anyone else, and Hiro's health and happiness are paramount in Tadashi's eyes. Hiro is his everything, and for all his plans to change the world for the better, nothing makes Tadashi happier than his little brother's success.
Powers/Abilities:
Tadashi doesn't have any supernatural powers. He's pretty physically fit for a giant nerd, but he's as human as they come if you don't count the absolutely insane amount of coffee he's capable of consuming during any given day. He took a few years worth of karate when he was younger, leaving him pretty proficient at self-defense when he needs to be... or Hiro-defense. Let's be real, mostly Hiro-defense. Tadashi is incredibly intelligent and a quick study, especially in situations relating to his chosen fields, and he's no stranger to hard work. He specializes in robotics engineering, meaning he can design, build, and code robots from the ground up. It follows that he must be pretty awesome with computers and general future tech as a result. His primary project, Baymax, is a learning healthcare companion built with the ability to diagnose illness and injury by scanning a patient's physical and biochemical state, as well as apply any of the 10,000 medical procedures he's coded with to said diagnosis. So, yeah... smart guy. Innovative. Has also been known to build hovercraft out of shopping carts and cardboard boxes. Ah, youth.
The presence of a surfboard in his room in the film also suggests that he likes surfing. Not really a shocker considering he lives pretty much right on the coast of sunny California.
Items on your character:
Tadashi's coming in pretty bare bones from this canon point, with just the clothes on his back and what he's got in his pockets. Dorky t-shirt and a gray cardigan under a dark green blazer, plus a brown pants and what look like mint-green Converse sneakers. Top it all off with a San Fransokyo Ninjas baseball cap and you've got a pretty solid idea of Tadashi's usual fashion choices. A reasonable assumption of the contents of his pockets include a set of house keys, a cell phone, and a wallet containing some money/bank cards, school and state ID, and some pictures of Hiro and Cass.
