Tadashi Hamada

Player Name: Daimon
Player Contact: dropitlikeitshod, daimon#1067
Character(s) In-Game: Prompto Argentum

Character Name: Tadashi Hamada
Age: at least 18
Canon: Big Hero 6

World Description: general movie synopsis on Disney wiki
History: Tadashi's own wiki article

Death: Runs into a burning building and is crushed by an explosion-weakened support beam. It's a really stupid death.

What are your plans for this character in-game? I'd like him to help fix up Beacon if possible, even if it just means building and maintaining a single structure. He likes building things. Maybe be emotional support for people because he's good at that.

What aspects of this game and/or its setting are you most interested in having this character engage with? Probably the Scrapyard and maybe the lanterns. Let him build things! Also probably the Bonfire. It'll be interesting to see him react to a giant fire being the only source of light and warmth when he died in a giant fire. Obviously not the same kind, but they're both fire.

How does your character generally get along with other people? He's a nice person by default, so he gets along well with most people, and has a fairly large circle of diverse friends.

What is your character's mental state upon entering the game? Sad and worried, mostly. He doesn't know if the teacher he ran into the fire to save made it out okay, and he left behind his family and friends. Especially his little brother (not that he wants any of them to show up in Beacon, but he'd be very sad if Hiro showed up). Besides that, he never finished college.

Skills/Abilities: Tadashi doesn't actually have any special powers or superhuman abilities. He's very intelligent, especially in the areas of computers and robotics and is implied to be decently skilled at unarmed combat (karate specifically, but it's possible he knows other martial arts as well).

Flaws/Weaknesses: His recklessness and drive to help people are his biggest weaknesses, notably when they're combined. If he sees someone in danger--family and friends are higher priority than total strangers, but not by much--he'll make some attempt to try to jump in and help them with hardly a second thought.
In a similar vein, Tadashi tends to outright neglect himself to get things done. As a kid and young teenager, he's put himself between bullies to protect his brother and sacrificed a portion of his childhood to try to be some sort of father figure to him. He ran into a burning building with no preparation or protection of any kind because 'someone had to', which lead directly to his death. He's foregone sleep and endured mechanical malfunctions to perfect his healthcare robot (which does end up working very well in the end, but still).
He tends to be very critical of himself and his own accomplishments, worrying that he could have done more in life or better. Secretly, he feels very inferior to his brother, who's been on about the same academic level as he, despite being nearly 6 years younger. Sometimes it just doesn't matter what Tadashi has made or done or said, because there's always a chance Hiro will come along and point out a flaw somewhere or do it faster.

Personality: Generally, Tadashi is a very selfless person, always attempting to make sure that everyone around him--or at least those he knows and loves--is safe and happy before worrying about his own well-being. He always put his brother before himself as a child, put the well-being of all the strangers he hoped to help before him while building and programming Baymax, and put his own life on the line to run into a burning building to rescue a beloved professor. In the case of Baymax, it took 84 tests (and a severe lack of sleep, as the tests might have been consecutive) to get the robot to start up properly.

Baymax also one of the ways Tadashi demonstrates how driven and determined he is. He wants to help people so much that he’s willing to pour all the time and energy he has into developing and completing that particular project, making sure most, if not all of the kinks are ironed out. In supplemental material, it’s revealed that his ‘normal’ diagnostic tests for Baymax can take up to a week and a half to complete. Also his optimism, as he states that he’s not going to give up until he gets done what he wants to. He demonstrates this with Hiro as well, not letting Hiro give up when the younger boy hit an inventing roadblock. He also believes that if something doesn’t work out quite right the first time or a dead end is hit, it’s best to ‘look at it from a different angle’ and either change the method or way of thinking to get things on track again.

While Tadashi usually plays the more ‘mature but good-natured’ older brother, he has his moments of dork, either where he’ll be overexcited or just silly. He has a decent, if dry, sense of humor, noticable when he finds his friend Fred’s method of recycling underwear (normal, backwards, inside-out normal, then inside-out backwards) ‘both awesome and disgusting’ and responds to Hiro’s lack of ideas for a robotics project to showcase with a comment about how sad it is that Hiro is ‘washed up at 14’. He also mentions in lieu of anything serious, that his brother’s fly was down the entire time he was presenting said robotics project in front of a crowd. While working on Baymax, he runs around the room and kisses Baymax’s camera when the robot finally boots itself up correctly. It's also implied that he was possibly messing around and purposely programmed parts of Baymax's code that were intended as a joke, one being his suggestion that he defibrulate Hiro after the boy accuses Baymax of giving him a heart attack and later his insistence that Hiro not swim for an hour after eating.

Tadashi might be kind and selfless and all that, but he’s not without his flaws. Partly as a result of having to grow up and be a brother-parent, he worries more than he has to about his friends and loved ones, especially Hiro. And when it comes to Hiro, his frustration sometimes gets the better of him, where he loses his patience and actually becomes upset enough to scold the kid instead of offering advice. The best instance is when he rescues Hiro from one of the botfights--he first asks if Hiro is unhurt just before hitting him a few times and berating him for being an idiot. He also gets particularly upset whenever Hiro seems to dismiss their parents’ death and aunt’s worry for the two of them as unimportant. Also while he might seem to be more intelligent than his brother in some ways, as a child, Tadashi was actually a little jealous because he considered Hiro much more intelligent than him. Nothing ultimately came of the feelings because Tadashi eventually came to accept it and put energy towards getting Hiro to actually apply his abilities. Because of this, he gets upset as an adult when Hiro apparently refuses to do that.

Items: His clothes, slightly singed and torn in places, sans baseball cap