#the aken/hamada collective

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Oh look it’s these two goombas—

So most of my writing time right now is occupied by LaL 2, but infrequently I’ll circle back to The Aken-Hamada Collective, AKA that AU where Obake and Cass are siblings.  Do have some stuff written up for them, and in comparing what I have written for the ‘main’ story and what I have written on the side, I seem to prefer writing the stuff that comes pre-canon.  Saying that, I do have some lined up and ready to go, just need to do the illustrations for them.

On the topic of the art…Cass 100% wants to do cute and goofy stuff and Obake doesn’t, especially before coffee, he probably just rolled out of bed after Cass has been up and running for a good five hours.  It’s not his fault he’s a night owl, okay???

Also reference time, Obake’s mug is in reference to the song “Crazy = Genius” by Panic! At the Disco, while his sweater is based on a shirt Krumitz wears on CSI: Cyber.  Now it’s the question of if he’s the nerd that bought the sweater or if one of his relatives did instead. XD

Find it on eclipse here, as always please be kind and reblog, not repost, thank you! :D

Big Hero 6 © 2014 Disney

Done in Adobe Photoshop.

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I recall going over my draft for CoM for my fanfic The Aken/Hamada Collective and...yeah this was how I described it, thanks for putting it into imagery. XD

The ending of City of Monsters in two seconds.

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The Coffee is Best in Austinbul

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/PMorTA0

by Kineil_D_Wicks

Austinbul was actually really lovely this time of year—at least, that was what she had been told. Great coffee, nice atmosphere, good food....

Now if only Elaine didn't have to rescue her imp of a little brother.

Words: 3621, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of The Aken/Hamada Collective

Fandoms: Big Hero 6 (2014), Big Hero 6: The Series (Cartoon)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen

Characters: Bob Aken, Original Characters

Relationships: Obake & OC

Additional Tags: Obake - Freeform, Elaine Aken (OC), the start of what y'all been waiting for, some snippets from before Tadashi and Hiro's adventures start, The Akens are feral gremlins all of them, The Aken/Hamada Collective, Illustrated

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/PMorTA0

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BH6 Snippets--2/12/2024

So after getting the sequel to (Not So) Hated by Life Itself, Ghost's Reign, and Ghost's Legacy all up to the next hundred, I'm going through my other fics to see if I got one close, ended up working on the main body of The Aken/Hamada Collective:

“Oh hi, Mr. Dibs!” Honey Lemon said, waving. “Hi Honey Lemon!  You hear that?  She calls me mister,” Dibs said to Uncle Bob. “I suppose it’s less insulting than what you’re usually called,” Uncle Bob said. “Hey.” “Hi, Uncle Dibs,” Tadashi said—mostly to be needling to Uncle Bob.  “What’s that you got there?” “That reminds me, you owe me twenty bucks,” Dibs told Uncle Bob.  “In the meantime: this is for you.” “Lovely,” Uncle Bob said, unwrapping the rectangular parcel to reveal what Tadashi had been dreading. “City Rises!” Honey Lemon gasped.  “It’s okay!  Where’d you find it?” “Uhhhh on a wall,” Dibs said.  “Definitely on a wall.” “On a wall in the museum,” Tadashi clarified, glowering at Uncle Bob.  “Did you seriously pay Uncle Dibs to steal that?” “Stealing it myself was beneath me,” Uncle Bob said. “Also he hasn’t paid me yet,” Dibs said. Uncle Bob rolled his eyes, dug in a pocket and handed Dibs a twenty.  “Here, use it in good health.  In the meantime.”  Swung the painting around and up with the clear intent to bring it down on the edge of the desk—Tadashi was already moving to intercept when Uncle Bob stopped at Dibs and Honey Lemon’s dismayed gasps. “Okay fine we’ll do it the pedantic way,” Uncle Bob groused, taking a screwdriver and cutting the back covering of the painting open.  “Honestly.”

I love how I got a lot more of the backstory for this fic written up as opposed to the actual fic itself, delving into the pre-'canon' lives of these guys is fun.

Also:

“Well I was going to do City Rises for my masters’ copy so maybe I can give you that one?” Honey Lemon offered. “Okay.  What’s a masters’ copy?” “It’s when you go to school to learn how to forge art,” Uncle Bob called back. “Oh—you don’t have to pay college prices, I know a guy,” Dibs assured her. "Know a guy who'll fence it for you too."

For clarification, my first college had the senior art majors doing "masters' copies," where they tried their best to imitate one of the masters' art pieces. My thought even as a freshman was so they're teaching us to do art forgeries???

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Mood music~

So y’all remember that AU where Aunt Cass and Obake are siblings, AKA The Aken/Hamada Collective?  Have some art of the siblings being siblings.

So when Obake’s home at the Lucky Cat with Cass he tends to slum down a little—it’s his sister, he doesn’t have to dress to impress, obviously.  Plus when he stays home someone else makes the coffee, which is always a bonus. ;)

Obake’s sweater and mug are in reference to the song “Istanbul (not Constantinople),” which was stuck in my head while working up some of the info for Austinbul—figure if there’s an Austinbul, there’s a Dallastinople. XD

Find it on eclipse here, as always be kind and reblog, not repost, thank you! :D

Big Hero 6 © 2014 Disney

Done in Adobe Photoshop.

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Marvel please redo Age of Ultron like this I would pay good money for two hours of fluffy Avengers shenanigans with Baymax taking care of them.

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About the game, if it is still available, would you mind to share fiction ideas of No.18? It is my lucky number 🌟🌟

Yup, it's still available, and it's a good number too. :D

Lucky Number 18 is: The Aken/Hamada Collective!

Being that AU where Obake and Aunt Cass are siblings, which resulted in total chaos and a good chunk of angst but eh, it's Big Hero 6, angst is to be expected. Basically the boys, in addition to their aunt, have a chaos uncle who does not vibe with the law and neither do his friends who also end up being Aunt Cass's friends too. Also the whole star machine thing never happens because Aunt Cass has Opinions about her cafe getting nuked no blowing up the city Bob.

Obake: But science!

Cass: BOB!

There's some one-shots for the series on AO3 here--thanks for the ask! :D

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BH6 Snippets - 2/17/2023

Got some work done on The Aken/Hamada Collective last night--have a bit where Obake and Hiro are discussing the whole decision to become superheroes:

“Well, it was nice being your uncle.”

“Wait what?” Hiro asked, blinking.  “Why would you say that?”

“Because your aunt made it very clear that if this persisted she would kill me.”

“Uhhh we can talk to her about it, right?  Convince her not to do that?”

Hmm, could they?  Debate….

Pull a chair over so he could sit in front of Hiro.

“Yes, we can,” he said.  “But it’s going to involve the prickly aspect of basically baby-proofing the city.”

“Huh?” Hiro noised, looking offended.

“Your aunt’s main concern is the chaos aspect of this whole ordeal, the unpredictability that could end in one of you dead in a gutter somewhere,” Obake explained, waving a hand.  “And I’m sure you’ve noticed a lack of purse-snatching and such to stop.”

“Yeah—Fred’s disappointed that there’s not monsters and giant robots to stop.”

“I can’t say anything to the former, but we could do something about the latter.”

Hiro blinked—perked up.  “Come again?”

Tap his knee.  “I’ll be nice and humor Tadashi—I’ll even play along.  You need an overarching supervillain to fight, do you not?  This way all parties win.”

“Except you.”

“Hardly—you two get to enjoy yourselves, and Tadashi and I finally have interactions we agree on.”  Seeing as how Tadashi viewed him as a villain anyway. “Cass is assured you’re safe, you all get something challenging to face, I get to test out designs…everyone wins.”

“Except for the part where it’s kinda fake.”

“Your video games are kind of fake, does that ever stop you?” But he did have a point in how Tadashi would handle this if he knew.  “But I agree—therefore it’s our little secret, is it not?”

Hiro grinned as this sunk in.  “Yeah!”

Shook his hand on it—maybe this would work out in his favor after all.

So long as Tadashi never found out.

Obake knows that Cass will murder him if something happens to the boys so he’s got some work to do to prep the city for a little superhero group.

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The Aken/Hamada Collective--Christmas Bits #3

On the list of Christmas specials the Aken-Hamadas make a point to watch, White Christmas is always a priority because it’s Elaine’s favorite Christmas movie

The collective, during their knockabout years, did indeed go to Vermont one year to try to recreate the movie for funzies (also to get Obake out of Miami, he had done things again)

Elaine got the outfit they wear at the end when she was little and wore it until it fell apart, got a grown-up version of it that year

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Dewey: I have a plan.

Huey: I have the hospital on speed dial.

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The Aken/Hamada Collective--Christmas Bits #2

Cass will play a ton of old Christmas songs since that’s what they listened to growing up (parents were big fans of Bing, Dean, Frank and the Beach Boys) but she’ll also play a lot of country Christmas and Jimmy Buffet, plus Harry Belafonte, since she got used to listening to that while wintering in Austinbul and Miami with Obake in their knockabout years

She also got him to learn some of the dances over the years so when a really rockin’ song comes on she expects some assistance

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The Aken/Hamada Collective--Christmas Bits

Obake will rock the ugliest Christmas sweaters and vests, they’re gifts from his sisters and if you dare mock them just know that blood red goes well with his current ensemble.

Tadashi too rocks ugly Christmas sweaters and will spend the year scouring San Fransokyo for that one sweater that gets an eye-twitch out of Obake.

(they all do, sibling gifts are the only ones that get a pass from Obake but he uses Tadashi’s attempts as an excuse to practice his nonreactions)

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BH6 Snippets--2/2/2023

Spent the day working on a piece that you’ll see tomorrow and the one fic is in endgame stuff that can basically be summarized as breaking news: the boys are fighting so instead have a snippet from The Aken/Hamada Collective

For context, this is the Thanksgiving special and takes place after The Coffee is Best in Austinbul:

“Thanks Elaine, you’re the best,” Sam said as they filed in—froze when he spotted Bob.  “YOU.”

Bob looked like Christmas came early as recognition kicked in, was grinning broadly at Sam.  “Me.”

“No.  No. Not you.”

“Mind filling us in?” Bucky asked.

“My brother, Bob,” Elaine explained.  “He and Sam have had disagreements in the past.”

“Disagreements remember how I told you about the little gremlin that kept undoing all my hard work as her best man?” Sam demanded.  “That guy.  You rigged the turkey, didn’t you.”

“I rigged everything,” Bob said, grinning so hard he was in danger of splitting his face.

“He touched nothing don’t believe him,” Elaine said.

“Do believe me.”

“Bob.”

Also Elaine may or may not be friends with the Avengers.

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BH6 10A--11/3/2024

Worked on some short-story material yesterday, part of it being for The Aken/Hamada Collective, specifically the story where Obake meets Dibs and Felony Carl.

“No,” Carl said simply.  “I’ll make a deal with you.  You give it a week.  I’ll even help you hunt for someplace better than this during that week.  But you give it a week, and I think you’ll be surprised that you actually like it.” “I doubt it.” “I’ll pay you fifty bucks.” “You are a terrible kidnapper.” “Also there’s pizza.” Sigh.  Dangit he was hungry.  “Fine.  But I want to see the money first.” Carl handed him a few bills.  “Would you like to walk out this time?” “Excuse you, you’ve been kidnapping me all this time, you’re going to have to keep working at it.”  Had enough time to pocket the bills before Carl slung him over his shoulder, texted Elaine on his way back to the apartment. Good news, I’ve conned the kidnappers into paying for the privilege, am now fifty bucks richer. Elaine texted him back a few minutes later. Could have sworn Mom and Dad only paid 5 bucks 4 u. HEY.

Context is Obake and Cass have been living in a run-down apartment and Carl went dang man you live like this? before slinging him over his shoulder and taking him home (Cass is currently in her dorm).

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So what prompted this originally was a member of the Straggler’s Club doing a contest for hero outfits for other characters aside from the team, and I decided to take this as an opportunity to do Tadashi and Obake’s outfits in the Live and Learn series.  Look now, these will likely be the last things I ever do for that group—wish it was more fun, but the founder turned it into their personal therapy session and if I’m getting roped into that then I better dangsight be getting paid for it.

*ahem* Moving on, did up Tadashi’s outfit first because the closest I’ve gotten to nailing it down was a sketch for his outfit in The Aken/Hamada Collective series, and that version’s a little edgier because he’s got more of a chip on his shoulder in that AU.  Orange was always a given color for him since that’s the color missing from the team’s lineup, while the rest of it’s mostly inspired by baseball players and samurai.  Also wanted a sunnier look compared to my initial TA/HC design that sort of paired up with Honey Lemon’s, while at the same time taking Hiro’s magnetized design since in this AU Tadashi’s the one riding around on Baymax.  Tadashi’s particular weaponry also ends up being somewhere between Wasabi’s and Obake’s in Obake Itoko, where he has the electric sword and shield to go with the magnets.  As for the gloves and tinted visor, that’s something that Obake insisted on across the board, he is not going to jail because he’s stuck working with idiots.

Also figured I’d do Obake’s outfit as well, since it ends up being a little different and souped-up compared to how it appears in Obake Itoko.  As it is, I also ended up consolidating some design aspects across a couple different iterations, which also requires showing a little more detail to the back since I hadn’t shown that angle yet.  And, unlike in Obake Itoko, Obake is the one who designed this and therefore it has more edge.  Saying that, the only bits he started out with is the virus touch, the Buzz-Lightyear-style hacking tools in the arm armor, and the Robotnik gloves from the first Sonic movie; everything else were ideas the Hamada brothers had and decided to test on him, in order being the Doc Ock arms, the jetpacks (we’re getting the Mad Jacks in the sequel, boys), and the Shadow the Hedgehog shoes, which were mostly from me being totally stoked for the third Sonic movie just a few more months—and you can see in the corner the sketches for the shoes...done from memory.  I drew a lot of Sonic the Hedgehog stuff when I was little.  Saying all that, Obake tolerates all this because he prefers dealing with things from a distance and this enables that, although he has added some extras to the armor.  And yes he’s insisting on the tinted visor and gloves for the whole team he is not going to jail because of them—although it’s not quite enough to hide the SK in his face when he gets peeved.

So!  The sequel is currently sitting at 453 pages, 45 consecutive chapters, and 188K+ words—we’re three pages and 6K off from surpassing the original with ten episodes left to address, not counting the ‘bridge events’ I want to address with fleshing out season 2 some more.  We’re getting closer....

find them on eclipse here, as always please be kind and reblog, not repost, thank you! :D

Big Hero 6 © 2014 Disney

Done in Adobe Photoshop.

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Now usually today I draw Stitch because of course it’s 6/26 but after watching Lilo and Stitch again with Mom I had to do this exchange. XD

Granted I don’t have it labeled with a specific story but if I had to guess it takes place in the Live and Learn AU (AKA the time-traveling Obake AU) because of the combo of Tadashi being alive and Honey Lemon and Gogo being roommates—also Tadashi’s way too chipper here to properly fit into the Aken/Hamada Collective version, where he’s much more serious. ^^;  Also yes that’s Stitch on his hat. XD

Anywho banged this out in about an hour, happy Stitch Day and enjoy the existential dread regarding the passage of time and the knowledge that that movie came out 22 years ago. D:

Find it on eclipse here, as always please be kind and reblog, not repost, thank you! :D

Big Hero 6 © 2014 Disney

Lilo and Stitch © 2002 Disney

Done in Adobe Photoshop.