History Fanfic / LightingCandles

* RepressedMemories: For most of the story, Tadashi can't remember exactly how he died (though he knows from his powers and where he woke up that he died in a fire). It's later revealed that the shock of seeing [[Face-HeelTurn Callaghan starting the fire and leaving him for dead]] led to him repressing the memory.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Bunny and Jack have shades of this, often insulting or laughing at one another. North even lampshades this when he mentions Jack messing with Bunny's tunnels.
--> "'Is how they bond.'"

* StillBelievesInSanta: Jamie Bennett, now an old man, still believes in all of the Guardians, and it only takes a little prompting for him to believe in Tadashi as well. This gives Tadashi hope that belief is not dependent on age, and that he can one day get Hiro and his friends to see him again.

* {{Kitsune}}: The type of spirit that Tadashi has become. He currently has only one tail though, representing his low power level.

** Pitch inverts Death's speech about "little lies" in ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'', explaining his role is generating little fears, like things that go bump in the night and monsters in the closet, to prepare children for the inevitable eventuality of the realities of {{Adult Fear}}s such as loneliness, failure, and death.

** [[spoiler:When Pitch is released, he makes it a point to march to the Sandman and honestly admit that while the Sandman had never wronged him, Pitch did, indeed, hurt him, admitting his guilt.]]

* NotSoDifferent: Jack starts disliking Tadashi because he finds him too prim and proper, until he sees him caring for a sleeping Hiro. It prompts Jack to confess he also was a caring older sibling while alive, and he starts to be more friendly to Tadashi.

* HappyEndingOverride: For ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'', [[DownplayedTrope somewhat]]. [[spoiler:Defeating Pitch turns out to be a short-term victory with disastrous consequences.]]

!Includes examples of:

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Tadashi has a tendency to gauge his own self worth against the accomplishments of others (especially Hiro), neglecting to consider his own strengths in the process. [[spoiler:For instance, when considering how he would have reacted if Hiro had died in the fire and he had lived, he doesn't think he could stop himself from killing Callaghan]]. This is particularly ironic given how much stock Hiro puts into Tadashi's accomplishments in canon.

* BlessedWithSuck: As is pointed out, Tadashi retaining most of his memories from the get-go means that he can see his loved ones and know it's them, but they can't see or interact with him at all. His fire powers start out as this too, since he has trouble controlling them and is afraid of hurting someone with them by accident.

* DeathByIrony: Inverted. Like Jack Frost, Tadashi gets powers associated with how he died, in this case fire. [[spoiler:He lampshades the irony in the sequel]].
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:The sequel had the Nightmares possess Callaghan, and use him to put little Nightmare slivers in kids to feed on their fear]].
* {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler:At one point, Tadashi confronts a particularly resilient Nightmare feeding on Fred. Each time he enters the dream, he's forced to walk down a burning corridor, each time only managing to take a little step further to reach his terrified friend. Each time, he's forced to relive the horror and pain of the fire that killed him, but he refuses to give up until he successfully reaches his friend and liberates him from the Nightmare.]]

* GallowsHumor: Tadashi. Post-GallowsHumor, really.

** In the sequel, [[spoiler:the Nightmares manage to posses Callaghan after his DespairEventHorizon, using the fact that humans don't need to believed in to cause harm, as well as his past use of microbots to attack, to allow themselves to attack anyone by masquerading as microbots]].
* NotSoDifferent: Jack starts disliking Tadashi because he finds him too prim and proper, until he sees him caring for a sleeping Hiro. It prompts the cold spirit to confess he also was a caring older sibling while alive and he starts to be more friendly to Tadashi.

* PlayingWithFire: Tadashi has this power as a fire spirit.

* ShapeshifterModeLock: [[spoiler:In the sequel Tadashi overuses his powers, trapping him in fox form until his strength returns]].

* TraumaInducedAmnesia: Understandably, Tadashi remembers very little after running into the fire. [[spoiler:It comes back to him when the team unmasks Callaghan.]]

* CompletedFic: Has a sequel that is also completed.
* DarkIsNotEvil: [[spoiler:As Tadashi points out to Pitch, anything can become a negative in excess, and in the same way, fear is only a problem if there's too much of it]].

* DreamWalker: [[spoiler:Tadashi gains this ability in the sequel, allowing him to enter dreams and fight the Nightmares latching onto kids]].

* HappyEndingOverride: For ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'', [[DownplayedTrope somewhat]]. [[spoiler: Defeating Pitch turns out to be a short-term victory with disastrous consequences.]]

* InvisibleToNormals: Tadashi's invisible to everyone who doesn't believe in him - in other words, everyone but other spirits [[spoiler: (and Baymax)]] to begin with.
** In the sequel, he notes that some people can see him in fox form since (especially because foxes had been flooding into the area after he became a Guardian and chose San Fransokyo as his home base), it's easier to believe that a fox may be there then a spiritual kitsune.

** [[spoiler:In the sequel, the Nightmares manage to posses Callaghan after his DespairEventHorizon, using the fact that humans don't need to believed in to cause harm, as well as his past use of microbots to attack, to allow themselves to attack anyone by masquerading as microbots]].

** The chapter where Tadashi gains control over his fire powers is titled "Flickum Bicus." It is [[[[Literature/DresdenFiles Harry Dresden]]'s spell for, er, lighting candles.

** The chapter where Tadashi gains control over his fire powers is titled [[Literature/DresdenFiles "Flickum Bicus."]]

* ARareSentence: Tadashi meets the Guardians. This conversation follows.
--> '''Tadashi:''' Look, I'm a ghost and I'm talking to the Tooth Fairy. None of my prior knowledge applies, so all I can do at this point is just sort of... go with it.
--> '''Toothiana:''' Oh, I think you'll do just fine with that attitude.
--> '''Tadashi:''' Really? That's not what the Easter Bunny said... God, I can't believe I just said that.

* GenderFlip: In the sequel [[spoiler:Man in the Moon is revealed to be female.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: By the end of the sequel [[spoiler:both Callaghan and Pitch pull one, thanks to Tadashi.]]

* NotSoDifferent: Jack starts disliking Tadashi because he finds him too prim and proper, until he see him caring for a sleeping Hiro. It prompts the cold spirit to confess he also was a caring older sibling while alive and he starts to be more friendly to Tadashi.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: A variant. Tadashi dies; the story happens after he dies.

''Lighting Candles'' is a ''Disney/BigHero6'' [=/=] ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'' crossover FanFic by [[http://archiveofourown.org/users/PitViperOfDoom/pseuds/PitViperOfDoom PitViperOfDoom]], found [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/2763191/chapters/6196355 here]]. Has a sequel called [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/3676053/chapters/8128467 A Friend In The Dark]].

** Pitch inverts Death's speech about "little lies" in ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'', explaining his role is generating little fears, like things that go bump in the night and monsters in the closet, to prepare children for the inevitable eventuality of the realities of {{Adult Fear}}s such as loneliness, failure, and death.

''Lighting Candles'' is a ''Disney/BigHero6'' [=/=] ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'' crossover FanFic by [[http://archiveofourown.org/users/PitViperOfDoom/pseuds/PitViperOfDoom PitViperOfDoom]], found [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/2763191/chapters/6196355 here]]. Now has a sequel called [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/3676053/chapters/8128467 A Friend In The Dark]].

* HappyEndingOverride: Somewhat, for ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians''. [[spoiler: Defeating Pitch turns out to be a short-term victory with disastrous consequences.]]

* AchillesHeel: The Microbots don't hold together well when heated, something Tadashi takes advantage of when helping the gang against Yokai.

* ShoutOut: Pitch inverts Death's speech about "little lies" in ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'', explaining his role is generating little fears, like things that go bump in the night and monsters in the closet, to prepare children for the inevitable eventuality of the realities of {{Adult Fear}}s such as loneliness, failure, and death.

* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:Jack calls Tadashi out for not using Baymax's chip to charge himself up sooner, when they were ''in the middle of a battle''.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: By the end of the sequel [[spoiler:both Callaghan and Pitch have one, thanks to Tadashi.]]

* ComboPlatterPowers: In addition to his PlayingWithFire powers, Tadashi develops other abilities, like {{Flight}} [[spoiler: and being a DreamWalker]].