Hirella

## **Official Description**

Hirella mock-up art

**Hirella** is the name given to the pairing of Hiro Hamada from Disney's Big Hero 6 and Amree Aguinaldo, a Chrysalis member. The whole OTP is being handled by Parker Trinh who considers himself to be the president of the pairing, followed by Cj Sanchez who's the "vice-president".

## **Fandom**

* Name: Gummy Guy/Girl
* Color: dark navy blue #20224F (Hiro) and turquoise blue #30DFC8 (Amree)
* Song: Paper Rings- Taylor Swift (Lover album)

## **Relationship Overview**

Hiro Hamada being a fictional character as opposed to real life's Amree Aguinaldo (and Amree being two years older than Hiro) raised eyebrows in the past, although that didn't stop people from shipping the two. Surprisingly, Hirella even surpassed arguably the pairing that has the most fans, IceLiah (Cj Sanchez and Amree), making Hirella the ultimate fan favorite Chrysalis OTP as of May 2021. Obviously they haven't talked to each other nor met due to Hiro not actually existing but they do have a lot of notable similarities that resulted to their pairing, but more on that later.

## **Timeline**

At a panel back in 2018, Amree admitted that she liked Hiro at late 2015 (she was only 11 at the time), and it prompted fans to go crazy with edits, mock-up arts, and fanfiction. The shipping stopped in early 2017 when Amree started junior high school (7th grade internationally), and she got busy as 2017 was the year she auditioned for a role of a seiyuu in HM. At 8th grade when she was 14, Cj kept teasing her with Hiro as she's already the same age as him. After Amree landed a role for the voice acted lines in HM's Love Magic with Cj and Jace Blanchett, the ship died again. It was only revived when Cj, again, remembered how Hiro was Amree's fictional character crush and teased her with it, making Chrysalis support the pairing, calling it #HirellaNation.

As of May 2021, Parker Trinh, Cj Sanchez, and Stefen Sanchez are writing a fanfiction of the said pairing, Beyond Worlds, with Hiro as himself and Amree Aguinaldo as Léa Navarro.

## **Trivias**

* At late 2015 and early 2017 (again, the time where she still liked Hiro), Amree's favorite subject became Science, and biology was her favorite branch. Ironically, she actually excelled more in technology than biology according to her late Science teacher in middle school.
	+ At 2016, her school held an annual invention making, and she won first place in their Science Fair because of her invention based loosely on Baymax which she named "Baymeow". Baymeow has eyes like Baymax, but unlike him, its eyes actually light up white when turned on (because of what Cj described as a flashlight in its head), and it serves as a Bluetooth speaker.
	+ When Amree asked rhetorically as to how she made Baymeow when she was only 12, Belle Bello describes Amree as "inspired" because of Hiro.
* Hiro and Amree's notable similarities include:
	+ Having a high IQ (Amree's IQ is canonically 116 which is above average/gifted, and Hiro has a whopping 160, making him an actual genius)
	+ Having slight overbites and oral fixation (meaning they constantly have to bite or suck on something, especially non-food items)
		- They both like lollipops and they both suck their thumbs as children
		- Both of them are straw-biters
		- Amree mentioned in a panel that she often absent-mindedly chews the inside of her cheeks, and that she keeps biting her fingernails when put under pressure, stress, or nervousness.
	+ Loving gummy bears or gummy candy of some sort and spicy food
	+ Being a little competitive when they have enough skill or knowledge on a certain thing (Hiro's Bot Fighting and Amree's spelling skills)
	+ Experiencing something close to illegal deeds (again, Hiro's Bot Fighting, and Amree's background for having hacking and coding knowledge, although Amree hasn't been in jail or detention in her life.)
	+ Blaming a teacher of theirs for their siblings' unfortunate events (with Hiro blaming Professor Callaghan for Tadashi's death, and Amree blaming her Filipino teacher for making Avaree hurt herself with their house key back in 2019)
	+ Having journals (Amree is the only Chrysalis member to have a journal or a diary)
	+ Although they're both gifted in academics, they're still good with sports, with Hiro as a varsity in soccer and Amree winning medals in tennis, and she loves skating and the recent archery.
* Amree actually talked to Hiro's voice actor before and he even gave her a digital autograph. In an interview, Amree was indirectly briefly mentioned as his "little sister" and a "chaotic tater tot".
* Hirella is the only pairing outside Chrysalis.
	+ It's also the only OTP that has a fictional character as one of the people involved.