SWAN: Murder in San Fran

SWAN's book cover

**Swan: Murder in San Fran** (stylized as **SWAN: Murder in San Fran** or simply **SWAN**) is the Scarlet Swan and Beyond Worlds crossover, as well as the first HIRAYA story written by **Stefen Sanchez**, **Lucas Hale**, **Kit Aguinaldo**, and **Austin Dy**. It's also a reboot of Scarlet Swan based on a webisode called *Murders in Swan Lane*. Calling the book "Swan Fransokyo" is one of the running gags in the story.

The story revolves around Swan Swagmire (renamed as **Shiratori Hakucho Hamada**) and her younger cousin Hiro Hamada, who she helps when she gets the news that Léa Navarro, dies in one of their missions as Big Hero 6.

## **Plot Synopsis**

Shiratori Hakucho is a teenage girl hoping to be one of the best detectives in San Fransokyo. At such a young age, she was accepted to train in a police academy in Spain, specifically mentored by a well-known detective in the city, Felipe Gonzalo. A few years later, her cousin, Hiro Hamada, gets depressed because of Léa Navarro's sudden death. It was Tori who calls Hiro to tell him she's going to be helping him with the investigation of her death since she thinks there's more to the case than meets the eye. Alongside Red Ordonia, the three come up with a plan that leads Tori into pretending to be Léa to lure the man behind everything.

## **Characters**

#### **Protagonists**

* Tori Hakucho is a chaotic young detective that Hiro trusts to help investigate Léa's death.
* Hiro Hamada is Tori's cousin who is on the verge of depression when Léa dies.

#### **Deuteragonists**

* Red Ordonia is Léa's best friend that got looped into the case for helping both Tori and Hiro.
* Tadashi Hamada is Hiro's older brother and Tori's cousin who helps them in the case.
* Léa Navarro was mistaken to be dead at Big Hero 6's last mission who looks almost exactly as Tori.

#### **Tritagonists**

* Detective Felipe Gonzalo is Tori's mentor hailing his surname, prompting him to be cryopreserved for at least 19 years.

## **Trivias**

* SWAN's primary book color is purple, which is a mix of Scarlet Swan and Beyond Worlds' colors, which are red and blue respectively.
* This is the third literary work to have a titular character, with the second being Scarlet Swan for Swan Swagmire, and **Libitina: Unmasked** with Illana Libitina.
	+ Coincidentally, all three are **Kit Aguinaldo**'s characters.
* SWAN's plot is nearly the same as the discontinued sequel to Beyond Worlds; SWAN tells the story of how Léa dies and then Tori revealing that Léa was only kidnapped, which leads to Tori pretending to be Léa to lure the kidnapper out. The sequel to Beyond Worlds is the same, although with Hiro greatly affected by Léa's death, he invents an android that looks exactly like Léa to "replace" her.
* As mentioned, "Swan Fransokyo" is its title running gag.
* Scarlet Swan is the second franchise to have a reboot, the first being SILENT with its reboots (Screens, Looking Glass, Voices, and Horizons), and now Scarlet Swan with SWAN: Murder in San Fran.
* It wasn't initially planned to include Léa Navarro, Miles Meyer, and Langley Langston in the reboot, but it was changed so that Léa could still be included (without Léa in the picture, Beyond Worlds would just technically be Big Hero 6 with a few changes). Miles and Langley could be mentioned anytime at some point, but this wasn't finalized so Miles and Langley not being (or even existing) in the story could change.
	+ If ever SWAN becomes a featured short film or a demo reel, Kit Aguinaldo (Swan's actress) and **Austin Dy** (Hiro's voice actor) might have problems switching from one "voice" or another to portray or voice Léa Navarro and Langley Langston, since they're also the actors for both.
		- **Jace Blanchett**, Miles Meyer's actor, also quit the group earlier this year and therefore couldn't be Miles. If anything, **Cj Sanchez** could be Miles, replacing Jace.
* Tadashi Hamada being the inspiration for Daryll Dupain and inventing IRIS- again which was inspired by Baymax- is the primary reason why the writers decided to have a crossover of Scarlet Swan and Beyond Worlds.
	+ Also, Swan Swagmire being canonically only a year older than the actual Hiro Hamada from Big Hero 6 also adds up to that reason. Swan was born in July 2017, and Hiro was born in June the next year.
* Scarlet Swan and Beyond Worlds alternated their releases since the first season of Beyond Worlds was released in June 2021; the next release was Scarlet Swan on the 4th of July. Beyond Worlds season two was released on July 9th, and SWAN will be out on October the same year. Beyond Worlds season two and SWAN have the biggest gap, being 3 months apart.
	+ The Beyond Worlds' AU oneshots that was released in the group's Wattpad account doesn't count, since the oneshots are fan submissions and are not written by any of the members.
* Swan Swagmire (along with Léa Navarro) and Hiro Hamada are Kit Aguinaldo and Austin Dy's most successful roles.
* Some fans pointed out that Swan and Hiro have the same personality of being goofy but have the same sense of justice at the same time, and both are smart prodigies (Swan started training in a police academy at 13, the same age Hiro was when he graduated high school).
* The first plotline of SWAN was supposed to be Swan (as Tori) comforting Hiro for Tadashi dying in the fire and both of them with Baymax investigating his death- without Léa, Red, Julian, Cameron, Oliver, Kenji, Honey Lemon, Gogo, Fred, and Wasabi existing in the timeline. This would imply that it was technically going to be s Scarlet Swan and Big Hero 6 crossover with major changes.
	+ Even if it *could* be Beyond Worlds in an earlier and alternate timeline, Tadashi being dead due to the showcase fire suggests that it's still in the same timeline as the actual film- not to mention that it was originally planned that Hiro is 14 and Swan is 15 (Scarlet Swan took place in 2033, while Big Hero 6 took place in 2032).