Studio Ghibli AU

Studio Ghibli AU is an AU in the fandom where the Big Four play roles from Hayao Miyazaki's films from his studio. This can be considered an offshoot to Fairy Tale AU.

About the AU
Spawning from fanart, this AU places the Big Four, and other such characters in the fandom, as characters from director Hayao Miyazaki's animated films of Japan's beloved fairy and fantasy tales.

Hayao Miyazaki's animates have the characters find themselves in trouble, fight to fit and set things right, the villains turn over a leaf in the end and stepping into a world of fantasy that changes them. Studio Ghibli's logo is one of the main characters in My Neighbor Totoro (fans have cast Baymax as the forest spirit neighbor) one of the many films where people step from the world they know into a world that helps them find themselves and their place in the world.

In lesser cases, the Big Four would simply dress up as these characters for a certain occasion like a Japanese Comic con.

Popular Scenarios

 * Howl's Moving Castle
 * My Neighbor Totoro
 * Kiki's Delivery Service
 * Princess Mononoke
 * Spirited Away
 * The Secret World of Arrietty

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III
For Hijack and love of flying he's cast as Tombo from Kiki's Delivery Service or Pazu from Laputa: Castle in the Sky and a male Chihiro, a human that is trapped in a bathhouse for spirits. Fans have also cast him as Ashitaka from Princess Mononoke.

Jack Frost
For Hijack he's cast as Kiki, the young witch that leaves for his 'a year away from home training' on his hooked broomstick. He also plays Haku, a spirit that helps a girl he helped along time ago in the world of spirits, Prince Ashitaka as he helps and falls in love with the bear princess and the charming wizard with the moving castle Howl.

Merida DunBroch
Merida is cast as San, also known as the bear princess Mononoke, protester of the forest and it's spirit with her bear brothers by her side. She also plays the artist from Kiki's Delivery Service, Sophie from Howl's Moving Castle and Chihiro/Sen from Spirited Away.

Rapunzel Corona
Rapunzel plays the seen borrower, Arrietty, shy young Chihiro that works for the witch of the bathhouse so she wouldn't get turned into a pig and save her parents (and a female Haku). The witch Kiki runs into, but nice with healing as her skill and the age spell victim, Sophie.

Toothless
The black dragon plays Jack's black cat, Jiji with a shorter tail. Toothless can also be cast as Haku/Hiccup's dragon form.

Elsa Arendelle
For Jelsa she's cast as Sophie from Howl's Moving Castle and San from Princess Mononoke.

Hiro Hamada
For the strong bond he has with Baymax, he plays the young male Mei Kusakabe.

Tadashi Hamada
For the bond he has with his brother and bot, he's cast as male Satsuki.

Baymax
The robot is cast as the huggable forest spirit Totoro that takes a shine to the Hamada brothers as they moved next and learn more about his forest.