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If they wouldn’t give him a chance then the solution seemed simple, he’d give himself one. He’d force the world to see him, force them to recognize his hard work. He wasn’t missing a quirk, it was simply that everyone else had been given an advantage. He wasn’t broken, or useless, or incapable, and he’d prove it by outrunning all of them, he who was quirkless, he who had started in last. [UA rejects Midoriya from the hero course and he finds salvation in vigilantism.]

I'M REWRITING THIS FIC, check the series. This is the old version, up for comparison purposes - it's the only one complete for now, but the new version will be much better and have extra content too. In a reality where Venti and Zhongli died during the Archon War, and Khaenri'ah destroyed the Gods before they had a chance to strike it down during the cataclysm, many things are different. There are no Visions. There is slavery. When Aether and Lumine are separated at a slave market, Aether doesn’t know for which of them he fears the most. They had already struggled to survive as orphans, but nothing could compare to the cruelty of slavery. He is bought by Lord Childe, and brought as a pet for a meeting with his associates – Zhongli, Kaeya and Diluc – who were together with their respective slaves – Xiao, Albedo and Venti. But what looked like the start of a nightmare soon is revealed as a pool of opportunities, and Chide and his friends are not like what was told about slave owners. His life wasn’t perfect. Every one of them had to do some questionable choices to survive. But could he love that group of people and let them replace the family member that he lost? Would he ever see Lumine again?

The Antarctic Empire has conquered the world once before. Their next target is the moon. And, well - New York certainly isn't the moon, and The Avengers never take kindly to conquerors. (Or: Phil and Techno hop through a stronghold portal and find themselves on a new version of earth. What is a "shower?") (Or: Earth's mightiest heroes adopt two new idiots.)