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It all begins and ends with desperation.
The drowning man will flail and struggle.
He will pull at blades.
He will pull at straws.
And he will pull you down with him, too.
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AFTER SHARING ONE night in a prison cell, a group of six recalcitrant super-outcasts escaped SHIELD's custody and fled into the New York night.
There wasn't much of a plan beyond that, but with nowhere to go and nothing to do and a team of superheroes looking for them, they spent a month on the run, frequently acting as judge, jury and executioner for some of New York's lowlifes.
The not-much-of-a-plan worked just fine for the six of them right up until they ended up doing what kids do best: they saw something they shouldn't have seen.
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"Please don't talk to me of sense, because if it is you, I might believe it.
And I have sworn to do very foolish things."
- Taboo (2017) dir. Tom Hardy
"And the truth is, we all want our own tragedy, because life is pale without it. We want the teeth, the screaming, the survival that comes with it."
- Letters from Medea, Salma Deera
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I don't own any of the Marvel bits. I just own the Desperadoes, the writing and their plots. Also, this does not necessarily take place in any of Marvel's cannon universes because I wanted to play with the origins of some characters and some other stuff ok. If this goes as planned and I end up finishing it, it's going to have a lot of people in it and i am so stoked for that because where the event crossover fics at?
