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He was taken before he could walk. Frozen after a bomb. Nikolai Dreykov gets reborn and drawn into the Avengers' world, getting a cleansing that never quite washes anything away, where redemption isn't heroic, love is unspoken, and survival means learning how to live with the damage rather than erase it and he must confront whether he's just a weapon... or something that can still be saved.