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It's common knowledge that 80% of the population has quirks, and that the remaining 20% have no quirks at all.
However, what's not so common knowledge - or rather, what is common knowledge, but everyone simply decides to turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to it - is the discrimination against the quirkless.
The kindest way to put it was that they were looked down upon. People couldn't possibly fathom the many jeers, sneers and insults the quirkless received unless they had experienced it themselves, and the absolute hurt they inflicted.
Out of this confusing, swirling, darkness of hurt and hatred and fear, however, came shing a beacon of hope - Visions.
At first, Visions were used as a means of defence - the people who advanced on the quirkless, be it with mere insults or jeers, wooden bats or their own quirks, were met with deadly, sharp blasts of teal wind, or violent, violet electricity coursing through their bodies, or lethal bursts of amber rock from beneath their very feet.
It was, of course, as effective as could be in scaring the harassers away. But, the moment of triumph for the quirkless - those with Visions now dubbed as 'Allogenes' - only lasted as that: a moment.
Hordes and hordes of protestors, Heroes, riots, Villians - hell, even mere civillians descended upon them.
'Wrong, unethical, destructive use of such alien technology is a crime!' The righteous Heroes cry. 'Filthy Villians!'
'How come they get to choose their power?' The Villians sob. 'It's unfair!'
'They're quirkless, yet they can use elements?' The riots protest. 'They're freaks!'
'Freaks!'
'...unfair...'
'Scum!'
'Villians...'
The Visions and their bearers, once a ray of light for the quirkless, now became targets.
Although the Government at first tried to keep it under wraps news began to trickle through through: first, an Allogene was found dead in Russia. This was followed by around two deaths of other Allogenes in Japan.
The details of the murders were so gruesome that the editors had to stay up several late nights to edit out the worst bits - this seemingly consisted the details of the reason they were killed.
Several - that is to say, all - news sources declared that they had been caught doing atrocious criminal crimes, and had been punished for it by the grieving members of many families they had ties to.
Everybody ignored the gaping holes in the story, and how while the news had an obligation to remain a neutral stance on every subject, a faint glow of glee manged to shine from the words.
One thing that people manged to glean from this news however, was this: as long as the news covered up the details - which they were effectively doing - they could do whatever they wanted to the Allogenes and the quirkless.
People without quirks, and with or without Visions, began fleeing in fear. They left countries, they left their homes, for a refuge.
What and where this refuge was, the population didn't find out until much later.
They were fleeing to Yokohoma.
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When Yokohoma sealed its borders, the outside worls erupted in chaos. Why, they ask, would an entire city close itself of?
Various discussions and theories began popping up online. One of the most popular ones, with over more than a billion views on YouTube, was a video discussing how the only logical conclusion was that Villians had forced the city into isolation.
"...there's no other explanation,' the person in the video says grimly. 'Add on how the Villians carrying the so-called "Visions", have been running to Yokohoma, and how the barriers closed only a few days later - it lines up perfectly. Couple that with how Yokohoma is a city teeming with the quirkless, it isn't hard to figure out. The Allogenes, the Villians both inside and outside Yokohoma have forced the city in submission.'
This was taken as the truth. People began abusing the Allogenes even harder, claiming how they were villainous freak with alien powers, and the statistics in quirkless violence and abuse increased. People were attempting to push back the Allogenes and quirkless not yet in Yokohoma, but try as they might, they never succeeded.
(Rumors whispered that a small spirit looking thing, a girl with purple hair and an amber man in white clothing were the main forces behind this, but were brushed off).
When the people found out that the barrier around Yokohoma only seemed to let in the Quirkless and Allogenes, and they could not force their way in, the fight died out.
Yokohoma, the Isolated City, the Villian Controlled City.
What the higher-ups of the government neglected to tell the public, however, was that they were woefully wrong about the last part.
But how could the Government stand against the Gifted of Yokohoma, the Ability Users?