imagine-this-overwatch:
I did not! But now I shall.
Of course, everyone is welcome to imagine their own answer to this.
But, in my personal take on the AU, the omnic war was never a thing and Overwatch was never a thing and whatever.
SO HYBRID!GENJI.
He and Hanzo lived on the streets starting at a young age. Their parents belonged to a wealthy family but the family did not want kittens. Rather than put them up for adoption, they just left the little baby hybrids on the side of the road. Not a rare occurrence in this AU.
They grow up pretty hardened and turn to theft to survive, btu Genji always dreams of being adopted. Hanzo, on the other hand, has lost faith in humans and wants nothing to do with that. Sometimes people would approach them offering adoption, but Genji didn’t want to be separated from Hanzo and Hanzo didn’t want to be adopted. This caused a lot of tension between them and eventually they got into a pretty fierce verbal argument.
Some pretty bad things were said and Genji ended up running away. Hanzo just figured this was a tantrum and he’d be back soon. Moments later, there’s a loud tire screech and a crash and whoops Genji got totally slammed by a car in the dead of night. Like… real bad. Maybe pinned against a wall or something??? idk I didn’t think too hard on that, but bad enough to require cybernetics ya know???
Hanzo catches wind of this and follows closely as Genji is whisked away for emergency care. And, lucky enough, the doctors were working on cybernetic technology for hybrids and figured Genji would make a good test subject. Since he’s a stray, they didn’t need to work through the middle man of an owner and if anything went south… well, no one would miss him. Genji just wanted to live to hell yeah sign him the fuck up.
Hanzo blamed himself for this accident since he drove Genji away, so Hanzo just kind of peaced out and left Genji to fend for himself for awhile.
They run back into each other on the streets a few months later while Genji is out on a test walk in his new gear. It… wasn’t pleasant.