"Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it." -Walter Kaufmann Erik Stevens, war moniker, "Killlmonger", and birthed name N'Jadaka Udaku, still lives. His cousin, T'Challa Udaku, King of Wakanda, could not bear the fact of just throwing his long lost cousin into the ocean as he requested. Instead, he decided to save his life, and give him a chance at redemption. Ignorant to the royal family, T'Challa brought him back to Oakland, California, where he finally meets the only person of Erik's past that's still alive. Mental health counselor, Taj Jones. Will Erik take the second chance of living a fulfilled life? All the way up to the recent events of what happened in Wakanda, Erik has done nothing but prepare and train to avenge his father's death and take over the Wakandan royal throne. Now, he has done that, and almost died in the process. Nothing else matters to him anymore. At least, that's what he thinks. Will Taj forgive and help him make a change in his life? Even after being left in the dark of his whereabouts for the past 10 years? Will Erik finally take back his life, and not let the mistakes of his family's past control his future? Or will he crawl back into the depths of vengeance and despair? Caring of no one else, but himself?