HUMAN CONDITION

❝ There's bones in my closet, but you hang stuff anyway ❞

Terran Sweets was a ghost among men. A survivor of the failed Wolf Spider Program, the male equivalent of the Black Widow Ops Program, he had escaped without a trace, inventing a new name and a new identity, desperately searching for the normal life that had poisoned his dreams for so long. Living with runaway mutants and human experiment subjects like himself, he found a family in the wayward and the forgotten, finding solidarity and solace by hiding in plain sight, living a normal life with some dabbling on the side; once a weapon, always a weapon, it seemed, even if he was supposedly a failed subject.

Having been on shaky terms with S.H.I.E.L.D. for quite some time, he had agreed to aid the organization in their high risk missions if it meant immunity for his makeshift family, which was how he found himself wrangled into yet another mission, one that hit far too close to home: locating Niko Constantin, the supposed only successful trainee in the Wolf Spider Program, and eradicating him by any means necessary.

Paired with the only other person who would have any clue as to what he had been through, Terran found himself racing back to the past that he had be running away from with a woman holding a future he was running toward.

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CAST

aaron tveit as terran sweets

❝ it took years to realize that I was more than what they made me ❞

annet mahendru as natasha romanoff

❝ you and I are so different yet exactly the same ❞

samira wiley as janelle lane

❝ you connect our family, but you're allowed to have your own life ❞

jeremy jordan as nicky green

❝ you're gonna come back, right? you promised you would ❞

jeffery dean morgan as niko constantin

❝ it's hard to forget a traitor ❞

[ + additional cast ]
boyd holbrook as clint barton
marvel actors/actresses as their respective characters
hero of hero faceclaims as their respective characters

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STATUS

started: 05.17.18 ; 01.21.21

completed: 01.20.19 ;

AUTHOR'S NOTE

Welcome back, everyone! If you recognize this story, it's because I had already finished this years ago, but had taken it down to adjust my casting of Natasha, and recently I changed my casting of Terran from Armie Hammer to Aaron Tveit, but now that I've gotten my casting settled, I figured that I might as well rewrite the story, especially since I was never truly proud of what I had come up with the first time around, and Terran is actually one of my favorite OC's and I wanted to do him justice, so here we are. Hopefully it'll be better this time around.

If you want to read the original version of Human Condition, go to my book "Recycling Bin," as I have published the entire fic there.

If you guys have read my Sam Wilson fic Almost Happy, you have already met Terran. If you haven't read it, you don't need to, because this is the explanation to the events referenced within Almost Happy, though you will miss out on some call-backs; if it were me, I would suggest you read Almost Happy first. If you want some help in terms of how to read my series, check out my misc. book "Fourth Wall" or profile guide "Queen Bee", as both have my reading guide posted.

【 This takes place in my Hero of Heroes series and while you don't need to have read the other fics in the series to understand what is going on, you can if you so wish as characters from this fic may appear in others and vice versa 】

THANKS TO:

luminite for loving Terran before he even showed up and just being a supportive bro 25/8 like I don't deserve you you're just the best and thank you for loving my boy and listening to me ramble about this story

starfragment for letting me use her layout when it comes to the fancy text at the beginning of chapters!

I hope you stick around!