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devilsavocado) wrote2016-10-02 09:38 am
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Player name: Jan
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CHARACTER
Character Name: Matthew "Matt" Murdock
Character Age: late 20s/early 30s
Canon: Daredevil (MCU)
Canon Point: End of Season 1
History: wiki link
Personality: No matter who you ask, they'll tell you Matt Murdock is a good guy. Outwardly, Matt is charming and smooth—an amazing defense attorney, but always on the side of the innocent. He believes in compassion. In helping people, good people who others might overlook or avoid when they're too poor to cover a proper defense attorney when the evidence is stacked against them. A charity case, maybe, but Matt could never stand to witness injustice, so while he might just look like a regular (albeit blind) law abiding citizen, that's no surprise.
See, Matt knows people. With his enhanced senses, he doesn't need to see. He catches things many don't, be it the smell of someone's sweat or a hitch in their voice. He can play people, working juries with finesse and appealing to their ideals and compassion. He knows what most people want to see or hear from him, so he often pretends; whether it be playing up his blindness or flirting with whatever women he meets. Strangers are easy. I mean, he's a lawyer. Is it any wonder he's such a great liar?
Honesty, that one's a little harder. There are very few people Matt trusts. (We're talking 4 people max by the end of the first season.) Growing up blind, fatherless and hypersensitive in every sense of the word, (his asshole-ish ninja mentor abandoning him didn't help either,) Matt built walls around his emotions that you could take a sledgehammer to and barely make a dent. Unless your name is Foggy Nelson, of course. Then you get an all-access pass to the Matt Murdock Emotional Experience (with audio description.) But that's Foggy. (Okay, honestly, he does open up to people he trusts, it just takes time for that trust to really build.)
The truth is that when he's honest Matt leads with his face. It's not like he's seen his reflection in the last twenty years. When he's with his friends, Matt smiles and laughs with all his heart. When he cries, his sorrow shows on his whole face. Good thing he doesn't let most people in that far, because underneath his stoic 'handsome duck' look, Matt is truly and deeply damaged and the hardships in his life weigh on him more than he lets on. He's guarded and aggressive when he doesn't get what he wants, but as long as you're not a criminal or a murderer, he's perfectly polite and amicable. He even plays off most questions or shortcomings that stem from his blindness with humor. He's had a lot of time to get used to it. Better to laugh it off than snap at every person who expects him to know they're rolling their eyes.
In a way, Matt's both fueled and weighed down by his past. More than twenty years later, his father's death still haunts him. When his dad told him to focus on his studies and avoid getting into fights like him, Matt went on to graduate summa cum laude at Columbia Law. (That is to say, top honors in one of the hardest law schools in the country. Christ, Matt.) Even after being abandoned as a child by Stick, hesticks keeps to many of his teachings and does as his old mentor says, almost without question. He may not trust easily, but once that trust is earned, Matt is nearly blind in his devotion. Not enough to completely sacrifice his morals, but it's close.
Matt holds true to his convictions as an adult in the same way he did as a child, with a determination that borders on naive. Matt is endlessly hopeful. It seems almost hypocritical to say about a man who turned to beating on criminals when the law failed to punish the deserving, but in his heart, Matt wants to believe good can win. He's Catholic, God-fearing and finds comfort in his religion, so of course this keeps him from killing. He believes people are good, but can be corrupted. He often worries of being corrupted himself. That fear, of becoming like Fisk, of enjoying a villain's pain, is something Matt has mostly moved past from, but struggled with for a long time. Thanks largely to frequent talks with his priest, he comes to accept the role of Daredevil as a force for good. His actions as Daredevil sure don't scream "good Catholic boy," but sometimes the law isn't enough. "Not guilty" doesn't mean innocent.
Speaking of guilt, Matt has the Catholic-guilt bit down pat. Apathy and inaction are his worst enemies. He blames himself for what he couldn't do, just as much as what he does. Catholicism teaches us to do the right thing, help others, be the good Samaritan. Matt lives this every day, and with his enhanced senses picking up every car alarm, raised bell and mugging in a multi-block radius, his turn to vigilantism was not a matter of if, but when. He sees it as the logical progression for himself: he has these powers, these skills. He can help, so why wouldn't he? He can operate outside the law and bring to justice those who evade the law. Standing by with all he knows is simply not an option.
And every now and then, something inside of him snaps. Grandma always said, "be careful of those Murdock boys, they've got the Devil in em." Matt's eyes go dead and he starts walking real slow, hands at his sides like he isn't afraid of anything: he lets the Devil out. Matt gets angry, and when he gets angry, it is violent. For his father, it was sweeping, often blinding rage that people saw in Jack Murdock when he turned his fights around. For Matt, it's a white-knuckled grip on his cane, quiet, reserved fury hidden behind dark glasses and false smiles until he snaps, usually resulting in broken furniture or broken faces, depending on the kind of night it is. Snapping is bad, Matt isn't unaware that his rage is a problem, so he uses it instead. Before turning to vigilantism, Matt managed his rage through boxing and keeping up Stick's training. Now he punches drug dealers instead of sandbags. He sleeps better on nights like those than any other.
Inventory: Matt will be arriving sans any of his cool Daredevil gear, so besides the clothes on his back and his sunglasses, he'll be carrying his collapsible cane and his phone.
Abilities: Matt has enhanced senses that grant him the ability to perceive the world around him even better than most people who are sighted. He best explains this as a "world on fire," the figures and perceptions constantly shifting based on heat, sound, echoes, etc. He can sense changes in temperature and atmospheric pressure, hear fractured bones shifting under skin and even pick up heartbeats from a distance. His powers grant also grant him an increased sense of balance and direction. The downside to this is that with such heightened senses, Matt is highly vulnerable to loud noises, smells and sensations. He sleeps on silk sheets, buys expensive clothes out of necessity and feels pain more acutely than most. A paper cut is practically torture for him. "Lucky" for him, he's used to the worst of it by now, and his training under Stick helped him learn to reign in his senses for the most part. Plus, he's been training and fighting for most of his life, so he uses those abilities in conjunction with his ninja moves to maximum effect. Oh, yeah, he's also a highly trained martial artist and boxer. A boxing, blind ninja.
He also speaks Spanish.
Flaws:
- Matt has anger issues. Anger issues that usually lead to violence. He plays a cool facade in most cases, but his anger can be explosive and it's no surprise he usually deals with it by beating up criminals and breaking faces with his fists. (Or one time he threw his computer across the room, rip Macbook Air.) You don't become a vigilante because you're particularly stable, but Matt enjoys violence more than he'll admit. So while he may be all about truth and justice, on the inside when he sees injustice he mostly wants to punch it in the face.
- Then of course we have Matt's guilt. Matt is practically a martyr, he blames himself for things he can't stop and hates himself when he fails even by a little. I mean, guilt and self-loathing go hand in hand, and while Matt may think he's strong enough to stop ALL CRIME and defeat EVERY BAD GUY, he's still way too hard on himself when he falls short or just hears about anyone being hurt when "he could have stopped it."
- Lastly, there's pride (I could probably go on, but these are the big ones.) Matt would never admit it out loud, but Matt knows he is strong and smart and highly capable. He takes pride in beating up criminals and saving the innocent in court. Not that that's a bad thing, but when you blame people's deaths on yourself because you basically couldn't be in two places at once, it's a problem.
SAMPLES
Action Log Sample: 4th Wall/TDM
Player name: Jan
Contact:
Characters currently in-game: n/a
CHARACTER
Character Name: Matthew "Matt" Murdock
Character Age: late 20s/early 30s
Canon: Daredevil (MCU)
Canon Point: End of Season 1
History: wiki link
Personality: No matter who you ask, they'll tell you Matt Murdock is a good guy. Outwardly, Matt is charming and smooth—an amazing defense attorney, but always on the side of the innocent. He believes in compassion. In helping people, good people who others might overlook or avoid when they're too poor to cover a proper defense attorney when the evidence is stacked against them. A charity case, maybe, but Matt could never stand to witness injustice, so while he might just look like a regular (albeit blind) law abiding citizen, that's no surprise.
See, Matt knows people. With his enhanced senses, he doesn't need to see. He catches things many don't, be it the smell of someone's sweat or a hitch in their voice. He can play people, working juries with finesse and appealing to their ideals and compassion. He knows what most people want to see or hear from him, so he often pretends; whether it be playing up his blindness or flirting with whatever women he meets. Strangers are easy. I mean, he's a lawyer. Is it any wonder he's such a great liar?
Honesty, that one's a little harder. There are very few people Matt trusts. (We're talking 4 people max by the end of the first season.) Growing up blind, fatherless and hypersensitive in every sense of the word, (his asshole-ish ninja mentor abandoning him didn't help either,) Matt built walls around his emotions that you could take a sledgehammer to and barely make a dent. Unless your name is Foggy Nelson, of course. Then you get an all-access pass to the Matt Murdock Emotional Experience (with audio description.) But that's Foggy. (Okay, honestly, he does open up to people he trusts, it just takes time for that trust to really build.)
The truth is that when he's honest Matt leads with his face. It's not like he's seen his reflection in the last twenty years. When he's with his friends, Matt smiles and laughs with all his heart. When he cries, his sorrow shows on his whole face. Good thing he doesn't let most people in that far, because underneath his stoic 'handsome duck' look, Matt is truly and deeply damaged and the hardships in his life weigh on him more than he lets on. He's guarded and aggressive when he doesn't get what he wants, but as long as you're not a criminal or a murderer, he's perfectly polite and amicable. He even plays off most questions or shortcomings that stem from his blindness with humor. He's had a lot of time to get used to it. Better to laugh it off than snap at every person who expects him to know they're rolling their eyes.
In a way, Matt's both fueled and weighed down by his past. More than twenty years later, his father's death still haunts him. When his dad told him to focus on his studies and avoid getting into fights like him, Matt went on to graduate summa cum laude at Columbia Law. (That is to say, top honors in one of the hardest law schools in the country. Christ, Matt.) Even after being abandoned as a child by Stick, he
Matt holds true to his convictions as an adult in the same way he did as a child, with a determination that borders on naive. Matt is endlessly hopeful. It seems almost hypocritical to say about a man who turned to beating on criminals when the law failed to punish the deserving, but in his heart, Matt wants to believe good can win. He's Catholic, God-fearing and finds comfort in his religion, so of course this keeps him from killing. He believes people are good, but can be corrupted. He often worries of being corrupted himself. That fear, of becoming like Fisk, of enjoying a villain's pain, is something Matt has mostly moved past from, but struggled with for a long time. Thanks largely to frequent talks with his priest, he comes to accept the role of Daredevil as a force for good. His actions as Daredevil sure don't scream "good Catholic boy," but sometimes the law isn't enough. "Not guilty" doesn't mean innocent.
Speaking of guilt, Matt has the Catholic-guilt bit down pat. Apathy and inaction are his worst enemies. He blames himself for what he couldn't do, just as much as what he does. Catholicism teaches us to do the right thing, help others, be the good Samaritan. Matt lives this every day, and with his enhanced senses picking up every car alarm, raised bell and mugging in a multi-block radius, his turn to vigilantism was not a matter of if, but when. He sees it as the logical progression for himself: he has these powers, these skills. He can help, so why wouldn't he? He can operate outside the law and bring to justice those who evade the law. Standing by with all he knows is simply not an option.
And every now and then, something inside of him snaps. Grandma always said, "be careful of those Murdock boys, they've got the Devil in em." Matt's eyes go dead and he starts walking real slow, hands at his sides like he isn't afraid of anything: he lets the Devil out. Matt gets angry, and when he gets angry, it is violent. For his father, it was sweeping, often blinding rage that people saw in Jack Murdock when he turned his fights around. For Matt, it's a white-knuckled grip on his cane, quiet, reserved fury hidden behind dark glasses and false smiles until he snaps, usually resulting in broken furniture or broken faces, depending on the kind of night it is. Snapping is bad, Matt isn't unaware that his rage is a problem, so he uses it instead. Before turning to vigilantism, Matt managed his rage through boxing and keeping up Stick's training. Now he punches drug dealers instead of sandbags. He sleeps better on nights like those than any other.
Inventory: Matt will be arriving sans any of his cool Daredevil gear, so besides the clothes on his back and his sunglasses, he'll be carrying his collapsible cane and his phone.
Abilities: Matt has enhanced senses that grant him the ability to perceive the world around him even better than most people who are sighted. He best explains this as a "world on fire," the figures and perceptions constantly shifting based on heat, sound, echoes, etc. He can sense changes in temperature and atmospheric pressure, hear fractured bones shifting under skin and even pick up heartbeats from a distance. His powers grant also grant him an increased sense of balance and direction. The downside to this is that with such heightened senses, Matt is highly vulnerable to loud noises, smells and sensations. He sleeps on silk sheets, buys expensive clothes out of necessity and feels pain more acutely than most. A paper cut is practically torture for him. "Lucky" for him, he's used to the worst of it by now, and his training under Stick helped him learn to reign in his senses for the most part. Plus, he's been training and fighting for most of his life, so he uses those abilities in conjunction with his ninja moves to maximum effect. Oh, yeah, he's also a highly trained martial artist and boxer. A boxing, blind ninja.
He also speaks Spanish.
Flaws:
- Matt has anger issues. Anger issues that usually lead to violence. He plays a cool facade in most cases, but his anger can be explosive and it's no surprise he usually deals with it by beating up criminals and breaking faces with his fists. (Or one time he threw his computer across the room, rip Macbook Air.) You don't become a vigilante because you're particularly stable, but Matt enjoys violence more than he'll admit. So while he may be all about truth and justice, on the inside when he sees injustice he mostly wants to punch it in the face.
- Then of course we have Matt's guilt. Matt is practically a martyr, he blames himself for things he can't stop and hates himself when he fails even by a little. I mean, guilt and self-loathing go hand in hand, and while Matt may think he's strong enough to stop ALL CRIME and defeat EVERY BAD GUY, he's still way too hard on himself when he falls short or just hears about anyone being hurt when "he could have stopped it."
- Lastly, there's pride (I could probably go on, but these are the big ones.) Matt would never admit it out loud, but Matt knows he is strong and smart and highly capable. He takes pride in beating up criminals and saving the innocent in court. Not that that's a bad thing, but when you blame people's deaths on yourself because you basically couldn't be in two places at once, it's a problem.
SAMPLES
Action Log Sample: 4th Wall/TDM