expiation

[devilsavocado]

Player: Jans
Contact: dm or disco (jans) peferred but also cantito
Age: 33
Current Characters: I'm also apping Peter Quill GOTG Game

Character Name: Matt Murdock (Daredevil)
Character Canon: Netflix Daredevil (MCU)
Canon Point: Post-Season 2, Pre-Defenders
Age: Late 20s/early 30s

Crime: Vigilantism - He is Daredevil, after all. That secret isn't going to stick around for very long with a crime like this.

Background: Wiki link

Personality:

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.

With his enhanced senses, Matt 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.

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. 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.

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.

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.

Samples: one and two

Questions: How's Aldrip looking as far as using Braille?