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'so, I don't think .. you're from here.. this universe i mean.'

'and what gave that away, Ryland?'

You would find me at the beachIn every life, through every door

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This version of the transcript was handwritten and edited by myself over a week after being tasked by Markiplier's deaf community. It took twelve hours and many cups of coffee. This is not the transcript from Fandom Wiki. It is from-scratch.

This is NOT the official transcript, either. Please do not get that confused. I spent many hours slowing down audio to interpret tones due to the involvement of requested tone tags. It's eons better than what we had previously, but it will never be truly correct due to the nature of it being unofficial, even though I tried my absolute best. This is meant as a free writer's resource and does not accrue any revenue.

This version includes:

Tone tags for nearly all lines.

Italic stressors for easier tone interpretation.

Sound effects, music indication and descriptions, and basic contextual movement beats.

Indication of slurring, stuttering, muttering, etc. that was not previously included on the YouTube closed captioning (I literally counted every single stutter for accuracy.)

Extra dialogue from whispering voices that were audio enhanced and then interpreted (best I possibly could.)

Access to open annotation and commenting.

“I will come for you.” -Frank Castle TPS S1E10

(Following ddba s1e4)

The bench is in a rundown neighborhood, not far from Hell's Kitchen.

Frank stumbled upon it by chance.

The advertisement on the bench is old, heavily worn, and outdated.

It is printed with the phone number and address of their first law firm—the number is now disconnected, and the address is no longer their office.

Murdock has a new business partner now, renting a spacious, bright office in a trendy downtown district.

Nelson has been gone for years.

Frank likes this bench.

Sometimes he comes here to sit for a while.

There’s no scenery to speak of—the only view is the confident smile of the young Murdock on the ad, looking every bit like a bastard lawyer. And that slogan. What a smug, arrogant prick.

It stirs something in him, something like nostalgia.

Sometimes Frank comes here. He doesn’t know if anyone will ever remember to remove this ad. He hopes that day comes later. It’s one of the few wishes he has left.

But even if he’s disappointed, he can accept it.

Frank keeps occasional tabs on Murdock. He knows he’s still working as a defense attorney, has friends to drink with, a steady dating life, no longer patrolling the streets in his pajama at night, staying far away from politics.

Good.

Away from these power struggles, away from tragedies he can’t save.

Blind in the eyes, deaf in the ears.

Murdock would rather let guilt and remorse consume his heart and soul than gamble on his anger being kept in check by reason.

Frank understands.

Because he’s the same.

Yesterday, Murdock came to Frank’s place to see him.

After all these years, he finally allowed himself to be honest about his feelings.

Maybe for people who have to maintain their social identity, protecting their image in the eyes of others is more important than facing themselves honestly.

Frank despises that kind of hypocrisy.

But he can understand it.

Yet, in what identity did Murdock come? And which version of Frank was he looking for?

Frank doesn’t know.

He doesn’t care.

Murdock could no longer bear the pain and disgust of living a lie—he needed a safe place to let it all out.

That’s all Frank needed to know.

Facing his fury and vulnerability, Frank felt the same anger, sorrow, confusion, and helplessness.

What do you want from me? Who are you?

Consoler Murdock, the defense attorney who once represented felon Frank Castle?

Daredevil, the Punisher’s longtime nemesis on his job?

Red, the ally Frank Castle could trust when he was the Punisher?

Or Matthew Murdock, who’s lost too much and is now searching for answers in Pete Castiglione, another man with nothing left?

Frank doesn’t know.

The funny thing is, Murdock’s the one who can detect lies through heartbeat or some ninja trick, yet Frank’s always been the one to strip away all his disguises—and once again, reopen his wounds.

Frank missed the moment to give him an understanding embrace, no matter which identity it was for.

He no longer has any excuse to offer this misplaced comfort under any grand pretense.

That’s why Frank is sitting here now.

He doesn’t know in what capacity he could ever step back into his life.

Until Frank gets a call. From Karen.

The woman he wanted to protect is now asking him to help the man he also wanted to protect.

He can do it—as the Punisher.

As for which version of Murdock he’s dealing with, he doesn’t care.

So I’m going to do my best to sell people a little on DWrp, particularly rpers, but note that this really is a site that works very well for writing and fandom communities as well.

What’s DreamWidth?

Dreamwidth is a community based website that derived its original coding from LiveJournal- yes, that LiveJournal that had it’s servers moved to Russia and ran out the majority of the fandom through very bad coding decisions, amongst other…really big issues.

DW is advertiser free and has already shown that the small, US-based team is ready and happy to accommodate communities looking to go elsewhere- see the majority of 2012 when tens of thousands of new accounts were created by LJ’s rping community, including transferring the data and entries from communities several years and tens of thousands of comments old. Whilst you can buy paid accounts, this is not obligatory, and namely the benefit to doing so is having access to more icon space and the capability to create polls. 

For rping, DW is a bit of a dream in comparison to Tumblr, considering that your threads are actually retained on the same page and are easy to navigate:

A single thread between two people, on the same page, staggered, and collapsible? Amazing!

Dreamwidth already does have a relatively stable community of rpers - you can see a masterlist of all the currently active games in that link right there! In addition to this, there’s meme and testing communities that allow people to test out new characters or just enjoy singular scenarios without feeling obligated towards a game.

Is DWRP different to tumblr rp?

From my own experience, absolutely. Tumblr rp is a lot looser and generally sticks to independent blogs interacting with each other- there are games and communities on tumblr as well, but unlike DWRP, indie is (or was, back in 2015 when I rped here) more widely used than in DW. 

Another difference most games have is applications; generally these are sources of information that show how well you know your character and how you play them. They’ve been a staple in comm-based rp since the LJ days, and for some communities, this information serves a further purpose for settings that are AU (you’re changing your character’s history entirely for the universe in game, or play a non-canon version of that character) or have nerfs (certain powers, magic, or abilities are damped or cut entirely as to not break the game’s setting).

Writing in DWRP is generally formatted through HTML, which can feel intimidating when you first start using it. The styles of how you write are usually formatted to action  (with brackets showing actions your character is taking) or prose (generally used for more introspection originally, but now it’s more of a tastes thing). 

One of the biggest benefits to DWRP is that each comment has a subject header, which we usually use to warn if a cw has come up in a response (self-harm, abuse, etc)

There are a million and one guides on how DWRP works in comparison to tumblr rp, so hey! Have a look around, see if dwrp offers something you like, and maybe dive in!

The game in question was Camp Fuck You Die, notorious for being one of the biggest, most crazily active games out there, with a very large and very enthusiastic playerbase. It had frickin’ spin-off communities for side games, okay? I cannot overstate how enormous CFUD was. 

It was also, by 2012, very long-running. So we had years and years’ worth of very, very active posts that we faced the prospect of completely losing if we had to start over on a new host. Nobody was thrilled about this.

Buuuut, that was also about the time DW was rolling out its community-import feature, to make it possible for people to transfer entire LJ communities, complete with posts and comments in place over to DW. So contact was made between the CFUD mods and the DW folks, and DW was like “Hey… wanna help us stress test?”

So DW stress-tested this crucial feature using our fucking 1000-lb gorilla of an RP comm. And it was just, incredible. They babysat it carefully through the whole process, watched it break things in new and exciting ways, fixed the broken things, and brought our gigantic glorious monster of a community through fucking intact. 

@angelsdean you are so spot on!