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ok very much need y'all to pay attention to how Matt reacts to foes calling him "The Devil" or "Daredevil" i feel like what i'm doing with that may be ~too~ subtle but you'll see why

then

“Well, you weren’t putting on a show at the Ritz,” Foggy said, deadpanned. “I thought you would come back to the police station after that building came down.” Foggy said, playing with the condensation on his bottle as he spoke. “Everyone else showed up, you know—Luke, the annoying blonde guy with the glowing hand and the nice girlfriend, Claire, Jessica Jones. But, you,” Foggy motioned. “You never did. Me and Karen waited and waited and…” 

And I thought it was my fault. Foggy added in his head, but didn’t say out loud. He took a sip of beer instead and huffed out a breath.

i just want to lay this down on the table like a trap card that sends your whole deck to the shadow realm 😃

anyway, i gotta post more chapters before i can go any further otherwise we get into spoiler territory. I admire the writing of Daredevil so much because they do an amazing job of paralelling Matt with his foes to the point where the line is a tightrope. I hope give that storytelling model of DD a nod, so to speak with this fic as well as deep-dive into Matt's character via the vehicle of ANGST