#daredevil stuff

This is a guy who has had more time without sight than with it, and has had to rely on what he remembers about how people comport themselves, in order to conduct himself appropriately.

Since he was nine, he’s had no visual input for body language and how to interpret it. It would have taken a while to figure out how to translate brand new interactions into something he could emulate and use.

I need so much more of Daredevil using this to his advantage to throw people off. I need Daredevil really selling the idea that the Devil of Hell’s Kitchen is an eldrich beastie playing at human.

(And honestly, the lack of gifs with the proper creepy clips is clearly an oversight, so an Intimidating Devil will have to do.)

And honestly, I’d take Matt doing it on purpose as well as by mistake, because both are equally funny.

Matt being an absolute menace and scaring people on purpose For Effect?

Delightful!

Matt forgetting that Humans Don’t Act Like That and scaring the mess out of people because he was focusing on more important matters?

Delectable!

Daredevil makes people question whether the eldrech horrors have crawled from the depths.

Daredevil makes people wonder what awful deal was done to bind this creature to Hell’s Kitchen and rain wrath upon criminals.

Daredevil makes people suffer without the mercy of death.

Daredevil makes bad guys think they better get to a church fast because God is sending the devil after them.

Daredevil freaks wrongdoers out so much that some of them will just give up on sight.

When it’s theorized that Matthew Murdock might be Daredevil, the bad guys don’t go after him because what if Matt Murdock is actually the Devil of Hell’s Kitchen?

Daredevil makes people think that something horrible crawled into a human’s skin and is trying to walk around and pass itself off as human.

Daredevil picks fights with the biggest, baddest, meanest, nastiest scum that the earth can drum up, and he picks these fights over and over and over again.

Daredevil goes after the nasties that whole police forces won’t touch.

Daredevil cannot be mortal, because Daredevil should have been dead many times over, but he always pops back up to take another run at his enemies.

Daredevil goes after the old, the gargantuan, the rooted-in crime elements that nobody else knows exists, or tries their hardest to forget.

Matthew freakin’ Murdock made New Yorkers, who had seen vigilantes crop up before, shake their heads and cross themselves and go, “Naw, that’s the literal devil himself.”

Named after Matthew the follower of Jesus who was martyred for telling off a king for attempting to force a girl to marry him, and for Michael the archangel of battle and end times… Murdock sure lives up to the spirit of savage battle in the name of justice. He’s so violent, such a powerful fighter, and he makes such an impression.

Imagine you’re a crooked guy. You do things your mother is ashamed of. You do things that your mother doesn’t 100% know what they are, but she knows it’s something bad.

Imagine your mother is Catholic or something.

Imagine one day you see her and she says, “I’m going to church, and I’m going to pray for your soul.”

You blow it off. Your mother is crazy. What is god gonna’ do? Smite ya?

Imagine the next night, the Devil shows up at the place where you’re Henchman #3.

The Devil doesn’t drag you to hell, though, or put you out of your misery.

The Devil looks straight through you, through. The Devil looks at your soul. He leans down to the dirt where you’re helpless and pissing yourself and growls, “I heard your Mother. I’m not going to kill you. You’re going to fix your life.”

You think you die.

You don’t.

You wake up in a hospital.

You think you made a deal with the Devil, but you’re not sure. Your mother is praying by the side of your bed, though. She’s praying to God about your soul.

The day you get out of the hospital, you find a job. You sweep floors at the bodega down the street.

That night you walk home, and you happen to look up.

Prompt #1.

Suddenly it made sense why Red was so naively set on never killing. He had *been* a literal child when someone had tried to break that soft-heartedness of childhood; he’d been a little kid when a full-grown adult had tried to beat him into being a hard-nosed soldier for a shadow war.

Frank, at least, had been an adult when he signed his life over to be a Marine. He’d made a choice to become a sniper. He’d had a choice.

Damn.

No wonder Red was such a wreck.

Yeah, rich coming from Frank. Sure. He had a little self-awareness, thanks.

But damn.

Prompt #2.

“Wow, Red. Someone broke you up a long time ago, didn’t they.” Frank says, just like people say “oh wow, the Towers went down twenty years ago.” It’s a fact and it can’t be helped.

It’s a fact. It can’t be helped.

Matthew has been wrong for a long time now. Frank has been wrong for a little less time. There’s no fixing them, just living with the consequences.

Frank stopped fussing about how Daredevil didn’t kill a few months after it came out that Stick had started training him for the war against the Hand at ten years old.

Frank never brought it up in so many words again, in fact he never exactly mentioned it in the first place.

may i offer you some old art anon may i

and a sketch i found that looks really nice but I'm hiding it anyway because .. sketch