#dexmatt study

The apologies, forgiveness, sacrifice, and honestly everything was beautiful.

I'm glad Matt, Foggy and Karen are back together. Though it will take some time for trust to come back all together. It seems Foggy has decided to fully stick with Matt like he promised. Even when Matt went to kill Fisk; Foggy only stopped Matt because it would've ruined Matt in the long run. I'm glad the trio is back together, they deserve happiness after everything.

I have mixed feelings for Dex and the ship of Dex/Matt.

Dex's character is very well written and displayed for what he's meant to represent and portray. He needs lots of help, and someone who specializes in anger management and BPD. I'd say solitary for a while, get him used to living without others or someone to guide him. He'd have ended up a slightly less villainous character if he had someone good to guide him, but the anger issues and BPD would still be a big thing he'd have to work through. I don't want to say he's got a form of psychosis because his bursts of 'insanity' fall under the BPD category instead; and no it's not BP because his 'insanity' moments aren't random, their's a very obvious pattern to them. The dudes also going to have lots of physical issues after that last episode, yikes.

The ship between him and Matt is toxic as fuck on both sides, but I'm sure that's why people ship it. Matt craves validation and punishment, Dex also craves validation but he likes to give out punishment when he feels someone deserves it. That punishment just happens to be death in most cases. The both get something they 'require' out of being together but in no way is that ship healthy or sane. There's a small chance Matt would be a 'north star' for Dex, but I don't think it'd work unless Dex gained a very strong desire to please Matt. I do understand why its a ship, but imma stay away from it. DexMatt shippers, y'all have fun with those two trauma ducks.

Matt is my favorite character in DD, but man has he fucked up these last two seasons. I'm glad he's turning around now and that he's trying to make things right. He needs help, like Dex does. A therapist would be a good start, but a doctor and some x-rays would be nice too.

If Matt doesn't have some kind of enhanced skeletal/bone structure, he should be in a wheelchair or something. A building fell ontop of him, he's had multiple broken and re-broken bones, he's been shot numerous times and he's had plenty of concussions and likely skull fractures. He's got to have constant body aches, phantom pains, migraines, and irritated scar tissue that would be hell on his senses. The bones he's had broken repeatedly shouldn't be as functional as the are. His nose should be permanently crooked, his hands should shake constantly, his legs shouldn't be able to hold his weight for hours on end even with training and exercise. His ribs had to have been broken, cracked, or snapped after The Defenders, so he'd have trouble breathing too.

His mind is fucked 6 ways to Sunday. He's got anger issues, a form of psychosis because he's hallunating people talking to him, abandonment issues, ptsd likely severe, depression likely major, and his self-sabotage is a either: depression, anxiety, or a form of a personality disorder. It could even be a mix of all of them. I haven't dug deeper into that to piece it together yet, but I will eventually. He's also autistic; maybe not high on the spectrums but he's on it.

Karen's backstory was sad as fuck. I honestly don't have much to say. She got trauma, daddy issues, anxiety, and survivors guilt due to what happened with Ben and Kevin. She's also strong willed, steady, and will do whatever she can to get the truth out. I wish she would look out for herself more then she does when it comes to getting things out in the open, she seems to lose every self persevation skill/sense when it comes to revealing the truth. She cares a lot for those close to her and does a lot for them even after they've hurt her, but it does bite her in the ass occasionally. I adore her, she's awesome and badass.

Foggy's a funny character, but not 'haha' funny. He's positive, outgoing, and optimistic even after everything. Man's the sunshine character of the show. We've seen his family and how he interacts with them, but we haven't seen his actual backstory from before Matt and I doubt we will. He seems to rely heavily on the relationships he has with Marcy, Matt and Karen. I'd say all relationships but I don't think that's true after his interactions with his family. Yes he loves them, but he's also far more firm when it came down to it. He's a family guy, but he doesn't rely heavily on those relationships or persue them like he does with Matt, Marcy and Karen. I don't have much else to say about Foggy. He's likely got some dark secret, but as of now he's a ray of sunshine who sees the good in things and can be very understanding when he wants to be.

I'm not gonna touch on Frank, much. He's my 3rd favorite marvel character, after Tony and Matt. But he's got so many mental issues that I don't want to keep digging into, but I will just not in this post. He's like Matt in regards to the physical and bodily issues. Aches, irritated scar tissue, phantom pains, and broken bones affecting him. His nose, hands, back, neck, and arms would be affected the most, mostly aches for his neck and hands. I think he might be partially deaf due to his guns and his time in the army. He'd likely have reoccurring migraines too, but that's all I'm gonna say on him or this post is going to triple in size.

All in all, amazing show! I'll admit I got very lost and confused watching the characters and their development, more so then I usually do with shows, but season 3 tied it all together nicely.

I had people spoil DDBA for me and I wish they hadn't. Although, I called it when I started season 1. So I'm not surprised, just devastated. I don't want to watch it because of the spoilers, but I will watch it, and I will cry, and be even more confused by all of their actions throughout the show.