charlie cox. cis male. bisexual. — MATTHEW MURDOCK from ( marvel ) is streaming live ! they’re thirty y/o & a lawyer ; they arrived ( six months ) ago, & they ( do ) remember their old life. fans say they’re [ HONEST + HUMBLE ] but [ EVASIVE + IMPULSIVE ] & associate them w/ red, city skyline, southern gothic, bloody knuckles, church sanctuaries, fighting gloves.
01.when the virtual reality shut down, what was your muse’s reaction ? how did they handle the dark period ? ( if your muse died in canon: how would they have reacted ? )
in truth, matt was fucking terrified. with his vision the way it is, all he can rely on is light and his other senses. when all light is gone and his other senses can’t detect anything, he’s left in utter darkness and silence, with nothing to tie him down to the reality. this is what he imagined hell to be; a torture worse than any physical pain he might have experienced, and an inability to do anything about it.
02. what was their reaction to finding out they were fiction ? how did they feel about the idea of becoming real ? ( if your muse died in canon: how will or did they react to finding out they were fiction ? )
he’s stubborn. matt didn’t believe it at first. as it slowly became a reality to him, he only had one important question – is there crime in the real world the way there’s crime in mine? he would jump on the opportunity to escape the dark period, but he wanted a purpose.
03. before the island, where did they live ? what was their reset life like ? what drew them to the island ?
alcoholism tw; mental illness tw;
matt murdock lived in hells kitchen, new york, son of a ring fighter and a nun. when his mother became pregnant, she was faced with a choice: put the child up for adoption and take time for a penance before returning to her order, or keep her child and raise him as her own but leave the order forever, forsaking the life she dedicated herself to. she chose to stay with her son and his father. what she couldn’t have predicted was the path that his life would take.
matt’s father was a fighter, and he got caught up in a ring where wins and losses were pre-determined. he was often paid to lose, and one day, after accepting his payment, matt’s dad decided to do the opposite. he won the fight fair and square, and as a result, the gangsters involved decided to punish him. they beat him up, of course, but the real punishment was what they did to his son – they attacked matt and blinded him.
matt’s father became an alcoholic, and his mom’s history as a nun became public. the family dynamic became complicated, and they started to spiral out of control. while his health and alcoholic tendencies got worse, her mental health dissolved. she ended up institutionalized when matt was a teenager.
he wasn’t particularly close to his father, after everything that happened. it’s not that he blamed his dad for throwing the fight; his dad didn’t ask for him to be blinded. he just thinks his father owed him and his mom something afterward; support in the form of actual fatherly duties rather than drowning himself in liquor.
with the help of a strange and mysterious mentor through the church, matt slowly learned how to hone his other senses. this, much like his real life, slowly lead him to a life of vigilante justice. a law student / lawyer by day, and a masked crime fighter by night. he wore a ski mask and a black suit. nothing fancy.
he was recently informed that his mother was being transferred to a facility on the island. it was a lie, of course, but matt had no reason to believe differently. of course he set out to follow her. he got his memories back shortly after arrival.
04. what are some of the events, twists, or turns that the fans voted on ?
being blinded by the guy his dad screwed over
his dad becoming an alcoholic
mom’s identity as a nun became public
her refusal to give him up for adoption and subsequently being asked to leave her order
mom’s mental health slowly dissolving as a result of her ‘excommunication’ and her husband’s drinking problem
mom being institutionalized when he’s a teenager
05. does your character have any secrets ( big or small ) that they think are private when in reality they were broadcasted live to the whole world ?
his identity as ‘daredevil’. to him, it is his most guarded secret; to the world, it is the crux of his story.
06. what are the major similarities between the character’s canon life & their reset life ? what about the differences ?
his father’s career, his role as a vigilante, his mother’s identity as a nun, and his job as a lawyer are all taken straight from matt’s canon. his reset life is a huge mess in comparison; instead of losing his eyesight in a freak accident, it was retribution for his father’s actions against what was essentially the mob of fighting rings. his mother’s identity was not a secret to him; she was an active member in his life, until she was institutionalized. he also never became the iconic ‘daredevil’ with the fancy red suit.
07. what were they bribed or blackmailed with ? why was this chosen for them?
he made it clear that he wouldn’t be bribed; hell’s kitchen was his home, and he wanted to go back. he had to be blackmailed. they blackmailed him with foggy nelson and karen page, his closest friends, and they blackmailed him with clint barton, who he loved. of course he stayed.
