Matt Murdock (
devilcomplex) wrote2019-08-15 07:59 pm
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I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. And I'll fear no evil because I'm blind to it all
PLAYER
NAME: Jessi
AGE: 35
PREFERRED CONTACT:
OTHER CHARACTERS: n/a
CHARACTER
NAME: Matthew Michael Murdock
AGE: 36
CANON & CANON POINT: Netflix's Daredevil/MCU -- Post S3
RESERVATION LINK: HERE.
HISTORY: MCU Wiki
PERSONALITY: Matt is too much like his father. He enjoys inflicting violence and he doesn't know when to stay down. He's an idiot in a mask, basically. He doesn't inflict pain on just anyone, they have to be wrong. They have to have slipped through the tightest laws. Matt started to be a vigilante because of a little girl he couldn't save as a lawyer. Matt himself has a soft spot for children, since he had such a rough time growing up. He knows what it's like, kids. Latchkey kid who lost his parents. He knows. But Matt's way of doling out violence... he smiles when he fights. He loves the rush. His grandmother said that the Murdock boys have the devil in them.
Matt is an excellent attorney, which is a combination of studying and his enhanced senses (if you can hear a heartbeat, you can detect a lie). He's a little on the cocky side. As time goes on, he stops relying on the law (and Foggy's plans to use the law) and starts relying on brute force. He loves Foggy, he does. That man is his heterosexual life mate, going from his college best friend to being the first person to find out he's Daredevil. Foggy always comes back to him, no matter how many times Matt pushes him away, shoves him away, throws him away. Matt's not a great friend. He believes in doing anything it takes. ANYTHING IT TAKES. Which includes treating your friends like shit. Matt's a real asshole.
He was raised Catholic, and sometimes that gets in the way. He has a complicated relationship with God. Sometimes he doesn't think God is there. Sometimes he thinks he's doing God's work when he puts on the Daredevil costume. Thou Shalt Not Kill-- Matt has a strict code of not killing the bad guys. He will certainly put them in the hospital for several weeks, make them eat out of a tube, but he won't kill them. This almost gets tipped over when Fisk gains too much control over the FBI. Karen is able to tell him that she's killed before, and it changes you. He actually listens. He tells Fisk he won't let Fisk change him.
When Matt teams up with the Defenders, he's the most "normal" one of them all. He doesn't have super strength, a glowing fist, or bulletproof skin. He can hear neon and can't stand cotton sheets.
He's a nice guy, though. Very amiable. A good lawyer, one who often would accept casseroles for payment. He believes in helping those who cannot help their selves. Matt himself might even see himself like he's God's agent, if not God himself. But they call him the Devil of Hell's Kitchen.
ABILITIES/SKILLS: Matt has enhanced senses. Hearing (echolocation), smell, taste, touch (thermoreception and electroreception). He also has enhanced balance-- his sense of balance is superhuman, giving him perfect equilibrium, coordination, dexterity, reflexes and agility, resulting in high levels of acrobatic and gymnastic ability. He's stealthy, a marksmen, a damn good lawyer, and can speak English and Spanish. He can identify other languages but not speak them.
He's a master martial artist and is more than proficient with a staff or batons.
...and he can play a little piano.
(paraphrased from the wiki-- willing to fix if not ok)
INVENTORY/COMPANIONS: Red-tinted round glasses and a white cane that retracts.
FACTION CHOICE: Moon
REASON: Matt is a lawyer, so he very much believes in using logic and facts to bring people to justice. That and he put on a disguise and went out to beat up a man who abused his daughter. He took it into his hands. He was a doer.
TATTOO: at the bend of his elbow
SAMPLES
NETWORK: here
LOG: here
NOTES, QUESTIONS, COMMENTS: