matt murdock's life is out of control. (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
guardiandevil) wrote2014-05-02 01:12 pm
guardiandevil) wrote2014-05-02 01:12 pm
Entry tags:
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
thegames application
OUT of CHARACTER
Name: Ali
Other characters: Zoidberg, Jessica, Felicity, Courfeyrac
IN CHARACTER
Name: Matt Murdock (Daredevil)
Fandom: Marvel 616
Canon point/AU: Post-Shadowland (Daredevil Vol. 3 #1)
Journal:guardiandevil
PB: Comics art
History: Marvel Wiki
His history has been retconned a few times, so I'm including a link to the history I wrote previously.
Presentation: On first impression, Matt Murdock comes across as a confident, dedicated practitioner of the law, in turn both compassionate and fearsome, and not one to be easily brushed aside. He's a first class lawyer with the gift of gab, when the mood strikes him. He's sharp, he knows all the right questions to ask, and he knows how to manipulate a witness and draw out a confession. Conversely, you won't meet anyone as genuinely empathetic as him. He understands hardship well, and he considers himself to be a benefactor and guardian for those who need him most; the disparate citizens of Hell's Kitchen.
His personality is both mirrored and amplified once he pulls his cowl on and becomes Daredevil. The same tenacity that he's known for demonstrating in the court room transforms into something darker. Instead of hammering away at his opponents with rhetoric and questioning, he handles them with a blend of Japanese martial arts and boxing that can best be described as very painful to whomever he is up against. Matt can be violent, on more than one occasion a little too violent. However, so far he has been able to maintain his control and refrain from allowing his vigilante activities warp into something deadly.
In terms of physicality, he's tall and incredibly strong, though he's one to hide these traits for the most part. While he doesn't exactly play up his handicap, he doesn't always feel the need to correct people who make stupid assumptions about him just because he's blind. He'd rather prove that he's entirely capable of being a badass than simply talk back.
He's also quite handsome, in a pretty boy sort of way. He's been hit in the face a few times and has some scaring near his eyes due to his accident, but he's somehow maintained a youthful appearance. His good looks are an advantage and he's well aware of it and capitalizes on this asset routinely.
Motivations: In his day to day life, Matt is generous, and has a soft spot for long shots and underdogs, often taking on pro bono legal cases and volunteering his time and money to those in need. He is a devout Catholic, although admittedly, a terrible Catholic, complete with the guilt, sure he is already damned to hell. Despite all of this, he comes across as rather charming, and has had a seemingly unending parade of women in his life. Matt has dated various major players in the Marvel universe, from heroines to villainesses ,and quite a few innocent civilians. His love life and relationships have tended to be somewhat self-destructive and marred by tragedy. Several of his former girlfriends died tragic deaths, all of which severely impacted his emotional well being. More recently, his wife was driven insane by one of his villains and was committed to a mental institution after she killed a man. He blames himself for this, and for all of the misfortunes that have crossed those he cares about. He is prone to mood swings, violent fits of rage, and deep depression. He has a history of suffering emotional breakdowns, and has a tendency to fixate and obsess over memories of past tragedies.
Matt grew up idolizing his father, Jack, essentially viewing him as a larger than life hero, as a god among men. His father's personal motto, 'never give up' has now become his own personal mantra, and Matt can be stubborn to a fault. He is fiercely protective of his name and reputation. His double life is not something he wants to have splashed about in the newspapers. Daredevil has one life, Matt Murdock has another. The two do not overlap, and when they do, he can become irrationally angry. He is not above suing people and newspapers for libel by day and then beating the living hell out of them by night.
He is often referred to as a human lie detector, which is rather ironic considering he seems to have few qualms with telling lies himself. Denial is often his weapon of choice, and it often comes back to bite him. Matt has a somewhat evasive personality, sidestepping direct questions as best he can, giving half-truths and hoping that suffices, and flat out lying if it will save his skin. It isn't that he is dishonest, he doesn't see himself as such, anyway. Rather, he's just arrogant enough to see himself as above the truth on certain issues. He has an elitist streak. Matt thinks very highly of himself and can come off as incredibly self-centered. His view of the world is often short-sighted and quite limited; unless it's happening to him or to someone in his neighborhood, he isn't apt to immediately care.
And for all the arrogance and selfishness, his self-esteem is quite shaky. He goes through somewhat manic stages followed by severe depressions, and he's contemplated suicide once or twice. The intensity of his enhanced senses has not especially helped his mental fragility. He's in an almost constant state of pain, both from his sense of touch and from his heightened hearing. Matt takes prescription painkillers to help dull the pain, and it can be speculated that he may have formed some sort of dependence on them.
Matt's personality changed dramatically following his break up with Black Widow and his subsequent return to Hell's Kitchen from San Francisco. Until that point, he was more apt to display his jovial streak. He was more lighthearted, he told jokes, and in general he was much less somber than what he is today. Whether his split from Black Widow was the catalyst for this change, or whether it was a sudden maturing of his nature cannot be fully determined, though the series of tragedies that would follow their break up most certainly played a role in his becoming a darker, moodier, more intense individual. The death of Elektra served as another stepping stone into a darker side of his psyche. Though he had been faced with other catastrophic events in his life, she was his first love, and her death in his arms sparked an emotional breakdown not matched until the death of Karen Page via similar circumstances years later.
Setting: Having just exited a depressive phase, Matt will be looking for any means necessary to stay out of it. He's a lawful person, but he's also a vigilante, so he'll very quickly seek out ways to subvert what he views as a corrupt authority. That said, he'll play his cards as close to his chest as he can. He's used to being surveilled and he's used to finding ways around it.
SAMPLES
First Person Thread:
[Matt's expression is blank, like he seems almost oblivious to the faint humming of the recording device getting all up close in personal. But rest assured, he knows it is there. He takes his time composing himself before slowly turning his head to face the camera. He doesn't have his glasses on, so the unfocused, cataract look of his eyes may be somewhat alarming.]
We've all been wronged at one time or another. People can be jerks and sometimes you're their designated punching bag. Sometimes the slights against you are minor and meaningless. You got cut off in traffic. Someone poaches your cab. A friend says something unflattering about you, you get the picture.
But sometimes it's more serious than that. Sometimes people hurt you and it's malicious and meaningful. It can be personal or impersonal, but it stings you just the same.
So you recoil, retreat, and let it fester, or you forgive, forget, and let it go. Or maybe you do something somewhere in between. Either way, you have to deal with it.
Is forgiveness really possible? Is it better to forget the pain? Or should you keep it closer to your chest and keep it in mind? How do you deal with someone who has wronged you?
[He’s staring straight ahead still, eyes milky white and not focused on anything at all. He’s staring so long that it might start to become unnerving.]
If you’re asking if I’m angry about all this, then yes. I’m angry. I’m pissed off. Wouldn’t you be pissed off? I promise you, you would be pissed off if you were in my shoes. But you’re not, and that’s very lucky for you. I wouldn’t wish this on anybody. Not even my worst enemy. Not even on somebody I didn’t have it in me to forgive. Not even on you.
Prose:
What is your character scored: While Matt is legally blind, his other senses function at superhuman levels. For example, he can read by touch, sense changes in temperature and air pressure as they happen, remember any scent or taste he encounters, and hear a human heartbeat from 20 feet away. He can track individuals across great distances based on their scent, tell how long a body has been dead based on its temperature, etc. His hearing is his most accurate sense, so sensitive that he can tell whether or not a person is lying by listening to their pulse. However, his enhanced hearing is a duel-edged sword. Loud noises cause him great pain, and particularly busy locales can leave his senses feeling overwhelmed. He also has a lower threshold for pain than most people, due to his sense of touch being so developed. These enhancements together have formed a specialized 'radar sense' which functions similarly to echolocation. He is able to pinpoint the location of objects by listening to the reverberations made by ambient sounds against objects and people.
Matt is a member of the order of the Chaste, having received training in ninjutsu from his sensei, Stick, since his teen years. He has mastered the eighteen disciplines of the shinobi, and he is competent with katanas, spears, naginatas, kusarigama, knives, and projectiles, in addition to being an expert in wielding all types of stick weapons which range from staffs, batons, and nunchaku to paired eskrima sticks. He has combined his martial arts training with his gymnastics and boxing skills to form a hybrid fighting style, a true mix of East and West. Matt has learned basic pain control techniques, and meditation based self-healing techniques. He can also use a variety of pressure points to paralyze an entire body or certain parts of the body and can disable eye sight, speech, administer excruciating pain, or even death.
Ultimately, Matt would score somewhere between a 9 and 10. He is considered to be the foremost stick fighter in the Marvel universe and is in the peak of human physical condition, blindness aside. His heightened senses are his biggest weakness, as he can become debilitated by disruptions to his radar sense.
Additional information: Matt is completely blind, but his other senses are enhanced so as to give him an extra sense, which he calls his radar sense. I already asked about the possibility of him keeping his heightened senses here. In canon, his heightened senses allow him to sense the electromagnetic spectrum, but I'm a-okay with eliminating that for the purposes of the game.
Name: Ali
Other characters: Zoidberg, Jessica, Felicity, Courfeyrac
IN CHARACTER
Name: Matt Murdock (Daredevil)
Fandom: Marvel 616
Canon point/AU: Post-Shadowland (Daredevil Vol. 3 #1)
Journal:
guardiandevil PB: Comics art
History: Marvel Wiki
His history has been retconned a few times, so I'm including a link to the history I wrote previously.
Presentation: On first impression, Matt Murdock comes across as a confident, dedicated practitioner of the law, in turn both compassionate and fearsome, and not one to be easily brushed aside. He's a first class lawyer with the gift of gab, when the mood strikes him. He's sharp, he knows all the right questions to ask, and he knows how to manipulate a witness and draw out a confession. Conversely, you won't meet anyone as genuinely empathetic as him. He understands hardship well, and he considers himself to be a benefactor and guardian for those who need him most; the disparate citizens of Hell's Kitchen.
His personality is both mirrored and amplified once he pulls his cowl on and becomes Daredevil. The same tenacity that he's known for demonstrating in the court room transforms into something darker. Instead of hammering away at his opponents with rhetoric and questioning, he handles them with a blend of Japanese martial arts and boxing that can best be described as very painful to whomever he is up against. Matt can be violent, on more than one occasion a little too violent. However, so far he has been able to maintain his control and refrain from allowing his vigilante activities warp into something deadly.
In terms of physicality, he's tall and incredibly strong, though he's one to hide these traits for the most part. While he doesn't exactly play up his handicap, he doesn't always feel the need to correct people who make stupid assumptions about him just because he's blind. He'd rather prove that he's entirely capable of being a badass than simply talk back.
He's also quite handsome, in a pretty boy sort of way. He's been hit in the face a few times and has some scaring near his eyes due to his accident, but he's somehow maintained a youthful appearance. His good looks are an advantage and he's well aware of it and capitalizes on this asset routinely.
Motivations: In his day to day life, Matt is generous, and has a soft spot for long shots and underdogs, often taking on pro bono legal cases and volunteering his time and money to those in need. He is a devout Catholic, although admittedly, a terrible Catholic, complete with the guilt, sure he is already damned to hell. Despite all of this, he comes across as rather charming, and has had a seemingly unending parade of women in his life. Matt has dated various major players in the Marvel universe, from heroines to villainesses ,and quite a few innocent civilians. His love life and relationships have tended to be somewhat self-destructive and marred by tragedy. Several of his former girlfriends died tragic deaths, all of which severely impacted his emotional well being. More recently, his wife was driven insane by one of his villains and was committed to a mental institution after she killed a man. He blames himself for this, and for all of the misfortunes that have crossed those he cares about. He is prone to mood swings, violent fits of rage, and deep depression. He has a history of suffering emotional breakdowns, and has a tendency to fixate and obsess over memories of past tragedies.
Matt grew up idolizing his father, Jack, essentially viewing him as a larger than life hero, as a god among men. His father's personal motto, 'never give up' has now become his own personal mantra, and Matt can be stubborn to a fault. He is fiercely protective of his name and reputation. His double life is not something he wants to have splashed about in the newspapers. Daredevil has one life, Matt Murdock has another. The two do not overlap, and when they do, he can become irrationally angry. He is not above suing people and newspapers for libel by day and then beating the living hell out of them by night.
He is often referred to as a human lie detector, which is rather ironic considering he seems to have few qualms with telling lies himself. Denial is often his weapon of choice, and it often comes back to bite him. Matt has a somewhat evasive personality, sidestepping direct questions as best he can, giving half-truths and hoping that suffices, and flat out lying if it will save his skin. It isn't that he is dishonest, he doesn't see himself as such, anyway. Rather, he's just arrogant enough to see himself as above the truth on certain issues. He has an elitist streak. Matt thinks very highly of himself and can come off as incredibly self-centered. His view of the world is often short-sighted and quite limited; unless it's happening to him or to someone in his neighborhood, he isn't apt to immediately care.
And for all the arrogance and selfishness, his self-esteem is quite shaky. He goes through somewhat manic stages followed by severe depressions, and he's contemplated suicide once or twice. The intensity of his enhanced senses has not especially helped his mental fragility. He's in an almost constant state of pain, both from his sense of touch and from his heightened hearing. Matt takes prescription painkillers to help dull the pain, and it can be speculated that he may have formed some sort of dependence on them.
Matt's personality changed dramatically following his break up with Black Widow and his subsequent return to Hell's Kitchen from San Francisco. Until that point, he was more apt to display his jovial streak. He was more lighthearted, he told jokes, and in general he was much less somber than what he is today. Whether his split from Black Widow was the catalyst for this change, or whether it was a sudden maturing of his nature cannot be fully determined, though the series of tragedies that would follow their break up most certainly played a role in his becoming a darker, moodier, more intense individual. The death of Elektra served as another stepping stone into a darker side of his psyche. Though he had been faced with other catastrophic events in his life, she was his first love, and her death in his arms sparked an emotional breakdown not matched until the death of Karen Page via similar circumstances years later.
Setting: Having just exited a depressive phase, Matt will be looking for any means necessary to stay out of it. He's a lawful person, but he's also a vigilante, so he'll very quickly seek out ways to subvert what he views as a corrupt authority. That said, he'll play his cards as close to his chest as he can. He's used to being surveilled and he's used to finding ways around it.
SAMPLES
First Person Thread:
[Matt's expression is blank, like he seems almost oblivious to the faint humming of the recording device getting all up close in personal. But rest assured, he knows it is there. He takes his time composing himself before slowly turning his head to face the camera. He doesn't have his glasses on, so the unfocused, cataract look of his eyes may be somewhat alarming.]
We've all been wronged at one time or another. People can be jerks and sometimes you're their designated punching bag. Sometimes the slights against you are minor and meaningless. You got cut off in traffic. Someone poaches your cab. A friend says something unflattering about you, you get the picture.
But sometimes it's more serious than that. Sometimes people hurt you and it's malicious and meaningful. It can be personal or impersonal, but it stings you just the same.
So you recoil, retreat, and let it fester, or you forgive, forget, and let it go. Or maybe you do something somewhere in between. Either way, you have to deal with it.
Is forgiveness really possible? Is it better to forget the pain? Or should you keep it closer to your chest and keep it in mind? How do you deal with someone who has wronged you?
[He’s staring straight ahead still, eyes milky white and not focused on anything at all. He’s staring so long that it might start to become unnerving.]
If you’re asking if I’m angry about all this, then yes. I’m angry. I’m pissed off. Wouldn’t you be pissed off? I promise you, you would be pissed off if you were in my shoes. But you’re not, and that’s very lucky for you. I wouldn’t wish this on anybody. Not even my worst enemy. Not even on somebody I didn’t have it in me to forgive. Not even on you.
Prose:
There was a decision that had to be made. Either Matt was going to play the weak, defenseless handicap card and hope that those Gamemakers underestimated him, or he was going to pull out the stops and put on a show. Both had their benefits and drawbacks, either strategy could work in his favor. It was just a matter of sussing out which would serve his purposes best. Or better yet, it was a matter of making a split decision and sticking with it.
His footsteps were heavy on the metal floor of the demonstration room, echoes reverberating and causing the figures of the Gamemakers to glow on his radar. He tilted his head, listening to them murmuring under their breaths, whispering about him at what they assumed was a secret volume. Just hearing them made Matt’s blood go cold.
He reached for a weapon from the array, helping himself easily to a club. With a grace not generally associated with the blind, he sprang into action against the humanoid targets. As he’d take out one, another would appear in its place, again and again, in an almost endless cycle of striking and violence. He was elegant in his movements, seeming to attack the mannequins before they’d reappear. It was a scene of precise and practiced beauty, one which was clearly fueled by rage.
As he downed the final target, he sank into a squat, inhaling and exhaling deeply before slowly rising to his feet. Clearly, he’d gone for his second option, but perhaps there was a way to keep things coy. Turning to face the wall opposite the spectators, he gave a curt salute, then stumbled toward the exit. His cover might’ve been blown, but at least he was entertaining.
What is your character scored: While Matt is legally blind, his other senses function at superhuman levels. For example, he can read by touch, sense changes in temperature and air pressure as they happen, remember any scent or taste he encounters, and hear a human heartbeat from 20 feet away. He can track individuals across great distances based on their scent, tell how long a body has been dead based on its temperature, etc. His hearing is his most accurate sense, so sensitive that he can tell whether or not a person is lying by listening to their pulse. However, his enhanced hearing is a duel-edged sword. Loud noises cause him great pain, and particularly busy locales can leave his senses feeling overwhelmed. He also has a lower threshold for pain than most people, due to his sense of touch being so developed. These enhancements together have formed a specialized 'radar sense' which functions similarly to echolocation. He is able to pinpoint the location of objects by listening to the reverberations made by ambient sounds against objects and people.
Matt is a member of the order of the Chaste, having received training in ninjutsu from his sensei, Stick, since his teen years. He has mastered the eighteen disciplines of the shinobi, and he is competent with katanas, spears, naginatas, kusarigama, knives, and projectiles, in addition to being an expert in wielding all types of stick weapons which range from staffs, batons, and nunchaku to paired eskrima sticks. He has combined his martial arts training with his gymnastics and boxing skills to form a hybrid fighting style, a true mix of East and West. Matt has learned basic pain control techniques, and meditation based self-healing techniques. He can also use a variety of pressure points to paralyze an entire body or certain parts of the body and can disable eye sight, speech, administer excruciating pain, or even death.
Ultimately, Matt would score somewhere between a 9 and 10. He is considered to be the foremost stick fighter in the Marvel universe and is in the peak of human physical condition, blindness aside. His heightened senses are his biggest weakness, as he can become debilitated by disruptions to his radar sense.
Additional information: Matt is completely blind, but his other senses are enhanced so as to give him an extra sense, which he calls his radar sense. I already asked about the possibility of him keeping his heightened senses here. In canon, his heightened senses allow him to sense the electromagnetic spectrum, but I'm a-okay with eliminating that for the purposes of the game.