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Re: Calling all Frank Castle fans

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I like your excerpt! :D So cute, Matt and Frank growing up together (and trolling the cops). I do wonder if the CO would actually discharge him, though--technically, if he was wounded in the line of duty, he should get an honorable discharge and a purple heart. Would he have already been discharged by the time he was convalescing back home? So it wouldn't matter if he came out at that point. I'm not sure.

As for Frank being sentimental, I agree that he would probably be on the more pragmatic side of that. He's always struck me as more likely to act than to brood, even though it might sometimes be more healthy for him to wait and work through his emotions first. (Have you read Daredevil vs. Punisher? It's got quite an interesting portrayal of Frank with respect to his reactions to tragedy and his emotional health. You can find in on Marvel Unlimited here: http://marvel.com/comics/issue/2202/daredevil_vs_punisher_2005_1) He would probably be the type to compartmentalize his grief and only deal with it when it becomes impossible to go on. (I'm imagining a situation where he gets in too deep with a mission and he's constantly distracted by visions of Matt...and then Daredevil comes to rescue him.) So, it's not so much that he's not hurting as that he doesn't allow himself to acknowledge that he's hurting.

Hm...I like the idea of Frank falling in with Fisk, but I'm not sure about whether he would be too keen on the idea of taking his help to get revenge. I've always been unclear on the nature of Frank's War: Is it to get revenge on the criminal underworld that hurt him so badly, or if he wants to protect other innocents from being hurt like he was. If it's the first, then he probably would think of Fisk no differently than he does anyone else. If it's the second, then he might think of it as an opportunity to have more resources to do what needs to be done...but also as a potential ticket to a slippery slope. I could just see Fisk knowing that Frank is dangerous and probably planning to betray him one day...and Frank knowing that Fisk knows. But they both need each other for their own reasons, and neither wants to be the one to fire the first bullet...but neither wants to be caught unprepared, either. A cold war of human proportions.

I am also down with Steve showing up. I know that in the comics, he is sometimes portrayed as being on good terms with Daredevil, but not at all with the Punisher, so I'm not sure how you could work him into Frank's support system, but I mean. I'm always down for some Captain America.