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Re: Foggy = Self-insert?

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Matt's the fantasy, Foggy's the reality.

nayrt but that's a really good point, nonny, and I agree. A friend and I were commiserating this weekend that if Matt were ours, we'd eventually strangle him ourselves because he's noble and hot and a hero and all that but him coming close to dying every other day would get so old, so quick. If you're in love with Matt and you're not a superhero like him where you get to go out and protect him or help him, your life is a bundle of nightly fear and anger and tears and blood and worry and stress. That's the reality of Matt Murdock. Beautiful creature, but Foggy would be a million times easier to have an ordinary relationship with.

I do think Foggy's become the self-insert character because his characterisation has become consistently wildly so far away from canon that he's not even recognisable as the guy I adore on the show, and that never speaks well of the canon character. Why such a need to write him so drastically different if you love FOGGY ON THE SHOW, you know? I appreciate an AU as much as the next fan, but how is it most Foggys in fic are AU Foggys? Maybe I'm just a little sad because I love the Matt and Foggy relationship, I even love reading Matt/Foggy, but it seems a lot of time it ends up Matt/X when Foggy is so weirdly different from the show. I don't know, maybe it's just me.