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Re: minifill: daredevil con 2k15 (or: foggy is not paid enough for this)

[(Anonymous)]

oh gosh, let me count the universes:

1. mcu canon, with matt, foggy, karen, and claire
2. 616, thus far represented only by matt
3. matt, karen, and foggy from the black widow & electrokinetic fill
4. tiny!matt and tiny!foggy from a world with an offset timeline
5. karen from a world where she's daredevil and matt is presumably dead
6. matt(ie) from a world where everyone's physical sex is reversed

am i right?

anyway, i love how blasé 616!matt is about the whole thing, and mcu!matt's tired resignation as things just keep getting weirder and his toaster bites the dust. also the idea of karen somehow getting matt's narrative role, blindness and red outfit and all, is not one i've seen before but i like it! a lot! and i think foggy is coping surprisingly well, all things considered. :D

(is there any chance of more? *puppy eyes*)

Re: minifill: daredevil con 2k15 (or: foggy is not paid enough for this)

[(Anonymous)]

ding! you got them all!

1. correct. (Claire is there bc she and Karen were out and talking with each other, and tiny!Foggy quite literally bumped into them just as Mattie showed up.)
2. also right! somewhere in Hell's Kitchen Kirsten and Foggy are at a Thai restaurant, wondering what the hell is going on here. they'll show up at the apartment, possibly with more Matts and Foggys in tow. (616!Foggy doesn't even bat an eyelid, anymore, this shit's Wednesday.)
3. correct! ("oh my god you're a mutant???" "yeah uh for the longest Tim I just thought I had really shit luck with electronics, Karen's been helping, we'll replace the faster I swear")
4. also correct, I got the idea from a prompt. I hope nobody minds? (this Matt and Foggy managed to change the timeline so that Battlin' Jack is still alive.)
5. correct! but also, who says Matt's dead?
6. correct! her Foggy is somewhere in Hell's Kitchen rn frantically looking for her and wondering what a bakery is doing in the Nelson & Murdock building.

I might! I like the idea. also, I like the mental image of Spider-Gwen's Matt being around and possibly grumbling about all his alternate selves seeing things in black and white, but helping out with whatever Bad Thing is going on bc he'd like to get back to his world now pls. (they have to get him to promise to absolutely not kill or torture or maim anybody in this world.)

Re: minifill: daredevil con 2k15 (or: foggy is not paid enough for this)

[(Anonymous)]

murderdock! ahaha yes good, that is a good idea and you should feel good. :D

so tiny!matt and tiny!foggy are time travelers whose minds went from their version of 2015 back to their younger bodies in their version of the mid-90s. and they got yanked into the merged 2015 because that's where they were 'originally' from or something? or am i completely misunderstanding that?

i'm not sure why i assumed that daredevil!karen's matt is dead. clearly something bad went down, or at least mcu!foggy thinks so. i guess i took that vague sadness and instinctively paired her universe with the 616 universe? maybe my subconscious was trying to balance all the dead girlfriends with a dead boyfriend or two. *hands*

Re: minifill: daredevil con 2k15 (or: foggy is not paid enough for this)

[(Anonymous)]

ngl I kind of want to read the no doubt epic argument that would result between Murderdock and at least one of the other Matts while they're trying to figure shit out about why they ended up in MCU. (makes great friends with at least one dark!Karen, though.)

sort of like that? I guess? but it's more like, they got yanked from their version of the mid-90s back into canon-verse's 2015, at least for a time. (tiny!Foggy checks off "travel to alternate dimensions" and "meet alternate universe versions of us" off his list of Things We Haven't Done Yet.)

MCU!Foggy definitely thinks so! and as for DD!Karen, I'm sort of leaning two ways on Matt: he also ends up filling Elektra's narrative role, at least in being Karen's boyfriend at first but then her enemy for some reason, OR it's a straight role-swap and Matt gets badly injured somehow, maybe she ends up thinking that he's dead and it's her fault, except he's okay but not in a good condition rn. (she does end up with like, a trail of dead boyfriends.)

Re: minifill: daredevil con 2k15 (or: foggy is not paid enough for this)

[(Anonymous)]

A!A: or. three ways. I mean I hate how Milla Donovan was treated and I think she deserves better but. oh my god my head keeps returning to DD!Karen's Matt going through a mental breakdown bc Karen's enemies found out who she is and decided to try and get at her using that sweet lawyer she cares for and, like, fucking with his head.

I'm sorry to Matt. I am so so sorry.

Re: minifill: daredevil con 2k15 (or: foggy is not paid enough for this)

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT: poor matt, trying to be elektra AND karen AND milla all in one. that is a straight-up absurd amount of misfortune to wish on ANYONE. (...i'd read it, though, ngl.)

Re: minifill: daredevil con 2k15 (or: foggy is not paid enough for this)

[(Anonymous)]

honestly if that much misfortune could happen to anyone it would happen to Matt. it probably does.

minifill 2: daredevil con 2k15, and what karen page saw there

[(Anonymous)]

Karen's out hanging with Claire for the night (Girls' Night Out, just the two of us, it'll be fun) when the world--shifts, a little bit. That's how she can best describe the feeling, like a sort of shift, and something must be sitting wrong in her stomach because she stops, has to hold on to Claire to steady herself.

"Karen?" Claire asks, worriedly, when Karen leans onto her shoulder. "You felt that too?"

"Yeah," she mutters, her legs suddenly jelly. "Yeah, I just--you too?"

"Feels like vertigo," Claire remarks, and Karen chuckles, supports Claire as much as Claire is supporting her. She should head back to the office, get some water, maybe everything'll sort itself out then and this feeling of being off-kilter will pass.

And that's when a high, childish voice yells, "Matt! Where'd you go?", and thirty seconds later the owner of said voice slams into the backs of Karen's legs, toppling her and Claire over onto the pavement.

"Ow!" Karen shrieks. "Hey, what in the--"

"Holy shit," says the--says the kid, ten or eleven at least, eyes wide like he knows her. "Karen! Claire! What are you--how are you two adults again, did me and Matt break time somehow, that should've happened like months ago--"

"Wait, wait," says Claire, scrambling to her feet and helping Karen up. Karen lets out a little hiss--she's skinned her knee, and her hands don't look too good, and she looks the kid over. Blonde hair, bright eyes, clearly secondhand jacket, and he's talking about Matt. "What's this about breaking time?" Claire demands. "And who--who're you?"

"Foggy," says the kid. "And we sort of saved Matt's dad from dying."

"What," says Karen, a little too loudly.

--

Foggy's younger self--even with an adult mind--is a goddamn hurricane. He's the most excitable kid that Karen's ever seen, which is only trumped by his worry for Matt, who's at the same physical age as he is. Karen's had to keep him from wandering off down an alley three times now, she is seriously considering giving her Foggy's parents a fruitcake, if they had to put up with this shit.

She is also going to badger him about a raise, because Jesus this is terrible.

"Now I remember why I didn't want to be a pediatrician," Claire remarks, keeping a tight hold on tiny Foggy's wrist.

"Matt could be anywhere," says the younger Foggy. "And--and he can't really fight, he's like nine and his body doesn't have the muscle memory yet, he's working on it, and we gotta find him before he gets too hurt--"

"Clarence?" someone calls from an alley, and Karen exchanges a look with Claire. Who the fuck is Clarence?

"Who's there?" Claire calls, and Karen can see someone backflip off the fire escape and land with both feet on the ground, and--it's a woman. Who's wearing a version of Matt's suit.

"You're not Matt," Karen manages.

"Okay," tiny Foggy announces, "who are you and what are you doing, lady?"

"And you're not Clarence," the woman remarks to Claire. "You don't have the aftershave. But you smell like him, otherwise." She cocks her head in Karen's direction and says, "And you smell like Ken."

"I--who?"

"It's Claire," says Claire, "and this is Karen. Now who are you?"

"Daredevil," says the woman, automatically, and Karen snorts out a laugh, just as Foggy indignantly says, "Hey, that's my friend's name! Will be."

"Trust me," she says, "we know who Daredevil is, and he's not a woman."

"Weird," says the woman claiming to be Daredevil, "because I've been doing this for a while, and I haven't heard of anyone else. And believe me, I'd know." She pauses, then let's out a hiss of pain, her hand going to her side and pressing down.

Claire moves faster than Karen does, grabbing on to the woman and holding her up. Karen can't tell in the dim light, but she thinks there's blood seeping through the woman's fingers. "What happened?" Claire asks, all professional.

"Guy got lucky," says the woman, and Karen can tell that she's wincing behind the mask. "I don't suppose your apartment's nearby?"

"No," says Claire, "but I know someone who does live nearby."

--

They manage to coax the woman's name out of her, after Claire tells her that she pulled Matt Murdock out of a dumpster. Apparently, Clarence Temple did the same for Mattie Murdock, and isn't that a surprise.

"I'm starting to think we might end up running into one of us with a goatee," the younger Foggy says, as they're walking up the stairs to Matt's apartment. Mattie is leaning now against Claire, occasionally sniffing a little.

"There are things in the office that should not be in a law office," Karen jokes, and this Foggy might be smaller, but he laughs almost exactly the same, big and loud and true. She slips the spare key out of her pocket, sticks it into the keyhole and turns, and stares at the sight that greets her.

There's a version of her clad in red leather, the same as Mattie's suit, and judging from how she's feeling around the kitchen counter she's also blind. There's another version of her who's snickering nearby, and for some reason her eyes occasionally dart to the windows outside as though scanning for threats or something.

There are four other Matts--her Matt, a Matt with red hair and blue eyes, a Matt who looks almost exactly like her Matt does save the bruise, and a boy, who leaps up off the couch just as Foggy launches himself at him at high speed, the two of them colliding ungracefully.

And there's two Foggys, her Foggy and one who's wearing gloves, and there--there's the sad remains of Matt's toaster.

"Did we miss something?" Karen asks, as Claire starts to giggle behind her and Mattie sniffs the air.

"Did someone put metal in the toaster?" she asks, slightly woozy.

Re: minifill 2: daredevil con 2k15, and what karen page saw there

[(Anonymous)]

I love Mattie, and kid Foggy is so cute.

Re: minifill 2: daredevil con 2k15, and what karen page saw there

[(Anonymous)]

thank you! writing kid!Foggy was fun, I kind of wish I'd had the foresight to write in more interactions between him and Mattie. it's gotta be weird talking to your best friend's grown-up version, let alone one who's a different gender, and Foggy, I think, rolls with it like a baby champ.

(then again, I think he and 616!Matt share that same deeply blasé attitude re: anything out of the ordinary, these days, since. he's mentally an adult, and all.)

Re: minifill 2: daredevil con 2k15, and what karen page saw there

[(Anonymous)]

Different anon whos now laughing at the image of kid foggy and 616 matt just hanging out with popcorn watching everyone else freak out

Re: minifill 2: daredevil con 2k15, and what karen page saw there

[(Anonymous)]

everyone else is panicking over what the fuck is going on and why are there so many of them and is there something bad going down, there's got to be, else why somehow drag so many people in, and there's a rather explosive argument between MCU!Matt and a darker Matt who probably never left the Chaste

and kid!Matt and Foggy and 616!Matt and Foggy are just chilling on the sidelines passing a tub of popcorn to each other, once you've traveled back in time it's kind of hard to shock you for long

Re: minifill 2: daredevil con 2k15, and what karen page saw there

[(Anonymous)]

omg, this was the BEST thing to wake up to! i like the not-exactly-vertigo feeling of things going metaphysically sideways. i'm assuming it's less of a world-merge and more just the alternates getting temporarily shoved into the mcu's physical universe. if so, does anybody NOT associated with matt feel anything wrong at all? and if claire felt the same vertigo, does that mean she has a few alternates running around too?

...oh fuck, are there alternate versions of STICK kicking around somewhere? or elektra?? FISK???

also on a more direct response note, i love karen's thoughts about commiserating with foggy's parents and making him give her a raise. and i would pay cash money to hear her trade life stories with dd!karen and black widow!karen. :D

Re: minifill 2: daredevil con 2k15, and what karen page saw there

[(Anonymous)]

yeah! and. huh. okay, let's go with that. (yes, Claire has a few alternates running around too. in her opinion this would never have been a thing had she not met Matt, jesus, Murdock.)

PROBABLY. good lord is that going to fuck with Matt (at least. three of him). alternate versions of Fisk and Stick running around his city, jesus, why. (Vanessa ends up taking the Fisks in bc like. something is going on here, and until she figures out what happened she might as well.)

I might actually write that. watch this space.

Re: minifill 2: daredevil con 2k15, and what karen page saw there

[(Anonymous)]

vanessa and her collection of confused and angry wilsons! ahaha, she could open a gallery exhibit. :D

(oh god, at least some of them know that matt is daredevil. no good can come of this...)

*watches thread intently*

Re: minifill 2: daredevil con 2k15, and what karen page saw there

[(Anonymous)]

Wilsons, and Welseys, and other Vanessas. she could totally put up an exhibit! (granted, some of them don't have Matt as Daredevil, they have Karen or Foggy or somebody else as Daredevil. others don't even have Daredevil at all. but yeah. really suspicious that Matt seems to be Daredevil most often.)

minifill 3: daredevil con more like #karencon2k15

[(Anonymous)]

Save for the two kids, who take over Matt's bed and are out like lights in ten minutes, no one really sleeps, that night. Sure, Karen could say that what kept her up was helping clean up the sad remains of Matt's toaster, but in truth, they finished that in a few minutes. What's keeping her up are the questions--why are so many people being pulled here? Why here, exactly, there's nothing special about this world, is there?

"Maybe the walls of reality are a lot weaker here or something," her Foggy says, deadpan, in the wee hours of the morning. Most of the Matts (and one Karen, which is wholly weird because, well, that's her in Matt's costume) are out Daredevilling, which leaves Claire, the gloved mutant Foggy, and her Black Widow version as the only adults in Matt's apartment.

"Sounds like a bad scifi novel," Claire remarks, stirring a cup of coffee.

"Our lives are a bad scifi novel," Karen huffs.

"Or a really bad storyline in Star Trek," says the gloved Foggy. "Be on the lookout for a me wearing like, a goatee or something, yeah?"

The other Karen snorts out a laugh, and says, "I'll keep that in mind."

Karen snickers too, but she keeps an eye on her alternate self, who doesn't sit anywhere near the windows, who glances sometimes at the window as if looking for a threat. Karen still sees the dark corners of Hell's Kitchen, the shadows lurking just out of the corner of her eye, but this Karen came from a dark corner, from the shadows she's scared of.

She's not sure how to feel about that.

--

On the list of weird things that's happened to her over the past few days, Karen supposes that taking two of her own counterparts out for a walk through Hell's Kitchen doesn't even rank that high on her list.

Besides, she appreciates the fresh air and the less crowded feeling--the Matts (and Karen) had come back with a Foggy who did become a butcher (and had been very surprised to find that his alternate counterparts were lawyers), a Claire with goddamn wings like an angel's, a Matt who had an owl perched on his shoulder and nearly punched at least one Matt for trying to touch her, a Claire who had a small dog in her hands and made it clear that the dog was also not to be touched, Mattie's Foggy and Clarence, a bald Foggy and a woman Karen had definitely not met before, and a Matt who set off all of Karen's alarms even before he opened his mouth and started a fight with her Matt.

(Some tiny part of her has started referring to him as Murderdock. She'd have gone with Evil Non-Goatee Matt, but that had been too long.)

Matt's apartment, after that, had felt too crowded for most of them, so Karen had volunteered to take her two counterparts out for a walk. So far, nobody's looked askance at any of them beyond a surprised first glance--the Black Widow Karen's hidden her hair underneath a terrible hat, and the other Karen has her eyes hidden behind red shades and a cane in her hand.

"And that," says Karen, stopping near the Santos bakery, "is the Santos bakery. Very tasty bagels, Foggy swears by them."

"The bakery's a lot farther down where I'm from," the be-hatted Karen says. "Owned by the Bains. They're a very nice family."

"We don't have a bakery at all," says the blind Karen, "it closed down years ago." She lifts her head a little and sniffs the air, and smiles. "They're baking something with chocolate in it," she says, as Karen gapes at her.

"It's weird enough getting that from Matt," the other Karen says, as the blind Karen walks up to the doors and feels around for the knob before she pushes the door open. "Does yours do that too?"

"All the time," Karen mutters, following after her blind but no doubt parkour-crazy alternate. "All the time."

--

They come out with chocolate croissants and an abundance of bagels for an abundance of Foggys, and the blind Karen's mumbling something around her croissant about how this is the most amazing pastry ever and she would stay in this universe just for the croissants alone when Karen says, "You know, what you did with the chocolate--you and Matt would get along. My Matt, I mean."

"And mine," says the other Karen, adjusting her hat. Somebody stares at her, and she waves a hand as though oblivious to the monstrosity perched atop her head. "Guess Matts do that a lot."

"Or Daredevils in general," Karen says, dryly.

The blind Karen swallows, then says, "Mine--Mine could do something like that. Not as good as me, he didn't have the senses, but--he could. Do that, I mean." She bows her head a little, lets out a huff of breath. "I'd like to sit down now," she says.

Karen knows that Matt has a radar sense, something that tells him where things are around him, and that this Karen probably doesn't need her help, but she looks at the other Karen, who nods, and the two of them end up steering their Daredevil counterpart to the nearest bench.

Karen says, "Did anything happen to him?"

"Did anything," says the blind Karen, her tone slightly sarcastic, before she sighs and shakes her head. "No, sorry, you didn't deserve that. It's just--somebody found out. About me."

Karen knows dread when she feels it, and the weight that drops in her stomach just now? Dread. "Oh my god, what--what happened?"

"Vanessa," the blind Karen spits. "Found out who I was, didn't just go after me, she sent somebody after Matt and Foggy, too. I got Foggy out fine, but Matt--" She cuts herself off, a hand going up to her mouth, her shoulders shaking. "Matt went missing for a month," she says, "and when I found him he was mute and he'd been hurt, and the first thing he did when he saw me was try to kill me."

The other Karen's eyes have gone distant, and she says, quiet, "Bozhe moi."

"I have no idea what that means, but it sounds really bad," says the blind Karen, sniffling. "I had to fight him off, he was so--so scared, and he was hurt, I could hear his ribs, and there was some kind of--of gas, in the air, and--I don't know how we managed to get out of there alive, I just wanted to get him to the hospital." She sucks in a breath, then says, quiet, "He's been there since. Foggy's been visiting him every day, just to talk, and--I miss him."

Karen thinks of Matt--her Matt, with rage thrumming under his skin and guilt weighing him down. She knows that, should anything happen to her or to Foggy, he'd blame himself for it, and she looks at the blind Karen and thinks, suddenly, you and I have a lot more in common than you think.

Because should anything happen to her Matt and Foggy, she's not sure she'd take it well either.

Re: minifill 3: daredevil con more like #karencon2k15

[(Anonymous)]

So did Butcher Foggy's mom always want him to be a lawyer?

Re: minifill 3: daredevil con more like #karencon2k15

[(Anonymous)]

haha. nah, in this case he couldn't go to law school, and ended up following his mother's planned career path for him. he's saving up for law school, though.

Re: minifill 3: daredevil con more like #karencon2k15

[(Anonymous)]

i adore you, you know. <3

the au parade continues to grow! daemons! wingfic! murderdock! 616 foggy and kirsten! (is butcher!foggy from any particular fanfic, or is that just an obvious alternate career path for him?)

poor love interest!matt and his terrible fate of woe. :( and poor dd!karen eating herself alive over it. karen and matt do have a lot in common in that regard, don't they? poor violent overprotective guilt-ridden do-gooders. *pets them all, gently*

Re: minifill 3: daredevil con more like #karencon2k15

[(Anonymous)]

thank you!

Kirsten sighing very deeply bc she may not be as used to this shit as Matt and Foggy (who are likely just hanging out on the sidelines like nbd this happened to Spider-Man once), but she does know how to Roll with Things. god I love her and I want to write her hanging out with the Karens and the Claires. (butcher!Foggy is not from any particular fanfic, it's just an alternate career path. also, he's saving up for law school.)

ngl I kind of want to write DD!Karen's actual story now. or at least prompt it. I'm so sorry to Matt for his terrible fate in her 'verse, but at least he's alive--originally I was going to go the Spider-Gwen route and have him die the same way Karen does in 616, but that tore my heart out so I used Milla Donovan's fate instead. he might come out of it someday. but not any day soon, and Karen keeps beating herself up over that.

Re: minifill 3: daredevil con more like #karencon2k15

[(Anonymous)]

...You know, I feel obligated to point out that there's at least one fanfiction where Matt is literally Satan, and there are several where he's some sort of other demon.

Re: minifill 3: daredevil con more like #karencon2k15

[(Anonymous)]

...I've read those. I might actually write in a demon!Matt just for the hell of it. (hehe, hell.)

Re: minifill 2: daredevil con 2k15, and what karen page saw there

[(Anonymous)]

OP: Both of these were wonderful! It felt like the snapshots of a love letter, not only to the canon (MCU!Matt was so hilariously resigned to the whole thing, and you included 616!Matt's amazing red suit!), but also the fandom - Black Widow Karen and electrokinetic Foggy! Time traveling nine year olds Matt and Foggy! Seriously, this was awesome and I'm grinning and this is more than I could have hoped for. Thanks anon!!

Re: minifill 2: daredevil con 2k15, and what karen page saw there

[(Anonymous)]

poor MCU!Matt, he probably just wanted a cup of tea or something before 616!Matt and kid!Matt and DD!Karen showed up in his apartment like 'sup bruh. poor guy just wants a drink now.

thank you! I'm glad you thought so highly about it--I have the dumbest little grin on my face right now. snapshots of a love letter, OP, I love you too.