Hm, I'm thinking it would probably have to be full-on AU. Unless you're going for some kind of mass-hypnotization scenario where the collective Hell's Kitchen suddenly for some reason thinks giving the poor blind lawyer from the office around the corner away to be devoured/deflowered by suddenlymutated!Frank Castle who has locked himself in the Avenger's Tower (where of *course* everything talks) is THE solution for their troubles, I have no idea how this would work with something even vaguely related to canon. But it's likely going to be cracky either way, and I love it!
(and oh, AU would work *so*. *well*! Like, Matt isn't even a book worm out of his own free will, it's just that his father always forced him to study instead of playing with the other village boys, and after he gets blinded, everybody is already joking that he'll have to make somebody a pretty wife one day, since looking good is basically all he's good for after the travelling teacher who took him in after his old man died dumped him back in the village (ignoring that Matt is plenty useful, since at this point he's the only one who can stand up for the village in negotiations for taxes and stuff (they're not quite sure where he gets the knowledge from - Matt isn't going to tell them that the only thing that changed is that he doesn't need light to read any more, now). Matt doesn't really care *that* much - he's best friends with the village baker-who-didn't-want-to-become-a-butcher, and that's as much social interaction as he wants/needs anyway. The one dark spot in his life is perhaps Lester, the weirdo creep who seems obsessed with *actually* making Matt his wife (and he is having none of that, thanks) since he obviously can't provide for himself. The fact that Matt keeps 'finding' somehow freshly killed animals in the forest (most of them much larger and more dangerous than any Lester ever shot) which provide him, Foggy, Foggy's family, and the rest of the village as much meat and furs as they could ever need, is gratuitously overlooked.
All of this changes, of course, when Foggy, once again more than worried when his blind friends cheerfully taps his way back into the village with a dead wild boar strung over his pack horse Brett. ("Look, Foggy, what I *accidentally* found again! Damn, I must be one lucky devil! Is that one bigger than the one Lester shot the other day?") takes Matt's horse and rides into the forest. He needs to find out what keeps killing the animals Matt finds, so he can maybe get Lester to kill *it* before it kills Matt one day for stealing all his prey. ("Nah, I think I'm pretty safe, Foggy." - "How can you possibly know that?!"). He doesn't even know *how* that thing kills, there are only rarely bleeding wounds on the animal corpses, more mercifully snapped necks and blunt force trauma.
Well, if only Foggy hadn't gotten lost and wandered into the part of the forest where the abandoned Frank Castle lies...
Re: Matt/Frank Castle, Beauty and the Beast
(and oh, AU would work *so*. *well*! Like, Matt isn't even a book worm out of his own free will, it's just that his father always forced him to study instead of playing with the other village boys, and after he gets blinded, everybody is already joking that he'll have to make somebody a pretty wife one day, since looking good is basically all he's good for after the travelling teacher who took him in after his old man died dumped him back in the village (ignoring that Matt is plenty useful, since at this point he's the only one who can stand up for the village in negotiations for taxes and stuff (they're not quite sure where he gets the knowledge from - Matt isn't going to tell them that the only thing that changed is that he doesn't need light to read any more, now).
Matt doesn't really care *that* much - he's best friends with the village baker-who-didn't-want-to-become-a-butcher, and that's as much social interaction as he wants/needs anyway. The one dark spot in his life is perhaps Lester, the weirdo creep who seems obsessed with *actually* making Matt his wife (and he is having none of that, thanks) since he obviously can't provide for himself. The fact that Matt keeps 'finding' somehow freshly killed animals in the forest (most of them much larger and more dangerous than any Lester ever shot) which provide him, Foggy, Foggy's family, and the rest of the village as much meat and furs as they could ever need, is gratuitously overlooked.
All of this changes, of course, when Foggy, once again more than worried when his blind friends cheerfully taps his way back into the village with a dead wild boar strung over his pack horse Brett. ("Look, Foggy, what I *accidentally* found again! Damn, I must be one lucky devil! Is that one bigger than the one Lester shot the other day?") takes Matt's horse and rides into the forest. He needs to find out what keeps killing the animals Matt finds, so he can maybe get Lester to kill *it* before it kills Matt one day for stealing all his prey. ("Nah, I think I'm pretty safe, Foggy." - "How can you possibly know that?!"). He doesn't even know *how* that thing kills, there are only rarely bleeding wounds on the animal corpses, more mercifully snapped necks and blunt force trauma.
Well, if only Foggy hadn't gotten lost and wandered into the part of the forest where the abandoned Frank Castle lies...