OP, i am WITH YOU TO THE END on this "TACKLING STICK: ABUSIVE AHOLE" and "FOGGY NELSON & THE NELSONS: MURDOCK WHISPERERS" prompt it started out as a good idea and now it's eating my soul i am like you i cannot get enough of this "character x learns about feelings" trope. especially when you have source material, like the show, that is kind of consistently brutal.
(anon forget matt murdock I AM W E E P I N G and cackling at the christmas card holy shit)
ok forget this: canonically, i am a sucker for foggy and matt's brutal fight when foggy finds out that matt's been lying to him, but IN THIS HEARTS & FLOWERS PROMPT that fight never happened, kay?
because. um.
oh, i dunno, OP, work with me here: i have the feeling that that first thanksgiving, Matt gets overwhelmed during coffee and ice cream (because he's also had a bunch of wine, let's say) and excuses himself to the back yard for some Fresh Air. and foggy's mom is like: son. u didn't tell us you were actually bringing your painfully polite lovable orphan friend oliver twist home: is he okay?
and foggy's like: OMG, when Murdock has feelings, he has FEELINGS, give us a sec.
so they're out in the backyard, DETAILS DETAILS, and matt is like "it was super nice of you to do this, foggy, but I CAN'T LIVE LIKE THIS," and foggy is like "what? why? you can't eat food? if you don't eat food you'll die, matt," and maybe you remember how their conversation went better than i do, OP, but. Y'know.
Matt has that breakdown/panic attack where he has to explain the senses to Foggy, right? Because he wants all the hospitality, he wants family, but if he gets soft again, if he loses his edge, how will he even function, literally speaking? Stick was the one who taught Matt how to handle his own senses, remember, and I think the Thanksgiving where Matt is recklessly ignoring everything Stick's ever said to him is EXACTLY when Matt has a panic attack about being nine or ten and totally unable to function because everything is too much, too big, too LOUD. He's rejecting all of Stick's lessons; what is going to happen to him.
And I think he articulates enough of that panic attack to Foggy, because again, all of this family food & love shit is killing Matt because he wants it so much he can't let Foggy think he doesn't want it, that would be rude. also, like i said, THE THANKSGIVING WINE has him talking a little bit more recklessly than he normally would.
Re: matt, stick was an asshole
(anon forget matt murdock I AM W E E P I N G and cackling at the christmas card holy shit)
ok forget this: canonically, i am a sucker for foggy and matt's brutal fight when foggy finds out that matt's been lying to him, but IN THIS HEARTS & FLOWERS PROMPT that fight never happened, kay?
because. um.
oh, i dunno, OP, work with me here: i have the feeling that that first thanksgiving, Matt gets overwhelmed during coffee and ice cream (because he's also had a bunch of wine, let's say) and excuses himself to the back yard for some Fresh Air. and foggy's mom is like: son. u didn't tell us you were actually bringing your painfully polite lovable orphan friend oliver twist home: is he okay?
and foggy's like: OMG, when Murdock has feelings, he has FEELINGS, give us a sec.
so they're out in the backyard, DETAILS DETAILS, and matt is like "it was super nice of you to do this, foggy, but I CAN'T LIVE LIKE THIS," and foggy is like "what? why? you can't eat food? if you don't eat food you'll die, matt," and maybe you remember how their conversation went better than i do, OP, but. Y'know.
Matt has that breakdown/panic attack where he has to explain the senses to Foggy, right? Because he wants all the hospitality, he wants family, but if he gets soft again, if he loses his edge, how will he even function, literally speaking? Stick was the one who taught Matt how to handle his own senses, remember, and I think the Thanksgiving where Matt is recklessly ignoring everything Stick's ever said to him is EXACTLY when Matt has a panic attack about being nine or ten and totally unable to function because everything is too much, too big, too LOUD. He's rejecting all of Stick's lessons; what is going to happen to him.
And I think he articulates enough of that panic attack to Foggy, because again, all of this family food & love shit is killing Matt because he wants it so much he can't let Foggy think he doesn't want it, that would be rude. also, like i said, THE THANKSGIVING WINE has him talking a little bit more recklessly than he normally would.
so those are MY thoughts?