I want to see the easiest thing would be to parallel S1, except everything is way too different for that. Maybe let's try to start from there, anyway? If it doesn't work we can scrap it.
(Premise: Matt gets more or less settled as Fisk's slave.)
First up would be Karen's incident. Matt would try to get involved and Wesley would fix it without killing Karen (but he'd make it clear to her to not try anything and forget the file, maybe threatening Matt?)
The Healy case. Maybe Foggy and Marci would handle it and Matt gets to be a paralegal. (!)
Vanessa.
The bombings, civil war with the Russians. This is an interesting plot point, but I don't see how Matt could get involved here. He wouldn't even need to talk to Vladimir to get info on Fisk, considering his position, so. He'd want to try to avoid the bombing (he heard about it before it happens), but what could he do? He'd probably have to hear it happen and seethe, despite his best efforts.
(All the while, the focus would be on developing the relationships between the characters; it's what I care most about, and what I'm probably better at writing anyway.)
Maybe after the bombings Matt would convince Karen to reach out to Ben, something she wanted to do already but refrained to not risk Matt.
Honestly I'd just skip Stick. For two reasons: 1) the Black Sky plot makes no sense; 2) Stick couldn't take Matt out of Fisk's building, I don't think. So the most he could do would be belittling Matt. That's what Stick's voice inside Matt's head is for, we don't need the real one.
Would Matt consider killing Fisk? It wouldn't solve his condition as a slave (it might worsen it, actually, and that of every other Fisk's slave as well), but it would remove the crime boss who has been hurting Hell's Kitchen. Maybe he'd struggle about it here as well.
~~~ Plot points aside, what would be the ending goal? I think it'd be nice if Matt built a support system (James, Karen, OC slaves, probably Foggy) and at some point they started to plot to free all of Fisk's slaves. If they manage to get James on their side, that could be possible; I mentioned that in this universe freeing someone is fairly easy (the reason why slaves exist isn't that they can't be freed, is that who owns them chooses not to free them), James could probably prepare the necessary papers, maybe make it so that should Fisk either die or be convicted his slaves will be freed. Would that be too easy?
And in the finale, Matt, James, Karen (and others?) are freed and work towards abolishing slavery through the law (maybe Matt finally manages to become a lawyer for real, maybe he 'just' helps Foggy and Marci) while they not-so-legally go after slavers.
So basically I'd like this story to have 1) challenges of being Fisk's slave; 2) bonding/found family building; 3) slavery system being the enemy as a whole, not just regarding the protagonists' status. That's more or less it. 😶🌫️
PLOT
(Premise: Matt gets more or less settled as Fisk's slave.)
First up would be Karen's incident. Matt would try to get involved and Wesley would fix it without killing Karen (but he'd make it clear to her to not try anything and forget the file, maybe threatening Matt?)
The Healy case. Maybe Foggy and Marci would handle it and Matt gets to be a paralegal. (!)
Vanessa.
The bombings, civil war with the Russians. This is an interesting plot point, but I don't see how Matt could get involved here. He wouldn't even need to talk to Vladimir to get info on Fisk, considering his position, so. He'd want to try to avoid the bombing (he heard about it before it happens), but what could he do?
He'd probably have to hear it happen and seethe, despite his best efforts.
(All the while, the focus would be on developing the relationships between the characters; it's what I care most about, and what I'm probably better at writing anyway.)
Maybe after the bombings Matt would convince Karen to reach out to Ben, something she wanted to do already but refrained to not risk Matt.
Honestly I'd just skip Stick. For two reasons: 1) the Black Sky plot makes no sense; 2) Stick couldn't take Matt out of Fisk's building, I don't think. So the most he could do would be belittling Matt. That's what Stick's voice inside Matt's head is for, we don't need the real one.
Would Matt consider killing Fisk? It wouldn't solve his condition as a slave (it might worsen it, actually, and that of every other Fisk's slave as well), but it would remove the crime boss who has been hurting Hell's Kitchen. Maybe he'd struggle about it here as well.
~~~
Plot points aside, what would be the ending goal? I think it'd be nice if Matt built a support system (James, Karen, OC slaves, probably Foggy) and at some point they started to plot to free all of Fisk's slaves. If they manage to get James on their side, that could be possible; I mentioned that in this universe freeing someone is fairly easy (the reason why slaves exist isn't that they can't be freed, is that who owns them chooses not to free them), James could probably prepare the necessary papers, maybe make it so that should Fisk either die or be convicted his slaves will be freed. Would that be too easy?
And in the finale, Matt, James, Karen (and others?) are freed and work towards abolishing slavery through the law (maybe Matt finally manages to become a lawyer for real, maybe he 'just' helps Foggy and Marci) while they not-so-legally go after slavers.
So basically I'd like this story to have 1) challenges of being Fisk's slave; 2) bonding/found family building; 3) slavery system being the enemy as a whole, not just regarding the protagonists' status.
That's more or less it. 😶🌫️
What do you think?