Daredevil Prompt Post #12

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This post is for prompts involving characters from Netflix's Daredevil.

Now that The Defenders prompt post is live, all crossovers between anyone in the four individual shows should go over there. Prompts only including characters that appear in Daredevil should still go here.



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• General
  
  1. YKINMKATO. Play nice. Respect others. If you don't like something, scroll on.
  
  
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  4. RPF is allowed. Crossovers, characters from the extended Marvel Universe and comics canon are allowed, but must relate to the 2015 TV show in some way.
  
  
  5. Prompts focusing on characters from other Netflix Marvel shows or the comics should go on their respective prompt posts, but crossovers with Daredevil can go here.
  
  
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• Prompts
  
  1. All types of prompts are welcome.
  
  
  2. Use the subject line for the main idea of your prompt (pairing or characters, keywords, kink).
  
  
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• Fills
  
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Please post any prompts related to Season 2 of Punisher over on the dedicated Punisher prompt post, and put SPOILERS in the subject line!

Comments

Fill: part 21 (I think) - Bruce

[(Anonymous)]

They didn't get him a real doctor. Not yet, anyway. Tony brought him resume after resume - never let it be said that Tony Stark lacked in resources - and yet Bruce couldn't bring himself to trust any one of them.

He remembered the white coats. He remembered them taking notes. He remembered himself---

But there was a difference.

Not a big difference, nothing that made him the better man, but significant. There was him, and there were others like him — and he could only control one of those.

"I need to discuss his results with him," he decided. The words seemed too big for the communal kitchen. But they were out now.

"You sure?"

If Tony thought he was hiding his worry well, he was wrong. Bruce gave him a smile. "I'll be okay," he promised.

Not a promise he was guaranteed to keep, but he would damn well try. He had practice keeping his emotions in check.

Tony was very obviously Not Happy with it, and Bruce had a sudden thought that Tony Stark had a really bad poker face when he was being serious. Staple of a man who never before stopped the party, maybe. But he also didn't fight him, and Bruce was ridiculously grateful for it.

"Do you need anything?"

So many things. And it meant more than Tony probably knew that Bruce was willing to say, "I'll let you know if I do."

Re: Fill: part 21 (I think) - Bruce

[(Anonymous)]

Part 22, actually :)

— AA

Re: Fill: part 21 (I think) - Bruce

[(Anonymous)]

I'm with Bruce, honestly: he might not be perfect, but it's hard to trust anyone else.

I wonder if Natasha will be able to stay while Bruce talks to Matt 👀

Re: Fill: part 21 (I think) - Bruce

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, it's not easy to trust when you're protective of somebody. And he was definitely feeling inadequate for the task, but also, his "get someone else" request was mostly just for him. Running away. He has a tendency to do that.

Now that the first emotions subsided, he's willing to put on big boy pants and actually protect the man he's protective of. It's not an easy decision (or an easy task, as he's well aware), so I'm a little proud of him there :)

Off for a few days

[(Anonymous)]

Hey, like it says - I need a few days. But I'll be back :)

Re: Off for a few days

[(Anonymous)]

No problem at all! Thanks for the note though :)

Re: Off for a few days

[(Anonymous)]

It’s been a few days 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

Re: Off for a few days

[(Anonymous)]

It's been like three days, anon authors are allowed to have time off! It's holyday season, too 🌞

Re: Off for a few days

[(Anonymous)]

You’re right of course. I just hoped the pleading faces would entice anon to write sooner.

The story is just so good I can hardly wait for more 😸

Author Anon

[(Anonymous)]

I'm working on it! See you soon :)

Fill: part 22 (I think) - Matt

[(Anonymous)]

There was only pain.

And sand.

And pain.

There was sand everywhere, reaching every hidden cave in his flesh, and where there wasn't sand, there was air, touching his skin without permission, hot, cold, CUTTING.

He was so alone. He fleksed his hand, clenching and unclenching the first, reaching out, fingers bending, straining---

If only he could reach---

"Administering second dose, sir," a voice told him cleanically.

Where was he? The air was so confusing. Or maybe sound. Yes, the sound, the sound was so confusing. His voices were talking to him again. Hate when you don't answer my calls, buddy, someone said cheerfully.

A hit. Pain.

Slap.

Hit.

"Is he ready then?"

Re: Fill: part 22 (I think) - Matt

[(Anonymous)]

Sounds like a flashback maybe?

One thing’s for sure, the plot thickens

Re: Fill: part 22 (I think) - Matt

[(Anonymous)]

That it does! See it thicken even more in the next part. I've been waiting to introduce that for some time now... 😈

AA

Fill: part 23 (I think) - Matt

[(Anonymous)]

Is he ready then? Is he ready then?

Ready. Ready. READY.

He woke with a gasp. Forced himself to be quiet. Gasping for air, but silent; he knew how to do that. The words echoed through his scull. Was he ready then?

His heart was racing. Was he ready...?

He wasn't ready. He didn't want to be ready. His eyes darted around uselessly. Did they think he was ready?

He closed his eyes. Administering second dose, sir. How many doses...? He flexed his hand, clenching and unclenching his fist. If only he could reach---

His heartrate calmed. He could.

He focussed on his breathing, and blinking into the dark, and the reasurring touch of his fingers to tiny, risen scars on his tights... he breathed. He remembered where he was now, probably.

He strained his fingers just a little more. Just enough to find feeling of the broken needle right beside the scars, stolen from Banner's lab and hidden under his skin. He can do this.

Re: Fill: part 23 (I think) - Matt

[(Anonymous)]

OH NO MATT what are you planning. Help

Re: Fill: part 23 (I think) - Matt

[(Anonymous)]

He never makes things easier, does he.

Chapter ahead! Enjoy your daily dose of torment :)

Fill: part 24 (actually 25, I skipped count) - Tony

[(Anonymous)]

They had Man come down to the infrimary several more times. Every other day, in fact. The man was more injury than flesh, they couldn't just not do it - no matter how badly everyone involved wanted to. No matter how horrible it was.

And it was. Very, very horrible.

Tony watched.

Not from very close, he did remmeber that he was the Owner here - Jesus fucking Christ, the knowledge was seared into his brain forever - and torturing man while his owner watched... no. Just no.

But he did watch. Only without Man knowing. Just out of sight.

He told himself that it was because Bruce needed support. He wasn't sure if he was lying or not.

Either way, he watched with eyes almost as fevered as Man's, while Bruce knew and Man didn't. He watched as they brought specialist after specialist, one on one with their patient this time, under Bruce's supervision. He watched as they strapped electrodes to his chest to read his heart with an ECG. He watched as they strapped electrodes to his head to read his brain. He watched as Bruce relayed blood tests results to him - vitamin deficiencies, iron deficiency, anemia, too little of everything, it all sounded like a famine victim - and prescribed him pills Man probably didn't understand the purpose of, or what the results would be.

He took them obediently. Every time.

That was what Man was - obedient. Bruce insisted that he would be the one to bring him from his room, without involving Natasha as a bargaining chip, and tried to talk to him every time. Man didn't talk back. He listened with an imassive face, the same face that he had when he listened to all his test results - Bruce reported them all to him, dutiful and exhausted, ignoring the lack or reaction like Man was ignoring him - and stared blankly ahead. If he didn't follow commands Tony would insist on an audiologist visit, to check that Man could hear them at all.

But he followed. Every time, without question. And while things were happening to him, he stared blankly ahead, looking into memories. Tony knew that look.

He used to wear that look - waking up and staring at the past instead of what was around him, before waking awareness could tell him where he was, what happened and what didn't, how much time has passsed. Staring at his Afgan cave.

Now he had a charge who could stare at their Afgan cave as well. The irony of Tony buying him---

Well, it probably wasn't lost on anybody.

One day, Tony would have him test his eyesight. Caves were dark.

Re: Fill: part 24 (actually 25, I skipped count) - Tony

[(Anonymous)]

Test his eyesight. Whatever could go wrong XD

Thanks for the chapter!

Re: Fill: part 24 (actually 25, I skipped count) - Tony

[(Anonymous)]

Oh yeah, nothing to see here. Quite literally. xd

Welcome! Coming up: Captain America going through an existencial crisis :D

I'M ALIVE!!! :D Part 26 - Steve

[(Anonymous)]

Steve went on walks. More walks.

Soon he'll walk through the circumference of the Earth, if keeps at it - or the distance from Earth to the Moon. One small step for a man...

It was one of the first thing they showed him when he got fished out and brought back to life like a parody of a Messiah - the Moon Landing. One great leap for the humankind. Look at us, so much progress.

Look at them, still in the same bloody place as 80 years ago. This the Moon Landing landed - right where it came from. Progress was nothing but a shiny toy to wave in front of some Russians.

He snorted. Look at him, Captain America being bitter about the future. His biographers would be appalled.

Steve kept a number of secrets from his biographers.

He suspected he didn't need to; Propaganda Departament got scrapped, but with the days, weeks and months, now two years of watching the future, he got fewer and fewer doubts that it was little more than a name change. Too many slogans were flowing in the air. Best country in the world. Protecting freedom and democracy. Truth, justice and the American way. Shining city on the hill, Home of the brave, I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States...

Steve read 1984 and he didn't like what he saw.

He closed his eyes. Earth's Migtest Heroes. Captain America.

"Have you ever been cynical, Buck?"

Have you ever wanted to just stay in your grave?

Bucky's empty grave didn't have an answer for him; it never did. Steve wondered if he could ask to be buried in it, anonymously.

Probably not. Too much freedom and democracy to squeeze out of his empty corpse. Truth and justice.

The American way.

"They put chemicals in a person again," he told the grave. "Did I tell you? That I wasn't the only one? It's a secret. I wasn't supposed to tell you."

He hadn't. He was loyal, and dedicated, and he had never revealed any national secrets. Any national crimes. Fighting the Nazis was more important. The Nazis that separated people by race, and performed human experiments and eugenics.

"I wasn't the only one," he said again.

He went on a neusating information search recently; internet was a wonderful thing, you could never hide what was once revealed anymore. Not even Shield could shield him from truths anymore - answers were out there, all it took was to know what questions to ask.

A lot of effort went into making people not ask. I pledge allegiance. Steve had pledged allegiance too. In a previous life.

"There were others like me in the program. Some died immediately. Some were mangled or crippled. Nobody survived; I don't know how many were merci-killed, and how many murdered just to keep them quiet."

The last batch, he remembered them well. There were only four of them, Steve, John, Harry and James. Those were the ones whose faces he got to see; his companions. Every one of them blond-haired and blue-eyed, young and happy and ready to be better.

Ubermenshen.

"Some got mangled or crippled," he repeated. It should be told more. "Some got sick, and the doctors didn't tell them. And there were other programs out there AFTER, too. Not even to make a better human to fight your wars; just to... see what happens. When you hurt a body. When you don't treat a disease."

The earlier batches, those weren't made out of white men.

"One... was called a Tuskegee Experiment. There were 400 men in that one. They were sick with syphilis, but nobody told them, and they just got false diagnosis and fake treatments. Doctors watched them slowly die for 40 years. It started when we were alive, do you know? Ended when we were long dead. We still do that. America still does that."

His voice was thick with tears now. "Remember the Smithson family, Bucky? Their boys were just our age. Why didn't we befriend them, Buck? Why did we take part in this?"

The Smithsons were different, of course. Separate. But equal.

He closed his eyes, renembering the faces of the little Smithson boys, who were darker and worse, and the face of an unnamed man hiding from America in a cave, who was pale and the same, and it didn't even matter in the end. His tears fell.

"I want to go back, Buck," he whispered. "I want to leave."

Re: I'M ALIVE!!! :D Part 26 - Steve

[(Anonymous)]

I just looked up the Tuskegee Experiment. It's awful. 🙃

So, fun fact in case you haven't watched The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: there was a Black man who got a successful version of the serum too! Isaiah Bradley. The government ended up imprisoning him to experiment on him (until a nurse helped him fake his death) and deleting him from history. Nice stuff :) (Maybe there were more but they died in war/serum failure, I honestly don't remember. Been a while since I watched that show. Only Isaiah remained, either way.)

I'm mentioning it because I wondered if that's where you were going while I was reading.

Anyway! Understandably very depressed and in crisis Steve. I like the detail of Bucky's grave. (I'm now picturing struggling-with-his-programming Bucky and this slaveMatt be friends. Help XD)

Steve wants to leave, but he can't. I wonder what he'll end up doing.

Re: I'M ALIVE!!! :D Part 26 - Steve

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, describing Tuskegee Experiment here is my personal social service. It wasn't the only one, but it's the one I know most about.

They're always performed on Black people...

Or gay men. One of the two.

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I haven't watched it, no. Thanks for telling me, that's interesting.

I've only seen like... four of the movies? Iron Man, Iron Man Probably Two (I think...? The one with Ultron and Sokovia), Avengers (that's a movie, right?), the Engame one (I think; no wait, it must have been Civil War) and also Guardians of the Galaxy which just said "Fuck it. Let's lean into the weirdness." and made a talking racoon steer a spaceship XD. That one was definitely memorable, though I'm not sure what the plot was. Two sisters of two colors on I think two sides of something...? That's what I have.

So, yeah, Avengers are mostly a vibe for me. What I know about them mostly comes from fanfics. Which is I'm sure a distorted view, but I kind of like it.

If there are any Marvel movies that I'd like to watch though, the Winter Soldier would be on the list. That and Black Widow. And Deadpool, since he's apparently hilarious. One day I'll get around to that.

Re: I'M ALIVE!!! :D Part 26 - Steve

[(Anonymous)]

The one with Ultron and Sokovia it's Avengers 2, actually!
And yes, Avengers is a movie :)

I like your Avengers, anyway! They have the right vibes. [The following paragraphs assume you don't mind spoilers — I'm fairly sure, but be warned anyway!]

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is actually a TV show (6 episodes, like Hawkeye). It's about a character you might remember from Civil War, Sam Wilson (Falcon), to whom Steve left his shield (Steve goes back to the past at the end of Endgame, we see him old in the present satisfied and passing the shield to Sam). Sam gives it to the government at first (not a great idea), but ends up claiming it back by the end of the show to be the new (Black) Captain America.

It's not a conflictless choice.

Bucky introduced him to Isaiah Bradley (the Black supersoldier), who is reasonably very bitter and at some point tells Sam something like "No self-respecting Black man would wear their (America's) symbol".

Steve doesn't know about Isaiah, by the way.


I love Black Widow! Mostly because it's focused on Natasha and introduces Yelena, whom I love. (Yelena's meant to be asexual — she is in the comics and the BW director confirmed it —, though it's not explicit of course. There are hints for who wants to see them.) It avoids the psychological complexities of human trafficking by using comicbooks science, but that's fair enough for a Marvel movie.

Winter Soldier has Steve and Nat, brainwashed-Bucky and introduces Sam Wilson, all in a spy plot. Not bad!

The Guardians of the Galaxy are hilarious. And a found family, which I may be weak to. They have their serious moments, but still, funniest movies along with Ant-Man.

Deadpool... I used to love it and find it very funny, as a teen. When I rewatched a few years ago I actually didn't find it all that funny; it has a pretty vulgar sense of humor, it's politically uncorrect etc. (Not saying it's a bad thing.)

I haven't watched Deadpool&Wolverine (out right now), but I probably will sooner or later. Apparently there's the Elektra from the early 2000s movies in it.


Whoops, I ranted about marvel movies. Oh well. :)

Re: I'M ALIVE!!! :D Part 26 - Steve

[(Anonymous)]

If you're interested in the topic, here's a definitely-not-complete but LONG list of things that would make Capitan America want to die again. It's honestly hard to pick the most horrifying one, Tuskegee was mild in comparison.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States

Some of the highlights:

• taking testickles from dead people and animals and implanting them into prisoners

• injecting babies, disabled children and orphanes with fatal diseases

• inserting things into 3-days-old newborns

• giving 800+ pregant women radioactive drinks to see how quickly babies would get sick

• scratching people's faces and pouring syphylis on them ; injecting people's penises with syphilis

• forcing people into addiction; then forcing them into withdrawl

• army sprinkling army ships with chemical warfare while 1000+ soldiers are on board

• CIA searching for truth serum via chemical experimentation and mental torture, CIA doing A LOT of other things

• checking how effective is torture, the latest of those we know of are I think from 2010s

• seeing how long a person can go without sleep (you go into hallucinations and then die)

• seeing how long you have to abuse children before they have a trauma-iduced stutter

• a man killing himself after forced into antipsychotic research with what sounds like either threats or blackmail, AstraZeneka, 2004

• injecting people with cow blood in 1940s, injecting people with artificial blood between 2000 and 2010

• the Iraq War experiments on how to torture people more efficiently

and more. "Injecting people with diseases" section had to be broken up into decades. Last one there is the 60s, those are the experiments that had started in the 60s. After that, we just don't know yet.

It doesn't include whatever is currently going on in Guantanamo Bay, a prison deliberately established by USA outside of US territory to avoid their own human rights laws.

So, yeah. Poor Steve.

Re: I'M ALIVE!!! :D Part 26 - Steve

[(Anonymous)]

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