daredevilkink | Daredevil Prompt Post #12

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Right. So Matt went to his first meeting.

BTW, question — what exactly goes on in those meetings? What is Matt overhearing besides snipes between Fisk and the Russians?

(I don't think the show was very clear on what TF is Fisk doing, actually??? We should probably figure out our answer to that question).

Ok.

Matt goes to his first meeting.
Then goes to more meetings.
He spends his other days in the office. Where Karen works.
He spends his nights with other slaves, esp. lower-tier, from Menial Tasks
(Juana tells him stories about her daughter in the night?)
Matt listens to Fisk's criminal dealings, learning more and more about his 'employer'
He listens to James and starts noticing things about him, like cracks in his power and all his inner reactions that are invisible to others but definitely make him stand out, he reacts differently to everyone else and he hides a lot
Someone spits James' slave status right in his face during meeting (Fisk may or may not be there). James is as collected as ever. Matt stands between them serving tea. He heard, James knows that he heard, Matt knows that James knows that he heard. Neither comments on it.
Karen finds the file, asks the manager, and shit goes down. Matt tries to defend her and/or take the blame. Possibly gets into a "physical commotion" (however minor) with a free person. Manager is pissed. He calls Weasley.
Weasley comes. Matt tries to cut out Karen from the blame, get himself punished and the spotlight off her. James sees right through him.
Matt tries to lie, manipulate, and finally threaten James with his slave status into protecting Karen. (Matt doesn't even know if anything would happen to Karen, at this point he's just spiraling). James is unimpressed.
Though when hinted threats start to come, he does say "Please leave us, Mr XXX," and the room is suddenly significantly colder and less safe.
James resolves the whole shit to his satisfaction within like, four sentences. Karen gives up the file, manager gets told of for making something out of nothing, and Matt gets told that he's "barely adequate" at threatening someone.
Everybody lives. For now.
I think Karen knows now about James' slave status. We might want to get rid of that. Or not. We'll see.
The manager doesn't, though, so that's good. Or seems not to, at least. We can have him overhear it.
The manager is pissed, and might want to do something about it. Not sure what yet.

What is Matt overhearing besides snipes between Fisk and the Russians?
That is the question!
He'd probably overhear planning for some operations, eventual problems being discussed (no masked vigilante bothering them, but there may be other obstacles — too curious journalists included, why not. They'd have to decide how to deal with them).

Fisk's position wasn't superclear, indeed. He was a bit like the glue in their group? Also, I think his main role was having corrupted people everywhere and using them to assure that no one bothers the others' (or his own) operations, like not having police at the docks for shipments.

An important difference about Fisk's position here would be, I was thinking, that he's long gone public here. It wouldn't make much sense to have slaves to show off his status if he's hiding and not letting himself be named, would it?
So maybe he's not just profiting off the Stark's donations to rebuild HK and the drugs/trafficking dealings of their criminal alliance, he's also going for *political role*. Mayor of NY if we want to nod to the comics (and the new DD show, most definitely).
[Fun fact: in the comics he made Matt his vice-mayor. For reasons.]

Juana telling Matt stories of her daughter killed me! Yes, I need that. I'll write that. 🥺

Villain!Manager could be a good subplot.
I don't think Karen would know, or maybe yes, but would that make much of a difference? Probably not.

It wouldn't make much sense to have slaves to show off his status if he's hiding and not letting himself be named, would it?

Actually, it might. How many billionaires can you name? They go to each other' parties, sail on each other's yachts and borrow each other's private jets. And yet 98% of them are faceless. They don't show off their status to us; they show it off to each other, like 18th century aristocrats bathing their palace rooms in gold-plated art for other aristocrats to see — where no poor person but maids has ever stepped foot in.

That said, I think I like Fisk going political better. Gives us more room to play, and maybe even an opening on the system...? Hm. :)

Vice-mayor??? Really?!?! Okay, that's beautiful 😂

You're right, he could just show them off to his associates, but I do like the political Fisk plot so 👀

He makes Matt his viceMayor for political reasons (look, I have Matt Murdock's support!) on the assumption that the viceMayor holds no actual power and doesn't even replace the Mayor in emergencies, that would be Fisk's assistant (Wesley).
Except that when the emergency does come up (the Hand attacks and Fisk is sent to the OR with a few arrows in him), it also comes out that the previous Mayor changed the law so that the viceMayor substitutes the Mayor. Wesley is pissed. Matt becomes Mayor for five minutes. (A little more than that xD)

Daredevil Prompt Post #12

PLOT - answer 6 (plot-points step by step, p.2)

Re: PLOT - answer 6 (plot-points step by step, p.2)

Re: PLOT - answer 6 (plot-points step by step, p.2)

Re: PLOT - (vice Mayor Matt parenthesis)