Daredevil Prompt Post #12

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minifill

[(Anonymous)]

"I don't need a fucking slave!"
"I don't need a fucking owner, but here we are!"
Matt freezes. He shouldn't have said that, he knows better, but he's so fucking angry.
His anger, though, is rapidly being replaced by fear, and he hates it. He hates that he's been conditioned to be afraid of his owner, to be a good obedient slave for them, barely more than an object.
The mind controls the body, the mind controls the body...
He should be able to stop trembling, but he's not. His mind is full of the punishments he faced during training, and now his best weapon is turned against himself.
Suddenly there's a hand on his mouth, forcing him to inhale through his nose, how the hell did he not notice the man approaching? So pathetic.
"Breathe. Just breathe. Nice and slow, sync with me."
His owner's voice is weirdly grounding. He doesn't sound angry now. Matt doesn't know how he sounds, actually, he's trying to focus on obeying and breathing and calming down, but he knows that he doesn't sound like before.
"That's it. Keep breathing, slowly, perfect. Good job."
His panic recedes, he finally manages to get a hold of his traitorous body. He wants to say that he's fine—is he?—but his owner's hand is still on his mouth.
"Shit, kid. You okay now?"
Matt nods, and the hand leaves him. I'm not a kid, he thinks, but that’s not really a battle he wants to fight. Not now, anyway. "I'm sorry," he forces himself to get out. He's not sorry, but he has to pretend. He's supposed to be good at this, not losing his temper after five minutes of meeting the man he's been assigned to.
"Shit," is all the owner says. He doesn't seem angry, though—Matt is surer now.
"Please don't send me away," Matt pleads, because he knows what that would mean. He'd go back to the Institute, where the trainers would first punish him for failing so spectacularly—bring rejected by his owner on the very first day must be some kind of a record—and then retrain him anew. He can’t think of going through all that again. He can’t, not just because it'd be awful, but especially because Karen and Foggy are somewhere out there and being a slave gives him better chances to find them than being chained to his training cell would. He needs to find them and make sure they're safe, and if he has to submit to his owner for that chance, he will. No more losing his head.
The man curses again. He takes a deep breath while Matt keeps his head bowed down and waits for a blow. "What would happen to you if I did?"
Matt tells him. He's shaking again, and he hates it, but maybe it'll help in making his owner forget his previous outburst. Nothing but a pathetic slave here, definitely not a threat.
"I won't send you back," the man says after what feels like an eternity. He's not happy about it, Matt can tell, but he hardly cares.
"Thank you, thank you," he says, because he's supposed to.
The man sighs. "What was your name, again?"

AN

[(Anonymous)]

This scene came out longer than I'd thought.
Anyway! I'm thinking to try and fill a few scenes, instead of trying to write the whole thing right away.
Let me know if you like Matt's characterization or if there’s something you'd prefer changed!

Re: AN

[(Anonymous)]

This is amazing! :)))

Also, that opening line fucking hits. I didn't expect that at all. It was somehow hilarious with how surprising it was. And then it got emotional fast. Matt having a panic attack at his disobedience while also planning best ways to disobey again is so very in character.

Frank getting hands-on without warning to "calm him" by essentially gagging was shocking to me, and brutally reminded me of Matts status. Frank probably didn't quite realise what he was doing there.

About characterization — I imagined Matt more 'seething and hiding it badly' rather than 'shouting matches'. But still losing control and snapping sometimes, a lot like in your scene :)

Re: AN

[(Anonymous)]

I'm glad!! :)

Matt isn't Matt without rebelling thoughts xD

I took inspiration for Frank's reaction to Matt's panic attack from Dr. Frost, a webtoon about a psychologist (who feels next to no emotion because of a very particular brain condition). He does just that, shuts a girl with his hand to stop her from hyperventilating (and is then arrested, lol). Tactless but effective (in the immediate moment).
I think Frank might react like that even with people who aren't slaves, if he's in a hurry to stop their panic, but it sure has an added meaning here for Matt.

I'll have Matt more quietly (but obviously, Mr "we met Daredevil in the alley where we... *vague noises*" Murdock) seething in future scenes! (Which I have not yet planned, but I'll figure something out.)

What do you think about Karen ending up as Ben's?

Re: AN

[(Anonymous)]

It... kind of occured to me recently that Fisk might have taken Karen for himself? He remembers her from the Union Allied debackle, such an interesting woman...


Ending up as Ben's (deliberately on either of their parts or not) works very well too, though :))

Re: AN

[(Anonymous)]

Oh yes, Fisk... or maybe Wesley! (RIP Karen.) (Or RIP Wesley if we follow canon 🤭)

Or maybe she ends up with Billy, if we're feeling very cruel.

Re: AN

[(Anonymous)]

Oooff, Billy. I don't know Billy well, but he seems pretty unhinged...

minifill pt. 2 - Frank

[(Anonymous)]

Frank rereads the mail for the third time. How the hell is this his reality now?

He should be out there, hunting down the gangs who killed his family.

He isn't.

He isn't, because Maria's worries for their government's direction came true. Frank is back from war, his family is dead, and he's been assigned a slave.

He really wants to kill whoever thought bringing back slavery was a good idea.

Only thing he can do now, though, is taking care of the malnourished man he's become responsible for. Maria would kill him if he didn't, he knows that.

"Red," he calls—the man refused to give him his actual name, for some reason, so Frank makes do. Maybe it's a stupid nickname, but it is what caught his attention since the first second: the bright red of the blindfold he wore before Frank allowed him to take it off, and the darker red of his law-abiding collar. Frank wanted to get rid of that, too, but Red told him exactly what happened to uncollared slaves. It stayed on. "Apparently, I gotta get you checked out at a clinic."

Red pales slightly. He's sitting in the corner, on the floor—Frank told him to just take the sofa, but the man's damn stubborn. At least he's not kneeling, though. He doesn't reply.

That bad, then. Frank wonders how hard it would be to track and kill any piece of shit involved with the new government. His list of targets gets longer any second that passes.

He releases a breath. First, the medical exam—then he can see about taking a few names off the list.

He looks up the nearest clinic, then amplifies the search radius 'cause he doesn't like their site. He finally finds one with reviews that don't refer to slaves as pets, and that has to be enough, for now. The doctor better not try anything on Red, though; Frank'll be watching.

"They've got an opening tomorrow," he tells Red, and doesn't miss they way his fists clench. He wonders, not for the first time, if Red thinks he's good at hiding his anger—if he does, he's fucking delusional.

Re: minifill pt. 2 - Frank

[(Anonymous)]

"Frank wonders how hard it would be to track and kill any piece of shit involved with the new government. His list of targets gets longer any second that passes."

-- yeah, that sounds like Frank xd. I like that he's getting protective of Matt already. For all his callousness, the man doesn't know how to not get attached.

---

I, uh... find it terrible and hard to believe that Frank would have named Matt after his blindfold and collar? I get what you're trying to do, but I think Frank would recognize that assigning someone an identity based on the exact items that make them a slave is exactly something that a very entusiastic owner might do. Just to drive the point. Just to force themvto think of themselves as "the red-collared slave". It seems very accepting of the situation Matt's in.

I'd be happy to see the fallout from that, maybe?

OP :)

Re: minifill pt. 2 - Frank

[(Anonymous)]

You're probably right about the Red thing! I was like "maybe his glasses... who am I kidding Matt wouldn't have his glasses here" but, yeah, it's in poor taste.
By fallout, you mean Matt reacting poorly to that or Frank acknowledging later that he really shouldn't have done that? (Or both, actually.)

Re: miniscene (Red fallout)

[(Anonymous)]

"Why do you call me that?"

Frank looks up. "Huh?" he says, intelligently. He was thinking about his plans for the night, and it'd been a while since Red last spoke to him.

"Red," says Red.

"You didn't tell me your name."

"So why Red?"

Red sounds genuinely curious, so Frank opens his mouth to answer... And stops.

Frank had gone with the first thing come to mind and hadn't stopped to second-guess it, but now that he has to vocalize why he's suddenly realizing that naming his slave like something that he's been forced to wear might not be such a great idea. "No reason," he lies.

Judging from Re— the man's expression, he doesn't believe him. Well, Frank had already figured that he's a smart one.

Frank hadn't even realized that he probably doesn't know his collar's color, or the blindfold's for that matter.

The now-unnamed man doesn't press for an answer, though. Frank would gladly ignore the why, but he knows full well what happens to most slaves who annoy their owners. He must be making a very poor job of showing he's not that kind of asshole. (Murderer, sure. Bully to someone defenseless? Not happening.)

"Poor decision making," he says at last. "I shouldn't be calling you that. Please pick a name yourself."

"You know that's not—" NotRed stops himself. "You can call me Mike." He doesn't seem happy at the admission, if that’s what it is. Or maybe he's annoyed at Frank not telling him why Red. Well, Frank feels shitty enough without actually saying 'I identified you with your slave status' out loud.

"Mike," Frank agrees.

If Mike's got anything to add, he's choosing to keep it to himself.

Frank should probably feel bad.

(He does—that’s exactly why he didn't want anything to do with this.

Re: miniscene (Red fallout)

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you!! I like the fallout scene. And I'm really glad that Frank didn't tell him the why. Matt probably hates it, because yeah, witholding something so personal as to "why is my name like that" is depersonalising. A clear stab of power over your mind and body, and I'm sure Matt felt that. But between two wrong choices, this is definitely the better one.

Also, I didn't realise he wouldn't know the colors! Whosh. That's a bit of a relief, finally. Unless someone comments on it, he might never find out. Someone probably will, but – oh well. One can hope. And we ARE here for the angst... 😈

Anyway. Yeah, I thought from the start that he would ask to be "Mike". It makes sense. He doesn't trust Frank with his real name, but he also doesn't want to give up on his identity. He's probably more lucky than most in already having the ability to choose something in-between.

Re: miniscene (Red fallout)

[(Anonymous)]

"That red collar really suits your slave" and it goes down. Frank is lucky Matt doesn't kill or does he?

He's definitely luckier than most slaves, for all of Frank's (many) failings.

A little off-topic, but how do you think Matt would deal with having a slave? At this point we've seen a hundred shades of SlaveMatt, but I can't recall any (serious) OwnerMatt story. Only things that come up to mind are a pornlogic one where Matt, Foggy and Karen co-own Wesley and a short one where Karen is Matt&Foggy's slave and they wonder if she's poisoning their coffee.

Re: miniscene (Red fallout)

[(Anonymous)]

Jesus, there's a story out there where they co-own Weasley? Clearly I still have some innocence left. xd

(No shame, promise. This is just my inner monologue talking)

(Also, Karen as a slave definitely WOULD be poisoning her owners' coffee! She's a smart one xd) Is it fluff? For all the horrible things I like to read, the idea of Nelson&Murdock happily owning a slave leaves me seriously uncomfortable.

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Ooof, he'd deal BADLY. It's hard to imagine how to be honest. The man is made out of contradictions, I'm not sure where he would fall between gentle care and Catholic devotion and uncontrolabble fury. I'm pretty sure it'd be a struggle for him to take care of a traumatised person completely dependent on him. He's barely able to keep himself alive and functional. I love him, but he fails his friends spectacularly whenever he goes off the deep end, which happens pretty regularly. He's a very, very poor candidate for an anchor to reality and a steady, supporting ground.

A few things come to mind:

• lots of Catholic angst
• Matt would definitely try to keep secrets and/or lie to them
• he would get attatched, emotional and protective immediately
• he wouldn't be rational enough to consider the risk his vigilantism put on them
• he would probably try to bring down whoever reintroduced slavery to USA and think that would end it
• he would be ultimately unable to keep his secrets secret from them (duh)
• they would have to take care of each other, because there's no way Matt doesn't need it too.

So, uh. I guess that's how? It would be really interesting to see Matt struggle with this, actually. It might be a worse mental crisis for him than anything we saw in canon, and that's saying something.

Re: miniscene (Red fallout)

[(Anonymous)]

I'm now imagining Matt's exasperated slave realizing he has to take care of his owner because he's such a mess.


Anyway! Yeah, the fic with SlaveWesley was probably in one of the early rounds here, I think. Like I said, it's very pornlogic and I don't remember them having moral dilemmas about using a slave.

The one with Karen: honestly I remember it as a short chapter with Matt and Foggy discussing the attempted poisoning and that's it? It wasn't very developed, if I'm correct. So not fluff, but not angst either. Just a piece without a larger story.

New Author: adding my own minifill

[(Anonymous)]

His slave was having a panic attack.

It was three in the fucking morning, and Frank would like to deal with his own nightmares, thank you, but apparently he wasn't going to get to do that. He stared at the withering body in front of him.

There was a heavy chain between his collar and the headboard of his slavebed, which came already equipped with the thick metal ring to attach it - and now that Frank thought about it, did he have to use that? - which was clearly hurting him in the trashing. The bruises and abrasions will be quite something. He'll look like a domestic violence victim. He was already bleeding.

But he wasn't waking up.

Frank took a hesitant step. "Red?" Fuck. "Mike?"

No response. Just screaming. Just trashing. The hell was he dreaming about? Not like the kid had memories of war.

Or of losing his entire family in one violent go.

Then again, maybe he did. Frank wasn't told how he lost his eyesight. If he had family.

"Mike?"

Re: New Author: adding my own minifill

[(Anonymous)]

Poor Matt! The slavebed doesn't seem comfortable like, at all. (No surprises there.)

He might not be a domestic violence victim, Frank, but you know... Slavery :)

It's very realistic that he'd slip on the name.

Next scene I wanted to do is the medical check-up (which might or might not be my excuse to introduce Claire). Then maybe one with Karen, to see where she ended up and what she's doing.

I wouldn't know where to start to fill Foggy's part of the prompt, did you have any ideas to write it? 👀 (or write whatever scene inspires you with the others, of course!)

Re: New Author: adding my own minifill

[(Anonymous)]

Boy, am I apprehensive of that Medical Exam bit. Does Claire already know Matt? I'm thinking no, since that would be a One Hell Of A Coincidence that he'd end up with her, and I also want her to be kind of cold and hardened from the exhaustion of, well, _all this._ I think anyone put in such a cruel position as her would struggle to keep their humanity going.

I'll think about Foggy, I wasn't clear on that either. But I'd introduce him with a nightmare that shows his memories from The War, if that helps. :)

Re: New Author: adding my own minifill

[(Anonymous)]

I'd be curious to see Foggy's war nightmares! (Sorry, Foggy.)
How did he fare?

Also I admit I was thinking of Matt and Claire knowing each other (Karen worked for N&M before *this* happened, so I think we're somewhere in S1?), which would be a big coincidence I'd wave off with "she works at one rare humane clinic" and "I want them to meet", but I'll try to think of how it would go if she didn't know him. Frank better prepare himself to be side-eyed for Matt's scars, cough.

This does make me wonder though: did Foggy find out about Matt's senses and vigilantism before being sent away or not?

Re: New Author: adding my own minifill

[(Anonymous)]

Oohhh, badly. I bet he fared very badly. He's really not the violence type. I'm sure he hardened a little somewhere in his core -

that's what made his going into hiding possible,

that and maybe some war-skills that he hates (plus a doze of being a lawyer and good at convincing people to do his bidding because of it? Depends on the 'hiding', but I can't quite see him living in the woods (I could be convinced, though)

- but I don't think he feels like it. He might not realise, even. And be horrified when he does.

Re: New Author: adding my own minifill

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think Frank is attentive enough to think of searching for a 'humane' clinic. He did name his slave after a collar and chain him to his bed every night for days. Maybe it's grief; maybe it's his no-details nature, crudely educated and used to living without comfort and not worrying which institution he went to, military regulating the direction of every step. He signed up to be a soldier at 18 (is what I tell myself for comfort, it's actually legal in USA to recruit at 17 and US army loves to go into high schools and do that). He doesn't really have much of a perspective besides wars and barracks.

Also, I don't think Claire is working at a humane clinic...? She's a government-assigned medic, she doesn't get to choose where she works or what the outlook of the institution is.

Boy, this is grim, isn't it.

I would say that it's around season one, but him and Claire meeting just never happened. Whether it's because the plot cut off too early, the circumstances changed too much, or we just cut it out because 'AU', is our choice.

On a not-quite-bright note, the slaves have been assigned en masse like a week ago (I imagine) so Frank wouldn't get too side-eyed for scars that clearly happened before that. He might be horrified to see them himself, though. And it might stand out to Claire (who has seen other slaves naked bodies and knows what kind of marks 'training' leaves and this isn't it) which would prompt her to make some kind of connection. Like maybe assigning Matt a string of not-actually-needed visits, so that she can keep in touch with him with only a vague idea of what purpose that could have.

I never thought about if Foggy knows or not. What are you thinking?

Re: New Author: adding my own minifill

[(Anonymous)]

I'm thinking Foggy may not know. Just to make it even angstier! (Also because having it all happen after Nelson v Murdock would complicate things further, I think? Especially if Matt didn't have Claire, him surviving Nobu would be another thing to figure out. I'd say he just never had the chance to fight Nobu. Maybe señora Cardenas is alive, one good thing in a desperate au :)

Also, why were Matt and Karen enslaved? Did the government, in Matt's case, decide that lawyers are no longer needed?

New Author: minifill 2

[(Anonymous)]

"What do you need from me, Sir?" Mike asked for the third time in an hour.

Frank didn't bother to look at him. Didn't stop the quick and clod-hearted methodic moves over the barrel, either. Not for a third time.

"I don't need anything from you. Go to your room."

"I do not have a room, Sir," his slave bit out acrebically.

That had Frank slow down. He braced his arms on the table before him. "Go to your... storage. Your corner in the bedroom, whatever." He felt defeated. He didn't know by who. Not Red. Mike.

Mike, who wasn't moving from the doorframe. "Shall I take the guns with me?"

"No."

Mike stood there for a moment longer. But then finally, finally he wordlessly turned and went to Frank's bedroom, steps sure and back ram-rod straight. Like a challenge. Frank watched him go; it wasn't a long walk. When Mike was gone, he moved to stare at the tabletop instead.

A box of amunition stared back.

Frank tossed the AR-15 at the box and went to the kitchen to drink.

Re: New Author: minifill 2

[(Anonymous)]

Well Matt, you tried to take the guns. (I'm now picturing him sabotaging/hiding the guns in the night. If Frank doesn't chain him, maybe?)

Frank is doing a realistically awful job at this, I see!

"Go to your room what is he, your son?

Re: New Author: minifill 2

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, Matt is pretty powerless, but he can at least make himself a nuisance.

'I see you, Sir. Are you bold enough to prepare a murder while I watch?' Frank might need to get used to the idea, if he wants to get anywhere with his killing spree. I don't think he's there yet.

Also, being interrupted every 15 minutes must be annoying xd