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
  
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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).
  
  
  3. Warnings are nice, but not mandatory. Get DW Blocker if there's anything you really don't want to see.
  
  
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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

Re: S1 Slavery AU

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Matt being a quivering mess and yet unable to resent the status quo anymore sounds like an interesting starting point, actually. Ambitious AF to try to pull him out of it though, especially if you don't want your pace to be slow to the point of reader's boredom at nothing changing. Maybe it was too much for what I think was a very young author.

Yeah, I remember them joining resistance. I also remember it being kind of anticlimatic, possibly because yeah, Frank just decided they'll do that so they did it.

At the very end though Matt makes what I think might be his first (?) own decision, insisting he'll be the one to go resque another guy in the tunnels (?), taking a huge risk. So that might have been the intended turning point for his mindset, only the story never continued. From what I remember, those one or two last chapters where he determindedly goes deeper and deeper into lethal danger were the most interesting and best in the story.

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Yeah, Karen was seriously disturbing and/or annoying in DfS at times. Which doesn't make her a bad character — the opposite, actually — but I had some trouble liking her. (Which, again, doesn't make her a bad character. In our post-Disney, Hollywood era, we think every character has to be likeable but in fact it makes for much better literature when they're not). And I was definitely annoyed myself at her thinking that Matt's just "a different sort".

But it's still a puzzle piece, and paired with how Matt remembers himself being, Foggy reading about slaves trusting you if "they get to the toilet before accidents happen" and probably half a dozen that I don't remember — well, it paints an ugly picture. And a picture in which not neccessarily Matt but definitely MJ is significantly different from "the sort", which I think is a bit of a stumble in the story.

There's a lot to love in DfS, but characterisations sometimes come out a bit clunky. Not Matt though; Matt is written amazingly.