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Daredevil Prompt Post #12

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So these are my notes from your comment above, the invisible waiter/Weasley/slavery in general one. There's only a few :)

I think I would hold off on the 'abused-weasley-who-proved-to-his-owners-that-he-was-more-than-his-body' idea.

One thing that I think most slavery fics forget to consider is that if slavery is "normal" then it's not limited to sexual slavery, and not really everybody's kink. I think it's much more common to see slaves as free labour for your firm or domestic servants than expensive sex toys. People take advantage of slaves, yeah, but it's not the only thing they do. You don't have to prove that you are good enough to be used for things besides sex. I don't know. It doesn't sit well with me.

I feel like as a slave, James had a pretty standard life (of a slave), at least at first. Which wasn't always pretty, but closer to living in that tense, dangerous-but-not-quite grey area of occasional hands and less occasional comments that Matt experiences at the office.

Criminals get enslaved.

Ok, noted. That might feature in our story, considering.

I'm definitely up for reworking Matt's past and cause of enslavement!

And, yeah, petty crime is a step in the right direction, I like it. I'm not a big fan of punitive justice, which DD and the general superhero-slash-vigilante trope fetishize - just kick the mugger in the face, right? That's a great way of dealing with crime, especially muggers and shoplifters looking for spare change.

Children.

Yeah, what DOES happen to children of enslaved people?

Actually... Yeah. I've read too many slavery aus and got influenced about the predominance of sexual abuse, definitely.

Alright so, standard slave Wesley rises in authority cautiously planning, that works. (I just had a thought of him making a decision to betray his at-the-time-owner in favor of Fisk, in exchange for his position in Fisk's empire. That'd be a good way to prove himself to Wilson right away, maybe; but would Fisk trust a traitor? Maybe not. I don't know.)

What petty crimes would Matt commit?
A non-petty answer might be, also kind of obvious for him, assault for beating on someone (rich privileged guy) who was abusing/hitting someone else.
Slavery might be too much for petty crimes even in this corrupted government, but I'll keep thinking about it. Also because I'd rather have Matt not associated to violence, if possible (Wesley could find that piece of info very interesting, eventually. Better if he doesn't have it from the start, though).

Children of enslaved people better hope they have someone who can take them in, I'm afraid. If not, they get into the foster system and are factually considered orphans, with no right to see their parents or ask about them. [too harsh? Weird question for a slavery au, but. Yeah.]

I just had a thought of him making a decision to betray his at-the-time-owner in favor of Fisk, in exchange for his position in Fisk's empire.

— not in exchange for it; he brought down his then-employer in favor of Fisk, and when Fisk took over his employer's assets he imbedded himself in the new structure without asking or telling.

My problem here is: just how calculating Weasley really is? Someone who brings down their employer for a higher position with the next employer would definitely plan to do that again in a few years. Is Weasley loyal at all? Is he playing Fisk? That doesn't seem right. So. Maybe something was Seriously Wrong with his last employer.

OR.

Or, or.

Or, listen.

OR MAYBE something was Seriously Wrong with his last employer and Weasley and Fisk betreyed him TOGETHER and took over his empire as literal partners-in-crime with two different statuses that determined their roles. That could work, actually. It would explain Fisk's devotion to Weasley AND Weasley's devotion to Fisk, explain Weasley's position at his side in Fisk's empire and make the fact that he still essentially uses Weasley (I don't mean for sex, though that too if we go there) instead of working with him and views him as his status that much more tragic. Possibly-betraying Fisk would be much harder and more tragic too. And if Fisk is taking him semi-willingly to bed, that hurts much more, too.

something was Seriously Wrong with his last employer and Weasley and Fisk betreyed him TOGETHER
I like this!! Fisk used to work under CrimeBoss, until he takes his empire over. With Wesley's help.

How about kids go into the foster system if they're under the age of 10? Or 12, but for some reason I'm leaning towards 10. When older, they follow the parent into the new 'employ' and become slaves but can't be separated from the parent before the age of 18.

I'm thinking that maybe:

Weasley entered the slave status around the time when he was 14, on account of his alcoholic father getting enslaved for a crime.

He had already been learning to figure things out and rely on himself - what with the alcoholic father - but now he's getting an entirely new education on how to rely on himself as a slave with a barely functional father in semi-charge. Soon after, the father gets locked up after all, on another crime and also because alcoholics don't make for good slaves, it turns out (shocker).

By then Weasley's 16 though, so instead of getting sent into foster system now that he doesn't have a parent around, he can decide to get himself "emancipated" from his fathers parenting rights. It's not offered or explained to him, but he had already learned to pay attention to the rules, so that when he breaks them, he knows which way the pieces will fall. So he knows his options and chooses this one. He continues to 'work' in the same place. As a kid he had a right to full education, but now it's more ambigious. Weasley learns how to relay on himself in a yet another way, and also how to play the system.

Alcoholic father 👀 That’s a good backstory!

It works.

Juana's daughter followed her into slavery.

I'm not entirely sure how this went. These are options I'm struggling to choose between:

You can "sell yourself" into slavery in exchange for money that your kid gets when they come of age, and Juana did that.
You CAN'T "sell yourself" into slavery. But Juana got herself purposefully enslaved anyway, by committing a calculated petty crime. It was a very risky move and she and her daughter both went through hell because of it. But eventually, she became a domestic slave and could take her girl with her. Which meant they were both slaves, but her girl would have a dry place to sleep in, a meal every day and that right to full education that James lost.
Juana was tossed into slavery on account of being too poor to function on her own. Her daughter had been just below the cut-off point, and she had begged/bribed with everything she had left (possibly her body)/been offered the mercy of changing her birth date by the city clerc. (She doesn't know if it would have been better or not for her girl to go into fostering. At the time she had to choose, so she did.)

Juana has made some hard choices in life, she payed some irrevercible prices for them and her daughter did too, but ultimately, she can't regret them. She was desperate, and she did the best she could think of in response.

She hasn't seen her daughter since she came of age.

I think you can sell yourself into slavery; I could see many poor people having to do that as their last chance to avoid starving (for them and their family).

That, or the too poor to function option; I can see this government choosing slavery to deal with poor people, exactly like they do with (most) criminals.

So maybe Juana's daughter was enslaved as well. But maybe she'll appear as a free person, when she does. She got freed somehow, and maybe she went looking for her mother, but she'd changed owner since then and was nowhere to be found. (In Fisk's home.)

Yeah, I think I'm leaning towards _too poor._

What do you think happened with Juana's daughter since? How/why does she come back into Juana's orbit? Is she there only briefly? Does her "visit" have consequences?

What is her name?

Her name might be Julia? Feel free to suggest another!

Maybe she became a student-aid but was then freed, unlike Matt. And she managed to graduate.

I'm leaning towards psychology for her degree, so maybe at some point someone will need a psychological evaluation and she'll come in? (Someone could well be Matt, or maybe the newly-deafened slave having trouble adjusting to her disability.)

I think Matt might meet her (and find out somehow?), but Juana wouldn't be allowed anywhere near. Which wouldn't sit right with Matt.

How about Adria? Short for Adriana. I'm looking for something visibly hispanic, while also simple and relatively unassuming.

Also — I've been thinking about our Young Deaf Asian Slave Woman (We need to start making acronyms, lol). I was wondering if maybe Fisk asks Nobu to "provide" them someone and that's her? But Fisk doesn't trust Nobu and wouldn't want to give him an "in" or to mutilate someone brought in by Nobu without consulting him first. Also, everyone around Nobu is a ninja, so... Eh, I don't know. Still thinking.

Anyway - she's deaf and nobody talks to her, she doesn't seem to talk, (and may or may not speak English) so for a very long time, Matt doesn't know her name.

So he names her Hope.

(Cue tragic statements like "Where is Hope?", "I lost Hope", "There was only Hope left" etc:))

But eventually he slips that to James, and James tells him that her name isn't Hope. It's Retsuko, which means Fury.

Thoughts?

Adria works! Or I was thinking Tina (short for Valentìna). But I like Adria.

Nobu could indeed provide her, but then: would she be a ninja? Would he send her to spy on Fisk or just get rid of someone he doesn't need to cultivate a good relationship with Fisk? Maybe she failed the ninja test or whatever the Hand ninjas do.

Retsuko would be a pretty symbolic name! I like Matt calling her Hope. He's still hopeful in spite of everything, and Hope's life didn't end at the deafening either.

What would Retsuko think of Matt or like, her new life in general?

I guess what she'd think depends on who she is, and how much she really knows.

Does she speek English? My mind is on everyone thinks no, and our readers think no, but then half a book later she says something in English and it's a serious reveal. I'm not sure though. If she can't hear, what does it matter that she could technically understand? Hm, maybe if we involve reading...?

I don't want her to be a (maybe failed) ninja. I don't know, ninjas are stupid. But maybe? I think I'd just like to come up with some options for now.

So, okay. Who is she? What ideas and possibilities come to your mind?

I'm creating a thread for Hope/Retsuko under part 4. Come play :)

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