So Luke read Danny the riot act about his privilege in Defenders.
But what if Danny is so fixated on Matt being blind in the Chinese Restaurant because that's when he really realizes how little being "The Immortal Iron Fist" is worth, really, and how little he's done with all of his advantages.
What if Matt makes him feel extremely inadequate? Matt's blind, but he's a better fighter than Danny and unlike Luke or Jess he fights in a style similar to Danny's. Matt was also supposed to be trained under Stick to actually serve Kun Lun and the Iron Fist, and Danny isn't exactly feeling like an Iron Fist worthy of being served, especially by someone like Matt.
Maybe Danny tries to literally live Matt's life to feel connected to him and like less of a failure himself - being the one to memorialize and bury Stick, sleeping in Matt's apartment, funding a legal clinic in Matt's name, getting way too invested - until finally Colleen, the other Defenders, or Foggy and Karen have to talk him down from the crazy of that.
I'd love to read a fic about Danny trying to be Matt a bit too literally to escape having to face his own privilege and his own failures, and under the weight of all the trauma he clearly hasn't properly dealt with.
Matt Makes Danny Feel Inadequate And Worthless
But what if Danny is so fixated on Matt being blind in the Chinese Restaurant because that's when he really realizes how little being "The Immortal Iron Fist" is worth, really, and how little he's done with all of his advantages.
What if Matt makes him feel extremely inadequate? Matt's blind, but he's a better fighter than Danny and unlike Luke or Jess he fights in a style similar to Danny's. Matt was also supposed to be trained under Stick to actually serve Kun Lun and the Iron Fist, and Danny isn't exactly feeling like an Iron Fist worthy of being served, especially by someone like Matt.
Maybe Danny tries to literally live Matt's life to feel connected to him and like less of a failure himself - being the one to memorialize and bury Stick, sleeping in Matt's apartment, funding a legal clinic in Matt's name, getting way too invested - until finally Colleen, the other Defenders, or Foggy and Karen have to talk him down from the crazy of that.
I'd love to read a fic about Danny trying to be Matt a bit too literally to escape having to face his own privilege and his own failures, and under the weight of all the trauma he clearly hasn't properly dealt with.