daredevilkink | Defenders Prompt Post #1

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Since we're talking realism here anyway, I thought I'd drop in and say that fighting with a prosthetic would actually be pretty harsh on your body, even if it gave you more strength (which I can't really see happening).

A. With a prosthetic, your strength still comes from your body. This seems to be the best we have right now in that department:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qUPnnROxvY

It's really, really good, but when you want to punch with it, you still need to employ your actual body to give it momentum. Same goes for kicking, and you would need more body strength to move a heavy chunk of metal than you would your own leg.

Getting hit by something metal probably hurts more than getting hit by flesh, but Matt is not hitting anyone with flesh; he's hitting with a thick layer of dense protective gear, so the change would probably be minimal in that department, especially if Melvin makes the limb to blend in with the rest of the costume.

B. When you hit with a prosthetic, it will jumble against your flesh. It's not part of you, and the action-reaction law that Newton established is not on your side. Just try to attach something solid to your hand and then slam it into a punching bag; it hurts A LOT more than just hitting the bag with your own hand.

This effect would make his kicks/punches much weaker, because even Daredevil can't take repeated damage to the exact same piece of his body over and over again for very long.

And even with weaker punches, it could still cause serious injury to where the prosthetic and the limb meet, all the way to possibly loosing more flesh or even life endangerment from blood clots or something. People get seriously hurt over much smaller things that repeatedly slamming your prosthetic into your limb on days on end.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repetitive_strain_injury

Sorry if I rained on your parade :] Feel free to ignore science like any proper comic book author would ;)

SA

That's a super fucking cool robot arm, but I think a bit different from what Matt would have? It's more along the lines of sport prosthetics, which are well adapted for shock absorption. (Think the blade runner guy.)

Like, I have no doubt that fighting crime with a prosthetic can be damaging, but Misty Knight's gonna have a super cool robot arm, and Bucky already has one (which is probably super invasive and painful, but effective), and prosthetic legs are actually much further along technologically than arms are.

And let's be truthful, this is Matt we're talking about here. Self flagellation is kind of his wheelhouse.

I've been following this discussion and I think that the prompt is very interesting! I'd love to read about it.

There could be some real science and some comic-book science mixed up.

Matt could lose a limb in a self-sacrificing manner as it has been suggested, and then probably somebody provides him with medical assistance unofficially and agrees to keep it secret. Some private clinic? Somebody who feels indebted to Daredevil? Maybe it is actually the people he has saved!

Suppose, the experimental prosthetic is really good, so parkour and fighting are still possible. Although it could be difficult and painful, Matt pulls through. Being Daredevil is too important to him, he just can't stop, hence he adapts and compensates, so that his handicap is not obvious.

I think that one of the reasons why he doesn't want to tell anyone is because he subconsciously tries to avoid recognizing the severity of his injury. Like 'as long as I don't speak about it, it is not a problem, and nobody needs to know'. And maybe he believes that nobody should care.

Speaking of Foggy's reaction... I would really like it to be something like this. Matt expects that Foggy will be upset about daredeviling, that he will get angry, they will fight again, and he is absolutely shocked when Foggy finally finds out and shows compassion first thing. (Like 'OMG buddy – how – I'm so sorry – are you OK' and some bear hugs, because being a good friend Foggy has no alternative but to come to terms with Matt's issues in the end.)

Sorry if my thoughts don't entirely correspond with the original prompt, I've got carried away!..

SA (who's started writing it, actually, so)

I'm really liking your ideas. I have already started with the writing.
I've got it so he is hospitalized, cause that's really not something you want to fuck around with. But he's definitely going to want to get out and go back to normal asap.
In the one I'm writing, Foggy finds out pretty soon, but doesn't find out that it was a 127 hours scenario until later on, and that's what really hits him.
I do plan to have Matt hiding it from Defenders though. Like 'yeah I hurt my leg so it'll be weird for a bit but everything's fine don't ask again'.

And then eventually they find out and Luke is like, Misty has a cool arm, you should be friends, and Danny devotes so much money to it and Jessica just shrugs and is like eh.

If Matt has proven anything, it's that he's great at adapting to super shitty scenarios.

Oh, that's great news! I like your plans and I am looking forward to your story!!! :)

Original Anon here!
I'm so excited to hear your story!!! And read it!!! It's going to be so perfect, thank you!!

*still hopeful about the possible fill*

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