Someone wrote in [community profile] daredevilkink 2017-08-31 12:45 am (UTC)

Re: Friends and enemies and Matt

That would be awesome! And his resurrection would seem to be a miracle, too, of course, especially if Matt had no idea how he lived.

And part of the thing is that I definitely see Foggy having a lot of difficulty interpreting things through Matt's lens. He would see it as self-hatred and even punishing himself, and to a degree it is that, but Matt's whole thing is to do the sinful thing as a way of preventing other sins. He wants to help people, not just by saving them, but by preventing them from having to become him. (Another way he and Frank are similar.) He knows it's sinful and wrong, and that's why he probably confesses to it, but he must do it for the sake of everyone else, even if that means Purgatory after his death and his injuries and his fallings-out.

I think this aspect can be seen in the whole human traffickers episode--he almost dies, is horribly injured, is weak and targeted by hitmen, has to torture a guy on a rooftop and almost kill him, and he goes back and visibly forces himself to keep getting back into the fight, all to save the kid and carry him to safety. That's his whole Daredevilling. Does he clearly enjoy torturing the dude and beat up the other dudes? Yes. But he also does it for a fundamentally good reason, and with awareness of who is and what he's doing.

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