Still needs a sample and fleshed out notes, it can't touch the Bat or Supes, but it's something. I'll pretty it up later. Whataya peeps think? Point out any problems if you spot them ASAP.
Name: Matt Murdock // Alias: Daredevil
Race: Irish-American // Gender: Male
Height: 6'0" // Weight: 200 lbs
Age: 30 // Hair: Red // Eyes: Blue
Affiliations: Sage & Murdock
Occupation: Private Investigator
| Origin & Backstory |
1970-1980
Jack Murdock had been an adventurous teenaged hoodlum who grew up in Hell's Kitchen. Through intensive study and intensive fundraising as a boxer, he paid his way through law school before becoming a prosecuting attorney. After prosecuting against a man he knew was innocent, he began to attend church regularly, specifically frequenting the Clinton Mission Center and paying attention to one nun in particular. A hectic turn of events and the burdens they both faced drove them into each other's arms. Shortly afterward, Matt Murdock was conceived. A blind eye was turned to the nun's pregnancy, even to the act of giving birth. But she ultimately left her son's care to Jack.
1980-1993
Jack actually had no reason to stay in Hell's Kitchen. The neighborhood was dangerous, poor, crime-ridden, filled with sorrow, and riddled with the scars of countless gang wars and crime. But it was Jack's home, more so than any place in Queens could ever be. The entire time Matt had been alive, Jack told him that he needed to study hard to be successful and avoid ever being a fighter, to go to college and be a lawyer, although his social status would suffer massively because of this.
He'd fully changed his ways, to his own detriment. Instead of prosecuting anyone who'd be high profile, he targeted the dirtiest sinners he could find. He'd been at least partially responsible for the sentencing of nearly three dozen hit men, drug traffickers, shot callers, and money launderers.
1994-1997
February 1994 was the month that Matt Murdock's life began to change. Having spotted a man crossing the street in front of a semi truck en route to a government facility, the fourteen year old tackled the old man out of harm's way, startling the driver. Swerving dynamically, the truck dodged the pedestrians, but it spilled a load of chemicals designed to emulate the original Captain America's stamina. Matt was soaked by the mixture, ingesting some of it through his eyes, ears, mouth, and nose. His body went into shock as a result of the entire scenario, and he was taken to the St. Vincent Hospital. While hospitalized, he was visited by the old man he'd protected, a blind ninja named Stick. Sensing something special within the boy, he decided to train him in the way of the ninja.
Beginning March 1994, upon Matt's release, Stick properly introduced himself before discreetly paying him regular visits, helping him to learn to walk again, to see beyond what could normally be seen, to dial the sensitivity of his ears to a point where it was normal. The first month of training was basic, though completely necessary.
Come May, Jack had been prosecuting a hit man who was involved in the war between the Kingpin Syndicate and the Foot Clan. The defendant had been targeted by The Foot, but behind bars their revenge would be more difficult. Because he'd targeted many of Fisk's other men, without knowing himself, he was assassinated by a shuriken toss through his throat when he stepped through the doors of the courthouse.
Matt saw his dad die on live television. Stick, recognizing the Foot's involvement, immediately took Matt away from the city to begin intense training. Taken to a dark cave, Matt went blind in a period of weeks, sustained by Stick, who taught him to use his other senses, more useful ones. He learned to sniff like a bloodhound, echolocate like a bat, run like a leopard, pounce like a cat, and fight like a demon.
In June, he was returned to his home. But Stick managed to have a false identity created, Mike Murdock. 'Mike' was the name of Matt's nonexistent older brother. He returned to school, picked on for roughly five minutes before fighting back and scaring his classmates to death. With unprecedented speed in developing skills, Matt managed to defeat Stick in unarmed combat in 1996. Then, he was taught to use a variety of weaponry, swords, staves, boomerangs, shurikens, escrima sticks, clubs, claws, bows, and even a gun, though his ears sensitivity limited his use for them. When Stick had decided he had nothing left to teach, he disappeared, never to be seen again.
1998-2003
On his eighteenth birthday, Matt received his inheritance, heading off to Law School. There, he met Foggy Nelson, Anthony Quinn, and Elektra Natchios. Without a doubt, Matt had been the top of his class. He led a romantic relationship with Elektra, developing powerful feelings for her that led him to do ridiculous things: starting bar fights, driving cars off cliffs, partying, and breaking and entering into her father's heavily guarded mansion to visit her and prank the guards. Before long, he'd grown uninterested in Law School and felt being a lawyer was pointless. So in 2001, he dropped out, losing touch with Elektra when she left the country with her father.
He lived off of his inheritance for a long while, heading to Fogwell's regularly, he ended up becoming good friends with a teenaged girl named Mickey, who hung out outside the gym. Every day they'd have brief chit chats, shooting the breeze and the like. But one day she went missing. Then again. And again. Out of worry for her, Matt tracked her house down by tracing her blend of perfumes, laundry detergent, and shampoos. She had evidently ran away or been abducted. Unwilling to accept her disappearance, Matt began to shake down local crooks and pay for leads. Before long, he'd been directed to a man who was known only as The Question, who'd likely have useful information. He did. In a matter of days, Matt contacted him before finding a storehouse of teenaged girls hidden in an illegal brothel. Wearing a mask, Matt broke in, rescued the girls, and overpowered the thugs.
Days later, The Question woke Matt in his sleep before offering him a sum of cash in exchange for investigating crimes around Hell's Kitchen. Matt accepted the investigations, rejecting the money offer. After several subsequent successes The Question revealed himself to be Victor Sage, a private investigator, and offered Matt a partnership at his firm. Accepting, Matt saw that the name was changed to Sage & Murdock.
Towards the end of 2003, Matt had a chance meeting with Foggy Nelson, in which he fended off a crew of deadbeats robbers. Foggy gave him a business card, stating that he owed Matt a favor before departing. They kept in close contact, developing a true friendship.
2004-2010
When Sage informed Murdock that it might be beneficial for him to fabricate an alias of his own, he did so. He'd initially wanted to be called The Jersey Devil, to build onto an existing urban legend, but later decided to go with Daredevil, to demonstrate he would be completely fearless. By ordering costume pieces from various tailors around the city, he pieced a striking red leather outfit together with a scarlet sheen, horns, and trunks that hold to the outside of his outfit in the style of twentieth century and resurgent superheroes.
The first supervillain Daredevil ever tackled was an electrokinetic soldier of fortune named Voltaic. Meeting by chance, they did battle inside Javits Convention Center, during the reveal for a next-generation power supply for the city. The project was destroyed, and a plethora of bystanders were harmed due to Daredevil's inexperience and clumsiness. Voltaic was defeated when Daredevil shot him with a pistol after playing possum. SHIELD made the arrest. Because of the collateral damage, Daredevil decided to act with a lower profile.
From 2004 to 2006, he was less than a nuisance to large scale crime operations. His effects were invisible. But in 2006, Sage & Murdock began to close in on larger crime organizations, investigating Leland Owlsley. Daredevil went to war on Owlsley, The Owl as he was nicknamed for a then unknown reason. But when Owlsley began distributing designer drugs with bestial side effects, Daredevil shut him down, raiding his supply, and damming his revenue stream before anonymously donating evidence against him to the FBI, resulting in an arrest. His apprehension was problematic, because no one had been prepared for The Owl to literally take flight by his own power and raze the officers involved with talons. Fortunately Daredevil pursued him and trapped him inside a water tower.
In 2007, Sage & Murdock hired Karen Page, a fetching blonde, as their receptionist. Later in the year, Daredevil had been prowling the neighborhood before hearing cries of a fire. Spurred to action, Daredevil saved all the civilians before finding the arsonist still on site, a pyrokinetic named Chato Santana, also known as El Diablo, before successfully defeating him, partially by intimidating him with his devilish form and tricking the arsonist into believing he was a supernatural judge. Once again, SHIELD made the arrest. Matt found comfort in the fact that he handled the challenge far better than the Voltaic attack years before.
In 2008, Sage & Murdock began to investigate a series of spontaneous assaults by people with no motive. As they got closer, Victor Sage was assaulted by Karen Page in his own office. No harm was received, but Karen was arrested. After Foggy attacked Matt, with a similar result, they worked doubly hard on the case, finding that they'd all been manipulated by The Purple Man, a criminal capable of hypnotism. Because of Matt's blindness, he was uncontrollable, and he trapped the mastermind in a crate before depositing him in a police precinct.
In 2009, it was decided by the Kingpin that Daredevil was causing too much change, so he sent Typhoid Mary after him. As simple as the assassination could've been, because one of her multiple personalities developed a crush on the vigilante. Her mental instability allowed Daredevil to escape before capturing her and having her arrested. To follow up, Kingpin utilized Bullseye, only to have him fall by Daredevil's hand as well.
At the beginning of 2010, The Kingpin saw a compromise as the prime option, The Kingpin arranged for Anthony Quinn to mediate between himself and the vigilante, which Daredevil rejected before punching Quinn in the face. Living up to his moniker, Daredevil boldly positioned himself as an enemy of The Kingpin Syndicate.
| Attributes |
Gear: His cane splits into a pair of billy clubs, one includes an airsoft grappling line that fires one of the clubs into the distance. It can be used to increase mobility or in a combat situation.
Powers: His senses all operate on a superhuman level, barring his completely absent sense of sight. He is generally more able to balance and is all around more sensitive than a regular human, as well as being gifted with peak human stamina and conditioning by the chemical incident in 1994
Skills: He navigates using a radar-sense, processing echoes in a way that paints a colorless picture for him. His sense of smell can be put to use in tracking. He is also trained with a variety of weaponry and an expert in hand to hand combat. His gymnastic ability is trained to a point little improvement can be made, and his reflexes are ridiculously fast. Last, but not least, he has an explorative and powerful mind and deductive ability
| Character Notes |
| Character Goals |
Having fun is my number one goal. Daredevil and his life are vehicles for this. I've written an intense Daredevil before, a ninja-centric app, a supernatural app,and a thousand spins on him. But being a detective just seems to better fit the character. DD hunts for justice, but lawyers don't do as much pursuing as they do arguing. Accordingly, I've tweaked his history to accommodate this. Plus, a lawyer can only have so much free time.
Changes have been made in response to universal events and other characters involved, or where I feel the story works better. My posts are going to deal with characters and life events, with a bit of slice of life thrown in. Previously I've tried to shoehorn Ray Connor into my DD saga, but I have a different story for him this time, you can probably figure it out if you try, but I want to capture the fast-paced high-flying spirit of classic Daredevil mixed with the emotional drama of Bendis' run, touched by Waid's optimistic streak. Things may be familiar, but not the same as what's already been written. Put simply, I want to scribe a very personal piece.
| Sample Post |
I'll get to it later.
[Daredevil:_The_Man_Without_Fear]
Name: Matt Murdock // Alias: Daredevil
Race: Irish-American // Gender: Male
Height: 6'0" // Weight: 200 lbs
Age: 30 // Hair: Red // Eyes: Blue
Affiliations: Sage & Murdock
Occupation: Private Investigator
| Origin & Backstory |
1970-1980
Jack Murdock had been an adventurous teenaged hoodlum who grew up in Hell's Kitchen. Through intensive study and intensive fundraising as a boxer, he paid his way through law school before becoming a prosecuting attorney. After prosecuting against a man he knew was innocent, he began to attend church regularly, specifically frequenting the Clinton Mission Center and paying attention to one nun in particular. A hectic turn of events and the burdens they both faced drove them into each other's arms. Shortly afterward, Matt Murdock was conceived. A blind eye was turned to the nun's pregnancy, even to the act of giving birth. But she ultimately left her son's care to Jack.
1980-1993
Jack actually had no reason to stay in Hell's Kitchen. The neighborhood was dangerous, poor, crime-ridden, filled with sorrow, and riddled with the scars of countless gang wars and crime. But it was Jack's home, more so than any place in Queens could ever be. The entire time Matt had been alive, Jack told him that he needed to study hard to be successful and avoid ever being a fighter, to go to college and be a lawyer, although his social status would suffer massively because of this.
He'd fully changed his ways, to his own detriment. Instead of prosecuting anyone who'd be high profile, he targeted the dirtiest sinners he could find. He'd been at least partially responsible for the sentencing of nearly three dozen hit men, drug traffickers, shot callers, and money launderers.
1994-1997
February 1994 was the month that Matt Murdock's life began to change. Having spotted a man crossing the street in front of a semi truck en route to a government facility, the fourteen year old tackled the old man out of harm's way, startling the driver. Swerving dynamically, the truck dodged the pedestrians, but it spilled a load of chemicals designed to emulate the original Captain America's stamina. Matt was soaked by the mixture, ingesting some of it through his eyes, ears, mouth, and nose. His body went into shock as a result of the entire scenario, and he was taken to the St. Vincent Hospital. While hospitalized, he was visited by the old man he'd protected, a blind ninja named Stick. Sensing something special within the boy, he decided to train him in the way of the ninja.
Beginning March 1994, upon Matt's release, Stick properly introduced himself before discreetly paying him regular visits, helping him to learn to walk again, to see beyond what could normally be seen, to dial the sensitivity of his ears to a point where it was normal. The first month of training was basic, though completely necessary.
Come May, Jack had been prosecuting a hit man who was involved in the war between the Kingpin Syndicate and the Foot Clan. The defendant had been targeted by The Foot, but behind bars their revenge would be more difficult. Because he'd targeted many of Fisk's other men, without knowing himself, he was assassinated by a shuriken toss through his throat when he stepped through the doors of the courthouse.
Matt saw his dad die on live television. Stick, recognizing the Foot's involvement, immediately took Matt away from the city to begin intense training. Taken to a dark cave, Matt went blind in a period of weeks, sustained by Stick, who taught him to use his other senses, more useful ones. He learned to sniff like a bloodhound, echolocate like a bat, run like a leopard, pounce like a cat, and fight like a demon.
In June, he was returned to his home. But Stick managed to have a false identity created, Mike Murdock. 'Mike' was the name of Matt's nonexistent older brother. He returned to school, picked on for roughly five minutes before fighting back and scaring his classmates to death. With unprecedented speed in developing skills, Matt managed to defeat Stick in unarmed combat in 1996. Then, he was taught to use a variety of weaponry, swords, staves, boomerangs, shurikens, escrima sticks, clubs, claws, bows, and even a gun, though his ears sensitivity limited his use for them. When Stick had decided he had nothing left to teach, he disappeared, never to be seen again.
1998-2003
On his eighteenth birthday, Matt received his inheritance, heading off to Law School. There, he met Foggy Nelson, Anthony Quinn, and Elektra Natchios. Without a doubt, Matt had been the top of his class. He led a romantic relationship with Elektra, developing powerful feelings for her that led him to do ridiculous things: starting bar fights, driving cars off cliffs, partying, and breaking and entering into her father's heavily guarded mansion to visit her and prank the guards. Before long, he'd grown uninterested in Law School and felt being a lawyer was pointless. So in 2001, he dropped out, losing touch with Elektra when she left the country with her father.
He lived off of his inheritance for a long while, heading to Fogwell's regularly, he ended up becoming good friends with a teenaged girl named Mickey, who hung out outside the gym. Every day they'd have brief chit chats, shooting the breeze and the like. But one day she went missing. Then again. And again. Out of worry for her, Matt tracked her house down by tracing her blend of perfumes, laundry detergent, and shampoos. She had evidently ran away or been abducted. Unwilling to accept her disappearance, Matt began to shake down local crooks and pay for leads. Before long, he'd been directed to a man who was known only as The Question, who'd likely have useful information. He did. In a matter of days, Matt contacted him before finding a storehouse of teenaged girls hidden in an illegal brothel. Wearing a mask, Matt broke in, rescued the girls, and overpowered the thugs.
Days later, The Question woke Matt in his sleep before offering him a sum of cash in exchange for investigating crimes around Hell's Kitchen. Matt accepted the investigations, rejecting the money offer. After several subsequent successes The Question revealed himself to be Victor Sage, a private investigator, and offered Matt a partnership at his firm. Accepting, Matt saw that the name was changed to Sage & Murdock.
Towards the end of 2003, Matt had a chance meeting with Foggy Nelson, in which he fended off a crew of deadbeats robbers. Foggy gave him a business card, stating that he owed Matt a favor before departing. They kept in close contact, developing a true friendship.
2004-2010
When Sage informed Murdock that it might be beneficial for him to fabricate an alias of his own, he did so. He'd initially wanted to be called The Jersey Devil, to build onto an existing urban legend, but later decided to go with Daredevil, to demonstrate he would be completely fearless. By ordering costume pieces from various tailors around the city, he pieced a striking red leather outfit together with a scarlet sheen, horns, and trunks that hold to the outside of his outfit in the style of twentieth century and resurgent superheroes.
The first supervillain Daredevil ever tackled was an electrokinetic soldier of fortune named Voltaic. Meeting by chance, they did battle inside Javits Convention Center, during the reveal for a next-generation power supply for the city. The project was destroyed, and a plethora of bystanders were harmed due to Daredevil's inexperience and clumsiness. Voltaic was defeated when Daredevil shot him with a pistol after playing possum. SHIELD made the arrest. Because of the collateral damage, Daredevil decided to act with a lower profile.
From 2004 to 2006, he was less than a nuisance to large scale crime operations. His effects were invisible. But in 2006, Sage & Murdock began to close in on larger crime organizations, investigating Leland Owlsley. Daredevil went to war on Owlsley, The Owl as he was nicknamed for a then unknown reason. But when Owlsley began distributing designer drugs with bestial side effects, Daredevil shut him down, raiding his supply, and damming his revenue stream before anonymously donating evidence against him to the FBI, resulting in an arrest. His apprehension was problematic, because no one had been prepared for The Owl to literally take flight by his own power and raze the officers involved with talons. Fortunately Daredevil pursued him and trapped him inside a water tower.
In 2007, Sage & Murdock hired Karen Page, a fetching blonde, as their receptionist. Later in the year, Daredevil had been prowling the neighborhood before hearing cries of a fire. Spurred to action, Daredevil saved all the civilians before finding the arsonist still on site, a pyrokinetic named Chato Santana, also known as El Diablo, before successfully defeating him, partially by intimidating him with his devilish form and tricking the arsonist into believing he was a supernatural judge. Once again, SHIELD made the arrest. Matt found comfort in the fact that he handled the challenge far better than the Voltaic attack years before.
In 2008, Sage & Murdock began to investigate a series of spontaneous assaults by people with no motive. As they got closer, Victor Sage was assaulted by Karen Page in his own office. No harm was received, but Karen was arrested. After Foggy attacked Matt, with a similar result, they worked doubly hard on the case, finding that they'd all been manipulated by The Purple Man, a criminal capable of hypnotism. Because of Matt's blindness, he was uncontrollable, and he trapped the mastermind in a crate before depositing him in a police precinct.
In 2009, it was decided by the Kingpin that Daredevil was causing too much change, so he sent Typhoid Mary after him. As simple as the assassination could've been, because one of her multiple personalities developed a crush on the vigilante. Her mental instability allowed Daredevil to escape before capturing her and having her arrested. To follow up, Kingpin utilized Bullseye, only to have him fall by Daredevil's hand as well.
At the beginning of 2010, The Kingpin saw a compromise as the prime option, The Kingpin arranged for Anthony Quinn to mediate between himself and the vigilante, which Daredevil rejected before punching Quinn in the face. Living up to his moniker, Daredevil boldly positioned himself as an enemy of The Kingpin Syndicate.
| Attributes |
Gear: His cane splits into a pair of billy clubs, one includes an airsoft grappling line that fires one of the clubs into the distance. It can be used to increase mobility or in a combat situation.
Powers: His senses all operate on a superhuman level, barring his completely absent sense of sight. He is generally more able to balance and is all around more sensitive than a regular human, as well as being gifted with peak human stamina and conditioning by the chemical incident in 1994
Skills: He navigates using a radar-sense, processing echoes in a way that paints a colorless picture for him. His sense of smell can be put to use in tracking. He is also trained with a variety of weaponry and an expert in hand to hand combat. His gymnastic ability is trained to a point little improvement can be made, and his reflexes are ridiculously fast. Last, but not least, he has an explorative and powerful mind and deductive ability
| Character Notes |
Clinton Mission Shelter: A church run by Sister Maggie, generally visited by law abiding citizens, the poor, and devout Catholics. But, a few snakes certainly find their place in its walls. It acts as free housing and soup kitchen for a portion of the homeless community.
Fogwell's Gym: A long closed gym that Matt frequents despite it being locked up and condemned. It's roof is damaged with several wooden boards covering a broken skyfacing window.
Javits Convention Center: A large building that facilitates LARPing, concerts, and gatherings of all sorts.
Nelson and Quinn: A modest building from which Foggy Nelson, Tony Quinn, and Becky Blake work. It is more affordable than most other law firms, though they make a large amount of money from a largely unknown and undocumented source.
Paradiso Dance Club: A strip club frequented by low-lifes. Out of their desperation, many of it's dancers are hired underage. Without being advertised, it has a hidden brothel available to certain criminal clientele.
St. Vincent Hospital: A hospital full of hardworking and underpaid medical experts, many volunteers, and alternative treatment advocates. It has a helipad with no helicopter, but is located near a train and bus stop. For much of the staff's work, they are not compensated. It hinges on bankruptcy because of its generosity to the community.
Sticks Billiards: A pool hall frequented by various gang members and general lowlifes.
Fogwell's Gym: A long closed gym that Matt frequents despite it being locked up and condemned. It's roof is damaged with several wooden boards covering a broken skyfacing window.
Javits Convention Center: A large building that facilitates LARPing, concerts, and gatherings of all sorts.
Nelson and Quinn: A modest building from which Foggy Nelson, Tony Quinn, and Becky Blake work. It is more affordable than most other law firms, though they make a large amount of money from a largely unknown and undocumented source.
Paradiso Dance Club: A strip club frequented by low-lifes. Out of their desperation, many of it's dancers are hired underage. Without being advertised, it has a hidden brothel available to certain criminal clientele.
St. Vincent Hospital: A hospital full of hardworking and underpaid medical experts, many volunteers, and alternative treatment advocates. It has a helipad with no helicopter, but is located near a train and bus stop. For much of the staff's work, they are not compensated. It hinges on bankruptcy because of its generosity to the community.
Sticks Billiards: A pool hall frequented by various gang members and general lowlifes.
Will fill in as I go, or even soon, just not now
-Anthony Quinn
-Bullseye (Lester)
-El Diablo (Chato Santana)
-Elektra Natchios
-Franklin Nelson
-Karen Page
-Reia Co'nor
-Rai Co'nor
-Stick
-The Owl (Leland Owlsley)
-The Purple Man
-The Question (Victor Sage)
-Typhoid Mary (Mary Walker)
-Voltaic
-Anthony Quinn
-Bullseye (Lester)
-El Diablo (Chato Santana)
-Elektra Natchios
-Franklin Nelson
-Karen Page
-Reia Co'nor
-Rai Co'nor
-Stick
-The Owl (Leland Owlsley)
-The Purple Man
-The Question (Victor Sage)
-Typhoid Mary (Mary Walker)
-Voltaic
| Character Goals |
Having fun is my number one goal. Daredevil and his life are vehicles for this. I've written an intense Daredevil before, a ninja-centric app, a supernatural app,and a thousand spins on him. But being a detective just seems to better fit the character. DD hunts for justice, but lawyers don't do as much pursuing as they do arguing. Accordingly, I've tweaked his history to accommodate this. Plus, a lawyer can only have so much free time.
Changes have been made in response to universal events and other characters involved, or where I feel the story works better. My posts are going to deal with characters and life events, with a bit of slice of life thrown in. Previously I've tried to shoehorn Ray Connor into my DD saga, but I have a different story for him this time, you can probably figure it out if you try, but I want to capture the fast-paced high-flying spirit of classic Daredevil mixed with the emotional drama of Bendis' run, touched by Waid's optimistic streak. Things may be familiar, but not the same as what's already been written. Put simply, I want to scribe a very personal piece.
| Sample Post |
I'll get to it later.
