[HIDER=Round Two][INDENT][COLOR=SLATEGRAY][CENTER][sup][h1][center][img]https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/0199f325-4c2c-712a-b535-f41aa7933a6c.webp[/img][/center][b][center][color=black] T H E D E V I L O F H E L L ' S K I T C H E N[/color] [color=aa3c37]T H E D E V I L O F H E L L ' S K I T C H E N[/color][/center] [/b][/h1][/sup] [color=c82339][sup][i][b]"For we walk by faith, not by sight."[/b] [color=darkgray]- 2nd Corinthians, 5:7[/color][/i][/sup][/color][/CENTER][table][row][/row][row][cell][center][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] C H A R A C T E R P O R T R A I T[/color] [color=aa3c37]C H A R A C T E R P O R T R A I T[/color] [/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup][img]https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/0199ed9e-75ce-734d-8032-89f7f04d06a8.webp[/img] [sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] C H A R A C T E R S U M M A R Y[/color] [color=aa3c37]C H A R A C T E R S U M M A R Y[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup] [sub][COLOR=darkgray][color=c82339]Matthew M. Murdock[/color][/COLOR] [sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup] [COLOR=darkgray][color=c82339]34[/color] [b]|[/b] [color=c82339]Single[/color][/COLOR] [sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup] [COLOR=darkgray][color=c82339]Nelson, Murdock & Page: Attorneys At Law[/color][/COLOR] [b]|[/b] [COLOR=darkgray][color=c82339]American[/color][/COLOR][/sub][/center] [indent][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] N O T A B L E A B I L I T I E S & T O O L S[/color] [color=aa3c37]N O T A B L E A B I L I T I E S & T O O L S[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/INDENT][sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup] [INDENT][hider=][color=#2e2c2c]-[/color] [indent][sub][b][color=aa3c37] A B I L I T I E S[/color][/b][/sub] [sup]▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ [COLOR=darkgray][color=c82339][b][color=ea3f37]◼[/color] ...A WORLD ON FIRE[/b][/color] Though blind, Matt's sense of hearing, smell, taste, and touch are all enhanced to superhuman levels. With focus, he can hear a bird's wings flapping from across the city, smell the leftovers that a deli threw out from the night before, taste the sodium from a bead of sweat, and feel the heat coming off of a furnace thousands of miles below him. As a result, he's able to strike his opponents more effectively, pinpointing pressure points and weak spots based solely on entering the same room.[/color][/sup] [color=#2e2c2c]-[/color][/indent][indent][sub][b][color=aa3c37] T O O L (S)[/color][/b][/sub] [sup]▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ [COLOR=darkgray][color=c82339][b][color=ea3f37]◼[/color] HELL'S INSTRUMENTS[/b][/color] Made up of pieces of industrial piping and walking canes that he's abandoned over the years, Matt has meticulously customized his billy clubs since the start of his career until morphing into their current mechanically savvy variations: spring-loaded with a grappling hook in the tip, with steel cable wires running through them and a simple clip system to render it all into a single piece, creating a bo-staff. Practice has made Matt an accidental expert in wielding them, able to bounce the clubs off of surfaces with precision to disarm and otherwise incapacitate.[/color][/sup] [color=#2e2c2c]-[/color][/indent][/hider][/INDENT][indent][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] N O T A B L E S K I L L S & T A L E N T S[/color] [color=aa3c37]N O T A B L E S K I L L S & T A L E N T S[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/INDENT][sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup] [INDENT][hider=][color=#2e2c2c]-[/color] [indent][sub][b][color=aa3c37] S K I L L (S)[/color][/b][/sub] [sup]▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ [COLOR=darkgray][color=c82339][b][color=ea3f37]◼[/color] STREET FIGHTING MAN[/b][/color] Trained by Richard Dragon and Stick, Matt is proficient in at least ten different fighting styles, ranging from his late father's trade of boxing to Kali, Muay Thai, Judo, and Jeet Kune Do. Through Elektra's influence, he's also picked up some skills in Wushu, Silat, and Taekwondo. Due to his powers, he's able to deliver blows more effectively than most, aswell as take an incredible amount of damage, as learned from Dragon's meditative techniques.[/color][/sup] [color=#2e2c2c]-[/color][/indent][indent][sub][b][color=aa3c37] T A L E N T (S)[/color][/b][/sub] [sup]▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ [COLOR=darkgray][color=c82339][b][color=ea3f37]◼[/color] DEVIL MAY CARE[/b][/color] Due to his extrasensory control, Murdock can translate his movements in correspondence to his environment. It's made him naturally more acrobatic, able to pinpoint areas of balance and the trajectory of the air.[/color][/sup] [color=#2e2c2c]-[/color][/indent][/hider][/INDENT][/cell][cell][INDENT][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] T H E S T O R Y S O F A R...[/color] [color=aa3c37]T H E S T O R Y S O F A R...[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/INDENT][sup]________________________________________________________________________________________[/sup] [COLOR=DARKGRAY][indent]Blinded in an accident as a child, [b][color=c82339]Matthew Michael Murdock[/color][/b] developed superhuman senses that allowed him to function better than any sighted person. But when his father was murdered by a low-level gangster for refusing to throw a boxing match, Murdock's gifts were tempered by rage and a need to fight injustice - in large part because while his abilities confirmed the method of his father's killing, the police had ruled it a suicide. Approached in St. Augustine's by Richard "The Dragon" Drakunovski, young Matt was sent off to his isolated compound and given a crash course in Eastern philosophy. But when The Dragon's teachings didn't help to tame the fire within, Drakunovski sought the services of a professional rival: an embittered blind warrior named Stick. Through the instruction of both mentors, Matt became an incredibly skilled fighter in addition to becoming a master of his senses - irrevocably changed, but still yearning to bring justice to a corrupt system. Rejecting Stick's proposal to take up arms in some ancient holy war, Matt returned to New York and began attending Columbia University to become a lawyer. Mentored by a brilliant-but-eccentric Manhattan attorney named Franklin "Foggy" Nelson, who was looking to leave his lucrative position at a professional firm and establish one of his own, Matt met and befriended fellow law student Karen Page, destined to become partners at Nelson's future startup. Born to privilege as the daughter of a Greek diplomatic envoy, [b][color=ea3f37]Elektra Nerissa Natchios[/color][/b] was rigorously trained in combat from the age of four. From the world-renowned martial artist Sandra "Shiva" Woosan to the ninja warlord Kirigi, Elektra learned from the greatest masters to utilize both her body and its movements as a deadly weapon. Incredibly skilled in most fields, including mastery of the major musical instruments, every known form of ballet, and the study of world history, Elektra's final series of tests came about when accompanying her father to New York: attending college in a public setting. Sent to Columbia University to pursue a degree in business to eventually take her father's place, Elektra met and became immediately intrigued by the blind Matt Murdock, who was searching for his own identity. Deciding to make Murdock her pet project, Elektra relished the opportunity to challenge each of Matt's Catholic schoolboy values, delighting in getting him into trouble with increasingly daring off-campus adventures. Her ultimate goal was to push him to embrace the man that [i]he[/i] wanted to be instead of whoever Nelson and Page were trying to mold him into. Then came a dramatic turn in both their lives. Targeted for political assassination, Elektra witnessed the shooting of her father during a campaign rally. In a rage, she caught up with the murderer and viciously stabbed him to death with a set of training sais, fleeing the scene before she could be implicated. Turning to Matt in her time of overwhelming crisis, she then learned about how and why Matt's own father was murdered. Twisted by grief, Elektra sought the identity of "The Fixer" and readily tracked the alias down to a retired fight promoter named Roscoe Sweeney. Tying him up and torturing him, Elektra then brought Matt to Sweeney’s doorstep to exact similar revenge. But Matt refused, using the rule of law and the tenets of the Bible to justify his unwillingness to kill. Despite their growing affection for eachother, Elektra disappeared. Matt sought solace in the church, but was disillusioned after his senses betrayed the fact that St. Augustine's Sister Margaret was, in reality, his birth mother. It seemed that, like the criminal justice system, God had failed Matt aswell. Unable to forgive her for abandoning him, Matt left the church and promptly abandoned his faith entirely. He was unable to reconcile the clash between the teachings of the Bible and the betrayal of the only family he had left. And so a fateful decision came: to get justice on his own terms, Matt would have to use the skills given to him by his mentors and the abilities that allowed him to "see" where others couldn't. So upon graduation, Matt began operating in a different field. Donning a featureless bandana and dark clothing, he became a masked vigilante. Steadily taking on the dealers and murderers that littered the crime-ridden streets of the Kitchen, Matt moonlighted during the day as Karen's legal partner for [i]Nelson, Murdock, and Page[/i]. Whenever the courts failed to convict the guilty, Matt would suit up to set things right. Meanwhile, Elektra was approached by Stick after keeping tabs on his former student. Deciding that Murdock was beyond reproach, he offered her an intriguing proposition: embrace her newfound bloodlust by becoming an assassin-for-hire, killing off members of the Yakuza in Japan. With his mentorship guiding her towards rightfully deserving targets, Stick promised that she would slowly avenge her father's death by proxy. Initially agreeing to the terms, Elektra operated in secret for three years - while Matt was fighting street crime half a world away, she would become a wrathful scourge of the underworld. But an instruction from Stick to kill a seemingly mystical force inhabiting a young child, sacrificing the child in the process, broke all pretense of Elektra's desire for vengeance. Bitterly severing ties with the old man, who revealed that her targets were agents of an ancient organization called The Hand, Elektra left Japan five years after fleeing America to rejoin Matt - who she quickly learned was in the midst of his own mission. It hadn't taken Elektra long to deduce that the mysterious "masked man in black" was her former love. What she didn't understand was why Matt insisted on carrying on as an attorney instead of devoting himself entirely to the fight - but this was his life, and he didn't want her to be any part of it. However, it became clear to him that Elektra truly sought redemption - and with Matt's crusade against the criminals of New York yielding depressingly few results even after multiple years of fighting, he admitted to himself that they probably needed eachother. And so whenever Matt wasn't defending the innocent in court, they would train, developing a shorthand for whenever they would set out to cripple the criminal element, night after night. He was called The Devil of Hell's Kitchen. She was called The Black Sky. And together, they were gonna take the Kitchen back.[/indent][/COLOR] [INDENT][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] P L O T ( S ) & G O A L ( S )[/color] [color=aa3c37]P L O T ( S ) & G O A L ( S )[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/INDENT][sup]________________________________________________________________________________________[/sup] [COLOR=DARKGRAY][INDENT]Daredevil is one of my favorite characters. And for once, I felt like I had a take on him that wasn't the typical setup - so when I wrote an opening post and it started clicking immediately, I thought [i]"to hell with it"[/i]. Not only is he not wearing a devil-themed costume even after five years of vigilante shenanigans, but this is a version of Matt that's lost his faith and is choosing to put himself more in the gray of what the system allows versus what justice should be. In addition to having Elektra there playing a literal Devil's advocate to his choices, it will enable him to more honestly explore why he isn't going out there with the addition of executioner to his judge and jury mentality. I'm also playing around alot with his interpersonal dynamics, since that stuff rarely ever changes. Foggy is his boss and mentor, wielding some weight in holding him accountable as an attorney. Karen Page isn't really the love interest with a past; she acts as the person who represents everything positive about what Matt believes in as a true-blue idealist and an accomplished attorney in her own right. His mother's also more of a factor, trying to work her way back into Matt's life now that he's completely shut her out. Of course, Kingpin plays a huge part. He's the wormtongue to the ear of Hell's Kitchen's directionless lowlifes, making things more orderly so that crime is controllable. The bigger change that comes with this is that I intend to use every villain, [url=https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/scale_medium/8/86187/1700178-mike_deodato_jr__deviation_98_by_mikedeodatojr.jpg]save for one exception[/url], in a more grounded manner. So characters like Typhoid Mary, Gladiator, Purple Man, Muse, and the rest aren't going to start adopting a costume and a gimmick to rise to meet Matt, acting instead as part of a larger puzzle that makes up the Kitchen's underworld. And of course, there are a couple of other major players beyond Marvel that will play a factor.[/INDENT][/COLOR][/cell][/row][/table][hr][/COLOR][/INDENT][/hider] [CENTER][i][color=darkgray]"Woe to you, blind guides! You say, 'If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gold of the temple is bound by that oath.'" - Matthew 23:16[/color][/i] [COLOR=SLATEGRAY][B]C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P T P R O P O S A L[/B][/COLOR][h1][color=9e0b0f][b]T H E D E V I L O F H E L L ' S K I T C H E N[/b][/color][/h1][hr] [img]https://danielhdr.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/daredevil-blacksuit.jpg[/img] [h3][sup][sub][color=ed1c24] [b]M a t t h e w M u r d o c k[/b] [color=black]♦[/color] [b]D e f e n s e A t t o r n e y / V i g i l a n t e[/b] [color=black]♦[/color] [b]H e l l ' s K i t c h e n , N e w Y o r k C i t y , N Y[/b] [color=black]♦[/color][/color][/sub][/sup][/h3] [/CENTER][COLOR=9e0b0f][INDENT][B][SUP][SUB][H3]C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P T:[/H3][/SUB][/SUP][/B][/INDENT][hr][/COLOR] [CENTER][sup][b][color=9e0b0f]"You believe people can change? I don't think we can. Well, maybe we get a little... nicer. A little angrier. But we can't change our fundamental nature."[/color][/b][/sup][/CENTER] [hider=Devil's In The Details][i]Some time ago, a boy from the boroughs of Clinton was blinded in a freak accident involving radioactive chemicals. His father, a prize-fighter who took dives in order to scrape by, promised his son that he'd make a better life for them in light of the accident. What Jack Murdock didn't know is that while young Matty's sight was completely lost, his other senses were heightened to superhuman degrees and gave him a considerably different view of the world. While it became an assault on his daily life at first, he quickly began to learn to cope. It inspired his father, a relapsed Catholic, to start studying again and become a better man. So when his next bout for the Heavyweight Championship came his way, Jack refused the offer to go down in the third. Instead, he K.O'd his opponent - a Russian newcomer named Anatoly Kynazev - within minutes. Matt doesn't remember much about what happened after that fight. Only that he woke up at three in the morning to the sound of arguing and a gunshot, not far from his and his father's apartment. Jack Murdock was found in an alley, beaten to a pulp with an exit wound splattering the wall. No investigation was ever properly put forth. The police deemed Jack's death a suicide. Matt knew better, having heard other voices and their displeasure that his father would go against the betting racket of a man they called Rosoe Sweeney. But no one would even think to believe a blind kid who hadn't been at the scene. No one would go onto second guess something that Matt indisputably knew was cold-blooded murder. And so eventually, the boy was forced to keep silent, taken in at his local church and looked after by the kindly priests and nuns. Until a man eventually came around, claiming that he believed Matt's story about hearing things that weren't there. A blind old man who called himself Stick. Stick was a bastard, hard-edged and quick to insult. But he knew potential when he heard it. Matt had the soul of a warrior, even at a young age. So the years went by, as Matt devoted his time between finishing his schooling through the Church, honoring one of his father's last wishes by beginning his studies into criminal law, and training with Stick to overcome his disability to learn how to fight. His heightened senses made him a natural, mastering everything from his dad's trade of boxing to jujitsu, and even parkour and gymnastics, which he took a specific interest in as a bid to better hone his superhuman hearing. At seventeen, Stick thought he was ready to hear the reason that he'd chosen Matt as a pupil. About the war that was brewing between two rival factions. Ancient warriors, practicers of dark magic. Ninja assassins and a clandestine group of fighters looking to prevent their conquest of the world. It was too much for Matt to buy into. After weeks of fights between him and his grandmaster, Matt cut his ties with Stick and decided that he'd devote himself fully to his studies. Stick honored his wishes, but kept in the shadows, knowing that the offer might seem more appealing when he earned some experience in the real world - with some coaxing, of course. But with his devotion to God keeping his moral compass in check, Matt was determined to engage the system that had ignored his dad's murder and get the case re-opened by becoming a lawyer. Columbia University came calling, and with that, the first real love of his life - a fellow alumni named Karen Page. The two were of equal minds about the justice system's flaws, and had the same aspirations about opening a practice that made a difference. They just needed someone to mentor them in the way that law in Hell's Kitchen could be properly implemented. Down-on-his luck attorney Franklin "Foggy" Nelson fit the bill perfectly, seeing a couple of promising young talent that could revitalize his struggling practice. Nelson was instrumental in Matt and Karen's simultaneous honors within their class, and they were both primed to graduation within the top of their class. Unfortunately, Matt's life took an unexpected turn. When Roscoe Sweeney began making the rounds again, looking to buy his way back into racketeering, Murdock was overcome with a desire to finally extract the vengeance that had been denied to him for so many years. While he'd worked so hard to work his way up the ranks within the justice system to put Sweeney away, a burning need to hand out justice with his own two hands was beginning to consume him. It was a mentality that conflicted with the Bible's teachings, but he had to put that aside and seize the opportunity to avenge his father. So, he slipped on a pair of black sweats, wrapped his hands in Muay-Tai ropes, and put a hastily-constructed mask over his face. By the time he'd made quick work of Sweeney's men, Matt was shocked to sense another prescence enter the fight. A female, judging by her heartbeat and perfume, who had no problem shedding blood to get through the group. While Matt and the mysterious woman squared off for the chance to kill The Fixer, they both realized that the man was already hiding in his top floor apartment, keeled over in the midst of cardiac arrest. While the woman was all too quick to leave the crook to his fate, Matt listened for any sign that he could save Sweeney, having a last-minute change of heart when he realized that he wanted his father's murderer to stand trial. But it was too late. Solemnly, Matt left the building without a word, feeling a hollowness in the pit of his soul. If he couldn't have his revenge, what was the point of it all? A few weeks later, and the woman - who Matt could identify through her unique body chemistry - arrived at his apartment, unannounced and immediately curious. It hadn't taken much effort at all to identify the masked man that she'd fought in a bid to kill The Fixer, but what struck her was the fact that he was really a blind man that possessed gifts that lent themselves to far greater things than this seemingly mundane existence. Introducing herself as Elektra Natchios, she offered Matt a chance to continue his training where Stick had left off. It turned out that she had also run afoul of the old man, and found his war just as insane. But rather than use his teachings to better herself, Elektra had been hellbent on a quest to avenge the assassination of her own father, a Greek dipolmat on tour in America, which had taken place when she was a child. She freely admitted to operating as an assassin-for-hire, but had grown bored of the life and was looking for an escape. Matt, on the other hand, was at a crossroads. So the two made a deal. If Elektra could teach him the skills that he needed to complete his training, Matt would show her a better use of her talents - avenging those whom the justice system had similarly failed. If he couldn't bring his father's killer to justice, he'd devote his life to bringing [i]every[/i] criminal that had fallen through the system's cracks to justice. So by the time that his graduation with a degree in criminal law was acquired, Matt was already spending his nights fashioning an upgraded black suit to compliment Elektra's own fashioned attire. It left his budding relationship with Karen in a strained place, with the two of them agreeing to be partners rather than lovers, but it was the path that Matt finally felt like he could make tangible a difference with. And so, with the practice of Nelson, Murdock, and Page established as a cheaper alternative for the less fortunate to be defended in court, Matt Murdock began to make waves himself as the washed-up Nelson's top asset in the courtroom. He seemed to have a superhuman sense of when a plaintiff was lying or not, and could exploit that to get innocent clients cleared of their charges. But when they were representing someone that Matt knew was guilty for certain? He took matters into his own hands. While the law seemed to favor his clients' rights, justice still needed an agent to carry out a sentence. His relationship to God would never allow him to kill, but everything else was fair game. Deciding that he'd take an eye-for-an-eye approach to doling out justice, Matt - along with his partner, Elektra - would don the mask and take to the streets as an unforgiving force of God's wrath. This cruelty, combined with the psychological games that Matt would employ out in the field to get a confession from the guilty, would earn him a feared moniker - [color=9e0b0f][b]The Devil of Hell's Kitchen[/b][/color].[/i][/hider] [INDENT][INDENT][i]Five years into his career as an attorney by day and vigilante by night, Matt is starting to have doubts about the level of brutality that he inflicts on a nightly basis. His senses allow him to control every encounter so that he doesn't go so far as to strike a fatal blow, but his restlessness along with Elektra's influence has begun to blur the line over where he stands. He seeks weekly penance in the form of confession from a nun that watched over him, Sister Maggie, but he's started to challenge God's wisdom in the face of his own inner-turmoil. He wants to be something better than he is, but he can't figure out what that would be. Making matters worse is that while he and Elektra have been able to keep the small-timers and the wannabe members of the Maggia out of Hell's Kitchen, there's been a new presence beginning to loom large over the fledgling criminal underworld that's been operating in the district - a distant voice in the ear of every petty crook that instructs them on how to claim their piece of the Kitchen, and the considerable wealth to back up all of these endeavors, so long as they pledge loyalty. This figure calls himself The Kingpin, and while he isn't a major player when compared to the likes of Hammerhead, Caesar Cicero, or The Owl, he's been cutting enough deals to potentially, with time gain control of not just a single operation.. but all the Kitchen's illegal output. Matt Murdock has a choice to make, and soon. Uphold the law by trying to fix the system from within, embracing a side of himself that yearns for true justice... or let the Devil out for real, letting it consume his soul at the cost of saving Hell's Kitchen from complete damnation?[/i][/INDENT][/INDENT] [COLOR=9e0b0f][INDENT][B][SUP][SUB][H3]C H A R A C T E R M O T I V A T I O N S & G O A L S:[/H3][/SUB][/SUP][/B][/INDENT][hr][/COLOR][INDENT][INDENT][i]Only behind Batman, Spidey, and Supes, Daredevil ranks high among my favorite characters. He's someone you can do so many things with, as alot of the prolific runs have taught, but there's something very appealing about his relationship with morality and how he often falls very short. Law and order are nice concepts, but justice is a whole other ballpark, and that's what is going to define Matt's journey towards truly becoming Daredevil - which he distinctly hasn't become, because I want to take the ideas of Born Again and his other low points of Matt's from the comics and use it to enact a tipping point. He's not a particularly good guy right now, as he maims and tortures criminals without a second thought. The question is, if he puts on the red suit, does he become Daredevil in the traditional sense? Or does he decide that Daredevil is what needs to be feared by all, and really use it as his advantage in an act of letting go of all of the things that he perceives is holding him back? The reason that Elektra and Kingpin are so focal to this Matt aren't because they're simply enemies to overcome, but they're shadows - echoes of what Matt's inner thoughts are telling him to do. A sort of literalization of the Angel and Devil on the shoulder idea, with Elektra indulging his promise to God not to allow more blood to spill onto the streets while Fisk takes on the role of what Matt would become if he looked at his vigilante crusade as a mission to keep the streets clean, no matter the consequences.[/i][/INDENT][/INDENT] [COLOR=9e0b0f][INDENT][B][SUP][SUB][H3]C H A R A C T E R N O T E S:[/H3][/SUB][/SUP][/B][/INDENT][hr][/COLOR][INDENT][INDENT][u][b]Supporting Cast:[/b][/u] [b]Elektra Natchios[/b] - Matt's partner on the streets, having traded in the life of an assassin for fellow vigilante. While they're devoted to one another and even engage in the occasional one-night stand, Matt refuses to let their relationship move beyond that because of Elektra's willingness to let herself be known by the criminals they fight. As a result, he doesn't include her in his daily life, fearing that she might destroy the only normalcy he has life. [b]Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson[/b] - Matt's boss and mentor. No longer the bumbling sidekick, Foggy is instead an adept, seasoned attorney that runs the practice of Nelson, Murdock, and Page. While certainly still eccentric, wearing bowties and regularly blasting swing music after a hard day's work, Foggy is more authoritative in his approach to holding Matt accountable. [b]Karen Page[/b] - Matt's law partner. As a defense attorney on her own merits with five years under her belt, Karen has remained the heart and soul of what Matt and Foggy do by regularly reminding them what merits the law still has, and taking both men to task when they seem to forget. Karen and Matt harbor feelings for one another, but Matt's distant behavior regarding his off-duty hours - coupled with the times she's found a mysterious Greek woman enjoying his company at his loft - keeps her at bay. [b]Wilson Fisk[/b] - A renowned land developer and leader of business, Fisk is beloved by the public for his unwavering critique of corrupt officials and law enforcement, even garnering him a few supporters for a Senate run. What few are privy to is the fact that Fisk is a mover and shaker behind the scenes aswell, supplying resources and guidance to those in the criminal underworld that need it. This has earned him the codename 'Kingpin', and a spot among NYC's worst mobsters that think he's worth far more to them as an asset than an enemy. Recently, Wilson has taken particular interest in Hell's Kitchen as a testing ground for something that could result in an empire. [b]Sister Maggie[/b] - Matt's biological mother, unbeknownst to him, and his religious counsel. [i]Lawrence Cranston - Ben Urich - Mary Walker - Leeland Owlsey - Vincent Patillo - Melvin Potter - Jonathan Powers - Detective Larks - Detective Taurens - Officer Day - Turk Barrett - Stick -[/i][/indent][/indent] [COLOR=9e0b0f][INDENT][B][SUP][SUB][H3]S A M P L E P O S T:[/H3][/SUB][/SUP][/B][/INDENT][hr][/COLOR][INDENT][INDENT][i]A sample post that can be used in the IC if you so desire upon acceptance. This post should provide an example of your vision for the desired character. This sample post should meet all standards outline in the rules and additionally include dialogue, mannerisms and other actions representative of your intended portrayal.[/i][/indent][/indent] [COLOR=9e0b0f][INDENT][B][SUP][SUB][H3]P O S T C A T A L O G:[/H3][/SUB][/SUP][/B][/INDENT][hr][/COLOR][INDENT][INDENT][i]A list linking to your IC posts as they're created. This can be used for a reference guide to your character or to summarize completed arcs and stories.[/i][/indent][/indent]