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[Daredevil:_The_Man_Without_Fear]

| General Information |
Name: Matt Murdock // Alias: Daredevil
Race: Irish-American // Gender: Male
Height: 6'0" // Weight: 200 lbs
Age: 30 // Hair: Red // Eyes: Blue
Affiliations: Nelson & Murdock
Occupation: Attorney

| Origin & Backstory |
1970-1980: Sins of The Father
Jack Murdock had been an adventurous teenaged hoodlum who grew up in Hell's Kitchen. Through intense fundraising as a boxer, he attempted to pay his way to law school to become a prosecuting attorney. When his violent career began to weigh on his conscience, he made a practice 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.

Without either of them, knowing it, their son was destined to succeed in life, with hard work he'd have the potential to thrive with whatever skills he developed. Secular mankind had hailed the people of his sort that they recognized as polymaths, but the shinobi have called them adepts. They are very rare, usually with only a few born to each generation.

Not one to shrug off his responsibilities, he raised his son, swearing he'd do so to the best of his ability. Early in the days of Matt's upbringing, though, a small crew of fame-seeking kids declared war on another gang, specifically to move in on their territory and take over Hell's Kitchen, sparking a trend of chaos that rivaled the LA gang wars. As a result Jack was constantly pestered by scoundrels determined to use him as muscle. Dreaming of a better life for Matt, he accepted bribes and beat the stuffing out of his neighbors because they couldn't pay the criminals that laid siege to the neighborhood.

1980-1993: Purgatory
Jack would have been contracted for a job in wrestling entertainment if it hadn't been for his conscience holding him back from setting the example to Matt. He could've escaped Hell's Kitchen. The neighborhood was dangerous, poor, crime-ridden, filled with sorrow, and riddled with the scars of countless gang wars and crime. Jack subscribed to the belief that what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. Being mortal anyway, he could justify the way that their neighborhood would strengthen his son.  Plus, 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. Matt was intensely teased, called a 'Daredevil' in an irony filled emotional gut punch. Meanwhile, Jack had fully changed his ways, to his own detriment. Instead of attacking anyone who'd be profitable through gangsters, he kept to himself, despite ominous financial pressure.

As the drums of gang war were finishing their anthem in New York City, The Chaste, an order of benevolent ninja found the need for fresh blood as their ranks were running thin, dying of old age. Looking to the future, Stick began to scour New York City for a possible recruit, while keeping an eye on The Foot clan.

1994-1997: Break my Bones
In January 1994, Stick had examined many youths from a distance. He observed their life circumstances, personalities, work ethic, physical and mental condition, along with a variety of other criteria. Despite the fact he'd literally been failing for years and had passed on literal hundreds of candidates from countless backgrounds, he only found one.

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 and unaware that it was truly a test to see if he was willing to put others ahead of himself, 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 that it was legally not permitted to transport because of their unstudied mysterious, radioactive, and biologically radical nature. 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, the blind ninja Stick. Judging Matt's actions as worthy of the greatest training, he kept an eye on the boy.

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 was preparing for the biggest fight of his life. Dead set on proving his worth to Matt, he promised he'd come out on top. Despite this, The Fixer commanded Jack to forfeit the match. It would have been very easy for Jack to shrink back, given that the opponent genuinely was stronger, bigger, and even younger than he'd been for years. But, Jack pulled through, giving his best punch until he knocked the opponent out. Less than an hour later, when he was leaving the arena, he was unceremoniously shot in front of his own son.

Stick, recognizing the opportunity to direct the course of Matt's young life, 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: Alumni

On his eighteenth birthday, Matt received his inheritance, heading off to Columbia University. 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. Emptying his soul, he stayed in school like his father wanted, losing touch with Elektra when she left the country with her father.

While attending Columbia, he picked up the habit of heading to Fogwell's regularly, and 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 Mr.A, 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, Mr. A woke Matt in his sleep, requesting assistance in his war on immorality. As Hell's Kitchen had started teeming with unorganized crime, Mr. A found himself overworked and lacking the time to hunt for justice on his own. So he affiliated himself with Murdock by delegating important investigations.

2004-2010: Guardian Devil

When Mr. A 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 and that criminals would be judged and punished for their sins. He'd initially worn a black skintight cloth uniform with a black mask over the top of his face, decorated with interlocking Ds centered on the chest. An enforcer and general puppet for organized crime by the name of The Gladiator made a ruckus in Hell's Kitchen, causing massive property damage while causing minimal injuries. Daredevil outfought him before discovering that he was being blackmailed into his life of crime, and while he never stopped, he actually expressed appreciation for DD's intervention, doing him a favor by preparing him a scarlet outfit because, conveniently, he was a tailor by profession. A closely timed adventure saw him foil the ridiculous Stilt-Man, a burglar who made use of hydraulic stilts that enabled him to escape the confines of his anatomy and common sense.

The first powered 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, 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, Murdock graduated from Columbia along with Foggy Nelson. They compositely started the law firm Nelson & Murdock before they 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, Murdock began to investigate a series of spontaneous assaults by people with no motive. As they got closer, Foggy was assaulted by Karen Page in his own office. No lasting harm was received, but Karen was arrested. After Foggy attacked Matt, with a similar result, he worked doubly hard, finding that they'd both 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. This year, Anthony Quinn graduated from Columbia but became a mob lawyer.

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, 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 white cane's handle can be straightened out with a push of a button. It can then split in two, selectively connected by a steel line, with a hollow storage compartment in either club. The half with the curve can be fired into the distance with air pressure. Alternatively, the cane can telescope into a long staff. The horns on his mask have small antennae built in by himself and are capable of picking up radio signals and relaying them to him via an earpiece in his mask.

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 made better by meticulous studying and higher education.

| 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. It has four floors and two glass walls, eastward and westward, that meet at a point. Additionally, there is a large yard that is mostly covered in cement, with paths for biking, and a picnic area.

Nelson and Murdock: A modest building from which Foggy Nelson, Matt Murdock, and Karen Page work. It is more affordable than most other law firms, thanks to a desire to help the innocent rather than line their pockets.

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. This was raided by Matt in his rescue of Mickey before he became Daredevil.

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. In total it has eight tables, a bar, skyward windows, and a VIP room upstairs, formerly the office of The Purple Man.

Anthony Quinn | Defense Attorney | Antagonist
A crooked lawyer who's defended criminals in the name of financial benefit. He never meant to defend bad guys as much as he was simply seduced by the massive profitability. He doesn't like to get his hands dirty, so he sticks to white collar work.

Bullseye | Assassin | Antagonist
His name is Lester and he never misses anything he throws, unless they cheat. He's verifiably insane and obsessive over the fact that Daredevil made him miss. To this day he roams free because he escaped arrest.

Copperhead | Vigilante | Rival
(To be Introduced)

Death Stalker | Stalker | Antagonist
(To be introduced)

Devil Ray | Teen Hero | Fan
(Yet to be properly introduced. But he's an Atlantean Ray Connor, taking the identity of the JLU villain)

El Diablo | Gang Member | Antagonist
Chato Santana, violent gang member with a Christian upbringing, chemically gained pyrokinetic powers that he accidentally used to burn his brother's drug suppliers to death. He is currently incarcerated.

Elektra Natchios | Ninja | Antagonist, Love Interest
The daughter of an esteemed lawyer who was spoiled from her early youth. Ravishing beauty and massive wealth made her desirable, but her status as one of the few Adepts of the generation makes her a treasure. In college, she had a whirlwind love affair with Matt Murdock, who she felt inexplicably drawn to. Leaving the country, she came in contact with the Hand Clan before joining them.

Foggy Nelson | Defense Attorney | Friend
Franklin Nelson was a law student from New York City who had been bullied from Elementary on, and when none of his classmates stood up for him, he decided to become a lawyer.  He met Matt Murdock in college, years later, he opened a firm partnered with him.

 Gladiator | Tailor | Reluctant Antagonist
Melvin Potter was a tailor, pressured to be a machinist by his father, who lived out his dream of crafting clothing for cosplayers all over New York. Financial hardship led to him coming to blows with Daredevil on numerous occasions, because of blackmail threatening to harm his daughter.

 Ikari | Ninja | Antagonist
(To be introduced)

Jester | Criminal | Antagonist
Nowhere as famous as Gotham City's Joker, the Jester is a more agile and physically advanced variety of clown criminal.

Karen Page | Secretary | Love Interest
The secretary for Nelson & Murdock, once arrested and charged with attempted murder. The charges were dropped after it was revealed that she was manipulated by The Pyrple Man. A true blonde, she doesn't realize that one of her employers is a vigilante despite the fact they regularly investigate supervillains.. or does she? Matt often wonders.

Matador | Show-Off | Antagonist
(To be introduced)

Mr. A | Detective | Ally
Red Graine is Mr. A, an uncomprosing detective who believes in absolute justice. Unafraid of any evil or harm to himself, he wears a mask simply because he is a vigilante. As a calling card, he frequently leaves a black and white card behind. He'd actually motivated Matt to become Daredevil, legitimately trusting him.

Mr. Fear | Evil Psychiatrist | Antagonist
(To be introduced)

Leap Frog | Attention-Seeker | Antagonist
(To be introduced)

Reia Co'nor | Atlantean Aristocrat | Love Interest
(Necessary Original Character for Devil Ray Connor)

Stilt-Man | Burglar | Antagonist
A greedy burglar boosted by hydraulic stilts that are more useful than one may think. He'd been arrested, but had not actually committed a crime at the time he was intercepted.

Stick | Ninja | Father Figure
A very old blind man with stamina that defies his own biology. Stick is the founder of The Chaste, an order of ninjas that exists to counter The Hand and Foot clans. He raised and trained Matt Murdock with an eye to the future.

The Owl | Crime Lord | Antagonist
Leland Owlsley was born a mutant with an appropriate name. He grew up wealthy, but wanted to be wealthier. Initially using his physical obscurities, flight and talons, he gained enough status to call the shots under The Kingpin's rule. But he was eventually caught by Daredevil, like his replacement, The Purple Man.

The Purple Man | Crime Lord | Antagonist
Jebediah Killgrave was a spy who was exposed to a chemical mixture that turned him purple and gave him the ability to command people through visual cues. He eventually worked his way to being one of The Kingpin's 'Generals' before being incarcerated.

Typhoid Mary | Actress/Hitwoman | Antagonist/Love Interest
Mary Walker had been a Grammy Award winning actress and closet mutant with psionic, telekinetic, and pyrokinetic powers, but after a traumatic experience in New York's streets, she killed a man before developing a sort of Dissociative Personality Disorder that resulted in blackouts where her consciousness manifested as four different women total. Two of which were assassins, one was a pacifist, and the fourth was the actress she'd always been. Daredevil accidentally knocked her out of a window before trying to save her, which caused the pacifistic personality to develop a crush on him, hindering an attempt on his life. Only her pacifistic side is aware of his secret identity.

Voltaic | Mercenary | Antagonist
He was designed to be the ultimate weapon, capable of manipulating electrons. In order to build himself a name and great wealth, he sold his power to the highest bidder. Eventually employs for a terror attack, he was defeated by a completely unknown vigilante, Daredevil (Substitute for 616 Electro, taken from New52 Suicide Squad).

| 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 there is nothing wrong with keeping him as a lawyer.

A side goal of mine is to highlight the differences between Matt and other superheroes. Does he care about wars or what America goes through? Does he have an unbreakable spirit, or has it just not been pressured yet. If his father raised him with religious ideals that took a backseat to boxing, how much does Matt care about sinning? Does he stereotype or prejudge people to be his enemies? Does he care if he fights someone the public respects? And would being a blind superhero actually make you less biased? These kinds of philosophical things will be explored.

My posts are going to deal with characters and life events, with a bit of slice of life thrown in. Anthony Quinn, pulp antihero The Black Bat is also set to be a special guest, with no other Indies, and Ray Connor, who I've tried to shoehorn 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. As long as this run goes, my posts will be longer and more meaning than what I've written before. I want to take the Scarlet Swashbuckler to places he's never been.

| Sample Post |
[Daredevil]
[The_Man_Without_Fear]

7:45 PM, Winter 2010
New York City, New York

"No,n-nn-n-n-No!"This was not how my first day was supposed to go, the costumed inventor thought to himself as he used his signature boots to slingshot himself off of one balcony and onto another. "No matter how far ahead I get, I can't shake him."

Leap Frog, as he had begun to call himself, was having a rough day. His kids were starving, his inventions were unappreciated, and while he was trying to make a name for himself, he'd only made a fool of himself who couldn't even run away. The only problem was that his inventions were malfunctioning, and it had nothing to do with Daredevil. They weren't supposed to be used so much, and at this point it was frying the motor. Unacceptable. The electric coils beneath his feet were receiving so much current that it was beginning to burn his heels.

Checking over his shoulder, he saw the crimson clad crusader chasing him hadn't given any sign of letting up. It registered that even if he wasn't being pursued by a judgemental spirit, there was no reason to assume his captor wouldn't burn him with his own brand of hellfire. The thought put the burns on his feet into perspective.

It was impossible to think of a clever way to escape with the ruckus from a nearby train, despite having the ultimate option literally strapped to his feet. Desperate for a way out of accepting responsibility for his actions, Leap Frog sprung over a terrace and onto the rails of the train that had just passed. He then arched his back and pounced wildly, landing on top of the locomotive.

"If that were any closer I'd end up like that stilted fella," the man in the bulbous green costume chuckled, relieved from the prior moments burden like it were years ago despite watching the man in red shrink back into the distance. But.. there was something getting closer, a brown blur that slipped past Leap Frogs' eyes with its natural inspired camouflage against the rusted beams and rotting wood.

Not Daredevil or anything like him, the approaching predator was fast, like his ankles also had coils to thrust him. Leading with his forehead, his body was like an arrow that burst through the air. Running up the back of the train and crawling over the roof's edge, he was hardly seen before he struck with hundreds off pounds of pent-up fury. Springing off of his feet, he rammed Leap Frog, impacting his soft belly and throwing him off the side of the train before he flopped on the ground.

The casing of his battery pack took the worst of the fall. But Leap Frog was still hurt. All he'd seen were the terrible snake eyes and hood like a cobra. His inner self said to run away without looking back, but his flesh disobeyed, trembling in place before he saw Daredevil approach.

"What happened to you?"

"Sn-s-snake-man," he croaked, too weak to say anything clearly.

"I see," Daredevil's voice rumbled, intentionally distorting his range. "He did a pretty good job, too."

It's not that I had something against him, it's just that he was an unknown factor in my war on crime, an extra beat in the ballad of truth and justice. If something outstanding were to happen after he caught Leap Frog, I needed to know because inevitably one of them would come back around to bite me.

The chattering of my phone jackhammering on my nightstand drew me into a conversation with exactly the right man to help me solve the mystery: Mr. A.

"Incoming call from: Rex_Graine."

"Answer," I commanded my phone.

"Matt, I got your message last night so I did a little digging. The man you described is most likely Copperhead, vigilante from the area that has a few advantages over the every man, venom for one. There are few reports of his activity, but his M.O. is just what you described: Guerrilla tactics enacted in urban locations. There's nothing there to be suspicious about, but that is a reason in itself."

A ping from my phone dropped off a few audio files of internet recordings, read aloud by Graine personally.

"Great, snakes.. Is there anything else to him? How do you think I can get ahold of him?"

"I dunno, kidnapping worked the first time. That's worth a try."
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