collaborative_daredevil | General roleplays

Yeah I was involved with that too. We're so evil :)

Oh, right - good point. That's right - we'd set Matt finding out about Mike later, at the apartment. So, as the summary above stands, Matt wouldn't know necessarily how good Mike's senses are.

Actually, that could work out in our favor for how crazy things can get.

Then again, maybe Matt could know about his super-senses and just not know about the Stick-induced blindness?? Hmm... Actually, that sounds less plausible when I write it out. Yeah, I guess Matt doesn't know. Maybe he just figures Mike is really sneaky.

We might want to move up the timeline for that mission Mikey goes on where he chooses to drink the tea for Stick. Maybe Foggy will have to cope with an extra blind roomie. LOL

I must be tired - I just re-read your comment - we can leave the Stick-induced blindness episode where it is, too - the angst sounds kinda nice. LOL I need to get to bed. :)

Awes! Great minds think alike. Mwhahahaha.. :)

In "Quantico" there are twin women training to be FBI agents, Raina and Nimah. A big chunk of their storyline is that their future assignment will require them to pretend to be each other, so they dress the same, mimic their mannerisms and overall "match". So something like what's been described here: Mike "matching" Matt and pretending to be him.

Hey, maybe it's a skill Stick forced him to train?

Ooh, could be. There are all kinds of times something like that could be useful. Maybe he wanted Matt to be able to act like Mike too, but obviously that will be more difficult for him, acting like he could see, so mostly it's Matt's personality they are working with and Mike had to spend a lot of time basically being Matt in various situations. Which could lead to some resentment, actually. But it also meant he can do a very very good impersonation of his brother. Good enough to fool Foggy.

Maybe Mike still had to mimic Matt after Stick ended Matt's training... And, of course, he became resentful of it, especially after Stick had made him think he was blind.

So, the stuff with Mike impersonating Matt, maybe that was an occasional training exercise Stick asked him to do... (But the dickery with Foggy in the dorm to get at Matt, that's all Mike. LOL)

It probably also means Mike had to keep up a certain level of education - enough that he could pass if you didn't get too deep into it.

About Mike being Daredevil/The Man in the Mask - I think it happens earlier for him than it would have for Matt of the TV show time-line for exactly those reasons. I don't think he needed a defining moment that makes him decide to do it - it just happens organically. He'd been helping people all along. It was Matt who needed one because he'd been living that normal life and wanted to believe in the law and the system. So, later, the moment that would've been his in the TV show - Mike just ends up doing it without much fanfare. Maybe he didn't even give Social Services a chance to fail. Matt just hears that the problem is taken care of...

As to how he gets the name Daredevil and the costume... Maybe it happens in a similar way it did for Matt in the show, only it's Mike sort of working with Matt and Foggy to take down Fisk. (Though, he does a lot independently... Maybe they even have that scene in the alley where the Man in the Mask gives them the info on Leland Owlsley that they'd related to Karen in episode 13 - only this time it really happened. LOL) Anyway, without the Fisk thing, I'm not sure how Melvin would get involved to make the costume, so... *shrugs*

Actually, now that I think of it, we could alter Melvin's time-line a bit... Was he maybe the Gladiator & Mike had taken him down? Or maybe he was just something smaller time (& Mike still stopped him - maybe they had a surprising heart-to-heart) and he's already out on parole... Betsy can be his parole officer or shrink or both - I think that's what she was in the comics, and later they actually do get married and have a kid, if memory serves. So, away, knowing each other earlier could lead to Melvin wanting to help Mike with a better costume.

Yeah I'm sure that was all Mike, just using the skills he's got, because why let them go to waste?

Re education I imagine he finished high school , but didn't go to college. But knowing he might need to smart talk his way into people believing he was Matt in the future, he got all the info he needed from Matt and Foggy's books. Matt's when he was in the room being Matt, and Foggy's when he stole them. Foggy noticed quite a few books going missing over the course of his college years. Mike never stole from Matt because reading by sight is easier for him, and he knows what a pain in the ass it is for Matt to get the books in Braille in the first place.

Does it freak anyone else out that you have to click that you're ok with seeing content about sexual slavery before you can access our little story about Matt Murdock's annoying but lovable brother?

LOL It kinda does give me a jolt. Well, also in the way that I really don't want my SO seeing the big red sex slave warning over my shoulder all the time in bed as I'm posting and wondering what the heck I'm doing... I haven't decided how I want to explain that one...

Fair enough. I've removed the advisory - I put it in because the only rps I was certain we'd have on the comm were the sex slave ones.

Thank you! Yeah - very understandable. They're pretty prolific. :)

(I've been reading a few of the fics some of the characters in those come from, like 'Lost and Found' & 'I Can't be Fixed and I Don't Care to be Saved' - they're really good.)

I bet that means Mike has read Thurgood Marshall a ton... :) Maybe he finds it inspiring, too.

I also bet he gets copies of all their syllabi so he knows what they're up to. (Think they use Courseworks at Columbia... He could login as them and print it at the library or save it to a flash drive. Either that or he could just take pictures of the originals from their notebooks with his phone...) Maybe Foggy keeps a calendar on google with all his assignments and plans - Mike totally gets that password, too.

I could totally see Mike holed up in some cramped and dingy room somewhere (or maybe on some random rooftop) in between missions cramming from one of Foggy's textbooks. LOL I wonder where he lives? I originally thought of him as homeless or a bit of a couch surfer. Maybe he lives in that abandoned building Stick was hanging out in during season 2?

Aw, thanks. Very kind of you. I logged in earlier on my work wifi and was like "...ah. Yeah, maybe I'll use 4G instead..." ;)

Or, maybe he just has a roll and a bag that he stashes somewhere... hmmm... It might be nice to have somewhere he accumulates weird odds and ends, a stack of textbooks, a couple paperbacks, a family photo album, maybe all hidden from Stick. (As much as that can happen.) When Matt has the apartment, maybe that's where his stuff lands. But, while he's in the dorm... It's not like he's still with the nuns, right?

(On my lunch break, that is!)

I can't see him couch surfing, because how many couches does he know? I don't imagine he has a huge network of friends. Homeless though... I don't think Matt would stand for that, he'd have him living with him, even though neither of them would be that happy with the arrangement!

Maybe he squats somewhere? Found an abandoned property, made it his own. You can actually get quite nice places that way if you're lucky. I know because my brother and some friends did it once.

It happens a few times after that, little things; things suddenly in the wrong place, things that he knows Foggy would never touch. His books, his spare glasses, his laptop left open when he knows he had closed it. He suspects, but he can't prove anything, so he carries on as normal, hoping Foggy doesn't notice anything.

Foggy does.

"Forgot something?"

Matt frowns as he closes the door behind him. "I don't think so. Why?"

Foggy doesn't answer, and Matt knows there is no physical way that he can sense to confused expression on Foggy's face, but somehow he just knows it is there. He stashes his cane in its usual place by the door, shrugs of his coat and sits on his bed.

"Okay," Foggy says, "Different clothes again. What am I missing here?"

Matt has a good idea. He takes in a deep breath and releases it as a sigh. "Was I just here?" he says.

"You left like five minutes ago to study at the library. And you were wearing the blue top. That one is a particularly unflattering shade of mustard."

Matt touched his sweatshirt self-conciously. He had been sure the label had said green. He slipped his fingers inside and felt at the braille label he had sewn onto the inside, far enough down that it wouldn't make contact with his skin and cause irritation. He had been right.

He had expected to be angry, but instead, all he got was a sense of resignation, combined with vague relief that Mike was okay. It had been over six months since he had heard from him, and then it had been a letter, carefully brailled by hand in the same way he had done since school, with a worrying lack of information about where he was and what he was doing.

Matt sighed again. "Okay," he said. "I guess now's as good a time as any to tell you. I have an identical twin."

I love that image of him cramming between missions. Maybe even taking stuff with him to read while he's waiting for a bad guy to appear.

Oh! What if later on when Matt's a fully qualified lawyer, he's getting stressed about something and Mike offers him the perfect legal loophole. Matt would be all "How did you know that?" and Mike would lie about seeing on the Good Wife or something.

That's true about the couch surfing - I doubt he had much in the way of a network of friends. Especially since Stick wouldn't put up with that. But, to land on someone's couch, you don't always have to know them well, they just have to let you stay there. lol. Not the best thing, really. But I'm sure he's helped random strangers pre-mask or there's some sweet old lady from church who remembers his dad and feels bad for him or something... Maybe Fogwell caught him sleeping in the gym, during a nor'easter, recognized him, and offered the couch for the night. Who knows...

Abandoned property - that could work easy for a time. Of course, there wouldn't be much security. Maybe anything really important he already gave to Matt for safekeeping... Or will give to Matt for safekeeping... Like the childhood photo album. (I wonder if that would really sting since Matt can't look at it himself. Ouch.)

Mike and Matt as roomies... That could be fun... LOL

LOL Yes!! And Matt makes a mental note ask Foggy about the Good Wife, see if it's any good...

Daredevil/The Man in the Mask seen parkouring over roofs with a textbook clutched to his side? So awesome...

Ooh, nic epic of angst there. I was actually writing something once about Matt having a photo album. I might have to revisit it.. But yeah, I can imagine Matt looking after his more important things, whatever they may be. I doubt he has many, mostly just childhood mementos. And maybe f one of them is a photo album or maybe just a stack of old polaroids, they could go through them together one night when they're not arguing, and Mike could tell him what each one is while they reminisce about old times...

But security could be fine in an abandoned place. Once you move in, you just get the locks changes, call the electricity company and tell them to reconnect you and just start living there. A squat doesn't have to be dirty and insecure.

Also you're right about a couch for the night from the people he saved, but you can't rely on that forever, a more permanent solution would need to be found eventually. Unless that's why he keeps bouncing in and out of Hell's kitchen, he moves around so he won't use up people's good will too quickly..

Typo alert. Nice piece of angst, is what I was trying to say at the start there. Though epic fits too! :)

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Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil

Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil

Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil

Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil

Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil

Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil

Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil

Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil

Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil

Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil

Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil

Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil

Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil

Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil

Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil

Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil

Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil

Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil

Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil

Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil

Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil

Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil

Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil

Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil

Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil