I like that idea. Not only because it would be a valid reason for Mike to slip up (I figure he;s probably pretty careful about not doing that most of the time) but also because I love the idea of Foggy and Mike hanging out and Foggy still not twigging. I bet that would be a fun scene to write!
I'd go with eye contact personally, because it's something that's really difficult to miss. Someone looks you in the eye, you know it, even if they look away a second later. That's why it freaks some people out. Checking out a girl is also possible, especially in a bar or something, but if he's wearing sunglasses Foggy wouldn't necessarily know (unless he said something that gave him away, I suppose! But I think that would be too much, even after a few drinks. The unfolded bills probably wouldn't happen because I'm sure he'd have prepped properly before he went out, while not under the influence (or, y'know, just stole Matt's wallet!)
Or, how about this. Some girl comes over to talk to him, and being drunk/having no personal boundaries/being an asshole, she takes off his glasses without warning. Mike's caught by surprise, and Foggy (who is probably about to leap to his defense and make her give them back) can see that he is clearly looking at something, whether it's her or him or whatever else. The girl doesn't notice, and Mike goes off with her in the end, which explains why he doesn't go back to the dorm with Foggy, but Foggy saw it, and Mike knows he did. Or something like that.
I don't really like the timeline from the show. I'm going to ramble on for a bit here, bear with me!
You're right, 2010 is all wrong unless they both went to college late, or did college, then took a few years off before law school, or something like that. Personally, I can't see Matt doing either of those things. I can imagine he might have gone a year late to college, because going blind when he was nine would have meant having to learn a whole bunch of new and difficult things, not to mention re-learning how to read. It's hard to believe he wasn't held back at least a year in school. Of course, I can see him working his ass off to get put back in with his age group later on, and it not being an issue (or in the case of our story, Mike doing badly deliberately so he's held back too). (That's kind of a theory I have. I put it in a fic once, but it was an AU one where Foggy was the one who was blind, so it was about him, but it stuck in my mind for Matt).
I can also see Foggy going a year late to college, because his parents talked him into doing some apprenticeship as a butcher or something, because. He references the butcher thing quite frequently, and in season two he jokes (sort of) about running away and opening a butchers shop, which I know does;t mean he has the skills to actually do it, but he might do!
But that's maybe a year each. We'd need them both to be much later than that for the timeline to fit, so I just assume the show was wrong (which makes no sense, how could it be wrong?!) or that they are meant to be younger than they seem. I also work on the assumption that they met in college, not law school. They just seem more like they've known each other longer than since 2010. But that's just my random stuff, I can't make it work with canon, unfortunately!
But anyway, if they were undergrads, they would probably be under 21. But that doesn't stop most students. Hell, I went out to the pub with friends when I was 16 and nobody even noticed! (drinking age is 18 here, but still...) Anyway, I bet Mike has a contact that could set them up with a couple of fake IDs. Which would be confusing for Foggy, because from his POV his very law abiding roommate just got him a fake ID. Oops.
(Sorry, that was long and might not make a lot of sense. I'm operating on five hours sleep, I then to ramble when I'm tired!
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Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil
Date: 2016-04-21 09:39 am (UTC)I'd go with eye contact personally, because it's something that's really difficult to miss. Someone looks you in the eye, you know it, even if they look away a second later. That's why it freaks some people out. Checking out a girl is also possible, especially in a bar or something, but if he's wearing sunglasses Foggy wouldn't necessarily know (unless he said something that gave him away, I suppose! But I think that would be too much, even after a few drinks. The unfolded bills probably wouldn't happen because I'm sure he'd have prepped properly before he went out, while not under the influence (or, y'know, just stole Matt's wallet!)
Or, how about this. Some girl comes over to talk to him, and being drunk/having no personal boundaries/being an asshole, she takes off his glasses without warning. Mike's caught by surprise, and Foggy (who is probably about to leap to his defense and make her give them back) can see that he is clearly looking at something, whether it's her or him or whatever else. The girl doesn't notice, and Mike goes off with her in the end, which explains why he doesn't go back to the dorm with Foggy, but Foggy saw it, and Mike knows he did. Or something like that.
I don't really like the timeline from the show. I'm going to ramble on for a bit here, bear with me!
You're right, 2010 is all wrong unless they both went to college late, or did college, then took a few years off before law school, or something like that. Personally, I can't see Matt doing either of those things. I can imagine he might have gone a year late to college, because going blind when he was nine would have meant having to learn a whole bunch of new and difficult things, not to mention re-learning how to read. It's hard to believe he wasn't held back at least a year in school. Of course, I can see him working his ass off to get put back in with his age group later on, and it not being an issue (or in the case of our story, Mike doing badly deliberately so he's held back too). (That's kind of a theory I have. I put it in a fic once, but it was an AU one where Foggy was the one who was blind, so it was about him, but it stuck in my mind for Matt).
I can also see Foggy going a year late to college, because his parents talked him into doing some apprenticeship as a butcher or something, because. He references the butcher thing quite frequently, and in season two he jokes (sort of) about running away and opening a butchers shop, which I know does;t mean he has the skills to actually do it, but he might do!
But that's maybe a year each. We'd need them both to be much later than that for the timeline to fit, so I just assume the show was wrong (which makes no sense, how could it be wrong?!) or that they are meant to be younger than they seem. I also work on the assumption that they met in college, not law school. They just seem more like they've known each other longer than since 2010. But that's just my random stuff, I can't make it work with canon, unfortunately!
But anyway, if they were undergrads, they would probably be under 21. But that doesn't stop most students. Hell, I went out to the pub with friends when I was 16 and nobody even noticed! (drinking age is 18 here, but still...) Anyway, I bet Mike has a contact that could set them up with a couple of fake IDs. Which would be confusing for Foggy, because from his POV his very law abiding roommate just got him a fake ID. Oops.
(Sorry, that was long and might not make a lot of sense. I'm operating on five hours sleep, I then to ramble when I'm tired!