Murdock, Matt [complete]

Matthew Michael Murdock

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“This isn't my first rodeo, Mr. Stark.”
Name: Loki
Age: 25
How'd you find us? Already here
RP experience: 10-ish years

“Who are these people?”
Full Name: Matthew Michael Murdock
Nicknames: Matt, Matty, Devil of Hell's Kitchen, Masked Man
Alias: Daredevil
Age: 31
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Race: Human
Occupation: Lawyer by day, vigilante by night
Class: Hero
Play-By: Charlie Cox

“We have left humanity behind...”
Any special talents? He can effortlessly charm any woman within 30 seconds of meeting her. He doesn't even have to try, it just happens. This is probably how his string of failed relationships all started. How they ended is another matter entirely.
Superpowers: Matt possesses heightened senses as a side-effect of the radioactive chemicals that blinded him. He tries to pass it off as just compensation for his lack of sight, but they're much, much higher than that. He can hear a heartbeat across the room, overhear phone conversations if he wants to, track someone by a particular sound, usually footsteps if he's in pursuit of a criminal. His sense of touch is so sensitive that it's unbearable to have cotton fibers against his skin. It's not just the five main senses, either. All of them: balance, temperature changes, even shifts in the air.
Other Abilities: As a result of his training, Matt is an expert martial artist. When in combat, he uses a combination of boxing, Kali and Wing Chun. He also makes use of whatever weapons (or objects that can be used as weapons) he has to hand, usually his escrima sticks. He will always try to avoid non-fatal blows, as his Catholicism gives him a strict no-kill rule. Matt also has a rather higher level of endurance than an average human being, as he can continue to fight, even while seriously injured. This likely comes as a result of his training, along with the ability to use meditation to speed up his recovery time.
Anything else we should know? I know absolutely nothing of New York law (except those weird old laws that every state has that make no sense), as I don't live in New York. I do know how to use google, though.

“That's my secret, Cap. I'm always angry.”
Personality:

If there is one word to describe Matt Murdock, it's 'complicated'. He tends to feel immensely guilty for things that aren't his fault, and has a lot of trouble forming real emotional attatchments as a result of his daddy abandonment issues regarding his mentor after his father's death. This difficulty made it hard for him to make real friends or hold down a girlfriend for more than a couple months at a time, leading to a string of failed relationships. He's slowly getting over those issues, as he counts Foggy and Karen as his closest friends, and he considers Claire a friend and confidant, and he is fiercely loyal to them, willing to do anything to protect them.

His drive for justice and truth led him to attend law school and, later, to become a vigilante hunting down those who manage to escape or evade the legal system. It was this desire for justice that led him to convince his best friend to quit Landman & Zack with him and defend the innocent. He is incapable of allowing injustices of any sort to occur, and when they do, he is quick to put on his suit and correct them outside of the confines of the law.

In his business suit, or even jeans and a hooded sweatshirt, Matt is exceedingly charming and witty. In his mask, however, he is a vicious fighter, though he always stops just short of killing. Every once in a while, however, his temper gets the better of him and he comes dangerously close to crossing that line, even though doing so would damn his soul. His guilt complex always kicks in when he thinks about what he's done as Daredevil, and how much he enjoys what he does in the mask.

Matt is deeply religious and will often seek guidance and advice from Father Lantom when he feels troubled about the conflict of his beliefs and his actions as a vigilante.

“Cause I'm with you to the end of the line.”
Family:
-Jack Murdock - father - deceased
-Unknown mother - status unknown
-Best friend/business partner/confidant/pretty much the only family he has left - Foggy Nelson
History:

On December 15, 1984, Matt was born to Jack and Margaret Murdock. At some point, his mother left for reasons unknown to him. Jack was a great father though. He made certain that Matt studied hard as a child, wanting him to succeed in life. He taught Matt first aid, allowing him to stitch up his cuts and tend to his injuries when he returned home after a match. Jack would have preferred that Matt do his schoolwork rather than watch the fights, but Matt still watched, wanting nothing more than for his father to win instead of lose. For a long time, Matt didn't know his father was accepting bribes to throw the fights, but Jack practically admitted it one night after another loss while Matt stitched him up.

In October of 1993, in the act of saving an elderly man's life, Matt hit by a chemical truck owned by the Rand Corporation. The truck flipped, spilling chemicals, which blinded the nine-year old. Immediately following the accident, when he awoke in the hospital, Matt began to experience the first explosions of sound and sensation that signaled the heightened state his senses would be in for the rest of his life. The noise was unbearable for him, and his father comforted him. Though it continued, he never said a word to his father about it. He tried to control it, and focusing on learning to read Braille helped considerably, as did listening to his father's matches on television and practices at the gym. It was during one such practice, while Matt studied his books, that his advanced hearing allowed him to overhear his father accepting another bribe. Even knowing that his father had agreed to throw the fight, Matt still listened to the match. When Jack started winning, Matt cheered, and like always, he waited for Jack to come home. As the time stretched on and Jack didn't come home, Matt went out looking for him, only to find him in an alleyway near the gym, murdered in retaliation for failing to throw the fight. It was after his mother showed no signs of being willing to look after him that he was moved to St Agnes Orphanage, where he was found by an old blind man going only by the name of Stick. It was Stick who realized that Matt's condition since arriving at the orphanage was due to his state of heightened awareness of the world around him. He took Matt to the park and gauged his abilities, testing his observations of the people around them. Stick took the boy under his wing and taught him to control his senses and trained him in combat.

Stick often manipulated the training sessions to get Matt to get emotional, but only in order to teach him to control those emotions. He taught the boy to use his body as a weapon, and to use any weapons as extensions of himself. After seventeen months of training, Matt was almost completely in control of his abilities and had become quite powerful. It was after a particularly rough session with escrima sticks that Matt presented his teacher with a bracelet made from an ice cream cone wrapper.

This was the end of his training under the old man.

Matt continued his training on his own terms, however, despite promising his father that he would never become a fighter. He also continued to study hard in school, earning himself a place at Columbia Law in his twenties. It was there that he met Foggy Nelson, his assigned roommate. They quickly became best friends and promised to work together. Drunk one night near graduation, they joked about starting a firm together. Matt's hard work and studying paid off, as he graduated suma cum laude. After graduation, he and Foggy interned at Landman & Zack, with Matt growing more and more frustrated with the fact that the firm chose to defend corporations, rather than the innocent people the corporations were hurting. Matt convinced his friend to leave the company and start their own firm like they'd planned to do in school, despite the fact that both had been offered permanent positions. Not long after leaving Landman & Zack, Matt began to have trouble sleeping in his apartment, as he could hear a neighbor's daughter crying as she was abused.

Calling child services didn't do any good, as the girl's father covered it up and her mother refused to believe it was possible. So, Matt took matters into his own hands. One night, wearing a black mask, he tracked the father to the train yard where he worked and attacked him, savagely beating him and threatening further retribution if he ever touched his daughter again. Since that night, he's had no trouble sleeping. This led him to consider more vigilante work.

He made the decision to follow that path in early March of 2015, paying a visit to a local church, using the confessional to ask Father Lantom to forgive him for what he plans to do. Later that same night, he stops a human trafficking incident, severely beating the men involved in kidnapping three women. A few days after, he and Foggy meet with a realtor to discuss the building that will become their firm. Matt accepts the price the realtor quotes them and Nelson & Murdock officially opens for business. Late that night, they receive their first client in the form of Karen Page, a woman accused of murdering a co-worker in her apartment. They met with her at the prison and agreed to represent her. After she was nearly killed in the prison, they had her released and brought to their firm where she explained the situation.
As she was unable to return to her apartment, Matt offered her a place to sleep at his place. While there, he tried to get more information out of her and caught her in a lie, but let her assume that he believed her. Assuming she would return to her apartmet for the file, he pretended to sleep on the couch and followed her in his mask when she snuck out. Matt attacked the man who was waiting for Karen and retrieved the flash drive the man had been after, leaving both on the steps of the New York Bulletin building. He and Foggy hire Karen as their secretary.

After training at Fogwell's Gym, Matt goes out again in disguise. From his vantage point on a rooftop, he scanned the city for signs of criminal activity and hears a young boy screaming, and goes off in pursuit of the kidnappers. He tracked them down two days later, walking right into the trap they'd set for him. Heavily injured, he barely escaped and took refuge in a dumpster outside an apartment complex where he was discovered by an occupant of the building. He woke up in Claire's apartment and prevents her from calling for help in treating his injuries. She does what she can for him, and when he caught the strong scent of cheap cologne, he tried to get up to confront the man, knowing the man was looking for him, as he could hear him going from door to door. Eventually, he arrived at Claire's apartment and claimed to be a detective. Matt hid, but realized that he didn't believe Claire. As the man was leaving, Matt dropped a fire extinguisher on his head and the man was hauled to the roof and tied up to be interrogated. Once Matt got what he needed out of the man, he dropped him off the roof and left to retrieve the boy.

The following morning, Matt met again with Father Lantom outside the church and was assured that their earlier conversation would remain between them under the seal of confession. Turning down a cup of coffee, Matt headed to the office, where they were visited by a man asking them to take on a murder case. From the ticking of the man's watch, Matt attempted to follow him, but was unable to continue when the man got into a van. At the police station, he convinced Foggy to take the case, in part to attempt to figure out who was orchestrating the criminal activity he was trying to stop. During the trial, he realized that one of the jurors was being blackmailed, and went after her blackmailer, getting her excused from the jury. Despite this, though, another juror was also blackmailed and the trial resulted in a hung jury. Afterward, Matt tracked down Healy and got him to confess the name of his employer before being forced to watch in horror as Healy committed suicide to protect his loved ones.

With only a name to go on, Matt began going after the Russian mob to get information to go with that name. After receiving a phone call from Claire and hearing her screams on the other end, he went to the apartment she was staying at and discovered that she'd been taken. With the information provided by Santino, Matt tracked the Russians to a taxi garage and rescued Claire, bringing her back to his apartment to recover. After work the next day, he tracked a cab to an alleyway and, after beating down a few mobsters, interrogates one of them, looking for information on Vladimir, and learns instead that he's been framed for the murder of Vladimir's brother.

At work the next day, an elderly woman arrived at the door, seeking help from the firm, and they take her case. While looking for information on Mrs. Cardenas' landlord, Matt overheard two officers murdering a suspect for revealing Fisk's name. Later, Matt tracked down one of the officers to interrogate him and stole his phone, which had the coordinates to various Russian warehouses delivered to it. He arrived at one of those warehouses moments before it was blown up. He followed Vladamir and Sergei and attacked them, but escaped with Vladamir when the police arrived and attempted to take him in. Taking shelter in an abandoned warehouse, Matt saved Vladimir's life in order to interrogate him further. He spoke to Fisk over a two-way radio, learning that Fisk was planning to frame him for everything that was happening, including the deaths of several police officers that Fisk ordered killed during the conversation. Attempting to escape from the warehouse as police surrounded the building, Matt learned the name of Fisk's money-man and left as Vladimir sacrificed himself to cover Matt's escape, knowing he'd be killed anyway for revealing any information.

When Matt tracked down Owlsley, he was distracted, and then berated by, his old mentor who had returned to New York to stop a powerful enemy he called Black Sky. In Matt's apartment, Stick insulted the way that Matt chose to live his life, and his father, and the two argued before Stick convinced Matt to aid him in his mission, and Matt made him promise not to kill anyone. At the docks, Matt realized that Stick's target was a young boy, and protected the kid instead. While Matt was busy with the men, Nobu and Black Sky escaped. Back at the apartment, he learned that Stick had gone after them and killed the boy. This infuriated Matt and the two of them fought, damaging much of the apartment. Upon his defeat by his former student, and the demand by Matt that he leave Hell's Kitchen, Stick walked out. While cleaning up, Matt found the bracelet he'd given his mentor as a child, and realized that Stick had kept it rather than getting rid of it.

At work the next day, he overheard Karen and Foggy discussing a secret investigation they'd been conducting, he tried to convince them to leave it alone, but was instead convinced to help them under the condition that they continue to work within the confines of the law. Meanwhile, Matt continued his own investigation as a vigilante, looking for Detective Blake at the hospital while his partner was attempting to poison him. He subdued the officer and got what he could out of Blake before the poison reached his heart, then made his escape. Later, he managed to track down Ben Urich, the reporter that Karen had mentioned, and convinced him to run a piece exposing Fisk, but before anything could be printed on that front, Fisk went public and claimed to be everything that Matt knew he wasn't.

After hitting several dead-ends in their investigation, they were visited again by Mrs. Cardenas, who revealed that Fisk had doubled the offer in an attempt to get them to move out of the building, but she was told to refuse the offer and Matt decided to go after Vanessa to get information on Fisk. Meeting with her led to a meeting with Fisk. Realizing that his enemy was capable of love and was loved in return, he suffered a bit of a moral crisis and visited Father Lantom again to seek his advice. Neither of them wanted Matt to kill Fisk, because doing so would damn Matt's soul. Having to decide whether he had to, or wanted to, kill Fisk, Matt returned to work and, in the middle of celebrating the new sign for the firm, they received a phone call informing them of Mrs. Cardenas' murder. While mourning in the bar, they heard Fisk on the news claim to be mourning her death as well, something Matt believed to be a lie.

He tracked down the man who had killed the old woman and convinced him to turn himself in before heading off to the warehouse the junkie mentioned, where he was met by Nobu. They fought, resulting in Matt becoming heavily injured and Nobu dying in a fire. Fisk arrived to cut off Matt's escape and engaged the vigilante in combat. Matt's injuries were too great and Fisk proved himself Matt's superior. Matt managed to escape through a window with the knowledge that Fisk possessed ultra-light body armor. He had barely made it back to his apartment when Foggy arrived looking for him, and his best friend discovered his secret activities. Matt managed to get Foggy to call Claire to tend to his wounds before passing out from pain and blood loss. When he awoke again, he had no memory of having told Foggy anything of the sort. He tried to explain everything to Foggy, but it did nothing to calm his friend's anger, and Foggy left the apartment. The next day, he learned from Karen that Fisk had murdered his own father and that his mother was still alive, but he doubted the knowledge would change anything about the situation as it stood.

When he was recovered enough to move without ripping out his stitches, Matt returned to the church to seek guidance, and learned that Father Lantom knew of his activities and Matt revealed that he believed that God had put the Devil in him. Unable to get past the violent memories of his fight with the ninja, Matt suited up and started hunting down someone who could tell him where to get body armor like what Fisk possessed. He was given information that led him to Melvin Potter's workshop. After a brief skirmish, Matt managed to convince Potter to make him an armored suit.

Using the information he'd gained from Vladimir before the Russian's death, he tracked down the Chinese drug runners that Fisk was associated with by following a blind woman and the car she got into to a warehouse. After memorizing the secret knock, he returned home to restitch his wounds before returning to the warehouse and infiltrating it. Matt fought off the blinded drug workers, accidentally setting the place on fire in the process before being set upon by the woman in charge of the operation, who easily bested him and escaped. Not long after, they learned that Ben had been found murdered, and Matt and Karen attended the funeral and he confided in Father Lantom that he felt responsible as he'd failed thus far to stop Fisk. Later, while training at the gym, he was visited by Foggy, and the two started repairing their friendship, starting with Foggy's return to the firm.

After visiting with Officer Mahoney, Matt followed a couple of officers he'd overheard and prevented them from killing Carl Hoffman, instead telling the man to turn himself into Mahoney so that his firm could defend him. Hoffman revealed everything he knew about Fisk's operations, and celebrated as the information led to Fisk's arrest and imprisonment. The celebration was cut short, however, as breaking news revealed that the transport bringing Fisk to prison had been hijacked and Fisk had escaped. Assuring his friend that he knew what he was doing, Matt took a cab to Potter's workshop to retrieve the armored suit. Using it, and his new baton, Matt tracked Fisk down and engaged him in combat. For a while, Fisk had the upper hand, but eventually Matt was victorious, and handed Fisk over to Officer Mahoney when the cop arrived on the scene.

It was on the front page the next day, along with the new name the press was giving him, a name he offically adopted as his alias. Even with Fisk behind bars, Matt knew he still needed to defend his city, and he will, no matter what.

“Dance-off, bro. Me and you.”
Custom Title Speak of the Devil and he shall appear
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