Enarr

Sensation & Wonder: An Absolute Comics Roleplay [DC & Marvel One Universe Style Game]

The picture for Jason & Roy looks like shipper fan art and it pleases me to high heavens

Sensation & Wonder: An Absolute Comics Roleplay [DC & Marvel One Universe Style Game]

Does anyone care about Dr Mid Nite?

Sensation & Wonder: An Absolute Comics Roleplay [DC & Marvel One Universe Style Game]

Fogwell's Gym
Hell's Kitchen, New York

I went to the back of the place like I always do. I don't need to echolocate. I've walked in and out a million times before.

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◉◉◉◉◉◉◉Who◉filled◉the◉punching◉◉◉◉◉◉◉
◉◉◉◉◉◉◉bag◉with◉mildew?◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉
◉◉◉◉◉◉◉150◉pounds◉of◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉
◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉decades◉old◉sand◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉
◉◉◉◉◉◉◉Windex?◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉
◉◉◉◉◉◉◉Ripped◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉
◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉torn◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉
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◉◉◉◉◉◉◉Rotting◉from◉the◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉
◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉inside◉out◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉
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◉◉◉◉◉◉◉Definitely◉molded◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉◉
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I taste the tang of greatness punch into the air as my fist hits the bag. Is this what Tony The Tiger smells like? Wet leather and darkness. The phalanges in my hand smoosh together as my palm cruises into the weight like mud down a mountain.

_{dont be like me son dont solve your problems with your fists youre a smart kid you can do better than i ever could stay in school be a lawyer you can make the world a better place i know you can mattie you can do whatever you set your mind to i believe in you kid youve got the murdock blood in you as strong as any of us ever had it}

My father said a lot of things. I can see that now. The older I get, it's harder and harder to parce what he actually meant. He told me not to fight with my fists. It's not that he didn't want me to fight. He didn't want me to fight with my fists. He wanted me to fight with the system, so I could always have the freedom to take a knife to a gun fight. Deconstructing his arguments never really gets me anywhere, though. He made rent, or at least he tried, by fixing his fights and shaking down debtors until the cost to his pride outweighed the cost to his bank account. He was a lost man, an alcoholic, a washed up boxer by the time he was my age. Actually, scratch that. He died before he was my age. I'm now officially older than my father was when he died. Guess I'll have to break out the champagne.

_{mattie im so sorry you were never supposed to see that i know what we talked about and im trying my best son but i dont know how to do better thats why i need you to stay away from this life if anyone can do it its you my only son my beautiful boy i cant wait to see who you become when you grow up}

I remember the first time one of the kids pushed me down at school. All of the boys wanted to have a stick fighting war, myself included, but I couldn't stop looking over my shoulder, afraid I'd see Battlin' Jack Murdock there to set me straight. I was so busy worrying about upsetting my father that I stood stock still when a dry branch tore across the bare goosebumps on my arm. To this day, it's the darkest shade of red I've ever seen.

_{hey what happened to you tell me which one of those punks at school did this and ill straighten this out faster than you can say i love you dad its that one kid with the sweatervest isnt it his dads a real prick ill show him whats what have you disinfected yet let me get you a towel kiddo thats nasty}

I begged them to stop. I'd pleaded with them, pointing out how pissed my dad was gonna be. But they just kept poking me and smacking me until I was too afraid to open my eyes. Every time it'd stop, one of them would pitch in with "Come on, Daredevil," and then someone else would join in and so on and so forth until the entire class was smacking me like a Hungry, Hungry Hippo, all until their parents came to pick them up.

_{youre just too smart for them you listen to me young man when you see them tomorrow you ball up your fists puff up your chest look them in the eyes and let them know that you mean business and that they are going to stop}

But that's what he didn't understand. Violence isn't the result of a lack of communication. Violence is the language of the willfully catatonic. No matter how long you go to school, no matter how many books you read, how great you are at speaking dead languages in front of public officials, no matter how much you beg them to stop, some people will only understand violence. That's why when he used his words to tell The Fixer that he was done throwing fights so he could split the proceeds from gambling, he ended up bleeding to death in his own dojo. Not ten feet from where I'm standing. This bag I'm punching, that's his bag. I can still smell his sweat on it. That odious miasma, that's what the human spirit smells like after after twenty years. That's what blood sweat and tears amount to when they were all you had.

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_{CHARACTER SHEET | NEXT: NEVER THE ANSWER ?}

Sensation & Wonder: An Absolute Comics Roleplay [DC & Marvel One Universe Style Game]

<Snipped quote by Retired>

I guess I'm just more of a Dimension 20 guy really. Nothing against Critical Role, as everything I've seen of it has been great, but there's no way i'm personally getting through 115 3-4 hour-long episodes.

@Natty

Yeah, I love Dimension 20. It's an entirely different style but it's thoroughly delicious.

Sensation & Wonder: An Absolute Comics Roleplay [DC & Marvel One Universe Style Game]

just cassandra's earlier comics and most recent comics. no weird bad stuff where she becomes a mind controlled villain or some garbagio like that

@Zoey Boey

I'm still waiting for her to show up in the Timmverse so we can finally get a Cassie/Bruce ship

Sensation & Wonder: An Absolute Comics Roleplay [DC & Marvel One Universe Style Game]

C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P T P R O P O S A L

D A R E D E V I L

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C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P T:

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^{"When I close my eyes, I can almost forget that opening them won't wake me up."}

Do you know why people say that Daredevil's villains are boring? It's because most of them aren't crazy. They can be reasoned with. A lot of them, like The Gladiator (Melvin Potter) and Stilt-Man (Wilbur Day), can appreciate that they've made a bad decision before their sense of self-preservation kicks in. People love crazy supervillains like Bullseye. I know because I happen to be made from the very same things that most people are. But while a lot of superhero stories boil down to "egomaniacal psychopath tries to hurt a lot of people at once", Daredevil stories tend to feature quieter, more insidious sorts of villains and their dangerous friends. Ironically, the more gentlemanly approach of some of his own less antagonistic foes and his own allies can easily be just as problematic to negotiate as blatant hostility.

This is a thirty-five year old Daredevil with most major events of his personal history behind him. He's been protecting the corner of New York known as Hell's Kitchen for about twelve years off and on depending on how you count and he's getting really, really tired. He's died and come back to life. He's been drowned in the Hudson River. He's been publicly outed as Daredevil. He's blinded the Kingpin. He's been the Kingpin. He's lost his memory more than once. He's been disbarred and moved to San Francisco before heading back home and more recently he's tried taking on a protégé but that didn't exactly go as well as it could've.

This version of Daredevil has to deal with the fact that he is, not only a celebrity staple of trash rags, but an icon, with an entire generation of people growing up seeing his presence as the status quo and seeing him as essential, controversies and all. When you're empty handed from giving your all, what do you do when you still get the sense that something has to give?

P L O T ( S ) & G O A L ( S ):

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As the Guardian Devil of Hell's Kitchen, he's responded to countless calls for help, though, as a Catholic man, he's rarely been convinced that his own God could say the same. Upon hearing this, some might say that it's been hypocritical for The Man Without Fear to spend all of his time putting the fear of God into others. To be honest, I'm not sure that they wouldn't be wrong in doing so. But for as long as he's been working as a defense attorney to keep innocent men from damnation, and beating the ever loving shit out of the guilty, he's always felt like he can achieve something more. His father wanted him to be a lawyer, not a fighter. But upon a fresh appraisal of their relationship, he's forced to ask if he could ever possibly negotiate the occupational hazards inherent to scarlet swashbuckling without raising his fists.

Shadowboxer: In a single night, the Wilson Fisk's crime syndicate is stress tested in a coordinated assault by The Hand that leaves him gravely wounded. In desperate need of emergency medical attention, he entrusts his adolescent grandson, Samuel, to the last man anyone would expect, his own arch nemesis: Matt Murdock. However, observation of The Hand's operations reveal that destabilizing the crime syndicate was only their first order of business, upon the discovery of their new Apokoliptan accoutrements.

C H A R A C T E R N O T E S:

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If anybody wants to play as Samuel Fisk, Foggy Nelson, or walk through a situation I've imagined as Bullseye, I have some really fun ideas planned. I'm super open to playing with the the other superheroes if anybody wants to either run a classic style Marvel Team-Up or dig into my plot. As much as I more or less imagine this Matt Murdock to include some version of his entire published history, the specifics of the cast involved are a little less initially defined (akin to The New 52 Batman relaunch) largely because otherwise would be tedious for everyone involved and also largely irrelevant.

P O S T C A T A L O G:

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Sensation & Wonder: An Absolute Comics Roleplay [DC & Marvel One Universe Style Game]

TFW you still aren't sure what you should do as a driving character. Feels like I'm just going to be playing supporting cast if I don't figure something out LOL.

@TGM

Yeah, I was thinking that there's plenty of fun to be had from the sidelines with this setup actually. Support simultaneously seems to be really noncommittal and involved

Sensation & Wonder: An Absolute Comics Roleplay [DC & Marvel One Universe Style Game]

Basically the big difference in my status quo is the fact that the restoration of his secret identity never really happened all the way, people just stopped caring

Sensation & Wonder: An Absolute Comics Roleplay [DC & Marvel One Universe Style Game]

@Enarr How much of that history is from actual Daredevil lore?

If a large portion of it... man I love some of the wacky routes Comic Characters go off on.

@Sep

Everything I mentioned in his backstory has actually happened. He's even pretended to be his own brother. Daredevil comics are absolutely crazy. I haven't even read the new Chip Zdarsky run but I get the sense I'll probably love it.

Sensation & Wonder: An Absolute Comics Roleplay [DC & Marvel One Universe Style Game]

Here Comes

C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P T P R O P O S A L

D A R E D E V I L

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^{_{M A T T H E W M U R D O C K ♦ D E F E N S E A T T O R N E Y ♦ H E L L S K I T C H E N , N Y C}}

C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P T:

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^{"When I close my eyes, I can almost forget that opening them won't wake me up."}

Do you know why people say that Daredevil's villains are boring? It's because most of them aren't crazy. They can be reasoned with. A lot of them, like The Gladiator (Melvin Potter) and Stilt-Man (Wilbur Day), can appreciate that they've made a bad decision before their sense of self-preservation kicks in. People love crazy supervillains like Bullseye. I know because I happen to be made from the very same things that most people are. But while a lot of superhero stories boil down to "egomaniacal psychopath tries to hurt a lot of people at once", Daredevil stories tend to feature quieter, more insidious sorts of villains and their dangerous friends. Ironically, the more gentlemanly approach of some of his own less antagonistic foes and his own allies can easily be just as problematic to negotiate as blatant hostility.

This is a thirty-five year old Daredevil with most major events of his personal history behind him. He's been protecting the corner of New York known as Hell's Kitchen for about twelve years off and on depending on how you count and he's getting really, really tired. He's died and come back to life. He's been drowned in the Hudson River. He's been publicly outed as Daredevil. He's blinded the Kingpin. He's been the Kingpin. He's lost his memory more than once. He's been disbarred and moved to San Francisco before heading back home and more recently he's tried taking on a protégé but that didn't exactly go as well as it could've.

This version of Daredevil has to deal with the fact that he is, not only a celebrity staple of trash rags, but an icon, with an entire generation of people growing up seeing his presence as the status quo and seeing him as essential, controversies and all. When you're empty handed from giving your all, what do you do when you still get the sense that something has to give?

P L O T ( S ) & G O A L ( S ):

---

As the Guardian Devil of Hell's Kitchen, he's responded to countless calls for help, though, as a Catholic man, he's rarely been convinced that his own God could say the same. Upon hearing this, some might say that it's been hypocritical for The Man Without Fear to spend all of his time putting the fear of God into others. To be honest, I'm not sure that they wouldn't be wrong in doing so. But for as long as he's been working as a defense attorney to keep innocent men from damnation, and beating the ever loving shit out of the guilty, he's always felt like he can achieve something more. His father wanted him to be a lawyer, not a fighter. But upon a fresh appraisal of their relationship, he's forced to ask if he could ever possibly negotiate the occupational hazards inherent to scarlet swashbuckling without raising his fists.

Shadowboxer: In a single night, the Wilson Fisk's crime syndicate is stress tested in a coordinated assault by The Hand that leaves him gravely wounded. In desperate need of emergency medical attention, he entrusts his adolescent grandson, Samuel, to the last man anyone would expect, his own arch nemesis: Matt Murdock. However, observation of The Hand's operations reveal that destabilizing the crime syndicate was only their first order of business, upon the discovery of their new Apokoliptan accoutrements.

C H A R A C T E R N O T E S:

---

If anybody wants to play as Samuel Fisk, Foggy Nelson, or walk through a situation I've imagined as Bullseye, I have some really fun ideas planned. I'm super open to playing with the the other superheroes if anybody wants to either run a classic style Marvel Team-Up or dig into my plot. As much as I more or less imagine this Matt Murdock to include some version of his entire published history, the specifics of the cast involved are a little less initially defined (akin to The New 52 Batman relaunch) largely because otherwise would be tedious for everyone involved and also largely irrelevant.

P O S T C A T A L O G:

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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.