Post by daredevil on Jan 16, 2009 22:06:07 GMT -6
Name: Matt Murdock
Nickname/ Alias: Daredevil
Race: Human/Caucasian
Age: Original appearance was in 1964--But appearance is that of someone in his late twenties, early thirties
Height: Not quite tall, but close. Call it an even six foot.
Gender: Male
Job: Lawyer
Hero, neutral, Villain, or Civilian: Hero (Some neutral leanings)
Team: Affiliated with Shield, The Chaste, and The Defenders in the past. Currently not affiliated with any team.
Position (ex. Leader of the Avengers, company owner, or general. Not all characters will have this.): None
Social Class: Upper Mid
Body/Build: Athletic--Peak human physical condition
Appearance (at least a paragraph and a picture if he or she is an original comic book character) : Matt Murdock has red hair, is relatively tall, and will be typically seen with a cane. When in his Daredevil persona, a red devil suit with overlapping "D's" identifies him to one and all. Matt usually wears sunglasses.
Special traits/Physical traits (describe each one): Blind--Matt Murdock's eyes are useless.
Skills:
Olympic Level Gymnast--Matt Murdock is an Olympic level gymnast--Extremely agile and very strong.
Martial Arts Training--A combination of ninjutsu, jiujutsu, judo, and American style boxing, used in conjunction with his gymnastic abilities, make Murdock a formidable hand to hand combatant.
Powers/Gift (at least a paragraph):
Echolocation/heightened senses--The same accident that took his sight granted Matt the ability to hear, smell, feel, even taste far beyond ordinary human levels. While he can't read, or distinguish colors, this power makes up for his blindness and then some, allowing him to extraordinary perception of his surroundings.
Trustworthy: Very. But he is a lawyer, so watch for that
Personality type / Attitude (A paragraph or two will do): Driven, focused, almost angry...He tends to take things very seriously, his humor verging on bone-dry. He's dedicated his life to cleaning up Hell's Kitchen, both as Daredevil and as a Lawyer. Frequently depicted as a loner, his close friends include Foggy Nelson, Luke Cage, Danny Rand, and Spiderman. Murdock is often reluctant to get involved with women, probably because Bullseye keeps killing them.
Is the character confident in his/herself: Most of the time, but if anyone is capable of getting into Murdock's head, it's Wilson Fisk: The Kingpin.
Wise: Relatively so, but in recent years he has been depicted as more hotheaded.
Caring: For his friends, yes.
Leader: No.
Brave: Very
Fears: The deaths of those close to him.
Likes and dislikes: Likes--peace, quiet, getting the job done. Dislikes--Idiots, criminals, The Daily Bugle, fire and loud noises.
Pass times: Reading, actually (Braille, of course).
Weapon(s) of choice: Billy Clubs
Pet(s): No.
History (at least three paragraphs): Matt Murdock led a fairly normal childhood--up to the point where he was blinded and gained his other senses. After that point, he was taught martial arts by the old man Stick.
When his father is killed by mobsters, Murdock learns that while his father was pushing Murdock to get good grades, HE was out breaking fingers for the mob. This sets Murdock on the path to becoming Daredevil, after he finds and brutalizes (Some say he killed) the men who killed his father. He gets himself under control, and sets to cleaning up Hell's Kitchen.
This brings him into immediate conflict with Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin, who controls most of the crime in Hell's Kitchen. Wilson Fisk reacted exactly as one would expect a crimelord to react to a vigilante. He tried to kill him.
Employing Bullseye, Fisk sets out to destroy Murdock. Bullseye fails to kill Daredevil, but does kill his first love, triggering the decades long battle between the two. Bullseye is the character who most tests Murdock's resolve not to kill, having ended the lives of multiple Daredevil/Murdock love interests.
In recent times, Matt has been outed to the media as Daredevil by Wilson Fisk, but nothing has been proven yet. This makes it harder for Daredevil to actively work against crime, at the risk of letting everyone Matt Murdock has ever put in jail out.
What is he/she doing now: Daredevil has just rejected an offer from Captain America to join the avengers, on the grounds that his possibly being revealed as Matt Murdock puts all of them in the line of fire.
Relationship with other characters: Reluctant--he's usually willing to help out, but isn't very quick to make friends.
Special feelings toward other characters: He tries to keep them to a minimum, but he has had relationships with the Black Widow, Typhoid Mary, and Elektra.
How he/she reacts to other characters: Cautiously.
How other characters react toward him/her: Cautiously. He is an enigma wrapped in a riddle, after all.
Extra info:
RP Sample:
Bullseye staggers back into the wall, stunned. Before he can pull a card or a gun or a knife I grab him and hurl him into the coffee table. The table shatters under his weight, legs folding in like toothpicks, and I feel an instant of incongruous regret. It had been such a nice coffee table. But the trick to fighting Bullseye is to never let up, never stop, not even for a second. If you give him a chance to get something in his hands you risk being impaled by it.
He's laughing even as I pound him--this is all just a game to him, it always has been. Hey folks, let's all play "Kill Murdocks's Girlfriend"! Fury bubbles in my throat, hot gall. I should kill him. I really should. He deserves it more than anyone I've ever met, and if I kill him, here and now, he never get's a chance to harm someone I love again. With each impact of my fist a face flashes into memory...
He's stopped laughing. He realizes I'm probably thinking about killing him, about ending his miserable existence here and now. But he's still grinning savagely, because he's insane. He's an animal. He's a mad beast, and he should be put down like one, and it takes all my willpower to keep from doing it. I know he's grinning, because I can feel his teeth and lips under my hands as I grab his face.
I slam his head into the ground, hard, over and over, trying to knock him out, and my hand slips up to his forehead. There's something there.
"What's this?" I snarl. I feel more carefully, squeezing his throat with my other hand to hold him still. It's three circles, crossed with a pair of lines. A bullseye.
"What the heck is this? Your logo? Your super cool bad guy logo?" for some wholly unintelligible reason, the mark on his head that he probably carved himself infuriates me more. "I'll give you a logo." I snarl, and grab a piece of shattered coffee table from the floor.
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Nickname/ Alias: Daredevil
Race: Human/Caucasian
Age: Original appearance was in 1964--But appearance is that of someone in his late twenties, early thirties
Height: Not quite tall, but close. Call it an even six foot.
Gender: Male
Job: Lawyer
Hero, neutral, Villain, or Civilian: Hero (Some neutral leanings)
Team: Affiliated with Shield, The Chaste, and The Defenders in the past. Currently not affiliated with any team.
Position (ex. Leader of the Avengers, company owner, or general. Not all characters will have this.): None
Social Class: Upper Mid
Body/Build: Athletic--Peak human physical condition
Appearance (at least a paragraph and a picture if he or she is an original comic book character) : Matt Murdock has red hair, is relatively tall, and will be typically seen with a cane. When in his Daredevil persona, a red devil suit with overlapping "D's" identifies him to one and all. Matt usually wears sunglasses.
Special traits/Physical traits (describe each one): Blind--Matt Murdock's eyes are useless.
Skills:
Olympic Level Gymnast--Matt Murdock is an Olympic level gymnast--Extremely agile and very strong.
Martial Arts Training--A combination of ninjutsu, jiujutsu, judo, and American style boxing, used in conjunction with his gymnastic abilities, make Murdock a formidable hand to hand combatant.
Powers/Gift (at least a paragraph):
Echolocation/heightened senses--The same accident that took his sight granted Matt the ability to hear, smell, feel, even taste far beyond ordinary human levels. While he can't read, or distinguish colors, this power makes up for his blindness and then some, allowing him to extraordinary perception of his surroundings.
Trustworthy: Very. But he is a lawyer, so watch for that
Personality type / Attitude (A paragraph or two will do): Driven, focused, almost angry...He tends to take things very seriously, his humor verging on bone-dry. He's dedicated his life to cleaning up Hell's Kitchen, both as Daredevil and as a Lawyer. Frequently depicted as a loner, his close friends include Foggy Nelson, Luke Cage, Danny Rand, and Spiderman. Murdock is often reluctant to get involved with women, probably because Bullseye keeps killing them.
Is the character confident in his/herself: Most of the time, but if anyone is capable of getting into Murdock's head, it's Wilson Fisk: The Kingpin.
Wise: Relatively so, but in recent years he has been depicted as more hotheaded.
Caring: For his friends, yes.
Leader: No.
Brave: Very
Fears: The deaths of those close to him.
Likes and dislikes: Likes--peace, quiet, getting the job done. Dislikes--Idiots, criminals, The Daily Bugle, fire and loud noises.
Pass times: Reading, actually (Braille, of course).
Weapon(s) of choice: Billy Clubs
Pet(s): No.
History (at least three paragraphs): Matt Murdock led a fairly normal childhood--up to the point where he was blinded and gained his other senses. After that point, he was taught martial arts by the old man Stick.
When his father is killed by mobsters, Murdock learns that while his father was pushing Murdock to get good grades, HE was out breaking fingers for the mob. This sets Murdock on the path to becoming Daredevil, after he finds and brutalizes (Some say he killed) the men who killed his father. He gets himself under control, and sets to cleaning up Hell's Kitchen.
This brings him into immediate conflict with Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin, who controls most of the crime in Hell's Kitchen. Wilson Fisk reacted exactly as one would expect a crimelord to react to a vigilante. He tried to kill him.
Employing Bullseye, Fisk sets out to destroy Murdock. Bullseye fails to kill Daredevil, but does kill his first love, triggering the decades long battle between the two. Bullseye is the character who most tests Murdock's resolve not to kill, having ended the lives of multiple Daredevil/Murdock love interests.
In recent times, Matt has been outed to the media as Daredevil by Wilson Fisk, but nothing has been proven yet. This makes it harder for Daredevil to actively work against crime, at the risk of letting everyone Matt Murdock has ever put in jail out.
What is he/she doing now: Daredevil has just rejected an offer from Captain America to join the avengers, on the grounds that his possibly being revealed as Matt Murdock puts all of them in the line of fire.
Relationship with other characters: Reluctant--he's usually willing to help out, but isn't very quick to make friends.
Special feelings toward other characters: He tries to keep them to a minimum, but he has had relationships with the Black Widow, Typhoid Mary, and Elektra.
How he/she reacts to other characters: Cautiously.
How other characters react toward him/her: Cautiously. He is an enigma wrapped in a riddle, after all.
Extra info:
RP Sample:
Bullseye staggers back into the wall, stunned. Before he can pull a card or a gun or a knife I grab him and hurl him into the coffee table. The table shatters under his weight, legs folding in like toothpicks, and I feel an instant of incongruous regret. It had been such a nice coffee table. But the trick to fighting Bullseye is to never let up, never stop, not even for a second. If you give him a chance to get something in his hands you risk being impaled by it.
He's laughing even as I pound him--this is all just a game to him, it always has been. Hey folks, let's all play "Kill Murdocks's Girlfriend"! Fury bubbles in my throat, hot gall. I should kill him. I really should. He deserves it more than anyone I've ever met, and if I kill him, here and now, he never get's a chance to harm someone I love again. With each impact of my fist a face flashes into memory...
He's stopped laughing. He realizes I'm probably thinking about killing him, about ending his miserable existence here and now. But he's still grinning savagely, because he's insane. He's an animal. He's a mad beast, and he should be put down like one, and it takes all my willpower to keep from doing it. I know he's grinning, because I can feel his teeth and lips under my hands as I grab his face.
I slam his head into the ground, hard, over and over, trying to knock him out, and my hand slips up to his forehead. There's something there.
"What's this?" I snarl. I feel more carefully, squeezing his throat with my other hand to hold him still. It's three circles, crossed with a pair of lines. A bullseye.
"What the heck is this? Your logo? Your super cool bad guy logo?" for some wholly unintelligible reason, the mark on his head that he probably carved himself infuriates me more. "I'll give you a logo." I snarl, and grab a piece of shattered coffee table from the floor.
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