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''This page is about the [[:Category: Phase 2|Phase 2]] incarnation of the character. For other uses, see [[Matt Murdock (disambiguation)]].''
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| birthdate = May 10, 1996
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| journal = [http://x-daredevil.livejournal.com/profile x_daredevil]  
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| name    = Matt Murdock
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| pb = [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1214435/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 Charlie Cox]
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| codename = Daredevil
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| teams  = [[eXcalibur]]  
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| birthdate = May 10, 1986
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| journal = [https://xp-daredevil.dreamwidth.org/profile New York State of Mind]
 
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''"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon''
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''The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. - Sven Goran Eriksson''
  
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Lawyer at Xavier's Institute and member of the [[eXcalibur]] team.
  
 
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== '''Details''' ==
 
== '''Details''' ==
  
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'''Character Journal:''' [http://x-daredevil.livejournal.com/profile x_daredevil]
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'''Character Journal:''' [https://xp-daredevil.dreamwidth.org/profile xp_daredevil]
  
  
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'''Codename''': Daredevil
 
'''Codename''': Daredevil
  
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'''Aliases''': Matt Murdock
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'''Aliases''': Matt, Matt Kimura
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'''First Appearance''': [https://xp-logs.dreamwidth.org/3624348.html Jannuary 23, 2015 ]
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'''Date of Birth''': May 10, 1986
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'''Place of Birth''': Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, NYC, NY
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'''Citizenship''': USA
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'''Relatives''': [[Clinton Barton|Clint Barton]] (adopted brother), [[Kimura Family|Steve and Andre Kimura-Murdock]] (uncles), Jack Murdock (father, deceased), Grace Murdock (mother, deceased)
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'''Education''': graduated with honours from Columbia Preparatory School (2007), Pace University Manhattan, BS in Criminal Justice summa cum laude (2011), Juris Doctorate magna cum laude from Columbia Law School (2014)
  
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'''First Appearance''': (link to LJ (x_logs) with date as link text)
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'''Relationship Status''': single
  
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'''Date of Birth''': May 10, 1996
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'''Occupation''': lawyer
  
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'''Place of Birth''': New York, New York
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'''Team Affiliation''': [[eXcalibur]]
  
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'''Citizenship''':  USA
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== '''Biography''' ==
  
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'''Relatives''': Father: Jonathan “Jack” Murdock (aka Batlin’ Jack), deceased; Mother: Margaret Grace Callahan (aka Sister Maggie), unknown to Matt as his mother
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=== '''Childhood''' ===
  
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'''Education''': currently in the 9th grade
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Some people are born with a silver spoon in their mouth. Some people…aren’t. Matt Murdock was one of those people. His father, Jack, was a high school dropout, alcoholic, and a professional boxer who never amounted to anything serious in the ring. His mother was a high school girl who thought she was in love with a boxer until she discovered that she was pregnant and realized she did not want to be married and have a child at 18. However, she was Catholic and did not believe in abortion either.
  
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'''Relationship Status''': Single
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Nine months later, she left the baby with Jack. It had been that or putting the child up for adoption, an option she did not favor as she would have no way to check up on her child or know how he was doing. Her parents had insisted though, a closed adoption would be best. Yes, there were other options, she recognized that peripherally, but she was a good daughter, or at least she tried to be, and she was scared. In regards to her child, she did what she hoped was best.
  
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'''Occupation''': Student, Hoodlum
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Having a child did help Jack, to an extent. He still boxed, but he also got jobs working construction and sometimes for the local mob, and while his drinking continued it lessened and it was more likely to occur at home instead of at the bar. It was at least something. Over the next several years Jack worked a number of odd jobs in an attempt to put food on the table with varying degrees of success. He pushed his son in school to always do well, helping him as much as he could with very limited means. He enrolled him in after school tutoring programs, extended day programs, free Y camps for gymnastics and vacation bible school in the summers, anything he could that was free or Matt could get a scholarship to so that he would do well in school and stay out of trouble. Jack did not want his son to be the loser that he was.
  
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'''Team Affiliation''': [[New Mutants]]
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Matt grew up getting taunted for how much studying he did, even at a young age, and it frequently meant that he was in fights with the other kids. His father forbade him from fighting, the only time that his father had ever hit him was the day he had come home with a black eye and crowing about how he had punched the other kid and how he had gone down, TKO!
  
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Shocked and bewildered by his father hitting him, Matt ran, staying away for two days. He was on his way home, crossing a busy intersection in New York when he saw a blind man ahead of him about to be hit by a truck. He pushed the man out of the way and was hit by the truck instead. The truck belonged to Stark Industries and the driver had been running late, taking a shortcut and driving faster than he really should have been, especially with barrels of chemicals in the back.
  
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== '''Biography''' ==
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Some of the barrels tipped and broke open, the entire situation was a mess from start to finish, and 9 year old Matt woke up in the hospital a few days later, his father by his side, blind. Permanently. Over the next few weeks, Matt began occupational therapy, learning to use a cane and read Braille. At the same time, he kept hearing things, getting pounding migraines and complaining that everything was too loud. The doctors thought that this was a side effect from the chemicals that blinded him or from Matt hitting his head and having some sort of traumatic brain injury. Despite all their tests all the doctors were able to do was prescribe Matt pain medication to help with the migraines.
  
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=== '''Murdock Family''' ===
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Even with the generous settlement that Stark Industries gave to the Murdock’s to help cover Matt’s medical expenses and whatnot, Jack had to work hard to keep the family together. He stopped drinking entirely, training hard for boxing matches even though he was over 40 by this point and well over the hill for a boxer. Jack tried to make himself an example for Matt who was working hard to relearn the most basic tasks.  Jack thought that if Matt could do it, rebuild his life, he could do it too. Simple enough.
  
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Some people are born with a silver spoon in their mouth. Some people…aren’t. Matt Murdock was one of those people. His father, Jack, was a high school dropout, alcoholic, and a wannabe professional boxer who never amounted to anything serious in the ring. His mother was a high school girl who thought she was in love with a boxer until she discovered that she was pregnant and realized, she did not want to be married to a man who was barely able to support himself, much less her and a child and did not want to be a mother at 18. However, she was Catholic and did not believe in abortion either.
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As time passed, Matt’s migraines lessened and whether conscious of it or not, he began to learn control of his powers, blocking out extra noise. Nothing was ever that simple though. Jack’s games were being fixed by the local mob boss and he wasn’t winning out of ability, strategy or talent in the ring. After weeks of consistent wins, Jack was ordered to take a dive. To lose. Matt was in the audience like normal, cheering his father on from the front row. He never missed one of his dad’s matches. Jack couldn’t do it. He couldn’t intentionally lose with his son sitting right there, cheering him on. Matt was the reason he had stopped drinking, the reason he had gone back to boxing. No. He wouldn’t lose.
  
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Nine months later, she left the baby with Jack hoping that a child would be the impetuous that he needed to get his life together. It had been that or putting the child up for adoption, an option she did not favor as she would have no way to check up on her child or know how he was doing. Her parents had insisted though, a closed adoption would be best. Yes, there were other options, she recognized that peripherally, but she was a good daughter, or at least she tried to be, and she was scared. In regards to her child, she did what she hoped was best.
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After that match, after he had showered in the locker room and gotten dressed to meet Matt so they could go home, he left through the back door and met two goons that worked for the mob boss. He wasn’t too surprised. He had expected to get worked over, maybe bust a rib or two. They beat him to a bloody pulp, then shot him, all within Matt’s hearing.
  
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Having a child did help Jack, to an extent. He still boxed, but he also got a job working construction and sometimes for the local mob, and while his drinking continued, it lessened and it was more likely to occur at home instead of at the bar. It was at least something. Over the next several years Jack worked a number of odd jobs in an attempt to put food on the table with varying degrees of success. He pushed his son in school to always do well, helping him as much as he could with very limited means. He enrolled him in after school tutoring programs, extended day programs, free Y camps for gymnastics and vacation bible school in the summers, anything he could that was free or Matt could get a scholarship to so that he would do well in school and stay out of trouble. Jack did not want his son to be the loser that he was.
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=== '''Death of Jack Murdock''' ===
  
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=== '''Childhood''' ===
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Jack was unrecognizable to Matt when he was taken to the city medical examiner to identify his father’s body. He ran his fingers over Jack’s face slowly, trying to identify his features, but they were too disfigured. In the end, the priest of the church made the identification along with fingerprints. Matt didn’t know of any family to contact, but with the quiet suggestions of Sister Maggie, a friend of his father’s even if she was a nun, his social worker found an uncle of Matt’s that he hadn’t even known was in New York City.
  
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Matt grew up getting taunted for how much studying he did, even at a young age and it frequently meant that he was in fights with the other kids. His father forbade him from fighting, the only time that his father had ever hit him was the day he had come home with a black eye and crowing about how he had punched the other kid and how he had gone down, TKO!
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Uncle Andre Murdock-Kimura and Steve Kimura lived in NYC with their adopted son, Clint Barton and they agreed to take Matt in as well. Clint and Matt quickly took to each other and Matt was enrolled in school with Clint and in martial arts. It didn’t matter that Clint was a couple grades and belts ahead of Matt, they did it together.
  
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Shocked and bewildered by his father hitting him, Matt ran, staying away for two days. He was on his way home, crossing a busy intersection in New York when he saw a blind man ahead of him about to be hit by a truck. He pushed the man out of the way and was hit by the truck instead. The truck belonged to Stark Enterprises (this is canon, but I can change it to something else if needed to fit in better with the game) and the driver had been running late, taking a short cut and driving faster than he really should have been, especially with barrels of chemicals in the back.  
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It was at the dojo that Matt met Stick, one of the owners of the dojo and blind himself. He took it upon himself to teach Matt personally and whether intentional or not, Matt’s control of his powers increased as well. Soon, he and Clint were climbing roofs and exploring places they shouldn’t, enjoying the unique view of the city that the rooftops provided.  
  
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Some of the barrels tipped and broke open, the entire situation was a mess from start to finish, and 12 year old Matt woke up in the hospital a few days later, his father by his side, blind. Permanently.  Over the next few weeks, Matt began occupational therapy, learning to use a cane and read Braille. At the same time, he kept hearing things, getting pounding migraines and complaining that everything was too loud. The doctors thought that this was a side effect from the chemicals that blinded him or from Matt hitting his head and having some sort of traumatic brain injury. Despite all their tests all the doctors were able to do was prescribe Matt pain medication to help with the migraines.
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The teens figured out that Matt was a mutant and with the growing hostility towards mutants, kept it from Andre and Steve. It wasn’t like Matt was a danger to anyone and his powers opened the world up to him in new ways, almost negating his blindness, therefore, what was the harm? They didn’t think Clint’s colourblindness or keen spatial awareness was anything but a genetic quirk and lots of practice.  
  
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Even with the generous settlement that Stark Industries gave to the Murdock’s to help cover Matt’s medical expenses and whatnot, Jack had to work hard to keep the family together. He stopped drinking entirely, training hard for boxing matches even though he was over 40 by this point and well over the hill for a boxer. Jack tried to make himself an example for Matt who was working hard to relearn the most basic tasks and dealing with crippling migraines. Jack thought that if Matt could do it, rebuild his life, he could do it too. Simple enough.
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In high school, Matt got involved with the swim team in addition to martial arts as well as joined a number of clubs in school. He found school to be a challenge, but one where he was no longer weird or strange for studying and doing well. College was the expectation, not the exception. He thrived in it.
  
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During this time Matt had taken to stealing his father’s pain medication to help supplement his own when it didn’t work, taking more than his prescribed dosage. Nothing was ever that simple though. Jack’s games were being fixed by the local mob boss and he wasn’t winning out of ability, strategy or talent in the ring. After weeks of consistent wins, Jack was ordered to take a dive. To lose. Matt was in the audience like normal, cheering his father on from the front row even though he hated the noise and smells there, he never missed one of his dad’s matches unless he was in the throes of a migraine so bad that he couldn’t stand up without puking.
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=== '''College, Law school & Vigilantism''' ===
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Jack couldn’t do it. He couldn’t intentionally lose with his son sitting right there, cheering him on. Matt was the reason he had stopped drinking, the reason he had gone back to boxing. No. He wouldn’t lose.
 
  
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After that match, after he had showered in the locker room and gotten dressed to meet Matt so they could go home, he left through the back door and met two goons that worked for the mob boss. He wasn’t too surprised. He had expected to get worked over, maybe bust a rib or two. They beat him to a bloody pulp, then shot him, all within Matt’s hearing.  
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In college, Matt met Franklin “Foggy” Nelson his freshman year. They were paired together at freshman orientation at Pace University and shared a suite in the dorms. Matt didn’t have a roommate because of his disability and Foggy didn’t get on well with his own, so Foggy ended up in Matt’s room more often than not. They quickly became best friends, hanging out and often taking classes together. It made note-taking much easier on Matt.
  
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Jack was unrecognizable to Matt when he was taken to the city medical examiner to identify his father’s body. He ran his fingers over Jack’s face slowly, trying to identify his features, but they were too disfigured. In the end, the priest of the church made the identification along with finger prints. Without any family that Matt knew of, and the nun his father was friends with and who helped him sometimes at religious school or as an altar boy, Sister Maggie, he was remanded into state custody.  
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It was in college that Matt began running the roofs at night and started responding to muggings. He hadn’t really intended to or thought about it specifically, but he also couldn’t ignore people needing help. It started simply enough, but he quickly realized that he needed to protect his identity and he added a mask, tying a black bandana around his upper face and hair.  
  
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=== '''Fostercare''' ===
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It was during law school that he ran across Spiderman. They teamed up a few times to stop criminals, but mostly they ran in different parts of the city. Matt began using the name Daredevil to protect himself, taking it remembering his dad’s nickname as Jack “The Devil” Murdock. Plus, he was a daredevil. It was accurate.
  
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It only took a couple months in foster care before Matt got into trouble for stealing medication and less time than that for him to get in trouble for fighting. The home he was in had several children of varying ages and with different needs and he was the second oldest. There was another girl a year or so older than he was. Coming home early one day, he found her upstairs in the bedroom with their foster father. When he said something to his foster sister, she denied any sort of inappropriate relations and made him promise not to say anything. It took a few months, but he caught them again one night after everyone was asleep. This time, he didn’t say anything to anyone and just got a baseball bat and beat the crap out of his foster father.  
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In law school, Matt continued his rooftop adventures, though they were markedly less with his new time constraints. His final year of law school, he met the second, younger, Spiderman, that he nicknamed Little Bug both because of age and size.  
  
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He was arrested and sent to juvenile hall. Spending a couple weeks there, mostly in solitary due to his disability, Matt was released from juvie and put into a therapeutic group home and ordered to counseling. His dependence on pain medication to help keep the migraines away increased in juvie with the stress both physically and emotionally, but also on his enhanced senses. The group home wasn’t a bad place though, Matt actually liked it for the most part. It was…stable. A lot more so than some of the other places he’d been.  
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After law school, Matt and Foggy wanted to start their own storefront shop, but without experience it wasn’t realistic. Thankfully, Foggy’s mother was a high-powered lawyer with a well-known firm and she agreed to help them with start-up capital to either buy out a storefront or start their own once they had a minimum of two years experience. If Matt and Foggy were being honest, they would have realized that Rosalind Sharpe never intended to give them the money.  
  
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After being arrested for attempting to buy drugs to help ease the pain in his head, Matt was sent to rehab to get off drugs and receive therapy. It was there that a doctor considered that there might be more going on than a traumatic brain injury leading to migraines due to noises and smells. Familiar with Dr. McCoy and Dr. MacTaggert's work, the doctor evaluated Matt and a test revealed that he was a mutant. A battery of tests later, Matt’s pain finally eased as he was placed in a sensory deprivation chamber for the first time.  
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Matt ended up working for Worthington Industries in Manhattan and had been there six months when everything changed.
  
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When he was released from rehab, he was sent to Xavier’s School to try again without getting into trouble. With Xavier’s able to teach him what he needed to know about powers control, he would hopefully be able to stop taking all the pain medication that he had been dependent on for so many years. He is still in the foster system and meets every 6 weeks or so as needed with his case worker(s) to determine that everything is still okay and is subject to random drug tests. He is also able to be adopted should anyone be interested.
 
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=== '''Living At The X-Mansion''' ===
 
=== '''Living At The X-Mansion''' ===
  
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As Daredevil, Matt met another masked vigilante named Angel. It didn't take him long to realize that Angel was none other than Warren Worthington of Worthington Industries. His boss. Through Angel, Matt learned of Xavier's and he and Miles went to check it out, Peter opted not to go with them. It wasn't feasible for Matt to move to the school full time, but he was interested in it as a safe haven for mutants and learning more about his powers. He also introduced his brother, Clint, to the school. He lived at the school part-time, staying in the city for work and to continue his vigilante ways.
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In July he helped the Spidermen [[Patent Pending | investigate a series of break ins at Worthington industries]], and was nearly killed by the Prowler. That didn't deter him, of course. In August he helped Clint with investigating [[It’s Greek To Me | an Atlantean artifact]], which led to a short fight with some fish people when the artifact opened a portal.
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When he wasn't getting into vigilante- or fish-related trouble, he was making friends around the mansion. He had several rather confusing encounters with [[Topaz]], who didn't like him for some undetermined reason. When she returned in October she apologized for her behavior, and they made tentative steps toward becoming friends.
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== '''Physical Characteristics''' ==
 
== '''Physical Characteristics''' ==
  
  
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'''Height''': 5'8"
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'''Height''': 5'10"
  
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'''Weight''': 135lbs
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'''General Build''': Solid muscle without being a tank, he clearly works out.
  
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'''Eyes''': blue (milky appearance)
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'''Hair''': red
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'''Other Features''':  faint red/white scars around his eyes from the accident that blinded him, five perfectly circular scars on one shoulder
 
  
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'''Other Features''':  Matt’s eyes have a milky appearance thanks to the chemicals that blinded him as a child and he has nearly-invisible scars around his eyes
  
  
 
== '''Powers''' ==
 
== '''Powers''' ==
  
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Matt’s powers are very similar to Wolverine’s in a lot of ways. He has enhanced senses (hearing, touch, taste, and smell) though not eyesight for obvious reasons. He also can use his hearing as sonar like a bat to determine what is around him and get outlines of images as the sound waves bounce off. This being said – he gets outlines of objects; he doesn’t get detail, texture or colours. He also has a full 360° perception.  
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Matt has enhanced senses (hearing, touch, taste, and smell) though not eyesight for obvious reasons. He also can use his hearing as sonar like a bat to determine what is around him and get outlines of images as the sound waves bounce off. This being said – he gets outlines of objects; he doesn’t get detail, texture or colours. He also has a full 360° perception that extends 75 yards. If he wishes, he can focus on a more specific place farther away, but he loses the  360° perception and becomes blind on the opposite side. Because of his enhanced sense of touch, he has better than average balance as well, which aids him in martial arts and gymnastics/acrobatics.  
  
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In terms of sensitivity, he can hear a heartbeat and use it to determine if a person is lying or not, he can hear police sirens a couple blocks away in New York or feel the indentation of a ball point pen on the paper below the one that was written on. He cannot see TV, movie or computer screens and while he can read a printed book, Braille is much easier. Anything printed on glossy paper like high end comic books he cannot read. He cannot see colours at all.
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In terms of sensitivity, he can hear a heartbeat and use it to determine if a person is lying or not as long as their heartbeat is not modified in any way, such as with a pacemaker. He can hear police sirens a couple blocks away in New York or feel the indentation of a ballpoint pen on the paper below the one that was written on if the person writing pressed down hard enough. He cannot see TV, movie or computer screens and while he can read a printed book, Braille is much easier. Anything printed on glossy paper like high end comic books or magazines he cannot read. He cannot see colours at all.
  
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His biggest weakness is loud noises. The louder the noise, the more it hurts his senses. He does not do well in large groups or in loud places where he can be overwhelmed, though he has made significant strides on his own in dealing with these things as he lived in New York City for most of his life.  
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His biggest weakness is loud noises. The louder and more directed the noise, the more it hurts his ears. He does not do well in large groups or in loud places where he can be overwhelmed, though he has made significant strides on his own in dealing with these things as he lived in New York City for most of his life.
  
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Because of the sheer volume of input that his brain receives from his other senses and that has to be processed for him to understand it, any psi that tries to read his mind will encounter a sort of "static" similar to white noise on a TV which makes his mind difficult to read at best. The psi would need to be able to understand the static and/or cut through it to read his mind. It CAN be read; however, it is incredibly painful for both psi and Matt and generally not worth the effort.
  
  
 
== '''Equipment''' ==
 
== '''Equipment''' ==
  
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Matt is never without his white cane.
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== '''Trivia''' ==
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Instagram name: Avocado@Law
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=='''External Links'''==
  
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[https://xp-communication.dreamwidth.org/tag/c:+matt+murdock xp_communication posts]
  
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[https://xp-journal.dreamwidth.org/tag/c:+matt+murdock xp_journal posts]
  
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== '''Trivia''' ==
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[https://xp-logs.dreamwidth.org/tag/c:+matt+murdock xp_logs posts]
  
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Little snippets that reflect your character's personality. eg: Cain doesn't know much about music after 1970, but is a big fan of Alison Blaire.
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[https://xp-teams.dreamwidth.org/tag/c:+daredevil xp_teams posts]
  
 
== '''Plots''' ==
 
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===2015===
  
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[[Patent Pending]]
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[[It’s Greek To Me]]
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[[December 2015|Roadside Assistance]] - ''event''
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===2016===
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[[Something Slender This Way Comes]]
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[https://xp-logs.dreamwidth.org/3879961.html Staff of Five] - ''event''
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===2017===
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[[With Extreme Prejudice]]
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[[Green-Eyed Monster]]
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===2019===
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[[Isle of Glass]]
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===2021===
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[[X-Men Mission: Agents of SHIELD]]
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[[A Fistful of Nanites]]
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[[Sons of Mutancy]]
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[[Monster Mash]]
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[[The Color of Horror]]
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===2022===
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[[Reality 01: Proof of Concept]]
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[[Clan Akkaba (plot)|Reality 02: Clan Akkaba - Arrival]]
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===2023===
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[[Reality 03: Chimera Contagion]]
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[[Laved by the Gulf and Ocean Grand]]
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===2024===
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[[Behold A Pale Horse]]
  
 
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'''Player Icon Base''':  [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1214435/ Charlie Cox]
  
 
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This page is about the Phase 2 incarnation of the character. For other uses, see Matt Murdock (disambiguation).

PHASE 2
Matt Murdock
Matt wiki.jpg
Portrayed by Charlie Cox
Codename: Daredevil
Affiliations: eXcalibur
Birthdate: May 10, 1986
Journal: New York State of Mind
Player: Maureen


The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. - Sven Goran Eriksson

Lawyer at Xavier's Institute and member of the eXcalibur team.


Details

Character Journal: xp_daredevil


Real Name: Matthew Michael Murdock

Codename: Daredevil

Aliases: Matt, Matt Kimura

First Appearance: Jannuary 23, 2015

Date of Birth: May 10, 1986

Place of Birth: Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, NYC, NY

Citizenship: USA

Relatives: Clint Barton (adopted brother), Steve and Andre Kimura-Murdock (uncles), Jack Murdock (father, deceased), Grace Murdock (mother, deceased)

Education: graduated with honours from Columbia Preparatory School (2007), Pace University Manhattan, BS in Criminal Justice summa cum laude (2011), Juris Doctorate magna cum laude from Columbia Law School (2014)

Relationship Status: single

Occupation: lawyer

Team Affiliation: eXcalibur

Biography

Childhood

Some people are born with a silver spoon in their mouth. Some people…aren’t. Matt Murdock was one of those people. His father, Jack, was a high school dropout, alcoholic, and a professional boxer who never amounted to anything serious in the ring. His mother was a high school girl who thought she was in love with a boxer until she discovered that she was pregnant and realized she did not want to be married and have a child at 18. However, she was Catholic and did not believe in abortion either.

Nine months later, she left the baby with Jack. It had been that or putting the child up for adoption, an option she did not favor as she would have no way to check up on her child or know how he was doing. Her parents had insisted though, a closed adoption would be best. Yes, there were other options, she recognized that peripherally, but she was a good daughter, or at least she tried to be, and she was scared. In regards to her child, she did what she hoped was best.

Having a child did help Jack, to an extent. He still boxed, but he also got jobs working construction and sometimes for the local mob, and while his drinking continued it lessened and it was more likely to occur at home instead of at the bar. It was at least something. Over the next several years Jack worked a number of odd jobs in an attempt to put food on the table with varying degrees of success. He pushed his son in school to always do well, helping him as much as he could with very limited means. He enrolled him in after school tutoring programs, extended day programs, free Y camps for gymnastics and vacation bible school in the summers, anything he could that was free or Matt could get a scholarship to so that he would do well in school and stay out of trouble. Jack did not want his son to be the loser that he was.

Matt grew up getting taunted for how much studying he did, even at a young age, and it frequently meant that he was in fights with the other kids. His father forbade him from fighting, the only time that his father had ever hit him was the day he had come home with a black eye and crowing about how he had punched the other kid and how he had gone down, TKO!

Shocked and bewildered by his father hitting him, Matt ran, staying away for two days. He was on his way home, crossing a busy intersection in New York when he saw a blind man ahead of him about to be hit by a truck. He pushed the man out of the way and was hit by the truck instead. The truck belonged to Stark Industries and the driver had been running late, taking a shortcut and driving faster than he really should have been, especially with barrels of chemicals in the back.

Some of the barrels tipped and broke open, the entire situation was a mess from start to finish, and 9 year old Matt woke up in the hospital a few days later, his father by his side, blind. Permanently. Over the next few weeks, Matt began occupational therapy, learning to use a cane and read Braille. At the same time, he kept hearing things, getting pounding migraines and complaining that everything was too loud. The doctors thought that this was a side effect from the chemicals that blinded him or from Matt hitting his head and having some sort of traumatic brain injury. Despite all their tests all the doctors were able to do was prescribe Matt pain medication to help with the migraines.

Even with the generous settlement that Stark Industries gave to the Murdock’s to help cover Matt’s medical expenses and whatnot, Jack had to work hard to keep the family together. He stopped drinking entirely, training hard for boxing matches even though he was over 40 by this point and well over the hill for a boxer. Jack tried to make himself an example for Matt who was working hard to relearn the most basic tasks. Jack thought that if Matt could do it, rebuild his life, he could do it too. Simple enough.

As time passed, Matt’s migraines lessened and whether conscious of it or not, he began to learn control of his powers, blocking out extra noise. Nothing was ever that simple though. Jack’s games were being fixed by the local mob boss and he wasn’t winning out of ability, strategy or talent in the ring. After weeks of consistent wins, Jack was ordered to take a dive. To lose. Matt was in the audience like normal, cheering his father on from the front row. He never missed one of his dad’s matches. Jack couldn’t do it. He couldn’t intentionally lose with his son sitting right there, cheering him on. Matt was the reason he had stopped drinking, the reason he had gone back to boxing. No. He wouldn’t lose.

After that match, after he had showered in the locker room and gotten dressed to meet Matt so they could go home, he left through the back door and met two goons that worked for the mob boss. He wasn’t too surprised. He had expected to get worked over, maybe bust a rib or two. They beat him to a bloody pulp, then shot him, all within Matt’s hearing.

Death of Jack Murdock

Jack was unrecognizable to Matt when he was taken to the city medical examiner to identify his father’s body. He ran his fingers over Jack’s face slowly, trying to identify his features, but they were too disfigured. In the end, the priest of the church made the identification along with fingerprints. Matt didn’t know of any family to contact, but with the quiet suggestions of Sister Maggie, a friend of his father’s even if she was a nun, his social worker found an uncle of Matt’s that he hadn’t even known was in New York City.

Uncle Andre Murdock-Kimura and Steve Kimura lived in NYC with their adopted son, Clint Barton and they agreed to take Matt in as well. Clint and Matt quickly took to each other and Matt was enrolled in school with Clint and in martial arts. It didn’t matter that Clint was a couple grades and belts ahead of Matt, they did it together.

It was at the dojo that Matt met Stick, one of the owners of the dojo and blind himself. He took it upon himself to teach Matt personally and whether intentional or not, Matt’s control of his powers increased as well. Soon, he and Clint were climbing roofs and exploring places they shouldn’t, enjoying the unique view of the city that the rooftops provided.

The teens figured out that Matt was a mutant and with the growing hostility towards mutants, kept it from Andre and Steve. It wasn’t like Matt was a danger to anyone and his powers opened the world up to him in new ways, almost negating his blindness, therefore, what was the harm? They didn’t think Clint’s colourblindness or keen spatial awareness was anything but a genetic quirk and lots of practice.

In high school, Matt got involved with the swim team in addition to martial arts as well as joined a number of clubs in school. He found school to be a challenge, but one where he was no longer weird or strange for studying and doing well. College was the expectation, not the exception. He thrived in it.

College, Law school & Vigilantism

In college, Matt met Franklin “Foggy” Nelson his freshman year. They were paired together at freshman orientation at Pace University and shared a suite in the dorms. Matt didn’t have a roommate because of his disability and Foggy didn’t get on well with his own, so Foggy ended up in Matt’s room more often than not. They quickly became best friends, hanging out and often taking classes together. It made note-taking much easier on Matt.

It was in college that Matt began running the roofs at night and started responding to muggings. He hadn’t really intended to or thought about it specifically, but he also couldn’t ignore people needing help. It started simply enough, but he quickly realized that he needed to protect his identity and he added a mask, tying a black bandana around his upper face and hair.

It was during law school that he ran across Spiderman. They teamed up a few times to stop criminals, but mostly they ran in different parts of the city. Matt began using the name Daredevil to protect himself, taking it remembering his dad’s nickname as Jack “The Devil” Murdock. Plus, he was a daredevil. It was accurate.

In law school, Matt continued his rooftop adventures, though they were markedly less with his new time constraints. His final year of law school, he met the second, younger, Spiderman, that he nicknamed Little Bug both because of age and size.

After law school, Matt and Foggy wanted to start their own storefront shop, but without experience it wasn’t realistic. Thankfully, Foggy’s mother was a high-powered lawyer with a well-known firm and she agreed to help them with start-up capital to either buy out a storefront or start their own once they had a minimum of two years experience. If Matt and Foggy were being honest, they would have realized that Rosalind Sharpe never intended to give them the money.

Matt ended up working for Worthington Industries in Manhattan and had been there six months when everything changed.

Living At The X-Mansion

As Daredevil, Matt met another masked vigilante named Angel. It didn't take him long to realize that Angel was none other than Warren Worthington of Worthington Industries. His boss. Through Angel, Matt learned of Xavier's and he and Miles went to check it out, Peter opted not to go with them. It wasn't feasible for Matt to move to the school full time, but he was interested in it as a safe haven for mutants and learning more about his powers. He also introduced his brother, Clint, to the school. He lived at the school part-time, staying in the city for work and to continue his vigilante ways.

In July he helped the Spidermen investigate a series of break ins at Worthington industries, and was nearly killed by the Prowler. That didn't deter him, of course. In August he helped Clint with investigating an Atlantean artifact, which led to a short fight with some fish people when the artifact opened a portal.

When he wasn't getting into vigilante- or fish-related trouble, he was making friends around the mansion. He had several rather confusing encounters with Topaz, who didn't like him for some undetermined reason. When she returned in October she apologized for her behavior, and they made tentative steps toward becoming friends.


Physical Characteristics

Height: 5'10"

General Build: Solid muscle without being a tank, he clearly works out.

Eyes: light brown

Hair: brown/red

Other Features: Matt’s eyes have a milky appearance thanks to the chemicals that blinded him as a child and he has nearly-invisible scars around his eyes


Powers

Matt has enhanced senses (hearing, touch, taste, and smell) though not eyesight for obvious reasons. He also can use his hearing as sonar like a bat to determine what is around him and get outlines of images as the sound waves bounce off. This being said – he gets outlines of objects; he doesn’t get detail, texture or colours. He also has a full 360° perception that extends 75 yards. If he wishes, he can focus on a more specific place farther away, but he loses the 360° perception and becomes blind on the opposite side. Because of his enhanced sense of touch, he has better than average balance as well, which aids him in martial arts and gymnastics/acrobatics.

In terms of sensitivity, he can hear a heartbeat and use it to determine if a person is lying or not as long as their heartbeat is not modified in any way, such as with a pacemaker. He can hear police sirens a couple blocks away in New York or feel the indentation of a ballpoint pen on the paper below the one that was written on if the person writing pressed down hard enough. He cannot see TV, movie or computer screens and while he can read a printed book, Braille is much easier. Anything printed on glossy paper like high end comic books or magazines he cannot read. He cannot see colours at all.

His biggest weakness is loud noises. The louder and more directed the noise, the more it hurts his ears. He does not do well in large groups or in loud places where he can be overwhelmed, though he has made significant strides on his own in dealing with these things as he lived in New York City for most of his life.

Because of the sheer volume of input that his brain receives from his other senses and that has to be processed for him to understand it, any psi that tries to read his mind will encounter a sort of "static" similar to white noise on a TV which makes his mind difficult to read at best. The psi would need to be able to understand the static and/or cut through it to read his mind. It CAN be read; however, it is incredibly painful for both psi and Matt and generally not worth the effort.


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Trivia

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External Links

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Plots

2015

Patent Pending

It’s Greek To Me

Roadside Assistance - event

2016

Something Slender This Way Comes

Staff of Five - event

2017

With Extreme Prejudice

Green-Eyed Monster

2019

Isle of Glass

2021

X-Men Mission: Agents of SHIELD

A Fistful of Nanites

Sons of Mutancy

Monster Mash

The Color of Horror

2022

Reality 01: Proof of Concept

Reality 02: Clan Akkaba - Arrival

2023

Reality 03: Chimera Contagion

Laved by the Gulf and Ocean Grand

2024

Behold A Pale Horse

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Meta Trivia

Mo' also played the Phase 1 version of Matt, before killing him off and reapping him as an adult.

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