FRANK CASTLE.

the figure in black that you've come to abhor.

[lethalforce]

they laugh at the law, a private,  heavily selective,  headcanon driven interpretation of frank castle.  exclusively comic based.  do not follow unless followed first. ( munned by carcass, it/its, twenty3, bri'ish ) but they don't laugh at me.

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01. MUTUALS ONLY, HEAVILY SELECTIVE. DO NOT FOLLOW FIRST!! BLOGS I DON'T SEE MYSELF, OR FRANK, INTERACTING WITH WILL BE HARD-BLOCKED TO AVOID ANY CONFUSION THAT SOFT-BLOCKING MAY BRING. I LIKE TO KEEP MY SPACE SMALL TO AVOID OVERWHELM AND ENSURE I'M PLOTTING WITH MY MUTUALS. THIS IS NOT PERSONAL, PLEASE DO NOT TAKE OFFENCE AND PLEASE HARD-BLOCK ME IF YOU'D RATHER ME NOT FOLLOW AS I HAVE INCREDIBLY POOR MEMORY AND MAY MISTAKENLY REFOLLOW. CURATE YOUR SPACE HOW YOU SEE FIT. I WILL UNFOLLOW AFTER A FEW DAYS WITH NO FOLLOW BACK (IF YOUR BLOG IS ACTIVE) TO AVOID ACCIDENTALLY INTERACTING WITH YOUR POSTS.

02. DO NOT FOLLOW IF YOU'RE BELOW THE AGE OF 20. DON'T BE A SHITTY PERSON. DNI IF YOU'RE RACIST, HOMOPHOBIC, TRANSPHOBIC, A ZIONIST, ANTISEMITIC, TRUMP SUPPORTER YOU GET THE GIST. I DON'T CARE FOR PETTY DRAMA THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ME. IF I'M INTERACTING WITH A GENUINELY HARMFUL PERSON PLEASE LET ME KNOW.

03. PRETTY LOW EFFORT. I DON'T REALLY BOTHER WITH ICONS OR FORMATTING BUT OF COURSE I DON'T CARE HOW YOU DO YOUR THING! PRIMARILY WRITTEN IN THIRD PERSON WITH THE OCCASIONAL SECOND PERSON THREAD. FRANK'S COMICS ALSO FEATURE A LOT OF NARRATION -- THEY'RE PRETTY MUCH A WAR JOURNAL. SO SOME RESPONSES MIGHT HAVE A LITTLE FIRST PERSON NARRATION.

04. SPORADIC ACTIVITY. THIS IS A HOBBY AND NOT A JOB. THE MOTIVATION TO WRITE COMES AND GOES, AND SOMETIMES I CAN WORK AT A SNAILS PAVE, SO PLEASE DON'T PROD FOR REPLIES OR STARTERS. HOWEVER, I AM ALWAYS OPEN FOR PLOTTING THROUGH IMS. WILL GIVE OUT DISCORD SPARINGLY FOR THE TIME BEING. DUPE FRIENDLY BUT WON'T FOLLOW FIRST TO AVOID MAKING ANYONE UNCOMFORTABLE!

05. MY INTERPRETATION IS HEAVILY HEADCANON BASED. THERE'S A LOT OF INFLUENCE FROM THE PUNISHER MAX SERIES ( MAINLY HIM BEING CHOSEN BY DEATH ) ALONGSIDE A PLETHORA OF OTHER RUNS I'VE READ. THERE ARE SOME THINGS I WON'T BE PUTTING INTO MY INTERPRETATION AND SOME THINGS I'LL BE SHIFTING TO BETTER SUIT HOW I VIEW HIM. HE'S JUST MY LITTLE BARBIE. I TAKE NOTHING FROM THE NETFLIX SHOW AS I HAVEN'T AND DON'T CARE TO WATCH IT -- MY FRANK IS ALSO WITHOUT A FACECLAIM AS OF CURRENT.

06. HEAVY TRIGGER WARNINGS FOR VIOLENCE, GORE, DEATH, AND OTHER PUNISHER-ESQUE THEMES. FRANK LOVES WHAT HE DOES. HIS WAR IS THE ONLY THING THAT KEEPS HIM BREATHING. HE DOES BAD THINGS — SADISTIC THINGS — BECAUSE HE ENJOYS HIS JOB AND HIS WAR IS EVERYTHING. HE'S RUTHLESS, HE'S DARK, HE WORKS ALONE, HE'S A HARD MAN TO GET ALONG WITH. PLEASE REMEMBER THAT, OBVIOUSLY, MUN ≠ MUSE IN THIS RESPECT.

BLOGROLL; MATIAS REYES, DANA SCULLY.

[lethalforce]

ok i am going to put frank on an indefinite hiatus until i can find the will to move him to a new blog and sort everything out

[lethalforce]

i'm probably going to put this blog on a brief hiatus for now until i figure out what i want to do with him

[belayadyavol]

#belayadyavol. i've fought this fight my whole life. which is why i know this: we can't win. but it's never been about winning. just trying to keep from losing for as long as possible. that's all we've got; so that's what i fight for.

[lethalforce]

i have been on @grtsqe the last few days vv sorry she has a hold on me

[lethalforce]

i accidentally deleted the other post so here's a slightly more cohesive post for why frank is so brutal with what he does rather than me just yapping in the tags.

what happened to frank's family is a tragedy - even people who don't like or agree with frank will agree on as much. but it was brutal too.

there's a panel somewhere that i didn't save where he describes how he'd had to hold lisa's insides inside after she'd been shot. how he'd had to watch maria fall first, who was shot the most amount of times but miraculously had nothing vital hit that would give the mercy of killing her instantly. how frankie looked relatively okay injury wise as frank looks at him head on - but when his son turned to run away screaming as the shooting began, he was shot in the back of his head and the bullet went straight through his open mouth. so frank's last drop of hope is gone when it finally catches up to frankie and he collapses face first and frank can see the wound.

frank can't be with all of them. he can't keep lisa held together while she chokes on her own blood. he can't go and hold his son one last time. he can't check on his wife, riddled with bullet holes and bleeding out just feet away. and when lisa's choked sobs cut off abruptly, the adrenaline wears off and frank is left to lie in a puddle of blood formed by the people he loved most. all he can hear is the paramedics pronouncing his children dead and deeming his wife a lost cause and there's nothing he can do about.

and then there's the whole process after. the way no punishment is dished out because the judges and the police are all on the payroll of the mafia. how frank has to live with the fact that his suggestion to go to the park, where he and the wife he loved but couldn't be there for, discussed divorce. his suggestion, because he knew he wouldn't be able to stay away from war.

it boils frank's blood. not only that they got away with it, but because of the pain they caused. frankie's death was relatively quick, but lisa and maria died in agony. frank had to look his daughter in the eye, holding her guts inside her, and reassure her that it was all going to be okay even though he already knew it was futile. it was a gory, merciless slaughter against innocents. frank deems it necessary to give that same pain back. quick deaths aren't for those who don't grant them themselves. of course frank doesn't torture everyone, but the leaders and the kingpins? the ones who do cause pain and enjoy doing as much? frank likes to make it hurt. like it's revenge for all the people they hurt along the way. all the families they broke up. all the people they maimed for unnecessary reasons.

[lethalforce]

the heat is literally devouring my will to write </3

[lethalforce]

he's so yummy

[d88ng30nm1str3ss]

[lethalforce]

they r so very funny to me

[estreetcastle]

friendly kitty

[michaelfirman]

[lethalforce]

i think i'm going to try write some stuff in second person for frank bc it feels a little easier to write...

[lethalforce]

frank's ability to persevere through every battle isn't simply through sheer willpower. recovering from all injuries, no matter how fatal or seemingly life threatening they appear to be, is not because of luck or because of skill - though that does indeed play a part, considering the army forged him into the perfect predator.

it's insinuated that he was chosen by death to execute her will. which, being death, is bringing more souls to her - and what better person to choose than the man who found more comfort in war than in his own home. who nearly killed a man at only ten years old because of his own sense of justice. who loved the battlefield more than he did his wife and children - who he did love dearly, but could never compare to the feeling that came with being on the battlefield. who passed on the leave offered to him to be there for both his mothers funeral and the birth of his son so he could remain in the fight.

who, later down the line after becoming the punisher, has brought her over a thousand souls - likely more. but micro admitted he'd helped frank kill over 800 people, and there's no doubt frank has killed hundreds more on his own. she knew, with the right incentive, he'd be capable of doing what she wanted.

while he doesn't remember it, due to her wiping his memory of the conversation, frank made a deal with her when he stood alone at firebase valley forge in the midst of an attack. equipment, ammunition and help practically nonexistent. she continues to goad him in his mind while he fights because she knows exactly what it is that makes him tick. she knows that the thing that keeps him going isn't family, or patriotism, but the fight itself.

frank doesn't care about the price. doesn't care what it might be. half because he's preoccupied with the fight, and half because the promise of a war that lasts forever is so tantalising he simply can't pass up on the opportunity. this is some time after his return, but before his family are killed his marriage begins forming cracks. despite claiming he won't be leaving to go to war again, maria never believes him because of how distant he always seems to be. like he's constantly dreaming of the war and the fighting. while he does love them, he doesn't love them as much as he should. doesn't love them as much as he does the fight or the killing. he wants to. he wishes he could. but it's no longer within his realm of capability.

his family dying was no freak accident, either. they were the price. the picnic was had because frank was breaking the news to maria that he was leaving again, with the potential intention of taking fury up on his offer, and that if she wanted a divorce he would give it to her. no matter how much he loved her, lisa and frankie, deep down this is always what he was going to be. that itch to do what the cops failed to do when the girls at his school were assaulted day after day by a man who had the connections that left him immune to consequence. frank was always bound to become the punisher.

when they were caught in the crossfire of a shootout, frank tried to testify against the mobsters responsible, but they'd already bribed officials and judges - so they got off the hook. this officially starts his career as the punisher when he seeks them out to kill them - even going as far as giving himself up the the police to be sent to ryker island so he could kill the remainder of the family. he realises he no longer has to go to war. he can bring the war home. where he realises the wars the government send soldiers too are pointless and for their own gain, and the real war is in the streets where nobody bothers to look because there's always something bigger than the little guys. it's where he has everything he needs, where he knows everything. where bad people roam freely, thinking they can get off with everything scot - free.

[lethalforce]

anyway look at my little guy

[lethalforce]

i wasn't going to address the anon i got last night but i wld just like to remind people that we're all playing barbies on the internet and whether or not my frank is canon compliant or too different than he is in the comics etc is such a non issue

[fra4tas]