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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
BEHAVIORAL ANALYSIS UNIT
FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION
SUBJECT: Poindexter, Benjamin (a.k.a. “Dex”)
DOB: 12/02/1986
Case No.: 47-BPX-319
Evaluator: Dr. Caroline Perez, Ph.D., Forensic Psychology
Date of Report: 04/18/2017
Classification: CONFIDENTIAL — INTERNAL USE ONLY
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Do you think Dex would be capable of a somewhat healthy relationship, platonic or romantic, and how would that possibility change pre-Fisk (with someone like Julie, if he hadn’t been manipulated) and post-Fisk (as he appears in DDBA S1-2) ?
hello. i think the honest answer is that dex is not really capable of a healthy relationship in any canon period of his life, at least not in the way most people mean when they say “healthy relationship.” and i don’t mean that in a cruel or flattening way, because i do think there are versions of dex where the possibility exists more than others. but possibility and actual readiness are two very different things. dex is somebody whose entire inner life is built around instability, externalization, fixation, performance, and survival. he does not really know how to relate to other people in a mutual, grounded, emotionally sustainable way. he knows how to attach, how to observe, how to idealize, how to project, how to depend, how to perform, and how to cling to structure through another person. but that is not the same thing as being able to truly participate in a relationship that is reciprocal, honest, emotionally regulated, and safe. so i think the answer for me is: no, not really, not as he is in canon. but there are definitely points in his life where he was closer to being capable of it than he is in others.
and i also think it’s really important to separate wanting closeness from being able to sustain closeness. because those are not the same thing either. dex is lonely, yes. he is profoundly lonely. but loneliness does not automatically translate into relationship readiness. a lot of people read characters like him and go “well he just needs love” or “he just needs the right person,” and i honestly don’t agree with that framing at all because it oversimplifies what is actually wrong. dex’s issue is not that no one has loved him enough. his issue is that his entire way of relating to himself and others is deeply distorted. so even if someone cared about him, even if someone was patient, even if someone was kind, that would not automatically create the conditions for a healthy bond. because he would still be bringing all of himself into it. the dysregulation, the obsession, the splitting, the dependency, the black-and-white thinking, the fear, the idealization, the emotional volatility, the violence, the identity instability, all of it. and unless he had done a massive amount of work on himself over a very long period of time, any relationship would eventually get swallowed by that.
and i think julie is actually one of the clearest examples of why dex would struggle so much with a healthy relationship, because what he felt toward her was not romantic or sexual interest at all. that’s canon, and i think it matters a lot when people talk about her role in his life. he was not drawn to julie because he desired her in that way. he was drawn to what she represented. she symbolized a kind of goodness, softness, normalcy, and moral stability that he felt profoundly disconnected from in himself, and he believed that if he stayed close enough to her, watched her enough, studied her enough, maybe he could somehow learn how to be like that too. so his attachment to her was never really about mutual attraction or genuine romantic reciprocity. it was about proximity to an ideal. he wanted to be near what she embodied because he hoped it could teach him something about how to be a “good” person. and that’s honestly what makes it so sad, because even though there is tenderness in that, it is still fundamentally not a healthy or equal basis for a relationship.
because when you are attached to someone primarily for what they symbolize to you, you are not actually relating to them as a full, separate human being. you are relating to them as an idea, a function, a mirror, a model, a source of meaning, or a tool for self-construction. and that is exactly why julie could never have become a healthy relationship for dex, even if fisk had never interfered. because dex was not really seeing julie. he was seeing what she could do for him internally, what she could represent, what she could maybe help him become. and that’s not love in a grounded, mutual sense. that’s an attachment built around aspiration, projection, and emotional utility. even if the person in question had been a man instead of julie, i think the exact same issue would still apply. because the problem is not just who he is drawn to, it’s how he is relating to them. if he is fixating on someone not because he genuinely knows and desires them as a person, but because they seem to embody a kind of wholeness or goodness he wants to absorb, then that attachment is already too self-referential and too uneven to become healthy intimacy.
and i think that distinction is really important, because it shows that dex’s problem is not simply “he picked the wrong person” or “he never got the chance to date her.” the problem is that his way of attaching was already coming from a place of need, projection, and identity instability rather than true relational reciprocity. he wasn’t asking, consciously or unconsciously, “who is this person really, and how do i love them?” he was asking, “what does this person represent, and what can being close to them do for me?” and those are two completely different foundations. one can maybe grow into something real if there is enough self-awareness and change, but in dex’s case, as we see him in canon, it never really gets there. julie is less a lost romance and more a symbol of the way dex reaches for people as blueprints, as examples, as things to orient himself around when he does not know how to generate that sense of goodness or stability from within. and that’s exactly why it’s so tragic, but also exactly why it could never have been healthy.
and i think that’s what makes the julie situation so sad, because on the surface it can look almost sweet or tender if you don’t dig into it too much (which you’d have to ignore the big red flag labeled “stalking”) but when you really look at it, it’s not grounded in mutuality. dex is not approaching her as a whole person with her own needs, limits, interiority, and complexity. he is approaching her as a kind of emotional life raft. as a stabilizer. as a model of humanity. as proof that there is a way to exist in the world that he cannot naturally access on his own. and i think that’s a very important distinction, because it means even if fisk had never manipulated or weaponized that attachment, it still would not have necessarily become something healthy. maybe it could have become less catastrophic, sure. maybe it could have stayed in the realm of awkward friendship or emotionally loaded proximity. but i still don’t think it would have turned into an actually good or sustainable friendship, because the basis of his interest in her was already fundamentally unequal and self-referential.
canonically, to dex, julie represented normalcy. she represents softness. she represents “goodness” in a way he can identify externally but not embody internally. and dex is so identity-fractured that he latches onto people who seem to have qualities he feels he is missing. he doesn’t just want them. he wants what they are. and that creates a very different kind of dynamic than actual healthy attraction. because when you are drawn to someone primarily for what they symbolize, you are not really in relationship with them. you are in relationship with the role they are playing in your psyche.
and i think that’s true of dex more broadly too. one of the biggest barriers between him and any healthy relationship is that he tends to relate to people through function before he relates to them through true mutual personhood. people become stabilizers, anchors, mirrors, authority figures, ideals, threats, judges, saviors, or targets. and that means even when his attachments are emotionally real, and i do think they are real, they are still not necessarily relationally healthy. they are often structured around what the other person does for his internal world. how they regulate him. how they define him. how they give him shape. how they soothe or activate him. and if your entire way of attaching to others is built around what they can do to stabilize your identity or your nervous system, then relationships become incredibly high-stakes and incredibly fragile very quickly.
so if we’re talking about pre-fisk season 3 dex, i do think that is the version of him who is most capable of some kind of relationship compared to the later versions, but even then i would not call him relationship-ready. i think pre-fisk dex is the closest he ever gets to something resembling functional adulthood. he has a job. he has routines. he has external structure. he has rules. he has treatment history behind him, even if it’s incomplete and insufficient. he has some degree of self-management. he is still profoundly unstable under the surface, yes, but he has systems in place that are at least helping him contain himself enough to move through the world. and because of that, i think if there was ever a time where he could maybe fumble his way into something adjacent to intimacy, it would be then. but even in that version, i don’t think he is truly equipped for a healthy relationship because the underlying issues are still very much there. they’re just being held together by routine and suppression.
i think if pre-fisk dex had relationships at all, they would probably be brief, inconsistent, emotionally strange, and hard for him to sustain. i don’t think he would be someone actively yearning for romance in a conventional sense. i don’t think he’s sitting there fantasizing about partnership and domesticity and emotional transparency. if anything, i think he would probably find the actual practical demands of intimacy deeply destabilizing. because relationships require spontaneity, vulnerability, conflict navigation, emotional flexibility, repair, compromise, and a tolerance for uncertainty, and dex is not built for those things in any easy or natural way. i think he could maybe tolerate closeness in small, structured, controlled doses. but the deeper and more mutual it became, the more likely it would be to trigger all of his worst relational patterns.
and that’s why i think even if pre-fisk dex could technically enter a relationship, it would probably still go badly unless he was doing a huge amount of work on himself that we never really see him do. and i mean a huge amount of work. not just “he’s in therapy” in a vague sense. i mean serious long-term adult treatment, serious accountability, serious emotional skill-building, serious work around obsession, attachment, self-concept, black-and-white thinking, distress tolerance, and interpersonal functioning. because the coping mechanisms he had were not actually healthy adult relational tools, they were survival structures. they were about keeping him from completely falling apart or becoming openly dangerous. that is a very different thing from being able to build a stable, mutual, loving relationship with another person.
and i also don’t think dex is somebody who would naturally pursue relationships as a central life goal anyway. i think that’s another thing fandom sometimes projects onto lonely characters that doesn’t always fit. i absolutely think he feels emptiness. i absolutely think he feels disconnection. but i don’t necessarily think that translates into “i want a boyfriend” in a straightforward way. i think a lot of what he actually wants is orientation. he wants something or someone that tells him who he is, how to behave, what to do, what he means. and that can look like longing for intimacy, but it’s not exactly the same thing. i think if he sought people out, it would often be less because he was craving mutual romance and more because he was unconsciously looking for regulation, identity scaffolding, or symbolic meaning.
and if we’re talking about sexual relationships specifically, i also don’t think that automatically changes the answer much. i can see pre-fisk dex being more likely than later versions to maybe have occasional sexual encounters, but i don’t think that would necessarily mean he is any more emotionally available or relationally grounded. if anything, i think sex for someone like dex could easily become detached, performative, dissociative, overly intense, or oddly impersonal depending on the context. not because he is incapable of feeling, but because physical closeness and emotional closeness are not the same thing, and i don’t think he naturally integrates them in a simple or healthy way. so even if there were sexual experiences in his life, i don’t think that automatically implies he was in a place to sustain real intimacy.
and then once you move into post-fisk dex, especially season 1 and season 2 born again dex, i honestly think the possibility of any healthy relationship drops from “extremely difficult but not theoretically impossible” to basically nonexistent. by that point, he is too far gone in too many ways. he is not only dysregulated or emotionally damaged at that stage, he is criminally violent, psychologically fragmented, incarcerated, manipulated, radicalized through trauma, and then later actively operating as a fugitive serial killer on a revenge mission. that is not a context in which a healthy relationship can happen. there is just no realistic version of that where another person could enter his life in a safe, mutual, emotionally sustainable way. his life is too unstable, too dangerous, too violent, too secretive, and too structurally incompatible with relational safety.
and i think this is where people sometimes romanticize him in a way that kind of misses the reality of what his life would actually be like. because born again dex is not just “troubled but lovable.” he is deeply unsafe. not in the sense that he is unworthy of complexity or humanity, but in the very practical sense that being close to him would be dangerous. emotionally dangerous, physically dangerous, situationally dangerous. he is being hunted. he is hunting. he is operating in secrecy. he is driven by obsession and retaliation. the state is after him. fisk is after him. his enemies are powerful. his life has no stability, no legal safety, no predictability, no peace. so even if another person somehow got emotionally close to him in that era, that relationship would be contaminated by fear, danger, instability, and likely coercive dependency almost immediately.
and that’s before you even get into the fact that dex himself would not be capable of showing up in a healthy way for another person at that point. he is too consumed. too fractured. too mission-oriented. too flooded by his own inner world. if loneliness crosses his mind in born again, i don’t think it crosses his mind as “i wish i had a partner.” i think it would register more like absence, ache, emptiness, dislocation. something primal and unspecific. because he is so far into survival mode and revenge mode that romance or partnership does not even really feel like a meaningful category anymore. he has too much going on internally and externally for that to become an actual relational possibility. there is no room for it, and there is no version of him at that point who could sustain it without dragging another person into ruin.
and even platonically, i think the same basic problem applies. i do think platonic connection is more plausible for dex than romance in some ways, because friendship can sometimes be less destabilizing than intimacy and less likely to trigger certain expectations. but even then, i don’t think he is especially good at friendship in a healthy, balanced sense either. again, he can attach. he can become interested. he can become dependent. he can become fixated. he can idealize. but true friendship also requires reciprocity, boundaries, emotional flexibility, and a capacity to tolerate people as full, imperfect, separate beings who are not there to regulate or define you. and i think that’s very hard for him too. so even platonic relationships would likely become uneven, overly intense, or psychologically loaded unless he had done a lot of healing first.
and i think that’s maybe the saddest part of dex to me: not that he is “unlovable,” because i don’t think that’s the right word, but that he is so structurally unequipped for the kind of connection that would actually sustain him. because what he needs is not just affection. he needs an entire rebuilt foundation of selfhood, emotional regulation, accountability, and relational capacity that he simply does not have in canon. and no one person, not julie, not matt, not some hypothetical ideal partner, could provide that for him. that work would have to come from him, over years, with actual treatment and actual change. and until that happened, any relationship he entered would almost inevitably become distorted by the things he has never learned how to carry safely.
i also think it’s really important to say that this does not mean dex is incapable of love, care, or connection, because i honestly don’t think that’s true at all. i think sometimes when people talk about characters like him, they flatten them into either “secret soft misunderstood baby who just needs love” or “emotionless monster who can’t feel anything real,” and i don’t think either of those readings are accurate. dex absolutely can feel attachment and care and longing and tenderness in his own way. we see little flashes of that throughout the show. he can be polite. he can be thoughtful. he can be soft-spoken. he can be strangely sweet in these very brief, disarming ways. there are moments where you can feel that there is a version of him that genuinely wants closeness and wants to do “the right thing,” or at least wants to be seen as someone who can. and i think that matters a lot, because it’s part of what makes him tragic in the first place. if he were truly incapable of any warmth or humanity, he would be much easier to understand and much less devastating as a character.
but the problem is that having the capacity for affection is not the same thing as having the capacity for a healthy relationship. and i think that distinction is really important with dex. because yes, he can be sweet. yes, he can be gentle in little moments. yes, he can show care in the ways he knows how. but a few moments of softness do not override the larger structural reality of who he is and what he is struggling with. being capable of tenderness does not automatically mean you are capable of stability, reciprocity, emotional safety, or sustainable intimacy. and with dex, i think that’s where the tragedy really lives. because the little glimpses of sweetness are real. they are just not enough on their own to counterbalance the volatility, obsession, identity instability, violence, dependency, and emotional dysregulation that would make an actual relationship so difficult and so dangerous in canon.
and honestly, i think that’s part of what makes him such a painful character to think about in this context, because you can see the outline of someone who, under radically different circumstances, maybe could have become gentler, calmer, more emotionally reachable. you can see the pieces. you can see that he is not just this hollow shell with nothing inside him. there is clearly a person in there who has the ability to care, the ability to attach, the ability to feel deeply, and even the ability to be attentive in ways that are sometimes very endearing. but because his emotional world is so warped and so unstable, those same capacities often get twisted into something unhealthy. the care becomes fixation. the attachment becomes dependency. the attentiveness becomes hypervigilance or obsession. the sweetness becomes part of a relational pattern that cannot hold itself safely. so i think the issue with dex is not “he can’t love.” it’s more that his love, as he exists in canon, is not organized in a healthy enough way to sustain another person without eventually harming them or himself.
and that’s why i actually do think it’s worth imagining what an alternate version of dex could maybe look like if his life had gone very differently. not in a “fix him with love” way, but in a genuinely structural, developmental sense. because if we’re talking about some alternate world where he never became bullseye, never got absorbed into fisk’s orbit, never got pushed deeper and deeper into violence, and actually had the chance to continue treatment and build a more stable adult life, then yes, i do think there is a version of dex who could maybe eventually have some form of relationship. not easily. not naturally. not without a lot of difficulty. but i do think the possibility would exist much more realistically there than it does in canon.
in that kind of alternate life, i don’t think he would suddenly become easy or uncomplicated or naturally emotionally fluent. i don’t think he would just turn into some effortlessly healthy boyfriend or partner because that would not feel true to who he is. he would still be rigid in certain ways. he would still be awkward. he would still have issues with control, emotional processing, routine, shame, and attachment. he would still need a lot of reassurance and a lot of structure. he would probably still struggle with understanding his own feelings in real time and with expressing them in a smooth or conventional way. he would still likely have moments of emotional overwhelm, black-and-white thinking, withdrawal, or overdependence. but if he had remained in treatment, if he had access to actual support, if he had a life with enough routine and safety and accountability to keep him regulated, then i do think there could be a world where he slowly learned how to build connection without it immediately collapsing into fixation or violence.
and honestly, in that version of his life, i think love with dex would probably look quiet more than anything. not easy, not effortless, but quiet. i don’t imagine him as somebody who would be grandly romantic or naturally emotionally demonstrative all the time. i think his love would show up in details, consistency, ritual, and attentiveness. i think he would be the kind of person who notices very small things about his partner and remembers them exactly. the kind of person who would remember how his partner takes their coffee, what route they prefer to walk home, which foods they hate, what textures they avoid, what time of day they get tired, what songs they replay too much when you’re stressed. he would probably not always be great at saying “i love you” in the most fluid or casual way, but i think if he were in a genuinely healthier place, his care would come through in observation and precision. in showing up the same way every day. in making sure things are done “right.” in trying, sometimes clumsily but sincerely, to be useful and reliable and gentle in the ways he knows how.
i also think he would probably be someone who loved through routine and inclusion. like if he was genuinely trying to build a life with someone in a healthier universe, his version of intimacy would probably involve letting someone into his systems. letting them into his schedule, his habits, his environment, his preferred order of things. because for someone like dex, routine is not just preference, it’s safety. so if he were truly comfortable with somebody, i think a lot of the tenderness would be in him making room for them inside the structures that keep him stable. maybe he’d want to eat at the same places. maybe he’d want certain rituals repeated. maybe he’d find comfort in predictability rather than novelty. and i think if he was with the right person in the right universe, that could actually become something really touching rather than restrictive, because it would mean he was not just tolerating someone’s presence, he was building them into the architecture of his life.
and i also think that version of him would probably be very protective, very attentive, and very earnest in a way that could actually be really sweet when it’s not distorted by obsession. because that’s the thing: a lot of dex’s core traits are not inherently doomed on their own. they become dangerous in canon because they are unregulated, traumatized, and fused with violence and identity instability. but in another world, some of those same traits could be redirected into something much softer. his attentiveness could become thoughtfulness. his intensity could become devotion. his desire for structure could become reliability. his hyperawareness could become protectiveness rather than control. that’s what makes alternate-universe “healthier dex” so compelling to think about, because the raw materials for connection are actually there. they’re just buried under so much damage in canon that they rarely get the chance to exist safely.
that said, even in the most generous alternate universe, i still think a healthy relationship with dex would require a very specific kind of compatibility and a lot of work on both sides. not in a “you need to save him” way, because that would be a terrible dynamic, but in a “this person would need to be emotionally mature, very boundaried, very patient, and very clear” kind of way. he could not be with somebody who was trying to rescue him, fix him, or become his whole emotional foundation, because that would just recreate the same unhealthy dependency patterns in a prettier package. if dex were ever going to have something truly healthy, it would have to be with someone who could care about him deeply without becoming consumed by him, and who could hold firm boundaries without humiliating him or abandoning him every time he struggled. someone steady, but not passive. compassionate, but not self-erasing. someone who could love him as a person rather than as a project.
and i think that’s another reason why julie, specifically, still doesn’t really work for me as the ideal “healthy relationship” example even in a better timeline. because what he attached to in julie was not really her in a full, mutual, relational sense. it was what she represented. and i think if dex were ever going to love somebody in a healthier way, he would need to get to a place where he could actually know them as a person rather than as a symbol, a stabilizer, or an ideal. he would need to love somebody not because they embody the goodness he lacks, but because he genuinely sees them in all their complexity and wants to meet them there. and that is a much harder, much more adult kind of love than what we see him reaching for in canon.
so if i were putting it simply, i’d say: canon dex is not really capable of a healthy relationship, but that is not because he is incapable of love. it’s because love alone is not enough to undo the kind of damage and instability he is carrying. and in some alternate world where he never became bullseye, stayed in treatment, built a more stable life, and had the chance to become a more grounded adult, i do think there is a version of him who could maybe love someone in a quieter, more sustainable, more human way. awkwardly, imperfectly, and with difficulty, yes, but sincerely. and honestly, i think that’s part of what makes him so heartbreaking. because the capacity is there in fragments. you can see it. you can feel it. it just exists inside a man who, in canon, was never given the internal foundation or external circumstances to make that capacity safe enough to truly bloom. pre-fisk dex had the most potential, but even then i don’t think he was truly ready or naturally inclined toward a healthy relationship. post-fisk and born again dex, absolutely not. not because he is incapable of attachment, but because attachment is not the same thing as health, and dex is one of those characters where that distinction matters so much. he can want people. he can need people. he can obsess over people. he can cling to people. he can project onto people. he can even care about people in his own damaged, distorted way. but a healthy relationship requires way more than intensity, and intensity is what he has in excess. what he lacks is the actual stable relational architecture to make that intensity safe. and that’s why, to me, the tragedy of dex is not “he never found the right person.” it’s that he never became the kind of person who could truly meet somebody there.
your internal compass isn't broken, dex
wilson bethel as benjamin “dex” leonard poindexter aka bullseye
✨ oc marvel au ✨
terrance is a case manager in Hell’s Kitchen. His goal is to help others who've made terrible decisions, hopefully giving them a second chance at life like he once received. after the events of daredevil season 3, terrance becomes somewhat involved in ben poindexter's care, ensuring that he is being treated with kindness by hospital and prison staff for three years. unfortunately, when he has a relapse with his psychosis, he drops the ball on dex's care (and the care for many other clients), is fired from his case management job, and unintentionally leaves the door open for dex to be manipulated by vanessa fisk, who hires him to kill foggy nelson. terrance is horrified and devastated over the event, and fully blames himself for allowing this to happen.
over a year later, when dex is moved to gen pop in prison, terrance finally comes to visit him and apologizes for abandoning him when he needed someone to look after him. (this is before dex meets with matt). later that day, dex escapes from prison and tries to kill fisk, matt murdock gets shot instead, and dex goes into hiding. terrance and his vigilante bestie Dia also go into hiding and agree to help daredevil build an army to fight against fisk. they all assume dex is dead when they haven't heard about him after that night. terrance is utterly devastated but cannot share his grief with dia because she hates him.
2 months later, dex shows up one night when terrance is threatened by a task force member. although ter is happy dex is alive, he still doesn't fully trust him. dex offers to keep him safe, offering protection in exchange for Terrance’s company. after a week or so of talking, terrance agrees, and they start hanging out more. terrance finds out dex has been unhealthily obsessed with him, but actually doesn't mind because he has also developed an intense obsession for Dex as well. they kind of start a secret relationship over the next month while terrance convinces dia to allow dex (bullseye) to join their team in the war. when she finds out about their little affair, she and terrance have a HUGE fight, but dia ultimately submits to terrance's will and allows dex to join their team. as long as he proves he actually cares about ter and won't hurt him. dia and dex eventually begin working together on missions but they are reluctant allies at best, only cooperating with each other for terrance's sake.
Dex & Terrance’s journeys intersect at the perfect time 🩷
Terrance is a case manager in Hell’s Kitchen and best friends with the vigilante Starlet during the events of DDS3. When Dia (Starlet) admits she killed Fisk’s bestie, Dex is sent to kill Terrance but doesn’t succeed. When Fisk slams Dex into a wall and breaks his spine, Terrance is the only one willing to work with his care team to make sure he’s taken care of. He provides free case management services for Dex from afar for 3 years until he has a relapse with his schizoaffective disorder and drops the ball, allowing the opportunity for Vanessa to manipulate Dex into killing Foggy. One year later, Terrance apologizes to Dex, Dex breaks out of prison, and goes into hiding after trying to kill Fisk.
2 months later, Terrance is threatened by a Task Force member when Dex (who has been stalking him) saves him and offers to walk him home. Terrance, who thought he was dead, is overjoyed to see him again and very willingly offers to be his friend if he keeps him safe.
Terrance becomes just as obsessed with Dex as Dex is with him. It quickly develops into more than friendship but they have to keep it secret … for now 🤫
Terrance x Dex my beloved self-indulgent ocxcanon ship 🩷
I love love love the way I was able to draw Bullseye’s suit here, this is definitely what I will use as a reference for his suit in the future :)
(Please let Dex be happy for once)
**DDBA SPOILERS**
Dex is so sadistic like he could’ve killed Foggy with a single gunshot to the head but instead he shot him in the chest and INTENTIONALLY LET HIM BLEED OUT 💔💔💔 and then he was gonna go for Karen too but only AFTER her friend died in her arms 😭
I just want Dex to be happy 💔
dex’s five year plan
hiii angel!! i was wondering of you'd do something for dex and reader who has severe attachment and abandonment issues? i love love love your work sm!! <33
ben poindexter x attachment/abandonment!issues reader. 𝜗𝜚 headcanon’s
r e q u e s t e d ♡
cw ᝰ .ᐟ co dependency ,, toxic relationship probably? idk my heart shaped glasses are on ,, gender neutral reader ,, it’s dex so .. yah
POV: you’re trying to make a good impression on the hot murderer you bring home and your roommate HAS to ruin it for you
(Part of my Marvel OC AU set in Hell’s Kitchen and featuring Daredevil and co.)
✨ Marvel OC Lore Part 2: TERRANCE ✨
Terrance is Dia Olivia’s best friend and roommate in Hell’s Kitchen. He is a 31 year old mental health advocate who has schizoaffective disorder (bipolar type) and PTSD. He was diagnosed with substance use disorder years ago when he was addicted to cocaine, alcohol, and nicotine, but he has been in recovery for 8 years. He always tries to see the best in people and acts as Dia’s moral compass when she finds it difficult to make decisions. They are extremely close, to a codependent degree, and while Dia typically protects Terrance from physical threats, Terrance saves her every day by validating her emotions and reminding her how loved she really is.
Their relationship is not and has never been romantic in any way!!! They are each other’s chosen family and recognize that if no one in the world is there for them, they are still there for each other. They do know how to get under each other’s skin, but they both challenge each other to find healthy coping skills for their individual issues. They will defend each other to the death. Terrance teaches Dia to be more optimistic, and Dia helps Terrance become stronger and braver.