#sam chung

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Snow day

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I can’t remember where I saw this but I remember reading about Celine learning how to listen from a blind lawyer in the Vacation AU so now I'm just imagining Matt Murdock trying to thread the delicate needle of telling this trio of desperate twenty-somethings that their collective mom is safe while also not directly giving away where she might be going while also subtly threading in whatever hints about Celine's next stop he could glean that can't be directly traced back to him

Meanwhile Karen's like "Should we help him?" and Foggy just sagely goes "Matty chose this."

Yeah I remember that too… obvs i immediately sent a screenshot of it to my sibling, @darngosh-it, expert on Matt Murdock, and they went “hm Matt’s powers are very tied to his disability but Blindspot and Rumi(?) could be super interesting” and I went “that ask was about Celine but tell me more here”

And they did:

So Sam Chung, aka Blindspot, has the backstory that he accidentally joined a demon cult, got kidnapped by the beast, and made a deal to give up his soul to have a semblance of his sight back. (He also uses a high tech suit to make him invisible.) So

This demon eyed boy who’s smarter than anyone has a right to be (especially a drop out) and can fight with the best of them, DOES fight with the best of them, who sees Rumi and knows, instantly, what she is. But he doesn’t know if she’s like him or not

Exceptttt except Sam sees her on the news. He’s not into kpop, he’s really not, but there are 101 of those tech billboards in New York and one of them shows Huntr/x and he knows. Instantly. And he tells Matt: we have to go to Korea

“Tell me what you see,” Matt says, plane ride over. Matt hates planes, but there’s very little Matt likes, and that includes giving into pain

So he asks Sam and Sam tells him: “I see fighters.”

They’re holding weapons, for God’s sake. Shiny ones that almost look like props except each wields it like a master, and the way they move—it’s like Elektra, or Elektra and Matt when they’re together. Mistakable for dancing, but not to someone who knows. They’re all fighters. They’re all good.

“Oh my god,” Matt says, laughing. “Huntr/x.”

“I think this song is about killing people,” Sam says, which just makes Matt laugh more.

Either way, they definitely killed the Saja Boys. But they were demons, so maybe it doesn’t count as death?

Matt says the Beast can’t really be killed, after all.

(The idea of a demon demon-hunter fills Sam with a bit too much hope)

Korea has heroes, but not these heroes. No one working in a trio, with glowing weapons and colorful hair. Matt says it’s possible the demon girl is working alone, if her friends are human, but Sam doesn’t buy it.

“If you saw the way they move together,” he says, and then regrets saying it.

Matt doesn’t seem to mind.

So whatever they’re doing, they’re not doing it for show. Which makes sense, giving how public their civilian lives are.

“Play that song again?” Matt asks, a strange tone to his voice.

Sam wonders if Matt is going to become a kpop fan

Matt says there’s something about the song. Sam thinks of sirens, then thinks of how he doesn’t know anything about Korean mythology.

Matt, the Catholic, shrugs.

So they go in as Daredevil and Blindspot, and Sam tries not to think about how this seems like they’re just some stalker fans out of control, and it all works out right up until the giant monster looks straight up at him as if he’s perfectly visible.

“Is that—“ Matt tilts his head. “What the hell is that?”

“I think it’s a cat,” Sam says.

“No,” Matt says, but it’s totally a cat, and the cat somehow rats him out because pretty soon Huntrx is on the balcony looking for him.

“I’ve never seen an invisible demon,” Zoey says.

“Not a demon,” Matt tells them.

“Your name has Devil in it,” Mira says.

Matt cringes. Him and the demonhood aren’t on great terms, Sam remembers.

The cat hasn’t stopped looking at him. Sam tries to focus on the fight.

“Oh!” Zoey says. “I’ve just realized why I’ve never seen one!”

Huntr/x goes for kill shots. So do a lot of people, but they’re rarely this good. Sam’s only advantage is that they can’t see him, but—

He thinks Rumi can, somehow.

She’s got faded scars and unnatural hair, but Sam doesn’t think there’s anything to really give her away, beyond his own eyes telling him. He wonders if she’s the same, able to just tell what he is, just from looking.

“We’re on the same side,” Sam tries.

“Heard that before,” Rumi says, and tries to kill him again.

And then they become bestest friendses

[xycuro-illuminati]

DO NOT TAG AS M/CU

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i am blindspot and i AM lying to you i hate you.

[gwensy]

— don't die

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How do you think Matt would be as a dad? Especially a single dad? I didn't find any storylines where a kid was dumped on him like this lol

For that type of scenario, you'll want to check out "The King in Red" from Daredevil volume 4 #1.5 (the 50th anniversary issue), which presents a hypothetical future where Matt is a single parent raising a child with sensory-related trauma. It's a neat look at Matt as a dad, since it posits the idea that he would be quite a bit like his own father. In the story, Matt adores his son (named, fittingly, Jack) but also projects his own desires and childhood frustrations onto him, rather than accepting what Jack wants out of life. Since Matt was raised in a sheltered environment by an over-protective father and not allowed to do things like play sports, he insists that Jack be active, learn to fight, etc., despite the fact that Jack hates all of that and would much rather sit quietly in his bedroom with a book. I love the idea of Matt becoming his father while trying not to become his father.

Daredevil vol. 4 #1.5, "The King in Red" by Mark Waid, Javier Rodriguez, Alvaro Lopez, and Joe Caramagna

Overall, the question of what kind of parent Matt would be is tough to answer, because it would be so dependent upon the circumstances. What else is going on in Matt's life? What is his mental state? How much support does he have from other people? Matt would be an extremely devoted and loving parent, because that's just the way he is toward the people he cares about. He has also formed close bonds with many kids over the years, and recently, we got to see a semi-parental relationship begin to grow between him and his protégé, Sam Chung/Blindspot.

Daredevil vol. 5 #10 by Charles Soule, Ron Garney, Matt Milla, and Clayton Cowles

But at the same time—and like what happened with Sam, and what happens to everyone in Matt's orbit eventually—I can only imagine the circumstances of Matt's life, not to mention his incredible talent for self-sabotage, intervening to thwart his parenting. In the 50th anniversary story mentioned above, Matt is retired from superhero work, so his life is much calmer than usual, but his kid still gets caught in a supervillain attack aimed at him. I simultaneously feel that Matt could be a good parent—or, at least, would try really, really hard (again: Jack parallels)—and that it would be a terrible idea for him to have a child. Which doesn't mean it shouldn't happen, of course; apart from anything else, the drama inherent in that kind of story would be fantastic.

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Blindspot🤍

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Happy (late) Terrible Comics day.

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