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Matt Murdock in
THE DEFENDERS (2017) | 1.01 - The H Word

Uh, bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It’s been… uh, three days since my last confession. I lied to someone. Someone I love. She asked me if I, uh, miss the life. The other life that I led. And I told her I didn’t. Acknowledging a lie is often the best path to finding the truth, son. A lie this this one is often a sign of indecision. A sign that your mind and your soul are not yet aligned. Well, I’m trying very hard to ignore my soul. “The Lord sees not as man sees. Man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” If you could elaborate, Father. Ignoring doesn’t change anything, Matthew. God knows your heart. Let him in so he can help. Even if that heart is damaged? Especially if it’s damaged. Matthew, I want to talk frankly. Please. This other life you led… is your heart still with it or is your heart with the one who walked through it by your side? Elektra. Yeah. I do miss her. But I know that the things she brought out of me were wrong. From what you’ve told me about her, I think she’d be happy about how well you’re doing. Maybe. Or maybe she’d tell me I’m abandoning that life. And with it, her memory. You’re not abandoning Elektra. You don’t have it in you. What you’re doing, we call that moving on. Purgatory is a place for the dead, Matthew, not the living. There’s nothing wrong with letting people go. She’ll find her peace. I pray you find yours as well.

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I ❤️ self-loathing characters, characters who struggle with monstrosity (either fearing or embracing it), characters who are so lonely, who have a gaping hole in their chest, who bottle up & repress their feelings, who claw their way up & have ambitions, who fall down & lose everything, who search for identity & purpose yet can’t see themselves outside of what others want from or expect of them, who are hurt & hurt others, who long & grieve, who lie & pretend. characters who are messy & flawed & human

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It is a hilarious, if disturbing, idea, but I'm just never going to buy into the punch dimension eye beams thing. Or Whedon's psychological block theory for why he can't control them, which honestly didn't even make sense, let alone feel satisfying.

It's just too important to me that Scott's mutation is an innate physical process, with real physical consequences and interactions. And it's legitimately a disability, which is also very, very important to me. (Frankly, it's all I can do not to spam you with reams of fic about Scott's mutation and disabilities, but I've kept a lid on it so far, lol.)

Honestly, I've never actually understood why there even needed to be a reason Scott can't turn it on and off at will. Lots of mutations are 24/7 and can't be turned on and off. It could just be that way. But if there's going to be a reason, then it's 100% the TBI and I accept no other explanation.