How did Matt go from his shaky return to his civilian self at the end of S3 to the cocky, thriving, successful lawyer we know and love - with an in with the Avengers, I may add - in No Way Home and She-Hulk?

After living in fight or flight for a prolonged time, one won't really process everything until the danger has subsided. I wonder if, after the final battle with Fisk, after he took back his identity and started to breathe like a civilian again, Matt sunk into the darkness. And I wonder how he climbed back out of it.

This is the story of how Matt sought out help.

(CW this fic explores Matt with Depression and PTSD)

new matt angst fic is here girlies

“Three days,” Foggy had said to him, barging into his office one late afternoon. 

“What?” Matt had asked, pulling out his ear bud.

“It’s been three days since you’ve smiled, Matty.” 

Matt had huffed out a flat laugh, rolling his eyes and shooting Foggy a grin that even he could feel came out as a grimace. “Here. You missed my teeth that much?”

Foggy came closer to his desk, grasping at Matt’s hand and hunching his back in the way he did when he wanted to be sincere. Matt cast his head to the sky, leaning back in his chair. 

“Matt. I’m not trying to make you feel bad. But I’m worried about you, bud. You… listen. I’m not going to therapize you. You know as well as I do how these things work, we’ve both spent enough time speaking to specialists about, uh,” Foggy shook his head and rushed the word out like it was poison. “PTSD.”

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How did Matt go from his shaky return to his civilian self at the end of S3 to the cocky, thriving, successful lawyer we know and love - with an in with the Avengers, I may add - in No Way Home and She-Hulk?

After living in fight or flight for a prolonged time, one won't really process everything until the danger has subsided. I wonder if, after the final battle with Fisk, after he took back his identity and started to breathe like a civilian again, Matt sunk into the darkness. And I wonder how he climbed back out of it.

This is the story of how Matt sought out help.

daredevil au where foggy works in the genius bar in the apple store and matt comes in to get help setting up the assistive tech on his new phone and foggy falls in love a lil and leaves his number in matt's phone

Matt Murdock has super senses, sure. But he's also blind. And he thinks sometimes, since they found out he was daredevil, Foggy and Karen forgot what that actually means.

Tough conversations, maturing friendship, dealing with actual emotions, and even a little romance ensue.

Or, five times Matt's blindness was forgotten, and one time it wasn't.

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Excerpt:

“Hey, Matt? There’s… something I’ve been thinking about whether to ask you.”

Matt wasn’t sure he liked the sound of where that was going. He and Foggy were lounged at either end of his couch, the better part of a bottle of gin deep. They’d gone to Josie’s after leaving the office late. She’d arbitrarily closed up at eleven that night, so the two thought continuing to drink at Matt’s place sounded like a good idea, for some reason.

Matt was that level of drunk where he had to rely on his cane or Foggy’s arm for more than just comfort. He remembered the time Foggy had asked him about ‘the spins.’ What he described had been true. When he drank like this, it wasn’t like his hearing went in and out of focus but he couldn’t quite manage to grasp the layout of the world around him.

When Foggy opened a question like this, it wasn’t usually followed with something easy. But Matt was trying to be more open and trusting and other bullshit terms he’d heard in the audiobook he was secretly listening to about how to be less avoidant. He wanted to be a better friend, and apparently that required not running away from discomfort.

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Yeah, I wrote a Daredevil fic. This man has been living in my head rent free for a month.