Softly, with hands as gentle as rain,
I shall strangle him
the erl-king / ANGELA CARTER

for
nightwvngs vaderism svperboy
-hanlonss
i figured you guys
waited long enough

Pfeiffer Jacobs was strategically designed to upset people.

She was an absurdly simple abstract painting, receiving the most visceral reactions when hung for the public eye to see. She was cut through, patched back together with the utmost subtlety, and struck through again before getting the worst repair job ever, some of the cuts still peeping through. Lucky for her, you could only see those cuts up close. Lucky for her, no one ever got close enough. Except for one.

Absolutely bored to tears with her life as an art gallery curator at Contempo Gallery in Hell's Kitchen, Pfeiffer turned to the false crime podcast she listened to as she went about her mundane life, dealing with the elite snobs that came in and out of the gallery, looking to purchase art to hang over their expensive mantles without any real intent (so sue her for being an art snob—she majored in both art and psychology, she was allowed to be a critic and judge), which gave her the most insane idea. And if she wasn't in such a search for a cheap thrill, she wouldn't have gone through with the impulsive thought.

You could sit there and argue that Pfeiffer finally opened herself up to let that one person into her personal circle and see all the fucked up gashes for himself (which was putting it nicely since there were people in New York that were actively much worse than her and her probability for day drinking) but they only got close enough because they were trying to put her down, only because he had a moral code that didn't include killing people.

(Pfeiffer voiced that she would've been fine with being killed if it meant that she didn't have to be on the receiving end of his monologue.)

So it was only a matter of time before her chaotic endeavors had her cross paths with the masked man in black as he was doing his very best and giving his all to shut her down from afar all the while trying to bring down the numerous crime lords that hailed all over the city.

    Who knew that the two of them would make a pretty good pair down the line.

PFEIFFER dawson JACOBS / cristin milioti
the curator / judith

MATTHEW michael MURDOCK / charlie cox
the lawyer / daredevil

Author's Note ╱ 031325
🍎 welcome to the matt fic that's been in my drafts for well over a year and before i even started watching daredevil bc i had an idea about where it could go so woo !

🍎 this fic will take place during s1-s3 of daredevil (and maybe the defenders when i get around to it) and while the endgame is matt, both pfeiffer and matt date other people before eventually coming together and then matt inevitably fumbles the bag (/j /lh. . .maybe). so slow burn central, baby !

🍎 matt and pfeiffer are inspired by batman and catwoman, elizabeth bennet and mr. darcy from pride & prejudice (the bbc version), monica geller and chandler bing from friends, and steve rogers and natasha romanoff from captain america: winter soldier with a dash of mulder and scully from the x-files

🍎     usual plagiarism threats apply, i find you, you get a dm, you do it again, you get blasted; i'm at my wit's end, i'm tired, and i don't want to have to deal with you losers who can't think for yourselves—that goes for both writing and graphics !!!

🍎 and since you made it this far, have a mixtape—i. blood in the cut, k. flay     / ii. maneater, nelly furtado / iii. buttons, the pussycat dolls     / iv. what you do, james gillespie / v. the devil, banks / vi. going to hell, the pretty reckless / vii. safeword, halsey / viii. hush, the marías / ix. arsonist, halsey / x. criminal, fiona apple