Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

Anonymous asked: Okay so I too am Frank Castle trash and Karen Page trash and I was wondering if you have any thoughts on Frank/Karen because I don't think that was the ship I was supposed to walk away from Season 2 with and I'm really glad to know it wasn't just me.

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DO I HAVE THOUGHTS YOU ASK

My thoughts range from ‘realistically, nothing can and should happen because Frank is too fucked in the head and also I think Karen would have some reservations’ to ‘wait this is Daredevil of the endless ninjas, why am I attached to realism’

So what I’d like is if there was some kind of connection, maybe at first without contact. It’s just, Karen writes articles about the Punisher and they are… not unsympathetic. And Frank reads them, and he’s very aware that she’s maybe the only person in the world who thinks of him as a person rather than only the Punisher. And to his mind that becomes the connection to his humanity he can’t quite break away from. It becomes important that Karen would be okay with what he does. He researches his targets carefully. Doesn’t take as much savage joy in killing scum. Tries to do it neatly and dispassionately. And maybe sometimes when his research turns up people or situations that are just ordinarily bad, not utter pondscum, he drops the files at the office of the Bulletin with Karen’s name on them.

She’s important to him - her opinion of him - long before he is on her radar in quite the same way, I’d like to think. But at some point she’s like… dude I’m gonna need more info on these files. Can’t communicate it to him other than a ‘citizens are invited to contact the Bulletin with more info’ line in an article. He drops a phone for her.

And then there is coffee in diners and a lot of glances and unexpected smiles and maybe down the line more than that

greenbergsays:

I’m watching the second season of Daredevil and one thing that I noticed – and really liked – was the jury selection scene for Frank’s trial.

The white men of the group said, “animal,” and “fascist,” and “unhinged.”

The women of the group – most of whom were WOC – were the ones who said, “I applaud him,” and “he’s a hero.”

Because when it comes down to it, Frank was dealing his brand of justice to scumbag men who thought they could do and say and take whatever they wanted. And at the end of the day, it was the women of the city who were really protected by him, the ones who benefited from getting those particular scumbags off the street.

For once, the men of the world were scared to step out of their doors with the Punisher on the street, and the women felt a little safer with him out there.

And considering what Frank lost, that’s pretty much the entire point of his vigilantism.

I NOTICED THIS TOO.  

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