Comments | tartanshell: Daredevil fic: "Never Rained like It Has Tonight" (Matt and Foggy, PG-13)

tartanshell

Daredevil fic: "Never Rained like It Has Tonight" (Matt and Foggy, PG-13)

Dec 22, 2006 03:30

Title: Never Rained like It Has Tonight (Or, Twenty Things about Nelson & Murdock, Attorneys at Law)
Fandom: Daredevil (blend of comics and movieverse)
Characters: Foggy Nelson and Matt Murdock, gen
Rating: PG-13 for language
Word count: ~3500
Summary: There's a lot they don't tell each other. Then again, there's a lot they don't need to.
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fic: daredevil, fic: foggy nelson, fic: matt murdock

Comments 25

lonelywalker December 22 2006, 11:09:20 UTC

Oh, perfect... just perfect.

tartanshell December 23 2006, 08:00:04 UTC

Oh, thank you! :) I'm so glad you liked it.

lilacsigil December 22 2006, 13:03:27 UTC

I don't think it's very fair to give a present that makes me cry.

These are amazing, and so balanced between the Foggy's insecurities, and the huge great gaps in Matt's life that he has no idea how to fill. I loved the surprises they liked to spring on each other - the pool game, the driving lessons(!), and the secret of Daredevil, of course. Foggy's reaction - asking about being a sidekick - was tragic and hilarious in the wrong way, and makes me wonder if Matt took it as a joke for real, or because Foggy didn't understand what Daredevil did, or because Foggy is much more important than a sidekick, and Matt could never deal without that balance between them. The T-shirt, the photos, Babette...it's all going into my personal canon.

What really made me cry was the link back to the fire drill, and Foggy giving Matt so much strength that he can, finally, be the Man Without Fear that he needs to be.

tartanshell December 23 2006, 08:13:19 UTC

No, it's totally fair. You bowled me over with a wonderful gift (that, when reading the TPBs, made me fall in love with Matt and Foggy all over again), and I wanted to write something for you that would hopefully at least make you go "aww," though crying was the goal, since that's exactly what I was doing when I wrote it! :P

These are amazing

I am so glad you liked this.

I loved the surprises they liked to spring on each other - the pool game, the driving lessons(!), and the secret of Daredevil, of course.

Hee! I wanted to know the story behind the pool in canon (Daredevil: Yellow, which you need to read if you haven't), and I figured this way made sense. :) I think Matt used to enjoy surprising Foggy. And I think the car was one of the few times Foggy (intentionally) surprised Matt, because he knew he could. (Also, I wanted to explain the driving in movie and comic canon. Who else would have taught him?)

Foggy's reaction - asking about being a sidekick - was tragic and hilarious in the wrong wayWhen I first got into ( ... )

st_aurafina December 22 2006, 13:15:47 UTC

Oh, oh, wow. *is speechless*

I just looked across at lilacsigil, and she's having a little cry, so I guess I can stop pretending that I'm not crying either.

These are perfect and beautiful, and so capture the essence of Matt and Foggy's friendship - I love the little things (the car, the slow dancing, the driving lesson, the photograph) and the way they lead onto the big things (trust, self-esteem, friendship).

Thank you for writing this - it's just amazing.

tartanshell December 23 2006, 08:22:54 UTC

Aww, thank you! Speechless is good! *blushing, but grinning* Like I told lilacsigil above, you did such a wonderful thing for me, I wanted to write you a fic that would at least make you go "aww." (And I figured you two wouldn't mind a longer fic for both of you together. This may be part one of two, though...)

And crying is good. Crying was the goal, since I was crying while I wrote it! *loves Matt and Foggy to tiny little bits*

These are perfect and beautiful

Again, thank you so much. I was really hoping you would like this.

I love the little things (the car, the slow dancing, the driving lesson, the photograph)

I really wanted to explore Matt driving in comic and movie canon, so...the car. *g* And as for the slow dancing...that is definitely another story. ;) The college stuff was a hybrid of Frank Miller DD and Daredevil: Yellow, but the photograph is (I think) very close to a panel in Daredevil:Yellow. Similar, at any rate.

the big things (trust, self-esteem, friendship).I'm not sure whether they love each other because ( ... )

resolute December 22 2006, 13:57:46 UTC

Oh, hey, that's just great. Perfect. Absolutely perfect.

tartanshell December 23 2006, 08:23:19 UTC

Oh, thank you! I'm so glad you liked it. :)

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tartanshell December 26 2006, 08:51:00 UTC

Thank you! I'm really glad you liked this. :)

I really like the dynamic, especially that seen from Foggy's POV

I adore the dynamic between them. Movieverse, comicverse, writing them... I 'ping' for a fandom, for some reason, when two (usually adult, not teenage) male characters are close. And not as a slash thing, necessarily. I just...really enjoy reading/writing male friends. God knows why.

I'm glad Foggy's POV worked for you. He's fun to write.

the way Matt can jerk him out of self-pity when he feels it

*laughs* I think they both get plenty of practice doing this. Pulling one another out of Moods, in general. One of my favorite exchanges between them ever is sometime during Bendis' run, after Matt has been outed, and they're both bitching, and then one of them is like, "Don't have a tizzy in the middle of my snotty!" And then the other goes, "Don't have a snotty in the middle of my tizzy!" So funny, and so them.

Plus all the little, very concrete touchesMaking that stuff up is the best part! *g ( ... )