If I were wearing a mask, the press would be calling me a hero!

PLAYER INFO

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Player Name: Shade
• Player Contact: Light_shade or .lightshade on Discord
• Player Age: 30+
• Permissions: Here.


CHARACTER INFO

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• Character Name: Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter
• Character Age: Early thirties
• Character Canon: Daredevil (MCU)
• Canon Point: Season 3, Episode 8 mid-episode just after he leaves the FBI office feeling discouraged.

• Character History: "I'm drowning in deep water."

• Character Personality:

— Positive Trait: Loyal. Dex is the original ride or die kind of person. For those that can gain his loyalty, he will remain completely and utterly devoted to them, even to the point of turning a blind eye to any of their negative traits. This is bad when Fisk gets hold of him, but given he was able to stay in control of himself for fifteen years before when being in the Army and the FBI, it shows he can also do a lot of good if he puts his faith in something like his job rather than in a person.
— Positive Trait: Desire to be good. Despite his severe mental illness, Dex often struggles against his own darker nature in attempt to stay on the straight and narrow path. Every day he has to stay in control and keep from falling into the part of himself that just wants to hurt and kill other people. The third season of the show he's featured in is one long supervillain origin story for him we keep seeing him fail time and again at remaining a good person until eventually he gives up after a VERY intense week of his life being continuously ruined. But he's also shown to go through a daily struggle of trying to foster a sense of innate goodness in him even if he doesn't naturally possess it. He managed to do so for years on even before getting sucked into Fisk's sphere of influence through a mixture of staying on his medication, having a strict routine in place, his job at the FBI, and stalking a former coworker named Julie.
— Positive Trait: Determined. When Dex has a goal or mission in mind, he simply does not give up. If he's motivated enough, he'll move mountains to achieve what he needs to. This goes all the way back to when he was a kid, focused on the goal of pitching a perfect game, having somehow irrationally correlating the idea of doing something so big, important, and special as that with the ability for his parents to somehow come back to life after he was orphaned. As an adult, this comes out in his uncanny ability to shoot or throw anything to accurately hit a target.

— Negative Trait: Lack of empathy. One of Dex's biggest detriments is that he lacks empathy almost completely. Being a born psychopath, he simply does possess the physical ability in his brain to be able to feel things like compassion or kindness for people naturally. This can get him in a lot of trouble, because while he can fake empathy to blend in with the canned phrase he often uses of "That's hard. Really hard", at his core most people don't feel "real" to him, more like a herd of cows or characters in a video game he's playing.
— Negative Trait: Anger. Dex has a short fuse and very little patience. It's said repeatedly that he's used deadly force a number of times already while working in the FBI simply because he can. When two of the Albanians in the shootout he's first introduced in try to surrender, he coldly shoots them dead even while they're unarmed. When he snaps, he just lashes out and hurts those around him until he can calm down again. This would already be bad for any normal person, but given Dex's abilities, it's actually dangerous given how easily he can kill anyone around him with just ordinary objects.
— Negative Trait: Loner. Dex has a tendency to keep people at arm's length, both for his own well-being and theirs given his severe mental illness in the form of his BPD and psychopathy. But this unfortunately means when Fisk starts manipulating him and he loses his job, he's got no safety net and no one to turn to who can help him. This makes him susceptible to Fisk and turn to him so he will feel someone honestly cares about him, even though it makes Dex desperate to do anything to keep the man in his life despite his toxic influence.

• Character Skills:

• Shooting. Dex is an incredible shot, able to do things like actually ricochet bullets off of other objects to get them to hit their intended target. He was also trained as a sniper in the U.S. Army.
• Throwing skills. He's also got an uncanny ability to throw objects. Anything he can get his hands on has the potential to be turned into a deadly weapon, even if it's something as innocuous as a pencil or pen.
• Hand-to-hand combat. While he's no Daredevil, Dex can hold his own at close range up to a point, though he obviously functions much better at a long-range distance.

• Character Inventory:

— ITEM ONE: Dex's therapy tapes. These are many tapes made over the series of many years in his childhood during his sessions with his therapist, enough to fill an entire shoe box.
— ITEM TWO: A tape player to play the tapes with.
— ITEM THREE: A picture of himself from his days working at the suicide hotline featuring himself and his coworkers including his "North Star" Julie Barnes.

• Important Notes: Just a note that while Dex's abilities seem insane and on the borderline of having a superpower, he is in fact just a normal human being who just happens to be able to do what 99.999999% of the population would not be able to do. He's just figured out how to do all this through years of obsessive training.

• Writing Samples:

— SAMPLE ONE: Here
— SAMPLE TWO: Here

Denny's - First Meeting

TFLN - Police scanner

Midnight Texting - HYDRA's return

One-word description - What they think of one another

Scene Prompts - Stuck in a creepy abandoned prison

Texting Meme - Do you like me?

Time Gap....

I can fix them - Set some time later

How many people have you loved? - Thoughts and confessions

TFLN - Bucky being boring

Halloween - A marathon of the Halloween movies

Would You Rather...? - Hallucinations

Sexting - Late night nightmares

Truth Meme - Regrets

Shippy and Smutty Questions - Bisexual preferences

⇓in character⇓

PHYSICAL AFFECTION: You can try but he's prickly and probably won't respond well.

PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: Do lets! His canon is full of it. Go right ahead, but if anything goes as permanent as losing a limb, let's talk.

ROMANCE/FLIRTING: You can try but it'll take a while for him to warm up. I play him as bisexual but he usually doesn't fall in love. Favorite ships are Dex/Matt (yes, I'm hero/villain trash), most Dex/MCU ships, and I'm not opposed to crosscanon with some buildup.

SEXUAL CONTENT: Fine with it even if my abilities to play out smut effectively are always in doubt haha!

PSYCHIC ABILITIES: His head is a mess. Typically, when he starts to mentally breakdown, he has auditory hallucinations that include the sound of loud buzzing insects and the voices of people he knows, alternately playing back scenes from his past encounters with them or telling him negative things.

MAGIC/POWERS: Nope, he doesn't have any.

MEDICAL INFORMATION: He's in top physical condition and has had extensive back surgery to replace crushed vertebrae with Cognium (a MacGuffin metal) replacements.

OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS OR TRIGGERS: Dex's personal history involves talk of mental illness (specifically he's canonically diagnosed with BPD and psychopathy), mental breakdowns, stalking, attempted suicide, animal abuse (talked about but not show), and messy violence.


⇓out of character⇓

BACKTAGGING: I'm fine with backtagging into infinity, so long as tags come once every couple of weeks. I'm rather busy myself juggling college classes and work. If they dwindle down to one a month or less, I will likely drop the thread.

FOURTH WALLING: I'd prefer not to, with the exception of talking about multiverse shenanigans like 616 vs MCU.

THREADHOPPING: I'm fine with it as long as everyone involved is communicating.

CONTENT I ABSOLUTELY NEED WARNINGS FOR, BUT CAN STILL PLAY: Eye trauma, explicit suicide content (i.e. someone actually kills themselves in the thread.)

CONTENT I ABSOLUTELY NEED WARNINGS FOR AND THAT I CAN'T PLAY: N/A.

ANYTHING ELSE: I'm based in PST and try to get to tags at least twice a week. If it's ever been a little too long, just give me a poke, and I'll try to get at least a reply out at some point during the day. I prefer assumed CR on memes with MCU castmates or previous threaders only and I don't ship with adult cartoons.

OPT-OUT: Consider this a blanket opt-out for Dex, specifically in engaging his mental health issues. While they play a large part in how his personality is shaped and are mentioned by me on a pretty consistent basis in his tags, feel free to opt-out just from specific parts, just from mention in a certain thread, or completely overall. Just leave a comment, they're screened.