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❥ Character Information

Character Name: Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter. At this point in time, he's not going by the alias Bullseye yet
Character Age: Mid-thirties
Character Species: Human
Current Health: Just having gone through intense, invasive, and possibly lethal surgery to replaced crushed vertebrae so he can walk again.
Outfit: Hospital issued pants and shirt.

Character Canon: Daredevil (MCU show)
Link to History: Here!
Canon Point: End of Season Three
Canon Iteration: Original canon

❥ Folkmore Roles & Attributes

Skills: - Insanely good at throwing and shooting things
- Training as a sniper
- Some hand-to-hand combat ability
- Very good tracking skills
Canon Abilities: Here!
Role: Myth
Role Qualities/Attributes: Two small horns that mirror the ones that were on his Daredevil outfit, fangs, and sharp claws.
Role Reasoning: Dex is someone who tries to do the right thing but ultimately falls into his worst impulses in canon. At the start, he's not quite the supervillain he'll become later on. He struggles to still be good and keep his impulses to kill in check, relying on a strict routine and rigid job structure to keep him in line. But the season turns out to be one prolonged villain origin story for him, being manipulated, with all the pillars of his carefully ordered life knocked down, and ultimately deciding he wants to give into his psychopathic nature. By the end, he's embraced his own darkness and is on his way to becoming the infamous supervillain Bullseye, choosing to try to gain revenge on Fisk by killing his wife rather than try to become a better person again.

❥ Personality

Option 1

cw: canonly diagnosed mental illness, stalking discussed

The first impression of Dex is that of a completely normal guy, maybe a little too rigid for his own good, and very intense due to his job of being an FBI sniper. He's cold and aloof, keeping people at arm's length, but he doesn't seem like a bad guy aside from having a bit of a temper. He pays attention to details about people and is the type to have his coworkers' backs, both in the field and in an office setting.

In truth, it's all a lie. Dex has carefully crafted a normal persona because underneath it all he's a very mentally-ill and disturbed man. Having been diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and psychopathy when he was very young, those two conditions have shaped the way his mind works entirely. Due to his BPD, he longs for connections with people and tends to form them very fast, but due to his psychopathy it's very difficult for him to reciprocate their feelings. He lacks a complete sense of empathy and any he shows to people is a façade he's cultivated and was taught. It's shown he has a rote phrase he'll often say when trying to connect with people who are going through tough things: "It's/That sounds hard. Really hard." This is because his lack of empathy makes it impossible to understand them in the way he knows they desire. He's constantly struggling with his own desire to hurt and kill people.

Dex manages to control his condition for years through medication, a routine oriented life, and a job with a rigid structure that helps to distract him and keep him from being inside his own head. The problem is that once Wilson Fisk (Kingpin) sees Dex in action, he immediately wants to use him for his own ends. To that end, he knocks down every pillar of Dex's life until he's mentally broken down and there's no one he can turn to besides Kingpin. Eventually, Dex stops fighting his inner dark nature and agrees to become Kingpin's assassin, impersonating Daredevil and massacring people in the costume to discredit the real hero's name.

While Dex may relish his darker side when he gives into it, it's also worth noting he doesn't completely enjoy it either. He's cognizant enough to realize there is something very wrong with him and that he's not like everyone around him. It's a constant struggle between who he ultimately wants to be versus who he knows he ultimately should be.

It's worth noting that while difficult, it's not impossible for him to care about people. He's treated by the same doctor for ten years in his childhood, and while it's clear Dr. Mercer cares more about him than he does about her, Dex comes to view her as the surrogate mother he never had due to losing his own birth parents so early in life. He bonds with her to such a degree that he balks and is almost insulted at the idea of trying to talk to a new psychologist when she's diagnosed with terminal cancer. Despite discussing out loud with her that he wants to kill her to "punish her for leaving him", she calms him down and talks him out of the idea. When she does that, he ultimately breaks down, crying and begging her not to leave him, revealing he's just a grief-stricken kid who is devastated at losing his mother. It's telling that he uses taped recordings of their sessions to ground him when he starts spiraling out of control several times in canon.

He also genuinely cares about his 'North Star', a person Dr. Mercer advises him to find so that he can mimic their good and kind personality. In this case, that person is named Julie Barnes, a former coworker who has no idea he's been stalking her for years now. Once they finally meet, Dex accidentally reveals his behavior, and scares her off. He approaches her one more time, begging for help once he's started mentally losing control, but he does so in a way that respects the boundaries he wasn't before: it's in a public place, getting nowhere close enough to touch her, and promising he'll leave her along for good if that's what she wants. There's nothing to suggest he's not being sincere about saying he'll never bother her again, even though it would personally be upsetting to him to do so. When she agrees to help him, he honestly tries his best to put her at ease, which works as he tries to be a little charming and make her laugh. Dr. Mercer and Julie show it's not impossible for him to make genuine connections with people, just very difficult and oftentimes more than he wants to put for effort to do so.

❥ Player Information

Player Name: Shade
Pronouns: She/her
Are you over 18?: Yes
Contact(s): Light_shade or .lightshade on Discord
Link to invitation: Already in game
Current Characters: Darth Maul & Ultron
Permissions: Here
Writing Samples: TDM top-level
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