on being matt murdoch
Jun. 24th, 2009 01:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
burntcopperpondering about re-visiting one of my old fic 'verses. originally, standard superhero girl meets boy - they like each other in masks, meet at party, it's bloody obvious who they are, so there was no barrier to getting together in RL.
Have since been on a jag of listening to the Zorro ST. (this version is based on the Isabel Allende book, which I really have to get around to reading...) Which has the old-skool Lois and Clark device where she likes Zorro but thinks Diego is an useless prat. And now pondering if I could do that and how feasible it would be. I have a couple of factors on my side here :
Girl has been blind in RL due to measles since she was tiny. (parents into homotherapy etc and didn't get her vaccinated.) When her powers kicked in they were spectrum-related, so she can 'see' heat and uv and so on, so she can see shapes but not colour, and can figure out dark and light due to the heat refraction and intellectually knows that the cooler light on traffic lights is the 'green' one. Just not what you'd call 'normal' vision. Think Daredevil. Current generation of masks is new enough on the scene that no-one's figured out she's blind aside from her sister.
So. Er. Taking into account Matt Murdoch, how feasible would it be for Boy to not figure out that the superhero he thinks is an arrogant bitch is the blind girl he really likes who keeps blowing him off? (she thinks he's an arrogant jerk no matter what) How plausible a distraction would the blind factor be when you know the person in both personas?
Have since been on a jag of listening to the Zorro ST. (this version is based on the Isabel Allende book, which I really have to get around to reading...) Which has the old-skool Lois and Clark device where she likes Zorro but thinks Diego is an useless prat. And now pondering if I could do that and how feasible it would be. I have a couple of factors on my side here :
Girl has been blind in RL due to measles since she was tiny. (parents into homotherapy etc and didn't get her vaccinated.) When her powers kicked in they were spectrum-related, so she can 'see' heat and uv and so on, so she can see shapes but not colour, and can figure out dark and light due to the heat refraction and intellectually knows that the cooler light on traffic lights is the 'green' one. Just not what you'd call 'normal' vision. Think Daredevil. Current generation of masks is new enough on the scene that no-one's figured out she's blind aside from her sister.
So. Er. Taking into account Matt Murdoch, how feasible would it be for Boy to not figure out that the superhero he thinks is an arrogant bitch is the blind girl he really likes who keeps blowing him off? (she thinks he's an arrogant jerk no matter what) How plausible a distraction would the blind factor be when you know the person in both personas?
