History FanficRecs / Daredevil2015

** [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/17537438 Part 6 - "Fully Known"]]: When Spider-Man gets arrested while teaming up with Matt to stop a gang distributing a fear-inducing hallucinogenic drug in Hell's Kitchen, Matt struggles to not break an old deal with Fisk while clearing the webslinger's name.
* Comments: This is a six part series, which provides some very compelling high-stakes legal drama for those who want that from a lawyer like Matt.

''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/16399154 The Vigilante, The Reporter, and the Kingpin]]'' by [=DDLover=]
* Recommended by: dmcreif
* Pairing: Matt / Karen
* Status: WIP
* Synopsis: Matt Murdock is back from the dead, and has just learned that his archnemesis Wilson Fisk is out of prison. Knowing he can't take Fisk on all by himself, he decides to team up with the one person he knows who is as dogged and determined as he is to put the man back in prison: Karen Page. As Matt and Karen rebuild the romance they once had, they must also fight a lengthy battle with a man who is determined to destroy their lives, their livelihoods, and their friendships. [[Fanfic/TheVigilanteTheReporterAndTheKingpin Trope page here]].
* Comments: An AU of season 3 in which Matt and Karen have a romance arc that lasts during their investigations of Fisk. But it goes much farther than that. The author brings a lot of new depth to a surprising number of the existing characters, while expanding the roles of underutilized characters and also fleshing out underdeveloped plot points from the third season, such as adding new layers to Fisk's criminal empire.

* Comments: A missing scene fic, set between seasons 1 and 2. It provides backstory behind the St. Patrick's Day photograph of Matt, Karen and Foggy that Karen is shown keeping in her apartment during seasons 2 and 3 as well as during ''The Punisher''. It also addresses when Karen moved apartments[[note]]since she downsized to a smaller apartment during this time period[[/note]] as well as Karen's trauma from killing Wesley, and the beginning of Matt developing romantic feelings for her.

* Status: Dormant; last updated February 2017

* Synopsis: Post-season 3, Nelson & Murdock takes on a case involving child abuse. Foggy attempts to: a) protect Matt from further trauma; b) treat Matt like a child himself; or c) hinder Matt's personal growth - depending on whom you ask. Meanwhile, Matt runs into one of Stick's old pupils, while old skeletons from Matt's past come back to haunt him.
* Comments: This is a five part series, which has some really good lawyer stuff for anyone who's invested in legal drama.

[[WMG:[[{{Shipping}} Shipping Fics]]]]
''Stories focused on the romantic relationships between the cast.''

''[[http://archiveofourown.org/chapters/15157885 Better - Now]]'' by tari_roo

* Status: Ongoing

* Synopsis: A missing scene fic about what happened behind the St. Patrick's Day photograph of Matt, Karen and Foggy that Karen keeps in her apartment, while also exploring how Karen is recovering from the events of season one.

* Comments: A pretty beautiful fic with a very in-character depiction of Marci in a Marci vs. Matt showdown.

* Comments: Part 1 of the ''Fanfic/TheMakingOfMonsters'' fanfics. ''The Price of War'' is an astonishingly well-plotted, evocatively written amazing epic of a read. It adds enormous depth to a surprisingly number of the characters, while introducing or tying in quite a few others, and manages to subvert a number of the rather shallow characterizations and stereotypes that some of the supporting cast on the show fell victim to. Well worth the time to read it!

* Status: Ongoing

* Status: Ongoing

[[WMG:[[{{Shipping}} Shipping Fics]]]]
''Stories focused on the romantic relationships between the cast.''

''[[http://archiveofourown.org/chapters/15157885 Better - Now]]'' by tari_roo

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''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/3903400/chapters/8734978 The Price of War]]'' by shuofthewind
* Recommended by: rockgecko
* Crossover with: ''Film/{{Thor}}''

* Status: ongoing

* Crossover with: ''{{Supernatural}}''

* ''Status'': Ongoing
* Pairing: Matt / Karen
* Synopsis:


''[[http://archiveofourown.org/series/402676 The Boxer's Daughter]]'' by RedRowan
* Recommended by: dmcreif

* Synopsis: Patching their lives back together, post season 2. Matt is left virtually friendless and cut off from human contact, so he starts chatting with Frank Castle, who seems to want Matt to find him. Frank and Matt chat, and sometimes it gets heavy. Matt also strives to repair his relationships with Karen, Foggy, the greater community, and his career.

''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/10617867/chapters/23482410 Starting Over From the Middle]]'' by tryptofan

* Synopsis: When Matt and Frank try to take down a new player pushing drugs in Hell’s Kitchen, they end up getting dosed by the very product they were trying to eradicate. Cuts, bruises, cracked ribs? Not a problem. A drug trip making them relive the most intense moments of their lives? Too much. Meanwhile, Wilson Fisk has set out to wreck the life Matt is piecing back together. Part 5 of the author's Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn series ''When They're Not Saving the World''. [[Fanfic/StartingOverFromTheMiddle Trope page here]].

** ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/10878141 Tenderness]]'': Mattie is less than impressed with how the miracle of pregnancy is affecting her body.
** ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/11104557 There's No Place Like]]'': Jessica Jones is hired to find a missing girl in upstate New York, and decides to bring Mattie along, if only so Mattie can keep her awake on the drive up.
** ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/11833671 Ships that Pass]]'': Mattie meets someone from her past.
* Comments: This author is very good at telling a story that combines the existing works with things from the comics in a way that makes sense. ''Precious Things'', the AU retelling of season 1, is what drew me in, and is very notable, because in most stories where the author changes some massive aspect of the story, like a character's gender, that's all they change. It's like rewatching the show again only with different pronouns for that character. Not ''These Precious Things'', though. It shows how changing a gender actually changes quite a lot about the plot: the work pretty much maintains the core of the season 1 story, but it introduces a lot of new characters, a number of characters that were killed in the actual show instead live or vice-versa, while some actions undertaken by one character instead get taken by another. These little differences end up making a huge impact on the narrative.[[note]]Just to name a few examples: 1) Nelson & Murdock refuses rather than accepts Wesley's check when he comes to hire them on John Healy, so a different crooked attorney gets him. This means that Mattie gets Fisk's name by beating up Hoffman instead. So as a result, the sniper that wounds Blake also kills Hoffman. Healy is later sent to kill Blake, but Mattie stops him, and consequently also brings Brett Mahoney in on the Fisk investigation. Healy, Blake and Owlsley thus all survive to sell out Fisk. 2) Foggy doesn't follow Karen when she goes out at night to talk to Elena, so the guys that jump her manage to break her ankle before she can mace them. This leaves Karen on crutches, so it's Brett and Foggy who interview Fisk's mother instead of Ben and Karen, and it's Foggy, not Karen, who ends up killing Wesley. 3) Fisk lures Mattie into Nobu's trap not by having Elena killed, but rather by burning down her building.[[/note]] It even does a good job weaving in characters from the other shows (especially the ''Jessica Jones'' cast).

* Comments: Written by an author that, feeling bad for Karen and Foggy and the place they're in post-''Defenders'', felt Matt should inform them that he's alive as soon as he's recovered enough to contact them, as well as dig into Karen's feelings, and bring her and Foggy back together with Matt. It also another fic that sees Karen coming clean about Wesley's death, as well as exploring an interpretation of what exactly Matt's feelings for Elektra. It is obviously non-compliant with the events of ''Series/ThePunisher2017''.

* Status: WIP

* Synopsis: When Matt and Frank try to take down a new player pushing drugs in Hell’s Kitchen, they end up getting dosed by the very product they were trying to eradicate. Cuts, bruises, cracked ribs? Not a problem. A drug trip making them relive the most intense moments of their lives? Too much. Meanwhile, Wilson Fisk has set out to wreck the life Matt is piecing back together. Part 5 of the author's AO3 series ''When They're Not Saving the World''. [[Fanfic/StartingOverFromTheMiddle Trope page here]].

* Synopsis: When Matt and Frank try to take down a new player pushing drugs in Hell’s Kitchen, they end up getting dosed by the very product they were trying to eradicate. Cuts, bruises, cracked ribs? Not a problem. A drug trip making them relive the most intense moments of their lives? Too much. Meanwhile, Wilson Fisk has set out to wreck the life Matt is piecing back together. Part 5 of the author's AO3 series ''When They're Not Saving the World''.