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networkinthenight2019-10-15 06:24 pm
catholicisms) wrote in networkinthenight2019-10-15 06:24 pm
[audio] @HK; set during the middle of the event! [open]
( Matt isn't big on the devices, for a multitude of reasons. he'll answer on occasion but most of the time he observes and doesn't participate. his username might not be familiar, even to the people who have met him. maybe his voice will be; that's the medium he chooses, it just makes delivery easier. )
I am sure we've all heard what is going around, that plenty of us are suffering from hallucinations. I know how real they must look, or hear, or sound.
( he's had at least a little of his own issues, mostly voices in his head. touches he can't explain. Matt thinks he might be getting off a little easier on this round of misery because he's blind. that's a first, but it also means he has a different perspective on the situation.
and while he's generally not big about talking about how he uses his other senses, in this instance? he feels like he should. )
If you don't recognize my voice, my name is Matt. If you don't know me yet, I'm the one with sunglasses and a walking cane. ( hopefully this is obvious enough a cue to imply he's the blind guy wandering around. ) I can't see what you are seeing, any more than anyone else can. But I can tell you that your other senses could help you decipher if what you are experiencing is real.
If you see blood, something dead, rotten, you'd smell it as much as you'd see it. If you can feel things on you, they can't just come out of nowhere. When things come towards you, they leave an audible clue, and it means something if you can't hear it.
The things you are seeing, hearing, feeling — they're terrible, and horrifying, but they also aren't real. Try muffling the sense that is troubling you most. It's already dark here, but a blindfold could help you ignore what isn't there.
( and because he realizes it isn't easy to rely on senses without practice, ) And if it seems real and you need help figuring out what you can trust, maybe I can help.
I am sure we've all heard what is going around, that plenty of us are suffering from hallucinations. I know how real they must look, or hear, or sound.
( he's had at least a little of his own issues, mostly voices in his head. touches he can't explain. Matt thinks he might be getting off a little easier on this round of misery because he's blind. that's a first, but it also means he has a different perspective on the situation.
and while he's generally not big about talking about how he uses his other senses, in this instance? he feels like he should. )
If you don't recognize my voice, my name is Matt. If you don't know me yet, I'm the one with sunglasses and a walking cane. ( hopefully this is obvious enough a cue to imply he's the blind guy wandering around. ) I can't see what you are seeing, any more than anyone else can. But I can tell you that your other senses could help you decipher if what you are experiencing is real.
If you see blood, something dead, rotten, you'd smell it as much as you'd see it. If you can feel things on you, they can't just come out of nowhere. When things come towards you, they leave an audible clue, and it means something if you can't hear it.
The things you are seeing, hearing, feeling — they're terrible, and horrifying, but they also aren't real. Try muffling the sense that is troubling you most. It's already dark here, but a blindfold could help you ignore what isn't there.
( and because he realizes it isn't easy to rely on senses without practice, ) And if it seems real and you need help figuring out what you can trust, maybe I can help.
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( he's pretty good at ignoring Fisk. it's when the hateful things come from a voice that sounds like Karen, telling him through bloodied teeth that they needed him and he wasn't there — or Foggy, with quiet condemnation and disgust as he notes that I told you sooner or later I'd find you dead. I was right, wasn't I?
he's not immune to the hallucinations, far from it. he's just logical enough (perhaps stubborn enough) that Matt can more or less poke holes in the projection. )
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[ She has to wonder, and the things he hears in the dark that he's heard before. The dark scares her.Consequently, she believes him to be very brave for living in it.
If she couldn't see.... Eleven wonders if she'd always feel like she was back in that small room at the lab, alone and lost in the dark, nothing but the terrors of her malnourished mind for company. ]
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( and that answer is surprisingly true, considering Matt's aversion to it.
in true Matt Murdock fashion, Matt nearly enjoys hearing the voices of the people he misses — even if they're only saying things that are horrible and hurtful and pulled directly from his self-hating subconscious. Fisk he'd be happy to lose. )
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I miss home. I'm... scared. What if I hear people from... home?
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The ones you miss, the ones you keep in your heart, you know who they are. What they'd say. Don't let whatever is causing this distort their voices. ( as for the ones she doesn't miss... ) The other ones are easier to ignore. Believing those voices is giving them power they don't deserve.
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But she needs to be stronger than it. It's like Bruce said - she has to go through the pain to learn how to endure it. ]
Stay smart. Be stronger. Don't... give them power.
[ She takes a moment to internalize that. She hasn't heard voices yet, but she'll try to take his advice, will try to listen carefully. ]
Thank you.