Daredevil [Marvel Comics]: Irish-Indian Brigade

A Story by Abishai100

A United Kingdom 'super-hero' becomes an underground operative in a special fantasy-mission to bring messages of diamonds to Northern Irish.

A UK vignette inspired by Daredevil. Enjoy (signing off),

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Belfast (Northern Ireland) is troubled by inter-religious schisms between the Irish-Catholic minority population and British-Protestant majority population, and the political group on behalf of the Irish, Sinn Fein, negotiates with British Parliament for improved socioeconomic conditions and employment affirmative-action policies and perhaps some beneficial commercial bridges to neighboring Catholic Dublin (Ireland). However, Parliament can be neglectful, and guerrilla-protests/groups arise in Belfast such as the Provisional Irish Republican Army ('PIRA') to create more shocking forms of media attention to these problems. As PIRA engages in radical tactics, retaliatory British police-military force/violence has Catholic-Protestant residents unnerved and worried sometimes. Belfast needs a new type of hero perhaps.

That hero is Amlan Satan, a blood-diamond analyst with Interpol-relations studying how conflict-zone gems from Africa ('blood-diamonds') are sourced into the UK and seeping into the Belfast underworld and contributing to the already strained political relations between Catholics and Protestants by stimulating piracy-allure criminality among the poor and the wealthy alike. Amlan is a real-life James Bond and has read the Eamon de Valera book India and Ireland, exploring how the intersections between the Quit India movement against British rule and the Irish struggle for Catholic sovereignty from Protestant England create interesting ideological possibilities for democratic commerce between places like Dublin, Belfast, and Bombay.

Amlan blogs on the Internet about these radical new commerce-driven ideas on the UK-net as the self-proclaimed 'capitalism-vigilante' named Daredevil, but is kidnapped by extremist conservatives who find his online liberal ideas too dangerous/liberal and throw him into a pool of acid-water, but he manages to find a sewer hole out of the acid-tub and only loses his eyesight and recovers from the other burns to his body, since he's in a somewhat protective scuba-diving uniform while swimming with sharks in the Belfast aquarium where he was ultimately kidnapped. Amlan crawls out a sewer-tunnel and becomes the blind but sensory-sharpened vigilante, keeping his name/alias Daredevil.

DAREDEVIL: I'll set an Irish-Indian Brigade and use acid-guns to burn safe-boxes and steal blood-diamonds from evil barons.

Daredevil steals over $30M worth of baron blood-diamonds from banks all over the United Kingdom and substitutes the stolen gems with cassettes with disco music recordings and sends humorous messages in the media like, "The Irish-Indian Brigade [IIB] will remove all threats to Northern Ireland crime created by modern pirate-barons such as the very evil Norm Kuyt from Holland." The UK Magazine calls Daredevil and his IIB the modern-day Robin Hood and his band of Merry-Men and seem to love his disco-tapes left as souvenirs at his blood-diamond heist-scenes in Europe.

DAREDEVIL: Eamon de Valera was shrewd to draw parallels between India/Ireland, and we need more inter-religious coop.

Daredevil/IIB manage to subvert the entire baron blood-diamond dominion in the United Kingdom and send home the media-message that journalists need to prioritize the value of reporting on underworld crimes distracting media from the graver concerns of commerce-driven peace challenges between Irish-Catholics and British-Protestants in troubled Belfast (Northern Ireland).

When extremist/conservatives uniform/mask-up to attack Daredevil and his IIB, the blind-acrobat hero and his 'merry-men' of diamond-pirates retaliate by sabotaging their vehicles by shooting acid at their tires, moving the newspapers to poke fun at the ruffians and call them 'tire-deflated' furies.

DAREDEVIL: The Irish-Indian Brigade will not rest until commerce creates secured peace between Catholics-Protestants.

Daredevil (Amlan Satan) meets a gorgeous Irish-Catholic redhead in a Belfast pub-restaurant called Bonesgate named Charlize O'Meara and decides to marry her. However, will his secret double-identity put her in danger with the darker elements of the Northern Irish underground (e.g., ruffians, barons, murderers)? This may be a fairy-tale...or an omen.