ClaireDevil

"Maybe I just like hearing the sound of your voice."

- Matt to Claire.

ClaireDevil is the het ship between Claire Temple and Matt Murdock from the Daredevil fandom.

Season 1
Claire had been looking after her neighbor's son Santino when he came into the house and informed her of a bloodied masked man in their garbage. Upon seeing Matt once coming outside, Claire immediately recognized his identity as the masked man who had been fighting criminals and saving innocents. Without any hesitation, she decided to take him into her apartment for treatment without calling the ambulance.

After bringing Matt inside, she told Santino to go home and not tell anyone, including his mother. She then started to work on Matt's injuries and discovered multiple fractured bones and possible stab wounds in his side. The most alarming thing about his injuries, however, were that his eyes did not react to light. Claire concluded that he had been blinded and prepared to get him taken to a hospital. Before she could even call Matt stopped and warned her that if she did, the men who did this would kill everyone in the hospital to ensure they got to him. When Matt attempted to leave Claire's apartment, due to his injuries he passed out on the floor.

Claire continued to heal Matt's wounds while he had been sleeping until he awoke on her sofa. Confused and disoriented, Matt asked what happened and where he was. Claire explained what happened and as Matt felt his face and noticed his mask missing, much to his horror, he realized that someone had seen his face. Claire told him that his "costume" sucked and questioned him about his blindless and name, both of those which he refused to answer. Claire decided upon on calling him "Mike" because of an old ex-boyfriend she had who, similarly like Matt, was good at keeping secrets. Before falling asleep, Matt thanked Claire for her help.

Later that night, Claire saved Matt using a syringe after he had no longer had been able to breath from his collapsing lung caused by trapped air. Claire eventually persuaded Matt to tell her about himself and how this happened, to which Matt revealed how he tried to save a little boy from the Ranskahov brothers who had used the child as bait to bring him out. Matt continued saying that he had barely escaped alive and had not managed to find the boy. Claire asked how a blind man could cause so much trouble for the Russian Mob, to which Matt replied that there were other ways to see.

Claire later assisted Matt into capturing a russian thug who had been involved in the young boy's kidnapping. Before the man woke up, (from the head injury he received from Matt while walking down the stairs), Claire demanded answers on Matt's strange abilities and asked why she should trust him, to which Matt in return asked why she helped him. Claire explained that she heard many rumors of the masked vigilante going around Hell's Kitchen and saving civilians from villains. She said that she wanted to believe in what he was accomplishing and that they wouldn't let the villains succeed.

After the man had woken up, Claire assisted Matt into torturing him for answers about the kidnapped boy. Matt eventually threatened the man by dangling him off the apartment roof and when the man cracked and gave him the location of the mob, Matt told him that it wasn't just for the boy, but he enjoyed doing this as well. Matt pulled the man back until changing his mind and pushing him off into a dumpster. Matt then told Claire to relocate for the Mob to not find her and thanked her for everything she did. Claire told Matt her new location in case he needed someone to patch him up again and before he could leave, she called out to him saying that she didn't believe how he said he enjoyed hurting people.

Behind The Scenes
"Yeah, I very much like Daredevil. I like the street-level characters. I like that idea of someone who goes out there and pushes themselves to greatness. That’s the world that we live in right now. We have police officers and firemen, so we tend to be like, “I’m not going to run into that burning building. I’m not even going to call 911. Someone else will.” We have that thing of passing it on. So, I’ve always been particularly fascinated with the Daredevil-type characters who go, “No, I can do something to help. It’s not always going to be comfortable, it’s going to put me at risk, and I’m going to make my whole world vulnerable for it, but I can do something here. I can’t not. I can’t un-know something that I already know.” Batman puts on a Batsuit and fights petty crime when he’s a billionaire. A person who has everything that we all are supposed to aspire to says, “No, what I really want do is this. Vigilante justice is this space that I know I can really make a difference.” To me, that is just so compelling. And the fact that we get to explore those characters in depth, all throughout these different series that Marvel is doing with Netflix, is very exciting. I think it puts a different onus on the viewer to not just look at it like entertainment, but maybe be a little bit compelled and persuaded and inspired to step up their game a little bit and be the hero that they can be."

- Rosario Dawson about Matt Murdock and DareDevil. "He’s also forced to have to. This is a situation where he wasn’t his full self. When the heat is on, your true self is going to show up. What’s really interesting is that, meeting under any or other normal circumstances, they would have behaved very differently, but the circumstances dictated that they would actually be their inner selves, which showed them each other’s values. At the end of the day, despite Claire’s own risk, she’s going to care for someone else and put that first. She’s going to be really present, and she knows that this choice could equal something really potentially dangerous, down the line. But in this moment, what’s most important is that, if she doesn’t step in right now, someone is going to die, and she can actually do something about it. The fact that there are those types of people who rise to that type of occasion, automatically, it puts them at a different level of taking each other in than normal folks. They automatically get to leap frog into a relationship that should have taken a much longer time to develop, and I think they’re both very pleasantly surprised at the character that the other shows. Their instinct told them that it was okay. And as you see them develop with each other, you see them get more and more comfortable with going, “Okay, I can actually truly be myself, and you can truly be yourself. That’s actually special because there is no one else, I can be this way with.” So, it was necessary, but it becomes very special."

- Rosario Dawson on Matt and Claire. "However, one of the first romantic relationships in the Defenders universe was between the Devil of Hell's Kitchen and the "lucky girl who pulled him out of the garbage." That's right, Claire met Matt when he fell into a dumpster. Tale as old as freakin' time. She was one of the first and only people to learn of Matt's true identity. They flirted a whole bunch while she patched him up. There is an ease within their relationship that Matt has not been able to find since. The Defenders did hint at a possible reunion between Jessica Jones and Luke Cage, so maybe there is still hope out there for fans of this pairing too. Matt Murdock has chemistry with everyone, and Claire Temple can't shake superheroes out of her life. While they've both had many romantic relationships in the Marvel Netflix universe, they started off together and it would be lovely if they ultimately ended up together as well."

- Bustle about ClaireDevil on their page. "She's the first person ever to know about him, the first person in his whole life that he can be himself with. When he's with Claire, Matt doesn't have to pretend anything. It's the first time ever he's been really vulnerable with another human being. He's completely exposed. That's massive. She help gets him patched up, and he begins to rely on her emotionally. He craves the opportunity to talk about who he truly is in front of someone, and she's someone he can talk about it with. He can gauge her opinion on what he's doing, which is important to him. It encourages him. Similarly, Claire is also kind of a bit of a lost soul, a loner who doesn't really fit into this world she's in. She's found many of the same comforts from being his friend as he does from her. It's not surprising that there's the inkling of a romantic relationship because when two people identify so much with one another, a romantic relationship is often formed."

- Charlie Cox about Matt and Claire.

Fanon
ClaireDevil is is a fan favorite ship amongst the Daredevil fans. It's rivals are KareDevil, MattLektra and DareJones. Despite the couple having being broken up in the later seasons, fans still point out the chemistry and longing between the characters and deeply love the ship to this day and continue to support it. It is one of the most popular ship in the Daredevil fandom.

On AO3 ClaireDevil has 282 romantic works and 32 platonic works. It is the most written romantic ship for Claire and the fifth most written romantic ship for Matt.

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Trivia

 * Claire was the first person to ever see Matt without his mask.
 * Charlie Cox and Rosario Dawson are both ClaireDevil fans.
 * There is a Fan Forum for ClaireDevil made by Daredevil fans that feature an appreciation thread of the couple.
 * Claire's actor, Rosario Dawson is a big fan of Daredevil and the character Matt Murdock.
 * Matt and Claire trusted each other as soon as they met despite both of them not trusting people too easily.


 * The official Daredevil Twitter posted a gif of ClaireDevil on their page.