Foggy Nelson
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| Name: | Franklin "Foggy" P. Nelson | ||
| Superalias: | None | ||
| Gender: | Male | ||
| Species: | Human | ||
| Occupation: | Criminal Defense Attorney | ||
| Citizenship: | United States of America | ||
| Residence: | Hell's Kitchen, New York City | ||
| Education: | JD, Columbia Law | ||
| Theme: | Marvel (AFC) | ||
| Groups: | Defenders, Street Level | ||
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| Apparent Age: | 30 | Actual Age: | 30 |
| Date of Birth | 08 September 1992 | Played By | Joseph Gordon-Levitt |
| Height: | 5'10" | Weight: | 170 lb |
| Hair Color: | Brown | Eye Color: | Brown |
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Character Info
Profile
Foggy Nelson serves proudly as a criminal defense attorney in Hell's Kitchen, New York City. He grew up there and he makes his career there, if humbly. When he's not busy in the office or the courtroom trying desperately to keep this little law practice going, he's out and about in the local establishments with reasonable bar food and hopefully sanitary beer taps. Compared to Matt Murdock, Foggy is the more grounded of the two, and he tries to straddle the line between practical business and idealistic public service the best he can, but hey... a guy's gotta eat.
Timeline
Law School and Beyond:
Foggy attended Columbia Law with some funds from his on-and-off meat shop career to that point,
as well as a not insignificant infusion of financial aid earmarked for students pursuing their
educations from local family small business backgrounds. He shared a dormitory room from beginning
to end with fellow law student Matt Murdock. The two supported each other through their studies and
their poorly paid infancies into the legal profession, through the NY Bar Exam, internship time with
Landman and Zack, and ultimately the establishment of their own humble criminal defense practice,
right at home in Hell's Kitchen.
Local Boy:
Foggy comes from the huge Nelson clan of Hell's Kitchen, proud purveyors of various meats,
smoked and otherwise. He did not grow up wealthy, but he did grow up with his family having enough
to get by. By necessity, his early education included a great deal of relationship building with
neighboring households and businesses, and in his younger years, he learned a great deal about how
to run a small business, as well as how to maintain the facilities and equipment that his family's
business relied upon. He'll occasionally quip that he's not a certified plumber, but at need, he's
the next best thing.
Timeline:
* 1992: Born and raised in NYC (Hell's Kitchen/Clinton area).
* 1998: Starts running around
in Nelson's Meats, learning basic plumbing and appliance repair and sneaking bites of cold
cuts.
* 2000: Graduates high school and begins his undergrad career at a NYC commuter college in
pre-law with minors in liberal arts and business. Evenings and weekends are spent either studying or
putting in hours at the deli counter.
* 2004: Finishes undergrad and starts building up some
funds at the family business for law school.
* 2008: Begins law school at Columbia. Meets Matt
Murdock.
* 2012: Finishes law school, passes the NY Bar. Begins internship at Landman & Zack.
* 2016: Begins putting together Nelson & Murdock, Attorneys at Law in Hell's Kitchen.
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Personality
Señor Foggy Law:
Partly because of his upbringing, partly because of his family's business, and partly because of
his own gregarious personality, Foggy seems to know nearly everyone. Most local families stopped
into Nelson's Meats to pick up orders and to interact with Foggy and his family at some time or
another, so ultimately, most local families also knew half of the law office duo that set up shop in
Hell's Kitchen. Name recognition has been a boon to the client base, even if the cases aren't very
high paying. In more relaxed moments, Foggy's glad for the ties he has to his hometown, and the way
they play out gives him a sense of purpose. He might not be able to take on housing corruption
singlehandedly in New York City, but he can make sure the client's sink is working properly after
he's stopped in to dispense legal advice.
Step Right Up!:
Foggy can get a little bit raucous when he feels like it, either out of his own exuberance or to
get a rise out of some kind of audience nearby. He's found that it's useful for converting a pool
table into a paid bar tab, particularly when his law partner's around to chalk up a cue.
This Is a Business:
It's not that Foggy has a problem with grateful clients (and their grandmothers, on occasion)
expressing enthusiastic appreciation for Nelson and Murdock's services with various foodstuffs that
he happens to enjoy. Rather, he notes that most banks don't actually find apple pies, baklava,
tamales, or pots of coffee to be legal tender. While Foggy is quite amazingly adept at finding low
cost ways of keeping the office's functions going, he is quite adamant that he can't keep making
silk purses out of sows' ears if there aren't any sows' ears coming into the practice's accounts.
Character Sheet
Powers
Legal Eagle:
Foggy has an excellent mind for criminal law, and he has the beguiling style to keep it hidden
until he needs to spring it on a target, in the courtroom or not. He makes it a point to know far
more than he shows, but once circumstances dictate that he show where his case is going, he leaves
no doubt of his understanding or intent. Opening arguments are largely his to induct the jury, and
he happily (and sometimes with some relief) defers closing arguments to his partner, Matt Murdock.
The approach seems to have served them well to date.
Resourceful:
Granted, he's no MacGyver, but Foggy has learned a thing or two over the years about how to do
the best he can with what he has available to meet the needs in front of him. He's also very
generous with this knowledge, which is how a criminal defense attorney sometimes informally
moonlights as a (frequently pro bono) plumber. Working in a family shop or in a cash-strapped legal
firm has its lessons, indeed... but it stops at things like making the right coffee for everyone
else. He can't do it all.
Skills
Cross-Referencing:
See also "Powers."
Resources
Nelson & Murdock:
Foggy is a partner at a criminal defense firm, which, in probably any other context within the
city of New York, would mean something prestigious. Depending on the cases they take, they get some
traction in the press, which is generally good for business, although their informal publicity
usually points to the amazing number of cases the team takes on pro bono. Some clients can pay, of
course, and they pay well enough that the doors stay open. Others strive to help keep the attorneys
well fed in lieu of monetary compensation. While the law offices of Nelson and Murdock are happy to
be a resource to the wider community in need of their particular expertise, they must note that they
are not formally licensed to operate as a food bank in the City of New York... no matter how many
apple pies manage to stack up on the conference room table, although they offer these surplus
foodstuffs to those in need on an as-is basis.
Nelson's Meats:
Well, if you're going to have a backup plan, make it a good one. Foggy's never really
entertained the idea that the law office might fail, but if he really needed it (and he couldn't go
anywhere else), there's always the counter at the family business. Beyond that, it's kind of nice to
grab a few slices of prosciutto from the office refrigerator on occasion. Foggy never presses his
family connection to get food for free, but always pays and tips as well as he can.
Weaknesses
Gotta Eat:
Tearing down injustice. Standing up for the weak, the least, the lost, and the lonely.
Advocating for positive change in gritty Hell's Kitchen. Defending the falsely accused from the
ravages of the adversarial and frequently predatory criminal justice system. All of these are deeply
noble goals and the causes of saints in the legal profession, but more often than not, they don't
pay so very well. Meanwhile, there's rent to cover. Foggy keeps these kinds of practical and
fiduciary conflicts in mind, because if he doesn't, he's not so sure Matt will.
Lawyer, Not Superhero!:
Foggy is about as everyman as you can get, legal prowess aside. He certainly knows about
superheroes (and their impacts on local property values and insurance claims), but he understands
quite well that he's not one of them, and he'd like not to be anywhere around their shenanigans if
he can help it. That said, his idea of superheroes being around resembles the Avengers turning up in
full regalia, so he's not really looking around his immediate area for anything undue.
Role-Play
Logs
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Foggy Nelson has
4 finished logs.
| Title | Date | Scene Summary |
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| Legal Advice | December 24th, 2020 | Foggy listens to some details of April's recent exploits and supplies a few (legal) facts of life. |
| A Beer At Josie's | November 15th, 2020 | Viola gets stood up, and runs into Foggy at Josie's Bar. |
| The Chikara School of Karate Infringement | October 15th, 2020 | Colleen calls Foggy for some legal advance and also gets Kitty and Dinah turning up. It's suddenly a busy Wednesday Afternoon. |
| Javert brings food to Valjean | October 13th, 2020 | Kingpin thinks his board is almost ready for prime time. Mr Fisk and Mr Nelson. |
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