( Matt remembers Nobu all too well. the first gut reaction he has to the name is to point out he's dead. her story is impossible, no matter how distinctly she believes it. and she does; Matt isn't sure if she's fallen into madness or she's gotten so wrapped up in her own deceptions she can't find the truth herself anymore. or the third and decidedly worse option: it's the truth, and somehow he didn't live to see any of it.
he remembers the weapon Stick had coerced him into helping locate. the Black Sky, the ultimate weapon, the thing even his hardass mentor had seemed genuinely terrified by. Matt hadn't believed it at the time, he's still not sure he believes it now. and yet the rhetoric Elektra is ghosting over sounds uncomfortably like the lecture Stick had given him time and time again, trying to convince him to join a war that didn't seem to exist.
in the end Matt simply gets stuck on the last confession. that Elektra had died protecting him, just as she'd risked herself in the woods only a few days ago. it doesn't make any sense with the version of her he's tried to craft in the years she's been gone. cruel, malicious, uncaring. the version of her that had left him because she'd never really loved him in the first place. )
Why? Why would you do that? ( take a blow meant for him. Matt has gone into every fight he's ever had willing to die in it. some might say he'd even welcome it. Elektra knows that, and dying to protect him doesn't fit with the ugly version of her he's tried to convince himself was real ever since she slipped out of his life like a shadow. he's not sure what would be worse, abandoning him because she never cared or staying away, even if she did. )
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he remembers the weapon Stick had coerced him into helping locate. the Black Sky, the ultimate weapon, the thing even his hardass mentor had seemed genuinely terrified by. Matt hadn't believed it at the time, he's still not sure he believes it now. and yet the rhetoric Elektra is ghosting over sounds uncomfortably like the lecture Stick had given him time and time again, trying to convince him to join a war that didn't seem to exist.
in the end Matt simply gets stuck on the last confession. that Elektra had died protecting him, just as she'd risked herself in the woods only a few days ago. it doesn't make any sense with the version of her he's tried to craft in the years she's been gone. cruel, malicious, uncaring. the version of her that had left him because she'd never really loved him in the first place. )
Why? Why would you do that? ( take a blow meant for him. Matt has gone into every fight he's ever had willing to die in it. some might say he'd even welcome it. Elektra knows that, and dying to protect him doesn't fit with the ugly version of her he's tried to convince himself was real ever since she slipped out of his life like a shadow. he's not sure what would be worse, abandoning him because she never cared or staying away, even if she did. )