One of the appeals of that alternate X-3 plotbunny I'm never going to write (the one with Gambit and Sinister and Madeline Pryor) was the Madeline angst when she discovered that she wasn't real, had no memories of her past not because of amnesia, but because she had no past and was just an imitation of a woman she'd never met.
Erynys, of course, has most of Elektra's memories (possibly with just enough telling gaps, especially from her childhood and from anything surrounding the Kingpin's role in her father's death, to leave her more dependant on the Kingpin and to worry her), and honestly thinks she is Elektra, so when she discovers about 2/3rds of the way through the story that she's a clone, it will be that much more devastating.
Especially when she remembers having fun with Matt in grad school and fighting with Daredevil and realizes that those memories aren't real, that it was someone else who went out to diner with Matt and Foggy to celebrate opening up their law practice, someone else who cried on Matt's shoulder when her father died, someone else who taught Daredevil how to catch a shuriken in mid-air, etc. That the man she loves--or thinks she loves--is really in love with a dead woman, not with her.
So Erynys has to make him love her, make him hers, because then, she'll be real.
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Date: 2006-12-28 08:20 pm (UTC)Erynys, of course, has most of Elektra's memories (possibly with just enough telling gaps, especially from her childhood and from anything surrounding the Kingpin's role in her father's death, to leave her more dependant on the Kingpin and to worry her), and honestly thinks she is Elektra, so when she discovers about 2/3rds of the way through the story that she's a clone, it will be that much more devastating.
Especially when she remembers having fun with Matt in grad school and fighting with Daredevil and realizes that those memories aren't real, that it was someone else who went out to diner with Matt and Foggy to celebrate opening up their law practice, someone else who cried on Matt's shoulder when her father died, someone else who taught Daredevil how to catch a shuriken in mid-air, etc. That the man she loves--or thinks she loves--is really in love with a dead woman, not with her.
So Erynys has to make him love her, make him hers, because then, she'll be real.