Question about the Hand.

[elspethdixon]

Because, when all other attempts to come up with a plot for something fail, random ninjas are the Marvel Way.

Question for the flist, if anyone out there knows:

How dead was Elektra when the Hand brought her back? Did they retcon it so that the resurrection occured within a few hours or days of her death, or was she actually dead and buried? (I seem to recall a picture somewhere of Matt "reading" the writing on her gravestone with his fingertips, but that may or may not mean anything).

Did they actually have her body to perform various resurrection rituals on (the way they did with Echo), or did they call her up out of the ether with L33t Ninja Powers (tm)?

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[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

She was way dead and buried. Matt not only touched the tombstone, he dug her up and held her dead body because he thought maybe she wasn't dead. (He was grieving at the time, as Foggy sensibly said, and kept catching her scent in the air, so had to check if she was dead.)

The Hand went to the graveyard and dug up her body and took her to a church where they conducted their exciting rituals. They didn't actually get to finish and resurrect her, though - Matt and Stone (friend of Stick) interrupted them. Matt tried to resurrect her himself, but succeeded only in "purifying" her soul with love. He left, and Stone used his own life essence to bring her back. Matt didn't know this at the time, and thought Stone had died in the battle.