on picking her up again from later in canon

[likethetragedy]

You know why I'm not interested. [Not that it changes anything.] If you have to keep bringing me back, at least let me stay the way that I am in that temple. We both know its better if I never find out what's coming. Before you argue there are some things worth seeing, he's not enough.

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[howruthless]

But even some terrible things are still worth knowing.

[soldierfirst]

Your protests will not change her decision.

[likethetragedy]

I don't think it applies to me unless I can skip to the part where I kill Kirigi. Knowing I put him down might make it worth it. [She casually leaves out the part where she rescues annoying little girls and their fathers. God forbid she act remotely sentimental about that!]

[rulebreaks]

[This is the girl who told Giles not to tell her anything ~futurey~ so you are barking right up her tree, Elektra.]

They usually aren't enough. Boys? As much as you might reaalllly want them to be.

[howruthless]

Is it if you don't really know the reason why?

[because killing someone who hurt you is all well and good, so long as you understand that they hurt you. That you know why you needed to channel that pain.]

[likethetragedy]

I know that. She's still not getting a free pass from me.

[soldierfirst]

Is it so objectionable a truth?

[likethetragedy]

Yeah. It'd be nice if she'd let me still be stupid enough to think one might be instead of letting me be like this.

[She's mostly just bitter about knowing her dad died. Hey, focusing on failed romances makes her less vulnerable which is always a plus.]

[likethetragedy]

... He'll make me remember why he deserves it. [Who is she kidding? Playing hero is how she gets to that point to begin with. She's trying (and failing) at hiding her vulnerabilities with the wrong person.]

[rulebreaks]

Yeah, well, I'm dead. [Brightly. No one whines on her watch, except her.]

[likethetragedy]

Oh. [It's no longer terribly surprising to be talking to a dead person with her track record. That's not to say she's totally unsympathetic since Elektra does bother to ask:] Are you coming back?

[likethetragedy]

I keep trying to object so it must be.

[rulebreaks]

Giles says so, but I told him not to tell me anything else.

I get it. The not wanting to be full of futurey knowledge thing.

[soldierfirst]

The knowledge may hurt, but what you choose to do with it is your own. [Ah, but Sephiroth, your situation related to your past, not your future yet.]

[howruthless]

I suppose that's fair. But I still think that it's worth living through, at least.