Drifting Along With My Swords Out Flying

[an0ther_dreamer]

Fandom: Daredevil, The Defenders
Subject: Elektra Natchios
Title: Drifting Along With My Swords Out Flying
Warnings/Notes: Spoilers for Daredevil Season 2. 8tracks stream and DL available.

Elektra Natchios is an assassin who was trained under Stick, the same man who later trained Matt Murdock. She was trained by Stick to be a warrior of the Chaste who fight against the organisation of assassins known as the Hand. When Elektra is twelve Stick sends her away to become the adoptive daughter of a Greek ambassador and his wife.

She meets Matt Murdock when they are both at university while she is playing the part of a spoiled, disaffected rich girl at a fancy party. She has been sent by Stick to seduce Matt back into joining the Chaste and their mission. She falls in love with Matt and sees him as a kindred spirit until Matt refuses to kill the man responsible for his father’s death. Elektra then vanishes from Matt’s life.

Ten years later she returns to New York. She wants Matt to help her with industrial espionage and her continuing fight against the Hand. Her methods quickly put her into conflict with him. (She thinks that killing people is okay; he doesn’t.)

They later find out that Elektra could potentially be the Black Sky, the one who is destined to lead the Hand. Elektra decides to help Matt defeat the Hand and she sacrifices herself protecting him in their final confrontation. The Hand then retrieves Elektra's body and performs mysterious rites on it; hoping to revive the Black Sky.

Elektra is a confident, flirtatious killer. She likes her twin sais, orchids and Matthew Murdock.

"The battle has begun, Matthew. There's nothing we can do but fight."
―Elektra Natchios

Swan by Willa
I'm not in love
Don't have the touch
Don't have the time to bend another little church boy's mind again
I'm not an angel
I'm not a Gabriel I'm not a saint, a sage, or someone who'll turn the page for ya
(Oh oh oh, hmm hmm hmm hmm)

I'm not the girl you want
I'm not the debutante
I'm not a swan
I'm not a swan
Pretty in a pond
(Oh oh oh, hmm hmm hmm hmm)



Numb by Marina & the Diamonds
One track mind like a gold fish
Stuck inside my Petri dish
I can't breathe and I can't smile
This better be worth my while

I feel numb most of the time
The lower I get the higher I'll climb
And I will wonder why I got dark only to shine
Looking for the golden light
Oh, it's a reasonable sacrifice
Burn, burn, burn bright



Broken Bones by CHVRCHES
Catch them and kill them
Your only hope is evil
I will not die, I will keep quiet
I will hold you high above
You're on your own
Wait 'till dawn
And then go

No help here from heaven
You're not as real as I am
I will wake up the dark eyes
Until your blood is out



Beggin For Thread by Banks
So I got edges that scratch
And sometimes I don't got a filter
But I'm so tired of eating all of my misspoken words
I know my disposition gets confusing
My disproportionate reactions fuse with my eager state
That's why you wanna come out and play with me
Yeah

Why?
Why?
Why?

Stooped down and out
You got me beggin for thread
To sew this hole up that you ripped in my head
Stupidly think you had it under control
Strapped down to something that you don't understand
Don't know what you were getting yourself into
You should have known
Secretly, I think you knew

I got some dirt on my shoes
My words can come out as a pistol
And I'm no good at aiming
But I can aim it at you



Stop Me by Natalia Kills
Father, father
What have you done, done, done, done?
You made a monster
And now I gotta run, run, run, run

Darling, darling
You know I never meant to drag you down
Standing at the bar with your scars and your lonely heart
So let's leave this dead-end town

If I, if I run away with you tonight, tonight
We could make the wrongs feel right, so right
We could do some damage
Fuck me in the Paris lights

I put my high heels on so I'm closer to God
I put my high heels on so I'm closer to God
Tonight we're gonna dance to the Devil's drum
And I need someone, need someone

To stop me, stop me
Stop me, stop me
Stop me, stop me
You can't stop me, stop me
Stop me



Under A Very Black Sky by Sick Puppies
I had a dream, you had a weapon
I couldn’t see it in the dark of the night
It’s easy to hide
Under a very black sky

Over the Moon, just beyond Saturn
I watched in vain as the missiles took flight
We lost our lives
Under a very black sky

Under a black sky
Under a black sky
Under a black sky

Colors explode under your microscope
But just through my eyes it’s all black and white
I lost my mind
Under a very black sky

We live our lives mostly pretending
You have a secret, you’ll never know mine
I'll wear my disguise
Under a very black sky



Orchid by Alanis Morissette
For this sweet piece of work, high maintenance and deserted
I've been different and deserving
Treated like a rose as an orchid
Sweet piece of work, overwhelmed un-observed
I've been bowed down to, but so misread
Treated like a rose as an orchid



Pink Light by Laura Veirs
Sorry I was cruel, I was protecting myself
Drifting along with my swords out flying
Tattering my own cells and I tattered yours, too
Took you and wrapped you around me like a spell

Oh, how the night drags on, oh
But I think I see a pink light and the coming of dawn
Oh, how the night drags on, oh
But in the fading of the constellations
I am growing strong

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