in my head, for Real Boy mike, i like to think that in this separate, new reality, throughout mike's Real childhood (and life), there was still a continuous gnawing feeling that something wasn't quite right and it wasn't up until the point where this made up but still very much real reality kind of converged with the current canon and suddenly mike woke up on the floor of an abandoned apartment crying, that this constant gnawing feeling started to make sense to him: he isn't an entirely Real fucking person
because, also, when you think about it, a mike-less reality only exists to us, the readers of daredevil comics now. like if matt & mike were to ever read daredevil comics it would be their only exposure to a world without them existing as twins but i think about the fact that matt probably has a really weird inherent disconnect when it comes to his relationship with mike but at the same time cannot separate himself from mike in his head. do you understand what i mean? like i bet when matt, throughout this Real Boy mike childhood and even throughout his adult life, probably has trouble knowing when he ends and mike starts but also often neglects to think about mike as his own person. and this is probably so normal to him that he doesn't question it but he just doesn't know this issue exists because once upon a time mike wasn't a real person and he is inherently parts of matt made hyperbolic then stitched together
