If anything, I really feel as though that episode cemented the fact that despite their lingering feelings for one another, Matt and Karen are capable of being 'just friends'.
Frank and Karen are not. They will never be able to be around one another without emotional devastation following because their feelings are that strong. There is no such thing as ~casual~ for them, they can't just meet up for diner coffee and gossip because they can't pretend they don't want each other. Frank can't even look her in the eyes without laying his soul bare! There is no reality in which these two people are just casual buddies.
I think they will continue to be in each other's corner, but Karen walking away really cemented that she can't do the halfway in, halfway out thing that she can do with Matt. It's all or nothing.
Either Frank lets her in and the two of them are together for real, or she can't be in his life.
When I say I want yearning I mean I want Karen and Frank.
I don’t want a mere 200 pages of bickering and now they’re married.
No I want Frank and Karen. I want years of slow burn and pining with no kissing, just hugging and relationship building and bonding and YEARNING
That’s what I mean when I want yearning.
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He got a shave and a haircut because he knew Karen was gonna be back in sight soon and he didn't want her pulling that ol' hipster joke from her back pocket in front of Matt.
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they even had frank jealously prowling around while matt and karen talked like. i feel delirious. I didn't think we could win this much.
frank castle's nose.
One thing I am sad that they didn't bring up in the final is Karen's feelings about Matt taking a bullet for Fisk because Fisk is someone who has ruined her life and Matt's life countless times and you can't tell me she would have nothing to say about it and I understand that is why she came back but you aren't even going to show her reaction to it all and I don't understand why they couldn't have brought it up but I did find it interesting that Frank was the one who asked him why he did it
you asked me for a favor. i did it.
i hate love triangles but frank has been jealous of whatever isn’t going on between matt and karen for the better part of a decade and if this storyline forces him to finally confront those feelings? to admit that yes, he does want an after and he wants it with karen? to take his own advice and use two hands and never let go? delicious
i need him cold trembling and delirious from blood loss but still kinda bouncing on it