Matt carries regrets so heavy that it sometimes feels like they'll crush him but he knows that he has to live with those choices. He sees the ways that his decision to put on a mask caused a butterfly effect of destruction in his life but it doesn't mean that he would have gotten a happy ending without it. Probably not. He just would have been less prepared for a fight that feels like it was inevitable.

"Yeah, of course you would've," he replies, smiling faintly over the brim of the mug. "What else did you want to be as a kid? Besides a priest. You know, before my accident, I thought I might have to join the army to get an education. We were poor and I knew a kid whose dad went to school on the GI Bill. Can't quite picture me that way." Swings and roundabouts.