Stick's training was great and all, but as a teenager/young adult he had access to a lot of other things. He discovered sex and later drugs.
...I would like a Matt that's in a really dark place by the time Foggy comes into his life. Able to function and do his school work but with not very good coping mechanisms when he "needs" it.
And Foggy discover it and then kind of quietly helping him find less destructive ways.
(Or what he thinks are, less destructive means not knowing that while Matt's been training, he decides to seriously THROW HIMSELF INTO IT at this point since Foggy doesn't like the other means and Foggy is his friend)
Matt's college years, sex and drugs
...I would like a Matt that's in a really dark place by the time Foggy comes into his life. Able to function and do his school work but with not very good coping mechanisms when he "needs" it.
And Foggy discover it and then kind of quietly helping him find less destructive ways.
(Or what he thinks are, less destructive means not knowing that while Matt's been training, he decides to seriously THROW HIMSELF INTO IT at this point since Foggy doesn't like the other means and Foggy is his friend)