A bit crack-ish: Matt and Wesley are in the radius of the McGuffin that leaves them young preteens. (Probably Matt trying to get it out of The Wrong Hands, or maybe The Wrong Hands break in on both of them.)
Anyway, Matt has his senses but hasn't had training yet; he knows his dad's dead, though, and now even less of his world makes sense. And rather than cut and run, or figure out a way to spin it to his advantage, the de-aged version of Wesley... turns out to be every bit as loyal and fiercly protective as the adult version. Except he's thrown his lot in with what he sees as someone obviously in the same boat as him: a kid his age who's come unstuck in time. Another orphan. They'd better stick together.
I mean, between that big scary guy with all the black cars, and the gaggle of young lawyers who are chasing the two boys, there's clearly something sinister going on, and that's before you count in anyone with an accent or a badge.
Young Wesley has a healthy distrust of the authorities, and/or adults in general; his story doesn't have to have a center stage, or even be a tearjerker. He could just have been an inconvenient stepson sent off to boarding school; one institution is a lot like another.
What's important is that it's the two of them working together--even if Foggy thinks Matt needs to be rescued, and Fisk assumes Wesley is being held hostage.
Bonus points for: *Matt and Wesley find they have common coping techniques for blindness and for severe myopia with no/wrong glasses *the boys have both learned that if you show weakness you might as well paint a target on yourself; as they become a partnership, things can slip *incorporation of any booby trap from Home Alone *pickpocketing and/or credit card fraud *young Wesley completely ready to fend big, scary Foggy off from Matt with a chair leg if he has to *a third person got hit by the de-aging effect but, not having had a horrifying childhood, went to the nearest authority figure and is now safe and well-fed in front of an Xbox.
De-Aged Matt+Wesley: Orphans on the Run
Anyway, Matt has his senses but hasn't had training yet; he knows his dad's dead, though, and now even less of his world makes sense. And rather than cut and run, or figure out a way to spin it to his advantage, the de-aged version of Wesley... turns out to be every bit as loyal and fiercly protective as the adult version. Except he's thrown his lot in with what he sees as someone obviously in the same boat as him: a kid his age who's come unstuck in time. Another orphan. They'd better stick together.
I mean, between that big scary guy with all the black cars, and the gaggle of young lawyers who are chasing the two boys, there's clearly something sinister going on, and that's before you count in anyone with an accent or a badge.
Young Wesley has a healthy distrust of the authorities, and/or adults in general; his story doesn't have to have a center stage, or even be a tearjerker. He could just have been an inconvenient stepson sent off to boarding school; one institution is a lot like another.
What's important is that it's the two of them working together--even if Foggy thinks Matt needs to be rescued, and Fisk assumes Wesley is being held hostage.
Bonus points for:
*Matt and Wesley find they have common coping techniques for blindness and for severe myopia with no/wrong glasses
*the boys have both learned that if you show weakness you might as well paint a target on yourself; as they become a partnership, things can slip
*incorporation of any booby trap from Home Alone
*pickpocketing and/or credit card fraud
*young Wesley completely ready to fend big, scary Foggy off from Matt with a chair leg if he has to
*a third person got hit by the de-aging effect but, not having had a horrifying childhood, went to the nearest authority figure and is now safe and well-fed in front of an Xbox.