"We haven't met, but I respect a man who carries a sword bigger than he is." Elektra would adapt the same strategy honestly. She's a ninja, after all. She didn't win battles as a child by playing fair. You have to play to win.

It does pain her that Hawke lost at one point. There is a weighty pause before she blows past that. After all, it's her fate to die too. "I was twelve. I think you'd notice if a little girl befriended you instead. I wasn't nearly as pretty then as I am now." So humble.