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Would you ever write something where Daniel is at the hospital giving birth to one of their pups…meanwhile Terry is losing his mind waiting until everything is all in the clear and his omega is safe and not in pain. If he’s with someone (John, Betsy, Daniel’s Ma…) also annoying them to death with how on edge and in crazy “Alpha mode” he is. I bet they all secretly want Daniel to hurry up and have the kid so Terry can calm the fuck down. Or maybe Something where Daniel is going (trying to go) to the hospital and Terry is going feral and has to literally be pried off him lmao

"Betsy, you have to go back in there."

Most of the time, he finds her smile endearing. Now it annoys him like an itch he can't scratch.

"Terry, darlin', I don't think they'll tell me anything new. Not since the last four times I checked."

"But have you really checked? Anyone could get to them there, any random Alpha -"

"Is not allowed on the ward, Terry."

"But have you looked. Really looked! John, you know what I mean -"

"I do," he says. "Betsy knows exactly what's she's doing, don't you, doll?"

She puts something in front of him, but he sniffs in disgust. "I don't want tea."

"Ah, now, I don't think you've had a good cup in forever," Betsy says cheerfully. "Sometimes I think your Daniel is refusing to learn on purpose."

"His coffee's grand!" He snaps. "This is America!"

"That coffee's not American," John sneers.

"Only the best coffee in the world, so," Terry shoots back.

"Strong and milky," John says as Betsy puts down another cup of tea in front of him, strokes her arm. "Thank you, love."

"Want a cookie?" she says. "Johnny made them fresh."

How they expect to keep up the ruse that pretty boy's beta is anyone's guess, but it does give him a new angle. "Send him," he says.

"Say what?" John sounds wary.

"Send him to see Daniel." When they don't answer he says, "Oh, come on, he must know some trick."

"No."

"John, you can't keep -"

"Leave my boy out of it."

That's Betsy.

He looks at her. "Did I ask you, darlin'?"

"I don't want him -"

"No, I don't believe I did. John, get that omega of yours."

They're very quiet. "You're outta line, Terry."

He stands up. "I ask you to take care of my mate. My mate!" He looks at Betsy. "And instead you tell me, that he and my newborn pup are safe, but somehow, conveniently where I have no access to them. None."

"Drink your feckin' tea, Terry Silver!"

"What are yis hiding?" He looks from one to the other. "You've never liked him, John, and I've not held it against you, but if someone's messin' with my mate -"

"What, d'you think I want to get that one with pup?" There's no mirth in his laugh at all. "Your Robby is here more often than in his own feckin house because you keep breeding that punk and no one has a second of time for him!"

Betsy gasps. "John! No!"

Terry's smiles. "You're calling him a bad mother?"

"I know he's closer to my Tory than any of his own siblings -"

"Or might it be your Tory that won't leave him alone, huh? Since she has no siblings of her own?"

"Stop it, both of you!" Betsy says. Her eyes are wet with tears. "Daniel is staying in the hospital because this is a seventh pup out of a first litter and he needs a break!"

He laughs. "With respect, Betsy, how would you -"

John knocks him straight in the jaw. "Get out of my house, you gobshite!"

Terry laughs again, wipes the blood off his lip. "Or what?"

"I'll tell him how I found you four years ago," he says. "Try keepin him near ya then -"

"Jaysis, Mary an' Joseph!" Betsy stands behind her mate, holds his arm back. "Terry, we love you, but we don't want to be part of your marriage, do you understand?"

Terry can barely hear her through the panic. He looks to John. "You wouldn't."

"Terry, go. Just go." Betsy turns her head away.

He sniffs. "I want to know what's going on with -"

"Only God can help you there, Silver," John says. "Good feckin' luck!"

And for the first time in his life, John Kreese kicks him into the street.

"John!!!" He screams. "John feckin Kreese, if you dare, there will be no mercy, do you hear me? Not for you, your mate, your pup -"

There's no answer. The curtains close, and across the street he sees faces pulling back from windows. There's only the vague outlines of father Martin's church visible in the distance.

Well, fine. At this point, Terry feels ready to fight Him, too.

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In Old Wounds do omegas of any gender all have p*ssies lol? Asking because Daniel said he bore their kids despite being married to female alpha Amanda. Which makes me wonder do all alphas of any gender have d*cks?

There's very good omegaverse fic where omegas of all genders indeed have a vagina but I can't wrap my head around how that would feel, so in my verse no, male omegas don't have one. Anal gets them pregnant, female omegas can get pregnant both ways.

Female Alphas have breasts and male and female Alphas can knot, so yes, they have dicks. Female Alphas can't conceive, neither can male Alphas. I mean gentic mutations happen everywhere so sure maybe there's an intersex Alpha somewhere who could, but generally, no.

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I watched Million Dollar Baby and there is a line at the end that has "mo chuisle" spoken explaining its meaning and I immediately thought of your great fic Knights and Pawns :D

Thank you! And yes - that's where I got it from, but when looking into it years later, it didn't seem to be proper Irish! Which will happen when people live in immigrant communities and don't grow up with their heritage language as a first language. However, in Knights and Pawns, that's not what happened, it's instead a family endearment very close to Terry's heart.

Thank you so much for thinking of me!

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If someone said that Axel was Terry’s son, I would totally believe it, haha. He gives off Twig vibes with the social awkwardness and the shyness. And of course the interest in a cute LaRusso. But the height, the brown hair, the skill could pass. I even think he has blue eyes!

Zara is a tiny hot olive skinned complete menace and Axel looks like Terry if he had not gone to Nam.

Why do you think Terry recruited them? Also, finally someone who could really do a good kick justice! You can't teach kids things they're not physically built for, but Axel could take Terry's experience to the next level.

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The first Heat that Daniel and Terry spend together was on their honeymoon. Since there were no puppies to break the news to that Daniel was going to have a baby, how were Terry and Daniel with the other after it became apparent that Daniel was with child, and they were going to be parents?

I've alluded to this somewhere these past years, yes it's been years of Knights & Pawns and that is beyond incredible to realise, so a bit of a recap:

Terry is euphoric. He's literally shouting it from the rooftop terrace when he first understands the change in his little mate. Thankfully he's shouting in English which only a handful of people speak. He tries to instruct John on a million things the man is wise enough to ignore (they don't need armed guards posting the bedroom), very protective of Daniel ("Is there a draft? Let me carry you down the stairs. Oh, let me kiss you. Give you anything. Anything at all!") And Daniel in response it blushing and smiling and rather clingy and timid, he's happy when the whole town goes ballistic (Madonna, un cucciolino, bravissimo, ecco il Mama, che carino ragazzo - everywhere they go!) but he has a bit of a breakdown at night. It's so much, even after talking to his Ma and, very briefly, to his Pop on the phone. Can he be a parent? They haven't even really lived as mates, Terry and he. Then Terry cuddles him and reassures him that he'll be the best Mammy ("Mama!") in the universe and he's so proud of him.

Ultimately, in the days that follow, his omega gender really comes into play, because this truly is fantasy stuff - but he very quickly becomes aware of his pup as not only a presence in his body but a little life he's already taking care of. How is puppy doing? Is this OK for puppy? Talking to puppy and reacting and even playing with puppy. He doesn't have much time to question his coming parenthood when he so quickly feels he already is one. (And that is really idealised and not at all how it feels for many people and that doesn't mean anything about what they'll be like as parents, but this is a fantasy in which birth and pregnancy and childrearing is easier without all the dangers and issues people in power like to downplay.)

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Daniel looked adorable and extra bambi this season 😭 It seems like the more frightened he is of Terry, the bambier he becomes! I can’t believe a middle aged man can be this cute, and I can’t believe Terry was able to restrain himself hahaha 😭 😭

Which is exactly what Terry originally fell for, which means this is how they flirt, and some part of me would want to lock these two in a room to either have a great night of lovemaking or talk through what happened 35 years ago but honestly I feel that this is just their adrenaline kick and if Terry wasn't in the picture Daniel would find another thunderstorm to run into. Makes you wonder what he and Amanda get up to to satisfy Daniel's desire for an adrenaline spike. Both Terry and Daniel seem to be feeling rather meh when they're being functional adults. Daniel looks miles better after having escaped a dog cage than after 3 months of kata and running his own business in peace.

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Outside of Daniel and Terry who were great as always, this was a truly terrible season, THE worst lol.

Johnny was truly horrible with his "suPpoRt DeVoN aND mIGgy dUriNG thIS DiFficULt time" but never did ANYTHNG to support HIS OWN SON. Like, he did NOTHING FOR ROBBY. Robby is struggling so badly and has no one to turn to and his OWN DAD is like "lOl roBbY wHooO???" Johnny is a terrible character and has been gaslighting himself and everyone else from SEASON 1! FUCK Johnny!

They ruined Chozen in every way by making him into this drunk, boorish loser who randomly hooks up with the enemy (another flat, annoying character and another poorly written female character). Chozen was so OOC I felt like I was watching badly written fanfic come to life. What the FUCK! I am so sorry, Chozen. You deserved so much better.

Kreese was just plain embarrassing, my god. Every time he was on screen I cringed. He should have died in S5 and I stand by that. Everything he did was mortifying and humiliating. He is way too old to be acting the fool. He needs to be in a retirement home having angry dreams.

Robby...LOL. The writers said fuck you! we don't care about you AT ALL lol! and then he got supremely fucked by the narrative in every single way. God. And of course NO SCENES with him and Daniel because flawed as Daniel was, he did so much for Robby--way more than Johnny ever did for him. Daniel and Robby had wonderful chemistry and the writers are so scared of that.

The Sekai Taikai is boring and overlong and just ridiculous in every way. All the new characters are dull, flat, and have incredibly forced and tropy "chemistry" with the OG characters. They are the definition of Shonen Manga Stock Bullies. They're like parodies of character tropes at this point. If someone told me CK6 was satire, I would have believed them.

S6: Let's make Daniel have an emotional breakdown again because why not hahahaha! BTW, Johnny is cool and perfect and a REAL MAN! BE LIKE HIM!!111!1 Johnny is absolutely not wrong ever, but Daniel is evil and flawed and ALWAYS wrong OF COURSE1!111!!

Annoying little brat Devon gets a pep talk from Johnny (another huge LMAO!!!) and gets away scot free with all she's done?? While Kenny still has to deal with the bullying he'll surely face back home?? What the fuck?

Carmen...DEAR GOD. This is the woman who raised a sweet kid by herself in a new country. She learned a new language, escaped from a terrible man, built a career and took really good care of both her mom and her boy. And then she, responsible, smart, kind Carmen--gets knocked up by a deadbeat, drunk loser who has held a grudge over a high school karate tournament for 30+ YEARS, blames everyone (especially poor Daniel who is his personal punching bag) but himself for how shitty his own life is, doesn't have a proper career or a steady job AT 50+ YEARS OLD, is in and out of trouble constantly, behaves like every negative stereotype of Ugly American even while IN the States, gets (Carmen's) son in trouble, does shit all for his own son, and...THIS IS THE MAN CARMEN GETS KNOCKED UP BY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Carmen, who WORKS IN HEALTHCARE and has ACCESS TO BIRTH CONTROL!!!!! You cannot make this shit up!!!!!!!

This show is truly garbage. It was excellent in S1 and S2, I thoroughly enjoyed S3, S4 and S5 were Karate Star Wars and got stupid (but still entertaining) and S5 it should have ended, peaking with the relationship between Terry and Daniel and the death of Kreese. S6 is embarrassing and cringe.

The best parts were TERRY FUCKING SILVER who is played with such devastating charm and skill by Thomas that you can't help but love him. And he's hot as fuck so there's that too!

Daniel is of course hated by the writers, but that doesn't take away from the fact that HE'S BEEN RIGHT FROM THE START OF THIS FUCKING SHOW and he's a good, kind, sweet, hardworking man who happens to have a quick temper, can be prone to hot-headedness, and be (gasp) less than perfect. Of course, for these oh-so-terrible sins, he must be punished and also constantly fucked by the narrative. Jokes on them, because Daniel can be proven to be right and correct 95% of the time, and remains a decent, good man who can admit when he's wrong (UNLIKE CERTAIN BLOND FUCKS).

I'm just here for Terry and Daniel!

Cobra Kai S6 is a fever dream of how a middle aged man with the emotional range of a young teenage boy would WANT the world to work, not how any human being would reasonably behave. Many men have written stories like this over the centuries and have been called geniuses; many women have written their versions - like Twilight - and have been called airheads, but anyway, it's all pure id at this point. I keep saying that TIG meanwhile writes his own part before signing on, because somehow I keep finding nuances in his character, like a compulsion to repeat his trauma with cages and a deep aversion to killing (which is interesting because I really do wonder what he meant to do to Kreese if not kill him).

You do have to give it to them that there are moments of awe inspiring insanity sprinkled throughout.

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Having to wash cigarette smoke out of your clothes is no longer a thing.

How do you mean sun tanning and lead in gasoline will kill you?

Anti vax movement? ANTI vax movement? You're insane.

Life is so incredibly fast. If you really wanted to know something before you had to go to the library and look it up in physical media. You had pictures of the news maybe once a week in the cinema. Now it's constant and everywhere.

The abundance of consumer goods and yet we have food deserts.

In their day, billionaires built huge public monuments. Now they complain about not getting a hard on during private space trips.

Video games are pretty awesome.

Way less open racism. It's there but at least people in Mississippi don't get lynched for voting.

Exactly what happened during the AIDS crisis?

Mass air travel. Everything about it. When they grew up it was either highly exclusive or military.

GPS is a godsend. They used paper maps and sometimes you didn't arrive for hours. It happened.

Texting, ah, they remember telegrams but they were starting to go out of fashion.

Holy shit we had a black president

Holy shit Nazis are working with the president?

They would have liked to have been involved in the Civil Rights Movement.

Why are there no TRAINS? Also hells yeah bullet trains!

Indoor bathrooms everywhere!!

Women poc senators. Good.

Holy shit Broad Spectrum Antibiotics. But what is MRSA?

Nanosurgery. They agree.

People have vitamin overdosis now? They grew up with ricketts.

No more polio and artificial pancreases? Good.

Oppy the - we went to MARS???

Forget Yugoslavia, can someone explain Pakistan?

They built a Wall in Berlin? For forty years?

Nuclear waste ...?

Decolonisation - good, the US should try it, but what is Zimbabwe?

What, in very broad strokes, is the deal with Cuba? Also China.

No but back up. The Nazis did what? No one is that evil, the Nazis did what?

What is wrong with aspic tho?

Why do you have to take your shoes off before getting on a plane? And why can't you visit the pilot?

No but life goes so fast no one has any time ever.

Music is incomprehensible they weren't even around for Elvis. They would be fascinated by the Sixties though as a gateway to the world they live in now.

Jeans everywhere. Nobody ever wears a hat.

They don't mind that you can't randomly smack kids anymore. They definitely had grumpy neighbors that did that in their youth. Kids that weren't theirs.

I'm writing a story for Steve and Bucky and for research purposes I have a question for fans.

What are things the things that would be new for Steve and Bucky?

From political aspects (Like Yugoslavia no longer exists) to small things for day to day life, like the inventions of microwave.

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I had this idea where the show actually took place in Omegaverse lmao. S6P2 has Daniel as the first Omega Sensei to make it to the world stage. He’s proud that he has been able to come so far despite facing adversity as an Omega in a non-traditional hobby, and hopes to inspire other Omegas, and people in general, to go for their dreams and reject stereotypes of their gender.

…Which is all fine and fancy, except that Alpha Terry is also at the tournament, and is hugely displeased to see Daniel there—mainly because Daniel turned him down a long time ago and Terry has never quite gotten over it. And besides—an Omega putting himself in danger and on display for the Alphas who dominate events such as these? No, he won’t stand for this. Especially considering how good Danny boy smells, how cute he looks in his gi, and how much of a distraction he’s proving for the young, red-blooded Alphas there.

It’s about time someone put that Omega in his place, and Terry is nothing if not a teacher at heart…

This sounds like a delightful setup, Nonnie, I think many'd love to read it! If you'd like my take on it, this quickly devolves into Terry offering Daniel 'protection' in his suite, but there's of course many ways it could play out, so, happy writing!

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What if Daniel had gotten stabbed instead? Do you think Terry would’ve done something?

well who knows what the writer room cretins would think up but i think it would go something like

Terry sees it before anybody else does, and acts on instinct. Of course, Terry's eyes always seem trained on his first, best and most frustrating student, but he's also seen that way of clutching and staggering before.

Stab wound.

Even in the frenzy of the melee he easily makes his way over to Daniel, pushing others aside like dry branches. 

He catches Daniel before he falls, barks to make way in a voice that stops ongoing fist fights dead in their tracks, and eases him quick but gentle onto the mat. The blood is crimson against the white gi and while it is not a surprise, it is a shock to the system. He tears the fabric aside, hopefully later he'll have a private chuckle about how the ever pudique Daniel LaRusso had his chest exposed to the entire Sekai Takai, but not now. Now he commands a blinking teenage boy to hold the wound close, while he rips a strip off Daniel's gi and fashions a tourniquet. 

The youth looks like he's going to puke, but does a passable job. The god damn kids of today. So much potential, but their screens and wealth and eternal peacetime has made them weak and spoilt. 

When Terry was seventeen he was obviously too young to join up, but he'd faked his papers, he remembered the look of the army recruiter who had probably seen right through him but had numbers to meet and had stamped APPROVED all over them. When Terry was nineteen he'd seen enough death and pain to last him a lifetime.

At least, it had prepared him for this moment.

"I'm going to move him, keep holding on. Okay. We're doing good. Someone get his leg. Thank you. Let go now. There."

He vaguely notices the kid throwing up, at least he managed to keep it in until he was away from Daniel. Daniel's face looks white and slack, and Terry notices little chocolate covered freckles. Even like this, he is beautiful. Even in the chaos surrounding them, he is radiant. As always.

It's been barely over a minute or two, and the medic team has made their way over, Terry helps them put him in the gurney. 

"Quick thinking," the paramedic compliments. "army?"

Terry nods, watches as they take him away. 

"Maria," he tells his assistant. "find out where they're taking him. Find out his status. I want ongoing reports. Find out if there's anywhere better. Arrange his removal if that is the case."

"Certainly. Um. Sir. Uh, your jacket."

Terry looks down and realizes he's covered in blood. "Don't worry," he says. "I think even Dennis can handle a dry cleaning order. Get to work."

He looks around. The kid who held the knife, now dropped to the floor, looks ghost pale and shaking. He steps over.

"You," he snarls. "will never compete again. If he dies, you will never see sunlight again. That is a promise." The kid's eye starts to roam but then police arrives, and Terry doesn't have to do anything that might complicate thing even further.

He doesn't sleep until the text message saying "out of surgery, will make full recovery" arrives, and then he crashes.

When he wakes up, he realizes not even Daniel LaRusso will refuse a visit from the man who saved his life, and grins.

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Well, Schlossberg just confirmed they don't see what happened to Robby this season as sexual assault and fans shouldn't either. Isn't it SO great when you have dudebros like them to lecture us on how severely drunk teenagers can consent /s

I would never let a producer in the entertainment industry tell me what is and isn't sexual assault. I mean, when Shirley Temple was twelve years old, she was 'loaned' to another studio for a film and the first thing that happened was, a big Hollywood guy took her into a private office and showed her his naked body (after they had taken away her mother to another office and came on to her). Anything could have happened but I think she did the best thing you can do in such a situation and embarrassed him by howling with laughter. Assault of minors is rampant in the industry, of course they don't want people raising questions about taking sexual advantage of teens. And no, I am not saying Schlossberg himself did but he is part of a culture that still has absolutely no problem with the concept, of course he is echoing those sentiments.

They may not have meant it to be read that way but every writer who thinks they own a story or its interpretation doesn't respect what stories are. Stories are formed and informed by the writer(s) but they are its own beast and affect people in different ways. And when you're ever lucky enough to create something that then inspires others to continue it themselves [Like HE DID!!!], you'll have to live with the fact you never quite own a story. People will take it and reshape it and expand it when they love it enough. Sure, you can say whether or not you agree with an interpretation, you can choose to engage with it or not, but once you send a story out into the world, you're not the only one shaping it anymore. Ask Kamen about the Daniel he'd envisioned. That Danny Webber was an insecure all American kid, not a skinny, sassy Italo-American punk. He had to rewrite it into a musical to get his timid white boy on stage. Authorial intent is not the be all, end all. That doesn't mean that the audience gets to tell the writer what to do, but the writer can as little tell the audience what to do. I'm interested in what writers intend and what they have to say but when it isn't on the page I feel free to disregard it and when it is no one can make me think it's not.

Schlossberg is just some guy. He can tell me what to think but he doesn't control it. As the Germans say: thoughts know no master.

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In Pawnverse is the youngest boy of Terry and Daniel supposed to be Axel Kovacevic lol? If so I could see it seeing how very tall he is haha. But who is Sara?

Her last name of course would be Silver and not Malik, and rather than Zara they would probably spell it with an S. Sara Silver, and watch out - the biggest advantage Samantha has over her for the leadership position is she is 20 years older, but who knows who will eventually run things around town?

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They TOTALLY RUINED Chozen’s character this season 100% shame on the writers. Johnny has been trash since season 3 so that’s nothing new. Robby went through it and his dad still doesn’t care. Also FUCK the creepy Zara scene with him, gross. But Daniel was a cutie patootie as usual, and Silver was the easy highlight, he stole every single scene he was in and looked damn good doing it. What a sexy beast.

Chozen becomes slightly more palatable if you remember the fact that this guy is shown to be properly unhinged when we're first meeting him, though. He's been brought up well but that doesn't negate the fact that he walks around with two sai, just in case, when he is stone cold sober, as a middle aged man. And that is not completely off base for a man who engineered a dramatic entrance in the middle of a dance recital to fight a young tourist to the death.

Then,as now, he could be focused and collected but that guy is always three miliseconds away from going completely feral when he stops trying To Be Normal. And now, with Kumiko's rejection, he stops trying to behave. The differences between S5 and S6 are quite something. And also, more understandable when what he is dealing with is not so much rejection but gay panic. I mean why has he never tried to date anyone but Kumiko? Was she his idea of the closest thing to being with Daniel? Like, them both being in love with Daniel must be almost the same as being in love with each other and as he can't make himself love some girl and cannot be with another boy, well, what's he to do then? He'll be alone forever! The Da Eun storyline was simply written in to give her character something to do. Da Eun's purpose in story I've never understood. She spent half of S5 and S6 with a look on her face that read: what am I doing here?! Her supposed bond with Kreese also seemed rather shallow. So, and no hate on the actress there, but everything about that is going to feel off. I mean I get it from a writing standpoint, she's there, she's hot and she's Asian, so the only thing to do is get her with the Asian guy but. Well.

Why is Robby not super close with Daniel rn? Johnny still doesn't show the slightest bit of interest in him. If you hadn't been told that's his kid, would there have been any sign of a connection between the two? Also, where is his mother? Robby was written as a plot device for three seasons and then they forgot what to do with him. And Tanner plays him as completely disconnected from everyone in his life because of course, you would be, but do Sam and Daniel actually think that boy is OK? Does anyone care that Carmen's baby is his sister, or that his Dad abandoned him in the middle of the World Championships, or that his girlfriend broke up with him and he has no one to talk to? Did Johnny ever even talk tactics? Why is no one stepping up? Yeah Daniel could have tried to give Johnny and Robby some space but he must see that Johnny doesn't see the boy at all. That's his mentee! He should be there for him, when he knows how big an influence both a great and a terrible mentor can have!

But yeah. I loved both every second with Daniel and sexy beast Silver.

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I still can't believe that CK writers decided that Terry and his BDSM plans would get cockblocked by god. I suppose Daniel is too cute and angelic and must be protected at all costs from wicked men!!!

There is a LOT going on in that first sentence, huh? And it's all official CK text! There are some Silverusso truthers in that room. You know apart from Thomas that is.

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Couldn't stop smiling through all of this.

Why can't we all be kinder to each other.

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Daniel is sweet, but becomes sweeter with every pregnancy. Does he still get this way with the last two puppies? Or has that trait gone away now that he’s older?

Anyway I kinda like to think Robby is their only beta child with the last ones an Alpha and the youngest another omega. Maybe either is named Terry/Terri or Daniel/Danielle haha!

I wouldn't call it sweeter - if he got any sweeter, he'd melt. No, Daniel got some of his sass back, he has 4 teenagers to contend with and 2 adult Alpha children (if you squint), and a ten year old, he wouldn't survive. He gets some of his softness back with his baby pups - he's missed that so much!- but they're both more careful now, more measured as parents. They've been through more.

And genetically, another beta is more likely! Terry has no omega parents (though he has omega in his bloodline somewhere) and Daniel's Ma, too, is beta. (then where did his omega come from? Same freak genetics. Alpha pups of aristocracy, who very often came from omega mothers, liked to screw around with the poor people, so a lot of betas especially carry omega genes without knowing it, and they do combine into omega pups at times). Now baby Sara is absolutely Alpha, but baby Alexander is a very strong beta boy! People take him for Alpha, too, but he's far less temperamental and not impulsive at all. He's often the one to keep Sara out of kindergarten scrapes.

And there's no Terry or Daniel jr.

Terry was adamant that none of his children would be named after Italians, to which Daniel said: if I can't name my pups after my parents, they're also not going to be named after their parents! Ah, but... Anthony? Well, who brought them together, moreover, who kept them together in Sicily? That's right, Terry, and he's also the one who forbade half the town from killing you, so Anthony it is!