#Daniel Larusso's father

[msfbgraves]

Daniele takes Pop's hand. The skin is a little thinner with age, but the man's grip is still firm as ever.

He clears his throat. “We'll bring you home, Pop. In the end.”

His father looks at him. “What are you talking about, caro?”

He looks down. “Terry brought over his whole family. Parents, sister. Everyone.”

Pop raises his eyebrows. “Your mate is not a reasonable man.”

“It's possible,” Daniel says. “Especially with planes nowadays. I'm just saying...”

“There's nothing for me there, Amore.” He stares a bit longer, though, the salt on his cheeks not just from the wind or sea. “Besides. I'm not dying.”

“No – Pop –”

His father cuddles him closer. “Want me to leave it all to Miguele?” Another raised, ironic eyebrow. “He still wants it too much, porca miseria.”

Daniel blinks. “I thought he...”

“I had no shoes to fill,” Pop says. “It's a burden I can't help him with. But it won't give him what he needs.”

Daniel's still. “And what is that?”

Pop strokes his hair. “You did good, caro, bringing him Apollonia.”

He blushes. “Come Pop, I -”

“You did. But it isn't enough.” Pop turns away, stares even further out over the sea. “Luigi already has his kingdom. Vanessa needs the whole world at her feet. You -” He turns back. “You are the best of me.”

Daniel squirms away. “I don't want -”

Now Pop actually laughs. “Dai, no – oh Dio!”

In spite of everything, Daniel feels a little offended. “I can think, Papa.”

Pop embraces him. “I know. Oh, cuorocino.” He keeps laughing, though. “Don Silver!”

“Yeah, yeah,” Daniel says, but doesn't break the hug. Pop's hand slips to his belly. “Who knows, hm? Maybe this is Don Silver?”

Daniel leans back a little bit. “No. No Pop, I want my puppies to live...” And suddenly he clings to the man, hot tears streaking his face. “Papa, please talk to Yasmin, please, I can't go to her wake too...”

“I have,” Pop says. “And I will. But I can't take what's in her blood – ”

“Then why did you give me to him?!” Daniel pulls himself loose, walks along the shoreline. “You knew it's what I hated most, you knew and you did it, and now my puppy's being shot at-”

Pop embraces him and lets him thrash, but Daniele isn't satisfied. “Why did you do it?”

“Mi caro figl-”

“No!” Daniel spits. “If you love me so much, why did you do it, why did you think you could -”

“I was weak -”

“You aren't weak!” Daniel shouts. “You're never weak, you can't be weak -”

“Why not?”

“Because then who will protect me?”

Pop takes his hand, points at the Claddagh ring. “Your mate.”

Daniel just snarls. “Don't you know what he's done?”

“Certo.” Daniel sees his father tear up. “I didn't think he would. Or could. Not a bonded mate.”

“But he did.”

“Lo so, Amore.”

“And?!”

“I underestimated him.” Daniel scoffs, but Pop holds up a hand. “We cannot reason with madness, Daniele. You have the only power that will keep that man in check.”

More tears spill out. “Some power -”

“The greatest power on earth.”

“I can't even protect my pup!”

Pop cocks his head. “You could. If you found a way to force her.”

Daniel feels ice cold. Pop tilts his chin up with a finger. “Do you want that, figlio mio?”

He shakes his head.

Pop nods, kisses his cheek. “Andiamo, then. It's getting late.”

[bonsai-babies]

The horrors persist, but look at them

[koolaidjamm3rs]

Rewatched the karate kid n then thoguth of a headcanon that mr. miyagi taught daniel how to make onigiri

(i do NOT know how to draw old ppl💀💀)

[skarkkk]

It was fucking rape. That's my fucking point of view.

What do you mean he liked it? What do you mean it was cheating? What do you mean I like her?

It was rape, there is no other interpretation other than rape.

Robby lived with two addicts and yet he was abandoned in a bar with free access to alcohol, and that's where it started.

He got drunk for the first time, he drank for the first time and he has no resistance to alcohol because he stays away as best he can for the simple fact that his parents were addicts who never cared about him. So he wanted to forget what was happening, to repress all of this and he turned to alcohol because where else would he go when everyone didn't give a damn about him, or his situation with Tory or his emotions? Where else was he supposed to go when his example of dealing with emotions is aggression and addiction? So he drank. He drank to a level where he couldn't formulate a response, a sentence, when Kwon came to talk to him and provoke him, and we know that if he was sober he would have done something. It was obvious on his own face listening to Kwon that he was spaced out, drunk, and then Zara approached him. And took him to her room, from where he came out the next morning. No memory of the night before, a headache, and still looking out of it, as we can see when she kissed him and he didn't even react to it. The level of alcohol this requires is the level of alcohol that prevents someone from giving consent.

— I barely remember last night

— Good thing I do

Can we see the exact connotation that something happened? That she actually took advantage of the boy who couldn't speak to give consent, who couldn't think to say no, who was too drunk for this to be acceptable? The fact that she shows no remorse whatsoever for this happening and yet kisses him again.

Besides the fact that the writers themselves are treating it like it's some kind of cheating with Tory, the characters themselves acting like he's not a vulnerable person being raped by someone who knows better?

I hate her and I hate the writers for making this like it's nothing. I don't want to be that girl, but being that girl, if the roles were reversed, would this be in the show? Would this be treated that way? Or would they actually treat it like the SA situation that it is?

From the beginning, you can see her interest in Robby - starting with that scene in the captains' photo shoot where she talks to Tory. She knows he's in a relationship. All those teasing scenes with Tory. Her taking advantage of Robby. Then the fight scene.

— You chose her over me?

Like, girl, what the fuck did you expect? He doesn't know you, he doesn't like you, you raped him and you're going after his girlfriend - the person he loves? How high is your ego to even consider that he would choose you? Axel's obsession with Sam I can understand more, although I still have my doubts. She was the first person to understand and see his situation with his sensei, she was friendly and he developed a protectiveness towards her. Although his attitude towards Miguel was wrong, he didn't rape Sam or act like a bitch towards her.

Iron Dragons and their obsession with the Miyagi-Do captains.

Zara Malik and the fact that she raped Robby Keene.

[robbyykeene]

Me, champion of the Let Robby And Daniel Hug movement, when there is a single, split second moment of closeness and familiarity between them

[danielslaw]

DANIEL LARUSSO AND SAMANTHA LARUSSO HUGS THROUGH THE SERIES COBRA KAI

[soupforsoup]

Yeah I'd love to make new and original content but unfortunately there's only so many ways that I can say how the opening scene in 1x07 where Daniel's training Robby in the home dojo makes me scream and cry and claw my eyes out

[skyf0ckz]

How many times have I said I'd do a sketchbook tour and STILL haven't? Yall..it's coming I swear.

Anyways have a Nun!Johnny bc I watched immaculate(2024)

[21kmoonz]

Anthony : Someone’s trying to break in. Call the cops! Johnny : loads shotgun I got this. Anthony : Last week you fell up the stairs, what do you mean-

[merv606]

If this ain’t Daniel and Samantha LaRusso I don’t know what is.

Accurate.

Father’s daughter 🥰

[zappedbyzabka]

Happy Father’s day everyone!

[msfbgraves]

The cruelest thing Daniel’s Pop ever did was make him go back/playing with his feelings so that he’d go back to Terry after the rape, knowing how hurt and scared Daniel was. Using his 18 year old son to save the family via marriage to a murderer was bad, this was way worse. Pop is an interesting character, but a horrible person. Great story btw!!

I see how it can read that way, Nonnie, and if my parents would do something like Daniele's Pop does, I think it would be straight up cruelty. But I don't completely agree. You know how mobsters never say anything outright? The implication here is, "You want him dead, caro? Say the word, he's dead. You won't have to do it, or be implicated or even be sure that's what happened. But I will kill him for you, and you can come back home. Except I'm not sure that is what you want deep down." Because it's not, his Daniele wants a divorce. And that cannot happen. It would weaken the power of marriage as a political tool, but more importantly, as this is aboverse - Terry wouldn't stand for it. It would mean war. A hell of a lot of killing. Amanda says the same. Would the kindest thing have been to grant him that divorce anyway and help him hide? Sure, if he could pull it off, but this beautiful young man would be preyed on by Alphas and betas alike. It's not feasible, the pups could get hurt, it's all kinds of trouble. Also, if Daniele does not want him dead - and Antonio is more than willing to kill, as is Michael - isn't there something left they could at least try to build on? He'd take his son and his pups in, of course, but ultimately he'd have to wed him to someone again, there would be too many suitors to hold off forever... It's do or die, and that's what Daniel resents. He's more American than his Pop. Individual happiness can trump the concerns of the whole family structure in his head. To both his parents that's unthinkable. Family is everything. Everything. The only safety that exists. And if that means sacrificing some individual happiness, that's a price you'll have to pay for the unconditional belonging. Even canon Daniel isn't above that. Sure, Louie is a pain in the ass but he's family. Vanessa's family and if he has to bring them to California to have them near it's what you do. If Lucille has to drop her whole life to nurse Louie sr. she does. But in this story Daniel rightly asks: what's in it for me? How much personal happiness can I sacrifice before I can't bear it anymore? But he has an infant with this man, a toddler and three young children, whom he loves above all else. He can see in Michael what happens when that loyalty and warmth isn't there, or at least not enough of it to curb the ego. It's terrifying to Daniel. Still, loyalty has a cost, and so does love. It's a choice mothers face the world over. If he'd up and left - left the pups, left his family, everyone would think he was the monster. Society can make it so there are no good choices and yes, I think about the toll of a loving family too. It's not all Sunday dinners and warm hugs.

Still I understand where his Pop is coming from. To him, the family is worth almost any price and he's just lucky as the patriarch, other people pay it. He wasn't always, though. He's done unspeakable things to build a sanctuary and fight his way out of poverty, for himself and his wife and pups, for his brother, his neighbors, his countrymen.

[bonsai-babies]

Nothing to see here, just a proud father of two

[secretsandwritinggs]

Johnny: When someone points at your black clothes and asks whose funeral it is, having a look around the room and saying 'Haven’t decided yet' is typically a good response.

Robby: *nodding* Noted!

Sam: See that dad, they can get along quite nicely!

Daniel: …

[terrence-silver]

how do you think terry would react to beloved having a child who trains at miyagi-do or doesn't like cobra kai?

---

Why do I think Terry Silver would...just try and buy Miyagi-Do?

You know, buy it? Like someone buys a car? Or a watch? Or an expensive suit? His child likes Miyagi-Do? His stepchild? His ward? His whatever? Guess what? Terry Silver immediately starts making plans how to acquire this franchise and pretty much...you know, give it to his offspring like it's a mere thing. Why? The sole reason his kid likes something is enough reason for him to have an innate and almost burning desire to do this for them, and he would, if push came to shove, try to make this into a reality by any means necessary, no matter how long it took. Spreading around rumors to damage the rival dojo's reputation? Maybe someone mysteriously starts gossip how Miyagi-Do discriminates on the basis of...literally whatever to fuel some fake outrage? Sabotage the business so they lose students and by extension, money? Goodness gracious, does he have to go the route of paying someone to go as hilariously low as tipping off Sanitary Inspection on the place due to a termite infestation on dojo grounds (which he may or may not have personally planted to entire devalue the property to the degree the Larussos would be forced to sell?) Use a strategic middle man when conducting the purchase so nobody would immediately know he's the one actually buying the property? Tactics he'd utilize are as varied as human imagination and you'd be shocked what a man can achieve when he has money to blow and he's willing to step over literal corpses to get what he wants. Regardless, Terry's child gets Miyagi-Do. All of it. Every rock. Every stone. Every bit of hallowed legacy. Terry gives it to them and by extension, to himself, like a war trophy.

Now, they can train at that place to their heart's desire.

Quite literally go and knock themselves out.

The offense Terry takes at his kid not preferring Cobra Kai as a dojo option isn't as huge or as pronounced as one would think it is in this situation; not when you consider it's massively overshadowed by the triumphant, gleeful joy that he can go and turn whatever place he touches into Cobra Kai too --- especially Miyagi-Do, perhaps the very antithesis of everything Cobra Kai stands for. Oh, if that old coot that trained Daniel all those years ago could rise from the grave right about now and check out the new state of things, would he be in for a surprise or what! Heck, the very look on Daniel and Amanda Larusso's faces once they realize it's actually him who bought the place and not someone else is enough to fuel him for the rest of his life. And in Terry's own words vaguely paraphrased, he can utilize the literal legacy of these grounds for mulch, all while giving his kid the gift of a lifetime at the same time. His kid --- they don't like Cobra Kai? Well, guess what? Anything Terry Silver sets his eyes on is and can be Cobra Kai, whether they realize it or not. He could buy out a whole mall tomorrow and turn it into exactly the very same thing too. Can't ran from what you are. It keeps following you regardless of the color of your Gi.

Once Terry Silver's done buying out Miyagi Do, though...

The Larusso Car Dealership could be next.

[yenforfairytales]

Thinking about Terry Silver as a dad. Specifically with a baby. You know he would fall into baby talk like

-picks up baby anthony-

Terry: "Look at you! Did you kick Mr. Miyagi in the face? Yes you did. Yeshyoodid."

Daniel: "He laughed while he did it."

Terry: "Did you laugh?? Did you strike first??"

Daniel: "Pff. It was sneaky. He gets that from you."

Terry: "Nooo. We're not sneaky. We use our brains! Go for the eyes and throat, don't we? Don't we?"

Daniel: ಠ_ಠ