#are you actively in the fandom or do you just enjoy ck/tkk from the sidelines??

[thorniest-rose]

omg wait I’m the chew toy anon I’m glad you liked it <3 also I’m obsessed with the way you described the cobras as like. extensions of Johnny, because really who are the cobras to Daniel beyond extra sets of hands and mouths for Johnny to sic on him? He knows their names and faces, sure, but when they’ve got him down on the ground between them all, he can’t tell who’s who. There’s a mouth on his throat, another at the thin skin inside his wrist, and teeth nipping dangerously over his femoral artery, and it’s still all Johnny, even as the surprisingly soft voice in question tells him to open his mouth and be good for us, LaRusso. More of his skin is covered with wandering, groping, greedy hands than is free, but it still feels like it’s one on one, not an equal exchange by far but the way things should be. Like. Daniel wouldn’t tolerate Bobby cornering him alone, but suddenly there’s eight other hands grabbing him and he freezes like a fawn in headlights and lets whoever it is push his legs apart til the stretch aches, bracing a hand against someone’s stomach and all five boys individually flex into it. I dunno, I just like the idea of Johnny being the link between them, the arrow pointing from predator to prey, because it’s always gonna be Johnny and His Boys, and Daniel knows that, but it’s also why there’s only one name on his lips, no matter how they all respond to it in the end.

ps. it’s a reach, but do you like kinda. old school punk music, because California Uber Alles by the Dead Kennedys is TKK Johnny to a T just in terms of that militaristic surf punk tone and aggression

GOD okay I posted this morning about how I'd been thinking about this ask since I woke up, and it's true, like I've been thinking about it all day. I think I've read it about 10 times!! Again, are you inside my head?? Because the way you perfectly describe the predator-prey dynamic between Daniel and Johnny is how I always think about them in TKK. Like I don't just think it's just your average bully-victim narrative, I always get the sense that Johnny also likes to hunt Daniel, like it's a blood sport to him, and Daniel is his potential trophy?? That's how I always see their weird, intense, heated dynamic and why Johnny is so drawn to Daniel despite hating him. Like Johnny is laser-focused on Daniel at all times, it really makes me think of a hunter or a predator watching his prey, waiting for the right moment to pounce.

This line from your message in particular has driven me insane today: "there’s a mouth on his throat, another at the thin skin inside his wrist, and teeth nipping dangerously over his femoral artery" ugh god!!!! Like I'm just vividly imagining the way the Cobras would all have Daniel spread out and split between them, like a deer they've caught and are taking their time to devour. And I love the thought of them touching him in this way that's obviously spilling over into something sexual, but that's still a little dangerous? Like the teeth at his throat, and tracing his veins with their mouths and fingers, like Daniel is still very much in danger. But I can see it quickly turning frantic too, making Daniel gag because his mouth is stuffed with fingers, where the Cobras want to feel how wet and pink he is on the inside, and there are more hands clenching around his hips and fingers feeling the spaces between his ribs, and other hands pinning his wrists down. Then there are mouths on his chest and his thighs, sucking dark territorial marks into his skin, using their teeth. Poor Daniel would limp home afterwards (when they do finally let him go) completely covered in bruises and he'd need to hide all of them by wearing jeans and tops with long sleeves so no one sees. He'd be such a mess, covered in bruises and drying spit, maybe with teeth marks in certain places. Tender, sore places he touches later that night and shivers, replaying what they did to him.

And I can just see it escalating really rapidly too, to the point where Daniel's being chased down and cornered by the Cobras every day. And always to enact this dangerous little ritual none of them have put a name to. And they always tease Daniel too, like call him names, and mockingly say how sweet and pretty he is, but it's very obvious that they're addicted to this now and want to touch and taste every inch of him. But at what point is it too much? And will one of them eventually want to stop? Probably not because only Johnny gets to decide what's too much for Daniel and what's exactly enough.

Oh and I have to admit I've never listened to Dead Kennedys before! I don't know much about the era of American punk music!! But I listened to it today and I can definitely see what you mean about it feeling like Johnny. I've never been recc'd a song like that for him before, I love how interesting and insightful that is. Do you have any songs you associate with Daniel? I would love to know!!!