#chozen: .....show me quietly.

[yenforfairytales]

Mike, running into the room: DANIEL--

Chozen, whispering: SHHH! Daniel-san is sleeping

Mike, also whispering: Oh, sorry

Chozen, still whispering: What is it?

Johnny, who was just behind Mike, whispering calmly: There's a fire

[variousqueerthings]

The Karate Kid/Cobra Kai Star Trek AU ideas...

@phantomcomet talked about a Star Trek AU and then I went too far in writing this post imagining some roles in Star Trek. I’ve stuck to the adults from TKK/CK and maaaainly envisioned characters through the lens of Starfleet (although not only). 

Anyway, here’s some thots! Any Star Trek/CK fans add more!

First things first: I did not think of a name for the starship Miyagi’s captaining, so I’m just calling it Miyagi’s ship for now. (The Bonsai doesn’t seem like a ship name really. The Crane Kick not so much either... The Cobra totally works though... anyway, someone have some ideas?)

Miyagi: Captain of the ship (later an admiral and then retires to take care of his bonsais). Obviously has a soft spot for Daniel, whom he probably spotted doing some whiz-kid stuff on a shitty, broken down civilian ship and took onboard. You know, you probably don’t even have to mess with his backstory that much to make it fit, he grew up on a planet on the outskirts of the Federation and saw some shit and is doing good, a la similar to Kirk’s backstory. He’s experienced abandonment from the Federation, so he may work within the system, but he’s fucking with it at every turn he gets and does what he thinks is right (a la Sisko. If Kirk and Sisko had a baby? Strange thoughts, but tell me I’m wrong).

Daniel: Engineer. Low key kind of a prodigy with engines. Engineers aren’t as often officer-class (unlike science/medicine and command, which I believe always are), so I can see Daniel coming into that from a less privileged space – definitely not the Academy – and initially butting heads with Johnny (as well as a bunch of others). He’s not head of engineering, but he works for the Lead Propulsion Engineer. Also he talks to the warpcore. You know he does. All the time.

Johnny: Security Babey! Also backstory is maybe he was trying to get into a command situation onboard a different ship led by Captain Kreese and he was the golden boy, but things went South when he was pushed to doing something he didn’t feel right about, so he was demoted for something bad that he’d done on Kreese’s orders and then couldn’t let go of. And he brings that baggage aboard Miyagi’s ship.

At this point people joke about Miyagi taking on lost causes and strays…. (but never to his face).

Ali: Doctor, of course! Did everything by the book and sometimes dreams that she’d let go of her parents expectations and could go out and do something outside of Starfleet. I feel like she might’ve studied with Johnny at the Academy and for a short while been onboard Miyagi’s ship with him and Daniel, but gotten transferred into a more specialised field at some point (chasing the dream).

Kumiko: Okay there’s three different things I see for her

1. Presumably this is a galaxy-class/exploration ship (similar to the Enterprise) and so civilians are also onboard. If Kumiko isn’t with Starfleet, maybe she was using it as transport as an incredibly famous dancer and there’s a whirlwind romance that can’t last vibe.

2. if Starfleet, definitely in Command somewhere. I kind of love her for a first pilot/flight pilot.

3. Command. Even if she’s not in Starfleet I can see her having command of her own ship: Quietly competent, but steely in conviction and capability, that’s her!

Kreese: Used to be a Captain, but quietly was ousted from Starfleet during an internal investigation that showed up a lot of problems during his command and even before that. Star Trek has depicted war, and bigotry, and I think Kreese would probably have some dirty laundry there (some of which hasn’t been uncovered). Still bitter about losing his command and losing Johnny and has some personal business with Miyagi that he puts on Daniel, like in the movies.

The OG Cobras: They were all on Kreese’s ship originally, but dispersed after the incident with Johnny. I wonder if only Bobby stayed on, studying intergalactic faiths and assisting in various first communications and interchanges.

Someone help me out with Jimmy, Tommy, and Dutch. Continue on in Starfleet, yay or nay?

Yukie: I caaannot see her as Starfleet. She obviously grew up with Miyagi on that planet and I feel like she’s heavily involved in the rebuilding efforts and has been her whole life. She’s traveled to earth multiple times to petition for relief efforts, and is incredibly anti-war – there’s a whole department dedicated to her work – wait is Yukie basically some hotshot activist who condemns Federation Neo!Colonialism… I feel like… that’s poetic… also you know where Kumiko gets her calm competence from!

Sato: I mean he’s some big-shot admiral while Miyagi’s still Captain and they have History! I think Sato bought into the Federation a lot more and is consistently angry at Miyagi’s choices and wants to initially trip him up, but he just can’t. And eventually they find themselves back home and patch things up – it’s the intergenerational environmental Trauma babey. You need to go back to the source to begin to heal.

Chozen: Speaking of intergenerational trauma… I mean, he’s gone through the Academy, he’s wound up as a combat pilot/second pilot on a great ship, (in this Sato isn’t captaining a ship, he’s risen in the ranks, but he’s pulling strings), he’s going through it. Unsure of what actually would happen, but I like him for combat pilot as a counterpoint to Kumiko’s flight pilot. Poetic.

Terry: OOOOKaaaay, who the heckening is Terry Silver in this? In canon I already HC him as almost a ghost, so how does that translate here? He’s an intergalactic crime boss, he’s got 50 different stories told about him (he’s an augment like Khan, he’s worked with Borg, he’s got contacts throughout the Federation, he came from the Gamma Quadrant) – only Kreese marginally knows him and knows he used to be an ensign, but before that… even he’s not sure…

Barnes & Snake: They work for Terry… do you think he’d do a longterm con of getting his own people into Starfleet through the Academy? I feel like he would. Officer Class, except Snake probably wound up in lowgrade security, I cannot see him having the brains to move that far up the ladder. I’m inventing a whole conspiracy now…. or maybe Terry hired Barnes after he got kicked out of the Academy, hmmm...

Jessica: I want her to be Science Class, so that’s what she is. Research and Development. Social sciences and Xeno-archaeology. She makes and collects gifted pots.

Carmen: She’s a nurse. I feel like she also came through in an unconventional way, possibly studying nursing in a civilian capacity and worked on civilian ships for a few years, using it as payment for traveling with her mom and her kid. Then, eventually, ends up on the same Starship as Johnny and Daniel and Co. (and now I kinda want to see her training under Ali, but in my head Ali left before Carmen entered the picture).

Rosa: I feel like the Diaz family didn’t grow up on earth – I’m aware that this puts people of colour mainly off-earth, but I’m thinking about Star Trek’s earth-metaphor as “paradise” (DS9) while it lets all the nasty stuff happen outside, which is… very similar to “first world/third world country” rhetoric + how in Karate Kid and Cobra Kai first Miyagi and then the Diaz family are immigrants. I think Rosa Diaz would get on with Miyagi – like a type of Guinan and Picard situation, where she’s definitely a civilian, but constantly ends up on conversation with the Captain and he’s not quite sure what exactly her history is. Also I’m imagining a lil toddler-Miguel on a big starship.

Amanda: Similar to Kumiko I can see Amanda in a lot of places – administrative? Officer class? Intelligence officer/analyst? Bridge crew? Captain-in-training? What are we thinking here? Also I wonder about her past, but that’s something I do in canon as well. I kind of like the idea that she’s worked incredibly hard for what she has, putting herself through the Academy, presenting the front of someone who grew up with giving parents on the “Paradise” of earth, but actually she didn’t…

[martian-martian-martian]

For the “send me a fandom and i'll say:” Cobra Kai

 You magnificent person, of course! favorite female character: Carmen + Rosa. Every time they’re on screen I lose it. Closely followed by Aisha and Moon. Now THERE’S a crack ship.  If we were judging the entirely of Karate Kid Canon, I would say Kumiko and Daniel’s mom <3 favorite male character: There’s only room in this heart for Johnny Lawrence, sir. Followed by Miguel. I...I love Miguel. So much. 

If we were judging the entirely of Karate Kid Canon, I would say Mr. Miyagi and young Daniel <3 least favorite female character: breathe if Tory sucks, lol. the most unnecessary fuckin’ character, perpetuating girl v. girl hate as a negative stereotype about female relationships AAAAAAAAAAA the ONLY thing I like about her is how sexy she is which is very and also i like the idea of Kreese having a female evil protege and their ‘kill rapists’ dynamic. But that’s IT.  least favorite male character: Anthony LaRusso could fall in a manhole and Daniel would quietly slide the workers who left it open a 20 dollar bill. The writers said, should we give this child one singular redeemable trait? Maybe put a glimpse of the old, adorable Daniel in his younger days? Haha, no <3 favorite ship: Of all time, gotta give it to Johnny/Carmen. Swiftly followed by Lawrusso, followed by Daniel/Kumiko, though I’m warming up to him and Amanda once she developed some character. I’m bi, okay, I can love the homoerotic fights and the found-family tenderness! THEY BOTH CAN EXIST! 

Binary Boyfriends is of course iconic, but I also, unpopular opinion, don’t entirely hate Yasmine and Demitri, I think it’s cute that he’s gettin’ some. 

Chozen/Daniel also fucking slaps for some reason I kind of dig it. 

Other than that, I can’t choose between Sam/Robby or Sam/Miguel but both kind of had their time and got kind of ruined so thats a mad bummer. 

Same with Hawk and Moon, I really thought they were sweet and cute actually and had a lot of potential but she did the right thing and now she’s a bi-con, yaaaaas! 

least favourite ship:

Tbh, any of the ones that have, like, no onscreen evidence or even interaction.

Besides that: 

Robby/Miguel, though it’s hilarious as a crackship, but i just see hate, no chemistry. They’re so much better as brothers.  

Johnny/Bobby or any of the OG cobras, I just don’t really see it. if you want 80 homoeroticism, Lawrusso is RIGHT THERE. Although the guys having a crush on eachother is okay I just don’t see it as endgame yknow?

 Johnny/Shannon is funny as shit because they are legit so terrible for eachother. I’d love to write them just to go into how they bring out the absolute fucking worst in eachother. 

 tory/miguel because she’s so out of his league attractive-wise and he’s so out of her league...like, MORALITY wise. not saying miguel isn’t hot, he IS, but Tory has the vibes of like a 22 year old trying to get her GED and Miguel is a literal niño.

kreese/literally anyone you think that man deserves love, fuck you. double fuck you fi its any of his students, I will dig two graves. 

film/tv show rating: For ironic campy humorous casual viewing: 11/10 For actual high-quality plot, dialogue, and character: 6/10 (needs work here and there) Whatever the fuck was going on with the entire LaRusso family being pointless and one dimensional as shit for two goddamn seasons: -10000000000/10

edit: WHY DID IT CORRECT TO FUMIKO ITS KUMIKO

[captain-ed-tucker]

The True Maniac Cont.

What do you mean?"

"Why are so you desperate to join Neberdine?"

"I am addicted to one of your drugs that is undergoing a closed trial, and I really, really need it badly."

She smiles sadly and emphatically and responds

"As long as it doesn't hurt anybody, I see no harm in it."

The next week, the intercom calls out

"Daniel LaRusso for the ULP Phase III intake exam at room four."

I'm ushered off to a plain, sterile room, everything here is so fucking sterile, it drives me nuts, I hate this place so much, I wonder why I even spent so much money in the first place. Soon I'm strapped up to a machine that is reading my heart rate, my oxygen rate, my blood pressure and everything that can be measured, it all feels so unnecessary, apparently, this is what they call a polygraph test and is used to test defense mechanisms. The first picture is a bottle of pills and I respond

"Happy. Super happy."

The woman reminds me

"Take your time, no need to rush."

The next picture shows a family and I can only imagine what I once had, before I lost it all and I reply

"Empty."

Another picture is of a inkblot picture, a father and a son and I reply

"A father and a son...making faces at each other."

The protocor reminds me

"Try to describe with a feeling."

I merely reply

"Alone"

And she then says "I want you to now turn your attention to me as I ask you this final question."

I can hear the clicking and whirring as the needle moves up and down steadily and suddenly a buzzer sounds and a red light is illuminated and she then says

"The test is complete, you may now return to the waiting area."

I'm mad, mad as hell and I yell

"This is fucking bullshit! You rigged it! What was the question?"

The protocor leads me out as I scream

"This is bullshit and you know it! PATRICIA LUGO!"

The woman turns around and begins

"No no no! No more favors! I have bosses around! Go!"

I'm mad all right and I add

"You promised to funnel me through!"

"I got you through the consideration for the intake! You failed the exam, now it's out of my hands! Go! My bosses are watching!"

I know it's a low blow, that I'm sweeping her leg and I have to strike first, to strike hard and to show no mercy and here goes:

"Patricia I know where your daughter is, her name is Usnavy and she goes to Hunter College and I know a man with a white van who will kidnap her."

For a second, a panicking look flashes on her face and she adds

"You are kidding!"

"Nope! I'm just goal oriented."

And she taps her fingers onto the table top before raising her hands in surrender and adding

"Just five minutes, please don't hurt my daughter."

I storm off and sit down and before I know it, I see Johnny Lawrence, oh fuck, well then. He looks tired as hell and hasn't slept for years at all, his hair is graying and turning white, his golden locks are almost gone, he has changed dramatically since I beat him at the tournament. He looks just as stunned as I am but niether of us says anything as Patricia comes over and hands me the number 7 badge and I'm in! Yes! Yes! Yes! I'm in and all I have to do is take the drugs and get cured...maybe. Soon the head Nurse Carl leads us and scans our badges and leads us to the elevator and lucky me and Johnny, we are the Odd numbered candidates, fun. Real fun.

End of part four

Oh...great, you have got to be shitting me all over again! Not only is LaRusso there, he is in the same experiment as I am and in the same fucking group. I'm number one so I stand at the front and I recive my Neberdine uniform and shoes as Carl reads aloud the rules and they are tough and I groan as my bags are checked and handed back to me. I then shove them in the drawer below the hexagon shaped pod where I am assigned to sleep, it's labeled "One" and I get in and get dressed, I look like a mental patient from the days of when I had been hospitalized in a psychiatric ward, I saw you there and you took amusement at my situation and grinned as I screamed and cursed out nurses while strapped down in a gurney all by myself, screaming for my mom as my step dad Sid insisted I was crazy, that I was mental, and that it was a fitting ending for me.

LaRusso glared daggers at me and suddenly York strode by and added

"That man is your handler. Follow him, he will help you save the world."

"York, what the fuck are you talking about? LaRusso is the same guy I bullied back in high school, not to mention the fact that he beat me in the tournament!"

York walked back and snapped

"You wanna save the world?"

I nod, my body is shaking as he adds

"Then stop this nonsense of the perpetual rival, it will help you nowhere! Understood?"

I nod and I reply

"I am tired of being the chosen one York."

"Well guess what Johnny Lawrence, you don't have a fucking choice! You are destined to save this world, whether you like it or not!"

I nod again and he is gone, and when I turn around, LaRusso's jaw drops and shakes his head before adding

"You're a fucking nutjob, you know that Johnny."

I roll my eyes, like hes the one to speak at all considering the fact that he came here, to this Neberdine bulding of all places. I sigh and soon we sit down and they make us watch a video on how our trial will proceed. According to the video, I will first take the A pill, the A pill represents Agonia, this pill will pull my core traumas to the surface and with the help of the headset, I'll be able to see the powerful dreams, but nobody can see them but me and the scientists, it is meant to be safe as well.

The second pill is the B pill, this is the behavioral pill which will pull and twist and destroy my defense mechanisms and shine a light on the blind spots and expose me for who I am to me, that sounds like a tough stage to go through.

The Confrexa stage will force me to confront myself as a whole and move on and become a better human being and find radical acceptance for what I've been through, and soon the cheery, tinny music ends and Dr. Muramoto from the video and he smiles polietly as he asks

"Any questions from the video?"

I and LaRusso and a handful of other subjects raise their hands and he nods and smiles broadly and adds

"Good."

After the question and answer session, us odds are up, the evens are being provided their pre weight meals. Oh jesus spare me the sad bullsit and don't give me your sad ass face! You never cared about me at all! You never did care about me Kreese, you fucking choked me and nearly killed me for shits sake! And of all people to hallucinate, I have to hallucinate you! Fuck you Kreese! This is why I'm at the experiment! To get rid of you at all costs! By the way, TAKE A SHIT OR SOMETHING! STOP STARING AT ME! All right, I don't have time for this, I have to get on one of the dentist office looking chairs and I know I have to wait before I'm activated, what if its during the session, soon the nurse puts on a pulse ox finger tracker and I get a pill, one of them warns LaRusso to wait for Dr. Muramoto to give the signal and a heavy upper chest apron is placed on my chest, Carl explained that it was to protect me from nominal residue and it looks like one of the aprons I wore when taking an X Ray for my broken arm when I was still in Cobra Kai as a student, suddenly the doctor says

"Subjects, you may now ingest your pills."

The others swallow their pills and drink the water that comes in another cup, but I don't do that, I quickly thumb the pill to the side as the machine activates and I close my eyes and I see random colors flashing before my very eyes, they are terrifyingly blood red and everyone is quietly asleep, trying to see their traumatic experiences. I now regret what I have done, coming here was a risk and I regret taking that risk so much, it hurts deeply within. You are still fucking smirking and smiling, wearing your pathetic gi that isn't worthy of being worn on you at all. You clearly should go the fuck away Kreese, all you have been is a burden, I thought you could be the father figure Sid never was, except you proved me wrong, you used me and you wanted me to hurt LaRusso, you wanted Bobby to fucking hurt LaRusso in a way that could've destroyed his knee! Suddenly I see LaRusso's face crumple up and a tear rolls down his cheek and he grips the arm rests and I feel a pang of sympathy, I now understand how much destruction I have caused and it is ugly as hell, I should be the one paying the price, not him, never him.

End of Part five

I was at the middle of the line, wanting to throttle Johnny for fucking joining the same study as me but there was literally nothing I could do, not unless I wanted to be shamed constantly for the rest of my life. Japanese people had a way of carrying their family honor as if their life depended on it. I literally had personal experience with that becuase of the death battles I had with Chozen. That is a story I would rather not go further into detail.

Soon I sat down in one of the chairs that resembled a dentist chair  and they placed a heavy apron on me, the head set was clicked into place and I was handed the A pill...what I had been searching for...it was here in my hands and just as I was about to swallow it, Nurse Carl warned me

"Don't take it. Wait for the signal."

I quickly hold the pill in its little cup before me as my hands shake from desire...from want...from the addiction to these A pills that were ruining me. I wanted to ruin myself, I wanted to self destruct in a spectacular way.

The doctor soon said "Subjects, you may now ingest your pills."

And I quickly swallowed the pill and drank the mini cup full of water handed to me by an orderly and the humming of the machines roared and I was back in there.

LaRusso impatiently stood nearby, tapping his foot as his mother and father were filling up the gas tank and talking, none of their conversations intrested the young boy much, he leaned his chin on the dashboard of the car and yawned slightly, he looked over and saw his father pay for the gas and his mother sat in the back row of the car as she protested

"You do realize Daniel is still very short and small right Albert?"

Albert rolled his eyes and snapped

"Oh shut up woman! Let me raise my son! He wants to sit in the front? Let him! He wants to enjoy some fresh air for fucks sake!"

Lucille shot back

"Oh and like you know how to raise a teenage boy! Why, I'm glad I filed for divorce from your stinky ass you piece of shit!"

And they are at it again, arguing and yelling as my dad is driving, now that right there is a bad combination, as the yelling continues at a fever pitch, LaRusso yells at both of em

"Niether of you are even realizing you both suck at being parents!"

And at that moment, the car swerved into the left lane of a two lane road and the sixteen wheeler smashes into the tiny car and sends it flying over the cliff, throwing out Daniel and Lucille, while Albert is unconscious and he remains in the car, being crushed to death and the car soon ignites and burns him to death as well. The smoke plume is dense and black as nothing is left of the shattered remains of the family car. Niether Daniel, nor Lucille know it, but Albert is dead.

In the control booth where the scientists are working and grabbing data and studying it,

Dr. Fujita notices something unusual about number six's data output.

Dr. Mantleray asks her

"How are the subjects."

"Doing well. However, I see data anomalies from One and Six. Number One may not have ingested the pill at all, he isn't putting out any data. As for Six, it seems as though he has been here before, like he knows the grooves to the narrative. Strange..."

Soon Dr. Fujita adds

"Ten seconds till re entry."

And as the red light fades to a harsh white glow above them, she adds

"Welcome back subjects, welcome back."

Johnny and the rest of the odds were eating when Nurse Carl added

"One, five and six, Dr. Muramoto wants to see you."

Number five groaned and muttered

"Oh shit."

Johnny asked him

"What's wrong."

"What's wrong? Whats wrong is that we have been flagged, means that they saw something in our numbers they don't like! They call you up and talk to you before they kick you out, it doesn't matter what you say."

"And you know this becuase?"

"I have been doing this for decades, you can do it too if you can work the system like I do, I do at least thirty or forty a year. Pretty good money too."

Johnny also adds

"You're the man who pointed out the bombs on my form..."

"Yep that's me."

Johnny leaned back as Daniel sat down in a room filled with TV screens filling the side of one room and cameras ready to film his damn face, he was anxious and fearful. He sat down in the chair and Dr. Fujimori asked him "How do you feel?"

"Tired, like I just want to cry a lot."

Fujimori handed him a tissue box but LaRusso didn't touch it as Fujimori continued

"Describe your reality."

"My reality is that I'm depressed and that I don't matter."

Soon it was time for Johnny Lawrence to talk and he sat down before the scientist and the man asked him

"How do you feel?"

"Empty."

"Describe your reality."

"My reality is that I don't matter. That whatever I do, I always get pushback. And in the end, I get criticized."

"Why don't I ask you the most important question? What do you think is wrong with you?"

"You know the movie It's a Wonderful Life?"

"Yes."

"If that happened to me, there would be no difference in the world."

The scientist took the notes and then smiled and before adding

"Mr. One, our data output concludes you were not under fully. Care you explain?"

Johnny was terrified, so this was what it was like to be on trial for your life, to be unable to form words, much less sentences to try and defend oneself from certain death.

End of part six

I trembled in my chair as the scientist continued

"What was the core trauma you experienced when you took the A pill?"

"You mean...like the worst day of my life?"

"Your core trauma please."

I sighed as I remembered that incident, of course. The memories of it all flooded me, the reason why we had to hold another engagement party becuase of what I had done at the first engagement party. That day I was more depressed and I wished someone would listen to me for once. But that day, my younger brother was the star of the show, it was his day since he finally wooed Adelade, the woman I had been pining over secretly. That day, he was beaming and his blushing fiancee was giggling, everyone was smoking Cuban cigars and gimlets were being handed out, everyone was happy, everyone was celebrating his engagement except for me. All I wanted was happiness and at this moment, I felt like there were no reasons in the world to live anymore.

My brother took the mic and began to sing Sting, whaveter that meant. He was clearly in love with her as he sang.

He was a pretty damn good singer too, everyone loved him, he was the golden boy. Me? I was just some unwanted stepchild, a waste of space, waste of breath, waste of carbon, waste of time, waste of energy. I was all that and more, I should never have been born in the first place.

Maybe if I had never been born, my mom would have had a better life, you would have your perfect karate champion that would have beaten Daniel. I wish I had never been born and that was a desire that was never stronger than at this time right now.

I was a pathetic human being that was irredeemable of anything I had done, I was not worth the effort you put into me, nor the energy, nor the time, not even the passion, you were right Sensei, I am a loser and I always will be a loser, I stood over the ledge, they say suicide is for cowards, they don't know better.

They are cowards themselves becuase they have never tried to meet death like I did. I jumped off the ledge, falling, falling, and plop...I opened my eyes and I realized...I was alive, I landed on the plastic roof overlooking the party as my step mom screamed.