#daniel larusso for ts

[jessmalia]

"x" marks the spot where we fell apart he poisoned the well, i was lying to myself i knew it from the first old fashioned, we were cursed we never had a shotgun shot in the dark

[hollywoodoutbreak]

After being introduced to movie audiences as part of the ensemble cast of The Outsiders, Ralph Macchio got his first starring role in 1984's The Karate Kid. It's a role, of course, that has defined his life. The success of the film and its sequels made Macchio a bona fide Hollywood star, though he would later complain that the role of Daniel LaRusso had made it difficult for him to get other roles as he grew older. Eventually, though, he softened his stance to the point that he welcomed a return to the role in Cobra Kai, the sequel series now in ts sixth (and final) season. We've spoken to Macchio many times over the years, and he told us that, despite the ups and downs he's had with the character, The Karate Kid has never left him.

Cobra Kai, including the first part of the final season, is currently streaming on Netflix.

[youandthemountains]

oh also I think Daniel's fatal flaw in cobra kai is actually that his only semi-close friendships are with men, one of whom he's related to, the other who appears to be more Amanda's friend, in a sharp reversal of his youth. He needs to rebuild his misfit girl gang to really achieve actualization.

[youandthemountains]

(via @inadequate-nefelibata)

Mr. Miyagi’s Backstory | The Karate Kid (1984)

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[thorniest-rose]

The Karate Kid Part III + Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber & Other Stories

[merv606]

what do terry and daniel do on their first valentines night together

Each other 😏

I’ve been recently thinking - as of yesterday - about how I never thought to write them a Vday story.

I imagine this is CK era / Terry just coming back into Daniel’s life so he wants to show off for his Danny Boy just as much as he wants to show off his Danny Boy.

NSFW under the cut

Terry takes him to the fanciest, restaurant - no, the one with the best wine. He knows the way into Daniel Larusso’s heart (and his pants).

Terry slides a box across the dimly lit restaurant, shadows from the candles dancing across his face as he does so.

Maybe Daniel is a bit miffed - “Terry we promised we weren’t getting anything for each other,” but, secretly he’s pleased. Terry does give the best gifts, and Daniel likes being the one doted on for once.

Terry still looks at him the same way he did all those years ago. Like Daniel is the best thing Terry could own - the centre of his universe.

Daniel has the bruises on his hips and the bite marks on his shoulders and throat to back that up.

“Besides, I thought what you gave me this morning was my gift,” and he moves his weight on his seat, butt plug (the aforementioned gift from earlier) shifting inside him. It’s keeping him open for Terry to use later, as much as it is keeping Terry’s cum from earlier inside him. He had taken him from behind, pressed up against the many windows of his house.

Terry smirks - “That was just as much for me as it was for you sweetheart. Maybe more so.”

“Open it.”

It’s a ring. Platinum would be his guess, a cobra with his mouth opened wide, eating its own tail. Two emeralds for eyes and, when he looks closer, the initials TS on it’s body.

Daniel takes it out, and Terry reaches over to slide it on him. It’s a perfect fit on his ring finger.

“I wanted our first valentines’s day to be special. Our first of many, Daniel,” he adds.

Daniel’s not sure if that’s a promise or a threat. Or which one he wants it to be.

He should have seen this coming.

Terry has been so obsessed with reminding Daniel, since their reunion, that he’s all Terry’s now. No one else’s.

Guess this is one more way to mark his territory / a more public way at least - no one is allowed to see the marks of passion Terry has left littered all over his body - the map of his possession and right to Daniel’s body.

Daniel finds he doesn’t mind.

“You always remember your first,” he says as he looks at Terry through lowered lashes. “I certainly did.”

Terry smirks.

He expects that Terry will drag him into a bathroom and bend him over the marble countertop, make him walk back through the restaurant to their table baring the signs of being freshly fucked, but to his surprise, and disappointment, he is a perfect gentleman.

Later on though, as Terry is rocking his hips into Daniel, slowly taking him apart with the heavy drag of his cock in his ass, he brings his hand down to cover Daniel’s own, which is flat on the bedsheet, palm down, his fingers bunch in the sheets on the really good thrusts.

He presses his hand down more and more firmly into the mattress laces as his hips works faster, before lacing their fingers together. Daniel can feel the bite of the ring, and he’s going to come from just his cock being trapped between his belly and the bed, the feel of Terry’s cock splitting him open, ruining him for anyone else.

He comes after the older man does, on a low groan in his ear as Terry fills him up even more. If that’s even possible.

When he finally pulls out and the warmth leaves Daniel’s back, he’s gathered into Terry’s arms before he can truly mourn it’s loss. He never lets Daniel get too far away anyway. He feels fingers stroking down his back, down to this fucked open hole, Terry’s fingers playing with the stretched, wet rim before he moves his hand, spreading his wide palm so that it takes up most of his backside.

Daniel knows the imprint the ring leaves on his own finger matches the imprint that must be on Terry’s palm.

He always did hang on to his Danny boy too tight.

It should bother him. That Terry’s hold - physical, mental, emotional, sexual - is just as strong now as it was back then. Especially now that he doesn’t have the excuse of being some naive boy. He should know better - he should. And it should bother him, it should; but it doesn’t.

Truth be told, they both wouldn’t have it any other way.

[icecreamkink]

so i watched cobra kai all in two days and i have so many -

this show has so many cool and smart angles to it, but the same time.... its so stupid oh my god everyone is so dumb literally mr miyagi held all of the braincells in this whole universe 

like i am but at the same time i am not surprised it was made like this, bc in hindsight of course there were hordes of ppl simping over johnny lawrence ....  but it still amuses me that this is like... an Actual Official Thing

ok this will get long so cut it is

how much fun this cast has is super visible and i love it

i rly enjoy how the world was expanded ! i did grow up watching the karate kid movies, so watching how they progressed the world of the movies so organically was pretty cool. it rly feels like its the same universe

i fucking LOVE stories that are largely about a Thing. dancing ,skating, sports its just so thrilling to experience this all consuming relationship people can have with this type of activity? and martial arts are just that much more intense, so yeah, grown ass men kicking each other around at the lightest provocation and a war veteran caring so much abt teen karate is Ridiculous.... but i love it all because thats the intensity i find so thrilling

was kinda surprised with how much im missing mr. miyagi. first because, like everyone is so unhinged jesus christo, it just really throws into relief how much his character grounded the narrative of the movies. but also hes just a really great character

and on that note it rly Gets Me that the show itself aknowledges that and plays that into daniels angst and all the little ways they sorta weave myiagisms into the whole show........ im not getting emotional over this dumb karate dads show OK

related - i really miss hearing ‘daniel-san’ 🥺🥺

ACE DEGENERATE oh god oh no

they really went down the down and out johnny lawrence route huh. like i was always kinda bummed we see kreese choking him and then we never see him again in the movies, and while i love dumpster fire problematic trash himbo ck johnny, its like......................... actually really sad that his life turned out like this fjngn

everytime i hear ‘babes’ and ‘pussy’ i die a little inside. i know thats the point but i am a v cringe easy person, have mercy (ehe)

loved the way they are constantly drawing parallels between johnny and mr. myiagi of all people. hes the handy man of his building that has a bullied kid asking for help and eventually steps up to teach them karate, beats up a bunch of bullies for him, creates a friendship with said kid, estranged from family, drinks his sorrows away, surprisingly one of the least quick to anger characters (which says more about everyone else really but.... Well.), no schemes or ulterior motives hes just tryna vibe here.... oh and ofc magically heals miguel of is asthma apparently. the true disciple.. meanwhile daniel is his usual messy petty self even tho he wants to be mr myiagi so bad 

also interesting about that is how miguels character is a parallel of both johnny and daniel at the same time

overall the parallels in ck are done really well, drawing comparisons and also subverting them constantly. theyre well thought out

THE PARALELOGRAMS

fr tho, the angle being explicitly the cycle of trauma and its effects and how trumatized adults in turn traumatize kids, maliciously or not, is so interesting

but! on the flip side of that, it feels like the writers are getting in their own way @ letting the characters grow. especially this last season. theres only so many times you can do "johnny and daniel are getting along but 5mins later they are (literally) fighting over some dumbass random issue" or "johnny puts in 20% of effort with robby and then gives up" before it gets on your nerves yknow?

i see daniel no longer talks like macchio ingested 15 shots of espresso before every take and idk how to feel about that tbh

interesting tension in daniel, as in, in tkk mr miyagi was there and daniel was frankly, kind of a lil shit, this messy petty spitfire hot tempered sassy kid,(johnny lawrence voice: just... stop being so annoying) but now hes the adult, and he wants to be mr. miyagi... but hes just not, and never will be to his very core and it shakes him and in a way hes trying to find who he is now that he sees himself in a position to be a not! cobra kai figure. i kinda really like that 

plus how that relates to his cobra kai trauma. idk if the writers thought abt it Like That, i think so, but in any case, its interesting bc it seems like daniel has told everyone whod listen about johnny lawrence his Pretty Boy Karate Rival and high school and 84 cobra kai... But. no one seems to know what went on in 85 (or 86? idk) which was just so much worse

like ye og cobras were shitheads, but tkk iii is just two hours of daniel being emotionally and physically tortured. 

like, the third movie is.............chaotic, to put it nicely, and many people ignore it, but the writers clearly didnt. daniels actions are, in a way, responding so much more to the events of tkk iii than to the first movie ie. johnny himself, AND. daniel doesnt rly seem to have dealt with that trauma? he never told sam? doesnt feel like hes ever told amanda? he doesnt even say terrys name out loud? freaks Out over kreese ? the way he reacts to robbys deceit? his FACE when he walks past the new "fear does not exist in this dojo" paint or kreeses photo? hmMm i sense Pain

his fashion tho........... disappointing. where are the flower shirts daniel huh we had one (1) shirt what a tragedy STOP WEARING SUITS ALL THE TIME . also the band ts/grunge bi are a look for johnny but part of me longs for the preppy lovable 80s bully chic johnny lawrence getups

weird that they never used that last moment of karate kid where johnny kinda... snaps out of his anger and hands daniel the trophy almost in tears. like “youre alright larusso, good match” “thanks a lot”  that being their last direct interection seems like itd be perfect fruit for cobra kai but... they just dont. weird. 

especially when, the FIRST SCENE they see each other, suposedly in 30+ years, the first thing to come out of daniels mouth is QUOTE "u still got those golden locks huh?" WHO SAYS SHIT LIKE THAT DANIEL FUCKING SAN 

also amandas immediate reaction "your pretty boy rival?" like. can we talk about the fact that daniel had to have imparted to his wife the very important information that his high school bully/karate rival was like Really Cute and Fucking Hot Actually

 the writers Knew exactly what they were doing and honestly.............. power to them

tkk director voice: and billy was just so cute  

also I was thinking that daniel sounded strangely fond in that first scene, and i wonder if he developed a weird affection for johnny on the grounds that of all of his Karate Rivals johnny was actually the only one who didn’t actively tried to literally kill him

i was actually delightedly surprised with how great the chemistry between them is, like from the get go i am Invested. their rl friendship totally bleeds through and its fantastic

. granted, idiots enemies to lovers friends is my Thing so i am biased  

johnny lawrence: i am down in the dumps, i fucked up my whole life and my sons probably, largely in light of the trauma that the father figure sensei and the philosophy of my karate inflicted on me and all my friends. u know what i should do, as a traumatized, unreliable mess of an adult? teach that same philosophy to some other kids! what could go wrong! 

but really i enjoy the setup of it. i kinda like that i watched it late because, season 1 was johnny setting himself up for failure in a way and it was exciting to watch it all go to shit sjfn

Like. his heart might be in the right place, but theres just.... not a way to teach something like ‘strike hard, no mercy’ and not have it fuck up a kid 

case and point: aisha, miguel and hawk become annoying as all hell over that bullshit in the end of s1, even before shit gets truly fucked up

billys subtle panicked eyes when he sees hawk and miguel fighting dirty in the all valley was SO GOOD especially in parallel with the panic that is so visible in his face in the movie when kreese tells bobby to injure daniel and in the sweep the leg scene 

seen people question wether kreese should have returned and i absolutely think he needed to. johnny needed to realize that cobra kais fundamentals are flawed, at the root, beyond kreese himself being a toxic piece of shit 

also who are we kidding? we are here to see the tkk characters play on new playgrounds!

i get what they're doing abt kreeses backstory, ( also. cobra kai. pq eles caem nas cobras djjs sorry) but did it need to take up that much time? feels like they couldve  done it in half the run time and developed some other stories better 

martin kove has such an evil eye. i love it

love that we get a good follow up to kreese breaks johnnys trophy and tries to CHOKE HIM in the parking lot, which happened in the movie and then....................... was never mentioned again

“the gang is all back together again” aaaa u piece of SHIT 

also. terry silver is definetely appearing ha ha ha PAIN i cant wait

seen ppl say kreese was too much of a cartoon villain like..........................oh......... sweetie........... u dont even Know

interested how johnny will fit into that bc kreese was simping rly hard for johnny here. like i did not expect him to be so adamant to have him with cobra kai ... under his control, sure, but he really wants johnny by his side despite already having control of the dojo and how will terry silver self appointed jon kreeses forever simp going to feel abt that? 

like bitchs dropping by every episode like ‘joooooohnny ..... come bacc to me joooonny......... this ur last warning! for real this time johnny! i wont say it again! watch me ! im leaving johnny! im rly leaving ! im dragging a chair” and johnny is just like. dont let the door hit ya bitch it was so funny pls

and on that subject oof, johnny! doesnt! Know! he doesnt get that side of daniels cobra kai trauma. and i kind of.............. cannot wait for ck 2021 johnny lawrence to meet terry silver like. what a shit show i need a front row seat and popcorn (imagine terry tries some greasy charm and johnny just roundhouse kicks him in the teeth bc he just doest Not Have the Patience for This. glorious)

feels like we, as a society, should acknowledge that cobra kai will never die................ bc their sense of design is just chefs kiss. their name is COBRA KAI. they have sexie sleeveless black gis. theyve sneks. colorful leather jackets with embroided naja insignia, the get ppl thru the aesthetics. evil geniuses

the flashback cuts : masterpiece behavior

the other takes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! of the movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the differente angles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! of the FIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE CLOSE UP ON JOHNNYS FACE AT THE KICK 

that scene of daniel and johnny vibing to 80s music in the car. just. oh my god. the fan wish fullfilment. no thoughts head empty.

the new characters! theyre .... good. but. idk. i really like miguel (save for the annoying phase mid s1 - end s2) and amanda, who is a damn riot and has some functioning braincells, but everyone else is       

like dont get me wrong, i dont hate anyone,its not a jane and rafael from jtv situation,  and i am interested and invested in their arcs, but i wouldnt say i like   Like them, as in, personality wise 

like, sams grappling with ptsd was rly gutting and i enjoyed that plus her slight rage issues, 

which nicely parallel torys rage issues. torys background is all over the place tho so im pretty on the fence abt her so far

robby deserves better in every way, and i like how smart and cunning and surprisingly sweet he is

hawk............... is there i guess,

 demetri is annoying in the best way possible,

 carmen is sweet but. i just feel like her character is blunted to make the johnny relationship easier. like when shes furious with him after miguels injury but then forgives him like an episode later? and then convinces him to fight for the tournament bc she had a karate epiphany off screen even tho she was always against it? meh. feels like with the plot thiccening she was swallowed and now shes like a crutch for johnny mora than anything, which is disappointing.

aisha was cool and im kinda mad she wasnt in s3, especially bc a storyline with her tory and sam was like RIGHT THERE , but also... cant say i was super super fond of her... doesnt feel like we ever spent enough time on her

moon the bi icon, 

overall its a good cast but the main draw for me remains the og cast 

the tory/sam miguel/robby Thing. enjoy how theyre Narrative Foils and i like how their stories were so dramatically entangled but oh god give me a break with the teenage love square for the love of god. if u gonna put us through that at least have the decency to not make it so straight

and honestly some sam/tory        miguel/robby romantic tension would even make more sense. just saying! 

also im not sure how i feel abt the cobra kai: red miyagi do: blue theyre going with since some of daniels most iconic looks in tkk are also red. like it was a color they (johnny and him) sorta shared. i get it, opposite but complementary but idk... a little too fire nation and water tribe for me .

 and like the cobra kai kids are so funny abt it bc their outifts grow progressively more ridiculously coordinated. its like do they group chat every morning before leaving their houses? 

robby still sticks out like that tho. he went thru an athleisure/daniel san tsleeves phase and now hes back in the bandts grunge, but his color scheme doesnt fully blend with the other cobra kais. hmmmm.

LOVED LOVED LOVED both the okinawa episode and the cobra kais easy rider episode just such good good heart aching fun

bobby is an icon. he was in tkk and he is now ck hope appears more and more

 tommy is like the most iconic background character. all his lines, freaking gold then and now. sigh :( 

the framing in the okinawa trip was so good everything was so good

i stand by the fact that kumiko was the love interest daniel had the most chemistry with and shes is overall such a joy to watch, loved to see her again, idola, fashion icon

also tkk ii is good u guys are just mean

also really enjoyed chozens role in the episode, his evolution; i love that they introduced the pressure points (ty lee the blueprint) and! the honk + karate! cousins! absolutely iconic

when kumiko reads mr miyagis letters........ oh my god, my eyes FILLED with tears, it was so heart wrenching :(( tamlyns delivery was so emotional and lovely and its so obvious everyone involved in ck has so much love and respect for pat morita and mr miyagi as character, and i adore that it exists like this electric current through the show

when we were watching i told my sister i thought that ali would be miguels big shot surgeon and ngl i am so disappointed that didnt happen. hire me cobra kai writers

also the johnny ali daniel amanda chemistry? off the charts

AND the sassy retconning of daniel and alis breakup! LMAO ‘I HOPE U DIDNT TELL MR MIYAGI IT WAS MY FAULT’ HFDJJGNKFKSD

i am preeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetty sure back injuries dont work like that    but oke

daniel and johnny are so good together whenever, like they never actually help the kids or get shit done and end up fighting anyway but its just so much fun when theyre hanging

JOHNNY LAWRENCE AND DANIEL LARUSSO FIGHTING TOGETHER

daniels “plan” on how to get robby to juvie was so stupid. literally were u TRYING to make him hate you. dumbass

parents at those hearing rly brave for ppl that did not do ANYTHING as their kids got involved in a karate gang war until now

“bullshit i heard u were the real bully!” i mightve screeched

this s3 ending was SO DRAMATIC omg

everyone is such a MESS go to THERAPY u unhinged motherfckers

also im sorry but uh. a richass neighborhood in california doesnt have some type of neighborhood watch? the larussos rly dont have any security at all? neighbors wont hear the sound of a damn karate brawl happening next door??? also wasnt tory all like ooo i cant go to juvie, my mom yada yada yet shes always running around town getting into fights even at the rich girls house she was kicked out of school for fighting??   ?  ??    ??        ?                ?    ?          ??                  ?    ? girl??

stop destroying the larussos house, its so pretty :((((

sam finding her center looking at mr miyagis picture...  uwu maybe

robby yelling ‘U ARE WEAAK’@  johnny \as he is easily blocking him is like.... so funny and so sad to me. sweetheart. 

also i know it was meant as ‘oh johnny pushes him and HURTS HIM’ but it just looks like robby runs himself into the lockers and IM SO SORRY I FEEL SO BAD BUT IT WAS SO FUNNY 

i like that he and tory are the cobra kai kids now. we need ppl we care abt there to not revert to a good vs evil schtick, and this is the most engaging it could be... tho it hurts that these kids cant catch a break

ah yes "lets bet some real shit on the result of this teen karate tournament bc that is always a great idea" is BACK

so daniel saves johnny from kreese..... maybe johnny will save him from terry 🧐

and dojos unite ohohoho. lets SEE how that’ll work out 

miguels face of Despair when the ck defectors and the md kids are bickering like 'this is never gonna work' : gold

also. Johnny Lawrence is gonna learn some myiagi-do karate AHAAHSJAKDFH

 ive been waiting for this moment all my lifeeee oh lawrd 

final thoughts! there are def things i hope the writers will improve on the next season, but i am very excited for it either way AND i feel like it has made me enjoy the movies even more and that is a win for a reboot/sequel to me!!

[elenatria]

Karate Kid Ralph Macchio: 'I'm at peace with the choices I made' | Television & radio | The Guardian

Thank you @valerafan2 for showing me this. ❤

Boy is it gonna be a loooong wait until 2021..

[youandthemountains]

actually sam/aisha/tory really are the neatest parallels of the johnny/ali/daniel drama too huh

sam - rich kid who's popular friend gang enables them being shitty to the girl they love that they want to hear them out and take them back and get pissed off and fight the new kid that's captured her interest

aisha - Can You Guys Please Chill, rich girl who sticks up for and refuses to abandon her now outcast reseda friend and always looks delighted and on top of the world on their little dates, clearly has a complicated history with the rich kid who changed and disappointed her

tory - I Just Got Here and thought things might be different because i met this beautiful girl but of course I immediately have a target on my back + no one knows about my sick parent and single mom at home and i'm not going to tell them, I can take care of myself and I'll stick up for myself however relentless the violence is. also dudes are real creepy to me and like to use their wealth against me

[youandthemountains]

#i say 'only' but we all know whose side is really better#and whose side will try to murder him for losing gracefully (via @deputychairman)

"The next semifinal will determine who will face the defending champion."

[thorniest-rose]

I see your Terry following Daniel theory and raise you this: why is Daniel shops-at-wholefoods LaRusso shopping at a seedy convenience store anyways?? He def knew he was going to be meeting TS there.

oh my god... you mean like an illicit meeting? He meets Terry to talk because he knows no one will see him there?? Meeting your ex at secret locations is a very slippery slope.

I have this idea for the fic I'm writing where Terry comes back and invites Daniel to have dinner with him, and Daniel's like, "I'd never go to dinner with you," but it seems like Terry's trying to be civil and Daniel just can't help himself because he's self-destructive and masochistic. So he goes, even though he doesn't tell Amanda or Johnny, and when they're there and the waiter comes over, Terry puts his hand on Daniel's wrist, which is this little thing he used to do when he wanted Daniel to be silent, and Daniel automatically shuts up because he's still wired to respond to Terry, and then Terry orders for him. And afterwards Daniel's really mad and he moves his hand away and he's like, "You can't do that anymore. And how would you even know what I was going to order?" and Terry's like, "I always know what you need, Danny." Like I just really want Daniel slipping back into his submissive mode of behaviour in response to Terry without even wanting to.

[youandthemountains]

Wait please keep dropping this ancient tkk knowledge, how did Ralph get injured before filming?

I'm glad you notice how much more rambly Ralph is in KK3 too! I swear he was given like a vague idea of what to say in given situations because he just repeats things over and over. The macaroni and cheese thing is a good example but also when he's yelling at Mike and Co when they pull the rope up at devil's kettle, like it's just the same stuff over and over!

Yeah! And when he's arguing with Miyagi it's the same. And honestly most of his dialogue in the third movie is like this and I'm so confused as to why the change to the character? It has the same director and script writer. I can only guess that it's because of how hectic the production was (based off of a cursory google search)

[youandthemountains]

danzen and damiko for the ship thingy.

Danzen

What made you ship it?

Well You See, one could think that this is just that Daniel Hot and Chozen Hot, Now Kiss. and yknow, Maybe So.jpg

But listen man, Chozen came running when he heard Daniel was in town with a plan that had been in the works for 30 years even though there was no reason he had to ever suspect Daniel would come back. Kumiko specifically knowingly invites Chozen over despite having her own reasons to want to keep Daniel to herself, and intentionally ditches them in a manner that is completely unsurprising to Chozen who spends the whole brunch staring into Daniel's eyes and getting him drinks, and then he takes him out to a beautiful locale with incredible significance to both of them and gets him on his knees and pulls his hair and spanks him (every time i type that i'm like god that's such an unnecessarily horny way of putting it but that's LITERALLY what he does!!!!). He apologizes to Daniel!!! Who shoots him these bright eyed enthusiastic smiles and the teenager in him emerges all over again. Chozen went on this whole emotional, spiritual, ethical journey and just - had been dying to tell that annoying bright-eyed kid who dances real nice, like a geisha, all about it. That whole "Can you teach me??" is really 17 year-old Daniel who decides to swing a sharp heavy object at himself because he's literally too curious to live. I'm mad we didn't get to see the training montage frankly.

What are your favorite things about the ship?

I mean, see above. It was a life changing trip, I choose to believe Daniel had a little fling with Amanda's blessing in a way he wouldn't have with Kumiko. I think Daniel's pretty easy with forgiveness given an apology and as we were talking about earlier, I really do think men his age get grouped into rivals and romantic interests considering how things generally go with them so once Chozen apologized he's dtf and he wants to learn all about his secret moves. Chozen's also one of the last connections to a part of his life no one else really knows about. I think Daniel could have been Chozen's gay awakening and helped catalyze a new understanding of himself and his beliefs in a lot of ways which is why he had this all planned out, but I also don't see them as endgame because Chozen really has no desire to move to California and Daniel is more like wow :) I love making peace with old rivals :) if only all rivalries could end like this :) <3333. but i love to imagine they had a nice kinky fling and both felt really safe and comfortable and at peace with their younger selves in a way neither had achieved in a long time. Also. Both of them look so fucking good in the Okinawa eps *shrug*

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

I think this ship is like. a cobbled together raft lmao. My unpopular opinion is I genuinely do ship it and I think there's such a fascinating story to be explored with Chozen's journey to who he is in Cobra Kai.

Damiko <333333

What made you ship it?

Have you seen them??? They were in LOVE love. They met and understood each other's souls. They speak each other's language even if neither really speaks the other's language.

What are your favorite things about the ship?

What I said above plus - the way they're always kids in love when they see each other, tender and sweet and gentle and filled with desire. The smoldering glance he gives her when he drinks from her cup. The way she teaches him the grace needed to grasp the drum technique, the way he follows her thoughtlessly. The way their desire to trust is rewarded by each other - that wish to believe in a just world comes true with them. The way all they want is for each other to be happy and fulfilled even more so than wanting the other for themselves. They just really know each other on a fundamental level, outside the practicalities of the world, they know each other's hearts. The respect with which he treats her beliefs and her openness and guiding him into her world. The way she leads and he follows and the way when they dance he leads her safely and she follows with vibrant life. They way they're free and shameless together. The way she protects him and he protects her, his expression of pure relief and finally safety when she holds him after he saves her and Miyagi holds him in his gaze and they're all safe together. The way they know each other at first glance like a held breath released.

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

I think we all love damiko, I don't know! I guess the fact that honestly I might ship it more than literally anything else lmao.

[youandthemountains]

so i was doing some research on Chozen for fic reasons bc why finish what you've started when you could instead start something even less of interest to literally anyone but -

all the wikis are like "Chozen is actually the most evil character in the trilogy because he's willing to kill" - like Johnny nearly did anyway during the Halloween scene and he didn't even inform the guy ahead of time, plus I have no doubt Silver really didn't have any reservations against killing him, that just wasn't his immediate Goal there. also like - Kreese was willing to kill Johnny and is also an adult so? good thing wikis are meaningless i guess. I just didn't want to go through the whole process of procuring the film to rewatch, that's what I get for lazy research

[youandthemountains]

actually that's one thing about the kk3 response that I particularly don't get because Miyagi knows on a whole other level, more than anyone, about being forced into a fight.

But also - maybe that is too close to the heart of his own trauma that's still too painful to linger on and that's why he reacts how he does? I do feel like that minimization and reacting with humor and refusing to mentally touch it is so common to that generation

Similar to how Daniel in Cobra Kai never seems to be able to linger on or put words to the most genuinely terrifying and painful parts of his life, represses them and just talks about getting pushed off a cliff as if that was remotely the worst thing that had been done to him.