#laura lawrence

[chozentoguchis]

[creepiecreator]

You Are My Sunshine

This was recommended to write by @lemon-leviathan, so you can blame them

Seth (Ponytail) being Johnny’s dad is one of my favorite little Never-Gonna-Be-Canon-Headcanons if you can’t tell.

Writing requests are very much open in my inbox

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Most nights in the Lawrence home were cheerful ones. The home was warm, often full of laughter and joy, holding a welcoming aura. Not because the home itself, of course. But because of those who lived within it.

Unfortunately, however. Tonight was simply not one of those nights. For both Seth and Laura knew what would be coming the next day, they both knew that this would be their final night together for god only knows how long. When his number came up for the draft they both knew that he would have to ship out soon, they both knew the risk that lay ahead for the long haired man. But he didn’t have a choice, it wasn’t like he had the money to try to pay his way out of the draft like some dishonorable politicians kid. Seth didn’t have a choice, he had to go and fight for his country, leaving his beloved wife and child behind while doing so. God-that was the worst part of it all. Having to leave them here without him, not knowing what would happen to them with him gone-above all else he just wanted to ensure his family's happiness. And it seemed that night would be the last one he could for quite some time.

You’d figure, being as young as he was, that little Johnny wouldn’t be able to pick up on any of that. After all, the little one was only two years old so far. And yet, as soon as Seth had placed the toddler into his bed, the little one started to cry.

The blonde baby was completely inconsolable, screeching bloody murder with tears running down his face, sobbing so violently that, quite frankly, Seth was concerned that he would end up hurting himself. He wasted no time in quickly removing him from his crib once more. “Aw-C’mere Sunshine. It’s okay,” The words were spoken quietly, rubbing his back and swaying from side to side. “It’s alright, daddy’s here… You’re okay, little prince…nothing bad is going to happen to you, and nothing bad will happen to you if I have any say about it, I promise…there's no need to cry,”

He listened intently to his poor baby’s crying, shoulder damp with the infant’s tears as he tried to calm the poor Johnny, his screams and sobs slowly subsiding into soft, hiccup-filled whimpers. Or at least, they did until he had tried to place him down once again, getting some baby babble that sounded quite a lot like the word ‘no’ in response before his son once again burst into tears.

Truthfully, Seth thought that maybe something in Johnny’s little head was telling him that his daddy was going to be leaving him soon. “How can such a little thing have so many tears,” He murmured quietly, once again having to take the boy into his arms to try to sooth him. “You know I’m leaving tomorrow-don’t you?” He kept his voice barely above a whisper. “Don’t worry, I’m scared about it too, Sunshine. But we Lawrence men have to be brave for those we care about, got it?” He lifted the boy up into the air for a moment before swooping him back down into his arms, finally managing to get a little laugh out of the boy in between his tears, spotting his smile, Seth gave one in return. “There’s my happy boy! See, I knew you had that smile in you somewhere!” He cradled the little one close to his chest once more, knowing that when he had to wake up early the next day, that he’d be exhausted but…it was worth it to help his son. It always would be.

He carried him over to the window of the tiny nursery, looking across the streets of their neighborhood, appreciating the serene moment until he felt a tiny fist curl into his hair, yanking on it to get his attention. “Ow ow ow- Oh, Johnny, Sunshine, that's daddy’s hair-” he warned, still doing his best to keep his voice quiet as he carefully moved to remove his hair from the child’s grasp. “You’re gonna be a fighter when you grow up, aren’t you?” He laughed quietly, adjusting his grip. “Such a strong little guy for someone who still looks kinda like a bean bag- an adorable bean bag though,” He lightly poked Johnny’s nose, watching as big blue eyes kept trying to force themselves open. “Awe…even right now you’re fighting the sleep monster huh…?” He started to make his way back to the crib. “It’s alright, Johnny. Sleeping is a good thing. It’ll help you grow up even stronger than your old man,”

Seth placed him down onto the mattress, sitting down on the floor beside him and reaching one finger inside, so his boy could grab onto his hand. He leaned his head against the bars, unwilling to leave his side until he was certain that Johnny wouldn’t be in distress anymore, humming a soft little tune for him as his eyes slowly slipped closed. The brunette carefully removed his hand from the child’s grip after it had relaxed fully, though he didn’t move just yet. “It’ll be okay… Daddy will be home as soon as he can, I promise… I’ll do everything in my power to make it back to you, Sunshine,” And yet, he couldn’t help that looming sense of dread that hung over him while he spoke those reassuring words to his sleeping son. Carefully moving to stand and leave the room.

He headed back down into his bedroom, sinking down onto the soft mattress beside his Laura. The poor woman had been so exhausted lately. She must have fallen asleep while he was attending to Johnny. He couldn’t help but take the time to stare at her, tracing over features with his eyes several times over as he felt sleep call his name. She was so beautiful. And such a good mother to their boy. There was no doubt in his mind… Seth would have to make it home to see them again. No matter what.

[miyagi-hokarate]

RIP Laura Lawrence I know you would have loved Lucille LaRusso

[nymoshopper]

I would really like season 6 of Cobra Kai to better address Laura Lawrence, Johnny's mother, her certain negligence is notorious, but even so, the little fanatic of karate, rock and conspiracies admired her and is still shaken by the death of his beloved mother. It would be interesting if Johnny visited her grave or the writers gave us an exact glimpse of what Laura really was like and, certainly, how she would react to who Johnny Lawrence is now.

[secretsandwritinggs]

Being emotional for Johnny and Robby again, but I’m sending it here instead of hiding it in my notes app with the rest of them, so I’m going to say it with a hypothetical question: What if Johnny didn’t have any baby photos of himself and only had one of Robby that he kept in his wallet?

This just ruins me as much as it would possibly ruin anyone thinks about them as much as I do. It’s honestly—I don’t even know. This just sparked after having a quick chat with @tournament-terror

[secondclassfangirl]

For the prompt NICE @allvalley100

Daniel finds him sprawled across the couch six beers in, staring teary-eyed at a photo. The woman beams at them: young, carefree, hair almost as golden as Johnny’s.

“Twenty years,” Johnny says hoarsely. “Twenty fucking years.”

Daniel settles next to him. He coaxes Johnny’s head onto his shoulder and holds him tight, fingers carding through his hair.

“Tell me about her.”

“She was…nice. Good. Patient. Everything I’m not.” He sniffles, pressing closer. “Even with all the shit Sid put her through. She never stopped fighting.”

Daniel smiles sadly, kissing his temple. “I think you’re more like her than you think.”

[ereiniel]

For @allvalley100, Ritual (I).

CW for a mention of a canonical minor character death.

Takes place after this.

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Every year on the anniversary of Laura’s death, Johnny went alone to visit her grave, then spent the rest of the day drinking.

This year was different.

“Hey, Mom,” Johnny said, laying a bouquet of flowers on the stone bearing her name.  “I asked Daniel to marry me today.  You should’ve seen his face when he saw my proposal spray-painted on the dojo fence.” 

Every year thereafter, Daniel and Johnny went to visit Laura together, the same ritual Johnny followed for years.  Only now, they had something else to celebrate, and Johnny never had to face that day alone again.

[puella-peanut]

Sour Candy

Going as Superman for Halloween had been awesome—until Mom had told Sid.

He’d laughed; asked if Johnny liked wearing tights. “You wanna be a girl, kid? A pretty ballerina?”

Mom had reapplied her mascara later, after the fight. Said Sid didn’t mean it. Said he didn’t know anything about little boys—despite being one himself long ago. The irony of it all.

Johnny stayed quiet.

Mom was always telling him that he’d learn to like Sid, after all. But, Johnny thought as she helped him into his dumb costume—he wondered when she’d learn to like Sid as well.

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This is a companion piece to Hard Candy.

Written for Irony (1) a prompt I did not fill when the All Valley 100 Word Drabble Challenge was running. I will be continuing to fill in my unfilled prompts until they are all complete, and post them here and on my A03 as usual.

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What are your headcanons for Laura Lawrence 👀

GREAT QUESTION, ANON!!! i have many!

blanket statement of these are my personal headcanons which are obviously not gospel truth and don't need to be agreed with, these are just what i believe/enjoy writing about for laura lawrence.

TW: alcoholism, abortion, cancer.

i think laura was a teen mom; i think she had johnny around seventeen with a guy who was just passing by and her parents threw her out.

she didn't graduate and she got her GED. she was very very good at math and kind of wanted to become a teacher before she got pregnant.

i think she had a kind of holistic, surfer girl, live-with-the-waves vibe and she and johnny went to the beach A LOT when he was a kid because it was free to just walk around and swim.

she had lots of little jobs before meeting sid. johnny's best memory is when she was working at an ice cream parlor. she had a whole baby blue uniform and the owner was really nice.

when she met sid, he promised her that she'd be able to go back to school, maybe even go to university when they got married. quite quickly she found out he was lying.

she developed an alcohol problem four years after her marriage to sid.

around the fifth year into her marriage with sid, she found out she was pregnant and got an abortion in secret. a few months later she told sid she had to go visit an old relative in atlanta and that she'd be back soon, instead, she went to san franciqco and got a hysterectomy.

her full name is laura jean lawrence, i know the show wants me to think her maiden name was brown and that lawrence is the name of some mysterious guy but i refuse <3 johnny has his mother's name because i said so.

she was a huge rock n roll fan, all of johnny's tapes were her's first.

she was very isolated in the hills: she didn't relate to anyone in the country club and she had the bad reputation of being a gold digger. she lost track of johnny's life around that time because of the alcohol and she was never really able to pick it back up afterwards.

she went to johnny's first-ever tournament but after seeing him bleed on the mat, she settled by giving him some money for milkshakes with his friends afterwards and ironing his gi herself.

her only friend was sid's maid, an older woman named georgia who was the only person in the world who knew that laura had to get her stomach pumped three times.

the cobras all called her laura and not mrs weinberg. she liked dutch the most even though he was the most troublesome.

johnny didn't tell her about what happened in the parking lot with kreese up until sid saw the paper stalking about the accident and told her. she cried for a full day, locked in her room. the next day, she went by the cobra kai dojo at night, aware that it had already closed, and threw a brick through the window.

she sporadically sent johnny money after he moved out until she got sick and sid started making the checks.

she got liver cancer when she was 52, it all went very very fast.

she wasn't the best mom in the world; johnny made her a saint in his mind after her death but she was short-tempered and prideful. she was also loving and funny and creative, she had good sides and bad sides, like every living being.

i like to think robby looks like her a lot.

[wicked-jade]

@allvalley100 Here’s my fill for the First and Last prompt. Laura and Johnny. TW: Character Death.

With her last breath, she remembers his first.

She remembers the cry echoing off the sterile tile. Her mother said it’d be a relief, hearing that first, plaintive wail.

But all Laura had felt was anxiety.

He’d been so loud, for something so small. She’d never felt more alone and helpless than when the nurse placed that squirming bundle of blankets in her arms. He cried, and cried and she hadn’t known what he needed, or how to give it to him.

She just wanted him to be quiet.

With her last breath, Johnny is silent. She wishes he’d cry.

[bollface]

Anyone please! Make a fic with like Robby or like some kid in Miyagi-Do or Eagle fang finding like a year book picture of Johnny, video tapes of him singing and playing thw drums/guitar, or like baby pictures of him and his mom.

IVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT JOHNNY AND HIS MOM A LOT I NEED MORE FLASHBACKS OF HER AND HIM.

They seem to be the type of mom and son duo to dance and sing together when the husband isn't home.

[i-am-literal-nightmare-fuel]

I did get lazy because I’m sick right now and really tired but;

HAPPY (LATE) BIRTHDAY TO JOHNNY LAWRENCE!

Uhh yeah that’s all I really have to say :]

shit quality drawings but, sound on.

[curiousdamage]

1 & 12 for Laura Lawrence, 27 & 37 for Annie Bray Slicker

Laura:

What does her bedroom look like? At Johnny's apartment, the walls are covered with posters. She has a dresser and a desk. Make up covers the dresser and she has a computer on the desk. She has a picture board on the wall behind her bed with pictures of all her friends on it.

At Shannon's, her room is more sparse. She has to keep everything neat and tidy, so she doesn't have much on the walls or cluttering her furniture, but she does have a picture of her and Hawk at his sister's Bah Mitzah and one of her whole family on her nightstand.

12. Favorite book Genre:

Anything fantasy or romance. Double points if both.

Annie:

27. What is their biggest regret:

Not standing up to her mother. She always just tried to keep the peace, give her mother space, take care of everyone, but in the end, it didn't help. If she could have known that nothing would make her mother be kinder to her, she'd have stood up to her years before.

On a lighter note, she wishes she had fooled around with Jake before they were married. Eloping gave her that reputation anyway, so she might as well have had the fun of it too.

37. Are they more analytical or more emotional in their decision making?

Depends on what the decision is. If it's about the ranch, the store, or any other business, she's analytical. If it's personal, she's completely ruled by emotions.

[ff7-has-taken-me-over]

Laura attending the 84 tournament and witnessing everything that happens, she’s proud of her boy for trying his best but she doesn’t quiet approved of him going after his opponents leg like that.

When she makes it to the parking lot and sees Johnny and his teacher arguing she speeds up, intent to butt in and tell the man off for what he’s been teaching her kid.

Then he’s grabbing Johnny in a chokehold and she sees red. She’s running up to them and getting the man over the head with her hand bag, suddenly seeing all those times men had done something similar to her and she won’t stand for her baby experiencing it as well.

[diningwiththeasquiths]

Wrote this for all you lovely Cobra Kai fans here on Tumblr (if you are reading this, hello, happy holidays, this is for you! 😊❤) Johnny's Christmas miracle in '83 (Gen, no warnings except for Sid being his usual shitty self)

It's been on Johnny's mind all week. Sensei Kreese's offhand remark about not having any Christmas plans. Johnny can't help but feel bad for him, which is stupid because Sensei probably enjoys time to himself, where he can do whatever he feels like. But still, even at their lowest, dirt-poor point, his mom and him have always been able to celebrate Christmas together and make something special out of it. He thinks Kreese deserves something like that too.

A light bulb goes off in his head. The idea fills him with equal amounts of restless anxiety and excitement. He agonizes about the right way to ask his mom and Sid. (Let's be real, it's still Sid's house and he's the one who makes all the final decisions around here. It's already a miracle that he allows them their 'silly little tradition'.) At the same time he tries not to think about the very real possibility that Kreese will turn down his offer in the end anyway.

The next day, when Sid returns from the country club in one of his rare good moods, Johnny decides that the timing is as perfect as it will ever be. During dinner he fidgets in his chair until he finds to courage to ask for what he wants.

"Mom? Sensei Kreese said he'll be all alone at Christmas, and well, I was just wondering, wouldn't it be nice to invite him to Christmas dinner? If it's okay with you and Sid," he blurts out.

"Christmas dinner with your karate teacher? Hah, that's the stupidest thing I've heard from you yet."

His mom, bless her, tries to counter Sid's mocking words.

"I think it's sweet of you honey, that you don't want Mr. Kreese to be alone during the holidays."

Sid grumbles and is probably about to cancel the whole thing just to spite them, but Johnny prepared for this.

"What about a Christmas lunch instead? That way he won't stay for very long."

He can hardly believe his ears when, after a pleading look from Laura, Sid says, "Fine, he can come over for a quick luncheon. We'll see what he has to say about you and if he agrees that your karate lessons are a waste of money."

Johnny is so excited he barely registers the threatening second sentence.

Though when he tells Kreese about it the following day, he is so fully convinced his offer is about to be rejected—already thinking about having to face his stepdad's ridicule when he tells him the lunch is off—that when Kreese accepts the invitation with a bemused look on his face his first reaction is a "Huh?"

He quickly recovers, beaming up at his Sensei and shoving a nervously crumpled piece of paper into his hands. "Okay, great! Lunch is served at 1 PM. Here's the address, it's easy to find. See you then!"

The day of the lunch has arrived, and Johnny has already checked his hair, outfit and decorations a million times. Just like his commitment, movements and performance in the dojo, everything has to be perfect. The doorbell chimes right when he gets sent out of the kitchen for hovering. He walks to the door as quickly as he can without messing up his hair or making him seem out of breath.

It's still weird seeing Kreese in anything but a gi, he'll never get used to the sight. And these are definitely the nicest-looking clothes he's ever seen his Sensei wearing. Not overly formal, and Sid will probably think Kreese didn't make an effort, but Johnny can tell that he did.

The lunch is slightly awkward but nice, with Johnny providing entertainment by blabbering excitedly about anything and everything, his eyes bright and fixated on their visitor. Whenever Johnny has to pause to take a breath, Laura asks Kreese polite questions. Everything is going smoothly.

Leave it to Sid to find a way to ruin it.

To be fair, Johnny gestures wildly during one of his tales and knocks over his glass of water. Sid is quick to scold him for it, starting a tirade about how Johnny is good for nothing, always making messes, always screwing around and making a fool of himself.

Johnny can feel himself shrink with every word coming out of Sid's mouth. He stares at the festive table cloth. Usually he would have teared up by now, but the presence of his Sensei at least ensures that his eyes remain dry. Anger and shame well up inside him in lieu of the usual misery. Before he has time to decide how he's going to react to Sid's scorn, Kreese speaks up in a voice he usually reserves for his students.

"You and I have a very different view of Johnny, Mr. Weinberg. He's my best student, and recently became the first ever two-time back-to-back All Valley Under 18 Karate Champion, all without losing a single point. But I guess Johnny only excels under the right kind of guidance, so of course you wouldn't know what the boy is capable of."

Sid silently seethes during the remainder of the lunch, and even though Johnny knows what to expect once Kreese leaves, he still glows warm inside, like being near a bonfire. At the end of the lunch his cheeks hurt from smiling.

[variousqueerthings]

some rambles below about the potential if johnny had had a biological dad in cobra kai instead of a stepfather (i stress “rambles” this isn’t organised)

wondering about the version of johnny who does have a bio-dad who’s just like... johnny-but-worse in a different way to how kreese is johnny-but-worse, that is while johnny was presented as a spoiled rich kid who’s kind of mindlessly aggressive/being encouraged in that by kreese, his dad could be a republican (homophobic) economist or stocktrader or smthin, some guy for whom all these trappings and johnny and laura are part of the scenery of his success (like a don draper type but less charismatic) --

which is sort of what they were trying to do with sid, but that messaging got lost the second they forgot that johnny was designed to be the blonde über-american foil to the immigration and outsider daniel and miyagi story, and sid of course cannot be that metaphor! (thinks also forever fondly about the fic about sid getting into the country club, but still being an outsider, and wonders if there’s some way of incorporating that idea into this story, but for now, placing his lost potential gently aside) 

what would it mean for a johnny who really did have all the chances to do whatever he wanted, provided he played by his real life father’s rules and his dream was to... be gay do karate? was he disowned? has he essentially disowned himself? is his father dead or alive? is there still money to be had that johnny refuses to touch? does his real life father bail him out of jail over and over and that is the extent to which he’ll help him (while also being disgusted/disappointed by his continued alcoholism, not because he himself isn’t maybe an alcoholic in the correct way, but because johnny is so obvious about it or something along those lines)? would they bump into each other end s3 at the country club?

also I realise here that this is the narrative they gave to terry, and the parallel narrative would still work, considering terry did do what his family ordered him to and johnny just... couldn’t

love a good “karate is a phase” metaphor + it would have made the sources of johnny’s pain not be his jewish stepdad (reliably removed from having to be blood-related or have anything to do with johnny’s purpose in the original film) and instead be literally all the things that were put in place for boys like him to grow up into privilege and for some Unknown Reason he was unable to fulfil that expected goal 

it also would have brought johnny’s parentage more to the front, because sid is never really particularly involved in the karate war and johnny cuts ties with him pretty fast (and then ed asner died, so idk if they were intending more), but if his actual, powerful, still-invested-in-his-stock-on-some-level father were in the plot there’d be way more you could do with that (maybe especially if he were dying? johnny is his final legacy?)

+ the core of Stuff that was increasingly forgotten by the show was also that daniel and miyagi were not related by blood, they became family by choice and to have that be a stronger bond in comparison to a johnny and his biological dad....? the idea that biological family ain’t everything and you can choose! (cries in s5.....)

laura could still have been someone either someone who came from a poor background and he married her for her looks/youth, but I also like the laura who kind of parallels ali, whose parents in the first movie ofc very much try to “push” her towards a more suitable boyfriend in... the violent and disrespectful of her boundaries johnny lawrence

there’d be a whole interesting subplot at that point of characters who didn’t come from money who were able to find a way to make their own way in life, vs characters who did come from money who got trapped in cycles of violence by doing what was expected and then visited that violence on people without as much power as them in order to assert control, and johnny attempting somehow to break that cycle without knowing how or why or even that he was really doing it by breaking from his father

ofc you coulda also killed the guy early on and had johnny’s main narrative revolve around laura, but that would assume a story that puts mothers on equal footing and it always struggled with that a bit, even back in the movie days -- tbh the only thing that I would really take from all of that, is that her maiden-name was lawrence and johnny used her name the whole time, and possibly that the full break between johnny and [insert father] was her death

bringing back sid for a sec, simply to wonder about fitting in a guy like him who’s managed to get into “the club” because off the top of my head I mainly think he belongs in a slightly different story, but if someone has something they’d like to say to that am all ears!