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NAME

Daniel LaRusso NAME
Male SEX/GENDER
Cobra Kai CANON
Season 5, episode 10, after the fight with Terry. CANONPOINT

HISTORY

Death of his father

When Daniel was eight years old, his father died of an illness. It's one of the memories from Daniel's childhood that stuck with him the strongest, being able to clearly recount the memory he had to say goodbye to his father when he later tells mister Miyagi about it. Due to his father's death, his mother had to start working moreto support the family, leading to Daniel becoming somewhat of an independent child - and perhaps forming the basis of his habit of not talking about his problems and instead wanting to solve them by himself without bothering anyone else with them.

Meeting mister Miyagi

Perhaps the most formative moment in Daniel's life though was him meeting mister Miyagi, the local handyman in the apartment complex Daniel and his mother moved into. The man saved Daniel from getting beaten up badly by a group of bullies from his high school, leading to the man teaching Daniel karate and basically becoming a surrogate father for him, filling the hole left behind by Daniel's father's early death. To this day Daniel looks up to mister Miyagi, and truly struggles with the fact that the man passed on several years ago from Daniel's current canon point, feeling the loss of a father figure for the second time. He has taken on the man's philosophies and tries to live by them, even decades later.

1985 was a wild year

Though Daniel was a very open and trusting kid, all of that was ruined when he met Terry Silver - a man who, to take revenge for his friend's loss at a karate tournament where Daniel won - manipulated Daniel into trusting him and training with him, only to reveal his true nature later on and shatter that trust completely. Daniel has had trouble trusting people ever since.

Return of Cobra Kai

Decades later Daniel was leading a fairly normal life, having shaken off the wild karate events of his childhood and never talking about them again, until the boy - now man - he beat during his first karate tournament decided to bring back Cobra Kai, the dojo that gave Daniel his trust issues through Terry Silver and that caused the bullies go after him during high school. Daniel is seen spiralling from that moment on, wildly lashing out due to his trauma and trying to do practically anything he can to prevent the return of Cobra Kai, just to make sure no other kids will get hurt by its resurgence the way he got hurt decades ago.

ABILITIES

KARATE Daniel is skilled in karate, particularly the Miyagi-do style, which is based on the actual real world Gōjū-ryū style of karate. It's a style that emphasizes defense, with lots of moves that block and counter the attacks of others. Daniel has trained in this since he was young, though there was a period where he quit it, but he's been back at it for a few years again now. Despite not being the physically strongest person, his style and technique allow Daniel to even take on entire groups at once in canon, sometimes consisting of men much bigger than him. (An example.) He also has a pressure point technique that allows him to incapacitate others, (temporarily) paralyzing their limbs.

FRIENDLY (BUSINESS) CHARM Aside from that, Daniel has a good business sense, canonically running a succesful car dealership with multiple upscale locations. He knows how to be charming and how to win people over, an ability that's very much helped by his natural charm and friendliness.

PERMISSIONS

Yes TOUCHING Yes KISSING Yes (prefer to plot first!) SEX Yes POWERS USE Yes (prefer to plot first!) INJURY Yes (prefer to plot first!) death

Yes (prefer to plot first!) FIGHT SCENES Yes SHIPPING No FOURTH-WALLING Yes BACKTAGGING Yes THREADJACKING Please warn about eye trauma and sexual assault OOC HARD LIMITS

PREFERENCES

SMUT Praise kink
Marking
Sensory deprivation
Restraints
Collars
Gags
Voyeurism
Edging
Overstimulation

HORROR Cults
Mind control
Corruption
Confinement
Psychological horror

MONSTER

appearance

Daniel's monster form is very much like the classic idea of a chimera, though his form is a lion-like creature in the front - a shisa, the Okinawan variety of the guardian lions often seen in mythology - and a snake - more specifically, a cobra - in the back.

POWER

Strength | The strength his monster form has is determined by both his anger and protectiveness. The more angry and the more protective - though both of those often go together with Daniel, which is why it's both traits fuelling it - he feels at his moment of transformation or for a while before it, the physically stronger his monstrous form will be for that specific transformation.

behavior

When he is in his monster form, Daniel is basically just completely mindless, mostly incapable of rational thought and instead being driven by his base desires. He won't be capable of speech in this form, since there's not much of a person left in there at that point. The only exception to this are people Daniel feels particularly close to. Even though everything about his monstrous form is mindless otherwise, Daniel will be capable of recognizing someone even in that form as long as he has very strong feelings for them. So though he won't be capable of recognizing casual acquaintances and will treat them just like any stranger, he can control his actions around those he feels a strong attachment to and might even try to protect them.