your robby anon made me think that Cobra Kai Robby (specifically S4 one with most fuckboy vibes) would prolly be like catnip for teen!daniel: he's kind of a bad boy, fit as fuck, Intense:tm:, lots of barely contained anger, sorta gaslight-gatekeep energy but at the same time he's got a heart of gold. danny's "I can fix him, momma" contemporary heroine brain would just go haywire. only thing is that robby ain't taller, but that's like hmhmm.
Omg. I mean, you're not wrong!
Daniel didn't have as much of that energy in the original trilogy. Let's be honest, in the first movie, after the beach scene he has no time for Johnny.
He does try to smile and play it off before Johnny pushes him. And there is that bit at the start of the second movie where the Trophy Incident takes place.
(maybe he felt in retrospect that it was a shame they couldn't have been friends? Not that johnny was making it very easy, honestly lol.)
So I find it interesting that this seems to have been a trait to develop sometime in tkk2 or Tkk3 and then really develop in the years between tkk3 and CK.
But I digress.
He is a fully fledged Good Boy. It only takes a simple and heartfelt apology for him to forgive someone. (Sometimes not even that.)
Angsty, hurt s4 Robby with his daddy issues and his
I also don't think Robby has ever really been a bad kid. He's always been a. Good kid who acted out in some troubling ways. (As is common for neglected children)
But if we do take peak angst Robby with his daddy issues, and sleeping in vans, and unease with his own sense of anger and pair him with "There are no bad students, only bad teachers," Daniel, I can see it.
Lol at "contemporary heroin brain." He really is built for a harem isn't he?
As for the height, I don't think tkk era Daniel would care. Chozen is only slightly taller than Daniel and he likes him plenty. Maybe his thing for Large and Intense men developed over time as a response to the effect of all three movies?
(also, I am wondering what kind of au that would even work in tbh. Like, maybe past Daniel travels to the future and shenanigans happen?)
I mean, he has a type?
