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❝ That's the thought that came upon me when we both reached for the gun! ❞

a study in: BEING REPLACED, JEALOUSY, LOVE SQAURES, & TURNING INTO A DIFFERENT PERSON. ( featuring the episodes of 1x05, 1x08 & 1x09. )

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01: udyati will always be a little bit too european, a little bit too dutch, a little bit too honest (even if she apologizes fifty times beforehand and fifty times afterwards) because surely she's not the only one who sees that this whole karate war is getting way out of hand? can't these white men go to therapy instead of dragging kids, teens and twenty-somethings into this? ethan! ethan, are you seeing this?!

02: ethan teaching and training udyati in the ancient and noble art of karate. (her words, not his, probably.) udyati prides herself on being a good student, on showing up and doing the work. but gosh, it's annoying as heck to, you know, not pick something up perfectly immediately. "i am not booksmart, eth. the school system hates me. this is all i have. i need to be good at this. i need master this sooner rather than later! i can't not master this! i can't not be useless! not while there's a karate war going on! i have too many things to make up for! and i'm already at a severe disadvantage because of larusso saying that pressure point techniques are forbidden, which, by the way, is the stupidest thing i've heard and i've heard so many stupid things throughout the years that i've been alive, you'd be surprised!"

03: #2 is a nice segue into ethan and udyati saying: heck it (or, if ethan swears, fuck it) and bending larusso's no pressure points techniques rule.

04: ethan and udyati getting ambushed by cobra kai members and having to fight them off.

05: ethan and udyati sitting down together during a quiet moment and talking about their powers and their pasts, present, futures and the paths they've taken that lead them to this moment. (bonus points for udyati telling ethan about what kalindi did to her.)

06: ethan telling udyati the story of how he fell in love with his partners. in turn, udyati tells ethan all about harry hook.

07: udyati and ethan having friendly sparring matches with and without their powers.

08: udyati meeting ethan's parents who take her underneath their wings. her own mom tries her very best, but she's away due to her job a lot, leaving udyati home alone more often than not.

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August has never dealt well with being contained. He should be better at it. Everyone in his family has control issues. His brother Sky taught him a trick when they were younger to keep him from putting his foot in his mouth. It involves keeping your arms beneath your back and digging your nails into your skin as hard as you can. He tries it. His nails are short, but if he angles them just right, they still manage to do the job. Only, pain never really did it for him. It did when he was a kid, and his pain tolerance was still pretty low, but now that he's older, he's been trained to keep going despite his pain, and all it does is make him more annoyed.

RAISE ME UP AGAIN. // TAKE ME PAST THE EDGE. // I WANT TO SEE THE OTHER SIDE. // WON'T YOU SHOW ME WHAT IT'S LIKE?

au: ethan ( @taughtdefense / @thirdeldritch ) has never needed a reason to protect robby ( @taughtpain ). the soulbond handled that before johnny lawrence was even a name he knew.

but johnny comes to him anyway—not demanding, not bargaining, just asking to be enough—and the soulbond has already told ethan everything he needs to know—what robby carries, what johnny cost him, and what johnny has been trying to pay back ever since.

so ethan willingly drops his wards and opens something in himself that has never been open. unlocks whatever latent abilities had been sitting and waiting in the lawrence bloodline, because if robby's father is going to protect his son, he's going to actually be able to do it, and do it well.

the tether forms, and johnny walks away with something old living behind his sternum.

and anyone who touches what's his is going to find out exactly what that means.

or: an au where johnny becomes a warlock, backed by the third ever being in existence, to protect robby.