SILVER’S LIST OF BEST FIGHTER BY POTENTIAL: what does it mean by potential? those he see that have more than what meets the eye. that spark he and john often would look for their fighters. he doesn’t really discriminate by sex or size, he trained daniel and made him into a very powerful fighter in less than 4 months, so size doesn’t matter, what matters is the potential for greatness. all these are for the main kids tbh:
hawk: he was already a great fighter and he saw the way he mixed up the two styles with ease, yet, terry see the boy is holding back, perhaps still shaken by the events of the haircut. he saw the videos of the 2018 tournament and saw that park of a young boy hwo had enough of being bullied and turn it into power. there is potential in there, as well hawk’s need to please an authority figure. his weakness depends on the verse but terry think it’s his inner self, still seeing himself as that kid pre-flip script.
robby: he trained robby one on one. he thinks robby has more potential in him but his weakness of needing a father figure and his desire to be loved by his father is his doom. terry is set to make robby see that his father is worth nothing and that his real place of belonging is in cobra kai. it’s easier considering if robb.y will have a hard time getting into everyone’s good graces again. like hawk, he sees him mixing the styles very naturally, perhaps more than hawk, but deep down he needs to twist those miyag.i roots even more, because robby has a good heart, sometimes that was seen in every match in 2018 before his arm was broken for it, so he needs to do that, break him.
tory: tory got the fire, got the spirit but he saw her waver once, and he knows her heart isn’t into the art anymore. her weakness is t hat need to protect her love ones. tory worked more as a pack animal in his eyes, a leader of the pack but she very much has failed him the moment she questioned his methods right in the middle of a fight and why he was easy to arrange her fight to make her win. her training once robby starts showing promise becomes more single focused and sees the difference in character. tory doesn’t have the need to please the authority like robby would have.
sam: don’t get it mixed, he does think sam is a great fighter, perhaps, one of the better ones out there (one of the few reasons why he rigged the tournament, just to make sure), but in his eyes, she is too much like her father except she is less pliant than he was during 1985. sam has a strong moral guideline that even when she is following a more strict training under johnny, she still adapts, but silver’s methods might be too much and will question him and he has no room for that. her weakness is also her greatest strength which is her legacy. she just doesn’t seen to know what to do with it.
miguel: unlike hawk, miguel sense of belonging was never CK per say, but johnn.y lawrence. and he goes were the man goes but like robby keene, the weakness is the need to fill that father figure void. this plus the back injury, terry has no real interest in miguel beside maybe hurting him to indirectly hurt the moral of the adults.
demetri: sadly for dem (or happily) he is too MD for his liking. it’s an insult really but demetri has been the one student he sees that had taken daniel’s teachings and seems to thrive under those instead of questioning it and want something more brutal and hard. so in his mind he is not bothering with the kid.
if non canon speaking, he still think @legacytaught is the best fighter in his mind. and he is not being modest but he has trained mercy since they were kid. the closest thing to a kid of his own he would have.
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