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beware   mentions   of   topics   like:   bullying,   non-sexual   grooming,   manipulation   of   a   minor,   gaslighting,   broken   home,   generational   trauma,   mentions   of   anti-italian   sentiments   while   daniel   was   growing   up.

SENSEI   OF   MIYAGI-DO   KARATE. ALL   VALLEY   CHAMPION   OF   1984/1985.

a   study   of:   the   underdog,   the   unlike   80s   hero,   the   deconstruction   of   toxic   masculinity,   let   your   voice   be   heard,   kindness   is   not   weakness,   what   it   means   to   be   a   father,   grief,   the   pain   of   burden   everyone's   pain,   overcoming   old   rivalries   and   dealing   with   your   trauma.

EST. NOVEMBER 2021. teachbalance & senseibalance.

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I remember the gap between one and the other was at least a year or two.

the miyagi-do dojo is still functional and the fiasco of the 2019 all valley dojo has been reversed. without silver buying the ref, miyagi-do would had won, so miyagi-do is an all valley champion.

he and johnny still have joined classes, however, each one have their own dojo (unless its storm's johnny who remains miyagi-do or we plot it out).

the dojo in Legends seems to be more clean and set up like it was when Miyagi lived there. which feeds my delusional heart of divorced Daniel and him living in the Dojo as I have him since season three. He lives there on an anexus he helped built and Miyagi's old room as been turn into a shrine to his old sensei where he goes to meditate and train by himself.

mari's tory is very much a miyagi-do by how much we have interacted and plotted. as I play robby too, I have robby as a sensei in miyagi-do after his tour as a karate star era and winning tournaments.

he gives a roof to both tory, her brother and robby (he understands robby relationship with johnny will always be sour), and he had grown to care for tory as a daughter.

the dojo looks more traditional to okinawa as it did in earlier seasons and in the movies as he redecorated and chozen helped.

daniel as a sensei has competed in some tournaments for adults and senseis and has won one. this was simply out of pleasure as we know our boy loves to compete.

while still the name on LaRusso Dealerships, he no longer works there and dedicates himself full time as a Sensei. Amanda now works as the face of the dealership and by Daniel's idea, the dealership helps someone get finantial help to study karate at any valley dojo, specially miyagi-do.

but besides mr. miyagi being the obvious influence in daniel's life, silver's influence creeps through daniel worst personality traits in how scary he was able to gain daniel's trust because at daniel's core, he wants that male validation. daniel, who never looked like the other boys, who was more sensible and sensitive than other boys, who was raised by a single mother and watched his father die and carried that guilt and burden with him to every aspect of his life.

daniel craves male paternal figures, someone who can guide him because he lost his father when he was 9/10 give or take. mr. miyagi was there but silver was so easy because he is younger and perhaps, with what we know of silver now, he saw some of himself in young daniel and exploited that. and there is also the whole non-sexual grooming of the relationship that does have some odd undertones if you see how silver talks to daniel in the novelization and in the show too . lines like "deep down, you know you liked it" and "you just had to keep on pushing" and "from the moment i met you i been making you do things you don't want to" defenitely read more into how women are written down when they are confronted with their abusers.