⇓in character⇓

PHYSICAL AFFECTION: Unlikely at first. With some time he'll build up to brofists and high fives. From there to anything more.

PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: Expect to get punched back or punched first. Also he teaches Karate so that happens.

ROMANCE/FLIRTING: More likely if the other character is female. Males not likely but could happen?

SEXUAL CONTENT: Discuss first.

PSYCHIC ABILITIES: Yes.

MAGIC/POWERS: Yes.

MEDICAL INFORMATION: Yes/Discuss first.

OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS OR TRIGGERS: Sexist, Racist, Homophobic slurs. Talk about grooming and violence against children. Drinking and alcoholism. Abusive parental figures. Gatekeeping, gaslighting, mansplaining.

⇓out of character⇓

BACKTAGGING: Always

FOURTH WALLING: Yes

THREADHOPPING: Yes

CONTENT I ABSOLUTELY NEED WARNINGS FOR, BUT CAN STILL PLAY: N/A Will discuss if something comes up.

CONTENT I ABSOLUTELY NEED WARNINGS FOR AND THAT I CAN'T PLAY: N/A will discuss if something comes up.

ANYTHING ELSE: Feel free to come to me if anything Johnny says is offensive or makes you feel alienated, or I miss a content warning. I'm only looking to play a silly karate man and not looking to hurt anyone's feelings. I can adjust a thread if it's going in a way that makes anyone feel uncomfortable.

Character Base

• Character Name: Johnny Lawrence
• Age: 52
• Canon (Date/Year Released)/Canon Point: Cobra Kai (2018)/Season 2: Episode 10. After dropping Robby off at school.
• Items Coming Along:
Cobra Kai Gi
2009 Dodge Challenger. Black and Yellow Cobra Kai custom
Cassette Player with "Johnny's Badass mixtape 4"
Box of 18 Coors Banquet.
Red Leather Jacket and Black Headband.
1984 All Valley Karate 2nd place trophy.
Baseball photo of Robby Keene age 10.

• Content Warnings for Character: Violence, Toxic Masculinity, Abuse, Alcoholism, Sexism, Parental death, child endangerment, urination.

Character Background

• History: https://thekaratekid.fandom.com/wiki/Johnny_Lawrence
• Core Relationships:

John Kreese.

Johnny never knew his biological father and his step father, Sid was abusive. This led Johnny to see his karate teacher John Kreese as the closest thing he had to a father figure. Kreese gave him more attention than his family did but proved to a massively negative influence on Johnny's life. While lessons like “If they see your crying then your enemies have already won.” or “Strike first, strike hard, no mercy.” might have helped Johnny better handle his home life and give him confidence, they ultimately led him to becoming a bully and an asshole. While he was Kreese's star pupil this didn't last into his teenage after he came in second place during the All Valley Tournament, Kreese had urged him to cheat in the tournament and attack his opponents injury. When this failed and Johnny lost Kreese turned on him and blamed his weakness for the loss. Kreese snapped his second place trophy and started to strangle Johnny in the parking lot. After this the two went their separate ways and Johnny believed Kreese had passed away in the interim thirty years.

Johnny spends the next thirty years spiraling until he meets Miguel Diaz and reopens Cobra Kai. After the two win the current All Valley Tournament and Johnny begins to see the errors in Kreese's creeds his former mentor reenters his life.

Johnny is bitter and angry with his former mentor and blames him for the way he turned out in life. Kreese uses the fact that Johnny is trying to improve himself against him and claims that he's changed as well. He plays off Johnny's own need for redemption to weasel his way back into his life and dojo. Every time Johnny gives Kreese an inch he takes a mile and prey's on Johnny's goodwill to either manipulate his former student or the new generation of Cobra Kai.

Eventually Kreese turn Johnny's students and son against Johnny and takes over the Cobra Kai dojo. Johnny realizes he's been manipulated and continues to refuse these tactics. Despite this though it is shown that Johnny still cares for Kreese and can fall under his sway. During the fourth season All Valley Tournament the two share a conversation where Kreese pushes on Johnny's desire to win which he in turn pushes onto his students. While Johnny pushes onto him that fighting fair and honorably is more important which Kreese in turn starts to push onto his students.

Daniel “Danny” LaRusso.

Daniel LaRusso is Johnny's high school rival and the one who defeated him in his senior year All Valley Karate Tournament. The reunite after 30 years after Daniel's daughter is involved in a hit and run incident and damage Johnny's car. The two are incredibly petty to one another and can't let go of their high school grudges. While Johnny is direct with his approach, Danny is often indirect with how he escalates the conflict between the two of them. Johnny will strike directly by either confronting Danny directly or by spray painting a dick onto one of his rivals billboards. Danny on the other hand will attempt to force Johnny to shut down his dojo by influencing his landlord to increase the rent on the building or by offering free karate lessons to convince students to train under him instead.

Despite the fact that the two appear to get along like oil and water when the two actually make the attempt they appear to have more in common than they think. They're both surprised to find that their interests in music and vehicles are similar and they bond over the fact that both of them had less than ideal home lives and found some sort of direction in a mentor figure who took them under their wing. They're also fiercely defensive of their students and want the best for the kids they are now teaching.

Unfortunately these moments of closeness are often torn apart by either one or the other, or an outside force ripping out the fragile reluctant good will forming between the two of them.

Miguel Diaz.

Johnny's life was at a standstill until he Miguel moved into the same building as him. While dismissive of the teenager at first Johnny steps in to defend him against bullies and after a run in with his own childhood rival decides to take Miguel under his wing. While Johnny teaches Miguel karate, Miguel in turn inspires Johnny to clean up his act and catch up on the life that had slipped past him. The two bond and while Johnny views Miguel as a second chance at being a father after his failures with his own son, Miguel starts to view Johnny as the father figure he's been lacking in his own life.

Building up to the first All Valley Tournament of the series Johnny starts to see Miguel become more aggressive and violent and while he appreciates it at first he starts to see how this mindset affected his own life and starts to realize that his own lessons may be flawed. At first Miguel is too worked up to take Johnny's words to heart and wins the Tournament by attacking his opponents weakness in a way similar to how Johnny had done when he was a teenager. The difference being that Miguel wins the tournament afterwards.

From here Johnny attempts starts to branch off in his lessons from what he had been taught. He tells Miguel and the rest of his students that the “No Mercy” tenent of Cobra Kai is outdated and that he was never taught the difference between mercy and honor. When Miguel approaches him about the change in lessons Johnny clarifies that if he's tough on Miguel it's because he believes his student can be better than he ever was.

This lesson comes to a head when Miguel is put in the hospital after trying to deescalate a fight. Both of them spiral as they struggle to come to terms with what happened and Miguel pushes Johnny away, blaming him for what happened. Johnny continues to try and reach out to his student until the both of them reconcile, Johnny promising he will always Miguel's teacher. Miguel in turn pushes Johnny out of his slump by telling him that he was good influence on his students and that he was a coward for stepping away from them. The two of them then create a new dojo called Eagle Fang.

During this time Johnny gets closer with Miguel's mother and slowly becomes a more clear father figure for Miguel. Johnny worries about messing up his relationship with Miguel not wanting it to end as rocky as the one he has with Robby. As such he gets jealous when Danny starts to train Miguel. He also gets worries about being viewed as abusive in his training to Miguel and starts to going easy on the both of them. Johnny admits these feelings to Miguel and the two of them and becomes more secure in their relationship.

Robby Keene.

Johnny's mother passed away shortly before Robby was born which caused Johnny to spiral as she was the only person he thought believed in him. He spent the night Robby was born drinking in the restaurant across the road, afraid that he might end up letting his son down. Unfortunately this ends up being a self fulfilling prophecy as he breaks off from his new family and never actually connects with his son at all.

Once Johnny starts to train Miguel he gets a call from Robby's high school with a notice that his son had been caught with drugs. At first he tries to tell the school to call Robby's mother and then tries to reprimand Robby when told they couldn't get a hold of her. His son brushes him off as Johnny had never been there for him before.

As Johnny trains Miguel he starts to make attempts to reach out to his son only to eventually find out that Robby has started to train under his rival Daniel LaRusso who didn't know that Robby was Johnny's son. This drives a deeper rift between all of them as Daniel and Johnny were working toward reconciling at the time.

Robby ends up facing off against Johnny's two top students in the first All Valley Tournament of the series. Johnny witnesses both of them fight dirty against Robby which ends in Miguel winning the tournament. This drives the wedge further as Robby believes Johnny told them to do it and it drives the wedge between the both of them further.

From here both Johnny and Robby make more honest attempts to try and reach out to one another only for them to see the other with Miguel or Daniel respectively which sparks up jealousy or other wedges between the two.

It's only when Robby comes to Johnny with Daniel's daughter who had gotten drunk at a party when the two actually make attempts to reconcile. Johnny takes the two of them in and while he gets in a fight with Daniel he defends Robby's decision as he realized Danny would overreact. He takes Robby to school the next day where Robby and Miguel fight ending with Miguel in the hospital. Both Johnny and Robby spiral and push each other away from here.

Robby ends up falling in with John Kreese who takes him in and stops. Johnny attempts to reach out to Robby but he insists that Johnny is the cause of the problems in his life and that he doesn't need him anymore. Johnny insists he wont fight his own son. The two leave with bridges burned until the next tournament.
Robby attempts to take another Cobra Kai student under his wing and realizes sees him falling down the same angry path that he had. He ends up opening up to Johnny about how afraid he was of messing up. The two hit an understanding and Johnny assures him that he understands and they start to work toward reconciling.

Character Personality Through Key Moments

(2+) Positive Experiences: Johnny is unorthodox and creative. This is often shown through his training methods. Which include teaching someone how to kick by tying their hands together and shoving them into a pool to force them to “think with their feet” instead of their hands. Or to climb into a cement mixer and push the barrel to keep it moving so they don't literally get stuck in their ways. Or to push the Miyagi-Do students to learn how to act first instead of defending by having them jump from one building to another.

Accountability. Despite Johnny's many faults he is always willing to own up to the mistakes he's made. When he starts Eagle Fang Karate he approaches his previous students and apologizes for the the mistakes that he's made. That he had been putting himself first instead of his students which led to them drifting toward Kreese and Miguel being hospitalized and urges them to join with him instead. He does the same with Miguel after the first tournament when he realizes that the lessons he was pushing were leading his student to become more violent. Explaining that he never learned the difference between mercy and honor and Miguesl shouldn't have to pay the price for that. That he was still learning himself.

(2+) Negative Experiences:

Childish. Johnny is absolutely awful at behaving in a mature and responsible way. When Miguel is beaten by Danny's daughters boyfriend Johnny responds by getting drunk and spray painting a giant dick on one of Danny's car dealership billboards. This remains a constant trait throughout the series as when Danny tries to warn Johnny about Terry Silver and take over the training of both of their students. Johnny takes it that Danny thinks he's a better fighter than him and challenges him to a tournament style fight over who will train the children.

Johnny has a large problem with jealousy and is incredibly insecure with his relationships with both Robby and Miguel. In cases where he realized both kids were taking a shine to Daniel LaRusso while they were training with him he flew off the handle in different ways. In the case with Robby he openly attacked Daniel thinking the other was using it as tactic to fuel their rivalry. Johnny storms off and is later found in a drunk stupor urinating on a LaRusso auto sign before finally arriving at the Tournament the next day to teach his students the “No Mercy” tenant of Cobra Kai before they entered. This becomes less out right by the time it happens with Miguel. Instead he loses focus on training and gets kicked in the face by a student. Who he then ties up and gags to a punching bag to have the students train on while he stews about Miguel and Daniel.

Deer Country Attributes

• Canon Powers: This character is a normal human. He does not have any powers beyond that.
• Blood Type: Paleblood
• Omen: A Cobra with Eagle Wings named Bobby
• Blessed Day: August 20th
• Patron Pthumerian: Mariana
• Blood Power Manifestation: Both of Johnny's fighting styles Cobra Kai and Eagle Fang are based on aggression. As such his blood power wont let him communicate telepathically with people directly but his emotions specifically anger and aggression will seep through into the people around him. It'll hit hard to people he is directly training with pending opt in.

Writing Samples

One: https://countryclub.dreamwidth.org/20542.html?thread=6939198#cmt6939198 TDM Top Level. (If it's better to post two separate threads let me know.)

The Player

• Player Name: Josh
• Player Age: 33
• Player Contact: jjabarrett#9701, jjabarret on plurk
• Permissions: Here.

Other Characters

Link to Character 1 overall AC: Ruby Rose https://doeit.dreamwidth.org/1530.html?thread=50938#cmt50938