isabellerecs | Entries tagged with fandom: cobra kai

Title: Eat You Whole
Author: connorswhisk
Canon: Cobra Kai
Pairing: Samantha LaRusso/Tory Nichols
Rating: Mature [R]
Word Count: 1,287
Summary: A moment in the locker rooms after the All-Valley Tournament.

Recommendation: Comment Hiatus ~ A partial hiatus in that I'll post a rec but I won't do the write up because I'm really behind and real life is getting in my way.

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Recommendation #3,287

Title: Baby, I'm a Nightmare
Author: theincredibleprincess
Canon: Cobra Kai
Pairing: Samantha LaRusso/Tory Nichols
Rating: Teen [PG]
Word Count: 28,576
Summary: In which Amanda and Tory make a deal sooner rather than later, Sam is determined to prove that she is 100% completely fine, and Tory is along for the ride. Literally.

Recommendation: Comment Hiatus ~ A partial hiatus in that I'll post a rec but I won't do the write up because I'm really behind and real life is getting in my way.

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Recommendation #3,286

Title: Walk with Me Out on the Wire
Author: acequid
Canon: Cobra Kai
Pairing: Samantha LaRusso/Tory Nichols
Rating: Teen [PG]
Word Count: 3,790
Summary: Tory says, "You don't know anything about me, LaRusso," like it's something Sam can't learn.

Recommendation: Comment Hiatus ~ A partial hiatus in that I'll post a rec but I won't do the write up because I'm really behind and real life is getting in my way.

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Recommendation #3,285

Title: If We Can Find a Way to Be Okay
Author: whitherwaywill
Canon: Cobra Kai
Pairing: Miguel Diaz/Robby Keane
Rating: Teen [PG]
Word Count: 51,945
Summary: Robby is standing under one of the dim streetlights, utterly frozen. Miguel doesn’t let himself stop to think. “Hey! Keene!”. In which Miguel stops Robby from going to Kreese.

Recommendation: Sometimes the only thing needed to change the course of someone’s life is for someone to reach out and to keep reaching out no matter what others think about it. Miguel is just too good for this world, our sweet summer child! And if that chance leads to a redemption arc and a nice long slow burn, so much the better.

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Recommendation #2,910

Title: Mending Wall
Author: lostmagician
Canon: Cobra Kai
Pairing: Miguel Diaz/Robby Keane
Rating: Mature [R]
Word Count: 19,046
Summary: Post Season 2. After Miguel wakes up from his coma, Robby moves in with his father and embarks on a journey to redeem himself.

Recommendation: Uh, this was so good. Nothing is fixed easily, but it gets there. Uh, so many feelings. Miguel having to get to a place of forgiveness, Robby having to make himself vulnerable to be forgiven. Some much growth, both separately and together. So good.

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Recommendation #2,909

Title: When the Bright Lights Have Faded to Blue
Author: OwnThyself
Canon: Cobra Kai
Pairing: Miguel Diaz/Robby Keane
Rating: Teen [PG]
Word Count: 2,001
Summary: "Yeah, you can do this for him. You can pull on those threads and make some fucking worthy knots. It's math, Keene. Solve it."

Recommendation: While Lawrusso is my jam, I could not help but investigate some of the rarer pairing out of Cobra Kai and this fraught tangle between the abandoned son and the prized pseudo-son is all sorts of interesting.

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Recommendation #2,908

Title: Grappling Hands

Author: theremin

Canon: Cobra Kai | The Karate Kid

Pairing: Daniel Larusso/Johnny Lawrence

Rating: Explicit [NC-17]

Word Count: 26,993

Summary: After the events of Karate Kid 1 and 2 John Kreese calls on an old friend. KK3 AU.

Recommendation: Oh man, another great one by theremin! Johnny is too good for Silver (the creep) and I love that he got to have a good sensei (not Kreese). And Daniel, a literal ray of sunshine. But dude, Silver is just so creepy! (He probably would have been happier getting boned by Kreese.)

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Recommendation #2,742

Title: Secret History (Silver and Kreese Weren’t Known for Their Meticulous Record Keeping)

Author: kdyelo

Canon: Cobra Kai

Pairing: Daniel Larusso/Johnny Lawrence

Rating: Mature [R]

Word Count: 23,566

Summary: Many years after the events of Karate Kid 3, Johnny Lawrence has revived and expanded Cobra Kai, starting dojos throughout southern California and reaping the rewards of his success. A chance encounter with Daniel LaRusso uncovers the Cobra Kai story he never knew, and the effect it has had on Daniel’s life.

Recommendation: Oh, oh, oh, this was delicious! Things go a little worse for Daniel and things go a little better for Johnny but they are still so very much themselves and it is beautiful and heartbreaking by turns.

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Recommendation #2,741

Title: The One Heart Way

Author: theremin

Canon: Cobra Kai | The Karate Kid

Pairing: Daniel Larusso/Johnny Lawrence

Rating: Mature [R]

Word Count: 23,326

Summary: In this one Daniel doesn't get to go to Okinawa, and Johnny Lawrence is in a lot of trouble.

Recommendation: Oh my God, I love this so much! The changes are perfect and the result while only a little to the left of canon is SO much better. I love that Daniel and Johnny are eating all the junk food like eighteen year olds on their own for the first time, I love all the little eighties details, but most of all I love their growing relationship and intimacy. Johnny heartwrenching backstory was so good as well.

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Recommendation #2,740

Title: Good Like That

Author: GoldStarGrl

Canon: Cobra Kai | The Karate Kid

Pairing: Daniel LaRusso/Johnny Lawrence

Rating: Explicit [NC-17]

Word Count: 29,355

Summary: Johnny always thought Sid dropping dead would be a godsend. Instead, it leaves him and his mom house poor and rubbing elbows with the kind of people he used to mock. One smart-aleck, girlfriend-stealing, Italian punk of a person, in particular.

Recommendation: Uh, this was so good! I love that Laura is included so much in this one, it does such a good job of fleshing her out and really explaining Johnny as a person. Bobby and Ali are so great, and Daniel and Johnny are electric as always. I love all of the little differences that their changed circumstances make, and the epilogue *squeeeee*.

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Recommendation #2,543

Title: Folded Birds

Author: Amymone

Canon: Cobra Kai | The Karate Kid

Pairing: Daniel LaRusso/Johnny Lawrence

Rating: General [G]

Word Count: 2,851

Summary: Johnny’s ex-degenerate resolution is going surprisingly well. If only it weren’t for those little blue paper thingies he keeps finding everywhere. Those and the new kid, of course. -- The thousand paper cranes au based on the lovely art.

Recommendation: Cute, cute, cute! I'd seen the art for this on my dash and was delighted that someone wrote a story for it. :D

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Recommendation #2,542

Title: Mambo Italiano

Author: theremin

Canon: Cobra Kai | The Karate Kid

Pairing: Daniel LaRusso/Johnny Lawrence

Rating: 10,175

Word Count: Teen [PG]

Summary: 50s high school AU. Johnny Lawrence will do just about anything for a chance at a date with Ali Mills.

Recommendation: OMG, this was so cute! I have to admit that the first time I read this I totally overlooked that it was a 50s AU and I just imagined them in the 80s with really retro taste, lol. But it works either way really. Daniel is much more comfortable with his more feminine appeal, and Johnny is a lot more laid back without Kreese's influence. Really, this is the cutest and now I want to go dancing.

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Recommendation #2,541

Title: In the Business of Date-Crashing

Author: narcissablaxk

Canon: Cobra Kai

Pairing: Daniel Larusso/Johnny Lawrence

Rating: Teen [PG]

Word Count: 4,706

Summary: “Spotted: newly divorced Mr. LaRusso at Home Depot at nine a.m. on a Saturday,” the message said. The picture was blurry but there was no denying that he was looking at a picture of Daniel LaRusso, in jean shorts and a baggy flannel shirt, his hair mussed and, if he looked closely, a streak of grey by his temple. It was a good look. “DILF,” was all Hawk’s reply said, and then a flurry of little picture emoticons that Johnny didn’t understand. He had to use the Google to figure out what a DILF was.

Recommendation: LOL, this is so awesome! I love that the kids are how Johnny keeps track for what's going on with Daniel. I also love that Daniel gets to fully inhabit his roll as a DILF. Money.

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Recommendation #2,453

Title: Little Trees

Author: K_iddo

Canon: Cobra Kai | The Karate Kid

Pairing: Daniel Larusso/Johnny Lawrence

Rating: Explicit [NC-17]

Word Count: 7,336

Summary: For some reason though, Johnny isn’t sure what it is, he wants to go in. Maybe he wants to see what the place is like, maybe he just wants to see LaRusso. Either way, he steels himself and does it because he may not be so much of an asshole anymore but he’s still no pussy.

Recommendation: I love it when these two start getting along earlier, the thought that they might make it work is very effecting. I love Johnny being interested in the bonsais too. Over all, super cute.

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Recommendation #2,452

Title: Fate, and Second Chances

Author: lostmagician

Canon: Cobra Kai

Pairing: Daniel Larusso/Johnny Lawrence

Rating: Explicit [NC-17]

Word Count: 14,453

Summary: Daniel wakes up one morning to a whole new life. A world where he's living with Johnny and they run a dojo together. Johnny doesn't understand why Daniel is freaking out and practically hyperventilating in the living room. A story about love, happiness, and second chances.

Recommendation: I feel sorry for Johnny, but he's so patient with Daniel's freaking out even though he doesn't know what he is really freaking out about. I love the thought of them running the dojo together as a full time thing. And I love that Daniel finally gets himself together.

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Recommendation #2,451

Title: Nothing but a Rebound

Author: narcissablaxk

Canon: Cobra Kai | The Karate Kid

Pairing: Daniel Larusso/Johnny Lawrence

Rating: Teen [PG]

Word Count: 9,142

Summary: After being dumped by Ali, Johnny has an idea - date Daniel LaRusso to piss her off.

Recommendation: Oh man, this was so good. Ali doesn't know what she wants but Johnny isn't much better. Thankfully it all gets sorted. But, uh, Johnny and Daniel being all competitive about mini golf gives me life.

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Recommendation #2,450

It has been quite a long time since I was able to wrangle my muse into letting me write something. Once again it is porn. In addition to having written the porn I was also trying something that I was inspired to try after a conversation here a couple of years ago about trying to make porn that only needed a few tweaks to redress it for another pairing. Kind of like porn-ish Mad Libs. Anyway, I have a few flavors already if this is your thing but there are more to come. :D

Testing the Waters by Ursula Haldane
Chapters: 1/1

Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 1400-ish

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Panty Kink, Panties, Praise Kink, Anal Sex, Anal Fingering, Oral Sex, Sort of, Rimming, Also Sort of, Under-negotiated Kink, Consensual Kink, Porn Libs, No Beta, We Die Like Writers

McDanno ~ Hawaii Five-0
Spander ~ Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Luztoye ~ Band of Brothers
Lawrusso ~ Cobra Kai
Dexray ~ Daredevil
Sambucky ~ The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Zimmerworth ~ BlacKkKlansman
Reddie ~ IT
Malbuck ~ Band of Brothers
Moreid ~ Criminal Minds
Gabechin ~ Hawaii Five-0
McShep ~ Stargate Atlantis
Wesvis ~ Common Law
Johnlock ~ Sherlock
Darlenn ~ The Walking Dead
Tomharry ~ Star Trek Voyager
Sterek ~ Teen Wolf
Hanbrough ~ IT
McShifty ~ Band of Brothers
Fitzmack ~ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Bradnate ~ Generation Kill
Forthur ~ Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Title: Drive Me, Crazy

Author: K_iddo

Canon: Cobra Kai

Pairing: Daniel LaRusso/Johnny Lawrence

Rating: Teen [PG]

Word Count: 4,727

Summary: It's a Friday evening and Johnny spots Daniel at the side of the road with a broken-down car. He decides to do the nice thing for a change. As soon as he’s alone in the car, Johnny regrets the offer. The two of them have never been in such close quarters alone, they’ve never even had an actual conversation. He’s seen him around school plenty, but it is the first time they’ve been face to face since LaRusso laid him out... and since Johnny fucked up the kid’s leg to the point he’d seen him on crutches for a while following the tournament.

Recommendation: Cute, cute, cute!! I love the thought of them just letting their guard down for a moment and finding that they have a lot in common, and if that leads to hot, hot kisses well that all to the good.

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Recommendation #2,422

Title: Johnny Lawrence and the Five Love Languages

Author: narcissablaxk

Canon: Cobra Kai

Pairing: Daniel Larusso/Johnny Lawrence

Rating: Teen [PG]

Word Count: 15,470

Summary: Johnny couldn’t explain how it had come to this. It was bad enough that he was sitting here, on the edge of the parking lot outside of Cobra Kai, staring down into a can of Coca Cola, with Miguel on the other side, looking at him furtively out of his peripherals like Johnny couldn’t see him doing it. It was worse that they were currently discussing Johnny’s latest and possibly worst epiphany to date. “So you have a crush on your greatest rival, there have been tons of movies about that,” Miguel said bracingly, turning his gaze completely out to the parking lot. Or; Johnny tries to get Daniel's attention through implementing the five love languages.

Recommendation: I love this so much! It is so cute! I love that Johnny ends up doing all of these things more by accident than calculation. I love that the kids are just so involved and taking bets. I love all the delicious build-up, just perfect.

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Recommendation #2,421

Title: Forever Young

Author: lostmagician

Canon: Cobra Kai

Pairing: Daniel Larusso/Johnny Lawrence

Rating: Explicit [NC-17]

Word Count: 21,315

Summary: "We could have been friends..." In 2018, a drunk Johnny records a message on his Walkman, expressing regret. If only he and Daniel had made amends sooner, the school fight never would have happened. In 1984, a young Johnny hears the message.

Recommendation: Holy crap, this was so good! And painful, and wonderful. I love how it takes almost nothing to have them focused on each other. Freaking Dutch though, but Bobby is a good bro.

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Recommendation #2,420