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[strikefirster]

[The feed opens up to a crooked shot of a building that screams abandoned warehouse vibes. Out of frame is a man in a black karate gi standing next to a grandfather clock with the words "Professor Dongspin" written on it in green paint.]

Now I just got here but I've been seen a lot of talk about free fighting lessons. But we all know that in life you get what you pay for.

You want to really kick the competition? Then you need to get your ass down to Cobra Kai.

Screw that weird ass fairy tale bullshit. Learn from someone who drinks raw eggs, not pansy ass hot chocolate.

You'll learn bone crunching, face smashing, all American Karate. For the reasonable price of your blood, sweat and tears.

We're not going to be doing any self-defense, It's time to learn self-offense.

Don't be a pussy. Join Cobra Kai and let me teach you the way of the fist.

[And then leaps into the air and delivers a spinning kick into the grandfather clock which collapses and smashes against the ground.

The feed cuts out shortly after.]

Comments

[strikefirster]

Yeah. Plus sometimes nothing is quite like just ramming your fist into some one's nose. It's fucking satisfying.

Could be. Either way someone needs to light a fire under his ass. It's hilarious watching him squirm his way around it.

[slayerskiss]

[Okay, she's sold. She already doesn't like Ozpin all that much, she's officially on team Cobra Kai.]

See, now? Now you're talkin' my language. There is something real satisfying about knocking someone on their ass with your bare fists.

I've already got a bit of karate training under my belt, but I suppose it couldn't hurt to see what you're about. At the very least you're a lot less tea and crumpets than my last few teachers.

[She really only had one teacher.]

[strikefirster]

[Cobra Kai Never Dies.]

I know, right? Screw their guns. And the giant scythes. And their giant scythes with guns in them. That shit is weird.

Seriously? More here or more of them in your world? Either way that sucks. Don't worry I'll teach you how to fight like a real man.

[slayerskiss]

[Okay, giant scythes with guns in them sound cool as fuck to Faith.]

I appreciate the spirit but if I tried to fight like any of the men I've curbstomped, I'd just be fuckin' losing. How about fighting like a wolverine or something badass like that?

But nah, back home. There's a whole fucked up club of posh english pricks who want to order me and people like me around. One of 'em wasn't so bad, just her lessons were boring. She's sorta the exception, though. [Faith doesn't want to think about what would have happened if Diana was alive for her 18th birthday.]

[strikefirster]

Sounds like the all the guys you've fought are certified pussies. Or you're probably just tough as shit. Hard to say without seeing you in action.

We'll teach you to fight like a fucking badass snake, or maybe an eagle. Eagles are fucking cool as shit too.

They all sound like Ozpin there. Sorry that you had to put up with that. At least you had one mentor who wasn't a total sack of crap. That's better than what I had.

[slayerskiss]

[She thinks everyone she's fought (except Buffy and Angel) were definitely certified pussies, but she thinks most people qualify for that title.]

The latter. Most of the guys I fought were hardened killers or at least relatively tough, I'm just tougher.

Honestly, eagles are cooler than snakes. They've got fuckin' legs and talons n' shit.

What's the story with your mentor, then?

CW: Mentions of child abuse, manipulation.

[strikefirster]

[To be fair those are two very big badasses right there.]

That's legit. I've fought a fair fair share of assholes. Don't know how may of them were killers.

Yeah. Eagles are tough as shit- I think if I wasn't doing the whole snake dojo thing I'd go with an Eagle. They don't get shit on, they're the ones that do the shitting.

He was a certified asshole. I got into karate because my home life was pretty shitty. Kreese took me in and gave me more attention than I ever got at home. Just didn't realize he was turning me into something ugly while I was at it.

Came in second at a local tournament and he smashed the trophy, choked the shit out of me and then disappeared for thirty years. Thought he was dead for the longest time.

[slayerskiss]

[Faith's expression... sombers, and she starts staring at anything other than the screen for a while.

'Took me in and gave me more attention than I ever got at home.' 'He was turning me into something ugly while he was at it.'

She doesn't resent the Mayor. She should, she knows that he really fucked her up, no matter how much he cared about her. Or even loved her, maybe. But she has some awareness of a fact that she refuses to fully confront: He knowingly twisted her into something evil.

It's... something, hearing someone else talk about a similar boat.]

...Reckon I know something about that, yeah. Do you think you'd have preferred it if he was? Dead, I mean?

[strikefirster]

[That question throws Johnny through a loop as he tries to figure out just how he actually feels about that. He didn't care for Kreese and what he did... But he wasn't sure if dead was quite what he wanted. It wouldn't particularly give him any peace.]

I don't know... I don't want him in my life or near my students. He can be anywhere or anything as long as he's not in my life.