hawkmetri time travel au!
i briefly mentioned this au in an ask a bit ago, so i thought, hey, let me actually talk about it! this au is insane as per usual, and deals with timey wimey bullshit combined with eli's stupidity. match made in HELL <3
we begin season six part one - hawkmetri has just divorced for the bajillionth time in the woods and eli is ANGSTING
hes all "my girl is mad at me i hope i die" and is like "man, if only i was never hashbrown evil way back when i joined cobra kai maybe things would be different... if only i could go back in time- WAIT"
and creates a time machine in like two hours. for demetri. no he does not realise he is in love with him at the time
then he time travels to season one on the day miguel showed up
things go mostly as normal except maybe hes a little more hawk-ish as eli (which raises eyebrows with demetri bc WHOA you just called kyler a bitch since when did you do that)
he joins cobra kai as normal but, you know, doesn’t start acting like a complete supervillain
he respects that demetri doesn’t want to join, doesn’t instantly decide all nerd shit is awful, has better control over his impulses. all that stuff
he completely forgets about moon at the party and never ends up making out with her because hes so focused on making sure demetri is okay and having a good time and just never ends up dating her
demetri is a little caught off guard by how suddenly attentive eli is being but whos he to look a gift horse in the mouth and all
at the all valley, eli doesnt dislocate robbys shoulder. this leads to robby winning the all valley over miguel
the robguel beef goes even crazier, and miguel is so mad that he lost that sam is EXTRA breaking up with him and thats when eli remembers why time travel is always a bad thing in movies
he forgot to account for the butterfly effect (idiot) but its too late now isnt it
toryguel get together and make each other SO much worse, and samrobby are basically endgame now, and kreese is getting to miguel and everything is sort of falling apart
EXCEPT for him and demetri! theyre great! in fact, they start dating! because eli has finally realised that hes maybe a tad in love with the guy hes ruining lives and time itself for
but its also kind of bad because demetri has Basically no friends outside of eli, since miguel is being Evil, moon and eli never dated so their friendship never happened, and demetri was never driven to join miyagi do so the miyagi do trio also never happened
surely this will have no further consequences
eli keeps an eye on sam and miguel at moons party, but nothing happens between them, so he thinks the school fight simply wont happen
which means hes caught really off guard when robby starts fighting miguel in the middle of the school day over their shared johnny related daddy issues
the fight escalates like in canon except instead of robby kicking miguel off the balcony, sam ends up paralysing tory by accidentally pushing her down the stairs
sam goes to JUVIE and the larussos DIVORCE, basically ending miyagi do, and this causes johnny to go all in on kreese and his evil plots
it is at this point that eli really begins regretting his decisions
miguel is now basically ultra evil because hello his girlfriend just got PARALYSED and he is even beginning to turn on eli for not being as committed to cobra kai as he could be (too busy with demetri)
and he does love demetri and enjoys being able to have a mostly karate drama free relationship with him but at this point he knows he HAS to go back because hes made everything ten times worse
this demetri is so similar to HIS demetri but hes also so different. hes more subdued, less confident, more melancholic. hes lonely, still feeling outcasted and lame. he has eli, and theyre in love, but its like theres something more that hes just missing
and all of this bullshit is what it takes for Eli to realise he needs to own up to his mistakes and that the past is the past and he can’t (can, but shouldn’t) change it, but that doesn’t mean it has to define him.
demetri means so much to him and so he should be able to talk to him, and whether or not demetri will take him back is unknowable but he has to try in order for their relationship to be stronger and grow etc etc etc
so now the issue becomes fixing his time machine. and theres only one person he could call for that
which does mean that he has to reveal to demetri, his boyfriend, that he invented time travel because his version of him was mad at him for a lot of things stemming from his history of karated based war crimes
and eli is so scared that thisll chase demetri away again and hes just learnt how much he loves him and how much he missed out on in his timeline so telling him is almost impossible because he did this all so he and demetri could be okay and now hes revealing all the things he did in the first place that ruined them…
but he has to go back to his time and if that means demetri knowing all the fucked shit hes done then it has to be like that
and demetri is like wow thats a lot to process. youre such a fucking dick you know that right. youre also really dumb
he chews eli out for being an asshole AND an idiot (“the premise of almost ALL time travel media is that you dont do exactly what you just did. you understand that right?”) but also reassures him that no matter what, demetri always loves eli
so they fix the time machine, not without demetri asking so many questions though. like sure eli just admitted to committing karate crimes against him and others and generally being the worst but how could he focus on that when time travel is REAL
“your version of me sounds… a lot cooler than me.” / “nah, hes still a loser. but you two are kind of different.” / “in a good way or a bad way?” / “thats a trick question.” / “what? c’mon, tell me! i promise i wont be mad. i mean- hes still me!” / “no way. doesnt that break time travel rules?” / “oh so now youre worried about the rules? also, you just told me all about your karate war crimes! we’re way past breaking the rules here!”
and once the time machine is fixed and eli is set to go back to his timeline he of course gives this demetri his love and promises to be better and to love him how he deserves in all timelines blah blah blah they’re sappy and adorable
eli gets back to his timeline at the exact same time he left it despite having lived like a year and a half in between, and just beelines to demetri’s house
demetri, who is angsting about their divorce less than 24 hours ago, is very pleasantly surprised when eli bursts into his home and starts grovelling at his feet
like whoa! hes getting a genuine apology from eli! and an explanation! and also a love confession! what is happening!
and what is happening is that it took eli inventing time travel to realise: hey, maybe i should just say im sorry
fellas is it gay if i invent time travel because my best friend is mad at me and i want you to always be happy with me?
hope this was fun for you guys! i love timey winey bullshit aus