Thinking about how Zuko aligns Aang with Azula ("You're like my sister. Everything always came easy to her") and then in his first real chance to bond with Aang, the kid is flunking firebending hard and is actively scared of it, requiring Zuko to give him some nice encouragement ("You can do it. You're a talented kid")
Will delete from inbox when properly dealt with, but it's actually pretty funny I haven't posted in a hot minute and some rando decides to drop me a line like this. Like how far back did you have to go to find me, and could you have done something better with your time? You had nothing else to do? Sad!
Anyway, can someone please show me a step-by-step guide to reporting this shit? I don't think reporting as SPAM cuts it, but none of the other options seem right either. Hate speech violation, or even "I'm being harassed"? Anyone? Please and thank you!
Antis in the Undertale fandom literally would have just fucking died when the game first came out. Jfc y'all there's no such thing as "a proship" there's just ships you like and ships you don't, and normal people do this thing called Avoiding Stuff We Don't Like. Sanscest has been here the entire time and it is the same as any other selfcest ship dynamic in the world, you just don't want people to think you're ~problematic~ so you're trying to argue that they're different somehow.
Ffs I hate Sanscest, but you won't catch me telling people to die or claiming the Needle Cookie Incident was good what in the fuck is wrong with all of you? Sincerely, go to a different fandom because none of you belong here.
I'm tempted to ask for a prompt as to how Sam would react if she (instead of Tory) caught Silver paying off the referee.
Sorry it took me so long, @breckstonevailskier! Thanks for the plot bunny!
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“You cheating bitch!”
Sam’s hands make contact with Tory’s shoulder, shoving her into the lockers. She manages to catch herself with her elbow and throws herself back upright. Her hands come up, Sam’s not far behind, but when Tory sees who it is, her hands fall back to her sides.
“Get over yourself, LaRusso,” she snaps. “It was a good fight, but I won. Fair and square.”
“No, you didn’t.” Sam shoves her again. Tory takes this one straight to her collarbone, bumping back against the lockers without an attempt to deflect. “I saw Silver after the match.”
Tory’s brow furrows. “I don’t know what he told you, LaRusso, but I didn’t cheat.”
“You didn’t have to. He paid off the refs.”
Sam didn’t know what reaction she was expecting, but Tory’s face falls for a brief second. Just as quickly, her wall goes back up and she licks at her lips. “You’re lying.”
“Don’t try to deny it, Tory. You knew the whole time. You just had to make it look good for everyone else.”
Tory blinks. “I didn’t know. Really.”
She looks so confused that a small part of Sam wants to believe her. But the rest is still raging, burning hot from all their history, from their first meeting to this latest bout, and that’s the part that wins out.
She opens her mouth to unleash a tirade, but Tory beats her to it. “You’re messing with me, right, LaRusso? You didn’t actually see him paying off the refs?”
Her tone was so uncertain, almost breaking, so unlike the Tory Sam had seen in all their previous interactions, that Sam can’t help but relent. Slightly.
“I saw it on the way back to the lockers. They were in the offices. Silver mentioned something about a deal, how the ref played it just right. And then he paid him.”
Tory licks her lips again, and looks dangerously close to crying. “I didn’t know, LaRusso,” she says, almost pleading. “I swear.” She looks over at the trophy where it sits on the bench, and bites down on her lower lip. “He didn’t trust me,” she says, almost to herself.
Sam is suffering through metaphorical whiplash, unable, or unwilling, to process what was happening. She’d come in here wanting a fight, a fair rematch of the final, but instead was watching Tory react what looked genuinely to the news. “You mean you really didn’t know?”
Tory shook her head. “I mean, your mom came up to me before. Wanted me to fight fair.”
“She what?”
Tory apparently misunderstood Sam’s outrage since she barreled forward. “I did, LaRussso, I swear! I didn’t mean to kick you in the eye. I just reacted and your face was right there.”
“Not about that. My mom. She really talked to you before the final?”
Tory nods, then her expression softens even more. “You didn’t know?”
Sam shook her head. “Guess she didn’t believe in me either.”
“She didn’t ask me to throw the fight. Just to fight fair. Which I did.” Tory rolls her shoulders, stretches her neck, looks down at the cement floors. “It was a good match. Could have gone either way.”
“Yeah, but it didn’t. And now my dad’s dojo has to close.”
“What?”
Sam nods. “It was part of the deal. Cobra Kai wins, Eagle Fang and Miyagi-do shut down.”
Tory swallows hard then says, “Sensei Kreese never mentioned anything about that.”
“I don’t see why he would have. With Silver’s money and resources, he thought you had it in the bag. Turns out he was right.”
Tory looks down at her trophy again, this time with sadness. And briefly, Sam feels bad about stealing her joy. She had definitely wanted to, but not like this, not when Tory, for all her faults, seemed to be as much of a pawn in all of this as she was.
“I’m sorry,” she says, before she could change her mind. But only about this. Not about anything else that had happened over the past year.
Tory shrugs, shakes her head. Then her expression hardens into indifference and she turns to face Sam. “Anything other bombs you want to drop on me, LaRusso? Or can I finally go shower?”
“No. That’s it.” Sam takes a breath, then heads for the door, almost but not quite turning her back to Tory as conflicting emotions and thoughts war for her attention.
She wants a rematch. She wants to fight Tory again. Fair this time.
She doesn’t want to fight Tory again. Ever. Not at a tournament, not anywhere else.
She’s exhausted, mentally and physically.
She doesn’t want the pressure, the deal, the consequences. She just wants to do karate. And maybe not even that anymore.
She wants a senior year without a Battle for the Soul of the Valley. She wants to find the bit of herself that was lost over the past eighteen months.
She doesn’t know how to get there exactly, but after a minute, she is able to figure out her next step: a much-needed, and long-overdue, conversation with her mother.
not people tweeting something like “these ships have malewife and girlboss energy” and putting kata4ng as an example of this dynamic when it's literally canon that katara unfortunately was the person who always cooked and took care of the chores all by herself & she was the person who always had to calm aang's ass down when he got angry and turned into the avatar state so.. 🤨 i'm just seeing aang's mommie here