uhhh more miyagi trio bs !!
i'm really missing my best friends rn sooo MIYAGI TRIO !!
pre-school fight
frequent movie nights - sam and demetri drive most of the movie choices and robby's just happy to be there (they're all the most insufferable people to watch movies with. demetri is full of fun facts and opinions while sam and robby argue and add to his commentary)
there is, however, one rare occasion where robby chooses to watch dead poets society and they watch in almost complete silence (it reminds demetri too much of eli, sam and robby sit a little closer to him)
sam shows robby and demetri old recipes mr. miyagi taught her growing up (with daniel obvi bc you cannot keep him away when miyagi's mentioned)
WHICH leads to frequent dinners together (it's always just another night for the larussos who don't realize how much regular family dinners mean to demetri and robby)
robby becomes the go-to "fix-it" guy. sam and demetri usually try (struggle) to fix things themselves but robby always silently comes up behind them and fixes it fairly quickly
demetri is his same nerdy self and constantly whining about sam and robby's lack of pop culture knowledge (they have a normal knowledge, demetri just has insanely niche references that no one really gets)
they all train together extremely well once demetri gets the hang of karate; robby pushes sam and demetri to increase the power and strength in their hits, sam helps the boys with their technique, and demetri helps sam and robby increase their speed
fourth of july at the larusso household was forever one of robby's favorite memories (even when he joined ck)
demetri was so close to convincing sam and robby to do matching halloween costumes (he had plenty of ideas, one of which was a simple team rocket costume with him as meowth obviously). and by so close, robby and sam jokingly complained but still looked into getting costumes. however comma the school fight happened and it fell through :p (do we think the three of them got sad when halloween came and passed, remembering how excited they were months ago? :(( oooh i love making myself sad)
unrelated but this pic is so important to me and it fuels my "demetri bites his lip while thinking/anxious" headcanon
post-robby quitting ck
things go back to normal relatively quickly and robby is a lot more relieved than he lets on to get back to their film nights (still just for the three of them)
sam and demetri hint at robby to take it easy on miguel and hawk until he gets openly agitated and they table the conversation until next time
robby also pushes them to take it easy on tory (bc what is the miyagi fang merger if not everyone tip-toeing around each other)
demetri and sam try to help robby research colleges but robby either doesn't fit the qualifications or he doesn't like most of the options
during the s6 drama, they do their best to support each other but sam and robby's friendship is a bit tense (demetri tries not to think about the fact that he admitted that miguel should've been team captain and instead tries to support robby through their identical dilemmas)
sam and robby try to convince demetri to talk things out with eli at first but the captain drama redirects their attention
robby confides in sam and demetri about what happened with zara in barcelona
sam nearly stays in the sekai taikai just to kick her ass but decides tory deserves the opportunity more
demetri does however develop an algorithm that essentially shadowbans zara's posts so she flops dramatically
they're the first ones to know about each other's last-minute post-grad plans (before miguel and hawk)
sam and robby still reach out to the other two for help sharpening their karate skills