Rating Every Single Cobra Kai Ship
Yasmetri (Demetri x Yasmine)
Horniness: 5/5 (unfortunately)
Can They Raise and Nurture a Child?: The real question is should they…and no. The answer to both is no
Do They Make Each Other Better?: Nope
Do They Make Each Other Worse?: You have no idea
Should I Try This At Home?: Please for the love of god don’t
Should They Exist?: Absolutely NOT
Let me tell you all something.
Demetri and Yasmine, separately, two of the best characters in the show. No cap, I love them both to smithereens and will support them no matter how bitchy they get. They’re such strong and fun characters, even if Yasmine was left to flounder in…most seasons. They’re still so much fun to watch and I smile whenever either of them pop up on my screen. They also have amazing chemistry! A sarcastic, motormouth nerd and an opinionated bombshell beauty are meant to have some great chemistry, I’ll never deny that. Demetri and Yasmine are fun to watch interact and I honestly wish we saw more of their banter, the S3 type of banter.
Demetri and Yasmine are fun together.
Now, let me tell you something else; they’re not a good couple at all. In fact they’re debatably one of the worst couples in the show if not THE worst. And that’s purely the writing’s fault.
You know what you can’t do in writing? You cannot place a highly developed, well rounded, and dynamic character with one that remains static and flat through the entire narrative. That does not work in any circumstance whatsoever. Demetri and Yasmine don’t fundamentally work because the show couldn’t be bothered to let them or Yasmine grow at all. Yasmine has NO arc at all, and her getting a little nicer does not count as one. In fact, Yasmine gets WORSE as a character when she’s paired with Demetri. And when I say worse, I mean her narrative is pushed in a very sexist direction.
My buddy @demetriandelibinaryboyfriends , local Demetri and Yasmine stan and champion of combating the Yasmetri propaganda, has had many words on this issues before and has basically opened my eyes to this extremely obvious blatant issue. Because this issue is obvious and we all sorta turn a blind eye to it because we’re conditioned to. I’ll link some of their posts so you can all see just how bad it really got. I suggest you read through them all just to grasp how bad it gets. They say everything much better than I ever could.
Our poor girl Yasmine was treated as pure arm candy to Demetri, which is always a super gross thing to do to a female character, and then had her whole personality nuked. What the hell changed from S3 to S4 for Yas? Seriously? Her and Demetri’s dynamic in S3 was WAY better than what we got. They bickered and jabbed at each other and engaged in verbal combat as a form of affection. That was interesting. That was cute. Then for some inexplicable reason Yasmine suddenly LOVES hearing Demetri talk nerdy and starts smacking his ass.
I’m sorry, did I miss something? This is not serving cunt behavior.
Yasmine may like Demetri now, but she would never SIMP for him. Never, that’s not Yasmine’s vibe. Where did Yasmine go? Where is our bitchy Queen at who NEVER ogled at men before and instead took pride in others wanting her as she passed by without a care? I’d like her back please and you can throw the imposter away.
Now, I’m a Binary Boyfriend shipper, and a staunch one at that. Not to get ahead of myself, but Demetri and Eli are my favorite couple in fiction, period. But since they’re not technically canon (which is a point I will debate on in their post), let’s go one purely canon information here. Demetri is a shitty boyfriend to Yasmine. Why? Well let’s see; Demetri had a week long crashout over Eli not going to the same college as him, has his thoughts occupied by Eli 100% of the time to where it affects his actions and mood entirely, and has stated multiple times that Eli is the most important person in his life, bar none. AND they do end up going to college together, become roommates, all while wearing the mlm flag colors.
Demetri couldn’t care LESS where Yasmine is going and what she’s doing.
In the face of Yasmine going to Australia and possibly cheating on him while there, he still only cares about ELI and what HE’S feeling.
Christ, Demetri cheats on Yasmine just to make ELI jealous.
No matter how you square it, Demetri is obsessed with Eli and has his thoughts consumed by Eli at literally all instances of time. It’s a joke that Yasmine even stayed with AND FORGAVE Demetri for his insane shenanigans. If my partner was so clearly obsessed with his supposedly platonic best friend, I’d be fucking skeptical! And that’s not paranoia, that’s using your eyes and seeing that something is clearly amiss because your boyfriend won’t stop staring at his best friend’s lips. I’ll go into this further on why Demetri is so obviously gay in my Binary Boyfriend post but this is all relevant information as to why Yasmetri is so busted.
Demetri and Yasmine just do not fit together at all. They need completely separate things to be better characters and to just be happy. Yasmine needs her own separate character growth and defining personality that doesn’t include being a fucking trophy girlfriend to Demetri. And Demetri needs Eli, that’s canonly what he needed to be happy. Not Yasmine, the fucking cringe Mohawk boy. That’s who Demetri wants.
I don’t know what the hell happens to these two. They were fine in S3. I still preferred Demetri and Eli together, but Yas and Dem were fine I guess. But S4 came around and ruined the little that was good about them. They wrote Yasmine so poorly and wrote Demetri so gay-coded that these two cannot exist together in a healthy or genuine manner. They are possibly the worst Cobra Kai couple that currently exists, both canon and non-canon.
They’re just a couple that look good together, but either have nothing underneath it really or has just scummy sexist undertones.
Conclusion: Does This Ship Sink or Sail?
Answer: Sink. In fact it’s already at the bottom of the ocean.
Holy fuck this pairing is bad.
If I may be so bold, I would honestly recommend all who enjoy them to re-evaluate why you do. I’m usually much more chill with what people ship, it’s all for fun of course. But Demetri and Yasmine have serious issues that go beyond ‘I like this pairing more’ sort of deal.
I’d be incredibly brazen to tell anyone not to ship something in terms of it being a canon, high school couple, but I can strongly recommend you to look at other options.
Yasmoon and Binary Boyfriends are both eons better than Yasmetri. And if you want a better het pairing for these two…
Well, you’re shit outta luck. Sorry.
‘This Ship Is Canon!’ And It’s Literally A Lesbian And A Gay Man.
See my ratings of other ships here! Ship Masterlist
(CK Dividers by @sweetmelodygraphics )
(Yasmetri Meme Stolen From @demetriandelibinaryboyfriends 💕)
