Queen ᵇʸ ⁱⁿˢᵗⁱⁿᶜᵗ

Cobra 𝙗𝙮 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩. — ⁽ ᵃ ᵍⁱʳˡ, ᵃ ʷᵉᵃᵖᵒⁿ, ᵃ ᑫᵘᵉᵉⁿ ⁾

[taughtcruelty]

❝ The Queen Cobra’s throne—my throne—is built on threats I buried. Bow or bleed. You want mercy? Look somewhere else. I don’t wear that crown. ❞

❝ this isn't a tournament. there are no rules. ❞

❝ no one’s coming to save you. no one’s handing you shit. if you want something, you take it—or someone else will. ❞

# taughtcruelty. — astoria tory nichols-wilson . indie, private & highly selective tory nichols from netflix's c.obra kai tv series, with multiple fandom verses available. originally established 01/23. main blog to @taughtcontrol , @taughtferocity , @taughteagle , @taughtfear & @taughtanger

carrd. | psd credit. | prompts. | start here.

heavily affiliated & single-ship exclusive with @taughtdefense , @taughtpain , @taughtmercy , & @taughtranquility across all verses .

additionally affiliated with @taughtferocity , @taughtfear , @taughtanger , @taughtequipoise , @taughtwar , @taughteagle , @teachesacrobatics , @teachesdiscipline , @vipersunion , @taughtcutthroat & @taughtstrength across all verses .

[pamrak]

GIF REQUEST: ALIN & JANE'S FOREHEAD KISSES requested by @commander0fmyheart

[taughtcruelty]

@taughtcobra mads there's a shitpost i saw from reddit about ck going to into space to fight in karate tournaments. pov tory & ava just fucking shit up in space. they don't need astronaut suits or anything. calista rae is collecting meteorite shards so ava can throw them at people she doesn't like. the power of their sisterhood (& rage) makes them able to bypass the necessity for equipment. taip just gets stardust for ava & logan made into bracelets. ethan meanwhile is infodumping about space to talia & sam. robby wins a karate tournament on mars.

[partiallypearl]

would my suffering be special then? monetizable, immortalised in myth

[lovednknown]

[taughtcruelty]

i have original fandomless lore tory over at @secondlilith

[ashleysolsen]

FAVOURTE BADE MOMENTS IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER ↳ #11 A Film By Dale Squires (1.19)

[ceeyoutea]

Thunderbolts* (2025) dir. Jake Schreier

(requested by @neyafromfrance95)

[taughtcruelty]

tory being The One And Only Queen Cobra is so goddamn important to me. it’s not just a cool title, it’s her identity & a marker that she runs the dojo alongside her boys @taughtpain & @taughtdefense . she beat allison in s4—whose been training in cobra kai & multiple other martial arts since she was 4—for the title with less than 2 full years of cobra kai (she joined in january 2017) training, 4 years of kickboxing, & claimers martial arts training since she was 4. (she beat allison at 16, so that’s 12 years of claimers training under her belt). tory fought allison some time in between season 3 & season 4 (march [when she’s 15] → august 2018 [when she’s freshly 16]). canon tory is good but my tory is leagues ahead of her canon self.

[taughtcruelty]

bestied so hard with @taughtpain that we always talk about food while literally eating or about to eat lunch

[wells-hannah]

favorite oth friendship moments ( 3 / ∞ )

[misselesava]

thunderbolts* ⇾ bob & yelena

[davinaclaires]

-I would expect nothing less from you, Sarah Cameron. -Sarah Routledge. I am married, you know.

John B and Sarah Routledge — Outer Banks season 4 (2024)

[taughtcruelty]

@taughtpain

[partiallypearl]

Peyton List as Claire Carpenter in Swimming For Gold

[aestheteasteria]

Hold on, don't let go...

[olxwxa]

i heard you’ve been out there for days...

[taughtcruelty]

tory never celebrated halloween in the claimers or even once she & her family are out of the gang. she grew up in this brutal criminal organization where she’s getting shadow leadership training & was trained in how to the people she’s protecting if they become deemed a threat to the organization (eg defection), her mom’s treating torture victims, the hightowers are running things through calculated brutality, & she’s killing people before she’s 10. not to mention the claimers aren’t exactly the type of gang that’s gonna pause operations so the kids can go trick-or-treating

plus the whole concept of “playing pretend” at being scary is absurd to someone like tory who’s lived actual violence. why would she care about fake blood & plastic weapons when she knows what real violence looks like? it feels vaguely offensive in ways she can’t articulate.

the only “halloween-type” things she’d actively celebrate in her teens would be going to parties to drink/hang out with her friends—but she wouldn’t wear a costume—or taking her kids out trick-or-treating, but that’s the extent.

specifically for the kids, it stacks up like this in her mind:

henry & harper deserve normal childhood experiences she didn’t have

her spouses (miguel, sam, robby, ethan) care about their kids, so she participates for family cohesion

it’s a parental responsibility, & she takes those very seriously

protecting the kids while they’re out at night is something she’s good at

halloween is a holiday where tory’s presence is purely functional. she’ll make sure the kids have fun & stay safe, she’ll show up to parties because that’s what friends do, but she’s not engaging with the actual halloween part of halloween.