❛ break the chain. don't be the
one forwarding the pain to justify
the pain. ❜

JOSIE LAWRENCE HAD a deadbeat father, but she would never go so far as to admit that.

He was all she had. Her estranged mother lived in New York, and she didn't have any grandparents. Sometimes she saw her Aunt Stacey and Uncle Greg, but they had five children of their own and would likely explode under the pressure of another. But that didn't matter because Josie was happy in her dad's custody.

Maybe he wasn't the most amazing father in the world ── he had his flaws and his weaknesses and doubts ── but he was good enough for her. He was trying and that was all that mattered. Josie Lawrence had a lot of forgiveness in her heart, sometimes a little too much, and she preserved most of it for her dad. He didn't always completely deserve it.

In the Fall, when he opens up a karate dojo and starts to teach a student by the name of Miguel Diaz, things change. Josie senses a positive shift in him, but a subtle change in their dynamic. It grows frailer. Weaker. Smaller. Ultimately, she decides to take on these karate classes to refocus the attention back on herself, though it proves somewhat futile. She isn't the star student. She isn't the top priority anymore. Like her half-brother Robby, she's been pushed to the bottom.

However, once again, much like her half-brother Robby, Josie only sees what she wants to see. Everything beyond her cognisance is blinded by her tunnel vision. She rushes to conclusions. Makes things up. She allows people to invade her mind, and then she further allows their teachings and beliefs to blossom in her brain and grow like fungus, warping her personal perception of the world. Josie Lawrence has a tendency to put her trust in the wrong people. And the wrong people put their trust in her.

Cobra Kai was poison. It was a real shame she didn't see that until it was too late.

─────── CAST !
( MAIN &
SUPPORTING )

ˏˋ°•*⁀➷

JOSIE LAWRENCE ─── meg donnelly
[ THE DISCONNECTED,
SEASON 1+ ]

❝ I always think life could be worse. And
then, time and time again, I'm proven
right. It can be. It sucks. ❞

ERIN FRASER ─── jennifer connelly
[ THE ESTRANGED,
SEASON 1+ ]

❝ I'm a busy woman. I can't be in three
different places at once, honey. ❞

CARRIE SILVER ─── antonia gentry
[ THE STUCK,
SEASON 4+ ]

❝ You're hard to teach. Come back
when you're prepared to listen. ❞

WITH ━━
( SIDE CHARACTERS )

emmy rossum ━ stacey fraser

lola tung ━ lainey tenn

charles melton ━ ezra sayge

& THE "COBRA KAI" CAST
AS THEIR RESPECTIVE
CHARACTERS !

─── ∙ ~εïз~ ∙ ───

DISCLAIMER ━━
I do not own Cobra Kai.
This is merely a work
of entertainment!

WARNINGS ━━
This fic will include:
mental health issues, fighting,
mentions of blood, gore,
sex references, gifs that may contain gore, mental abuse, trauma,
manipulation, mentions of sexual abuse,
use and detailing of weapons, &
minor plot changes.
Please read at your own risk!

AUTHOR'S NOTE ━━
i really wanted to write a fic about
johnny's daughter and about an oc
in cobra kai for so long, so here we are.

josie is gonna be such a complicated
oc, i really can't wait to delve into it.