Daniel is missing out on it entirely. He has no idea about what's going on today in a different part of the city - a man with absolutely no clue that there was an item waiting for him there. A framed photo that had been stored away back home, a picture of a man and a boy proudly smiling together next to the Miyagi-do sign, taken back when they restored mister Miyagi's house together. A photo wrapped in paper for storage, Robby's name written on it, just as a reminder to Daniel himself as to what it was. A photo he kept finding back home, kept thinking about - a desire to put it back up when the boy would return to the dojo turned into the idea of instead gifting it to Robby, the more Daniel realised that maybe Robby was just never coming back. Especially when, after seemingly having left Cobra Kai, the boy was staying with Johnny now.
(Daniel never blamed Robby, not even when he heard that. He knew what he did. He knew his own guilt. Robby not approaching him again had nothing to do with Robby, and everything to do with the things Daniel did that pushed the boy away in the first place. Of course Robby wouldn't want to see him again. Daniel failed him. Worse than anyone, if Robby was willing to forgive Johnny, but not him.)
Rather than having any idea about that happening, the man can instead be found sitting in the odd cemetary-like part of the park, back where he found the gravestone with mister Miyagi's name on it on his first day in this place.
He didn't know where else to go. Even though Daniel has been trying to keep himself busy with trying to take care of some of the teenagers in this place, he still feels.. lonely. Broken. He keeps jumping at shadows, terrified of seeing one specific face around any possible corner. His voice still hasn't returned, making communication incredibly difficult, and the bruises that still linger on his face and neck sure don't make him give off the best first impression to anyone either. Daniel just doesn't know what to do, and even if seeing mister Miyagi's name on the gravestone might have been a fluke-- it's the only thing he has to go on here. It's the only place he feels he can find some solace in this crazy city that doesn't seem to be letting go of him.
Hence the current display one might come across. Daniel sitting on his knees in front of one of the gravestones, a very much empty bottle of sake on the ground next to him.
He doesn't even seem to hear or notice it if someone approaches. Instead his eyes stare at the gravestone as if in a daze. ]
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Daniel is missing out on it entirely. He has no idea about what's going on today in a different part of the city - a man with absolutely no clue that there was an item waiting for him there. A framed photo that had been stored away back home, a picture of a man and a boy proudly smiling together next to the Miyagi-do sign, taken back when they restored mister Miyagi's house together. A photo wrapped in paper for storage, Robby's name written on it, just as a reminder to Daniel himself as to what it was. A photo he kept finding back home, kept thinking about - a desire to put it back up when the boy would return to the dojo turned into the idea of instead gifting it to Robby, the more Daniel realised that maybe Robby was just never coming back. Especially when, after seemingly having left Cobra Kai, the boy was staying with Johnny now.
(Daniel never blamed Robby, not even when he heard that. He knew what he did. He knew his own guilt. Robby not approaching him again had nothing to do with Robby, and everything to do with the things Daniel did that pushed the boy away in the first place. Of course Robby wouldn't want to see him again. Daniel failed him. Worse than anyone, if Robby was willing to forgive Johnny, but not him.)
Rather than having any idea about that happening, the man can instead be found sitting in the odd cemetary-like part of the park, back where he found the gravestone with mister Miyagi's name on it on his first day in this place.
He didn't know where else to go. Even though Daniel has been trying to keep himself busy with trying to take care of some of the teenagers in this place, he still feels.. lonely. Broken. He keeps jumping at shadows, terrified of seeing one specific face around any possible corner. His voice still hasn't returned, making communication incredibly difficult, and the bruises that still linger on his face and neck sure don't make him give off the best first impression to anyone either. Daniel just doesn't know what to do, and even if seeing mister Miyagi's name on the gravestone might have been a fluke-- it's the only thing he has to go on here. It's the only place he feels he can find some solace in this crazy city that doesn't seem to be letting go of him.
Hence the current display one might come across. Daniel sitting on his knees in front of one of the gravestones, a very much empty bottle of sake on the ground next to him.
He doesn't even seem to hear or notice it if someone approaches. Instead his eyes stare at the gravestone as if in a daze. ]