Moon is a supporting character in the Netflix series Cobra Kai. She is Samantha LaRusso and Yasmine's best friend and the love-interest of Eli "Hawk" Moskowitz.
She is portrayed by Hannah Kepple.
Cobra Kai[]
Season 1[]
Moon is first seen as a passenger in Yasmine's car, along with Samantha LaRusso, when Yasmine crashed into the Firebird belonging to Johnny Lawrence. She and friends are terrified when Johnny demanded the girls exit the car and shouted that Yasmine should drive off.
Moon, Yasmine, and Sam hosted a pool party at the LaRusso house on the last day of summer, and Moon filmed a classmate flipping into the water and cheered him on, until Sam's father, Daniel LaRusso, arrived home and demanded that everyone leave. That evening, Moon talked with Yasmine and Sam through video chat about arriving to school the next day and briefly recalled the hit-and-run incident.
Moon, along with Yasmine and Sam, attended the Halloween dance dressed as Laker girls and quietly mocked Aisha at the refreshment table while Sam and Kyler briefly left. She and Yasmine sent around a cruel meme comparing Aisha to a pig, much to their schoolmates' amusement.
Yasmine and Moon went to a concert together and didn't invite Sam, having believed a lie in which Kyler told them about Samantha performing fellatio on him in a movie theater and considered herself better than them; the two smoke marijuana in Moon's car and accidentally draw Lynn, a homeless woman, to them via eye contact. Sam then confronts the two and ends their friendship.
Moon, Yasmine, Kyler, and his friends planned to host Yasmine's birthday celebration at a lake but arrive to find it crowded with the Cobra Kai students and other people whom Yasmine never invited. While Kyler suggests finding another location, Moon sees Hawk in the crowd, is immediately attracted to him, and rushes to join him. When Yasmine asks Moon's doing, she claims that she wanted a beer despite Yasmine's reminding her that they have their own.
Over the course of the night, Moon and Hawk begin kissing, and she apologizes to Aisha for her cruelty at the Halloween dance. When Yasmine demands that the two of them leave, Moon refuses, saying, "No, I'm staying. I apologized to Aisha for what we did, and you should too," to which Yasmine replies with "Whatever. You deserve them, Moon".
Moon then watched in concerned silence as Aisha took revenge on Yasmine by giving her a front wedgie.
Moon attended the 50th annual All-Valley Under 18 Karate Tournament with Demetri and cheered on Hawk when he wins several matches.
Season 2[]
Moon is first shown with the Cobra Kai students celebrating their victory at a Mexican restaurant, with her hanging out with Hawk, Demetri, Aisha, and Miguel, who is sitting by himself while having an alone time.
Later, she is shown having out with Hawk, Demetri, Bert, and Miguel (who shows up later of the day) playing volleyball at the beach and watches as Demetri interacts with two girls who believes that he's a Cobra Kai student. She later attends the All Valley Fest along with Demetri and watches the Miyagi-Do demonstration and shortly the Cobra Kai demonstration.
When Hawk changes his mohawk color to red and updates his tattoo, she comes by the shop and notices that he got a moon tattoo on his stomach before the couple, Mitch, and Chris leave together. She is shown eating at a Mexican restaurant with the Cobra Kai's including their new student, Tory Nichols. She sees an Instagram photo of Yasmine in Paris with Aisha telling Moon to "tell her stay in France."
Finding out about Hawk confronting Demetri at the mall for his Yelp negative review on Cobra Kai and joining Miyagi-Do, she declares she is not dating a bully and breaks up with him.
She somehow rekindled with her friendship Sam as she was shown visiting her house. They talk about what clothes Sam can wear and her relationship with Robby Keene and if Miguel knows about it.
On the last day of summer, she video chats Sam about Miguel and Tory's relationship and the events at the roller rink. Moon invites Sam over for a party at her house while her parents are away and encourages her to bring her Miyagi-Do friends. When they arrive, they are surprised to see the Cobra Kai's there and Moon reveals that with school starting the next day, she wants the rival dojo's to bring peace and the party can be a great way for everyone to be friends. During the party, Hawk tries to flirt with a girl named Piper to make Moon jealous; however, he soon discovers Piper is actually Moon's girlfriend, shocking him. When Demetri roasts Hawk in front of everyone, a fight between Cobra Kai and Miyagi-Do nearly occurs and Moon tries to break it up to no avail. Shortly, the police arrives, forcing everyone including Moon to flee.
When the school brawl between Cobra Kai and Miyagi-Do Karate occurs the next day, Moon asks "Come on guys, can’t we all just get along?" However, she then screams and moves away when a Cobra Kai student and Miyagi-Do student nearly run into her while fighting. She continues watching the fight in the locker room.
Season 3[]
Moon helps organize a group that protests the hate and violence circulating through West Valley High School. During the protest, she even plays the guitar and sings about pleading to "just have some brunch and be friends." When the school reopens she witnesses Nathaniel and Chris making fun of Yasmine, who complains that the "losers" have taken over. Yasmine then asks about Aisha, but Moon says Aisha's parents moved her to a private school sometime after the fight, which Yasmine considers good news. Moon expresses that she feels bad for Sam, saying Sam and Aisha had been friends since they were little, which somewhat tempers Yasmine's good mood.
She and the cheerleading squad helps Sam and the Miyagi-Do students with a student car wash to raise money for Miguel's medical bills.
At school, she sits at a table with Yasmine when Demetri demonstrates his science project. While hanging out with the Cobra Kai's, Hawk sees what's going on at their table and mistakenly thinks that Moon's into Demetri. Out of jealousy, he destroys Demetri's science project with the soccer ball, which makes Demetri and the girls quite upset at this, and things escalate between them and Sam.
Moon is then shown cheerleading during an intramural soccer game. Hawk attempts to wink at her after scoring a goal but she rolls her eyes, unimpressed because of his vicious behavior, and instead appears to flirt with a guy standing next to her, making Hawk upset.
Season 4[]
Moon is walking with Yasmine when the two approach Demetri and Hawk, who defected from Cobra Kai a little while ago, rekindled his friendship with Demetri, and is now part of the combined Miyagi-Do and Eagle Fang. Despite not dating him, she compliments Hawk’s new Mohawk color (since he’d changed his Mohawk color from red to purple, symbolizing his desire to find balance within himself) and explains the meaning of the color purple. Demetri reveals to Hawk that Moon and Piper broke up weeks ago, much to Hawk’s surprise.
While Miguel and Johnny are recruiting female students, Moon approaches them and is offered a chance to join Eagle Fang, but declines as she doesn't want to do any fighting. Moon then recommends her ex-girlfriend, Piper, and gives the two ways to talk to her.
She later attends the West Valley High School Junior Prom dancing with Demetri and Yasmine, with Hawk/Eli watching her.
Moon is also watching the tournament, and gets excited after seeing Grammy award winning artist Carrie Underwood perform "The Moment of Truth." She later tells Eli to ignore Kyler after he mocks him before their quarterfinal match, saying that Kyler has always been a bully, but that is not who Eli is. When Eli admits he doesn’t know who he is, she tells him that it wasn’t the Mohawk that attracted her, but his confidence. The two then kiss, rekindling their relationship. This helps Eli regain his confidence, and he was able to defeat Kyler. Moon then cheers for Eli after he defeats Robby in the finals and wins the boys division for Miyagi-Do.
Season 5[]
Moon and Yasmine have brunch with Sam. She noticed that Sam's not feeling good since her lost at the tournament. They help Sam on how to respond back Miguel through a text. She advised her on not trying to fix issues on the phone but speaking face to face. She later brings her friends a spa where they get to experience inside self-actualization pods, i.e. sensory deprivation chambers: inside them, Moon has a vision of herself as a "drop of dew glistening in the moonlight", while Sam has a vision that leads her to decide to take a break about her relationship with Miguel, needing time to understand what she wants.
Later, Moon, Sam, and Yasmine enjoy a day at the water park, sunbathing. They are approached by Anthony, who can't stop staring at Moon and Yasmine, much to Sam's disgust, before he leaves of embarrassment. Moon then asks Sam about her breakup, to which the friend answers positively, being finally able to focus on herself only. Shortly, Hawk and Miguel have arrived as she invited them over and she and Hawk share a kiss. Sam tries to keep it cool, but embarrassment flies high. They then witness Anthony being bullied by Kenny, Kyler and others Cobra Kai's and later, a skirmish between the Miyagi-Fang and Cobra Kai students, which eventually leads everyone being kicked out of the park. At the parking lot, Miguel asks for Sam's whereabouts, and Moon replies she left way before they got kicked out, not wanting to get involved in any more fights. Moon, Hawk, Yasmine leave the area together before being joined by Miguel.
When Eagle Fang and Miyagi-Do are accepted at Sekai Taikai, they celebrate in Miguel and Johnny's apartment and, thanks to Moon's invitation, they are joined by the whole East Valley High School.
Season 6[]
While she and Yasmine were hanging out together at one of their homes, Moon FaceTimes Hawk to see how he's doing in Barcelona where he and Miyagi-Do are competing in the Sekai Taikai. Hawk assures her he is doing good and shows her the bar he and his teammates are at. However, he inadvertently shows Demetri dancing with another girl to Yasmine, causing them to break up in the process.
Personality[]
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Trivia[]
- Moon is the first LGBTQ+ character in the Cobra Kai series. She has dated both Hawk and Piper Elswith.
- Moon is the first pacifist on the show.
- During the production between Season 1 and 3, Moon's actress (Hannah Kepple) and Miguel's actor (Xolo Maridueña) used to date each other in real life.
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