allow me to introduce you all to bill dasilva:
who the fuck is bill dasilva you might ask? well. allow me to enlighten you:
if you recall, just before seize the day three scabs show up and jack lays out his heart in true “were all in this together” fashion. now, in the live version of the show (which most of us are all very familiar with) the scabs are played by i think michael dameski, andy richardson, and daniel switzer. this was done because newsies live had w a yyy more people in it than the standard newsies cast would. so in toursies, none other than sky flaherty is a scab for the entirety of seize the day.
okay alright not bad, not bad. definitely Cursed to high hell, but what can you do? i personally think he looks like he belongs in little house on the prairie, i mean look at this one:
and my sister said that he looks like the “potato underground face filter”
hes definitely trying his best.
but so i was surprised when i remembered that i hadn’t seen anyone run with the idea of Scab Sky cause, well, what is the purpose of the newsies fandom if not to run with seemingly useless interactions and side characters and giving them entire backstories??
so scab sky is definitely Not albert. different hat, different shirt, sky even gives him a different accent than the trademark Nasally Albert Voice. so who is he?
honestly, i dont know. i combed through the Entirety of skys ig last night searching for clues as to who his scab character was (cause we know the newsies actors name Every Character Ever) but found nothing outside of a photo he posted with chaz wolcott (who was also a toursies scab) that dan deluca commented on “mr scab and mr scab.” needless to say, i needed to seek out other resources.
other resources turned out to be none other than @papesdontsellthemselves. and we used our somewhat mushy 1am brains to come up with a name and backstory for scab sky. it is as follows:
scab sky is named william dasilva, but he goes by bill. he is alberts cousin. (if you recall from alberts trading card he has a dad and two brothers. bill’s father is albert’s dad’s brother). his newsie name is duck (that’s what mikey said) and its duck because one of his Defining Characteristics is his Front Facing Hat and all the other newsies think its looks like a duck bill (which is also funny cause bill is his name) and its kinda funny to be like “DUCK!” “what?” “NO, D U C K!!” and then like some object comes flying at him.
albert and bill do not get along. albert is more of a Wild Child (as seen in the entirety of toursies) and bill is more of a Good Kid (that’s why hes a scab to begin with, he needs to make money for his family) (his only line is literally “awww what the hell, my father is gonna kill me anyway”). he prefers his Actual Family over his Newsies Family (even though his actual family is kinda shit) and isnt even a full time newsie to begin with. he sells when its convenient or when he needs the extra money (that’s why his clothes are so neat)
also alberts dad has definitely paid bill money to spy on albert while albert is selling and shits gotten heated over it …
that’s all for now kiddos. have fun with bill dasilva !!