Can we get male gang member X Uzair headcannons? (not hamza tho. maybe pre-hamza?) (i know no one in their right mind would try to woo rehman's brother but secret romance would be cute or tragic route)
He is an orphan like Uzair who joins the gang hoping to make it. Rehman usually lets Uzair vet the new recruits; it's been a show of trust between them for a while, and that is how Uzair comes to know him. He's smart, a bit irreverent, and he asks many questions. When Uzair shows him around, he follows, and even when night falls, he asks: 'Uzair bhai, don't you have something else to show me?'
Uzair shows him all of his favorite spots in the city. Aalam bhai sees them coming and he stops yelling his sempiternal Darling, Darling... to hand them both their favorite drinks.
Naieem likes him, as well. They all play football together. Donga despairs as they assail him with goal attempts, hunkering down in-between the posts.
Rehman's more distant. It's common, with him: he takes a liking to the gang members more slowly, more carefully, than Uzair does.
It happens when they're both drunk and there's an excuse. He awakens to the feeling of having done something wrong, and the other boy looks up with scared eyes and scared hands, pleading for him to forget and forgive.
Uzair drinks a lot, afterwards, as if he's looking for an excuse for it to happen again.
The boy dies two years later, in a dispute with Babu's gang. It was Lulli, and Lulli's uncanny ability to see things. He bites into an apple, the next time he crosses Uzair's path, and he taunts: 'I split him in two, your boy.'
It's rare for Rehman to recruit new gang members, but in the following weeks he comes with another orphan boy and tells Uzair to take care of him, eyes heavy and assessing.
He does remember that it happened under the stars, and that the word love was uttered into his mouth.
