Happy Valentine’s Day!!! Ignore the fact that it’s literally almost over erm awk…ALSO sorry I haven’t posted in a hot minute I’ve been quite busy! But hopefully this Johnnyboy will make up for it 😛
what if pony gets beat up and curly tries getting revenge but gets his ass beat too, so curly tries getting tim involved, ik he cant look into ponys eyes till its handled, just embarrassed
“I didn’t like Buck Merrill. He was a tall lanky cowboy with blond hair and buck teeth. Or he used to be bucktoothed before he had the front two knocked out in a fight. He was out of it. He dug Hank Williams–how gross can you get?”
— The Outsiders (page 53)
You know for being a greaser Pony sure is judgmental as hell (and it’s funny as fuck. I love my judgmental Little Colt.) Like, Pony, please, Johnny literally just killed somebody 💀
someone should make a list of all the different information going around in outsiders books. I'm not sure how exactly things like this happen, but there's different things written in some copies?
Like I've heard that someone read that Dally's hair is jet-black, Darry is 18 and not 20, and I swear there was another I heard about but didn't remember. Is this like non official books changing some information? misprints? and how many differences are out there?
thinking abt how emotional darry gets watching pony’s senior season of track.
watching him win events, take home titles. watching him beat himself up over missing a record by half a second, and being there when he inevitably breaks it. watching him take freshmen under his wing and help them out, watch those same freshman sprinting to hug him when he finishes his final race.
watching him smile again, because there was a long time where he didn’t.
it breaks his heart that his baby brother is growing up but at the same time he’s so proud.
au where darry and soda are adults when their parents die n ponyboy is still a little kid... (hc under the cut)
All of Pony's fifth grade classmates ate lunch with their parents at one time or another. They'd skip to the lunch room holding Mama and Daddy's hands and Ponyboy would bury his face in his tray so no one would see him cry. Snot nosed ten year olds would ask him why his parents never showed up. He didn't know how to tell them that his Mama and Daddy were sleeping under cold dirt.
One night Ponyboy comes home from school, teary eyed and deflated like a birthday balloon that's been kept too long. Soda rushes to help put away his backpack and take off his shoes, (which he was much too old for now, really) and sees his wet ruddy cheeks and scoops him up like he's still a little fawn.
"Pone, what's wrong baby?"
Pony sniffles all pitiful. "All the other kids get to each lunch with their parents. And I-" He wails.
"I have to eat all alone!"
Soda's pretty brows scrunch and he coos and sways his baby side to side. Darry appeared like an answered prayer, leaning over Soda's shoulder to wipe the salty tears from their little brother's cheeks. Darry makes a promise right then that he'll make it to lunch with Ponyboy no matter what.
"I'll be there tomorrow honey, I swear it." Darry says with staunch absolution.
The next day, Ponyboys sitting in the lunchroom on the squeaky little chairs, playing with his green beans and feeling just awful. He glances to the doorway like clockwork every minute, waiting for Darry to show up. Probably five minutes pass, and Pony's heart is smarting fiercely and he's losing hope when the double doors fly open. Darry rushes in, all sweaty and dusty from work, smiling in a way that's reserved only for his brothers. Ponyboy flies out of his seat and shoots to Darry's chest like a bullet.
"Told ya i'd make it." Darry whispered into his slick hair.
The other kids are staring frog -eyed now.
"Is that yer Dad, Pony?" Some yellow haired girl shouts.
He preens pink under his big brother's arm, puffing his chest out. "Yup. Sure is."
Okay but even crazier take this, but Soda doesn't know he was drafted somehow. (I don't know how getting drafted works but that's besides the point) I think it's a letter or something at that time and Pony gets the letter. Doesn't tell Soda or Darry and just "runs away" saying he's Soda and he goes to war while Darry and Soda tear the world upside down looking for their brother. Then one day they get a knock at the door and Soda opens the door and it's a military officer asking for the family of Sodapop Curtis and Soda's like... I'm Soda. And then the military officer is all confused because how could Soda be there when he came to tell them that Soda died in Vietnam?!
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