For 1 Hogans Heroes character of your choosing (I hooooope I’m not hallucinating seeing you post it) and then Darry, or any Outsider character: ∇, ▼, and ♥️(the family one, idk if I selected the right heart emoji lol)
Yes I'm a huge Hogan's Heroes fan!!!
In a rare turn of events, I view him as having a very strong, happy family. He has one older brother who is married and has a little boy and girl. Hogan's parents live in Ohio, his older brother lives fiveish hours away. He is close to his family. They are very worried about him. They are protestants and Hogan's mom especially reliant on the church during the war.
Hogan was a troublemaker. When he was little he was cute and could get away with it. There is slight resentment from his older brother about how much a young Rob could get away with (him being in a POW camp has softened most of that). His dad was hard on him and his mom let him get away with a lot. He wasn't a *bad* kid but he was very ADHD and trouble found him wherever he went. He was a momma's boy growing up but in adulthood has found a closeness with his father that was unexpected, likely due to his dad's WWI service.
∇ -. old age/aging headcanon
Hogan is a career man and retires a multi star general sometime after Korea. He doesn't have any kids of his own, but marries a widow who has at least two kids. He stays in close contact with his crew and they meet up every few years in alternating countries. He dies peacefully at home having more than made up the time that he lost in Stalag XIII.
The Curtis's were ever poorer when Darry was really little but he didn't really notice they were poor until he started highschool. He really wanted a little brother but was perfectly content with Soda. When Pony was born Soda became obsessed with Pony and Darry felt a bit bitter about it but then quickly fell in love with Pony and wanted to take him to show and tell at school. They were a really close family but Darry was much closer to his dad than his mom. Birthdays were a big deal in the curtis family. They didn't always have money for a good Christmas but the birthdays were spaced enough that they could make a bit more of a deal about it (even tho Darry's birthday was so close to Christmas they still tried to make it special).
Darry was a good kid but he had a rough patch when he was around 15. That's when the world of soc v greaser became apparent to him and there was some resentment about where he was in life. Now listen he was never a bully. He never "went soc". He just had normal teenage angst. It took less than six months for him to get his head on straight and realize he was just going to not care about it and hang out with who he wanted to hang out with. He wasn't always big kid. He was small to average then hit thirteen and was always one of the biggest guys around. He kept expecting it to happen to Soda but it never did.
∇ -. old age/aging headcanon
Once Pony graduates college Darry doesn't know what to do. He's not even 30 and his body is already in decline. He keeps working bc he's not sure of what else to do. I kinda headcanon that sometime in his late thirties/forties he's either injured or his body won't let him work anymore and he moves in with Pony who is married with kids (he has at least a little girl). Pony returns the favor of taking care of Darry and Darry HATES it. He wants to work. He doesn't have hobbies. He doesn't have a life outside of survival. That "I just got a get thru tomorrow" mentality never turned off. After awhile tho Darry does become kinda domestic and starts like doing the dishes and folding laundry and my friend (CO_Raindrop) and I decided that he takes up knitting and the gang wants to make fun of him but doesn't bc he maybe disabled but he could still kick all their butts if he wanted to. Hopefully he finds a lady down the road and gets married but IDK lol
Thank you so much for the ask and for listening to my character ramblings!!! I had more thoughts than I thought I did 😂
