#crunchie-morris

[brashtea]

For the WIP game, “Byler party!”

WIP ask game Oooo I'm really excited to get this one finished and posted. I started this at the start of the "Will gets white-girl-wasted" memes at the beginning of the year, so it's an extension from the canon ending where Mike and Will do end up going to the party. Just some silly drunken Will being really flirty Mike not knowing how to handle things. Here's two excerpts because I really couldnt decide

[anyashappytobehere]

13: What music did you listen to, if any, to get in the mood for writing this story? Or if you didn’t listen to anything, what do you think readers should listen to to accompany us while reading?

I ask this specifically bc we’ve talked about the gang’s music taste and wanted to see what overlap there is between those 🤭 (and like…if you wanted to doodle some certain characters jamming out to a certain blonde American singer that we’ve discussed them enjoying……..i would treasure it forever 💖)

i listen to minecraft music while i write little wonders actually lolz. but u can listen to whatever u’d like!!!

as per your request, here are two concerned people checking in on their disaster swiftie gfs

[sparkedblaze]

Maybe it’s too basic and/or obvious of an answer, but I think Katherine’s godly parent would definitely be Athena. Yes yes she’s smart, but Athena also specializes in battle strategy. Katherine is SO strategic - her solution for the strike just proves that! Thoughts? Also who do you think Jack and/or Davey’s parent would be bc I’m stumped

Hi! Obviously Kath’s is Athena! I just got another ask for Jack and Davey’s which I will answer and Tage you in.

But I’m so glad you read my mind with Kath as a daughter of Athena.

But may I also add

Hunter of Artemis 😏

[regina-cordium]

What are you newsies pjo au thoughts?? I’m so hyped about this

I'm SO glad you asked, because this is fascinating

(Giving a quick shoutout to Rehearsal_Dweller on AO3 and @roideny they've inspired my #thoughts the most)

I don't have parents for ALL the newsies, so I'm definitely open for ideas 👀

Jack - son of Hypnos. HEAR ME OUT. I was tempted to make him a son of Hermes, mostly so he and Race and Crutchie could be brothers. However, Jack's Whole Deal is how he's a dreamer at heart!!!! He sees the way the world could be!! (wait--) I like the idea of him being able to travel in dreams (there's a term for this, but I cannot for the life of me remember it). A lot of the things he paints are things he's seen in dreams, or general ✨vibes✨ he gets

Katherine - this is where I'm stealing from Rehearsal_Dweller and saying daughter of Zeus. Like....imagine being the daughter of ZEUS and JOSEPH PULITZER the need to make her mark as herself instead of as an extension of her fathers. The way she'd refuse to use any surname but Plumber. If you wanna play with pjo canon, her being a prophecy kid would add even MORE stress on top. Give me Katherine blazing her own path not because of, but despite her parents. Going against what they want and expect her to be, to become an actual person and not an idealized hero

Davey - I cannot be swayed from son of Athena Davey. I refuse. He's clever, he's analytic. Going to Newsies canon REAL quick, but I like the hc that he knew what he was doing when he was explaining what they needed to form a union and was posing it as a challenge to get Jack to work with him. Yeah. It also still gives that canon-level "Davey puts everything on his shoulders and feels like he needs to solve everything himself" of sheer anxiety. He's a son of Athena!! He needs to be perfect and smart and know how to do everything!!

Sarah - Davey's twin. She's also extremely clever and really good at reading people and working a conversation into a direction she wants. However, my favorite modern au hc for Sarah is that she's a fashion designer, so I see her focusing more on Athena's crafting aspect. As a result, other than Davey, she's closest with Buttons. She also has a ton of little hobbies that she's picked up because she finds herself going "well, I can't just stay doing the same thing all the time. I need to be well rounded!" and suddenly she knows how to customize dolls

Les - okay, thiiiiis is where I steal from roideny a bit. He has Davey & Sarah and Les are step siblings, and Esther and Meyer bonded over being parents of demigods. That being said, I go around and around on what godly parent he'd have!! Hebe is a good one, as goddess of youth. Hermes is good because Mischief™️ and Race being an awful influence. WAIT. Hold on. I'm going through the cabins and TYCHE. GODDESS OF CHANCE. Lets be real, he's the catalyst of everything!! Without him convincing Davey to work with Jack, nothing would've happened!!! If he hadn't convinced Davey to TAKE A CHANCE!!!! I'm settled, he's a son of Tyche

Race - son of Hermes. I refuse to be moved on this, either. Race is king of pranks. He's SO sneaky, too. That's the real reason he's called Race; one second he's on the cabin's porch, the next he's by the Big House. How'd he get there? Nobody knows. Is he fast??? We don't know. He's actually a REALLY great swordsman, but he prefers fistfights. Nobody expects to get punched in the face.

Crutchie - son of Hermes. Everyone is surprised when they learn that fact. They are in for a rude awakening when their clothes end up on the roof of their cabin. How did Crutchie get up there?? Nobody knows. He and Race are co-councilors, but it's mostly because he knows when to be serious. People tend to go to him with problems, though he and Race are good problem solvers. WAIT. I just remembered Hermes is god of languages too. Crutchie is SO good with languages. It also makes him such a great orator.

Buttons - throwing him here because I've already mentioned he's a son of Athena. I will say I was tempted to put him as a son of Aphrodite, but when I remembered Athena's weaving/crafting aspect I was like "NOW THIS IS BEAUTIFUL" and also Sarah deserves to have friends that aren't her brothers and Katherine

Spot - son of Nike. Again, people are surprised when he's not a son of Ares. However, going back to canon, everything would've been lost without Spot and Brooklyn; he was the key to victory. The Athena and Ares cabins always fight over him for capture the flag. He's so fucking tired.

Now some rapid-fire hcs that I have no good reason for, I just like the vibes

Elmer - Hebe Albert - Apollo Hotshot - Ares Finch - Hephaestis Stray - Demeter Splint - Apollo Romeo - Hecate Much - Aphrodite Blink - Tyche

I am ALWAYS down to discuss other hcs tho 👀

[thingswedotoday]

for the holiday prompts, what about Jack and Crutchie's first Christmas together as kids, either in the lodging house if you wanna go with canon era or a foster home if it's a modern au??

(Since I got another one for Canon Era, I’ll go with Modern AU for this one! Thanks for the prompt <3)

Crutchie could count on one hand how many Christmases he had celebrated in his ten years while being in foster care. And from the looks of it, there wasn’t going to be a Christmas this year either. Of course he was fine with this, the more time you spent in the system, the less you believed in Santa and Christmas miracles. However, that didn’t stop him from wanting to make sure that Jack had a good Christmas. Jack, who had only been in the system for a few months, who would be spending his first Christmas without his family. The thought made Crutchie’s stomach churn. From what Jack had told him, he had been with his father up until this point in his life. Like his mother, Jack’s father had gotten sick and passed away, and with no other family to take him in, well, Jack found himself exactly where Crutchie was.

When Jack was placed into the foster home with Crutchie, the two of them had taken an instant liking to one another, and from then, the two boys had been glued at the hip. Except for now, which had Crutchie hidden away in one of the back bedrooms, sitting crossed legged on the floor, tongue poking out as his little fingers worked to tie a knot. Getting money to buy Jack presents was highly unlikely, but the little bit he managed to come bu, he shoved in his shoes, saving it all up for the exact reason. Hoping that he would be able to get Jack something very small, as well as making him something.

There seemed to be an ongoing tradition between the two of them, where they would swap stories back and forth late at night. Jack’s stories were always about Santa Fe, how it was so clean and green and pretty. That he bet if they ran away to there, the air would cure Crutchie’s leg, that they could swim in the rivers. Crutchie’s on the other hand, were always fairy tales. About a handsome Prince named Jack and a boy from the Village named Crutchie. The stories were elaborate, sometimes stretching over the span of several nights, and more often than not, the only thing that could get the other through the darkness that seeped through the crack of the walls. And as much as Crutchie didn’t want to admit it, it was only a matter of time before one of them would be moved to a new foster home. And then who would be there to tell Jack stories?

So for the last few weeks, he spent all the time he could scribbling stories onto construction paper. Ones about far off lands where there was all the food you could eat, where there was safety and love and happiness. Where sometimes Knight Crutchie would save Prince Jack and they would run off to Santa Fe together. He squeezed as many stories as he could onto the paper that he had, scribbling stick figures in the corners as well. And now, he was almost done with them. Just tying the pieces of paper together with string he had found in the trash. Once it was all put together, he sat back, holding the book out with a wide grin on his face. Admiring stick figure him and Jack on the front holding hands. His messy eleven year old handwriting declaring, “Stories For Jack Kelly” across the front of it.

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It was yelling from downstairs that woke him up a few mornings later and as much as he tried to snuggle back in against Jack, he just couldn’t. Something squirmed in his stomach from the yelling and he briefly found himself wanting escape from the screaming, until he remembered something and sat straight up. The movement must have woken Jack too because the other boy was rubbing his eyes and looking at Crutchie for an explanation.

“It’s Christmas!”

He beamed and for a brief second, he could see Jack’s entire demeanor change.

“Oh.” Jack had breathed out and was moving to lay back down before Crutchie propped himself onto his good knee, hands reaching out for Jack.

“I got you something!” He beamed widely and watched as a mixed of emotion fluttered across Jack’s features before he too settled on a smile.

“Crutch-”

But Crutchie cut him off with a shake of his head, reaching for the old underarm crutch, he hoisted himself up and walked across the bare room to where his bag was. Pulling out not only the book he had made for Jack but a piece of banana bread from the bakery around the corner and one of the best shirts he had.

“I didn’t have paper to warp them…” Crutchie said, cheeks flushing a little red as he made his way back over sheepishly. Sitting back down next to Jack, he handed the items over. Silence fell between them and suddenly he felt like he needed to explain himself.

“I know you love banana bread so I wanted to get you some, and the shirt, well its one of my nicest ones and I wanted you to have something nice too. And the book, I love our stories and in case… in case we ever get put into seperate homes, I wanted you to still have them and-”

It was Jack’s sniffling that cut him off and he looked at Jack as he rubbed at his red rimmed eyes. “Crutch….”

“Im sorry, if you dont like them!” Crutchie squeaked out but before he knew it, Jack was wrapping his arms around him and pulling Crutchie in close. For a second the two of them sat there, arms wrapped tight around each other. Clinging to each other, afraid that if they would let go, this moment in time would simply slip away from them.

“I love them… Thank you so so so much….I wasn’t… expecting anything since dad….” Jack breathed out, his eyes still bright red. “But… but this is the best presents ever. I don’t have you any thing though… Im sorry Crutch.”

But Crutchie was already shaking his head, arms going back around Jack. “I got you, Jackie. That’s all I need for Christmas.”

[musicals-but]

Newsies but Jack is the only one without a hat “Even though we ain’t got hats or badges” speak for yourself Jack ~ @crunchie-morris

he just casually yeets away his hat before he says this

[littlegilan]

I'm a simple girl. I hear newsies. I hear Catholicism. I come running. What's this I hear about a Catholic squad??

Okay, so you’re the third person to ask about the Catholic Squad(TM) so I guess I have to push this to the front of my post list.

Members include : Spot, Elmer, Race, Crutchie, and Albert

there is a schism or like a sub-groups between (1) Crutchie, (2) Elmer, (3) Spot and Albert, and (4) Race because they are all slightly different Catholics (read: Quebecois, Polish, Irish, and Italian) so like some tiny bits are different.

they aren’t really practicing catholic anymore but like.... they grew up v catholic so basically imagine John Mulaney

When the Catholic church switched over to the new translation they were all SO SALTY about it

except Crutchie, who was only mildly salty (for once) because he was already still learning the English Catholicism (versus the French that he grew up with) so it was less of a shock

“And also with yo- FUCK - and with your spirit.”

Crutchie snacks on communion wafers (it’s a Quebecois thing) and all the others were just.... shook...

Elmer is the only one that actually goes to Church on Sundays and whenever anyone asks him why he just... ??? 

he has no clue why and sometimes it’s entirely unintentional and he just comes to and realizes he’s at church

Elmer is also friends with all the Babushkas in the nuns since he normally gets brunch with them after Sunday service

they’re all still queer as hell, obvs.

Pope Francis Fanclub, all of them

The five of them always host a Christmas party and always bring their own bits and pieces (everyone comes but the Squad plans it all)

like Elmer brings olplatki and makes everyone (who wants to) go to midnight mass

Race always makes some dope seafood dish

Spot and Albert always build a lil nativity scene

but like, it’s never too serious

Crutchie makes a dope maple syrup pie and also he makes everyone eat dinner really late

OH MY GOD LENT YOU GUYS

they all fast on Ash Wednesday and go to church in the morning (Elmer makes the Squad) to get ashes

OH MY GOD STORY TIME so for like YEARS the pastor at the catholic church was Filipino and had an accent so he couldn’t pronounce the “sh” sound - it was always “s”

so “ash wendesday” was “ass wednesday”

“from asses we come and asses we shall return”

“everyone come and receive your asses” 

the first year this happened Albert was CRYING and Crutchie was just wanted to die a little because he felt bad for the pastor because yeah accents but also

the next year the Squad convinced other newsies to come to the service so they understood the hilarity

The Squad always gives something up for Lent and they hold each other to it

Crutchie always goes balls to the wall with Mardi Gras because, okay it’s a French / Cajun thing but hey he’s francophone so fight him it’s close enough

at Easter they have a nice party and always get a stick of butter shaped like a lamb and then they have a contest to see who can behead the lamb

anytime they travel places they always HAVE TO visit the citadels and cathedrals even though they may not be practicing

[jakeluppin]

☕ people should,,,,be allowed to enjoy things

i mean agree obviously like ??? i know this is like centered around ppl like things that are either problematic or “cringy” and like??? yeah some stuff is like So Bad (in like, so racist or homophobic or similar) that it shouldn’t be enjoyed but like??? just! people can still enjoy things and be critical of what it is. and then like cringy stuff??? who cares! idk people are crazy

send me a ☕️ and an opinion (popular or unpopular) and i’ll say whether i agree or disagree