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Chapter 5 of “Doubt that the Stars are Fire” is up, and Specs plays a big role in it, so I made them a moodboard!
post-strike three's the day headcanons pls!! -you probably know who this is heh ILY
Ahh ily2!
After the strike, Jack and Crutchie are so relieved to have each other
Davey has an arm around Crutchie when they go to get their papes just after he's come back
Davey and Jack haven't really seemed to stop reaching out for Crutchie
After getting his papes, Crutchie falters because Davey seems to be struggling to say something. Crutchie prompts him gently, curious
Davey asks hesitantly if Crutchie wants to sell together
Crutchie's a little startled, and he thinks it might take him a few moments too long to react because he can see the nervousness overtake Davey before Crutchie smiles and agrees
It isn't too long later before Jack is at his side
They may sneak away together, where Jack checks on him and ensures Crutchie is okay. Jack runs a hand softly under a bruise on his cheek and they kiss
Crutchie smiles and cracks a joke
He's... He's not okay yet, but that's alright
The boys have been sure to let him know that
All in all, Jack is really grateful to have Crutchie back
He seems a little surprised when Crutchie says Davey wants to sell with him but he grins and says he's sure Crutchie'll like it a lot
And he does
Selling with Davey is actually really great
Davey sells... different than anyone else Crutchie knows
And not just because he's new
He's not the best seller, but he's trying and when Davey grins, genuinely smiles at one point through the day Crutchie feels about as though all the air has been knocked out of his lungs
Because he has seen Davey smile before- a little into the strike, at Jack in particular- but since he's gotten back Davey seemed open in a way he hadn't before
Confident and unafraid in the way the new boy fidgeting at the edge of the Square most definitely wasn't
And Davey's smile is one of those -oh frick this boy is too cute- moments
They talk a lot and banter throughout the day
When he walks home at the end of the day, Crutchie is grinning, legitimately grinning so much his face hurts from it
Silently, Jack is beyond grateful that Crutchie went out with Davey because Crutchie looks happy and after everything he needed that
Davey and Crutchie and Jack seem to grow really close as time goes on
Jack is really struggling with some leader decision and needs to talk about it? Davey is sprawled out of Jack's lap with his brow knit in concentration while Crutchie is playing with Jack's hair as his hands fly around in agitation
Crutchie is panicking? Jack has him and is whispering nonstop as he thumbs soothing circles on his hip while Davey coaches his through his breathing
They're p much always together
It's really hard to find one of them without the others
The three of them sell together on and off, and they all really love that
The first time Davey sleeps at the Penthouse is unplanned on all ends
It had been a really long day
Jack had gone to blow out some frustration on painting
What he isn't expecting when he comes back was to hear someone else already in the Penthouse
He pauses before he pulls himself to look
Davey Jacobs is sprawled with his head nestled on his arm, hair messy and fluffing up and fast asleep where he must have been waiting for someone to come up
It takes Jack a few moments to realize
Davey was worried about Jack, so even though he was really tired after a long day, he waited up for him
And Jack just about died right then and there
Davey, lanky and awkward so often, seems a thousand times smaller when he's asleep
He seems to naturally curl in on himself, and his features are softer and Jack desperately has to fight the urge to reach out and touch his hair
He's cute
Really cute
Jack absolutely wraps Davey up in a blanket after finding him
...and then two
But God he knows he's in love with this boy
"Crutchie come look at this" "I'm busy-" "just LOOK-"
It really shouldn't be all that shocking that Jack and Crutchie fall in love with Davey
Davey spends the night with them in the Penthouse a few times
The nights are full of laughter and bantering and closeness
Davey spends the night watching stars and dozing off with them still smiling
Crutchie falls asleep still tracing the freckles scattered on Davey's cheeks with his eyes
Jack and Crutchie are open with each other
Crutchie realizes first
Jack is smiling that particular smile of his, a little dazed as he watches Davey walk home
A little in love
And it just clicks
Jack's grins after talking with Davey, the skip in his step when he comes back from spending time with hom, the chatter about the boy
The way he smiles at the boy like he hung the damn moon
Crutchie recognizes that look because it's the same love struck expression Jack wears watching Crutchie
And Crutchie realizes he too echoes watching one Davey Jacobs
That more than anything he would like to have both Jack and Davey
Crutchie is the one who says that he knows Jack is in love with Davey
Jack panics
He tries to apologize and he gets so anxious
He stammers and fumbles and tries to tell Crutchie he couldn't, that he didn't mean to fall in love and he loved Crutchie more than anything
Crutchie assures Jack that he knows all that
Jack seems a little out of breath when he calms a little, nodding
And then, softly, Crutchie tells him it's okay if Jack loves Davey too
Jack's startles
They end up cuddling a lot that night
Crutchie soothes him
And Jack does open up, about how he feels about Davey and eventually just ends up babbling into Crutchie's chest about how much he loves Crutchie and Davey more than anything
Crutchie quietly confesses that he likes Davey too
Davey has been in love with these boys a long time
His crush has been growing into something a little more, but he goes on babbling nerdy facts and watching Crutchie's smile and the way he walks and falls hopelessly in love with every detail about these boys
He listens to Jack and sells and smiles
And at the end of the day he takes a deep breath and tries to ignore a lot of things
The two of the have never done anything like it before, but Crutchie bluntly asks Jack if they both want to date him, why don't they?
So they both decide they're going to try to court Davey Jacobs
While also courting each other
It proves to be a little difficult
Because Davey is sweet but this boy is so oblivious
Especially in regards to people liking him, whether or not it's romantically
Davey spends the night up in the Penthouse when it happens
Race sells with Les for the day, and Jack and Crutchie take Davey selling together
Jack may sneak a few compliments throughout the day
He drops the flower he tries to sneak into Davey's papers
All of it's right though, the laughter and clumsiness and stolen glances
Crutchie asks Davey if he'll stay over the night with them in the Penthouse
Davey happily agrees
After selling, Davey heads to drop Les home
And Jack and Crutchie agree for what they're going to do
They're waiting for him when he gets back
Crutchie grins and their ecstatic greetings are more than enough for him to smile in return
They talk for a while, seated together as they banter about headlines and selling and just drink in each other's presence
When Crutchie turns around and asks Davey to dance with him Davey stiffens and sputters for a few moments, and Crutchie can't help but laugh
Davey protests that there isn't any music and Jack tells him they'll make their own
Eventually, mortified, Davey mumbles to Crutchie that he doesn't know how
Crutchie laughs in the way he uses to show he doesn't mean it hurtfully and tells Davey that's the point, that they can teach him
And Davey hesitates
Jack pouts at him and with a huff Davey agrees
So Crutchie does help Davey dance, and he is a little clumsy
None of them care
Crutchie used to feel insecure bc dancing with a crutch is a little difficult to maneuver around and he hates feeling like he's slowing people down
But he has fun and Jack has assured him a thousand times when they have before
They haven't done it a lot, but he'd say it's enough to consider practice
He's learned what's easier for him and dancing with Davey is. Magical
Davey clearly has a fun time
They're really close and they can feel each other's breath and Davey is flushed
Crutchie can't stop watching Davey's smile as they slow dance together
They're both grinning like dorks
Watching Jack and Davey dance together is beautiful
They're so clearly in love and Crutchie is just giddy and grinning ear to ear as he listens to their laughter
There can't be a prettier sound
Jack steadies Davey every time he stumbles and even he gets flustered, Jack just flashes his charming grin and Davey settles a little more
They switch off dancing through the night in the safety of the Penthouse under cover of stars and it's filled with the sound of their laughter
Eventually, after Jack and Crutchie have a turn dancing and Jack sneaks a glance at Davey and mumbles about how in love with him he is and Crutchie can only agree
Crutchie makes some snarky comment, rolling his eyes and Jack grins, but Davey...
Davey snorts with some higher sound and he laughs, and it's bright and beautiful and free
For once Davey didn't clap his hands over his mouth the way he usually did when something made him laugh, even around them, and Jack could see the expression on Crutchie's face
Crutchie looks stunned, his eyes are fixed on Davey
Before he can lose the nerve, Jack leans up to kiss him
Davey freezes, and a moment later his fingers touch his lips as though he can't quite believe what just happened
"I love you," Jack breathes
After that, a dam breaks
Crutchie confesses that he loves Davey too, that they both do, that they both really want to date him and be with him while also being with each other
Jack, painfully small, tells Davey that he wants Davey to be their fella and asks after a beat if he'd be okay with that
And Davey's face breaks into a grin, wide and open and a little awed in disbelief. "That sounds perfect, Jackie."
That's all Crutchie needs before he lurches forwards and peppers a flurry of softer kisses along Davey's cheeks and then a longer one to his lips
When Davey, on the wave of vulnerability they've opened, confesses in a shaky voice all of the fears he's had since finding out he liked boys and so many of the insecurities he has Jack and Crutchie hold him a little tighter
They listen and comfort, and Jack softly kisses him as Crutchie plays with his hair
It's a promise that they'll always be there
Jack and Crutchie cuddle Davey until he falls asleep
(They have the excuse of the incoming colder months if anyone were to ask)
But more than anything, as they look forward into settling into the new days of loving on their fella they only find joy
Hi! Soo I saw art requests and I was wondering- could I maybe ask for Jack, Crutchie, and Davey with trans pride flags? I completely understand if you can't/don't want to, I'd just really love to see something like that with them together ❤❤❤
I had a lotta fun w this! I don't normally draw groups of people so there's a lot of anatomical fuckups and jack is painting a trans flag on the other side davey's face, I just hate hands. Also my adhd brain interpreted ur request as "first pride fest for them!" and I hope u like it <3<3<3
Also modern jack wears jorts you can't stop me and yes crutchie is wearing a muscle shirt
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Newsies Aesthetics - Davey Jacobs 🌙 Requested by @newsienewsie ❣️
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Jack: So we're sitting there watching like, Atlantis or some shit, and his cat comes and sits by me. So I say "your cat is cute" and he goes, "which one?" and I'm like "what do you mean, there's only one, she's right here" and he goes "no there's six" and he stands up and picks up the one next to me and then walks away and five minutes later comes back with an armful of cats, six of them. We've been dating for four years! And I've never seen more than one cat at once! What the fuck!
JackDaveyCrutchie Power Relationship Headcanons
So you know those people you hate because they're so good at everything? Yeah that's jack Davey and Crutchie.
Jack is the leader of the gsta, art club, and the star of the track team. He's a natural leader and is really good at handling all the attention, but also making other people feel important. He's got an in with pretty much every group of people in school, because he's got so much charisma that everyone likes him.
Crutchie has been first chair viola in orchestra since second semester of his freshman year, and he's gotten the lead in the school musical since his sophomore year. When he auditioned for the choir, he got into honor choir and had to drop the advanced acting class in order to keep the classes he needed to graduate. He still does tech for the spring play, which he never auditions for: he only does musicals.
Davey's the school media mogul. He and Katherine are the co-editors of the school newspaper, he's the anchorman for the school news video broadcast, and he does the morning announcement. If you spent one day at their school, and only learned on name, that name would be David Jacobs.
When the three of them start dating, rumors fly for weeks about who's dating who. Someone heard that Jack was dating Crutchie, but another person heard that he was dating Davey. Eventually, Davey scripts a thirty second piece into the weekly news video broadcast where someone asks him "Davey are you dating Jack or Crutchie?"
He just looks right into the camera and goes "yes. I'm dating both of them. They're both dating me, and each other."
Since everyone knows them, they're always in the spotlight. Everyone expects them to be the perfect polyam relationship, and they deliver. Crutchie and Davey go to track meets, Davey and Jack go to choir concerts and the musical, and Jack and Crutchie share every article Davey writes on their social media.
Basically, everyone wants to be them.
JackDaveyCrutchie
It is a personal headcanon of mine that Crutchie always gives heart eyes to Jack and Davey. Literally all of the time. He is never not giving heart eyes.
Threes the Day? (btw I always send love your way! You’re amazing!)
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I send love! Thank you!! I hope you have a lovely day, more Three's the Day coming your way
So take these that mostly evolved into these boys and cuddles
Okay when they're sleeping Jack is so cuddly
He sleep reaches for them if he's not already holding them
Or he might even if he is, and try to cuddle them further
Nuzzles
Sometimes if Jack and/or Crutchie are still awake they can hear Davey making tiny sad noises and that usually settles if he touches either of them, whether that be full on curling into them or even just his hand brushing either of them
Jack and Crutchie both realized after a while, so now if they're awake or even half awake and hear him they move to snuggle him
Jack's go to is to wrap his arms around Davey and hold him close
Crutchie's go to is to drape himself on Davey and squeeze him
Crutchie doesn't usually seek cuddles when he's sleeping like Jack does (and to some degree how Davey does)
When they wake up in the morning they're always tangled together and warm
They're never cold
Except for one time when they woke up and something was wrong and Crutchie blinked for a moment before realizing a just woken up Davey was very confused to find himself cold and not warm
He fell out of the bed onto the floor
That was quickly rectified when they sleepily helped Davey back into bed and cuddled until they dozed off again
Crutchie is super cuddly when he's awake
This boy! Is the big spoon >:(
He can be the big spoon okay
And he's good at it
Jack about dies when either of them play with his hair
It especially really calms him down when he's stressed or emotional
He just leans into it and his shoulders immediately drop
Jack nuzzles into their shoulders or chest all the dang time
Crutchie usually huffs and gets a dopey grin
Davey melts every time
Jack's physically affectionate all the time
Whether that be a hand on their knee, pushing their knees as close as possible, an arm draped around their shoulders, hugs, fingers flitting on the back of their hand, even grabbing their hands or face, Jack is so TACTILE
Crutchie and Davey love him
Crutchie is so used to having Jack it's weird to have him not touching him
When Jack started being a little less tactile Crutchie realized he really missed it?
So he complained about his hands being cold so Jack would hold them
And found a ton of other not so sneaky ways to tell Jack he wanted touch
Jack is an oblivious bi and just replied to Crutchie's wants
On the other oblivious end, one time when it was winter Davey was pouty and a little sad and when he was asked what was wrong he said that his lips were cold
So of course Jack leaned over and kissed him on the lips
When he pulled back Davey froze and blinked a few seconds, peeking out beneath his eyelashes as Jack flashed one of his cheeky grins and asked, "Feel better?"
If anything else, beyond the warmth of Jack's lips his furious blushing warmed him up for sure
Crutchie likes holding their hands
It's really grounding to him to lace his fingers and hold to both of their hands
He loves to cuddle these boys so much
Crutchie loves wrapping both of them up in a big hug from behind and resting his chin on their shoulder
He's very good at just knowing what kind of hug someone needs
It's like a sixth sense
He just knows if they need to be hugged and cradled close to his chest for a while or soft hugs or longer ones
Jack really likes laying his head on either of their chests because the steady drum of his boyfriends' heartbeats is calming to him
Crutchie was always super fond of it and found Davey's contact to be really precious
When they first started dating Davey was super hesitant when first reaching out
He would be really cautious when reaching up to brush Crutchie's cheek or reaching for his hand or even soft little hugs
Crutchie adored every one
Davey noses to their cheek every time he's the one leaning into a kiss and Jack and Crutchie both think it's absolutely precious
Crutchie loves giving forehead kisses
He also really? Loves little kisses on the nose
He just finds a little more intimate than kissing on the lips for whatever reason so he loves kissing Jack and Davey there
Jack also finds out he really loves kissing Davey on the nose
His boyfriends are so precious and pretty and he's very lucky okay
Davey also loves giving forehead kisses
Davey gives amazing hugs okay
He also just really wants to be held sometimes and his boyfriends are happy to comply
Jack loves kissing these boys
So if that means covering their whole faces in tiny little kisses he's so down
He loves pressing kisses up along every inch of exposed skin he can find on their faces
Davey usually gets super flustered and sometimes giggly and they both love it
Crutchie grumbles sometimes jokingly, but he never stops smiling
Other times Crutchie just grins
Davey like. Always asks if his touches are okay
When he holds their hand or hugs them or checks about kisses
There was one time he was too excited to see Jack and forgot to get nervous. He basically just ran and pulled Jack close to him with his arms around his shoulders and pressed their foreheads together
He was grinning so wide and looked so perfect
It's probably one of Jack's favorite memories
Davey reaches for them a lot
Touching their caps? Brushing their arms? Fingers poised gingerly on their wrists?
He adores these boys and they adore him
The three of them sneakily hold hands under the table sometimes, or have a hand on each others' knee or thigh
They have sneaky kisses sometimes to cheeks in Medda's theater
They can't always be super tactile in public but these boys just live for cuddles
Specifically cuddling each other
They take every chance they have to shower each other in love because they adore each other
And they make certain none of the others forget it