Headcanon: Davey and Jack are getting coffee one day, like boyfriends do. They’re not really big on pda, because it triggers Davey’s anxiety. In the event any outright homophobia happens, he handles it quite well, but it’s the potential for homophobia that sets him on edge.
So this girl came up to Davey as he was getting uuum napkins idk but anyway she came up to Davey and was like “hey um I think your friend’s really cute would you mind setting him up with me?” and Davey nearly has a stroke.
He’s stuttering, trying to figure out what to say to this, when Jack walks up, clueless as ever, and says “hi babe! Who’s this?” and you can see the girl’s face just go slack.
So I saw a post calling for more non-angry Spot. So without further ado, a whole headcanon list devoted to non-angry Spot:
He’s the little spoon. He’s at his most relaxed then, he’s safe and protected in Race’s arms, and he can let his worries fade away.
An amazing and loving boyfriend. He’s a little overprotective by nature, but he really tries his hardest to not be controlling.
I personally have this headcanon that Spot and Katherine are pretty evenly matched in a philosophical debate but can’t agree on ANY of it, so I love the idea of them dwelling on the perfect rebuttal for when Spot visits.
Has a soft spot for dogs. Give him a puppy and he becomes a boy again.
Is easily flustered when people compliment him on his skills [get your mind out of the gutter].
Drinks respecting women juice and Will Not Hesitate to defend women from creeps.
Is actually quite good at facing his feelings (internally), but not at communicating them.
Is a total lightweight, and is a reckless but affectionate drunk, and not an angry drunk at all; In fact, he’s less tense.
Spot never half-asses a project. He hates not putting forth his best effort.
He gets embarrassed when people see the way he loses his cool during an anxiety attack, but he’s learning to trust them
Sometimes he bites off more than he can chew and gets overwhelmed, and sometimes gets panic attacks.
Some of the people that he trusts are Race, Davey, and Crutchie, and surprisingly, Jack.
Because he and Jack have been rivals? friends? frenemies? forever. And he knows Jack well enough to know that Jack would never use a panic attack against someone.
Really close with Davey and will 100% throw down for him.
Davey gets a Mother’s Day card signed by all of the newsies, every year, without fail. A lot of the newsies write really stupid shit in the card, but no one’s ever missed a year, and it makes Davey feel so touched and important.
Okay, I know we see Davey as the responsible one, but consider: Davey is terrible at taking care of himself. Jack, as a leader, has learned to take as best care of himself as he can with what he has, because he’s no use to his newsies when he’s half-dead. In addition, he’s gotten pretty good at juggling his own needs with everyone else’s. Davey comes from a more capable support network. He’s not the leader of a large group. He’s not the closest thing to an adult figure in said group. Like Jack, he looks out for his family, but unlike Jack, his family is able to look out for him. He’s used to only having to watch everyone else’s back, so he has no clue how to watch his own. He will look out for others at his own expense, he wears himself down. And I’d love to see this carried over to modern era, where Davey helps keep everyone else’s life together but at home he’s a total disaster.
Like, imagine this: it’s around midnight. Jack Kelly is woken by a faint voice coming from the living room. The other side of the bed is empty. Davey is talking on his phone in the living room, lit by a singular lamp. He’s trying to talk quietly, but the walls of the apartment are thin. As Jack walks in, he looks up concernedly.
“Oh no, did I wake you up?!?! I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to have you awake at this hour!”
“Dave… you’re awake at this hour.”
“Albert’s been having insomnia again, so I offered to keep ~yawn~ him company through it.”
“That’s very sweet babe, but you’re going to bed now.” Jack says as he walks his tired boyfriend back to the bedroom.
So we’re reading Romeo and Juliet in English class, and it’s a drag, so I decided to put my favorite characters through the same torture (I know they’re not all the same age now shush)
Let’s establish this early on: I’m not even gonna talk about Romeo and the nickname.
I’ll leave that one up to you
Elmer kept getting confused and was constantly pestering Davey with questions until he gave up and asked sparknotes
Jack is also always getting confused and pestering Davey
But he never switched to sparknotes
As you can guess, Davey was terribly annoyed by this. Definitely.
The biggest Shakespeare enthusiasts are JoJo, Davey, and Kath
Although Kath really doesn’t like Romeo and Juliet
Crutchie, Specs, and Sarah are rather fond of Shakespeare too.
According to Spot, “I respect Shakespeare, but that doesn’t mean I have to enjoy his work”
He actually understands it really well
He just doesn’t like it
The teacher thinks Romeo and Juliet is romantic. Kath does not. She frequently derails class to argue with the teacher about this.
Specs is playing stenographer for these rants because they’re fucking brilliant
As they read through in class, they do re-enactments of the most important scenes
And this includes the balcony scene
Originally, this scene was supposed to have Kath as Juliet and Jack as Romeo
And Kath wasn’t happy about being Juliet, because Juliet is “a weak-ass female character” according to her
(She’s not wrong)
The Jacobs twins were both stewing silently in envy
But on the day that they performed it, Jack was absent.
The teacher asked who wanted to be the replacement, and Sarah’s hand shot into the air like a rocket
The teacher said “no, it might be a little awkward for everyone -and Katherine- if Romeo was played by a girl. How about Davey does it?”
This last sentence generates a reaction
Davey is horrified. There is no way he is going to get up in front of the entire class and play a role in a romance scene. WITH A GIRL.
Katherine gives him a look of gay/lesbian solidarity
Race is turning red, he looks like he’s about to explode from holding in laughter
This, in turn, makes Albert start to laugh as he struggles to hold it in
Whispers erupt throughout the class
Somebody starts a chant of “Sa-rah! Sa-rah! Sa-rah!”
And everyone else joins in
The teacher knows she cannot win, and gives Sarah the role
Kath may have beef with Juliet as a character, but she definitely wasn’t complaining anymore
Some people headcanon Morris and Oscar as really close, each other’s only friends. But I like to take a darker route.
The way I see it, there’s a real power imbalance. Morris has the power, and Oscar can’t dare disagree with him, because according to Morris, Oscar has nothing without Morris.
Morris wants to feel powerful. He wants to have control over something in this miserable world.
Oscar feels trapped. There is absolutely nowhere he can be himself, no one who truly cares about him. The bosses treat them as muscle, with no heart and no brain. The newsboys hate him, they’re always taunting and jeering. They always go after him, and not Morris, because he’s the runt, he’s an easy target. And even Morris bosses him around without a care for his feelings.
All of this has served to harden Oscar. It’s Darwin, survival of the cruelest. He is a monster of their own making.
this is the first prompt of the month, so of course I’m already three days behind. And boy, is it a doozy.
So Davey has known all his life that he was gay
And all his life, he’d been the only one to know that he was gay
But then all of a sudden, he’s got FRIENDS! MULTIPLE friends!
And they’re all like this: “criminalized? Never heard of her.”
Constant jokes, implications, think “that’s what she said” but it’s “that’s what he said” and also it’s 1899
And at the lodge in the evenings, when they’re left unsupervised,
Flagrant displays of homosexuality here.
Blink and Mush are all over each other, always.
Albert and Race shooting innuendos at each other.
Romeo throwing bad pickup line after worse pickup line at Specs and getting playfully “rejected”
Sniper is constantly positioned in Smalls’ lap, making it difficult to play poker
Not everyone is queer (c’mon guys I gotta be realistic here),
But if someone wanted to rat they would have done it already
And yet Davey is still hesitant to come out to them
He’s nervous. Scared. About to do something that will greatly increase the likelihood that he will get sent to prison.
The way he’s always done it was safe. But it was also lonely. And he was done with lonely.
He’d known the newsies for over a month before he made up his mind to tell someone.
He really wanted to tell Jack. But Jack was also the one he was most terrified to tell.
Jack was the leader, so he could hypothetically kick someone out. And he was also his first best friend.
Jack was also one of the straight ones, Davey knew that much from Jack’s little fling with Katherine, short though it was.
Who knows how Jack might react?
There was also the little problem that Davey was absolutely head-over-heels in love with Jack.
So no, he couldn’t tell Jack
But he was also really close with Crutchie
And Crutchie was really close with Mush
So Davey has a clue as to what Crutchie’s reaction might be
And now to wait for the perfect moment.
If you’ve ever tried to wait for the perfect moment to tell someone something very important, you’ll know that they really come, if ever.
But Davey was one of the lucky ones. He only had to wait for a couple of weeks.
The entire time, it had felt like he was about to sneeze. The words were on the tip of his tongue, eager to jump out at any moment.
Crutchie had gone up to the roof early. The game had gotten loud quickly and the night had stayed muggy.
And, like people often are when they have a very important thing to say and finally the right moment, he wasted the entire thing frozen to the spot in anxiety.
The sky was starting to get dark, and Les and Davey had to get home
Davey felt a sinking feeling of disappointment as he wondered how long he’d have to wait for his next chance.
And then something inside him, something old and lonely and hungry for a companion who actually knew him, who he didn’t have to watch every sentence around, snapped.
And he said to himself, “fuck it.”
He told Les to wait there and that this would only take a minute, and then he started up the ladder
On the roof, Crutchie was lying on his back, staring at the stars.
When he heard Davey approaching, he sat up and turned to look at Davey with an inviting smile.
“Hiya Dave!”
He soon noticed the look on Davey’s face and asked “what’s eating ya?”
Cue Davey’s explanation, if it can be called that.
It was mostly just a lot of mumbling and an increasingly confused Crutchie
But he managed to make out the words “I’m” and “queer”, and everything clicked together
He gave an amused little laugh. “Yeah, I knew.” he said
Davey was stunned.
“H...how??”
Crutchie laughed again. “Yer not that subtle, Dave.”
“...oh.” Davey finally stuttered. “Does… does Jack… also know?”
“Na, he’s the only one who don’t.”
“Oh, phew”
“Hm?”
“Well, Jack is straight.”
Crutchie just laughed at that.
“But, but.. he is, …right?”
“Where’dcha get that idea?”
“But… he was with Katherine.”
“Yeah, so?”
“So he likes girls.”
“People can swing both ways.”
“...oH.”
Crutchie just laughed. “For the smart guy, yer real clueless sometimes, Dave.”
There was a brief pause as Davey worked up the nerve to ask another question.
“Does… does Jack have… anyone specific in-“
“Davey!!!” The sound of Les’s voice rang out from the fire escape.
“Davey!! We’re gonna be late for dinner!”
Davey jumped. “Coming!” he called down and scurried down the ladder
Crutchie stared at the ladder as he heard Davey and Les clamber down to the street, shaking his head fondly. “Utterly clueless sometimes,” he whispered.
I think this is the longest headcanon I’ve ever written.
Wears feminine clothes when he feels like it and you can rip this headcanon from my cold dead hands
Romeo’s surrogate older brother
This child, he has ADHD.
He always has to fidget with something
That’s why he has his cigar
And you guys thought he smoked…
If he doesn’t have something to fidget with, he picks his fingers to shreds
What do you mean? I’m totally not self-projecting whaa
Real monkey boy
Climbs all over the place
Has a pretty voice
“It’s your mother’s. Shame it was wasted on you and not one of your sisters.”
He’s the youngest of three children
His mother died in childbirth
He was nine when his father’s favorite daughter died from influenza
His father never liked him
And he started to abuse Race.
So Race got out.
Race made up the corona story because it still hurts to talk about her death
Hhhng I’ll stop hurting my boy now
Very tactile with all his friends.
Especially Albert
Jack is always like, “goddamnit Race, if you’re gonna be arrested as a queer, at least be arrested with your actual boyfriend.”
Even a closeted homophobe such as Oscar Delancey falls for his charms
Albert may or may not have a crush on him oop
I’m sorry y’all but I live for all sorts of pining
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