im really boreddd and i eat when im bored which is a bad habit so could i get random headcanons about literally anything as long as it is the outsiders related instead. i luv your headcanons :33
the more angst the better but its your choice teheh
sure!! i can give ya some headcanons :) also thanks!! very glad you like them! <3
ponyboy is a pro gaslighter 100%. whether he’s telling teachers he turned in an assignment and “maybe ya lost it?” when he 1000% did not or it’s darry getting angry at him for not doing his chores and pony’s all “you never told me to do that!”. he’s canonically a good liar, he even admits that he scares himself with how good of a liar he is, so this checks out in my head lol
steve and soda go on dates where they literally just have a picnic at the park as the sun’s setting and they catch fireflies together. they know it’s corny but they don’t care— why should they? it teaches soda how to calm down and not be so impulsive (he’s definitely gotten way too excited and has accidentally killed a multitude of fireflies) steve learns he can be gentle. the vulnerability of a small being in his hands that he could easily crush makes him feel strangely protective.
two-bit can do uncanny impressions of a lot of different cartoon characters and says really crude things as those characters (many childhoods have been ruined—he’d do numbers on tiktok)
sodapop’s actually really insecure about his body. he’s not as muscular as darry or steve in a way he feels he should be, no matter how many times he works out with steve or how hard he works at the dx, he still has a bit of a tummy on him. he tries to embrace it but it’s kinda hard
johnny and steve have a hidey hole where they take things from their homes they don’t want to keep either their parents and they just hide it there. steve puts his money there so his dad can’t take it, and johnny puts clothes and scraps of food in there. the only thing in there now is a worn down rag steve had given johnny once for an injury. steve doesn’t touch the hidey hole after johnny died. it became more of a tribute to him instead.
the curtis parents left their sons tape recordings for every milestone—16th birthdays, prom, graduation, weddings…those things. it started because mr curtis wasn’t sure if he was going to make it home from wwii after he had enlisted, and he wanted his child to have something from their father in case he died. after he survived, they started making the tapes together for fun and god forbid anything happened to them. darry finds them one night while cleaning the attic. he brings them downstairs, but he can’t bring himself to listen to them. none of them can.
soda felt like such a failure when he dropped out of school. he did it because he knew he’d be alright working with cars, but alright was better than borderline flunking and constantly harassment from socs, but he felt like such a failure to his dad, because his dad tried so hard to help soda in school, but undisgnosed ADHD and dyslexia doesn’t really bode well in school, especially with it being the 60s and those things were basically dumbed down to “lazy” or something, even when that wasn’t true.
speaking of, mr curtis had both of those conditions. he felt a lot like sodapop himself, seeing as he struggled a lot with academics, even if it was a poor reflection on his actual intelligence. mr curtis was very bright, he just had a lot of trouble in school. that was why he chose to fight in world war ii right after graduation. he wanted to help, and make something of himself to show that he wasn’t what everyone said he was.
yall are probably getting tired of this one but steve’s adopted. he found out one night when he was digging around through his dad’s room for his birth certificate or something when he just stumbled upon it. while things started falling into place, it just made him angrier. did his bio parents not want him? why did they give him up to the worst people possible? why didn’t his parents tell him? he was numb for weeks. he found out the week pony ran away.
johnny knows italian. he picked it up from his mom (though a lot of the words she said were quite…inappropriate) but he started teaching himself. anything to keep his mind occupied. he also knows minimal spanish since his dad is venezuelan and italian and spanish are pretty similar.
dally has a cat named “lil’ dal”. it’s the meanest cat in town. it’d probably out some of tulsa’s most feral dogs to shame, and dally praises it for biting and scratching. not johnny though, johnny’s somewhat off limits. the cat is okay enough with johnny anyhow—he just hisses a lot.
animals LOVE sodapop. a lot. he’s got disney princess status or something because a whole zoo will end up following him home if he let it. steve’s not too fond of random dogs and cats dropping in on their outdoor date nights/outings, though.
speaking of, steve has a cat named diesel that he thought was a boy until she got pregnant and had kittens. she had 9 kittens in total and he was just sheet white every time soda reported another kitten cause what the fuck is he gonna do with TEN cats??
two-bit’s dad left when he was young. he harbors no real resentment—he’s honestly too drunk a lot of the time to. his dad wrote him a letter in hopes to reconcile once. he promptly threw it away unopened.
darry takes cold showers to leave the hot water for his brothers, even though it makes his already aching muscles that much tighter.
steve and johnny are frequently dine n dashers. they got caught and banned from one restaurant but the others haven’t caught them or banned them yet
dally has albinism. he hates getting questioned about “why’s your hair so pale?” “why do your eyes look like that?” “why is your skin so white?” he finds it annoying and he doesn’t like explaining himself. he hates the comments he gets more than anything, but he prides himself on having a more offputting appearance.
i’m also a big fan of the “dally uses colored contacts” headcanon, so i’m saying he wears brown contacts to avoid getting questions about his eyes. he also has exotropia from the albinism and wears a patch sometimes. he thinks it’s tuff.
additionally, johnny has vitiligo. it’s more present on his arms and legs and not really his face, but he doesn’t really love it. he doesn’t like the weird looks he gets from people, or the comments/questions he gets.
chubby two bit. that is all.
hope these are alright! not a ton of angst but yknow, i tried lol
