Newsie: Glasses
Actor: Will Jenkins
Glasses is a Newsie, flag-bearer, fanboy and scab. (Don't mind Jake abusing Boots in the back.)
He waits and watches at the Horace Greeley statue for the other Newsies to arrive.
He's friends with Harrison and Teeth.
Don't mistaken him for Specs as they have similar fashion choices with their dark vests over light shirts and dark pants. They also both wear glasses. Their hats tell them apart.
Although he dresses like Specs, he really only wants to be like his hero, Cowboy.
He favours a rope to carry his papes like Jack. And his dress style is also similar to Jack's.
Glasses has no dancing skills, but makes up for it by being the official Newsies flag-bearer. He waves a ginormous flag for the entirety of Seize the Day. What he lacks in dance skills, he makes up for in having great arm strength.
And continues to do so during the attack on Weasel's workplace. However, he finally has to stop when the bulls arrive and they cheese it.
If Glasses wants to be more like Jack, he's going to have to learn some moves from Jack.
But he figures it's easier to just follow Jack into scabbing. Glasses looks up and down at Jack's expensive new suit and imagines what it would be like on him. Although he could never afford it even on his inflated scabber salary. He wonders if it was worth scabbing.
Glasses decides that it's better to be part of the strike after all when Jack goes back to leading it.
New ship: Swifty x Kid Blink = Swink. (Swink is an archaic term meaning: to work under difficult conditions or for long hours, which really suits them being Newsies and all!)
Alternate Universe where Glasses is in Saved By the Bell:
