Young Outsiders headcanons I came up with a long time ago but forgot about:
One time in elementary school, Soda and Steve had a sleepover at the Randle's where they tried to bake a chocolate cake but made a huge mess, Mr. Randle lost his shit over it and Soda hasn't been back since.
Dally had mildly blurry vision as long as he could remember (he was nearsighted and needed glasses but he thought it was normal, nor would he have done anything about it if he could).
Marcia loved Patsy Cline from the first time she heard her at 6 years old and wanted to be a singer because of her (her parents laughed at her for expressing this and disregarded it as a ridiculous dream so she stopped singing in front of anyone for a very long time).
Around 4 years old, Darry and his dad went camping in their backyard during Summer. They told scary stories and Mr. Curtis pretended to be scared of the ones Darry came up with.
Curly really wanted red streaks in his hair because he saw a tuff-looking guy on the street with it.
Ponyboy loved sitting on his porch and watching thunderstorms (he stops after Johnny and Dally's death because the loud sounds remind him of gunshots).
Johnny was really good at pinball.
Two-Bit's little sister occasionally paints his nails and he loves it but he still chips it off before going out.
Sodapop would get letters home in elementary school regarding the worry that he was not as capable as other children in english class, he was good with words but poor at reading and writing due to -obviously undiagnosed due to the time period- dyslexia but this is what started his ongoing belief that he's just stupid.
Darry loved being read to and reading to others as a kid.
The first time Soda ate eggs with grape jelly was a dare from 10 year old Darry.
Dally got so many mosquito bites in the Summer which he would scratch so much they would scab and Mrs. Curtis would tell him to cut it out.
Johnny used to wear his jacket to school in the dead of Summer to not draw attention if he had been beat really bad by his father but he stopped bothering to sometime around the start of high school.
Soda and Two-Bit formed a secret handshake that continuously got more complicated as they added to it throughout late elementary and middle school, however it was a secret so no one really knew about it except Darry and Ponyboy.
Soda was a very cuddly baby.
When Two-Bit stays home sick, his little sister temporarily gives him one of her stuffed animals to keep him company.
One time Johnny got really sick and his mother kicked him out in fear he'd infect her, the Curtis parents were very upset by this and let him stay at their house for a week.
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