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How do you know all these fun facts? Where was my mind when I was reading the book? 😭
I need more!
Details from The Outsiders you may have forgotten or missed
-Cherry doesn't appear after the hearing (her not waving Ponyboy is just a movie thing)
-Ponyboy fucking hates people with green eyes so bad and gets pissed when someone points out he also has green eyes
-Steve always combs his hair into complicated swirls
-The Greasers always play football together
-Soda is one of the only Greasers who never gets drunk
-He also doesn't smoke unless something is bothering him or he wants to look tuff
-Darry, on the other hand, never smokes because it would affect his perfect body which he is very proud of
-Darry is also proud of being smart and sensible
-Ponyboy is the heaviest smoker out of the Curtis family
-Johnny started smoking at 9 and Steve at 11
-Johnny would've run away from Tulsa if it weren't for the gang
-Soda gives killer massages
-Ponyboy's razor wasn't working while he had to dissect a frog so he just took out his knife
-Darry goes skiing with some of his old friends sometimes
-Cherry and Marcia barrel race often and are pretty good at it
-Soda used to ride in rodeos but after breaking a ligament, his dad made him quit
-Sometimes Soda and Steve let Ponyboy help them fix the cars at the DX
-Johnny is the most law-abiding of the gang, and didn't even carry a knife until the Socs jumped him
-Cherry has an older brother
-Ponyboy used to have a yeller cur dog
-Johnny's scar his from his temple to his cheekbone (it's huge and also hard to look at)
-Two-Bit is great at doing impressions
-Two-Bit often raises one eyebrow, and the gang associate the gesture with him
-Dally and the Curtis mother got along well before she died
-Ponyboy is a scarily good liar
-Ponyboy notes that while he sees Johnny as a scared puppy, he actually looks rather hardened and cold to a stranger
-Johnny's skin is lighter under his bangs
-When at the church, Johnny puts his jean jacket over Ponyboy while he went out to get groceries
-Steve, Dally and Two-Bit wouldn't have thought of buying soap at a grocery store
-Ponyboy calls himself a Pepsi addict
-Dally hardly ever cuts his hair
-Johnny loves drag races
-The Curtis Dad took the brothers out hunting often in the country
-Ponyboy has the best aim but hates shooting
-Dally heard of the old church from a cousin
-Ponyboy is the youngest person on the track team but still one of the fastest
-Darry was the closest to their dad
-Steve once called Darry 'all brawn ans no brains' which made Darry made because it reminded him of the fact he didn't go to college
-Darry will suddenly pick up a random Greasers and swings them around
-The Curtis Dad used to call Soda 'Pepsi-Cola'
-The Shepard gang and the Curtis gang have fought seriously on at least on occasion (but it's nothing compared to the rumble)
-The Curtis brothers stayed at the hospital all night for Johnny and Dally until a doctor forced them to leave
-Johnny has a clean police record
-Ponyboy chews his fingernails when nervous
-Johnny often sleeps at Two-Bit's house
-The Curtis brothers all have huge appetites
-Darry always checks Ponyboy's Math homework for mistakes
-Johnny looks like his mother; having the same black hair, dark eyes and tiny built/height
-Soda did actually try really hard to stay in school but he kept failing
-Darry and Ponyboy both enjoyed school and athletics while Soda isn't into either
-The only thing Dally did honestly was jockeying
-Johnny really good at poker (or Ponyboy is really bad)
-The only time Johnny has been confident and not scared in his life, was when rescuing the kids in the church
-Johnny actually gets hurt because he pushed Ponyboy out first of the church
-Sodapop loves attention and was good with the reporters
-Sodapop has a crazy sweet tooth
-The Curtis brothers all love chocolate
-Darry never locks the front door in case one of the gang need a place to stay
-Ponyboy once found Tim Shepard sitting on their couch reading the newspaper
-Ponyboy thinks that Two-Bit wouldn't have gone inside the church if he was there
-Two Bit wished that the one hurt was anybody but Johnny and that the gang would have still been able to get along had it been anyone else
-Darry once took an aerobatics course and taught all the Greasers everything he knew
-Soda and Two-Bit were doing aerobatics and then got arrested for disturbing the peace
-The Curtis gang are noted to be better at fighting than the Shepard gang
-Tim Shepard looked like a model from the magazines Ponyboy reads
-Ponyboy notes that sweat ran down Dally's face when Johnny died, but it was probably tears
-Cherry drives a Sting Ray
-Curly once slipped off a telephone poll and broke his arm
-Johny's a good listener and all the members of the gang often go to tell him about their day or their problems
-Johnny says in his letter that the lives of kids were worth more than his
Curly Shepard hc
He has a skateboard board that he absolutely loves to use but he has broken his nose like six times cause he was going to fast and fell off face first.
He refuses to go anywhere if his mom or stepfather ask him to go.
None of the Shepard siblings like there stepfather. They all think he's a little bitch and will tell him that to his face.
Curly and Angela have the same father but both were completely accidental. Neither where planned and their mother and father were not together at any point in time.
Tim wasn't planned either but their mother was at least dating Tim's father.
Curly has broken many bones and all were for stupid reasons.
Curly once was playing war with Pony and to everyone's shock Ponyboy broke Curly's arm accidentally of course and Ponyboy was almost in tears trying to apologize.
When Curly was about three there mother got with a really abusive boyfriend that hated when curly cried. So anytime Curly would cry the boyfriend would knock Curly out and lock him in his and Angela's room.
Curly got many concussions from this to the point to where both Tim and Angela are both concerned about whether it had any lasting effects or if the Curly they had was always supposed to be like he is.
When Curly is missing Ponyboy he'll look at the cigarette burn on his hand and smile.
Curly and Ponyboy both have multiple other cigarette burns on them form playing chicken before Tim caught them that one time.
i know this is in multiple other head cannons but i love the idea of them being each other's first kiss. Like one day Curly and Ponyboy were hanging out and suddenly Ponyboy would ask Curly if he had had his first kiss and Curly saying no glancing over at Ponyboy and asking if he had kissed anyone witch leads to them practicing on each other. An suddenly it's something they do every time they see each other ""just in case"" even though they never kiss anyone else.
Curly has a snake tattoo on his hip and a tattoo on his lower back that says shepherd. His favorite tattoo though is the star on his left shoulder blade it only an inch or so but he convinced Ponyboy to do it and it is his pride and joy.
Curly's gotten his head stuck in a school chair and the school had to call the fire department to cut him out. ponyboy took a picture of it and uses it as blackmail.
Curly: i'm running on two hours of sleep an oreo and five redbull. i'm ready to fight God(heavy breathing)OR BECOME HIM!
Ponyboy:YEAH!!
Cury: YEAH!!
Sodapop slightly concerned turning to Darry: should we...
Darry tired of there bullshit: They'll pass out in.... five minutes
The most “boys will be boys” things the gang do
• Steve, Soda, Dally, and Darry stay walking around half naked, ESPECIALLY in the summer. Their shirts are never on. Soda’s jeans are unzipped half the time smh
• as much as they really really try, the Curtis boys are known for leaving their dirty laundry everywhere 😟 no matter how messy they can be though, Two-Bit’s room will always be exponentially worse
• one time Steve and Soda wanted to see who could eat the most chocolate cake so they each ate a whole half of a cake and threw up later
• Johnny do not be washing his clothes 😭😭😭 it’s rly not his fault but Darry will offer to wash up some of his stuff with Ponyboy’s and Johnny will be like “no thank you it’s not that bad 🙂” bros jean jacket probably carries the plague
• they literally don’t stop eating. It’s canon that the Curtis brothers all have big appetites, everyone else is just as bad. Most of their money goes to groceries bc they literally just eat and eat
• Ponyboy tries to lay in bed directly after track practice before showering bc he’s tired and Sodapop is appalled
• so so so many wrestling and football injuries. Pony’s always tripping and falling face first. Steve is a fucking pincher when they’re wrestling so Soda and Two-Bit always have little ass bruises on them from him 💀 during football Johnny is really good at slipping between people bc he can be pretty quick but one time he managed to take Steve down with him and they knocked their heads together
• Dally unfortunately enjoys driving around and yelling obscenities when he has Buck’s car. No one is off limits. He’ll trail behind Johnny and be like “ay what that mouth do” and Johnny just lets out the most defeated sigh
• Ponyboy and Curly were each other’s first kiss “for practice” and didn’t rly think much of it until they realized they’d only been kissing each other even tho they didn’t need practice anymore and never tried to get w anyone else 😭😭😭
• if Two-Bit sees any kind of animal worth catching in his mind like an armadillo or some shit he will indeed try to catch it and bring it to the Curtis house and Darry is just like if you don’t get that damn armadillo off my porch
Anyway I love these sillies even tho boys are gross 😒
More miscellaneous headcannons that have been rattling around my head:
- Darry’s a slightly taller and a little more lanky compared to Paul who’s broader and a little shorter than Darry.
- Darry and Paul were always doing something equivalent to a Jackass episode in high school. They’ll both have ungodly dad lore.
- Johnny sometimes goes to the Curtis house really late, like 3 or 4 in the morning and scares the shit out of whoever’s unlucky enough to find him first. Pony goes to get a glass of water and just sees 👁️👁️ in the darkness and screams.
- Steve and Evie are the most disgustingly affectionate couple to be around. Soda and Sandy were fine but those two are always staring lovingly into each others eyes and it makes the gang sick.
- Dally pronounces marry, merry, and Mary differently bc of his accent (yes I’m projecting with this one but I think it’s cool, I only noticed that I do it bc my friends kept pointing it out). He says meh-rry, mah-rry, and may-rry.
- Two-Bit sometimes brings his little sister around and she absolutely loves the gang. They host a big game of hide and seek or tag with as many people as they can find (they usually drag the Shepard’s into it) and just go for it.
- Angela and Evie are best friends, they’re always doing each others makeup and hair and just wandering around together bc they’re some of the only girl greasers around.
- Darry actually has a lot of fun at his roofing job. He likes his coworkers and considers them all good friends. When he gets home he’s just overstimulated from a long day of social interaction and usually he’s sore from actually doing work.
- Pony can never get jars open by himself so he has to ask someone else to do it, he swears that someone super glues the tops when he’s not looking (he’d be correct, but only once or twice. Soda was bored.)
- Johnny seems completely unaffected by the weather, like it doesn’t occur to him that it’s 98 degrees outside and he’s wearing jeans and a jacket.
- Curly’s the emotionally intelligent one in his family, it’s just something with the middle kid.
- Steve will randomly trip people for no reason other than shits and giggles.
- Soda’s really good at taking photos, like he knows how to get good angle, good at lighting, everything. He’s usually the one who takes any photos of whatever’s going on and they’re always good.
- Angela’s has really unsteady hands so she either gets Curly or Evie to help her paint her nails.
- Two-Bit isn’t very good at keeping secrets. He’s always talking and something he wasn’t supposed to say just slips out and he’s like ‘oops’.
- All of the Curtis’ cry laugh for some reason, so obviously it must be genetic.
- Soda was really fascinated by rocks when he was a kid, he still is but he’s a little more secretive about it now. Pony and Darry know and try to give him sometime cool every once in a while, like moss agate or tourmaline.
- None of the gang is good at giving gifts to each other so they all act like cats and leave the gift something they know the person will find it and hightail it.
ponyboy curtis headcanons
- cannot smile ‘properly.’ anytime he tries to force a smile he’s like 😬
- eyesight or hearing is probably horrendous since he’s always getting his shit rocked
- the kid who’s always wearing hoodie/pants in summer and shorts and a t-shirt in winter
- a biter.
- didn’t know how to swim until he got drowned, then finally taught himself 💔
- goes ALL out for halloween. went with curly one year and probably dyed his hair/gave himself piercings solely for the costume
- his dad taught him how to play acoustic guitar— which he still has and plays
- it’s probably all busted up. like one of the strings is a shoelace
- insomniac, has to take copious amounts of melatonin to sleep.
- on the topic of sleep, he sleeps like he’s fucking dead. sodapop takes up all the room in the bed (STARFISHES) so he stays in the same position all night
- one time somebody thought my friend was dead when he was asleep because he was cold to the touch. this has likely happened to ponyboy at LEAST once
- listens to all genres of music EXCEPT country. everytime darry turns on country music he wants to bash his head against the wall
- so so accident prone. will break his leg and be like ‘whatever,’ neglects to tell anybody this information and thugs it out
- anytime him and curly have any free time, they drive as far as they possibly can before they break curfew
- ponyboy’s in track (canon) and sometimes he goes to a track meet and forgets to tell anybody so everybody thinks he’s missing
- they all go on a road trip to find him
If Curly was in that class where Ponyboy pulled out his knife to dissect a frog he would have fallen in love immediately.
Curly about Ponyboy:
I need help choosing what to write so here's a poll! (help sorry had to add to the poll! I came up with more ideas!!)
How they would ask you to prom (part 2!)
WARNING!!! SWEARING<BAD GRAMMAR AND EVEN WORSE SPELLING!
Also gang lines are color coded and bolded!
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Curly
now thank gosh he just got of reform just in time for this! he might have to go back to reform for maybe stealing a thing or two for for you and many hot wring a car for this but hey he hasn't got caught!
"Hey dolly! wait up!"
curly caught up to you as you were taking a walk
"Oh uh hi curly I didn't know they let you out of reform"
"yeah they did I was behaving real good since you know prom season"
"I thought you hated prom?"
"Well uh... oh fuck it will you go to prom with me?"
"oh well uhm sure curly I'd be happy to!"
Y/n smiled and curly handed a gold/sliver bracelet
(Just chose gold or sliver for yourself since idk which one to chose!)
" oh wow this is like super pretty- hey wait a minute did you steal this for me?"
"maybe doll a man don't steal and tell!"
"curly Shepard!"
Angela
Now lets get this strange she ain't asking you! your asking her if you think she'd be that head over heels for you are crazy! JUST KIDDING SHE IS THAT HEAD OVER HEELS FOR YA!
"Hey y/n! Y/N!" Angela whispered yelled since they were at the movies
"Girl hold on!" Y/n put her coke in the cup holder of Angela's car
"whats up?"
"soo you know how like proms coming up right?"
"oh yeah did Bryon ask or did ponyboy?"
"what? ew no I want to ask someone.. and their name starts with a y and their last name ended with an n.."
"oh really who..?"
"oh my god your clueless! Its you will you go with me! You name starts with a Y and your last name is I/n and it ends with an n!"
"Oh yeah I would defiantly prom more if I went with you"
Yeah now suck on that curly! Angela thought taking a sip of y/n's coke
"hey that's my coke!"
Tim
did you only know Tim because him and Dallas catcalled you and your friend yeah... did you still like him and thought he was pretty cute? Yeah... BUT I CAN FIX HIM! (no no you cannot but good try man!)
*whistle*
"damn doll that outfits make ya look pretty good"
"Oh hi Tim thought you were some creep"
Tim put out his cigarette
"you knew it was me huh?"
"yeah"
"anyway so you know how it's like prom season or whatever"
"yeah I know just got a dress last weekend for it"
"Well maybe We should I don't know go together? and we could go back and place afterrr"
"Oh Yeah I'd like to go with you"
"Good wouldn't wanna have to send my gang after your date if you already have one"
"wait what?"
"Oh nothing doll don't worry you pretty head about it"
Marcia
Now what a sweet couple! you guys are gonna be some of the cutest their! oh look its Marcia getting you too some snacks huh and shes writing something on your cup to bad they didn't have glass coke what what is she writing?
"Hey y/n I'm back! sorry about the wait the line was long hers your coke they didn't have those glass bottle ones"
"its okay at least a got a coke- huh whats this writing on it?" y/n turned the coke to see the writing "Will you go to go to prom with me? ps form the girl who got you it"
"oh gosh Marcia I'd love to go with you! I'm so excited!"
"phew thank god! I thought you were gonna say no"
"I would never say no to go to prom with you!"
Sherri (cherry)
You both were hanging out at her house since you had a project
"You know.. I think we'd be the best couple at prom.."
"really I think so too"
Y/n doodled on her paper and cherry blushed
"maybe we should prove that right and go.."
"yeah I'd love to go with you cherry and we can go get some ice cream after!
"yeah I'd love that! I hope they have rocky road or cherry or heck even orange!"
Bob Sheldon
Was the boy kind of an ass? yes.. did you still like him and crush on him?" Yes..
Y/n was patching bob up after he got into a drunken fight with some greaser and lost and was still haft drunk
"hey y/n I think we should go to prom!" He slurred his words
Well drunk saying sober thoughts...
"I'd like to but ask me sober okay?"
Y/n put a band aid on his cut
-⛸-Later when bob sober up-⛸-
"hey y/n"
"yeah?"
"you know how you told me to ask sober?"
"yeah I remember why?"
y/n laughed a little
"well I wanted to ask again"
"yeah sure I'll go with you bob"
"oh cool see you you then"
Randy
You two were driving around just maybe looking for greasers to brother I mean going to get some snacks
"Hey y/n?"
"Yeah?"
"You maybe would wanna go to prom?"
"Yeah sure I'd love to go to you"
"wait really?"
"Yeah really"
Randy smiled and you two keep keep driving around
Randy smiled knowing he'd just prove bob wrong
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Hi! thank you so much for reading part 2! check my blog for part one with the greasers! (this may not be that correct)
Curly: I’m not afraid of thunderstorms.
Also Curly: curled up with a pile of blankets, clinging to a pillow or Ponyboy as it thunderstorms outside his window