Nov 14, 2023
The younger newsies are scared of the DeLanceys because, well, they're scary. They're mean, spiteful, they tease and threaten and the older ones tell them to keep clear of the brothers.
The older newsies are scared because they know that they could just as easily have ended up back there, carted out from the Refuge to end up shoving papers roughly into kid's chests and running a finger idly over their brass knuckles at the soonest sign of trouble. Any kid with a younger sibling shivers every time they see Oscar move to protect Morris, every kid with an awful dad hates that they flinch at any mention of a father too.
The DeLanceys are people it is easy to become. That's scarier than threats and punches.
