irl marcia meyrink

“instead of tiki torches, they have flashlights. the violence socs exhibit is inspired by real life events where people were killed.” read that again for me yeah?

And this isnt to say he’s bad in the book, but books inherently have more time to develop more ideas and characters, and a lot of randys relevance is explored in ponyboys mind, which we obviously cant see in the same way in a musical theater format.

He’s really good at making people like him, admire him, want to be him or be with him. He’s charismatic and suave and adept at social graces and good at winning people over; friends, girls, teachers, authority figures. Cherry is probably the envy of the entire female student body, and he makes her fall head over heels for him; makes her feel butterflies, makes her feel like the only girl in the world. He knows how to endear himself to her parents with a “sir, I care about your daughter very much” speech to her father, and an “I didn’t know Cherry had an older sister” that makes her mother blush. He’s the kind of guy who makes other boys feel cool for getting to hang out with him, so beating up greasers alongside him makes them feel like they’ve been initiated into an exclusive club.