#ace evans

The Curtis household was always full on weekends, whether is was Steve crashing on the couch or the whole gang coming around. Whatever it was, the night always seemed just a bit brighter in each other their lives. — Their eyes would shine just a bit more whenever the yelling wasn't filled with anger, and fighting only meant wrestling.

(this is gonna get sad guys, i’m psychoanalyzing)

Pony - fight/flight, he lashes out and gets angry, usually at himself, he places blame for everything that goes wrong and tries to punish whoever he deems responsible though it’s usually him, if he can’t fight his way out of a scenario he runs for his life (i.e. resolving to run away after Darry got pissed at him)

Soda - fawn, he acts like nothing’s wrong and latches to people bad, he shrinks the issues to make himself palatable for others and it often makes things worse for him in the long run

Darry - freeze/flight, everything stops feeling real, he shut down entirely, he didn’t talk for multiple days after his parents’ death, when he does react it’s by overburdening himself as not to think about it, he doesn’t let himself have free time, just work

Johnny - flight/flop, he physically runs from bad situations unless he’s in the worst kinds of corners, most of the time when he can’t run he just gives up (the time at the fountain was an exception), if his parents get upset with him he just gives up and sometimes just finds himself near physically incapable of moving

Steve - fight, something goes wrong and he will start swinging, he lashes out at everyone when he’s upset and his friends are genuinely the only people who can put up with him when he gets like this (these outbursts have ended multiple relationships of various natures)

Two-Bit - fawn/fight, ok that sounds contradictory but hear me out, they belong in different situations, he tries to please and fix almost everything to a point that it hurts himself sometimes with people he cares about, once he can’t care anymore he faces the threat with his fists (it takes a lot to get him mad but damn can he fight)

Dally - flight, the go-to answer would be fight but i thought about it, when things went really wrong for him, he didn’t stick around to fight, he just ran away, like how many times he’s hitched trains and how he’s never gone back anyplace, that is a flight response

Ace - freeze/fight, if something really bad happens she physically freezes up, her mind goes someplace else and she shuts down, but if anyone else is in distress she starts lashing out in defense of them, she started fights within the gang when Pony and Johnny ran away because Soda started crying and that was her knee jerk reaction when anyone tried to talk to him

this was actually really fun to think about, i love yapping about the outsiders