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yah!!! u guys i love davey so much i will always write hcs for him (thanks for waiting for this!!) a lot of these can be both modern & canon :)

› davey tends to saythe name of the person he’s talking to at the end of sentences. oftentimes, hedoesn’t even realize it, even if he’s done it several consecutive times. hegets really flustered whenever someone points it out, but it hasn’t stopped him.it’s in his subconscious, so he doesn’t even have a reason for doing it.

› he carries around asmall bag filled with not exactly emergency supplies, but what he describes as“minor catastrophe supplies”. in his pouch, one can find nail clippers, a nailfile, a pair of tweezers, a small compact mirror, a bottle of ibuprofen and oneof aspirin, some chapstick, pads and tampons, a pen, and a couple of bandaids.at first, all of the boys laughed at him for always having it on him, but, oneat a time, after using one or more of the supplies from the bag, slowly startedthanking him for always being prepared.

› davey is quick tolearn other people’s love languages, especially any romantic partners he has oris interested in. he will adjust his behavior accordingly to make his significantother as happy as possible. it’s not him being manipulative in order to winbrownie points, it’s him being a genuinely kind and caring person.

› he has a hard timeopening up to people. in grade school, he was shamed and teased for hisprecocious interests surrounding the civil war, medical history, and latin.while continuing to study these subjects, he no longer shared his findings withanyone in fear of being made fun of. this escalated into him no longer sharingmany things about himself—new subjects he discovered that intrigued him, songsthat he really liked, his favorite kind of sandwich. he simply thought nothinghe had to say was worth sharing. he’s still learning to share his thoughts andopinions with others, but he’s doing better than he was.

› sometimes he findsit hard to explain exactly what he wants to say, especially when it comes toromantic interests. this being said, he likes to leave notes and cards for his loveto find. in these, one will find heart-sickeningly sweet messages that he’sconstructed. without the pressure of having to reply in real time, davey can putwords together like no one else. often accompanied by these notes are little chocolateor pressed flowers or, if he’s feeling a little frivolous, a gift card.

› davey does not haveneat print. his cursive is beautiful and completely readable, but his regularhandwriting is so tiny and scrunched up that sometimes even he has troublereading what he’s written. he’s got “doctor handwriting”, as jack calls it.

› davey has a small birthmarkon his lower back. it’s just a little splotchy oval and it took him a reallylong time to love it.

› his fight or flightinstinct is, to say the least, not grounded very well. it depends on the dayand probably on what he ate for breakfast. davey jacobs is perfectly capable ofholding his own in a fight—it’s not likely that he’ll win, but he can keephimself from being beat up until someone else comes to help him.

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hi these are platonic but could be take in a romantic sense if you ship them! enjoy! <3

› jojo and elmer metin sunday school at the young age of seven years old, making theirs one of thelongest-standing friendships within the group. elmer was the first person toshorten “jorgelino” into “jorgie”, which, over the course of their friendshipand learning his lengthy full name, became jojo, the name that he now goes by.on more serious occasions, elmer will still revert to his first nickname forjojo.

› elmer fell out oftouch with the church at around age thirteen when he realized that he wasn’tstraight. both confused, the boys grew apart from each other, speaking less andless over the years until jojo tried to bring him back with the notion that thechurch will accept elmer the way he is. he isn’t as involved with the church ashe used to be but will join jojo about once a month and for important holidays.

› they love to go seelive theater together. elmer was an avid theater kid (albeit only workingbackstage, usually with costumes) in high school, and introduced jojo to it bytaking him to see waitress on broadway. jojo fell absolutely in love and nowthey both enjoy supporting their local community theaters by helping out on setdays, volunteering backstage, and seeing the shows.

› elmer has amassed alarge collection of blankets and throw pillows in his house. jojo contributesto this about once every three months with a small gift to elmer.

› jojo taught elmerhow to read. it was a long, and, at times, very frustrating process for elmer,who often wanted to give up. with gentle pushes and prods, jojo was able toincrease his confidence in reading, not quite understanding why he had suchtrouble with a language he already spoke almost fluently. jojo discovered thatelmer was actually dyslexic, which was giving him a much harder time puttingthe words together. slowly, elmer was able to pick up the language, and for hissixteenth birthday, jojo gifted him his copy of the great gatsby.

    » i’m just…i’m stupid. i can’t do it. allthe letters, they’re…they’re wrong.

    » look at me, elmer. you’re not stupid.you’re so smart! you know two languages. just because you struggle withsomething doesn’t make you dumb, okay?

› jojo always bitsthe tip of whatever he’s writing with and elmer is pretty convinced that oneday it is going to kill him

› elmer doesn’t dodangerous things, but he certainly is very clumsy. he’s got scratches up anddown his arms, scrapes on his knees, and bruises covering his legs. he oftenturns corners too fast and runs backwards or waves his arms extremelyhyperactively. jojo stopped trying to get him to calm down a long time ago, andinstead carried around a box of band-aids for him (elmer’s favorites are thekid band-aids that have cool patterns and characters on them. he collects themon his body like boo-boo stickers).

› they love to volunteer!anywhere is fair game—soup kitchens, community gardens, pregnancy centers—but theirabsolute favorite spots to volunteer are animal shelters. one of these sheltersis actually where jojo got his cat, marshy (it’s short for marshmallow, he letelmer name her, of course). elmer also comes over and watches mushy when jojohas to be out of town.

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listen i love this ship…..i never think about it but every time it’s brought to my consideration im like!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! its so cute and i adore the dynamic!!!! anyways heres some of the Good Stuff! pure dot headcanons (CANON ERA!!) below! <3 tw for a little bit of intimacy at the very end but its not descript.

› davey absolutely adores libraries, and this is nothing new. when davey and spot first started getting together, spot found his adoration of books strange–they’re just paper with some words on them, right? nothing much different than the newspapers he sold–or so he thought. slowly, and teaching spot to read as he went along, davey instilled a love of books and libraries in spot. it’s now one of their favorite places to spend the day, and even if spot doesn’t want to read, there’s nothing that makes his heart swell bigger than watching his love curled up in a chair rapidly flipping pages of a book on linguisitics.

› davey is one of the only manhattan newsies allowed free reign of the brooklyn territory (besides albert, of course). he used to be extremely intimidated by the brooklyn newsies but once spot made it clear that he wasn’t to be hassled when he came through the area, he didn’t mind taking the long way. he’s even become friends with some of them; along with spot, he’s taught some of them how to read.

    » “i mean, really, dave, why you have to come through brooklyn?”

    » “spot, your library is better than the one in manhattan. it’s a risk i’m willing to take. besides, i’ve heard there’s a nice-looking boy that lives around here…”

› height differences. we know that spot is only 5’4” but this doesn’t stop him from getting frustrated at his love (there’s only so much space to contain all that anger), so when davey is being especailly nitpicky, spot will just pick him up and haul him over his shoulder. davey, while capable to wrestle with most of the other newsies, learned very quickly that if he tried to fight back spot would pin him to the floor and that would be the end of that. in general, spot just really likes picking davey off the ground because it surprises him every single time.

› to get back at him for always picking him up, davey will put spot’s belongings just out of his reach. not so high that an average-sized newsie couldn’t get it for him–just high enough that spot can’t reach it without grabbing a stool.

    » “hey, where did my slingshot go?”

    » “hmm? oh, it’s on the shelf next to my dresser.”

    » “got it, tha–shit, dave, again? you know i can’t reach that!”

    » with a grin: “oh, i know.”

› surprisingly, spot is scared of the dark. on the other hand, davey adores the nighttime and the stars that come with it, so, over the course of some very long and cold winter months (because, let’s face it, there’s more nighttime in the winter), davey trekked to brooklyn two or three times a week to show spot the moon, and the stars, and some old books about astronomy that he’d drawn sketches and his own observations in. spot’s still afraid of the dark but less so now that he knows about what’s in it. for his twenty-second birthday, davey gave spot his astronomy books and it was the first and only time davey saw him get teary-eyed.

› davey invites spot over for poker at the manhattan lodging house but, surprise surprise, spot is terrible at poker and davey doesn’t like it anyways so it’s inevitable every time that they’ll go up to the roof and just talk.

› despite spot crushing first, davey was terribly afraid of spot. he couldn’t exactly pinpoint why, but every time jack made him come with him to negotiate territory terms, his hands would flutter at his side and his heart rate would pick up. it was a long time before that fear turned into honest affection, and it was even longer before the nerves davey got when he was around spot subsided. spot showed him that there was nothing to be afraid of and when it comes to romantics, he’s very gentle and never pushes davey past anything he wants to do.

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› davey goes through several stages of being tired. first, he’llget sort of sleepy, but nothing a quick coffee can’t fix. then, he’ll get sotired that everything is funny to him. last, he’ll get so drop-dead exhaustedthat he zones out, forgets everything, and snaps at everyone around him. jackwill make sure he’s alright first before trying to get him to go to sleep,usually with the promise of a blanket and a cup of tea.

     » “sugar? it’s nearly one in the morning. you have togo to sleep.”

     » “baby i have to finish this project”

     » “look at me, davey. you’re going to sleep rightnow.”

     » “…alright.” 

› jack not only paints for fun, but he also uses it as an outletfor his depression. one time he was in a terrible place and has used up all hiscanvases and when davey came home, he was pacing around the hounds, handstwitching, the whole shebang. without a word, davey his slipped his shirt offand sat patiently down in jack’s studio, back hunched over. it became a customthat when jack was feeling especially low, he would paint on davey’s back. healways takes pictures of it, and it’s also helped davey with his body imageissues.

› jack loves running his fingers through davey’s hair. when they’rereally tired and chilling, he’ll sort of give davey a little scalp massage andit makes him melt every single time. when he’s feeling giggly or possiblyslightly drunk, he’ll make sound effects every time he does it

› they love, love to watch sunrises and sunsets together. like,yeah, maybe jack goes to sleep right after it, but davey appreciates thesentiment of him getting up early and making coffee for them, and jack loves tohold his boyfriend’s hand on the terrace and watch how his eyes glow with thesun hits them just right.

› neither of them can cook by themselves so on sunday evening theyget together for about three hours and cook meals for like two weeks

› davey likes to kiss the paint splatters on jack’s cheeks

› jack always calls davey “sweetheart, sugar, honey, cookie” etc.and one time davey just looks at him and is like “oh, are we baking a cake now?just add flour and egg to the mix.” it was a joke but sometimes jack DOES calldavey egg sometimes and it always throws him

› davey just. forgets to eat sometimes. his brain is always goingat 284% and even though he KNOWS he’s hungry he doesn’t take the tame toactually eat. jack has alarms set on his phone at 10am, 3pm, and 7pm so that ifthey’re not together he can call davey and remind him to eat

› sometimes jack calls davey “david” and it really tears this boyapart he cried the first time because it was so soft. it’s a family name thatnobody else uses it but used intimately? it drives him insane to hear itwhispered against his neck

     » “holy shit are you okay?” 

     » “just…david, i…it’s good. i like it.” 

› not really big on pda because davey is really shy about it, butwhen they have to split for work you’ll be damned if davey doesn’t kiss hisboyfriend on the mouth one (1) time

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› davey took race stargazing for their seventh or eighth date andat first he was really worried that race wasn’t going to like it. they wereboth quiet for most of the night, bundled up in their blankets and sweaters,never any more physical contact than holding hands and occasionally running theirhands through each other’s hair. it was about one in the morning when raceturned to davey, out of the blue, and whispered “i love you” to him. it was thefirst time and and davey said it back to him and it’s still one of their favoritememories together.

› davey slipped on ice in winter one time and broke his left wrist(dominant hand) and it was a disaster

     » he couldn’t play the lower register of the piano andhe couldn’t play the violin at all, and he fell into a slump since he couldn’tplay his music. race, unhappy with this, put some classical music on and dancewith davey in the kitchen until he laughed

     » theoretically, davey can still write with his righthand but it’s…not good: “david what does that SAY, it looks like a fuckingdoctor’s prescription”

     » race usually hold’s davey’s left hand when they’rewalking together so the entire dynamic was thrown off

› race begged davey to let them get a dog for the longest time andhe was SO excited when he finally caved. when he brought poe, a golden retrieverhome, an old, sort of sad-looking thing, davey was less than pleased. it had onlybeen three weeks when race had to work a late shift and he came home to finddavey and poe cuddling together on the cough, davey’s face half-buried in thedog’s fur and a blanket thrown over both of them. race decided in that momenthe had never loved any two beings more in his entire life

› they’ll make a whole day out of baking cookies for the othernewsies. i mean, they’ll put some music on and literally bake for seven hours. “ishould quit my day job,” davey muses with a laugh. at the end of the day, racewill kick davey out of the house for two hours because he super wants to makepeanut butter cookies but davey is fatally allergic to peanuts. he’ll make sureeverything is sealed up and all of the counters are sanitized before callingdavey to let him know it’s safe to come home.

› race was in several toxic relationships before he met davey becausehe falls fast and he falls hard. davey, on the other hand, takes a long time towarm up to people, especially romantically. about seven months into theirrelationship davey found race crying and he asked him what was wrong but it tookhim nearly an hour to calm down enough to talk to him.

     » “it’s just…fuck, davey, i’ve never met someonewho loves me like you do. everyone else used me or hurt me or just pushed meinto the ground and shit.”

     » “you know i would never, baby.”

     » “i know you wouldn’t.”

     » “i love you so much, tonio. and it was shit,everything that came before us, but you have me now, and i’m gonna doeverything i can to show you how much you mean to me.“

› race is the big spoon and he’s just as big as davey is but alittle bit skinnier. whenever they’re laying in bed together he hooks his armaround davey’s side and traces patterns into his chest and presses kisses intohis shoulder. davey also loves to connect race’s freckles into patterns. on amuch less serious note one time when they were drunk davey took a sharpie and drewa big moose on race’s back, connect-the-dots style

davey: "oh? girls and boys? okay, i guess if it makes you happy"

sarah: "oh you like girls too? okay that's cool"