Hey!! 1, 5, 11, 17, and 24 for Dally and/or Ponyboy for the ask game please!
i forgot i even put this ask game out. we'll do both.
1. my first impression of them
as a kid i can't remember what my first impression of dallas was except that it was enough that i didn't initially pursue fic about dallas. i think i had the impression he was too mean and then from there i sort of dismissed him. i remember i got annoyed whenever he popped up in johnnyboy fics cause i just thought he didn't deserve johnny's attention from pony.
as i got older though, i read and saw a lot more nuance into the character than what i initially thought. to the point where once i was in my late teens/early twenties, i actively read for him way way more.
as for ponyboy he instantly was king blorbo of my brain. my three big life long blorbos are ponyboy, usagi tsukino/sailor moon, and lestat de lion court. 2/3rds are cancer protags who cry and are emotional the other other one is a bisexual disaster. so.
i think i related to ponyboy instantly as a kid who read a lot while also feeling a level of isolation and a huge penchant for a wild, long imagination. so i think that's why i glommed hard onto ponyboy, esp since he has a mischievous streak that i didn't find in like, hermione at around the same age.
5. my favorite ship of them
hello, i'm the dallas winston/ponyboy curtis saint. this is my field of all the fucks i give about them.
11. what's the first thing you think about when thinking about the character?
i usually think of matt dillon as dallas first and the car scene and ponyboy i generally just think about his love of sunsets
17. what do you think their first word was?
i guarantee pony's first one was mama and dallas' was probably a swear word
24. what do you think is a secret they have that they never told anyone?
i don't think anyone in canon actually knows dallas' birthday or anything about his actual family. less so that it's a secret so much as that he doesn't think it's important that anyone knows. the gang is his family now.
i think ponyboy never actually turned in the novel. i think dallas actually died the way we saw it in the movie, pony altered it and then never turned it in. everything was too personal.