#sandy jackson

i think that could indicate that sandy both moving to florida and cheating was extremely out of character, and that’s why it hits harder. and i’ve said it before, but i don’t think sandy just did that for no reason. i mean, maybe soda was moving too fast—he wa only sixteen and was hellbent on marrying her. maybe he loved her more than she loved him. maybe he was too impulsive with their relationship—he’s characterized to be impulsive in general. maybe that drew a wedge between them. he was likely flawed, as anyone is in a relationship. am i blaming soda? no. not one bit. maybe he was the father and she just didn’t want him to know that. but from pony’s high regards of her, i doubt it was just her being a secret bitch in disguise.

i mean yeah, while i agree that people don’t need to be demonizing her and calling for her to be bloody eagled because while cheating is a horrible, awful thing to do to someone, it’s not like the greasers haven’t done worse, we should still let soda be human. anybody would be hurt, angry and upset in his situation. like the girl he was hellbent on marrying and who he loved more than anything just up and left with no explanation of why or what happened. anybody would be hurt in his situation. he’s angry—angry at her for what she did to him and angry at himself because he doesn’t know what he did wrong. he reflects on all the faults he had in their relationship and mulls each one over in his head. maybe his impulsiveness was the reason why. maybe he was too pushy. maybe he brushed off her concern in favor of “not being a square”. and even if sandy truly didn’t want to hurt him, the damage was done. maybe he did have some fit of rage that only steve or darry saw. maybe he did tear up all their pictures together. maybe he did ask steve to burn his letter because just holding it felt like pumping venom into his veins. he was obviously hurt, as anyone would be—hence why steve snaps at pony and tells him to piss off after asking about it.

there probably is a small part of soda that longs for her to come back—he’s a golden retriever at heart. he’s loyal, and he waits for people that are never going to come back. but the majority of him is heartbroken and angry. he’s not sure whether he’d welcome her back into his life if she did come back or if he’d never speak to her again. but he doesn’t want to see her again. not ever. it would destroy him.

i don’t think the book explicitly said it wasn’t his kid, but it’s kind of implied? it’s been a hot minute since i read the book, and im not sure what the exact wording was—i just know it’s a popular headcanon that the kid was soda’s.

i don’t think he would want to speculate on it—he thinks the result would hurt him way too much either way. either she really did cheat on him and left without a word or without explaining why or what he did wrong, or the kid was his and she didn’t tell him. he thinks that would hurt ten times more than knowing that she cheated. he wants to have a kid more than anything, and her just leaving with their kid and without any communication as to why breaks his heart. but honestly, i don’t think he would want to know. he can’t handle the truth, even when he grows older. i think he’d be really angry and confused at first—and he has a right to be angry. but as the shock fades away, he feels close to nothing. he’s just numb to it. he knows he should be hurt—he should be cursing her name and never thinking about her again. but he can’t bring himself to care after some point. no matter what her real reason was to leave, all he knows is that she left him. he knows he wasn’t a perfect boyfriend, and he reflects on that a lot after their breakup. but i think that there’s part of him that’s absolutely heartbroken, yet there’s part of him that’s apathetic to it all.

sandy was a really smart girl—straight a’s (with an occasional high b), she was well liked by her teachers for being polite and a bit of a goody two shows. she was determined to make a name for herself, not only as a girl, but a greaser girl. her teachers underestimated her because she was from the east side, but she always surprised them with her brains. she wanted to be a teacher, hence why she seemed out tutoring opportunities. one day, it’s evie who comes up to her and suggests it. steve randle’s best friend, she knows evie likes steve well enough, and if evie likes him, then he, and therefore his friends must be pretty okay too, right? besides, she’s seen steve and that blonde boy around on occasion. while she found them to be annoying sometimes, she knew evie thought they’d be a good fit for each other tutoring wise, with soda’s personality and sandy’s patience. well, evie was right. soda was a good guy. evie was a bit too right.

sandy wasn’t a judgmental girl, but for once, she had underestimated someone. the only thing she knew about soda was that he was flunking everything except shop class and gym. she assumed he’d be like all the other jackass kids who seemed to fail for the fun of it (*cough* two-bit *cough*) but on their first session she was absolutely captivated by him. he was an enigma to her-here was a guy who had every opportunity to go and do something with those good looks of his, who could have just flunked for the fun of it like some of his other friends, who could’ve just given up by now…but he hadn’t. he was trying. by god, he was trying so hard it hurt her to see. she could tell pretty quickly that he wasn’t lazy, or stupid like the teachers made him out to be, and how she had unfairly seen him as. he wasn’t lazy, he was trying his best with what little focus and attention he was given. he was trying to push himself to read better, to not make a fool out of himself in front of this smart, pretty girl. he didn’t want her pity. but she couldn’t help it. it tore her up inside to see this boy trying his best, but running around in circles in the process.

as big of an enigma as he was to her, she never gave up on him. he’d expected her to—once most chicks saw past his pretty boy facade and dug deep into his personality, they usually got scared off. but not sandy. in fact, the more she learned about him, the more attached she grew. she didn’t like him for his looks, she liked him for how hard he was trying, for his family, for himself, to prove that he wasn’t as “stupid” as his teachers made him out to be. she found himself being enamored by his flirty one liners, or his joking about getting a kiss after getting a difficult question correct, but she also found that putting this puzzle of a person together was just as interesting.

soon they started dating. their study sessions became less studying and more romantic. she had dug deeper than any of those “one night stands” soda had chalked himself up to, and she had dug deep enough to find that heart of gold buried beneath his playful and brash demeanor. however, even she had gained some out of their relationship. she learned to let go and learn to have fun. being around someone as wild as sodapop and having that presence of someone who wouldn’t judge her for letting the quiet, goody two shoes act drop and allowed her to be herself and be wild for a night. no, sodapop didn’t judge. neither did she. she’d learned not to judge a book by its cover.

evie who’s father left after she was born because he simply didn’t want to deal with having a child. her dad was sixteen when she was born, and her mom was seventeen. her mom grew angry and bitter, having to drop school because of her birth. her dad left first.

the night evie had to call the police on her own mother was the scariest night of her life. her mom had been using drugs since evie was young, but she had never seen her mom act like this. she was screaming and throwing stuff at her. she got hit in the head with a curling iron and that’s when she had to call the police. she never saw her mom again, not at home at least. she’s not allowed to visit her in the mental ward, and she’s left to her own devices. she stays with sandy.

sandy ends up leaving her too. one day evie comes home to an empty house. sandy’s parents aren’t home, sandy herself isn’t home, all the lights are off…she assumes they’re all just out, until she sees the letter on the table from sandy, apologizing for everything. she was moving to florida…well, not moving. running away to florida, to be with her new lover. at least, that’s what she gathered. she figured there was much more to it, but she didn’t know what. all she knew was sandy had left her too. the person who took her in and promised she’d never leave had broken that promise. and she was bitter.

when steve goes to fight in the rumble, she’s scared. she doesn’t want him to fight, heaven knows what those socs will do to him. but most of all, she’s scared of him leaving. dying. just like johnny. in the months after johnny’s death, she’s walking on eggshells around steve to make sure he doesn’t try to do what dally did. she can’t handle it. she can’t handle the thought of her boyfriend leaving her too. she lost her family, her best friend, and now she’s scared she’s on the brink of losing her boyfriend too. she doesn’t cry when he gets hauled off to jail for mouthing. she cries for the loss of all the other people in her life who have left.

💄-appearance headcanon

in my head, sandy has short, kind of jaw length hair? it’s kinda messy cause she cuts her hair herself (she wanted to go to beauty school in my head…frenchie from grease lookin ass)—she has lots of freckles along her cheeks and she has green eyes. she’s pretty petite—almost fragile looking. very doe like. she’s short—like obnoxiously short (barely pushing 5’) because y’know, gotta push my problems onto someone! she has a very “innocent” looking face, y’know? she loves headbands with bows and has them in all sorts of colors. evie used to make some for her because evie is very crafty. she also does her own nails and sometimes even does evie’s and sylvia’s. they’re usually painted blue or pink cause those are her favorite colors. she also has a star shaped beauty mark on her right cheek, just blow the eye. random but if feels right lol

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for sandy, i think she was never really as toxic as teh fandom makes her out to be…soda was imperfect, and some of the things he did REALLY bugged her. she was sweet and kind and loved animals. she was real good at dancing. she treated soda like a king, until she couldn’t take it anymore. they both probably weren’t a great fit for each other-sandy was too anxious and soda was too reckless. i’ve seen a few designs for her but im kinda formulating my own lol—i headcanon she used to do ballet though and she’s lower middle class—ive gotta come up with more on her lol, i don’t have much that sticks out (also im speed typing this 😪 i’ll come up w more when i get home lol)

sylvia…oof, i love her. @garbage-creature and @your-unfriendlyghost have some PEAK sylvia designs. i love the headcanon that she bleaches her hair, i think that’s a pretty neat. i can kinda see her being middle class? but she’s very reckless, just as reckless as dally. she doesn’t have a very good home life either, and her mom abandoned her as a kid, so she takes her anger out by doing bad things (like cheating—but imo those two shouldn’t of dated in the first place, they’re both horrible for each other) but i think her and evie are close, at least somewhat. her and sandy were best friends tho before sandy left. sylvia was livid when sandy ran away cause it was just another person abandoning her, and she just snapped. prolly ended up in jail.

Everyone else’s reaction completely in shock and normal....Cory on the other hand...

Why do I find it so funny...Cory’s reaction though omg...he is such an shit stirrer..