#sparkedblaze

all the people i ship romantically with this character

morris, to me, is a fantastic place to explore more toxic and unhealthy relationships. he is soooo fucked up and clearly has never had any sort of healthy relationship in his life -- even his relationship with his brother seems codependent -- so of course almost any romantic relationship he's in would go terribly. but also, what would it take for it to go well? how do the parameters of going well adjust? could he and this other person ever get to a healthy place? i have A Few ocs that morris is involved romantically with, but i won't lie and say exploring him and jack together isn't fascinating to me. they are animals in captivity and i have my nose pressed against the glass. also, a relationship that will make no sense to anyone but sparky: morris and blink+mush. there's lore there, i swear.

my non-romantic otp for this character

unsure if this counts, but. it's gotta be oscar and morris. they're da delancey brudders!!! for real, they are a fucked up kind of soulmates to me, and i could happily explore their relationship forever. codependent and traumatised, the kind of love they'd both kill and die for. an equal balance of unhealthy and so deeply genuinely loving. a relationship forged on them being all they've got, a belief that they're all they'll ever have.

my unpopular opinion about this character

probably just that he's interesting lmao. throughout my time in the fandom i've seen plenty of takes that the delanceys are boring, there's nothing there, and that liking them is any sort of red flag. but, man. they're both so interesting to me. and i don't think they're the one dimensional pure evil villains that they're sometimes presented as -- they are and always have been intentionally written and acted to have depth and complexity.

one thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon

speaking in the realm of this being a musical, i'm gonna be a sucker and say i wish they'd gotten a song, or just more to do in any song -- a verse, perhaps! the delanceys and snyder getting a verse together in the bottom line reprise has spun around in my mind many times. speaking in the realms of canon in general, hmmm...i wish we'd gotten more insight into them just interacting. uksies did fantastically with it by having them onstage much more, fucking around like brothers together, but i would've killed for any of it to be audible.

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oscar delancey

how I feel about this character

bastard (in the literal sense too this time!). he's the worst of the two for me, and i love that -- mostly because i see him having good reason for it too. he's all sorts of fucked up, and had to raise his wee brother on top of that, through all of that. he was his da's right hand man, had to look after morris and their ma, then became someone snyder relies on too. he's always had too much weight on his shoulders, and as an adult that makes him almost childish with his violence. he's stuck between this sense of grand self-importance and thinking that he's dirt, and he'll take that out on others. he's my grand parallel to jack -- this image of what jack could've been if he was weaker, didn't fight to choose kindness at every turn. and i think both jack and oscar know that.

all the people i ship romantically with this character

i actually headcanon oscar to be on the aroace spectrum! he has no real interest in relationships or sex, but that doesn't mean i don't explore relationships with him too, through the lens of an aroace person trying to be "normal". i also headcanon him to be 20+ though, so he gets the ol' oc pairings to be toxic with.

i'll skip the last few questions since they're all really the same as morris, unless there's anything anyone really wants me to expound on (salute emoji)

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sarah jacobs

how i feel about this character

criminally underrated and seems to get the even shorter end of the fandom misogyny stick than katherine by virtue of being Nice. in ye olden days of the fandom she got the full character-bashing treatment, people turned her into a evil vapid bitch just there to cause problems for javid, and nowadays it seems like people are just adamant she should just be entirely removed for the crime of being "useless". and, sure, a lot of her scenes were cut and this can sure make it seem like she doesn't do Much, but man, she's still an important character. she's kind and hopeful and smart, i love her talking about socialism in the original script, she's a representation of the female workers -- factory girls and garment workers -- who often get forgotten in the fandom and are even forgotten in the stage show, and she's a fantastic balance point for david and les.

everyone i ship romantically with this character

katherine!!! and not in the incredibly halfhearted way i feel a lot of the fandom "ships" them in, just to get them out of the way of javid without having to really think about it. i think the two of them are beautiful counterpoints to each other and would have fantastic chemistry, they'd inspire growth in each other and have so much to teach each other. and there's a certain Understanding that would come between them at being, to reference the secret history, the only girls in what is basically a boys' club. there's also just such an allure to queerness and sapphic relationships at this point in history, there's such beautiful history there. also, jack! i think he and sarah were cute! sue me!

my unpopular opinion about this character

i feel like i've already referenced so many because its nigh impossible to dare to talk about her otherwise lmao, but another fresh one: she's so frequently mischaracterised even by people who don't ignore her. she's not vapid, but she's also not this stone butch that some people seem to think she is?? she is clearly feminine and enjoys dressing up -- the one scene we see her dressed in evening wear, she's got her hair curled!! she's wearing a very pretty, fairly fashionable outfit for the era! i think some people are just too eager to fit her into a trope.

my non-romantic otp for this character

ooh, hard to say -- especially because the narrative doesn't really give her many friends. i think she should get to meet the brooklyn girls though, they'd get along like a house on fire. i think she'd love spot and stray especially.

one thing i wish would happen/had happened with this character in canon

give her her song back!!! also, not to be predictable, but i wish she'd been in the stage show full stop. i get why she and davey's parents aren't, but man, it'd be so grand to have them in a scene like the scene from the movie, with jack going round for dinner and meeting them.