#spatherine

kath looks up to spot a lot. she thinks it's really cool how spot built brooklyn up from the chaos it was at first, and brought a sort of order and security to its newsies

(shameless plug but if you wanna know more of my headcanons for brooklyn and spot's leadership in general I wrote about it in this fic)

spot in turn respects katherine for her determination and hardworkingness (I don't think that's actually a word but. whatever)

the first time kath watched spot get into a fight, looking at her covered in blood, she thought it was incredibly attractive.

kath is one of the few people who knows spot's birth name (the others are hotshot, jack, lucky, race, and mayyyyybe crutchie) (my personal headcanon is that spot's birth name is "sarah", but I think the more generally accepted name for her is "siobhan"? I'd love to hear other names ppl have for her though)

I think I saw somewhere that katherine would have grown up closer to brooklyn, based on where joseph pulitzer lived? idk I may be wrong. but anyways katherine often observed the brooklyn newsies from her window when she was younger

before the strike, she'd never spoken to spot, but had seen her from the window, mostly in her kinder moments, leading to her having some confusion as to why everyone in manhattan is so scared of her

this one is kind of inspired by the moment in the movie before kony... spot secretly is very excited about having her face and name in the paper. katherine notices this, and she quietly makes sure that in any articles about the newsies in the future, spot gets placed closer to the front for photos so she can be easily seen.

spot rifles through unsold papes for articles written by katherine, and she cuts them up and pins them to a wall in the brooklyn lodging house. when kath notices this, she decides to start buying an extra copy of any papers with her stories, to give to spot at the end of the day.

kath sometimes hangs out in the brooklyn lodging house, she has a super good relationship with most of the newsies, but I will say hotshot at first was a little weird about her (in a "you better not hurt her" kind of way because. spot and hotshot are siblings no matter what. by blood or not it doesn't matter they're sisters)

katherine teaches some of the brooklyn newsies to read when she's around, seeing how good she is with them only makes spot love her more

spot has a lot of freckles which kath will trace patterns on, like constellations. especially the ones on her shoulders

spot WILL sleep on the streets if it means her newsies have a place to sleep in the lodging house. kath gets concerned about this, and tries to convince her to stay with her, but spot is incredibly stubborn. kath and lucky bond over their frustration because they both think it's stupid of her to insist on sleeping outside.

spot, for all her anger and her violent outbursts, is very gentle about every touch when she's with katherine. I headcanon that spot, in her early life, was used a lot, and had relationships, both romantic and otherwise, that were not very good for her, and I think because of that she takes care to treat katherine the best that she can.