here’s a hc of mine if you don’t mind 🙃
darry is so mean to ponyboy for literally no reason. he’s always picking on him and lying to him.
like when pony’s older and and trying to argue that he’s 15/16 he doesn’t need a curfew or god forbid a bed time (his curfew is his bedtime darry somehow got away with that and it’s a high he’s been riding and will continue to ride for years)
but darry’s just sighs and looks at pony with mock concern and says “pony, you know what happens to kids your age when they stay up past curfew”
pony: “im not a little kid anymore darry! ik there’s not a monster that’ll eat me in jail 🙄😒”
darry, disappointed but if he plays his cards right this can be the most hilarious thing he’s ever done ever: “well, duh. you’re too old; the monster only eats kids 8 and under. you’re too tall and lanky for him, no no no, ponyboy. once you’re too big for the monster, you’re fate is wayy worser”
pony, so fucking still one would think him a statue: “what. the fuck! are you talking about”
darry, in a nonchalant voice bc if he were to be “scared” pony would get too scared and tht isn’t his intention: “yeah, what do you think bad dreams and night terrors are? it’s your punishment for missin curfew. but when you’re really bad and miss curfew by more than 4 hours, not only do they drag you to jail like your a kid again, they put you on death row.”
pony: “death? like the chair??”
darry, snorting while pretending to get ready for bed himself: “way worse than that, pones.”
pony, damn near shitting himself tryna imagine something worse than night terrors or the electric chair: “what’s worse than-“
and he looks at darry all terrified, and darry’s annoying ass, who’s only doing all this because he knows ponyboy isn’t gonna go crawling to him if he wakes up scared but instead to soda, nods his head to confirm wtv horror pony’s imagined.
safe to say pony has always been back home about an hour before curfew ever since
pony’s so gullible oh my god 😭😭 i feel like they’d do this a lot more when their parents were alive rather than later……like i can totally see darry and soda like ganging up to get pony to play along with the rules lol-i feel like their parents were also a lot more lenient with pony because he’s the youngest so they just did that kind of thing to make it more fair-they’re all so stupid i love them


















