calls Robin almost every night (even if there’s nothing to talk about) just to check in.

when Robin doesn’t answer the phone, he leaves rambling voicemails that always end with “uh… anyway, call me back if you’re not dead.”

they ALWAYS watch new movies together

movie nights always end with them talking over the credits about everything but the movie.

but they will talk about the movie, cause robin HAS to, usually the next day at work

half their deep talks happen in parking lots, sitting on the hood, passing a soda back and forth.

robin keeps a tally of how many times he’s said “dude” in one conversation. the current record is twelve.

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rundown: just general character analyses of the greasers and maybe the socs. the hcs will be modern day and in the 1960s. hcs a mix of movie, book, and both—each one will be categorized for it.

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ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 .ᐟ — book

𝟏𝟏:𝟏𝟏 — movie

𐙚⋆°. — both/general

☆  — modern day

★ — 1960s/whenever the book was set in

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tldr: the top base and indicators at the first of the symbol will be combined. if there is no indicator, it is an applicable to anytime headcanon.

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★ ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 .ᐟ dally sneaks, not really, the door’s always open there, into the curtis household to use their mom’s hair curler for his hair. speaking of his hair, i’m pretty sure it’s to the equivalent of deep fried. he bleaches it regularly but misses his roots so it sticks out. 𐙚⋆°. he also used to call ponyboy “little curtis” when he was younger.  ★ 𐙚⋆°. ponyboy still has trauma from being drowned in the fountain. he doesn’t go anywhere near water anymore. not like he knew how to swim in the first place. he likes the countryside more after that. well, not really. it reminds him of the church. two deaths, two places.  𐙚⋆°. ponyboy has never fully healed from his concussion. he still runs into things, forgets a lot, and struggles with his basic motor skills. it’s gotten slightly better over the years with the help around him. but it remains there. he has a bunch of scars from his fuck ups. ☆𐙚⋆°. cherry it would 100% listen to lana del ray. she is THE nyc girlie. she’d be addicted to pinterest too. 

☆ 𐙚⋆°. rip dallas winston, you would’ve loved blasting eminem in your headphones and even more pissing people off when they try to ask you something and you ignore it multiple times to then finally respond with “huh?”

ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 .ᐟ i’m sorry, but cherry would kind of hate two bit. two bit’s an alcoholic, just like bob, but also a sweet person, just like bob. two bit’s alcoholism doesn’t affect him the same way bob does. still, cherry wouldn’t like him. she’d tolerate two bit. but she’d continue to hold her hate against the vice. 

★ ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 .ᐟ ponyboy once had a dream of an out of body experience where 7th graders were reading his life story. he saw truly what god was until he woke up. he told soda about the dream, he always tells soda about his dreams, and soda just shrugged him off. pony always had wild dreams anyway.

𐙚⋆°. marcia kept waiting for the call from two-bit. she waited for a few days until she heard what had happened w all the greasers. she still waits for the him.

𐙚⋆°. two bit kept looking for the piece of paper with marcia’s phone number. he gave up, because he knew he could ask cherry anyway. he didn’t keep her waiting anymore. 

★ ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 .ᐟ lets be honest, guys, ponyboy definitely has acne. like, he’s fourteen. his genes better be blessed if he doesn’t. run that back, he’d wash his face with dish soap and have clear, perfect skin. i’m pretty sure they didn’t have anything to deal with that kinda skin care back then. i mean, canonically, the curtis brothers are the only ones to be considered attractive in the whole group of greasers. maybe pony’s just a hater. 

☆ ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 .ᐟ ponyboy would get absolutely DEVOURED if he was in modern day school. not to mention how much of a hater he fucking is based on first impressions. he can’t even come up with good comebacks. don’t even use the time period as an excuse. ponyboy watched as two bit dropped the killer line of “then pity the back seat” on the socs. what did pony say when the socs insulted him? “white trash with mustangs and madras.” it’s over for him if he used that on a middle schooler nowadays. he’s getting butchered into minced fucking meat. he’d use youtube insults but get bullied even more. 

☆ 𐙚⋆°. dallas would go actually crazy with all the modern drugs. lean, coke, ecstasy, green, pot, blunts, meth. he would have his own dealer that he would lowk fall in love with because that’s all he has. the drugs aren’t his salvation. his dealer is. (omfgg waittt fic idea???)

☆ 𝟏𝟏:𝟏𝟏 dally went through the canon event of buzzing his hair off like every other teenage boy. i hc that he had long hair but got a buzz cut then grew it back to his current style. 

𐙚⋆°. at the dx, steve and soda split up the work during their shifts. steve handles cars, soda the register. soda doesn’t know shit about cars, and steve doesn’t know how to even count money.

☆ 𝟏𝟏:𝟏𝟏 steve hates the cars movies because he thinks they’re inaccurate to actual cars. but he still watches them because lightning mcqueen reminds him of soda. two bit once pointed out steve is like mater. he got pissed off as hell. he’s not that ugly.

☆ 𝟏𝟏:𝟏𝟏 steve and soda unironically flirt with each other. like they are the exact type of boys during middle school who slap each others’ asses and say some shit like “good boy” or “good girl.” it’s only excusable whenever soda does it because he’s hot.  don’t get me wrong, they’re straight. but what they do is some of the gayest shit ever. it’s not even zesty. it is and looks genuine. they kiss the homies goodnight.

☆ 𐙚⋆°. dally watches fight club religiously. he likes heathers too - steve showed him it - but he won’t admit it. 

ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 .ᐟ dally really wanted to die. he really wanted to commit suicide after johnny’s death. and when he hit the ground, he was glad. ponyboy knew it too. honestly, that was the better outcome compared to the movie. dally would’ve cared as much for pony just as he did for johnny if time gave it to him. but he forgot about that. he was blinded by grief and was put out of his misery. it was better. dally didn’t die seeing what else he could’ve lived for in front of him, even if he did start to genuinely care for pony. and pony didn’t have the knowledge of dally dying before realizing he could still live with him as the reason.

𝟏𝟏:𝟏𝟏 dally messed up when he died. in his last moments, he saw pony. he saw why he should’ve went on. he saw what he had to live for. johnny was dead. was dying just like him going to fix anything? he knew it wouldn’t. he knew the whole thing was a mistake. in his last moments, he wished he could’ve reverse all he did. he died wishing he was alive. he wished he could’ve said sorry to ponyboy at least for dying. 

𐙚⋆°. it was kind of ironic, wasn’t it? johnny spent his last few moments writing to ponyboy hoping to make dally’s life better. as if he was going to be alive to be able to hear it. it was for the better that johnny died without knowing how much dally truly loved and cared for him, so much to the point his death drove him to insanity.

☆ ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 .ᐟ pony blasted “like him” by tyler the creator after realizing the resemblance to dally in their hair after bleaching it. he keeps his blonde hair cause it’s one of the only physical things reminding him of dally and johnny.

ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 .ᐟ steve is the most realistic brother to pony. he doesn’t let him do anything, doesn’t let him tag a long. that’s what a true brother does. pony and steve’s relationship is purely one sided from pony. he only hates him because he isn’t as lenient as his brothers are. take it as this, darry and soda let pony do mostly whatever he wants, which is what they do, because he grows up faster that way. but steve cares for pony in a brotherly way because steve doesn’t want him to end up like his father, and steve doesn’t want to end up like him either. he pushes him away because that’s the way he was taught. he pushes him away because that’s the only way he knows how to show he cares.

𐙚⋆°. johnny’s only jean jacket is steve’s old jacket. 

☆ 𝟏𝟏:𝟏𝟏 soda would try to get up an onlyfans when he got older to try to get more money to support the family. like brother, like brother or whatever they say. popping it out like his stripper older brother/j

𝟏𝟏:𝟏𝟏 dallas says he hates kids but somehow they kinda gravitate towards him. he doesn’t actually hate them, he’s just trying to keep up that cover. dallas has the energy of the cool uncle and rodrick heffley but nicer combined. he tolerates, more like protects, them because he reminds him of the childhood he never had.

𐙚⋆°. johnny did track with pony. trust me, that kid can RUN.

𐙚⋆°. two bit quotes/references obscure media around the gang, and he looks around to see if anyone got it before he just laughs it off.

☆ 𝟏𝟏:𝟏𝟏 two bit would watch tawog.

𐙚⋆°. darry wears a necklace that holds his parents’ rings after they died under his shirt that he wears 24/7. that necklace is never off him. it’s his reminder to be the best mother and father he can be to pony and soda. 

☆ 𐙚⋆°. ponyboy and johnny had the sickest handshake together. they’d also be the type of mfs you’d see practicing dap ups to get that loud ass sound that reverberating in the school hallways. and sometimes they just randomly dap up and you hear that heavenly clap. pause.

☆ 𐙚⋆°. dally teaches gang signs that he picked up from those sagging fake ass gangsters at school to little kids. 

☆ 𐙚⋆°. they all recorded a ‘we listen and we don’t judge” vid and throughout the whole thing, darry would be have his arms crossed and give whoever was talking the NASTIEST side eye. some of the loudest judging w that. 

☆ 𐙚⋆°. same concept, they did the same thing with a hmo cake. steve and soda put each other on the cake. two bit had the most down bad hmos, like genuinely peculiar hmos like mama coco, ifyky. dally is the guy just putting conventionally attractive women. ponyboy and johnny weren’t contributing but they were definitely judging hard and gossiping about their weird hmos. 

𐙚⋆°. ponyboy went from liking sunsets to sunrises. sunsets were the last glimpse of gold before it went black, childhood becoming adulthood. he liked them because he was finally growing up, finally leaving his childhood behind. it was easier and for the best to grow up anyway. but after johnny’s death, he liked sunrises a little bit more. sunrises are the dawn, the start of gold. it’s unrealistic. pony knows he can’t stay a kid forever. sunrises are an escape. he still favors sunsets, and he wishes he could really show dally a sunset. he was on the brink of becoming an adult, and maybe a sunset would’ve showed him that last glimpse of gold, of childhood that would keep him going. sunrise or sunset, pony tries to stay golden, no matter what.

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damn, this took WAY too long to post. i was going on and off with it. some of it kinda feels ooc, but idgaf. should i make the dally x reader fic or nah??? i honestly wanna write a dally x male reader oneshot,, anywayyyyy might make a part two.

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Steve isn’t exactly the perfect soldier.

Sure he’s quick on his feet, can sweet-talk his way out of trouble…

but ask him to remember which way is north, and he’ll spin in a full circle before guessing.

Still, there’s something about that messy mix of charm and chaos that pulls you in

maybe it’s the smirk under that helmet, or the way he can turn a disaster into a win with sheer dumb luck.

He’s not the kind of guy you fall for because he’s perfect

you fall for him because he’s your perfectly reckless idiot.

He’s a foul-mouthed soldier with the emotional range of a brick until you somehow worm your way in.

Now you’re the one person he doesn’t insult in every other sentence (well… not as much), and he’s still figuring out what to do with that...

Yipee Headcanon about steve yayyy steve hc time!(a normal reaction from someone whose not interstate in steve lol also make it blue bc i think steve like blue also to make differently between captain and steve or any other character)

1. Steve, as a child, could not see SHIT mkay. So if he wasn't with Iso (his mom) or Bill he often stayed in his room and either stared at the stars (the only thing he could properly see) or just hummed and walked in circles. So now when he's yknow zoned out or thinking he starts pacing in circles

2. Pats things. A lot. Again, as a kid, how he could tell what things were there was by patting them with his hands a few times. So if he passes a counter? pats. He's hugging you? Pats your back. Been sitting still for too long? Pats his knees or a nearby flat surface

3. Holding hands. Holding hands is Steve's gesture of showing that he can trust you. Steve likes to hold hands so much because before Euclideas downfall, Bill would guide him around by holding his hand. So if he holds you hand in any shape form or fashion, he trusts you!

4. Forgetful! After... a lot of things happening to him, when he was a patient at the Theraprism, he forgets some stuff. Whether it's something as simple as forgetting what he went into a room to get or something as big as his own birthday. To this day still does not remember it.

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he is a cuddler to the extreme. he likes to hold and to be held in his sleep

he loves loves loves pet names/nicknames. he has like thirty for you, and whenever you call him his actual name, he freaks out because he thinks he's done something wrong because you always have a pet name for him, too

don't make him choose between you or the kids, he'll have a mental breakdown

he loves to sing with reckless abandon, usually in the car or shower—somewhere you can hear him and join in

Steve pretends to be annoyed when you play with his hair because "you're gonna mess it up!" but he actually loves it, so your hands always end up in his hair when you're cuddling (and doing other things)

is capable of kissing away insecurity and doubt

always has an arm around either your waist or your shoulders

he practices speeches (like pre-game speeches and interviews) with you all the time

he loves cooking together

he loves nights in where you just watch sappy movies and cuddle together on the couch under a blanket (most of the time, the movie is paid no mind and you just make out for the duration of it)

if there's one thing Steve loves, it's being able to spoil you, and he will do so as much as he can

whenever he buys you jewelry, it always seems like he's more excited than you are, because you always make him put it on for you, and there's nothing Steve loves more than watching you watch him through a mirror as he clasps a necklace and brushes your hair out of the way before he kisses the back of your neck

he is so incredibly touchy, he always needs to hold you

expect to dance a lot, usually to some old fifties music in the kitchen, because he just loves that sappy, old romantic feel and he loves dancing with you

he likes to watch you when you go to the movies together, because he loves seeing your reactions and how engrossed you get (this gets better when he works at Family Video and brings home movies often)

absolutely adores if/when you wear summer dresses

will hold all of your stuff for you when you go shopping

buys huge bouquets of your favorite flower to spruce up both his home and yours

his kisses start very gentle and slowly become more demanding the longer you make out

likes to keep his hand on your ass, in your pocket whenever you wear jeans

(loves his ass being touched just as much)

keeps vinyls from your favorite bands next to his record player for you, and your tapes in his car

visits you at work and will bring you lunch all the time

loves being visited while he's working in return

he'll call you from work when he really misses you, especially if it's been a while since he's seen you

hates being apart from you for any length of time

really can't wait to get married and have a family and be together constantly

whenever you catch him staring at you, he's usually imagining what your future together looks like

he absolutely took you to go see Live Aid in Philadelphia in July 1985 (he'd planned it for months, he didn't care he was without a job after Starcourt, you were going to that concert)

he cried when Queen played during Live Aid. he won't admit it, but he did.

he also made Dustin record the whole thing on TV back home and he watches it all the time

Steve absolutely loves skin to skin contact, in any scenario: in bed, in the shower, just sitting on the couch, whatever

in the same vein, he loves to take baths together, the romantic and slow kind where he can sit you between his legs and against his chest and just hold you tight; if you light candles, chances are you’ll double the time you spend in the bath with him, his hands rubbing up and down your arms and your legs

he also loves being able to help you do things like washing your back and rubbing lotion/sunscreen into your back—anything you can’t reach, he will reach for you

Steve always asks you if he can give you a kiss before he does it, either verbally or through his eyes/body language

he loves to get ready together in the morning

he hates waking you up in the middle of the night with his nightmares and flashbacks, but loves when you cuddle him back to sleep (you can also play with his hair to get him back to sleep)

expect frequent date nights!!! fancy or simple, public or private, he likes being able to spend designated time with you (and to show you off, because Steve is a proud boyfriend)

he sings in the shower all the time, his favorites are Wouldn't It Be Nice (The Beatles), Hound Dog (Elvis Presley), and Always Something There to Remind Me (Naked Eyes)

he is so very needy and so touch-starved (sometimes he'll ask you to hang out with him for a few hours, to do something, just to sit and hold you for a while)

Steve is a damn good kisser.

speaking of kisses, he likes to be kissed randomly; a kiss given without reason is just more proof that you love him, and he loves that confirmation

he will either melt or lose his mind if you suck on his lower lip while making out. specifically his lower lip, for a noticeably long time. he can't explain it, it just does things to him that make him go feral for you

shower with him. showering is therapeutic for dear Stevie, and he never feels better than when you step in the shower with him after a long day and he can just be held by you

(you're the only one who can call him Stevie. Robin is on thin ice when she does)

Robin will randomly appear in Steve's house all the time; sometimes she acts as an alarm when Steve sleeps in a bit too long in the mornings, and if you've stayed the night she greets you nicely and calmly before she chews your boyfriend out for being late

if you wear Steve's clothes, he's gonna be very sappy and touchy for the rest of the day

if you wear his shirt to bed, he will be the most excited boy on earth (and his hands are likely going to end up going up his shirt to touch your skin, either your stomach or your chest, he doesn't care as long as he can touch)

if you wear his old letterman jacket with 'HARRINGTON' written across the back, he's gonna hang back and let you walk in front of him just so he can see you with his name on you; he likes that it makes people aware you're his, and he likes that it means you like being known as his and want to be his

when you guys go watch a movie with the group, expect the kids to yell at you for pda, because Steve likes to rest his head on your shoulder and hold your hand throughout the movie

likes extra long hugs, either just to hold or to fix a shitty day

in the morning, Steve likes to lay with one of you on top of the other; who it is changes morning by morning

you, Steve, and Robin will always sing along to the radio when you're in the car together, especially if the song is good

when he wakes up from a nightmare in the middle of the night, he will not talk about it until morning, no matter how bad it is, because talking about it during the night just drops him right back into it the moment he falls asleep

he's incredibly sleepy for the first half hour after he wakes up

he loves having breakfast together

when he's either drunk or sleepy, he'll talk to you for hours about the future he envisions with you, and he'll adjust that plan as he gets feedback from you

compliment him constantly. tell that boy he's pretty. give him flowers. tell him you like his outfit. he blushes every damn time and it never gets old

let him cry, and hug him when he does, lord knows he needs it

his room is covered in polaroids; some of you and him, some of just you, a ton of the kids, some that you have taken; they're all displayed proudly on his walls and on his desk

He is possessive but in a sweet way, like if someone stares for too long he will do some stupidly cute shit like kiss you or hold your waist.

One time, another guy tried to hit on you in front of him and he stepped himself in between you two and made out with you until he walked away.

He asks you what it's like to be dating the guy with the best hair in the world.

He lets you touch his hair, but complains the entire time and says you're ruining it just to be an ass.

The one time, you pretended to shave his hair while he wasn't paying attention and he cried.

However, he trusts you enough to let you trim his hair, even after that incident.

See, you’d think he’d be more focused on giving than receiving in bed since he’s like the “babysitter” but in reality, he enjoys being taken care of in bed because he’s tired of being the babysitter.

This doesn’t mean he doesn’t also give, he enjoys making you orgasm, but he enjoys also receiving rather than just giving.

Furthermore, he has a mommy kink sorry not sorry.

When he does make you orgasm he’s real smug and cocky about it, and brags about how he’s “the best in the world” in a joking manner.

He has sick aftercare game, usually drawing a warm bath and helping you bathe and giving you a nice massage.

Am I the only one who thinks he smells like cucumbers????

He enjoys public displays of affection, he has no problem kissing you in public