Modern outsiders headcanons
Because of the way he acts and dresses Curly gets mistaken for an E-boy.
The gang have a communal Spotify that they all pitch in to pay for.
Darry drives a second hand minivan.
Two bit is banned from the aux cord.
Steve and soda dated in freshman year.
Darry had parental locks on pony and soda’s phones until they turned fifteen.
Dally basically lives with the shepherd’s he shares a room with Curly.
Ponyboy and Curly are 'secretly' dating.
They're not allowed to be left alone unsupervised unless they're in public and they're only allowed in ponyboy’s room if the doors open.
Curly sneaks ponyboy into his room at night to just hang out without being constantly watched.
Dally has caught them multiple times and the only reason he hasn’t snitched is because Curly’s bribing him.
The only person Dally really cares about is Johnny.
Dally and Curly both have piercings, dally has an an ear piercing and eyebrow piercing, Curly has multiple ear piercings( he wears fake ear stretchers he stole from Claire’s) snakebites, an eyebrow piercing, a septum piercing all of which they gave each other while drunk the piercings were done with safety pins and needles sterilised with vodka (that somehow didn’t get infected), they also have stick and poke tattoos mainly just of stupid stuff but Curly had the bright idea to get ponyboy’s name tattooed under his collarbone ponyboy thought it was stupid but kinda romantic. Darry did not.
The shepherds are mixed (black and white).
Dally’s platinum blonde but dyes it black. No one knows except curly who caught him dying it black with the hair dye he supposedly stole for Sylvia.
Sodapop and Steve run a TikTok account.
Two bit and Marcia used to date.
Ponyboy writes fanfiction on Ao3 he’s really popular in multiple fandoms. only Johnny knows because he’s his beta reader.
Soda vapes.
Ponyboy had a twilight phase and had a massive crush on Edward.
Two bit starts a YouTube channel for musical comedy like a mix between Bo Burnham and Jon Cozart.
Two bit joins the drama club.
Tim and Darry hang out every Friday just to get out of the house.
Angela ran against Ponyboy for class president she won.
Marcia is part of the drama club that’s how she and two bit met.
Sandy on the volleyball team.
Cherry runs the school newspaper
Angela runs the gossip column school newspaper.
Cherry is captain of the softball team.
Sylvia's in a band
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