i like to imagine mr curtis gave everyone their silly nicknames in town and it just stuck 😭 at football games he’s see cherry and be like “oh there’s cherry!” and people around him thought it was funny. It was like a butterfly effect. same with two bit-he would always tell him “oh you always need to send in your two bits, huh?”and the gang started calling him that so frequently other people started to as well
mr curtis seas just like that.
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Dallas Winston Backstory Headcanons Part 3
Part 1, Part 2, General Headcanons
Here is my last part of his backstory headcanons :)
Warnings: None I think
Making it to Tulsa
Eventually he made it to Tulsa, OK at the age of 13 ¾. He had no plan to stay there very long. He had made it to the south so now he just planned to travel around. That was until he went to swipe something from a corner store. Suddenly the manager was right behind him.
“Hey buddy, ya can’t be doin that here.”
Dally just gave him a look, “I was, uh, going to pay Mr…Curtis?”
Did Darrel Curtis Sr. believe him? Nope. Not at all. But he could tell this kid was not from here. With that new yorker accent he was out of place. He saw that this kid hadn’t just moved here. He was alone and afraid no matter how tough he pretended to be. So he let him go and told his wife to look out for him in case she saw him.
Mrs. Curtis did eventually see him when he wandered into the diner and offered him a free meal. He hadn’t eaten in a couple days so he accepted, but was still very skeptical. She tried to ask him what he was doing in Tulsa, where he was from, yada yada. But he was of course very defensive.
Eventually one of her kids named Sodapop came in with some of his friends. These guys named Two-Bit and Steve. Dally tried to steer himself away from them. But they welcomed him over and soon enough Dally found himself cracking a grin at their stupid jokes. He was still very untrusting, he expected that he would have to disappear soon anyways. But he found himself meeting more people.
Soon enough he met the rest of their “gang”. It was very different from any gang he had ever been in. Not that he included himself in their group. He found himself becoming very drawn to one of the younger boys. Johnny Cade. He saw himself in him, a young and more sensitive version. Dally found himself worried about him. If he was as sensitive as Johnny was he wouldn’t have survived. Johnny also took a shine to him and Dally found himself being followed around. He learned more about him and found out just how tough he really was.
He met Buck through rodeos and became sorta friends with him. He found out Buck had an extra room and bullied him into giving it to him. A 14 year old bullying a 21 year old is quite the sight.
He also met Tim Shephard, in a fight. They beat each other to a pulp after one pickpocketed the other. Afterwards they were like “Hey! I like your style!” They've been frenemies ever since.
He very quickly learned the greaser way from the gang and grew out his hair. But he never cared to grease it. He thought it made it off-color.
He was very close to the Mrs. Curtis and would help her out no matter what the task was. Her and her husband were what made Dally believe that maybe he could stay there. Though he would occasionally have mood swings and not want to talk to her or look at her because he saw his bio mom in her. He truly wished that his bio mom had stood up for herself and not fallen to addiction.
He was close to Mr. Curtis as well. Not as close but he still trusted him. Mr. Curtis was also a big fan of movies and everything, especially James Dean. So sometimes they would sit on the porch and ramble a bit about him and his movies.
He sort of scared Pony and also just had some dislike for him. He would be rude to him or just flat out ignore him. Usually the gang would get onto him for it but the main reason was that he would be reminded of his own younger siblings. The ones he left behind and now didn’t even know if they were alive. One of his sisters was the exact same age as Pony as well. So Pony grew up believing Dally really was just this delinquent who hated little kids and showed little care. Which was somewhat true…
He was influenced by Shephard’s gang and other more “hood-like” greasers and though the gang didn’t like it, definitely returned to his illegal pastimes.
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I've just watched s.10 ep.21... the mr. Scratch one...
First of all: Hotch all beat up and lost, whispering, eyes teary. Let me just say that it was so erotic I couldn't even blink. Sometimes we all need to see our comfort character suffer.
Secondly: of course MGG directed the episode. Of course! I loved the episode and it's atmosphere. Some of my favourite episodes were directed by him.
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Truly the most underrated character in The Outsiders is Two-Bit’s mom. Don’t get me wrong I love Two-Bit I think he’s very under appreciated but if I were Mrs Mathews and I was a single mother in the 60s working at a bar to support my two children and the older one who was a full adult didn’t help around the house and didn’t work and was still a junior in high school I would be losing it
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