#Terrence dipp

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Marcia runs really cold and two bit runs really hot, I will not be taking criticism on this

just imagine Marcia with constantly freezing hands sticking them on the back of two bits neck without warning and him yelping and practically jumping 5 feet in the air- or her coooonstantly holding his hands and he always teases her that the only reason she ever holds his hands is because he warms up her fingers and she never argues with him on that-

or in the summer two bit overheating so much and taking Marcia’s hands and sticking them on his forehead and she’s just giggling and UGH THEY ARE SO GODDAMN CUTE

Also Trip had cold hands, yet another piece of evidence that their relationship was never gonna work out.

[sky4cherry]

what would the socs spending halloween together b like

okay so costume ideas based on my unpublished fic hehe:

bev and brill: nurse and doctor

marcia: pippi longstocking

cherry: a cat

trip: frankenstein

chet: a sailor

paul: a vampire

bob: boring (no costume)

now on to actual hcs!! not many unfortunately bc im watching movies w my housemates rn !!

bob doesn’t like dressing up, but he looooves throwing an absolute rager

honestly i think the socs have a rager on the most convenient friday near the day, while actual halloween is reserved for the boys forcing the girls to watch horror movies 🙂‍↕️

I JUST KNOW CHET FUCKS SO HARD W CARRY ON SCREAMING (1966)

there’s a lot of paul and brill jumping out from around the corner and terrifying everyone else (especially bob LMAO)

not era accurate but brill is so randy meeks (from scream) coded to me (chet and bob are stu and billy)

melvin and sergei are contractually obliged to give paul and chet a piece of candy each if they don’t wanna be completely robbed

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yes of course I think about them so muchhhh! We don’t really know any of their canon ages so I’m gonna say they’re all around 17 unless I specify otherwise. Some of this info is from tho show, but a lot of it is from the actors!!

Marcia: anxious, sassy, cherrys best friend, dating trip but commonly shipped with two-bit because of their romance in the book, though they don’t interact in the musical. Torn between her soc friends and doing the right thing.

Beverly (Bev) Jitney-Bush: the richest soc, her dad owns a jumbo jet plane, dating brill and they are literally perfect for each other. She is very much a supporter of the class divide and looks down on the greasers, and will even join the boys in their violence against them.

Terrence (Trip) Dipp: not much is known about trip. He is dating Marcia and their relationship is very hot or cold, and they get into fights a lot.

Clark (Brill) Brillstine: dating Bev, is also a big fan of the class divide, not much else is known about him.

Chet Baker: has a crush on Cherry (and Bev but no one in the fandom talks about that) and is dating Cherry at the end of the musical. Dances with cherry at the drive in while she’s still dating bob, causing bob to get really jealous. Not much else is known about him.

Melvin Dipp: younger than the rest of the socs, trips little brother, (step brother, but they don’t like to talk about that.) he’s a player, but he has a crush on Ace and they fight in the rumble.

Sergei: same age as Melvin and Melvins best friend. He’s an exchange student from Ukraine

Let me know if you have any other questions! My mind is like a vault of things the actors have said about their characters, and I also have some headcanons on them!!

Hey Outsiders fandom, I need a tad bit of help. I'm curious about some of the newer Socs from the musical, though right now I can only remember Chet's name.

Would anyone be able or willing to give me a run down on the Socs, names ages personality and popular headcanons about them?

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The tragedy of Trip and Marcia is getting to me

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The love triangle is triangling

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Dear socs they could never make me ignore your complexity and treat u like one dimensional characters

[sky4cherry]

hi #1 bob sheldon defender

can you pretty please elaborate on what you think bob’s relationships with the other socs are ?

ok sooo sorry this took me so long but i am so incredibly ill and my brain is not doing its job 🙂‍↔️

putting this under ‘read more’ because this turned out long

bob and paul: they’re obviously really close!! i hc them both as being only children, which bob feels kinda different for since he’s grown up with chet and brill who both have 2 siblings each, and trip who has a brother. they definitely view each other as brothers, hence why paul was quite as fucked up as he was when bob died (also like to be fair he did watch it happen so there’s that too)

bob and cherry: guys they are so important to me,,, girlboss gf and girlfailure bf… obviously they are head over heels for each other, and cherry’s the only one bob is really vulnerable around, which makes it all that much harder when he’s been drinking. they both want to help each other get through the bad times, but they both know that it’s inevitable that bob’s going to get caught up in the social divide :( they are so important to me :( bob who doesn’t know how to comfort cherry about her parents arguing but really wants to try

bob and marcia: the idea of bob being very wary around marcia because he’s scared she’ll spread slander about him is so funny to me because she is only 3 apples tall!! you’re telling me you’re scared of her when she’s 3 apples tall and riddled with anxiety?? they’re close because they’re the two who are closest with cherry, so they spend a lot of time together, but bro is quaking in his boots because he’s so scared she’ll put the embarrassing shit she knows about him to use

bob and trip: dyslexic bob sheldon who claims he just ‘doesn’t get it’ when he struggles with homework, and trip who helps him out without making any jokes at bob’s expense. trip (in my head) presents as quite stoic on the outside even though he’s secretly silly, while bob is more outwardly silly, so they balance each other out. trip who knows the best out of all the guys that the fighting is worthless, but knows exactly why bob does it. and bob who knows trip doesn’t fully support the fighting, but encourages him to join in so trip can control something. they’re not the absolute closest of the bunch, but they are very important to me!!

bob and chet: bob sheldon who wreaks havoc on his parents to try and get them to parent him better, but he takes things far more seriously when chet is the one being ignored by his parents. bob who doesn’t let chet go a night sleeping at his own home unless it’s by choice, so he always fixes up the couch for him in case chet lets himself in while bob’s asleep. they’re close. they’re so similar in the way they’re treated by their families, and how they choose to cope with that treatment. i don’t think i can actually put into words how important they are to meee!!!

bob and bev: oh you thought he was scared of marcia? beverly jitney-bush is no man’s peace. they’re close in the way they argue a ton but it doesn’t change their dynamic at all! with bev constantly at brill’s, and brill living 2 doors down from bob, they spend a lot of time together! bob’s probably the most headstrong guy, while bev’s the most headstrong girl, so they’re both close and at constant odds with each other. i think they argue because they’re similar, but they know they understand each other well enough to know when they’re going too far.

bob and brill: childhood best friends type shit!! they’ve known each other since they were little kids, and brill’s always balanced bob out really well. when bob’s letting his emotions guide him, brill’s there to help him regulate himself. they’re pretty big opposites from each other, but it’s something that really comes in handy when one gets in a situation he’s not exactly equipped for, because the other will always come to his aid. all the more tragic considering bob and brill make direct eye contact when bob gets stabbed

[sky4cherry]

list the socs from who u think is the oldest to who u think is the youngest 😋

i had to really think about this LMAO obviously bob through to marcia are all the same age but like ohhh there's something so special to me about the way people can be the same age and feel like they were born in the wrong order 🫶

paul - canonically a grown adult, dan berry you will not change my mind

bob - something something bob being one of the eldest while also being very poorly educated on the social divide

brill - guys i gave him 2 younger brothers can you tell i perceive him as being big brother coded

trip - in my head he should rlly be higher but i couldn't totally settle on it? in my head this is where kcso's trip sits, but sean's trip is between bob and brill (still can't find the words to explain why i perceive the two trips so differently)

beverly - i can't really explain this one? i think she's just absolutely bang in the middle??

chet - i feel like i don't need to elaborate 🫶

cherry - something something cherry being one of the youngest while also being the most mature and best educated on the social divide

marcia - she's my little pookie fr 🫶 this is mostly based on the way that a lot of people speak on her behalf, and how everyone seems quite protective over her

[sky4cherry]

So Melody and Barton call each other “Honey” which got me wondering if you think Bev and Brill have any other pet names? Also do you think the other couples have little pet names too?

i love this ask so much i left it unanswered slightly longer than i originally planned to because i wanted extra pondering time hehe 🫶

bev and brill my 'honey' warriors 🫶 the only other nickname i can see between them is brill affectionately calling bev 'blondie', but that's not really a pet name sooo ???

bob sheldon you are never beating the simp agenda under my watch,,, bob calling cherry 'beautiful' and 'baby' but with the same tone people use to talk to dogs purely because he is sooo in love !! cherry calling him 'sweetie' and he pretends to hate it when they're with the others, but in private he's going 🫵 say it again

trip calling marcia 'sweetheart' because he picked it up from his parents ☹️ and marcia calling him 'handsome' (and his cheeks get sooo red every time because he's so flattered that someone so pretty thinks he's handsome) 🫶

bonus: ace calls two-bit 'fuckhead' 🫶

[sky4cherry]

soooooooo,,,,, hwo does bobs funeral go

okay so very sorry for the wait but i 🧍 had to go to a funeral so 🧍

unfortunately there’s a perfect amount of soc boys left to carry the coffin sooo … sorry boys

it’s obviously a soc-only event

cherry gives a little speech, and so does paul. chet was invited to, but i don’t think he does speak

all the soc boys + bev and marcia are sitting together, while cherry is sitting with her parents (+ bob’s parents) instead

the socs do try to speak to cherry, but she’s already started focusing heavily on the fact that the boys were all there and were part of the reason johnny had to do what he did

she does talk to marcia though

i think once everyone heads back to the sheldons’ afterwards, it gets awkward fast for the socs

everyone except cherry sits in bob’s room together and then suddenly cherry walks in

brill and chet try to ask how she’s doing and if there’s anything they can do for her, but she doesn’t say anything, and just sits down on the bed next to paul

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Outsiders characters fav seasons based on vibes, feel free to argue tho I’d love to hear ur opinions on this!

ponyboy: fall (duh)

sodapop: summer (it’s an excuse to take his shirt off 🙄)

Darry: spring

Johnny: summer (warmer weather means it’s more pleasant to sleep outside)

Dally: he doesn’t give a fuck (winter)

two bit: he actually doesn’t care

steve: winter

ace: summer

cherry: spring

Marcia: fall

Bev: winter

Bob: spring

Paul: winter

trip: fall

brill: winter

Chet: summer

[sondheim-girly]

Finally getting to the marbit part of the marbit fic! And be warned that chapters are gonna start getting longer. My submission for day 3 of @outsidersweek, and thanks to @walmartbrandwhatever for being my beta reader. masterpost for this fic

April, 1967

Marcia

Trip was off at the concession stand getting snacks for Marcia, when two boys sat down on the bench behind her, cackling and talking as loud as possible. ‘Just ignore them!’ Marcia thought to herself as she gazed up at the huge screen of the drive-in. But Marcia wasn’t known for taking the smart route.

“Oh would you just shut up!! Some of us are trying to watch a movie, you know!” She snapped, looking back at the two greasers who seemed shocked at her outburst. 

“And how do you know we aren’t watching the movie?” One of the boys asked, cocking an eyebrow. 

The other one stood up, “I’m gonna go find Ace,” he said, seemingly too tired to deal with the feisty soc in front of him. The first boy simply grinned and waved him off. 

“Well sure,” Marcia responded once the other boy was gone, “this horror movie is known for its very comedic scenes” she said, her tone dripping with sarcasm.

“If you’re taking it seriously, then I’m not sure you’ve been watching it at all.”

Marcia looked back up at the screen, and had to choke back a laugh. “Do they really expect us to believe that that’s what it looks like for a huge blob to eat a person?”

“And you’re so educated about that subject?”

“I’ll have you know my older brother was tragically eaten by the huge blob that infested our house, and trust me it looked nothing like that”

“I suppose the socs do get bigger houses, but at least the east side isn’t infected with blobs.”

“Well, you win some, you lose some.”

The boy grinned, and Marcia felt something in her heart flutter. He moved over to sit next to her in one fluid motion.

“Say, you got a name?” he asked,

“Not one to spare, I’m afraid. You?”

“I got two names, you want one?”

“Why not?”

The boy held out two closed hands. “Pick one,” he offered.

Marcia pointed at his left hand, and the boy laughed.

“You sure?”

“Of course,”

The boy took a breath, then said, “Keith.”

Marcia laughed, “you’re kidding me! I really should have gone with the right hand.”

“I did warn you! You want my other name?”

“Yeah,” Marcia grinned, 

“Then tell me yours,” the boy challenged, a mischievous smile on his face that felt like it could light up Marcias whole world. She wished she could sit here with this boy for the rest of the night, but just as she was thinking that, she heard a loud voice behind her.

“Marcia, what the hell are you doing!!” 

Marcia jumped up from the bench to look at her boyfriend, “Trip-”

“I leave for five minutes and you immediately go talk to some dirty greaser?!”

“Trip stop-” she pleaded, but her boyfriend had already stormed off towards his car. Marcia turned back to the boy who had brightened her world for a moment.

“Marcia. Pretty name.” He said, with a smile that didn't quite reach his eyes.

“I have to go after him…” Marcia paused, then said, “you have my name, now can I have yours?”

“Two-Bit.” he responded,

“Bye Two-Bit,” Marcia said, a sad smile on her face, before she turned away and ran after her boyfriend. She caught him just before he opened the door to his car. “Trip stop- Trip please! He was disrupting the movie so I tried to get him to stop, but then he came and sat next to me and he wouldn't stop talking. I didn’t invite him over or anything! Trip please don’t be mad!”

“You both looked pretty cozy to me…” 

“We weren’t! I promise.” Marcia put her hand on Trips face and turned his eyes towards her, before pressing her lips against his.

“I’ll kill that greaser if I ever see him again. I swear I will.” Trip said, but his eyes had started to soften.

“Trip you know how I feel when you get into fights! Just let it go, alright?” She pleaded, pressing her lips to his once again. She finally felt him melt against her, and he lifted her up to sit on the hood of his car, his arms wrapped around her. She gazed over his shoulder and locked eyes with Two-Bit. He looked resigned, almost sad, but accepting. He then turned away from her, seemingly without a second thought. Something about him tugged at Marcias heartstrings, but she just closed her eyes and nuzzled her face into Trips neck, wondering if she’d ever get that smile out of her head.

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Submission for day 2 of @outsidersweek!! heres the masterpost for this fic

January, 1967

Trip

Growing up with the two most controlling parents in the world meant that Trip was always trying to find ways to break the rules without them knowing. It was like a game: how far could he go before his parents started finding out and punishing him? That game is what led him to sneak out, get drunk with his friends, and then get into a fight with some random guy at this party they’d crashed. As he stumbled down the residential street towards his house, his face bruised and busted, he caught sight of a street sign, realizing through his drunken state that he was awfully close to Marcia’s house.

If he went home to his parents there was too high a chance they’d find him and freak out. If he went to Marcia, maybe she could even patch him up! That’s what Bev always did when Brill needed it. These foggy thoughts led him though the streets and all the way up to Marcia’s window. Her curtains were drawn, but he could see light poking through. He knocked once to no answer, he knocked again, and still nothing. He was starting to get worried, but when he knocked a third time, he finally saw a hand draw back the curtain. 

Marcia

Marcia drew back the curtain to find her boyfriend outside her window. She stood there for a moment, confusion written all over her face, before pulling up her window and letting him climb through into her room. He immediately went to put his arms around her waist, and she let him until she saw his face in the light, and she shoved him off.

“Trip, have you been in a fight?!” she exclaimed, looking at his black eye and bloody lip. She went closer to him again to examine the damage, but stopped when she smelled his breath. “Have you been drinking?” she accused quietly, feeling herself withdraw from him.

“Just a little bit…” he admitted, moving towards her again. “Do you have anything to patch me up? My parents would flip out if they saw me like this…”

“Are you serious?” Marcia said, shocked.

“Baby?”

“You sneak into my room! Your face is all busted, you’re drunk as all hell, and you expect me to just patch you up like nothing happened??”

“Oh shut up Mar! Just help me, like any good girlfriend would.”

“Don't tell me to shut up!!”

“What the fuck is wrong with you??”

Marcia stared at Trip in shock. “What's wrong with me? Am I the one with a black eye?? No, I’m not. Who were you even fighting??”

“Just some guy at this party… I don't know.”

“You don’t even know who you were fighting!?” Marcia turned away from him for a moment, contemplating what to do. “Get out of my room.” she finally said.

“Baby I don’t understand…”

“Maybe you’ll have a better grasp on it once you're sober. Until then, I don't want to see you.” Marcia walked to her door and held it open for him. Trip stared at her dumbfounded for a moment, before furiously stumbling out of her room, and leaving her house with a slam of the door.

The next morning Trip showed up at her door with flowers, telling her how sorry he was, and promising her it wouldn’t happen again. Marcia threw her arms around the boy, telling him that she forgave him. Things were normal for a while, but promises like that were made to be broken. 

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Here’s my submission for day one of @outsidersweek, sorry it’s so late!! Heres the masterpost for the rest of the fic October, 1966

Trip

Before Junior year, Trip hadn’t noticed Marcia. Whereas Brill had known he’d marry Bev since they were little kids, and Bob had had a crush on Cherry for years, it took Trip a while to see how much he liked the sassy brunette. In middle school, he'd just seen Marcia as the weird girl who talked too much. Once she got into high school he started to notice her more. The way her eyes twinkled when she talked with her friends, and the glossy shine of her hair. Then when he went into his Junior year something flipped, and suddenly she was all he thought about. The sight of this girl he’d known for years suddenly sent fireworks flying through his stomach. 

He didn’t really try to hide his crush, and the entire football team learned all about it instantly. He believed Marcia noticed fairly quickly as well. When someone literally stops in the hallway to stare as you pass by, how could you not notice? By the time homecoming was around the corner, Brill wouldn’t stop bothering Trip, telling him to ask out Marcia. Eventually Trip had given in, and he and Brill planned it all out. 

On the Friday one week before homecoming, he would meet her in the courtyard that was normally empty before school. He’d have a huge bouquet of flowers, and he would ask her to go to homecoming with him. Brill was convinced Marcia would say yes, and if Trip were being honest, he knew she would. And after the dance he’d ask her to be his girlfriend. He couldn’t stop thinking about it. Thinking about how she might smile up at him at the dance. How she’d be cheering him on from the stands of the football field during the big game. And now here he was, standing like an idiot in an empty courtyard with Brill, his hands filled with a bouquet of the nicest flowers in all of Tulsa. But when he saw the brunette walk into the courtyard, he knew it was all worth it.

Marcia

“Bev why are you dragging me! And where are we going??” Marcia complained, as her friend gleefully guided her through the school campus,

“Quit complaining, you’ll see soon enough.”

“The courtyard?” Marcia said as they finally arrived, “why would we…” she trailed off as she saw a boy standing there, holding a beautiful bouquet of flowers. Bev ran over to meet Brill, and he strung his arm over her shoulders.

“See you guys in class!” Brill called back at them, the perfect pair unable to stop smiling at the evident success of their plan.

“Hey!” Marcia awkwardly greeted Trip, as she fidgeting with her dress.

“Hey. I was… I was wondering if you’d like to go to homecoming with me,” he asked, a shy grin on his face.

With those simple words, Marcia felt like she was floating on air. She’d spent so long feeling like she was going to be alone forever. Bev had Brill, and everyone knew they’d be together forever, the pair completely made for each other in every way. And then Cherry started going out with Bob last winter, and suddenly Cherry hardly ever hung out with Marcia. And Marcia knew she talked too much, she was always cracking jokes that no one around her ever found funny. She thought that no one would ever like her like that, no one would ever love her. But here was Trip. Cute, athletic, Trip. And he really liked her. He really really liked her! And he was standing there with a bunch of flowers and a smile, asking her to homecoming! Her fairytale was finally coming true.

“I'd love to,” she finally responded, and Trip stepped towards her, handing off the flowers. A huge grin spread itself across her face as she looked down at the bright colors, before she looked up at Trip again, “Thank you,” she said,

“I’ll pick you up at 6:30, alright?”

“Perfect. I should get to class now, see you later?”

“Yep!” He confirmed, and she gave him a small wave before hurrying out of the courtyard to find Bev and Cherry and tell them what had happened.

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flowers

Marcia was sick of flowers. Trip thought she loved them because she was a girl, so of course she must! But by the end of Sophomore year she simply hated them, another thing Trip never learned about her. She never brought it up to him because she knew it would cause some sort of argument. When they were good she preferred to see how long they could stay good. That’s what Marcia believed love was, hot or cold. She was either being burned or frozen, and while both could hurt, it was an addicting cycle to fall into. When she was burning she longed for the cold, and when she was freezing she longed for the heat. She didn’t know a way to feel better without either of those options, so she kept herself in this eternal loop, until the day she finally managed to escape. When she fell in love again, she waited in fearful anticipation for the cold to come. When it came for the first time she got so scared, because she realized she couldn’t do that cycle again. It drained everything out of her, and she wanted something different. So she gave two bit an ultimatum. Stop drinking, or she’d break up with him. She said she didn’t want him showing up on her doorstep every other morning with a bouquet of flowers, and he listened. They found something new to Marcia. Instead of a wildfire threatening to burn down the forest, or a relentless icy storm, they found a steady love. It was like a campfire. It kept them warm at night, and it never hurt. With work from both of them, it could be sustained. It felt so nice to be taken care of by two bit, and she took care of him. They had their arguments, of course they did. But instead of a flowery bandaid covering up the wounds, they would talk it out. Two Bit never brought Marcia flowers, and that is exactly why she loved him.

[sky4cherry]

Hi, I was wondering if you knew the lore and stuff around the Socs from the outsiders musical and were willing to share? I'm afraid I live under a rock and don't know much besides ones name (Chet) but would love to learn more! Names, age(even if most of them are the same), personality and popular headcanons? - 🍀

alright here we go 🫡

starting with the main socs !!

robert "bob" sheldon (17?); there's a lot of info on bob in the book which i'd really recommend reading because i fear people love to forget he's not just ... evil; he's pretty aggressive and violent, but is mentioned to have a softer side !!

paul holden (20, but dan berry says he's 17 in the musical ... dan berry is wrong); a lot of info on paul depends on who you ask !! he's been fleshed out quite a bit by the fandom but i'd recommend checking out some @qprpbj writing if you wanna gather some thoughts on his personality !!

sherri "cherry" valance (16); her parents fight a lot and her dad is a drunk so she's very in tune with the fact that socs aren't really all that, and she's pretty well educated on the social divide !!

ensemble soc time hehehe 🫶 i have headcanons up about all of the ensemble socs if that would help !! mostly listing just the canon stuff about them so i don't get carried away with my hcs again 🫡

chet baker (17?); this is my son and i love him very much he is silly; my personal hc is that his dad is the chief of police !!

clark "brill" brillstein (17?); silly silly goofy goober; madly in love with bev

terrence "trip" dipp (17?); everything i know about him comes from my own brain i fear

marcia (17); cherry's best friend ! she's a pretty big gossip and knows everyone's business !!

beverly jitney-bush (17?); she deeply believes in the social divide, and partakes in the violence; madly madly in love with brill; a hater to her very core