#Trans newsies headcanons

[theluigianapurchase]

saw ur post about trans race and !!!!!!!! I have SO MUCH to talk about headcanon-wise!!!!

omg omg omg hi!! Ftm race is so important to me

so a lot of my trans race hcs are sprace adjacent but idk if ur a sprace enjoyer so ill give the general ones but if you are a sprace enjoyer (1. Be my best friend) and 2. I can make a separate post

He knew he was trans from a young age, pretty much always rejected being a girl

Once he was around 4ish his parents gave up on even trying to force him to “be a girl”

His mom died when he was 6 and after that his father went down a rabbit hole of dispair and became a heavy drinker and verbally (rarely physically but it still happened sometimes) abusive

He ran away at 8 and was living on the streets for a week before Jack found him

AND THUS HE BECOMES A NEWSIE

He hides the fact that he’s trans from the newsies

He gets his period at 12 and sence he lives with mostly boys he panics (he knows what periods are but it’s not a shared experience with most of his friends)

He just stuffs toilet paper in his pants and that’s his method for the first year or so of having his period

Since he’s a newsie and has little access to regular meals his period is always pretty light anyway because of a lot of exercise and little food

When he’s 13 he bleeds through his sheets and Albert finds out

Race makes him swear not to tell anyone

Albert’s really bad at keeping secrets and accidentally lets it slip to Jack

Jack is super supportive and gets him some proper period supplies

Unpopular Opinion: I actually don’t think a lot of the newsies were trans i think race (and Romeo but for Funsies) were the only manhattan newsies that were trans

(Next few are sprace related I’m sorry but i can’t help myself)

Race and spot start seeing each other when race is 15 and spot is 16

Race doesn’t immediately tell spot he’s trans

He’s really nervous to tell spot

but when he does spots like idc (in an i love you way ofc)

Brooklyn has a few younger ftm newsies and Race is a role model to them

Hes stealth with a lot of newsies not on purpose but just cause he forgets that they don’t already know/forgets that it’s even a thing lol

Dysphoria wise: He really hates his shoulders (me projecting??? Neverrr) and he hates his period more than anything

[local-theatre-is-best-theatre]

Yes I know I did this before, but I lost motivation for the option that won ok? I’ll try to make sure that that doesn’t happen this time

Further plot explanations:

Crutchie coming out as nonbinary-exactly what is says on the tin, Crutchie and Jack about to go to bed in the penthouse when Crutchie comes out as nonbinary to Jack, then maybe a short scene of the morning after where Crutchie comes out to all the newsies, everyone is supportive

Jack coming out as trans to Medda-again, pretty much what it says, Jack is a trans man and through either binder mishaps or him getting his period he has to tell Medda, she’s supportive

Canon era Sprace marriage-this is a fun one, Spot and Race want to get married but gay marriage is illegal so they hold a “newsie wedding” in Medda’s theatre with Katherine as the officiant and a bunch of wacky queer shit

The consequences of Pulitzer’s polycule- go to my incorrect quotes blog @faefox9s-incorrect-quotes to learn what Pulitzer’s polycule entails, basically a crack fic where Pulitzer is a trans man while all the other polycule members are cis, and whenever he has a kid he just throws it out into the world so it can become a newsie, Katherine was the exception but then she learns that she’s siblings/half siblings with a large number of the newsies and she invites them all to family dinner and it’s chaos

[newsies-are-the-new-best-thing]

Spot's newsies and the Brooklyn lodging house.

So I have some ideas/thoughts/hc about this, mainly in regards to my fanfic series where Spot is trans

-Both newsboys and newsgirls stay at the lodging house. And yeah, I know this isn't historical accurate but i like to think that the owner of the lodging house was a Brooklyn newsie at one point and pretty much let Spot control it how he wants, as long as they pay.

-So Spot let's any newsie stay there, and since it's a pretty big size there's enough room. He still has the boys and girls sleep in separate rooms but he's pretty relaxed about it.

-he will send Joe after you if he thinks you or someone else could get pregnant. He'll then get Joe to point them to people who will teach them how to be safe and will keep an extra eye on them

-but yeah, since he knows how confusing gender thing can be, he doesn't really bat an eye if one of his "boys" decides to find a bunk in the girls room as long as the girls are fine with it.

-the newsgirls have a leader too, just like Spot has Joe in charge of the boys.

-Matches (I can't remember if that's already a newsie but idc) is the girls leader. She started selling a year after Spot and helped him when he became leader, she's a half year older than him and won't let him forget it but she's a half inch shorter than him and he won't let her forget it.

-Matches has a really smart and has a good sense of humor and cracks jokes nearly as much as Race but they're a bit darker. She also really enjoys fire, lighting fire, spreading fire. So Spot's giving her a fifty fifty chance of becoming either an arsonist or a lawyer.

-in my head I think she looks like uksies Spot. She's the daughter of second generation immigrants. Her family is stretched thin trying to afford for her younger brother's to continue in school. So she's dropped out in hopes to help save enough to go to a university. Her family, grandmother, and a few other relatives moved from the west coast to new york in 1892.

-will boast about having seen both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

I have some more ideas somewhere but that's all I can remember right now :)

[pealeii]

The urge to headcanon all the Newsies trans

[snow-shelter]

fuck you *transes your sarah jacobs*

Sarah remembers being really young and looking at her mom, telling her one day that Sarah would be a pretty girl like her. Esther was confused, but simply nodded and went along.

When it was just David and Sarah in the home, Sarah would try on her mother's dresses. Practically beaming at how... Natural it felt. How pretty she looked. She quickly took the dress off upon realizing she didn't look like a girl.

Sarah doesn't remember when she told Davey. She doesn't know if he had known, figured it out, what. He just hugged her, pulling away and smiling. Telling her she was the best twin sister in the world.

Les caught on fast, referring to Sarah as his big sister. Esther and Mayer didn't understand, but went along. Seeing Sarah this happy was... New.

Sarah was seventeen when David joined the newsboys. Seventeen when he brought some guy to their home- He stared. Jack Kelly, he called himself. He must have noticed how everyone flinched when he referred to Sarah as David's brother, quickly backtracking.

Before Sarah knew it, David was coming home with things from the newsboys- to... Her? Shiny hairclips, jewelry, hell- Apparently a newsie named buttons even offered to make her a subtle dress that could be passed off as a coat.

Sarah couldn't help but smile.

[newsworthy-rust]

🥇 for Davey and/or Spot ?

I will do both :)

Davey: Everyone assumes that Davey is the best at math. He was a good student, got good grades, and seemed to like putting the numbers together. But after the strike, he changed. He became less interested in the order of numbers and became obsessed with the stories. The way anything could happen, the way good almost always seemed to overcome evil. He became good at analyzing the stories, characters, plot, everything. The first time he had to turn in an essay, it was perfect. Davey now had a voice, and wrote his opinion well. Davey is the best at reading. Not just understanding what words meant, really truly reading.

Spot (i'm writing for broadway spot but also applies to uk spot): Spot is the best at protecting his newsies. He wishes he could be good at something, anything else but knows he would never forgive himself if someone is hurt. He has to be the one hurt or he didn't do his job. The thing he is most proud of is that if you are Brooklyn, you are safe. It doesn't matter who you are or where you came from. You sell papes with him and don't hurt him or another newsie, you're fine. But the second someone hurts a newsie, they're getting killed. (maybe literally) Spot tries to be a good person, but knows if he lets anyone go people will just keep coming for him. Protecting people puts a target on your back, one you can never escape. But Spot's good at his job.

[riding-palominos-every-day]

Headcanons:

- Used to live at the Elizabeth Home for Girls. He decided he didn't belong there after a few years

- One of the worst influences on literally everyone despite his young age. He's goaded so many newsies into dares and bets

- Has a teeny crush on Sniper (not that he'd ever confess it. It's the one thing he doesn't feel brave enough to do)

- Once kicked Snyder in the eye whilst evading arrest

[albertsbootayyy]

Say if I’d ever be able to make my own production of Newsies, how’d you guys feel about a female Racetrack Higgins?

It ‘s not just because I kin him so bad (haha), but also thought of this the moment when i heard about the west end brooklyn newsies being girls.

Racetrack originally is from brooklyn. Not only would it give that subtle himt, I already have a backstory.

But I don’t want to share it jnless you guys think the concept would actually work.

I’m really nervous about sharkng this one but I just love the whole backstory I have written for female race (with of course a little help of other headcanons) and I just want to know if people would give the concept a chance.

I know it might sound a bit basic since I know there have been some high school productions where race is played by a girl, but i mean race actually bekng a girl

[paranoiac-moonlight]

TRANSGENDER

anyways mush is transfem (I said so) and here's my modern highschool headcanons (shes 17 and a senior)

♡ theatre kid who landed a main role in freshman year, ever since she's been one of the favorites

♡ did ballet as a kid but quit in middle school due to bullying

♡ enjoys writing a lot, wanted to be a journalist but gave up on that

♡ wants to pursue theatre full time, but is scared of transitioning ruining her voice and such

♡ loves beanies and hats so much, always seen with some form of hat (hair makes hella dysphoria)

♡ very talented at dancing, best at tap but is also pretty good at fight choreography

♡ grew up Catholic, now has no idea what anything is anymore but really likes studying theology

♡ thinks cats are the only and best thing ever

♡ knows be more chill like the back of her hand

♡ probably a brooke kinnie

♡ owns a tumblr where she reblogs theatre memes and posted an absolute banger in-depth analysis on rich (bmc) that got like 5k notes and she cried

♡ extremely sweet but has absolutely no filter sometimes

♡ owns a blogger where she just talks about random shit

♡ wears pink every Wednesday

♡ Halloween has been her favorite holiday since she can remember, since she can dress up and has an excuse to "pretend to be a girl" and get away with anyone really questioning

♡ once twerked behind stage during a production and someone saw her and absolutely lost their mind on stage

♡ doesn't have any kind of accent because her parents were both military kids and never had accents due to living everywhere - therefore her not picking up an accent

♡ words fail from dear evan hansen she relates to but like on a gender level yk.

[spirngakawening]

Hey so uhhh would anyone wanna read the thing I wrote that inspired this headcanon?? It's basically brooklyn!racetrack coming out to spot and telling her he's leaving brooklyn and spot being like 'ok yeah ik a guy' and like idk i think it's kinda good but i haven't posted any fics or anything before so like msbsnkwifl yk?

UKsies Spot sends her transmasc newsies over to Jack and Jack sends his transfem newsies over to Spot

[bigmack2go]

Yk the new broadway votes video/ newsies revival gives us a lot more canon, room for headcannons and confirmed theories. But yk what else it gives us? New faces. Room for new OC’s (and not just newsies ocs FINNALy) so logically i’m gonna name them A. L. L.

It’s gonna be a lot. But luckily i already have a bunch of OC’s even if i didnt work the out a lot. I have a huge list of names that are waiting for their faces and you bet your ass they’re gonna get them.

Now without further ado,

Clear the stage

for

BACKROUND’SIES!!!

(One single cheer is heard from the back of the room)

Okay so the first one that caught my eye was her (sorry for the very unforrunate Screenshot lol. I just couldnt get a beter frane of her face)

Now if you‘ve seen one of my newsies OC‘s posts before then you know about Piggy and how long ive been lookibg for someone who fits her. Lady and Gents This is her! SHE EVEN WEARS THE PIGGYTAILS I MEAN COME ON!

Then we have Brass. Who i absolutley didnt plan to even remotley look like that (in my head he was a boy so far) bit tjis just made a little too much sense to me.

Brass is fron brooklyn and lives in one of the biggest lodges (there)

(Also am i the only one who thinks she kinda looks like a Hamilton Ensamble💀)

Also lets fucking go with that Solitair/“Sully“ right here??? Shes perfect?? Could also be dots but i like her more as sully.

Sully is a Manhattan Newsie from the chatham lodge. Shes a gamler

Then theres Penny who i once spontaneously made up in four and a half seconds for a roleplay with @sprace-javey anyway this is her. Its perfect. SHES EVEN A SUFFRAGETTE I MEAN COME ON

Penny is the daughter of a bowery beauty who’s quite well off.

This is a penny appreciation post ok

Off topic but i dont think we appreciate these perfect Smalls face claims (one of the being for the trans smalls truthers) even remotely enough???

Now lets see if we can get a Bingo faceclaim here

Ok i have one. It took me unreasonably long to find him bc he’s literally one of the recurring faces??? Help?

Also lets get some Cazzone appreciation here! An irl Newsie who isnt nearly talked about enough!

I’m thinking…

(Get this guy some eyes wtf)

Then theres Warhorse, also an irl Newsie who i’ve been looking to get a faceclaim for for wayyyu too long

And friends.

I think i found him

Now since i can only add ten fotos, that would be it for part one but you bet your bitch ass i’m not even remotely close to done

Oh and dont worry! I’ll absolutely list the headcanons and new canons we now got!!

[dustyy-angel]

The Best Newsies Thing submissions

Race's cigar

Jack Kelly

The money the movie didn't make

King Of New York

Davey Jacobs

David Jacobs (movie)

Seize The Day

Sprace

Crutchie (uksies)

Trans Racetrack headcanons

Crutchie

92sies Mush's front flip during Carrying The Banner

Race

Spot Conlon (movie)

Javey

Javid

King Of New York (movie)

Newsies fanfiction

Kid Blink (movie)

Katherine

The tony awards performance

Spot Conlon (uksies)

The chair Mike Faist fell through

Ben Cook kicking himself in the face

Jeremy Jordan attempting to dance and almost falling on his face during the proshot bows

Bill and Darcy

Albert

Albert (uksies)

Christian Bale falling over every time he tries to dance

Race (movie)

Santa Fe

Les pretending to smoke his candy to imitate Jack

Musical Davey's character development

Mush (movie)

The Delancey brothers

"The woild is yer erster"

Bumlets spinning on the ceiling fan

Jack Kelly (uksies)

Stray x Lucky (uksies)

Elmer

JoJo

Finch

Santa Fe (movie)

"Hi i'm Andrew Keenan-Bolger and I play Crutchie in disney's Newsies"

Dancing with the stars performance

Carrying The Banner

Carrying The Banner (movie)

"GO GET EM COWBOY! YOU GOT EM NOW BOY!"

"Our man Denton!"

Bryan Denton (movie)

Unemployed by Joshua Burrage and Ben Cook

"THE POOR GUYS HEAD IS SPINNING!"

Ben warming up and Andrew putting on multiple pairs of headphones

Sarah Jacobs (movie)

Specs (Ryan Steele)

Specs

Jack Kelly (movie)

Katherine (uksies)

Out There in Santa Fe by Ben Fankhauser

"I am a kooOOOoiiiii"

Andy Richardson crawling around like something from a horror movie

Ben and Sky dancing to What If I Go

“Forget about Trey. Where’s my fucken chair?”

Andrew forgetting the strike sign

Kara accidently throwing the broom into the orchestra pit

Corey Cott singing the Santa Fe key change four bars early

"It's oyster Race" "THATS WHAT I SAID"

Sniper

Les Jacobs (movie)

Letter From The Refuge

Once And For All

Skittery (movie)

Jess LeProtto falling into the orchestra pit

Finches slingshot

Gay/Trans awakenings caused by the movie

Za Zooming Out

"Up stays, uh upstairs"

Bad weather and shopping

Tommy Bracco pep talks

Letter From The Refuge (Ben Cook edition)

Anthony Rosenthal's vlogs

Redfinch

Newsies fanart

Seize The Day (movie)

Blush

Blood Drips Heavily On Newsies Square

The stage directions for Jack shaking Roosevelt's hand

Jeremy Jordan

Ben Fankhauser

Henry

Newsies Got Swag

Brooklyn's Here

WWH (reprise) at broadway bakes and Cory keeps messing up

Anything You Can Do by Mike Faist and Adam Kaplan

Ben and Lavon singing Something To Believe In

"AAAHHHHHHHH" "See this, this is Newsies"

92sies Jack saying "ambastards" instead of ambassadors

"Tell me how quitting does Crutchie any good" "Dszahdh"

Crutchie swearing in uksies

The amount of ass-slapping in livesies

[jack-kellys]

maybe. A splasher please wbwb? For the character asks wbwbbw

— davey :]

@walkman-cat literally would be my pleasure im just so happy he exists outside of school productions now

send a character and i’ll do the following:

one aspect about them i love

government assigned youngest. from birth. it’s so funny to me i love it

one aspect i wish more people understood about them

idt we’ve had enough time with his existence for me to feel like anyones done anything ooc with him tbh, BUT- i do find it significant that while he literally like. got his name by jumping into the river and saving someone (read: got his name by taking direct action), mike legit has to yell at him to do something during the big strikebreak fight. so that dichotomy is like. a) unmissable and b) the only two real pieces of character we even have !!

one (or more) headcanon(s) i have about this character

fuck it. trans. transing him rn. like very young age, first coming to the lodge. and then manhattan was like so true you are a boy. let’s help with that

he’s government assigned younger brother, HOWEVER. i think he’s 12 and not super super young tbh. mostly bc i can’t write someone younger than les. but tbh i do this with all the onstage newsies as well idt anyone onstage is playing younger than 12ish in my mind

one character i love seeing them interact with

tommy boyyy~. i looove them. their dynamic is wonderful. that’s tommy’s kid fr

one character i wish they would interact with/interact with more

wish he interacted with jack more tbh! i love how jack interacts with jojo (for multiple personal reasons as well) and splasher is also just little and wiry so i wish he picked him up too hehe :)

one (or more) headcanon(s) i have that involve them and one other character

splasher jojo mike trio of all time. 12-14 year olds just having fun being kids. and then tommy is wearing like 3 diff kiddie backpacks so they don’t run off

i Looove splishsplash so thank u for the ask!!

[newsies-are-the-new-best-thing]

Spot Conlon's guide to being trans (part 3)

Dec. 3 1897

Cold weather's a blessing even if it can makes you sick. The extra layers as thin as they are, end up hiding any sorta distasteful curve you might have. With winter here, I've started wearing as much as I can, leaving the bindings I wear loose since the fabric smooths most of it out.

Also, binding your chest with cloth is easy but it can hurt after a while with rubbing and just being too hot in the summer so I'm thinking about making another sorta thing that could flatten your chest thats less painful than strips of fabric. I gotta ask Joe about sewing something like that, he's better at that stuff.

Anyways, just make sure to take advantage of the cold to take a break from binding your chest. That and more clothing to hide your figure will make the winter worth it. Also the extra clothes 'll add a bit more size to you and maybe even make so you look like a boy should at your age an then Race will be less strange around you.

-Spot

--P.S. the extra clothing doesn't help with Race, he's just getting stranger and stranger but I've given up trying to figure out whats wrong with him. He's impossible

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[whatever-color-of-the-rainbow]

tori, mischa, race for the character thing

We’ll start with Tori!

Sexuality Headcanon: She’s canonically straight and asexual, but I headcanon her to be demiromantic as well

Gender Headcanon: Cis girl

A ship I have with said character: SPROLDEN. Sprolden is my favorite thing.

A BROTP I have with said character: I don’t know, she doesn’t really have many friends besides Michael. But I like the idea of Isaac and Tori bonding over being asexual (and I’m lowkey hoping this happens in Season 3). Also I like the idea of Tori and Nick swapping funny stories about Charlie.

A NOTP I have with said character: Her and David Nelson. Believe it or not, people actually ship this.

A random headcanon: I have two. One: She’s autistic. And two: After dancing to There Is A Light That Never Goes Out with Michael, she starts listening to more of The Smiths’ music, and finds that she actually really likes it.

General Opinion over said character: Words cannot describe how much I love her.

Now Mischa!

Sexuality Headcanon: Biromantic demisexual

Gender Headcanon: Cis guy

A ship I have with said character: MISCHA AND TALIA. I love them, I want what they have, except not long distance.

A BROTP I have with said character: MISCHA AND RICKY. In my head they are best friends and the most iconic duo in the choir. They’re my favorites.

A NOTP I have with said character: Mischa and Ocean. I don’t really understand this ship considering the way she treats him in canon.

A random headcanon: For some reason, people assume he’s a bad driver. He’s not, but he has an ungodly amount of road rage.

General Opinion over said character: I love him so much. Also if it weren’t for Jane Doe, I would want him to be the one to go back (not that it matters because my headcanon is they all go back and get a second chance 😌)

And finally, Race!

Sexuality Headcanon: Bisexual

Gender Headcanon: Trans guy (semi-canon? Kenny Ortega confirmed it like three years ago but idk if it counts as canon because death of the author exists. BUT IT’S CANON TO ME.)

A ship I have with said character: Sprace. I love Sprace.

A BROTP I have with said character: Race and Crutchie. I don’t know why I love them so much, but I do. Also, I watched a production of the show where Race and Katherine were besties, and honestly I love that so much. Also Ralbert, obviously.

A NOTP I have with said character: Race x a Delancey brother. But that goes for any Newsie.

A random headcanon: He has ADHD.

General Opinion over said character: He’s one of my favorites. He’s so fun and I love him.

[snow-shelter]

as a transfem, sometimes I just grab newsies and I'm like... yeah. you're a girl. u just like Me fr..... a prime example of that is Spot Conlon

Jack: "this is my brother, spot"

Spot: "sister"

Jack without hesitation: "sorry. this is my sister, spot"

even better??

Newsies: "THE KING OF BR-"

spot: "queen."

Newsies: "THE QUEEN OF BROOKLYN!!!!!!!!!!"

like I just love the concept of spot not even officially coming out of even considering herself as trans, she's just. a girl. that happens to be born a boy?? that's all there is to it

and the newsies?? don't even care. like I think one would off handedly mention how spot is a girl and would immediately be shot down by the others.

spot and race are t4t and nobody can take that away from me fffuuuck you

also?? I only see movie spot as transfem,, like uksies is a cis girl, livesies is agender and 92sies??? transgender beam bro.

I'm also a sucker for besties spot and sarah. like ,,,, , , , spot explaining her situation to sarah and sarah is like 'hell yeah!!' also you cannot take sarah handing down her old clothes to spot, who loves them so much.

yeah. I just think. spot conlon. yeah.