#and davey needs to look more like… what he Could be. yk

[jack-kellys]

ok so for uk davey to have a costume change in act 2. he needs to look more like racetrack.

i don’t know if this is purposeful in the previous broadway and tour productions, but race’s base in the past has been a plaid-patterned shirt that was either stark in contrast (ryan breslin’s dark on light) or stark in color (ben cook’s blue and green). and bway davey’s is a mix of both with a bright blue, thicker stripe on a white base.

uk davey already has color, but it’s a green, and he and les are alone in this color compared to the rest of the ensemble (besides like. albert for some reason. but i kinda think they fucked that up a bit lmao). the rest are in paler colors made stark only by suspenders, kerchiefs, or caps. they are far more unified. race still sticks out- his cap is actually & interestingly green (at least.. it was for a while), but he also has a red pocket square and a nicer vest and a Pattern. he’s got a blue pin-striped white shirt.

and davey i think. first of all gets a kerchief. i think he might come into world will know with one honestly. and davey i think maybe doesn’t shift patterns—i think les might be more inclined to that—i think he shifts to a color that more unifies him with the newsies. and more with crutchie and race. it’s got to be some kind of paler blue, and since crutchie, jack, and kath have solid colors i think davey still needs to. maybe it’s also a bigger shirt too. enters kony setting his vest on the table & does kony sans vest. yeahg.

for jack i think. i just truly and desperately want him in an undershirt that is paint-RUINED. i think jerjor’s undershirt had like…. two swipes of paint…. and the first time we see jack in act 2 is his most vulnerable. he’s chosen officially to leave town after whatever this is all ends, he’s back to painting santa fe, he believes that he, specifically, failed everyone. i need that undershirt rife with colors and therefore emotion. it needs to be literally on his sleeve ! yk! bc what he says in the wwh(r) scene is mostly delivered stonily, with less emotion. just sort of hopeless. i think it’d also be an interesting visual to go with “you look like hell”, bc if his attire is covered in paint it could mean he’s stayed up the whole night, or was super careless, etc etc. gives More to go on than every-time-without-fail’d underwhelming makeup lmao.

then i think during the pulitzer office mayor/snyder scene he changes back to the red or puts the shirt on over the undershirt…. and then the rally. we know he can’t change clothes bc boy was basically in newsie jail down there. but we DO know that the delanceys further beat him up (they do it during bottom line reprise’s outro upstage if some of u weren’t aware) before tossing him on the ground. so we Know he looks. even fucking worse at the rally. maybe a piece of the undershirt is ripped off and wrapped around the fingers morris steps on. maybe it’s on underneath the red shirt for the first time to hide bruising. maybe the injuries we saw from the strike get quickly worsened while brooklyn’s here plays. there has to be an even further disheveled shift. this kid has been ruined now, not just his attire. not just his facade. his actual self.

[newsie-collective]

Hey! Hi! Here's Finch!

Quick note: Finch's was the first one we did, so his is a little all over the place. I've been trying to get it into a semi-coherent thing, but 😌yk

T/W: Abuse,

Patrick “Finch” Cortes

Quickfire Favorites

Food: “BLT from Jacobi’s. Him got the best sandwiches ‘round.”

Color: “Black. The only reason I don’ wear it ‘s cos it get too hot.”

Season: “Spring! The flowers bring birds!”

Weather: “Sunny, bu’ not too hot.”

Hobby: “Practicin’ me aim wit’ Snipe.” 

Animal: “…Birds…”

Memory: “Takin’ this-“ holds up his slingshot “-from Delancey. You shoulda seen ‘is face!” 

Comfort Item: “Sling, ov’iusly.”

He got his nickname because he would rescue fallen birds that the other boys would shoot at, he carries his own sling to shoot at the boys to keep them from doing it

He was taken from his mother at a young age, kidnapped by his father and hidden away. It’s his mom singing amongst the newsies in 92sies, looking for him. His father passed, and still he wasn’t reunited with her. 

He was sent to his uncle’s. He ran away from the bruising and the fighting when he was just under eight. He took refuge solace with the newsies. He thinks of them as family more than he ever did his own

Finch’s slingshot was Oscar’s, but Finch had such good aim that Oscar didn’t dare try to get it back

He wears it in his waistband all the time. He wants Oscar to know that he could kick his ass ANY TIME

He and Sniper would have competitions to see who had better aim

Has way too high of a sleight of hand modifier

Sarcasm and backhanded compliments. Without hesitation. 

Doesn’t like fighting up close but will if he has to and isn’t even close to unwilling to fight dirty

Do NOT let him and Crutchie get together. The world will burn to the ground, they’ll have the matches and gasoline, and the sweetest smiles. 

They will not be caught

He’s so bad at math

Like horrendously, comically bad

Boy cannot add 2+2

The mom friend. Not like Davey. Like “you’re dumb as fuck but I’m the one who has to take care of you so calm the fuck down”

Al also likes rocks, and picks up rocks for Finch to shoot. He isn’t fond of giving up rocks that he didn’t specifically pick up for Finch, but he will. 

And Finch will totally go find the one he didn’t want to give up

Not gay specifically, but he’s head over heels for Romeo, so I don’t think labels matter much

He hates capitalism

Which is valid

He also doesn’t know what capitalism is

He hates the idea of it

He likes to run for fun (like a weirdo)

He doesn’t mind cuddles, but he won’t initiate them (usually). He’ll cuddle anyone who asks, because he assumes that if it’s bad enough to actually ask then they really need it

He’ll lay however his cuddle partner wants

Want a big spoon to whisper calming things to you? Finch gotchu

Want a little spoon to just curl up and hold your hands? Absolutely

Want someone to hold you and play with your hair? They. Are. For. It.

Pda makes him a little uncomfy because the more people know about who you care about the more they can hold against you

Not to mention it’s quite illegal to hold hands with who they really want at this point in time

He has a lot of trust issues, and being with Romeo is really hard for him. 

He’s so scared of getting really attached to him and then Romeo moving on to another crush

He likes going out the window more than he likes the door

He ain’t scared of no turf

He’s the one who started calling Tommy Boy that. Because someone actively misgendered him. And Finch made it a point to use he/him pronouns and call him Tommy Boy

This was obviously after he beat the snot out of the guy who misgendered Tommy on purpose

"I think TOMMY BOY should go inside. HE looks really tired and HE should get some sleep before HE goes selling tomorrow."

He thinks too much. Usually right before he goes to sleep. He likes to write things down.

Examples include (but are not limited to):

When we yawn, do deaf people think we’re screaming?

I can fly but Albert can’t know

Why is it called a building if it’s already built?

What happens to thoughts when you stop thinking them?

How did the people who made the first clocks know what time it was?

Nothing is ever really on fire. Fire is on things.

Counts birds and cuddles Romeo to go to sleep

He’s exceptionally competitive, and will play anything and everything

He almost always loses

It pisses him off

He has to be dragged away before he loses everything

Do not

Under any circumstances

Let him in the kitchen

Dated Albert before he and Romeo got together, and before Spralbert happened.

They fell out of love with each other, but are still best friends.

Forgets to tell people things

“When I was sellin’ nea’ Medda’s-” “You was at Medda’s?”

“Yea, bu’ tha’ ain’t the point. I was-”

“How she doin’?”

“I ain’t had time to stop in-”

“You gotta make time fo’ Medda!” 

Romeo asked Finch out a lot. Then again, Romeo asked a lot of people out. So, whenever he would ask Fin, they would tell him that if the crush lasted longer than a week, they’d go on a date with him. They never did last longer than that.

Until they did. 

His handwriting is really tall letters really squished together

He loves birds. Especially penguins. They’re really interesting and he likes going to the library and having someone read to him about them.

Always gets compared to crows, because he picks up things off the sidewalk, but he really can’t because they’re cute and smart.

HE JUST REALLY FUCKING LIKES BIRDS OK???? HIS SPECIAL INTEREST IS BIRDS, IF YOU CAN'T TELL

He definitely can imitate most, if not all bird calls

Collects rocks

Hates socks and shoes with a burning passion

Finch!!!! I love him so much. They're such a sweet person and they deserve the world <3

I haven't decided if Finch gives off He/They vibes or just outright They/Them

So there's also that

👻

[antiv3nom]

Oooooo also for the asks how about bsd and 5,8,9,10,11,12,16,18

hewwo again!!!! lets gooooo

5 - The character who gives me the greatest gender envy

ranpo. something about that funky little man is just...gender. yk? him and sigma as well, sigma is less my gender vibes than ranpo is but he is DECIDEDLY gender

8 - The character with the greatest wasted/unexplored potential

hmm this is a tough one honestly, but i really think we could get more out of yosano? shes. such a great character and i think she could have more great moments but for a lot of the series we dont really see her much? from what im remembering at least. i really need to watch the series again

9 - The character I’d most enjoy feeding to a pride of ravenous lions

fukuchi.

10 - A ship I would gladly go down with… and then become Davey Jones, so I can continue to captain said ship for eternity

shin soukoku <3 <3 <3 i really wasnt expecting to like the ship that much in the beginning and enemies to lovers typically aint my thing but i just...something about them, man. its just...so neat

11 - A ship that makes me want to look into the camera like I’m on The Office

FOR SURE SOUKOKU THOSE BITCHES ARE SOOOO GAY AND ITS JUST. THEYRE SO MUCH

12 - A ship I’d like to blow to smithereens with canon cannonballs

im. look. to each their own. but i really dont like dazai/atsushi, it just really doesnt vibe at all with me and im. very :/ about it

16 - A scene/moment that makes me really emotional every single time

AKUTAGAWA'S DEATH GETS ME SO HARD IT HURTS SO FUCKING BAD

18 - A plot hole that makes me want to tear my hair out

lord i feel like the book is just. such messy territory. i need to reread/rewatch the series so im probably not remembering everything about it but LORD is there so much potential for just. Fixing Things with the book, yk? idk its just. a lot in a single plot device

[newsies-and-the-nutcracker]

Newsies but it’s French (Canadian) pt.2

(aka me just getting increasingly frustrated the longer it goes on until I’ve completely lost whatever bits of sanity I had left lol)

~ king of new york scene ~

“We’re in the papes??” “You’re in the papes.” why do I find this so funny help-

“For the good of Jack, we can stop complaining...” not the whole thing but that sounds so out of character for Race I can’t-

After a quick google search, I can confirm that Race says “The world is at our boots.”

The newsies are very confused

Apparently he was meant to say feet.

“I’m talking about our feet!”

…

hOW IN THE WORLD IS THAT EVEN CLOSE TO ‘THE WOILD IS YA ERSTER’-

Okay I’m done

“My own face on a piece of wood!” good for you ig

“I’m respectful. I’m looking at you.” please-

“I am pretty, am I not?” yes race you’re very pretty

“My own bed and an indoor toilet!” wait… does that mean you literally have a toilet outside?? In the open???

“Nothing more normal for a famous journalist!” Irdk how I’m supposed to process this-

“Leave, idiot! It’s her, the king of New York!” guys is this actually what he says in English?? Race why are you so m e a n

“Some…” *checks notes* “depressive defeatists” ?? I just want to know how you got that from “Buncha wet noodles”-

“We were on the verge of drowning ourselves in alcohol.” WHY AM I ONLY NOW FIGURING OUT WHAT SOME OF THESE LINES MEAN AS I’M WATCHING IT IN F R E N C H ???

They cut out a lot of the background comments during the dance break and now I’m sad

After Katherine’s little dance: “It’s a joke, I hope.” wow

“You’ll see what the Delancey’s do in their pants!” that sounds so wrong I-

“Friends can leave, let them be!” I don’t think that’s what they were trying to say but okay

~ letter from the refuge scene ~

“There’s guards here, they’re mean.” WOW JUST TEAR MY HEART OUT WHY DONTCHA-

“If they tell us to jump, we obey, if not we’re screwed.” ow

“The rooftop misses me.” I give up.

“It’ll go. I’m in shape.”

“End.” the only time they decide not the put ‘the’ unnecessarily in front of something-

“Good, that’s enough.” how rude

yeah that’s all for that song. I hope you guys weren’t actually expecting me to find much humour in that one

~ watch what happens reprise scene ~

“You are a love.” ??

Guys where I live if you say “tant mieux pour vous.” it means “Too bad for you” and that’s literally what Jack just told Davey-

“Stop. I understand. It’s useless.” eh close enough

“Good blood, where do you have to go to avoid you guys?”

“It’s impossible. We are inevitable.” since when did Davey actually become Thanos?

“And this here girl, Sally, she’s great.” :(

“We say that you wrote a good article.” “You seem horrible.” they’re much more salty in this version-

“Yes, it’s true. And, he is dead.” uhh guess who’s not going to Santa Fe-

“We can forget that and go back to work?” the person who wrote this had a real passion for butchering Les’ lines lol

“Be positive. No one is dead.” mmmmmmmmmmm-

“Is that what you’re hoping for??” MMMMMMMMMMMMMM-

“There’s no question of cents, Jack!” yk what? sure. i don’t even care at this point-

“We’ll do what?” he sounds like he doesn’t even want to win.

“We’re already winning.” “Agreed.” ABORT ABORT THIS ISN’T WHAT YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO S A Y JACK-

“And ‘voila’ why I think that Joe is an idiot. It’s a rattlesnake.” “... Yes.” you heard it right here, guys. if it’s a rattlesnek, it’s an idiot

“And you know why a snake whistles?” WHAT

“He is scared.”

“Go see, the poor of the head that’s spinning.” This is shredding whatever bits of sanity I had left-

“Why send the brutes?” idk why Davey

“You have maybe reason!” “Thank you!”

“And I have an appointment!”

no but when you say you have a ‘rendez-vous’ here where I live, it means you have like a doctors appointment or something lol

~ the bottom line reprise scene ~

“After his release, I surprised him myself!”

“If that’s the case, we’re going to bring him in... in softness.” nice of them

“... or the little thief?” I’m really starting to think that they lack like 99% of words in the French language-

“I was fighting in a war.” “And that turned out well for you?” get wrecked joe

“Rally as much as you want, no journal in town will talk about it.” guys I don’t have enough serotonin for this-

“Everyone here knows you’re horrible!” they made Jack sound like a little kid in the translation, and honestly I’m not even disappointed lol

“We’re missing time, little.” I don’t even know what to say-

“Your abject surrender was always the bottom of the problem.” sure why not

“Gentlemen, escort our guest to the cave-” well isn’t he nice?

“Be happy you’re alive, little. That’s the essential.”

“Yeah, so go!” ?? how is that even remotely close to “Yeah, so behave!” ??????

“I exercised my favourite American punch!” uhhhh good for you?

“You can sleep here, on this old press! It’s very firm.” help I’ve fallen and I can’t get up-

~ brooklyn’s here scene ~

“The sellers need our help! The sellers need our help! Tell them that Brooklyn’s arriving! Tell them that Brooklyn’s arriving!”

“We’re from Brooklyn, we’re the sellers from Brooklyn!” UHHHHH EXCUSE ME???

“We just learned that our friends are going wrong!” please you heard they were ‘going wrong’ like five days ago-

“You know we’re there for you, since always.” oH rEaLlY???

“Brooklyn is there!”

“Strikes aren’t nice, but they’re passionate!” well I’m glad you think so

“Let’s shout it, Brooklyn is there!”

“Aaaaand sooooooo!!” “Sooooooooo!!” “Soooooooooo!!!” “We will send you half road, just to Queens!”

“The pigeons are going to get soaked!” aaaaaand we’re back to the pigeons-

“What sad way to finish your career!” they sound so sarcastic I can’t-

“They’re not serious, but if they think we’re laughing…” i feel low-key threatened-

“Let’s shout it!” well if you try hard enough, you can make it sound like “loud and clear!”?

“Manhattan is theeere, Flushing is theeere, “Richmond is theeere, Woodside is theeere, and the Bronx too!!”

“Sorry, little. No news of him.” I just… why does it translate to “little”?

“You are alone, we could say.” “No.” “Yes.”

Medda really isn’t taking no for an answer-

“The sellers of journals of New York!” I’m crying why is it such a mouthful-

“You want to be treated like an adult? Act like an adult!”

~ something to believe in scene ~

“It’s Specs!” wow kath throw specs under the bus like that-

“And if I was a boy you’d be looking at me with a butter black eye!” I’ve officially given up on the French language I’m sorry-

“You win a fight when the other guy bites the dust.” and another one gone and another one gone-

“If there’s a way I could grab hold of something,” has literally been shortened to ‘if I could.’ IF I COULD-

“If I could stop time.” I’m so mad

“Really?” “Really.” ahhHHHHHHHHHHH

“But it’s going. It’s going.”

“... who didn’t even know she gave me a hope.” WHAT EVEN IS THE POINT IF THE TITLE ANYMORE??

“But it’s going. It’s going.” The thrilling sequel

“No. I’m scared of you.” “No!” yeesh-

“I believe in something.” good for you

~ once and for all scene -

“He is with us.” but like… how much?? only 99 percent????

“We could hold a hoedown here.” I feel like the person translating this just gave up by the end of the show-

“Happy to have found you again.” what did you like lose him or something

“The close.” ok yes that’s funny, but it gets even funnier when you realize it could also be translated to “the farm.”

“A little grease, and she’ll be like new.”

“This is for the guys who kill themselves at the factories.” w h a t

‘THE BANNER OF SELLERS OF JOURNALS’ I’m still not over this

~ everything that comes after that ~

“Anyone who doesn’t act in their own self interest is an idiot!” ey watch it-

also what the heck is ‘quiconque’ I swear I’ve never seen that word in my life

“We will find a way, but let’s seize the moment.” first it was “the chance” and now it’s “the moment” google translate are u okay-

They really went and changed ‘bully’ to ‘monster’ didn’t they

“You can make it.” he really makes it sound like Jack is about to die or something-

“It’s disgusting!” you’re disgusting sir

“And the world will know, we’ve been taking notes.”

“It’s a joke!” nope lol

“Goodbye, fool!” I’M LAUGHING WAY TOO HARD ABOUT THIS-

“Well you already work for my father.” “Yes.”

“Super, Jack Kelly!” I CAN’T-

“So, Jack, you’re staying?” yeah sure close enough-

“Sellers of journals on a mission!”

Das it ‘my friends’ lol. Hope you enjoyed.

[thefactsofthematter]

tell me how you’d plan/map out a zombie au! like a writing exercise yk -fizz

oooo that’s something i would probably never write, so this is an interesting idea!!! let’s do it @jack-kellys

- a walking dead style dystopian au is SO not my scene, so i’m gonna play with the whole zombie thing a little here for maximum angst

- ok. i would definitely get WAY too invested in the details of the physiology of how ppl are turning into zombies, since one of my weird niche interests is epidemiology and infectious disease pathology, BUT i won’t go overboard here. i’m basically seeing a modern au with a flu-like disease that can take someone out in a matter of hours… and then they wake up and there’s just. something slightly off about them, and the longer they’ve been undead for, the more wrong they seem

- it would be javid bc of course it would,, davey gets home from work and he’s not feeling too good… later that night he’s got such a high fever that he can hardly stay awake and jack is freaking the hell out. he goes to bed early (and dies in his sleep but shhh jack doesn’t know that) and then wakes up in the morning and immediately feels way better, like he was never sick at all.

- i’m not gonna worry about paths of transmission and all that, but this disease is pretty contagious, and soon everyone is talking about this weird flu that makes you insanely sick for like 12 hours and then goes away as soon as you sleep it off. there’s a stay at home order, a la covid pandemic, so the fic mostly takes place within javid’s apartment

- so far, davey seems… fine. he’s a little spacey and all over the place, but he was just really sick, so neither him nor jack think much of it.

- i think the most fun part of this hypothetical fic would be dropping hints that something’s wrong with davey. just little things, like he suddenly has a huge appetite, or he’s really pale and tired and his face seems kind of sunken.... things you could attribute to the flu, but are also very zombieish

- outside of their apartment, hospitals are starting to see exactly what this disease is doing, but no one wants to alarm the public too much, so it’s kept sort of under wraps. there’s some rumours of a zombie apocalypse, but most people (javid included) brush that off as conspiracy theory bullshit.

- davey, however, is starting to have worse and worse brain fog, and he feels really gross and tired… maybe this flu has some weird longer-term effects? and then he gets in the shower and realizes that it looks like the tips of his toes are decaying. he obviously makes a point to hide this from jack,, but he’s starting to give that zombie theory a little more consideration. it sounds insane, but he can’t wrap his head around it any other way.

- they go to bed that night, and jack wakes up and notices that he can’t feel davey’s heartbeat. in a panic, he even tries feeling for his pulse, but he can’t find it at all. he flips his shit and thinks he’s dead, so he starts shaking him awake,, and davey wakes up, perfectly calm

- “baby, it’s the middle of the night. what on earth is going on?” / “you didn’t have a heartbeat! you were dead!” / davey just blinks at him. “jackie, i’m right here. you had a nightmare, it’s okay. go back to sleep.”

- as he tries to go back to sleep, davey notices that he his heart is, in fact, not beating. he has no pulse, his extremities are practically about to fall off, and he can hardly rely on his own mind to keep up with the world around him… holy shit, he might be dead. he’s terrified.

- he spends all morning trying to figure out if he should tell jack or not— he doesn’t want to scare him, but he has no idea what to do, and he doesn’t want to let it go so far that he loses control and accidentally kills him. he’s scared his flesh is going to start rotting right off of him, and he’s getting more and more tired and confused, so he decides he needs to try and explain it to jack while he still has some control of his mind. just when he’s about to say something, there’s a knock on the door.

- it’s the fire department. they’re here to get them to evacuate— there’s an extremely potent carbon monoxide leak in their building, and if they don’t get out soon, it could kill them.

- THEY HALLUCINATED THE WHOLE THING!!! LMAO

- as soon as they get outside and get some fresh air they realize there’s no mystery disease or apocalypse… they both just had crazy carbon monoxide poisoning. that’s it, that’s the story ajgkfhfhfjghf