#betty rizzo headcanon

[classic80sand90smovieloves2]

Rizzo dating a cheerleader would include~

(Not my gif)(Requested by anonymous)

- Rizzo can sometimes be seen as nothing but a judgmental and sarcastic bitch and while she certainly has her moments, she’s also surprisingly welcoming. Each one of her friends has a different personality and she accepts them for what they are, never thinking twice about fraternizing with a ditz or someone who’s seen as childish. If you can roll with the punches and handle her sardonic jabs then you’re allowed to sit at her table; even if you’re technically her complete opposite. 

- She might not think much of you at first but once you prove that you’re not too pure to be pink, she’ll finally let her guard down and allow you to get close to her. 

- Your acceptance probably came while she was dealing with her pregnancy scare. A simple action like standing up for her in front of the people on your cheer team showed her that you were different from all the other popular girls in your school: and though she initially snapped that she can take care of herself, she accepted your earnest response of “I know” and shyly thanked you, an understanding between the two of you lingering in the air. 

- She takes great pride in corrupting you: showing you how to sneak out or ditch class and getting the two of you liquor to drink whenever you’re alone or with your friends. She wont force you to do anything you’re not comfortable with but she’s very persuasive and the excitement of breaking the rules will probably get to you at some point. Just like the liquor with get to your head and have you attempting to do drunken cart wheels while she teases you and fondly makes sure you don’t break your neck. Her adorable little lightweight~

- Teasing you is kind of her thing but it’s also just her thing in general. She likes to lightheartedly mock people so you never take it to heart when she steals your pom-poms and comes up with a silly little rhyme, letting out a high pitched hey and smiling as you snatch them away with a roll of your eyes, hiding your grin behind your hair. 

- She never admits it but she really likes when you tell her that her cheer ideas are good and that you’ll use them during the next pep rally. She helps you come up with a lot of your rhymes; even if she doesn’t take a lot of the brainstorming seriously. 

- She usually begrudgingly sits on the bleachers or waits by her car after school whenever you have a cheer practice; oftentimes with a couple of the other pink ladies. They all watch your warm ups in slight amusement and vague disgust, their lips turned up in a grimace whenever your preppy teammates act particularly cheerleader-like. 

- Verbal praise isn’t really her thing but she’ll somewhat shyly treat you to a milkshake whenever you do really well during a “performance” or practice, nonchalantly ushering you into her car so you can go and celebrate “your big split”. You miss the poorly hidden grin she has on her face whenever she watches you perform. 

- She has a tendency to scold you for going on diets and has a bone to pick with everyone and anyone who makes you think that you should lose weight. She also finds it amusing to watch you eat your weight in fries and hamburgers if you’re more of a eat, eat, eat type of athletic. She jokes that you’re gonna burn a hole in both your wallets. 

- Speaking of, she definitely has you flirt with your classmates to get the two of you stuff for free: knowing your pretty face and cheerleader rep makes the big dumb jocks swoon. Sometimes, she doesn’t even bother bringing cash because she knows you can swindle some poor, big lug into lending you a couple of dollars with a pat on his head, a pout on your face, and an “oh Jim you’re so sweet~”. 

- But, if it won’t benefit the two of you, she’ll scare guys away with brash and snarky remarks, glaring at them while she tugs you away and ranting to you about how much nerve they have and how stupid they must be to think that they have a chance with you. She’s also incredibly good at scaring away creeps.

“Why don’t you show us some splits!?”

“Why don’t you split before I deflate your empty head!”

- She blatantly calls you her girlfriend and makes it sort of obvious that the two of you are together but everyone always just assumes that she means that you’re close friends. It’s sort of like an inside joke for the two of you: how many times she can hint at the truth and watch as people cluelessly ignore it and the way that she rolls her eyes in response. 

- Sometimes, you just have to awkwardly laugh off her sarcastic comments and smooth things over for both your sakes: assuring people that she’s just kidding whenever she makes fun of them or says something snide. You simply just don’t need the trouble. 

- She’ll tease you and call you silly for being uptight about smoking but she’ll always comply and put the cigarettes away/out whenever you’re around. She’ll even whack her male friends on the arm and scold them for smoking around you, moodily ranting about how they should know how important athletes lungs are. 

- She’s certainly a bit more on the butch side but she also appreciates being treated like a lady. She likes when you open doors for her; even if she spends all night driving the two of you around and cursing like a sailor. 

- The two of you definitely swapped styles at some point and found a new appreciation for the other persons preferred look after gazing into the mirror and at each other and deciding that you looked best when you dressed how you normally do. She’d always try to urge you to let her give you a pink ladies makeover but once she does she realizes that she likes the usual you best and shyly admits it when you try to goad her into telling you what she thinks.

“Well its, its nice, its just the clean look is more … well, it’s just more …you.”

- You probably prefer red lipstick; since your cheer uniform is red and white, but she prefers pink so you have to come up with an excuse whenever people comment on how your shade is looking lighter and her shade is looking redder. 

- Speaking of your colors, you always buy each other bouquets with white, red, and pink as a sort of tradition since it sort of symbolizes the two of you. She finds the idea kind of cute, even if she doesn’t want to admit it.

[unseenacademic]

Abbey Bartlet for the character questions thing. Please & thank you.

Thank you, friend! 💜💜💜💜💜💜

favorite thing about them: I love that she's a pint-sized, badass nerd, who's smart and witty and looks absolutely amazing wearing her tight skirts and high heels and showing (more than) "a little décolletage".

least favorite thing about them: That she isn't in every episode. Or her hair in late season 4/season 5.

favorite line: Oh, this one's difficult! Let's go with "No need to call the steward, I'm board certified in thoracic surgery."

brOTP: Abbey & Millicent Griffith, the S(t)urgeon General. Millie's Ellie's godmother and she remembers Jed's college grades, so they're obviously close friends. So much potential there but sadly, men don't care about writing female friendships 😭😭😭😭😭

OTP: Abbey/Jed Jed/Abbey, two halves of one heart, one soul and one giant, nerdy brain!

nOTP: Any ship that isn't Abbey/Jed. I don't ship either of them with anyone else, including Leo, together or apart, sorry.

random headcanon: Abigail Bartlet, M. D. has never seen Grease 😂😂 and her college GPA was higher than Jed's.

unpopular opinion: Abbey Bartlet isn't Betty Rizzo. No similarities there, except, y'know, the fact that they were both played by the same actress. Oh and I really like her post-Zoey's kidnapping arch.

song i associate with them: Wow, I'm terrible at this. Okay, so it's not even the whole song, just the chorus, and it's this particular live performance, but Lana's sad "Tell me I'm your national anthem" just transports me directly into the first half of season 5.

favorite picture of them: Look at my avatar 😊

[princesssarisa]

OTP Meme: Betty Alexander Rizzo and Kenickie Murdoch (Grease)

I don't remember their relationship as vividly as I do Danny and Sandy's, since, again, it's been a long time since I last saw Grease in full, but I'll do my best.

When did I ship them: Probably since fifth grade.

Ship dynamic: A high school bad girl and bad boy. Feisty, unsentimental, sassy, and very sexy. Prone to bickering and at least one temporary split, since both are strong willed and unwilling to show vulnerability, especially Rizzo, and since Kenickie gets cocky and treats Rizzo like he thinks she's "easy" after they sleep together. But their core of devotion, caring, and mutual respect – as well as sheer animal attraction – brings them back together in the end.

Theme song: They don't have a romantic song of their own, so I'll pick their entire friend group's theme song, "We Go Together":

Type of date: Drive-in movies; school dances (when they're not using other partners to make each other jealous, that is); and make out sessions (with more than just kissing) in Kenickie's car.

Married or dating: Dating.

Sexuality: Heterosexual.

Genders: Male and female.

Romantic quotes:

From the film version, Kenickie's unconventional marriage proposal at the graduation carnival:

Kenickie: I'll make an honest woman of you.

Rizzo: Listen, fella, if this is a line, I ain't biting.

Kenickie: That's a bonified offer.

Rizzo: Well... it ain't moonlight and roses... but... (both giggle and kiss)

Any headcanon powers: None to speak of.

Healthy or unhealthy relationship: Sometimes unhealthy due to teenage stupidity, but by the end they reach a healthy place.

Who is the flirty partner: Both.

Who is the silly one: Both.

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

I had to dig deep, but I think I have gay ships for every main character on Mad Men:

Don - Andy the grifter from literally the penultimate episode there was so much sexual tension I honestly thought something might actually happen canonically between them holy shit. Don should have taken him under his wing as sugar daddy/conman mentor.

Peggy - this one is obvious, her gay friend Joyce who was too cool for school.

Roger - if he thought putting out for Lee Garner Jr would have saved Lucky Strike, he would have dropped to his knees in a second.

Pete - Bob Benson, another freebie. (I've had a fix it fic of *that* scene bookmarked for literally years and one day I'll read it)

Joan - remember when Joan's roommate confessed her love to her way back in season 1 and Joan just brushed it off? Roomie would have made Joan way happier than Greg or Roger or that season 7 dickweed and we all know it.

Betty - joining Helen Bishop on one of her "walks."

Ken Cosgrove - Sal Romano would have been so good to you, Kenny. Alternately, enemies to lovers 100k with Pete.

Lane - his hot English secretary, Mr. Hooker. (side note - I wanna fuck Lane's hot English secretary soooo much.)

Megan - the sultry older actress on her soap opera she had drama with whose name escapes me.

Bonus - Midge and Rachel and Faye lesbian polycule: they adopt Chauncey, give him a less stupid name, and live in a brownstone together where no one has cancer. Or a heroin problem. Maybe Bobbie and Suzanne and the definitely totally alive Anna Draper also join them, you know how amorphous lesbian polycules can be.

[mogai-headcanons]

Betty Rizzo from Grease is a butch trans lesbian, and she’s dating Frenchy Facciano, an autistic femme bisexual trans girl!

dni transcript here

[trulydevicus]

❝ you goody-goodies are to much for me, i'm gonna get my kicks while i'm still young enough to get em. ❞

( amber stevens west, she/her, 31, grease ) – i think i saw BETTY RIZZO in town today. they seemed like they DID NOT already know about havenfall, was it this new magic that brought HER here or have they been around? from what i know SHE IS a bit RECKLESS, but can also be SELF-SUFFICIENT. do you think they remember MOVING AWAY FROM HER HOMETOWN? i know that they are A MANAGER AT SPARROW’S NEST in town now. well, i guess we’ll find out when we see them at the winter’s park ampitheatre!

name: betty rizzo

nickname(s): rizzo, rizz

age: thirty-one

birthdate / zodiac: september 13 / virgo

gender / pronouns: female / she & her

occupation: manager @ sparrow’s nest

fandom: grease

family members: non mentioned 

sexual orientation: bisexual

more information: here

and the story goes...

rizzo has always been the kind of person who does things for herself. she doesn’t care about what anybody else thinks of her–or, at least, she acts like she doesn’t care what they all think of her.

the pink ladies have always been her life, more of a family than her own family. her sisters, the people who she cared for more than anything else. protective over them, too.

she hates her first name, preferring to go by her surname, rizzo, or even a nickname based on it, rizz.

she’s rough and tough, the kind of person who doesn’t apologize for how she acts most of the time. though she has grown up from her old attitude being that way, it still rings true with the sarcastic commentary.

when she thought she might be pregnant, it seemed to change a lot of things for her attitude and the way she acted.

it’s been years since the events of high school and rizzo has moved on from most of it, though she still has her old pink ladies jacket and loves her friends dearly.

she’s confused as to how she’s in this town, but it’s all almost an escape from where she’d been in reality too. she’d just moved away from her hometown finally but had felt like she was stuck in a rutt. so while rizz may not recognize this place, or truly know what it’s like here it’s a good thing in her mind. 

[tickle-fic-chick]

Kenickie & Rizzo || OTP Tickle Headcanons

1. Who has the cutest tickle laugh?

This one’s gotta go to Kenickie. Rizzo’s laugh is loud and filled with snorts; cute in it’s own right. However, Kenickie’s laughter is just so surprisingly high pitched and infectious that you can’t help but laugh along with him.

2. Who is ticklish in unusual places and where would that be?

Kenickie’s got ticklish ears. Everyone loves teasing him about it.

3. Who gets cheer-up tickles?

Both of them do. Whenever one of them is in a sour mood the other will quickly have a smile back on their face.

4. Who takes advantage of the other one getting their arms stuck while taking off their shirt?

Rizzo does! She loves sneaking up on him while he’s changing and digging into his exposed torso. He acts like he hates it when he really doesn’t.

5. How did they discover each other’s ticklishness?

They found out during...ahem, alone time. Enough said.

6. Who can’t take tickle bites?

They can both handle them fairly well.

7. Who has to be tickle-forced out of bed in the morning?

Neither of them! They wouldn’t get out of bed at all if they didn’t have to. On the rare occasion were wake up tickles are a thing, Rizzo is usually the one to use them.

8. Who gives up in a tickle fight?

It’s usually Rizzo. While Kenickie is more ticklish he also has a higher tolerance.

9. Who is in danger of getting hurt when attacking the other?

Kenickie is. Rizzo struggles, quite violently, when she’s tickled. He has gotten a black eye and a bloody nose on more than one occasion.

10. Who always provokes the other into tickling them and how?

They don’t have to resort to provocation; tickles just happen naturally. Rizzo doesn’t like being tickled, so she wouldn’t purposely provoke him anyways, but Kenickie secretly has a soft spot for it.

[lcstpaths]

betty rizzo   ,   canon

[penelopewise-bowers]

Blonde Roots, A Victor Criss story.

Victor leaned into the mirror as he walked past it, the chocolate roots peaking up from under his blonde. He walked into the kitchen where his mother was on the phone.

“Alright BettyI’ll see you at 3.” Her son gestured to her before gesturing to his own hair. “That’s right the usual.....roots” she laughed.

Victor remember the first time he had met Betty.

———

It was several years ago after his father left. His mother had taken him to the salon with her. She seemed to look at him with such sad eyes before that day. He assumed it was because with his dark hair he favored his father. They had walked into the salon to find a woman with short black curls that frame her small face, brown eyes a button nose, clad in black. Little Victor looked around the room at the gossiping women, they eyed him like an animal eying prey, cooing and fawning over him. He watched his mother sit down in front of Betty, he saw her hand gestures as she explained what she wanted done. Betty nodded her hand and began working. Soon his mother looked like she was trying to keep aliens from brain washing her by wearing a hat made from foil. Victor laughed at her, she laughed with him. Betty’s voice soon took them away from their laughter.

“Victor sweetie is there anything I can do for you? A cut maybe? I hear you’ve got school starting soon.” He looked over at his mom before nodding his head.

“Can you make me look like her?” He pointed. “I don’t wanna look like my dad anymore.” Betty smiled and put him in the chair next to his mother.

———

That afternoon he and his mother were once again sitting side by side at Betty’s smiling and laughing at each other. Not a chocolate root in sight on Victor Criss’s head.

[midnightcowboy1969]

Headcanon: Betty Rizzo from "Grease" is related to Rico Rizzo. Maybe the daughter of his oldest brother. Maybe they even knew each other as little kids before her parents moved west, since they would have been about the same age.

Ngl. Love your headcanon ❤️ and I accept it as canon. 

I can see them sitting outdoors playing cards (and maybe smoking) and watching the neighborhood kids (siblings and cousins) skip rope, play tag, play football (soccer) and all that jazz.��

[impurepink-blog]

grease is the time,                                         is the place,                                                                     is the motion                             grease is the WAY we are FEELING

an indie betty rizzo from the original feature film grease selective. slow activity. prone to occasional absences. driven by: imrp. drabbles. headcanons. memes. a vesta production. you know what that means.

[unseenacademic]

For the character asks: Abbey + 5, 8, 12

Thank you so much, dear friend! 💜💜

5. What's the first song that comes to mind when you think about them? This one's difficult because I'm notoriously bad at making playlists and everything that goes with that, so… dunno, TWW opening credits theme? 😂 okay, I know it's not a real answer, but if I come up with something better, I'll tag you 😅

8. What's something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you despise? Hate to break it to you, guys, but Abbey Bartlet isn't Betty Rizzo! You might as well say that she used to be a serial killer who went to Harvard after she escaped from prison or that she used to be married to a rich art dealer before a charming con-man made her come to a profound realization and leave her shallow life... or well, any of her million other roles. To each their own, I guess, but Abbey is Abbey.

12. What's a headcanon you have for this character? I have so many headcanons it's insane lol and I've shared most of them in my fics and/or on discord. Okay, the one I'm going to share here is that Doctor Abigail Bartlet has never seen Grease 😂😂 okay, another one: Dead Irish Writers takes place in February, not March, because Abbey is an Aquarian through and through. Thanks for choosing such interesting questions! 💜💜💜💜

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rivermoms: youth headcanons pt. ii

alice. owned a dozen band t-shirts. hid her fathers beer and cigarettes as a child. hated the school lunch but ate it every other day because it was cheap. liked to challenge fp jones to arm wrestles to settle scores. played baseball on the street with the neighborhood kids. always split her oreos and ate the white part first. never wiped her converse clean because she thought they looked better dirty. pretended not to care what people thought of her. ate most of her lunches at the blue and gold office with hal cooper. refused to tell people where her serpent tattoo was. frequently blurted out the answer in class instead of raising her hand. could always count on fred andrews to take a tequila shot with her. stopped keeping a diary after her father found and read hers when she was 10. always picked dare in truth or dare. felt like crying when she landed the role of betty rizzo in “grease” senior year. hooked up with hal in the shaggin’ wagon behind fred’s back. listened to fleetwood mac’s “go your own way” whenever she was feeling down. liked how she looked in the pastel sweaters mrs. cooper bought her. didn’t think she’d make it into a good college. jumped at the sound of broken glass. went to ace bowling alley with fred and fp the last day of summer every year.

hermione. never let anyone see her without makeup. loved hoop earrings and short denim skirts. had girls-only birthday parties up until middle school. always kissed on the first date. felt she had to be the best at everything in order to be liked. used to steal money from her parents until she got a job. loved john hughes movies. learned the river vixens cheers from her sister while she was in middle school. was given the nickname “princesa” by her father. had her first date at the bijou when she was 12. always borrowed clothes from her sister without asking. baked homemade brownies for her closest friends on their birthdays. didn’t cry when she twisted her ankle during river vixens practice freshman year. exercised every other day to maintain her figure but pretended it was natural. didn’t mind helping people with their math homework because it made her feel smart. got in trouble for calling penelope parker a “closet slut” during theatre practice. used to roll up her cheer practice shorts as high as possible. turned in numerous plagiarized papers but never got caught. had an admirer write “for a good time call [alice smith’s #]” in the boy’s locker room sophomore year. frequently got detention for violating dress code. intentionally pit fred andrews and hiram lodge against each other because she enjoyed seeing them fight over her. had her prom dress custom made so no one else would have the same one.

penelope. extremely picky eater. couldn’t pronounce her name properly until she was 3. always shared her crayons with hal cooper in kindergarten. refused to try new things unless she she knew for certain she’d be good at them. frequently faked being sick to get out of going to school. got paired up with mary sullivan for a solar system project in 2nd grade. had the best jumps of anyone on the river vixens. almost quit violin when she didn’t make it into the brandenburg summer music program sophomore year. prided herself on weighing less than hermione reyes. lied to her parents about getting mono from sharing a milkshake straw with another river vixen. never got her yearbooks signed by more than a handful of people. hated being called a prude. went swimming in sweetwater river in her underwear with a football player from baxter high. talked too much when she was drunk. got her phone line taken away for leaving the house in a skirt her mother deemed “inappropriate”. always kept white roses in her room. treated herself to a hot fudge sundae at pop’s when she found out she made the honor roll junior year. dated a lot of boys but never had a steady boyfriend. usually wore collared dresses and mid-heel mary jane’s to school. couldn’t bring herself to tell hal how she felt about him. didn’t think she had much going for her besides being rich. chose marrying clifford blossom over going to college.

mary. didn’t care to follow the crowd. always wore a hat to school. ran for class president but lost to sierra coleman. was part of the yearbook and homecoming committees. organized study groups for all her honors classes. knew she wanted to be a lawyer since she was a little girl. always ended up bonding with hal cooper at parties because they were the only sober ones. loved sunflowers and the smell of new books. went to a go-go’s concert with her cousins when she was 10. never turned down a piece of chocolate babka. had a dalmatian named sputnik that she trained to do tricks. quit playing the clarinet junior year to focus on studying for the sat’s. refused to join the river vixens despite hermione reyes’ insistence. always took charge in group projects. got her taste for unusual foods from her mother. loved karaoke even though she couldn’t sing. avoided having a boyfriend all throughout high school because she didn’t want to be distracted. went shopping for new school supplies every year. ended up driving a drunk and distraught penelope parker home from a party once junior year. always voiced her opinions no matter how unpopular they were. went to power records with her father every other sunday. was the only person who could give hiram lodge a run for his money at chess.

[hayscodings]

rivermoms: youth headcanons

alice. liked to chew gum in class. covered the walls of her bedroom with fleetwood mac posters. made the girl’s volleyball team freshman year. used to race the boys in her neighborhood. befriended a stray cat that hung around her house when she was 5 and named him garfield. had a taste for onion rings and root beer floats. helped her friends finish their homework in the morning so they wouldn’t get zeros. landed the role of audrey in little shop of horrors sophomore year. was often the subject of false rumors. had her first taste of beer when she was 9. never left the house without her walkman. wrote articles for the blue and gold alongside hal cooper. dug her nails into her palms when she was stressed. always took hits off of other people’s joints at parties. wore the same pair of doc martens all throughout high school. pierced her ears with a sewing needle when she was 13. didn’t think she could make a career out of her writing. sold weed for her father until she was arrested junior year. had a reputation for being loud-mouthed and volatile. spent the night at fp’s place whenever things were bad at home. read the outsiders by s.e. hinton over a dozen times. dreamed of leaving the southside.

hermione. owned a crop top in every color. loved being the center of attention. made river vixen captain junior year. fell asleep in her dad’s lap at football games as a child. was addicted to the burgers at pop’s. threw a fit when she lost the role of betty rizzo to alice. begged her parents for a pony when she was 7. always wore a push up bra. threw the best beginning and end of the school year parties. penciled in a mole above her lip during her madonna phase. wished she was taller so she could pursue a career in modeling. loved watching telenovelas with her mother. always matched her bra to her underwear. constantly fought with her older sisters but cried when they left for college. got drunk and put her underwear in fred’s pocket at a party once. had a huge quinceañera. made fun of people who screamed during horror movies. went to europe with her parents every summer. hosted exclusive sleepovers the first saturday of every month. won prom queen alongside hiram lodge senior year. had the highest grade in calculus of anyone in her class. wasn’t sure what she wanted out of life.

penelope. always wore a ribbon in her hair. didn’t have many friends to invite to her birthday parties. made the river vixens freshman year. hit a boy for pulling on her pigtail when she was 4. owned nothing but cyndi lauper tapes. occasionally skipped meals to maintain her figure. flirted with the boys on the water polo team. got her mouth washed out with soap once for talking back to her mother. won first place in the 5th grade spelling bee. had a talent for tying the stems of maraschino cherries. never let anyone cheat off her paper. made first chair violin in orchestra sophomore year. lied to her peers about the bruises on her knuckles. always wanted a brother or sister to play with. penned short stories with her grandfather and was devastated when he passed away. had a thoroughbred horse named tybalt. took ballet lessons until she was 14. didn’t tell her parents when a senior put his hand up her skirt at a party. loved mystery novels. got sick on the tilt-a-whirl at the fair once and never rode it again. memorized every song from the rocky horror picture show. cried when she didn’t make cheer captain over hermione. 

mary. had an incredibly infectious laugh. hated when people cheated in board games. made captain of the debate team senior year. introduced all of her non-jewish friends to potato latkes. loved bowler hats and oversized denim jackets. was part of the yearbook and homecoming committees. cried the first time she got an f on a test. entered a kid’s pie eating contest when she was 7. rode every attraction at the fair. never cared much for makeup. made honor roll all four years of high school. was always humming some belinda carlisle tune. had her first kiss when she was 13 during a game of truth or dare. went to the batting cages every sunday with her father. usually ended up being the designated driver at parties. always sent valentine’s day cards to everyone in her class. experienced her first major loss at 15 when her dog sammy passed away. preferred her mother’s kugel over anything at pop’s. was always the first person to volunteer for any class activity. fell head over heels in love with fred despite having initially found him obnoxious. was class salutatorian. didn’t want to spend the rest of her life in riverdale.

[impurepink-blog]

headcanon: danny zuko.

jan: hey, you guys get a look at zuko this morning? lookin pretty good this year, huh, riz?

rizzo: that’s ancient history.

marty: well, history sometimes repeats itself.

i think we can all agree, danny and rizzo have had a relationship. that’s completely obvious. what can be infered by the reactions of the three pink ladies here, however, is somewhat more complicated than that.

cutting this for length, omg.

jan simply assumes riz is on that sweet, sweet danny train- still. again. always.

marty’s reaction is one of amused resignation- history repeats itself. she’s seen this before, she’ll see it again. on again and off again.

it’s only rizzo who shuts it down completely. nah, done with that. which i’ve always interpreted as ‘hurt as fuck and not going to get into that bullshit again.’

and why is that, vesta? well, lets take a look at the way she treats the other women who have relationships with danny, shall we? starting with the least obvious.

patty. whether or not there actually WAS anything- and i’d argue there was because danny is a bit of a dog, lets be real- rizzo actively dislikes patty. yes, she’s super annoying, but it seems extremely personal. was patty a fling during one of danny and rizzo’s off again phases? was she a bit on the side when they were actually going steady? hm. hard to say. for myself...the former, rather than the latter. enough to get under rizzo’s skin, but not enough to make her lash out.

and then there’s sandy.  the specific instance i want to focus on first is this:

after danny postures for his boys at the expense of sandy’s feelings. jan is horrified/bewildered at the reaction- marty, more resigned, because she knew what would happen. and rizzo did, too- look at the look on her face. ‘i just fucked your sweet little happily ever after. i still have power. i can fuck with your shit. don’t mess with me.’. that is not an expression of a casual friend causing some shit. this is a woman scorned, man. he fucked up with her, and the fallout is going to be cosmic.

then lets talk about this:

“ you lookin good, riz. ”

“ well, sloppy seconds ain’t my style. ”

which, frankly, i’m pretty sure is the exact moment rizzo decided she was going to sleep with kenickie. why kenickie? because he’s danny’s best friend. obviously.

which leads us to the scene in the frozen palace later on in the film. rizzo’s clearly in a mood. danny obviously doesn’t want to be out with sandy where the rest of his friends (*eye zoom @ rizzo*) are and rizzo only gets crankier when he leaves, leaving her with frenchy and kenickie- who is turning out to have been a really shitty life choice, if we’re being entirely honest. childish, and broke, and he assumes rizzo is going to pay for things?? bearing in mind the period and the setting?? no. just no, kenickie. and there’s danny, off with his sweet girlfriend who doesn’t really understand what she has, and nope. milkshake in kenickie’s face. her plan is falling the fuck apart. what the hell is happening? this shit doesn’t happen to betty motherfucking rizzo.

so, evidence gathered together- and there’s more, obviously, but these were things i wanted to bring up specifically to discuss the way i play rizzo- we can infer a number of things. 

one. there is a history of on again/off again, extremely volatile romantic entanglements between rizzo and danny, which i would estimate stretches back long before the pink ladies and t-birds. 

two. he hurt her really badly, and she is fucking bound and determined to hurt him back, in whatever way she has to, up to and including doing really silly things like having unprotected sex with his best friend. (i’m sorry, kenickie, but that was pure silly on both of your parts.)

three. she was much more in love with him than he was with her. or, at the very least, that’s how i play rizzo’s view of the situation. obviously, it’s only her perception, and anyone playing danny can play it however they like.

four. there is no way they could possibly be endgame- danny and sandy are actually really solid, both are willing to work on themselves and change who they are to fit the other- and sandy’s “transformation” is actually the more superficial of the two of them- danny actually went really far out of his way to change who he was, and i suspect would continue to do so. he obviously wants to be better for her, and she’s willing to bend for him. THEREFORE, no, clearly i don’t otp danny and rizzo.

five. off the topic of danny, but apropos- it took kenickie a good long fucking while to get his balls in order, but when he did, he was willing to man up for rizzo, even though she was insisting- unconvincingly- the baby wasn’t his. he stepped up. and i think that was the moment she actually decided it was worth it to at least give him a chance. if anything, for me, their actual relationship starts THERE, at the end of the movie. everything else leading up to that is rizzo playing games and kenickie wanting to get laid. (again...rizzo’s perception, not a prerequisite for playing with me??)