#beverly jitney bush

[sondheim-girly]

OH MY GOD AND PLEASE YALL LETS NOT FORGET WHEN MELODY JOKED ABOUT SHARKCARD DURING SOC SATURDAY

[alaskan-wallflower]

ok but bev, marcia and cherry as the mean girls?

so bev is regina-she’s the richest person in probably all of tulsa, she pretty much has full reign of whatever she wants to do and she’s overall a bitch (which is canon as melody said herself)-she probably does flirt with like…everyone, and maybe she is one of the only socs who really is just horribly spoiled

cherry is gretchen-she feels like she has to keep everyone’s secrets, especially when it comes to feelings towards the greasers and stuff. she’s the mediator often times and she kinda feels like she has to conform with what society says is okay. and at the end of the movie gretchen cut ties with regina, and cherry did the same thing i think

marcia is karen, the one everyone believes to be a ditz. they think she doesn’t know much, she may be a little bit aloof sometimes but she isn’t actually stupid, per se. just a little bit of a blonde (even if she’s not blonde). i feel like part of that might be an act to try and “fit in” but after she met and maybe got together with two bit she dropped tae act and ended up being one of the smartest people in her grade.

maybe ace could be cady, the one to take down regina lol

[wassupmygays]

there used to be a part in Hopeless War where marcia and bev sent their boyfriends off to the rumble and kissed them goodbye...... oh girl i need to see this

(here's sg mentioning it on an old ss live)

[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okay so costume ideas based on my unpublished fic hehe: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

[daddyscaddyandliquor]

guys brill writes love messages in the sand for bev im sorry i dont make the rules

[specific-dreamer]

darry and paul having their falling out/breakup after the curtis parents die and paul ofc not understanding why he would choose his friends over himself, paul just not understanding that kind of love/loyalty. bev entering at the peak of their fight and asking what’s goin on and she’s confused why he would want to go back to being a greaser. darry says something like “being a greaser isn’t a physical thing; it’s who i am. i would think you of all people would understand” and that’s when bev becomes the bev we meet in the show. that’s when bev comes across as this cruel and evil person because she’s just lost the only confidant she’s ever had and she’s scared paul might start to question what darry meant by that so she’s lashing out at any greaser bc obviously if she’s not scared to hurt them than she can’t be close to them or was ever one of them right ?

[asexual-juliet]

OMG i was thinking abt ur japanese-american brill fic and. omg. ryo brill and anna bev??!! both bonding bc they’re the only poc socs??? and they both wear orange?????? sorry they so cute

stop because i have been thinking about this since anna’s bev debut and it’s so 💕💕💕 matching orange bevbrill is so important to me and yeah japanese american brill x hispanic bev has soooo much potential!!

also am deeply obsessed with the matching color couple dynamic & have been mapping out other possibilities in my head lmfao… think we will prob get matching blue trip/marcia when bev is on for marcia this week and victor/melody could go on as either blue bevbrill or blue trip/marcia but sadly none of the other matching duos (rj/anna & sg/brill) have both actors covering the couples. and henry’s mint green color scheme is a bit too fucked up to find a match lmfao

[kaytheday]

Her Mother's Perfect Daughter - Beverly Jitney Bush

This fic is inspired by a post from @staygoldsunsets. Post Link Here! A03 Link Here!

Beverly had always been her mother’s perfect daughter. Shining teeth, straight hair, and a graceful poise that come from a lifetime of private dance lessons that her mother has insisted on since she was two. Sometimes Beverly feels like kicking and screaming at the mere thought of another dance class… not that her mother cares. She can still hear her mothers voice in her head. Good girls don’t kick and they don’t scream. They smile and they go about their day. 

Beverly had since made peace with the dance classes and the diets and the makeup and the expectations and the little perfectionism’s her mother has instilled into her. Because making peace with those things is better than not doing them and risk showing the ugly hateful parts of herself. Dancing, doing her hair perfectly, getting good grades, and dressing cute is usually enough to make people look over all the imperfections that her mother would catch. 

Beverly can still remember the first time her mothers impossibly perfect expectations were made known to her. It was back in grade school, when dancing was still fun and Bev was too young for diet pills. Her best friend in the whole world was another little girl named Ace. They would spend recess wrestling and playing make believe. She would come home with grass stains on her knees and ratty blonde hair but despite her mothers incessant nagging, it was worth it. 

There was usually twenty minutes after school where Bev would wait for her nanny to get there. Often, Ace would stay too and the girls would play together. Beverly never asked, but she knew Ace didn’t have a nanny and she just didn't want to go home. This was before they were greasers or socs. Back when kids were just kids and Beverly was carefree with love in her heart. 

There was one day where the nanny got sick and Beverly’s mother came to pick her up. It was the first day all year that her mother had come to the school. Bev was excited to show off her new friend, not even noticing how her mothers nose turned up in disgust and she let out a huff. 

It was on the car ride home that Beverly got a wake up call. 

“I can’t believe you’ve been playing with that girl! Is this why your hair is all messed up after school every day? You are not allowed to play with that filthy greaser anymore! You’ll make our family look bad and you don’t want to do that, do you Bev?” 

So that’s exactly what Beverly did. She listened to her mother and stopped playing with that ‘filthy greaser’. Instead, opting for the other well dressed little girls with respectable parents and straight hair. 

Good daughters must listen to their mothers. Isn’t that something her father used to say? Good girls listen to their mothers. Listen to yours, she knows what she's talking about. So she does. Beverly does everything her mother says… sometimes even more. 

This includes the dancing and the diet pills and the special shampoo and the country clubs and French language classes and learning how to talk to her parents' friends. It also includes the parts that her mother has sworn her to secrecy about. Like the time she ate too much at a church dinner and her mother forced her to throw up in the bathroom so she could fit into her church dress later. A finger deftly swiping down her throat as she gagged on her knees in the stall. Good girls don’t eat that much at a church dinner. See how they’re all looking at you? You don’t want to be a cow, do you Bev?

It’s not that she doesn’t like going to events with her parents and talking to her parents' friends. It’s just… it's not so much talking as showing off. Her parents drag her around to show off to their friends. Here is our pride and joy, our beautiful daughter, Beverly. Sometimes it feels like she’s nothing more than a show pony, a prize to be won. Not a person, just a face. A face that her mother has carefully constructed to be what people should see. Beverly is her mothers perfect daughter. 

The only real problem is that she shouldn’t hate it. Beverly knows she’s pretty, with good teeth and hair and she has great manners and good grades. There are a lot of good things about her. So she shouldn’t hate what makes her mother seem so happy and her father seem so proud. At the very least, it gets her mother to stop nagging her. So she tries not to hate that her life has become a constant showcase but she’ll be a glorified show-pony as long as it keeps those bitter parts of herself hidden. Under the surface there is this shameful fear that she is constantly in danger of losing control because of how wild and angry she is. This resentment fills her like a boiling pot. But even a pot as pretty as Beverly is bound to boil over. She just never knows when, and that scares her. 

“Y-You’re so… You’re so… m-manipulative!” The girl looks proud of herself for finding that word. Bev takes another drag on her cigarette as she stares at the girl who more than anything wants to be in their little soc group. But Beverly just cocks her head and smiles, a little thrill going through her at the thought of what comes next. This one is going to sting.

“How long did it take you to sound out that word in the mirror this morning? Probably longer than it took you to do that hair, terrible.” Bev laughs while the girl gasps and turns to run away, tears filling up her eyes. Beverly may be her mothers perfect daughter, but that doesn’t mean she has to be nice about it and she’s definitely not below making fun of a kid with a stutter. Not with the instant satisfaction it gives her.

“You could have just told her no.” Marcia says from her side, taking a drag on Beverly’s cigarette. 

“Yeah, I could have, but where’s the fun in that?” What Marcia doesn’t know is that those little comments contain everything that Beverly can never say. It’s the terrible thing inside her that makes her say it. Ruthless cruel things that will ensure her place in the school's social hierarchy. Beverly knows exactly where she stands and nobody can knock her down. 

Saying little things like those give her a release that is beyond any comprehension. One that she could never talk to any of her friends about. It’s these shots of malice and occasionally beating up on greasers with her boyfriend that give Beverly relief better than any kind of substance. It hits a sick sort of sweet spot, one that Marcia and Cherry have given her too many weird looks for. But they don’t know how it feels. They could never understand the pressure she’s under. The pressure to be perfect. To be everything. 

She can still remember the first time her fist cracked against the cheek bone of a greaser who was dumb enough to be on the wrong side of town. Brill and their friends had plans to go to the lake for the day when they caught the guy on the side of the road. They had pulled over and the boys had jumped out of the car. Beverly found herself following them, despite Marcia and Cherry’s protests that they all get back in the car. 

Beverly had just watched with sick satisfaction as they boys hit each other, wishing more than anything that she could join the fight. Maybe in another life, one that her mother wasn’t a part of, she was a boxer instead of a dancer. Then, when they had the greaser down, Brill offered her the last punch. She could hardly stop herself from nodding, a twisted smile on her face. And so she’d done it, with as much power as those boys, her rings leaving indents in the boy's face. 

Then they’d been off to the lake, not looking back. Beverly spent the rest of the day pretending that the whole ordeal hadn’t made her feel some sort of sick relief. 

It was because of this pressure to be everything all the time, that violence and her venomous words became her only outlet. Underneath all this pressure to uphold their families public image was a deep resentment towards her mother for making her care so much about what people thought. 

She could only imagine if her mother found out about the feelings that her perfect daughter had bubbling underneath the surface constantly. It would probably be like the time she’d bobbed her hair. As soon as she’d come home, her mother had slapped her clean across the face, yelling that they were supposed to be respectable people. That Beverly was not to be modeling herself after those spinsters who were chanting for women's lib and going braless in the street. They were a respectable family and Beverly was going to ruin all of it for a haircut. How selfish. She’d gone to bed without dinner for a week which her mother claimed was a good thing anyway. The crime? Attempting to ruin her families' perfect image. 

Anyone who says that greasers have it worse than socs have obviously never met Beverly's mother and her impossible expectations. 

Beverly is her mothers perfect daughter. Truly the pride of the West Side. 

[littlestarbigsky]

some of yall aren’t gonna like it but you need to hear it:

cherry would love taylor swift.

marcia would love lana del rey.

and beverly would love sabrina carpenter.

ace tho? gracie abrams.

[sky4cherry]

correct 🫶

am i the only one that gets the vibes from the outsiders musical that for the socs, bev is the one running the show. i feel like she makes the boys think that their in charge but she is orchestrating everything behind the scenes, and while she isn’t doing good things with this power, i still kind of love that for her. go off my manipulative icon <3

[sondheim-girly]

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

[alaskan-wallflower]

i love the characters that have no personality because i can just make it up

[wassupmygays]

i hope someone recorded the 10:15 live bc sg and tilly talked about marcia and marbit but i fear i cant reliably paraphrase all of it. heres what i remember tho

- sg is hesitant to say that marcia and bev remain friends

- mostly bc bev burned "one of marcias boyfriends" (two-bit)

- marcia talks bev about two-bit at the drive in and bev is like ew

- sg says eventually marcia learns to not follow the crowd

- eventually after the plot of the show, marcia and trip break up and she starts seeing two-bit

- all 3 say they probably dont officially date bc its dangerous, but they do meet up/see each other a lot and sg says they want it to be better so they can date

- (this is where it gets foggy on what i could hear) i think sg says during marcias senior year shes learned to not follow the crowd and probably (?) isnt friends with the soc group

- and then marcia manages to get out of tulsa and move to Hollywood

[sky4cherry]

Do you have any chetsoda headcanons in regards to them being sick and/or them meeting each other's friend groups as one partner or the friend groups finding out? Or on how they hide their relationship from their friend groups? - 🍀

okay i'm currently sick actually so i'm gonna focus on the friend group questions LMAO also in case anyone's wondering how i'm coping post rj paul-gate ... i'm not 🫶

okay so they'd have to meet each other's friends after dating for a while just because they have to figure out if they're really willing for their friends to know that they're 1. queer 2. dating someone from the other side of town

chet meeting darry and pony is ... interesting

pony's obviously 14 and kinda hates the socs with a violent passion because they jumped johnny (setting these hcs pre-canon btw so no fountain shenanigans)

darry has his own feelings about it all because of how things ended between him and paul

but when they see how hard chet's trying, and how softly soda reassures him when he thinks his brothers aren't looking, they're won over immediately

when chet accidentally lets it slip that his home life isn't great, it's darry who offers for him to stay the night, which has soda literally bouncing off the walls in happiness because he's so happy that darry's giving chet a chance

unfortunately pony is still 14, but he keeps his comments to himself, even if he's squinting at chet the whole time and trying to seem menacing

soda meeting bev and brill?? oh dude

well chet's first mistake was interrupting them at the drive-in to pull them away right to the back to meet soda

bev was already pissed off

when chet introduces them to soda and says "we're kinda going steady" brill is literally 🧍 "oh"

honestly brill's replaying every single interaction he's had with chet where someone's tried to set him up with a girl and chet just went "nope!"

bev immediately goes off on one about how chet should know better than to date a greaser (but she has no issue with him being queer !! ), which soda was expecting, but chet's just kinda there like ☹️ because he was really holding out hope

and when bev and brill notice he looks really upset, and like he's trying not to cry, they immediately swoop in to comfort him and promise that they don't think of him any differently

bev says she'd be willing to give soda a chance, meanwhile brill is already exchanging contact details with him because he is a sociable diva 🫶

[daddyscaddyandliquor]

talk about bev and chet ,,,,, and / or marcia and chet ,,,, pls,,,,

OH BOY OH BOY

okay so let me do bev and chet since i already did a little something on marcia and chet

- you know how i said chet annoys marcia like how her younger brother does?

- well, chet IS bev’s younger brother.

- they are actually melody and rj guys they ARE

- chet wants the last snack? suddenly it’s bev’s favorite snack in the world and she’ll be so upset without it.

- bev called shotgun? chet has car sickness and can’t sit in the back seat !!

- they are very touchy. they are always slapping each other or just poking at each other. chet is very much touchy in the way rj is with melody on lives. shaking bev’s shoulders, poking at her arms and face, pulling her hair, shoving her, etc.

- AND BEV DOES IT BACK !! (and harder)

- bev will call chet the most heinous thing ever but if anyone else calls him it… whoops! she slipped and now you have a cigarette burn on your face🙁

- chet will tell her that her outfit looks hideous but if you agree suddenly the police are somehow at your house that night because they heard about everything you did at your super illegal party on saturday

- they are laughing at you , not with you.

- chet and bev have smoke , drink , and feelings sessions every wednesday night.

- chet is #1 brillverly supporter

[specific-dreamer]

she'll be someone who is lovely (someone wonderful and true)

Summary: His brothers are super annoying, so Darry prays to God and asks for a sister. Note: god is mentioned so much omfg. content warning for that, but in my defense the curtis' did go to church before their parents died. im positive whenever he remembered he use to say his prayers before bed. anyways i digress heres the AO3, but its only like 499 words so its under the cut too

“Junior, go ahead and say your prayers. I’ll be back to tuck you in after your brothers.”

Darry rolls his eyes and drags his feet all the way to his room. He didn’t mind saying his prayers before bed, but the mention of his brother’s did irk him a bit. He loves them dearly he swears it, but by God were they annoying today. 

First, Ponyboy kept bugging him to read with him and when he wasn't doing that he was constantly asking Darry stupid questions. Darry what's 120 times 89? Darry, can you pick me up? Darry, why’s a table called a table? Who named it that? Of course, once Pony got started Sodapop joined in on the questions too. Except his questions were more rodeo based and before Darry knew it he was being forced to take Soda to the races on Saturday. He was not at all pleased. He had plans on going to the arcade with Bev and Paul on Saturday; Bev was not going to be happy when he cancels on them.

 He’s getting distracted, he’s meant to be praying not complaining. With a sigh, he closes his eyes, gets down on his knees, intertwines his fingers, and rests his forearms on the bed. 

“Dear God, thank you for this glorious day. Please continue to bless my family and my friends because they're pretty cool too. I pray that the soc’s get nicer, because they’re really mean, Lord. What’s the deal with that?” He pauses. What else does he need to pray for? Oh right. “And, not to sound ungrateful or nothing, Jesus, but can you give me a sister or somethin’? Pony and Soda are so annoying! They always wanna do what I wanna do, but sometimes I just don’t wanna hang out with ‘em. So, please give me a sister. Thank you. That’s it, I know you got other prayers to listen to. In Jesus name I pray, amen,” he finishes.

“P.S,” he adds, crawling under his covers. Hopefully God won’t mind the addendum. “Please please please let her be nicer than them. I know I’m ‘sposed to tough and all that, but Soda and Steve keep on jumping on me and it’s gettin’ mighty annoying. That’s all, in Jesus name, amen.”

It was, in fact, not all. He kept adding to his prayers until he was fighting yawns to even get the words out. To be fair though, if God answered his prayer, He needs to know that Darry wants a nice and kind sister. She wouldn’t be gross or weird like the other girls and she wouldn’t make a big fuss about getting dirty like they do. And she’d have to get along with the guys; he’s not too sure he could keep a sister if the guys didn’t like her.

Before he finally falls asleep, Darry decides to just write a list for God when he wakes up. That way God won’t have to strain his memory too hard.