#clark brillstein my little blorbo

[sky4cherry]

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

alright here we go 🫡

starting with the main socs !!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[sky4cherry]

he's so fucking pissed off about it btw

kat HATES brill with a burning passion for no reason. as a child she cried whenever he was in the same room as her, she could sense him ong

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okay so costume ideas based on my unpublished fic hehe: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

[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 🫶

[sky4cherry]

hi #1 bob sheldon defender

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[sky4cherry]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[sky4cherry]

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

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

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

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

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

bonus: ace calls two-bit 'fuckhead' 🫶

[sky4cherry]

soooooooo,,,,, hwo does bobs funeral go

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

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

it’s obviously a soc-only event

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

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

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

she does talk to marcia though

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

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

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

[sky4cherry]

Hey! I’m super curious about the backstory of the Soc boys and how they all met. Do you have any details or headcanons on how their friendships started? Would love to hear any insight you have on their dynamics and how they came together!

i've gone into it very briefly before but very very happy to go into it again bc i love my boys 🫶

i've mentioned that i hc bob and brill living two doors down from each other and honestly ?? i think they were probably introduced by their parents when they were really young, but they properly became friends when they were like 7 and started hanging out together more at school, where they met ...

CHET BAKER

bob and chet honestly fight over something really petty like wanting to play with the same toys, and brill swoops in and saves the day by suggesting they all play together (brill will continue to be the problem solver for the rest of his life) and thus the initial trio was FORMED

trip enters the equation once they're maybe 10 or 11, and at first he's really quiet so bob and chet do all the talking for him during a group project, but once he starts hanging out with them more, he starts opening up and joins in with the stupidity (10 year old brill is so stressed)

the boys all join the football team once they start high school which is how they meet paul !! i have a little post about this too hehe

paul's already got quite the reputation as being one of the star players on the team, and god forbid chet allows anyone a moment of peace

he is marching STRAIGHT up to paul and going 🫵 TEACH ME YOUR WAYS I WISH TO BE BETTER AT FOOTBALL

and suddenly paul is just 🧍 swarmed by four freshmen 🧍

[sky4cherry]

what do you think the socs did/how they reacted immediately after bob’s death? like what was everyone’s initial reactions and what did they do? idk if this makes any sense so sorry lol

ohoho anon you’ve given me an opportunity to do a shameFUL self promo 🧍

i actually have something up on my ao3 (curtispoets) about the fountain!! first chapter is the soc boys’ reactions, second chapter is the greasers’ reactions, and working on the third chapter which will be the soc girls’ reactions with a heavy focus on cherry !!

[sky4cherry]

brill and bev and their son chet

he's literally their practice child for when they start a family LMAO

[sky4cherry]

more thoughts on the bev and chet iconic duo?

sorry for the wait i have been busy pondering 😔

they're everyone's worst nightmare 😔 trip is punching the floor every time he gets put with the two of them in a group project that's his nightmare blunt rotation actually

speaking of blunt rotations,,, i've been pondering about stoner bev a lot recently and i feel like chet just isn't capable of messing with her the same way she does with him LMAO

she's just very chill when she's high and can get a little spacey, but she's not as easily wound up as chet can be

guys i know we always focus on them annoying the shit out of each other,, but what about their sweet moments ☹️

bev cheering for chet as well as brill during football games ☹️ and chet always telling her she did a great job cheering once the game is over, even if their team lost ☹️

once chet's older sister moved out (before moving back in), chet gave bev a lot of the stuff she left behind (mostly old clothes and makeup), and bev still has a few bits of clothing in her closet even if they don't fit anymore because the thought was there

sometimes bob and paul try to convince brill that chet MUST have a crush on bev, but brill knows better (he's not insecure 🫶)

instead of being weird about it, brill's just genuinely so delighted that his girlfriend and his best friend get along so well, he's the human embodiment of ����

[sky4cherry]

husband i need to know what you think each of the socs handwriting would be like

the fact i didn’t pack any notebooks for my excursion home is insane bc i would’ve actually done this on paper

cherry bev and marcia all have the prettiest handwriting which is OBVIOUSLY in cursive!!! it borders on calligraphy every time they take a pen to paper

brill has that doctor handwriting for suuure i cannot elaborate i just know this to be true (only bev and trip can decipher it)

chet and trip both have like the most fucking normal handwriting you’ve ever seen in your life like their handwriting is just the times new roman font except trip’s letters are always absolutely identical and it’s kinda creepy how perfectly precise it is

bob sheldon i know you have really unnecessarily extravagant handwriting,, it’s just so obvious to me,,., no one’s gonna hurt you if your letters don’t have fancy loops in them king it’s okay

paul has caveman handwriting like he speaks in hieroglyphics

[sky4cherry]

i NEED your take on cherrybev

i have been waiting for this day anon

this is the only time you’ll catch me genuinely frothing at the mouth over a cherry ship that isn’t just her and bob (chetcherry i love you but we aren’t at that level quite yet) (cherrycola i love you but i have a responsibility as the no 1 chet fan and the no 1 bob defender)

my perception of cherrybev is sad you guys

brill and bev will never not be endgame to me so when i discovered cherrybev my brain was like “yeah cherry definitely has a one sided crush on bev who is so painfully straight and literally counting down the days until she can marry brill” :(

do you know what’s even worse,, marcia having a crush on cherry who has a crush on bev who is so in love with brill :(

it’s so sad too because the girls are all so affectionate with each other so they’ll be having a sleepover and doing each other’s nails and cherry literally holds her breath when bev touches her hand

and marcia just sits there like 🧍 hahahaha hold my hand rn cherry

bev is so utterly blinded by her heterosexuality that she doesn’t notice but MARCIA DOES 💔💔💔

cherrybev HAVE kissed on the mouth during a game of spin the bottle but it was played off for laughs by the boys and bev

cherry hides away later on and marcia just comes and finds her and goes “it’s scary isn’t it?” and 🫶 a mutual coming out goes so insanely hard

anyway you asked for cherrybev but that’s how i see cherry and marcia starting to realise they should’ve kissed years ago and they start making up for lost time 🫶🫶🫶

clark brillstein bev being ur gf is the only canon information we have about you i can’t reduce you to nothing you are my best friend and you’re not even real 💔

[sky4cherry]

drop chet angst i beg 🙏🙏

let's do a little walkthrough of the average school morning for chet baker why don't we 🫶

by the time chet is making his way to brill's for a ride to school, he's already exhausted

how could he not be? he barely slept at all with one of his nephews screaming his head off over a nightmare, and it didn't exactly help when one of the bakers' beloved dogs decided to fight chet for his spot on the couch. by the time his dad left at 6am, chet had already given up on getting any more sleep

he's just glad he doesn't have football practice after school, because that would well and truly suck after a long day of classes with zero to little energy

brill doesn't live too far, just around the corner, but chet's dragging his feet the whole way, shoulders slumped

his entire body feels heavy as he lets himself inside the brillstein's house, plastering a smile across his face as he steps into view

when brill's mom asks how he slept, he lies and says "really well", but they both know he's lying

he knows he looks rough, but brill and beverly don't say anything as they appear from brill's bedroom, ready to leave

chet snatches up an apple from the fruit bowl and tosses it to his other hand, almost forcing himself to bounce on his feet before he dashes back out of the door and hops over the side of brill's convertible, settling into the backseat

again, brill and beverly don't say anything

they all know how it goes; chet goes home, he gets too embarrassed to ask to stay over, he doesn't sleep, and then he shows up acting like he's the life and soul of the party

all of their friends have made it abundantly clear that their doors are open for him whenever, but they all know he waits until he's explicitly invited or practically forced to accept, on account of the manners his father has instilled into him

i don't know how to end this i will be so fr

[sky4cherry]

i have been possessed by the spirit of your soc lore and can’t stop thinking about them while I’m at work.

I’m really curious about the friendships between the boys and how you think they would express that care for each other, since it’s stated that socs don’t really talk about that type of stuff!

(also revealing myself as the anon who asked about brill’s reaction lol heyyy)

tumblr user onplanetmars this ask has unlocked something within me,, the demons are pouring out rn

okay so obviously we have it explicitly stated that the socs keep their feelings to themselves (everyone say thank you toxic masculinity and 60s attitudes towards pretty much everything 🫶)

and we know that their coping mechanisms are absolutely dogshit for a lack of better phrasing 🫶

i truly truly believe that, even if the soc boys don't explicitly discuss the things they're going through, they totally have each other's backs

paul holden at the big age of 20 has experienced the trials and tribulations that they are going through, whether it's familial or societal stress, and i really think that him encouraging them to fight with the greasers is him trying to show them how he dealt with things when he was their age

the boys in particular have such high expectations career-wise from their parents that i expect they're definitely aware of the fact they're ALL struggling with this, so there's kind of an unspoken acknowledgement that they all want to ignore the pressure they're being put under, which is why they go around causing absolute havoc together

i think particularly between paul and chet that there's a very strong brotherly dynamic, because the other boys get a chance to be vulnerable with their girlfriends sometimes, while poor paul and chet kind of get stuck with each other by default LMAO

idk if you've seen rise of the pink ladies but there's a scene where the t-birds are talking about their home lives and it's so soc boys coded (if you haven't seen it, it's on the show's tiktok account!!)