#crutchie is a good friend

[ill-say-anything-i-hafta]

"You wanna bust your other leg too?" is such a fucking shitty thing to say, Jack! This is Crutchie's life. His livlihood. He understands the stakes better than anyone.

I only have one good eye (sort of good? let's just say one eye i can use to do my job that gets me paid) and YES I've been like this my whole life and YES I'm still very sensitive about it. It is not fodder for friendly jokes. If a person I loved and trusted said something like this to me, I would lose it.

[askthe-newsies]

Where’s my ralbert?? 🧑‍🦰🧑‍🦰🧑‍🦰🧑‍🦰🧑‍❤️‍💋‍🧑

Ralbert?

What like me and Race?

…Meh not my thing

Yeah I mean maybe drunk, but nothing past like. Kissing drunk at a party

I guess like I wouldn’t date him, just Y’know. You gotta explore your options

Wow.

You guys are gay??

Nah, just gotta try everything once

Exactly!

[rooshappy]

what do you think is the morally worst thing Crutchie has ever done?

I don't think by his own morals, Crutchie has done anything truly bad. But he doesn't think of morals or consequences much. He steals, he fights, he swears and answers back. All his life he has probably been taught or told that these things are wrong but he doesn't see it that way so he doesn't care. He survives how he can and so do his friends. He's loyal to those he considers his family and he is good because he is, not because he tries to be.

[embermc]

Somehow, despite being a main character and despite how much of a devastatingly complex character he is, there is so little Crutchie content in today’s fandom and it actually causes me to go mad.

Crutchie Morris, aged fifteen, who had his newfound hope literally beaten out of him and who accepted the prospect of his own death and accepted that him being able to find a better life was just as much of a dream-like fantasy as Santa Fe was for his brother. Crutchie Morris, aged fifteen, who had to force himself to be twice as resilient as everybody else, twice as dedicated, twice as tough, or else he feared he’d be left behind and forgotten. Crutchie Morris, aged fifteen, who had to hide all of his anger and fear and sadness and resentment under a bright-eyed grin because heaven forbid he ever be anything other than optimistic, heaven forbid he show for a moment that a life of being abused and pushed around and verbally tormented got to him in the slightest. Crutchie Morris, aged fifteen, who convinced himself that he could never hope for more than what was thrown at him, could never strive for a better future (“let’s hit the streets and get our papes while we still can”), and could never show the slightest bit of weakness lest he be seen as a burden and sent away for good.

Crutchie Morris, aged fifteen, who got sent away anyways.

Crutchie, who had the worst possible thing that could’ve happened to him, his worst fear, come true, and who had to pretend he was totally fine with that because he thought his loved ones had bigger issues than him at the time. Who had to endure up to weeks of constant horrendous abuse, beatings, starvation, and who was just so damn out of it when he was finally released that he couldn’t focus on anything except the man who had messed him up so badly that he couldn’t even catch a glimpse of him in a safe, controlled setting without panicking (west endsies). But who, despite it all, still had to plaster on that same grin to show to all of his friends to convince them that he was still the same guy, even if he was irreversibly changed in a way that so many of them would never know. Oh also did I mention he was fifteen-

[theres-no-escaping-us-pal]

NEWSIES AND WHAT AFTER SCHOOL CLUBS THEY’RE IN + WHAT SPORTS THEY DO

JACK KELLY

he definitely does sets for the school productions

he also does lights

he did track in elementary-middle school school but quit freshman year to focus more on art

but he runs every morning

also he def started an art history club with davey and kathrine

DAVEY/DAVID JACOBS

he plays piano is jazz band

and he’s in debate

he plays tennis

he wins state championships for tennis

and he totally joined theatre tech cause all his friends were doing theatre in some capacity

helps kathrine with editing the school paper when she gets stressed

he’s in honors math and science

maybe english too

CRUTCHIE MORRIS

band

he’s a band kid

idk what instrument

don’t ask me

i’m not a band kid

but he is

and tenor in choir

he plays in the pit band for the school productions

helps jack with sets sometimes

honors english

b average

KATHRINE PLUMBER/PULITZER

she’s a total academic weapon

class president 5th grade-senior year

she’s in debate

chief editor of the school paper

runs the year book

stage manager

on the varsity volleyball team

was on jv her freshman year

when people ask her how she gets straight a’s she’s like “idk i’m just smart”

a+ average

RACETRACK HIGGINS

he’s on the competitive dance team

also ensamble or a minor role in every school production

he’s been the lead once

he didn’t like it

in honors math

he also does track (hehe race track)

he gets a’s in math and b’s and a-‘s in everything else

most flexible on the comp team

best turner on the comp team

was in debate for two years but quit because he started having stress related panic attacks and stress vomiting before debates

b+ average

ALBERT DASILVA

competitive dance too

he used to play soccer in middle school and part of freshman year

he’s in theatre normally ensemble but likes to be speaking roles

c+ average

pours his time into dance

like it’s his favorite thing

terrible at chaine and pique turns

he’s great at pirrouettes and a la seconds though

SPECS IDK HIS LAST NAME

competitive dance guy #3

he’s on debate too

2nd most flexible on the comp team

worst turner

amazing leaps

b average student

forgets his contacts for dance frequently so he just dances with no glasses on

in jack’s art history club

FINCH CORTEZ

also on competitive dance

least flexible

average turns

terrible leaps

good at tricks

he’s trick man

really likes doing theatre

school photographer

b- average

SPOT CONLON

def on the gymnastics team

don’t ask me why and don’t argue with my flawless logic

he keeps his grades just high enough to still be on the team

also on the wrestling team

people are always asking why he does those two cause there like polar opposites

he’s just like 🤷‍♀️

b average

definitely runs some kind of social justice or lgbtq+ club

(also applies to uksies spot)

MORRIS DELANCEY (specifically the mike faist version)

soccer and dance

specifically tap

he likes tap

and he’s been doing soccer since he was in middle school

he’s on debate team

he’s not very good but he makes it through

a- average

OSCAR DELANCEY

football

don’t ask me why i don’t plan to explain

c+ average

i have nothing else to say

SARAH JACOBS

varsity soccer

and debate team

and honors english, history, and science

and choir

she’s a mezzo

don’t tell me i’m wrong

i’m not

she’s a student tutor

like when a student needs tutoring she’s the persian they go to

for english, science, or history

a average

kinda academic rivals-lovers with kath

(sorry if these are shitty)

[nitttstdsdtoastd]

would these newsies characters survive in my school?

jack: YES. ABSOLUTELY. HE’D BE THE ONE WHO INITIATES HAVOC WHEREVER HE GOES AND THE ANNOYING POPULAR KIDS LOVE HIM.

david: i mean like— 55/45. he’d really smart and barely gets into trouble, so he’d be liked or respected by most teachers, but classmate-wise, he’d only be recognized as “smart” and be ignored, unless one of the popular kids would be like “we’re friends, right?” with him (or maybe i’m just projecting, but i digress).

katherine: she would be up with the academic achievers and the representatives for each grade level she attends since she’d probably be that good. she’d also be a class officer. overall, yes.

crutchie: everyone would either make fun of him then say “go gentle, he has a crutch” or everyone would be awfully respectful, maybe in between. he’d be one of those people you could borrow short bond paper from and 1/4 paper, so he’d probably run out of paper in like a week or two of school. overall, 60/40.

sarah: bro has no personality whatsoever so 100% for being an npc.

race: he’d be brought to bbo (best behavior officer, which is school counselor) when being caught smoking/vaping, then have lines of 8 or 7 on his report card (basically C- and D+). he’d also cause havoc with jack and be classified as “one of the boys”. so 50/50.

spot: yeah no that motherfucker is surviving whatever place you put him in

[ellwood-sidney]

newsies as things my friends have said!

Jack: I just got cockblocked by Shakespeare

Race: Your in the cult you stay in the cult

Crutchie: What’s your sexuality? Vibin’

Spot: No let me beat myself up

Albert: You said your AirPods were dead now you're listening to shrek without me

Romeo: I’m going to pick you up romantically and throw you at the mirror

Jack: I’m good he’s good I’m trying to think of other things I’ve shoved up my ass

Katherine: Why are they prancing around in their little tights I can see their calf muscles

Davey: Thank you for serenading Me

Pulitzer (mocking the newsies): I’m a poor orphan boy with no hand eye coordination please by a newspaper from me

Les: The boys just started kissing

Medda: Jeff what the fuck are you playing at Jeff

Oscar: I will carry you away… by your legs

[thelemonsofpink]

random modern newsies head cannons (with absolutely no evidence or reason) pt. 2

more bc i can!!

Race:

The most aggressive, reckless driver, but is dangerously good at it. Will cut across multiple lanes but has never even scratched a car.

Lied to everyone in his first week of college about his entire life (different lie per person) just for fun. He finally started telling the truth but nobody believes him.

Started a school poker club and promptly got kicked out of it for betting too much, and then winning it every time. (He just wanted a way to make money. The school did not like that).

STEM major. His work is impossible but he never complains about it. Also a dancer (not my hc). He complains about that a lot.

Has worked almost every retail job under the sun. Also complains about that.

Carries around cigarettes for the vibe but rarely smokes them. Just in case anyone else wants one. Has made friends with many random people this way.

Spot:

Brooklyn baby. Cannot drive. Is terrified of it but, when Race tried to teach him, he yelled at everyone and blamed other people for what was definitely his fault. Refuses to admit that.

Played football but seriously injured his knee (explanation for the cane) but doesn't talk about it much. Always comes up with a new reason for the injury that is entirely ridiculous, but since he delivers it with a straight face everybody believes him.

Absolutely no rhythm. Never goes to parties, even though he is in a fraternity (a very chill one, thank you very much). If he's ever at a party, it's because he's a sober contact, and he is the most unsympathetic person when it comes to taking care of drunk people unless it's Race.

Insists on sitting alone in the back of the lecture hall, even if he has friends in his class.

Crutchie:

Also an incredibly reckless driver but HAS gotten into accidents before. (Only twice, both times because he was racing a friend on the highway. Never serious but always stupid).

Very fidgety and usually making noises under his breath/drumming on shit. Drives everybody around him crazy.

The kind of guy to argue with a professor in a lecture, but only when he's sure he's right (which is always).

So many illegal things in his dorm: candles, toaster, air fryer, multiple animals.

Double majoring in a STEM and humanities field, always references one when in classes for the other and confuses everybody, but he sees a connection between them.

I like the idea that he goes to the gym with Albert a lot. (U wld never catch me taking away his disability so in my head he loveeees to bench and is so buff).

Albert:

(a lot of driving hcs. i wrote this in a car). gets so violently carsick. everyone thought he was saying that so he could ride shotgun; they made him ride in the back once and he made them pull over after ten minutes cause he almost hurled. safe to say he is now always shotgun and always playing the worst music.

Played too many sports, got too many concussions, and now is a crazy gym bro.

Peanut allergy. Would rather die than admit this. Has almost died because he forgets to tell servers at restaurants.

Finch:

his shoes are never tied. he never trips over them and refuses to tie them.

has a million weird, artsy minors that sound and should be fake.

floor sitter. is never in a chair.

JoJo:

his shoes are also never tied. he ALWAYS trips over them.

drank coffee, had a panic attack, thought it was a heart attack, and spent an hour in the ER.

also had the same reaction when trying weed for the first time.

Mush:

RIPPING up the dance floor at a party, fully sober too

Everybody's favorite frat bro; super great energy and incredibly respectful

Volunteers at local elementary schools; talks to young children like they're frat bros too.

Blink:

Dorm recluse. His suite mates have called Mush many times just to check that he's still alive in there.

Has no license and hates public transit, so he walks literally everywhere.

[ziggy-stardust-is-in-love]

So I thought maybe I’d do one of the informational things for my page (warning: it’s obnoxiously long)

You can call me Zags, Ziggy, “the Ziggler” (according to @virginia-madison,) or anything you want! Doesn’t really matter

She / her, they / them, or even he / him if you want, I don’t know what I am anymore

Omni

Demigirl?? Idk about gender rn

Don’t be a creep I will block you (im a minor 🤨)

Music is my life

Theatre kid!!

I think I’m an infp whatever that is. Ig I share a personality type with Kurt Cobain so that’s sick

David Bowie made me who I am

Raised on classic rock

My posts will probably be random unfunny thoughts or updates

Ukulele freak

No negativity or bad vibes. We’re chill here (basic dni stuff)

My interests (bands, tv, theatre)

Green Day

David Bowie

Weezer

Basically any music ngl

Stranger Things

Back to the Future

The Breakfast Club

Lord of the Rings

The Hobbit

Crying over people we can’t have

Roblox (I’m hiding this in here bc it’s a secret)

The Beatles

Billy Joel

My Chemical Romance (still learning)

Rodrick Heffley (shut up I love that man)

TX2 (cry about it)

The Lorax (gotta be one of my favorites)

Shrek (musical or movie, played Lord Farquaad)

Newsies (theatre kid)

CRUTCHIE!!! 💕 (Newsies) I played crutchie and it was freakin awesome

ANTHONY HOPE!!! (Sweeney Todd) another awesome character I got to play

Little Shop of Horrors

Wicked

Theatre in general‼️‼️ (PLEASE)

Pikmin

Heheh Good Omens now too

ANYTHING. PLEASE.

💕My pretty boyfriend: @someone-kill-the-ej <3 (He’s my soulmate and I love him so so much. I’m head over freakin heels for him bro)💕

💝Mi esposa: @natitith 😍😍💃🏽🕺🏻💝

💖💖 MY BESTEST FRIEND TO EVER BE CREATED (I thank the lord for her every day) : @perfumeaddicted (she’s offline 90% of the time and usually doesn’t really post) ((we also literally share a brain and we’re the same exact person)) 💖💖

Moots can ask for my Airbuds because I do love having friends on there but I don’t really freely give it out since it’s got my actual name and face (for my irl friends on there)

also you can just look up ziggystardustisinlove and I’ll pop up

You can always send requests for images to our Weezer on or images to put in American idiot ‼️‼️‼️ (please do I’m lonely)

anyways sorry it’s so long maybe I’ll delete half of this later :P

updated 3-31

[a-leg-of-lambb]

NEWSIE HEADCANONS

Jojo has autism and gets overstimulated and textures bother him a lot

Buttons sews and patches up the boys clothes when they get holes in them. The boys all put their money together to get him a sewing machine for his birthday

Davey is kinda like the mom friend. Keeping everyone in line. Doing the cooking and cleaning. You can’t tell me this man doesn’t wear a pink apron when he cooks.

Jack is a big sucker for romance movies even if he will never admit it. He has cried multiple times to them aswell

Crutchie absolutely adores animals and he’d own a pet cat with 3 legs that he found in an alley way and took back to the lodging house.

Davey sings all the time. He’s the type of person to break out into song if you say one word that is in said song.

Albert puts a small braid in his hair everyday under his hat and he’s quite good at doing it to

Race has ADHD and he can never sit still so when he has to he’s constantly changing the way he’s sitting or he won’t focus and stair at a random person or object

Specs is a GREAT baker. He often makes things like cupcakes and brownies for the other boys

Spot is great with kids despite his rough exterior. He often will help put the little kids to sleep and maybe even read a story to them.

THATS ALL BYEEE

[i-got-poisenality]

MODERN NEWSIES HCS NO ONE ASKED FOR

Sarah Jacobs

she/her

raging lesbian

transferred to the same high school as the rest of the newsies with Davey from a private school

joined the debate team 80% because she’s gay for Katherine(captain of debate team) and wanted to get to know her better and 20% because she likes to argue

raging feminist and will fight terfs because terfs aren’t real feminists

has absolutely beat up people who bully Davey

on a girls rugby team and absolutely kicks ass

besties with Romeo, no i don’t take constructive criticism

Jack Kelly

he/him and bisexual disaster

also beats up people who bully Davey

javid <3333

has been through a bunch of foster homes

head of set design for their schools drama program

paints sets for Medda’s theater outside of school

most of the newsies have him saved as “cOuNtRy BoY 👅” in their contacts because of that vine

drinks way too much coffee and usually can’t sleep

his favorite movie is Indiana Jones and some newsies call him “Indi” as a joke

terrified of spiders, will shriek with more fear than you’ve ever heard at a spider sighting

none of his clothes are free of paint

paints and draws on his clothes on purpose sometimes

senior superlative is gonna be most artistic

Crutchie Morris

he/him or he/they (transmasc)

gay and ace (he’ll fight you if you i infantilize him and so will i)

uses forearm crutches as opposed to one crutch because i thought thatd be easier for him (disabled people correct me if i’m wrong)

currently in a really bad foster home but is gonna get adopted by Miss Medda at some point so he’ll be ok

bad at math but good at english

in choir and has gotten a couple solos

in detention a lot but not as much as Jack or Race

dating Race, crutchtrack forever

insane upper body strength and people are always surprised

Miss Medda helped him get his first binder but he’s very bad about binder safety and forgets to take it off

physically incapable of not petting every animal he comes across and has a job at a local animal shelter

has broken peoples kneecaps with his crutches (no seriously, he sent Morris Delancey to the hospital by whacking him so hard after Morris made a jerk comment)

Katherine Plumber Pulitzer

she/her and demiromantic sapphic

has two last names because her parents are divorced and her dad wouldn’t let her get rid of his last name so she jus added her mom’s

so much daddy issues

president of the school paper and captain of the debate team

also president of 20 other clubs

in the running for valedictorian alongside Davey and Race

besties with Davey

so many APs and has straight As

very vocal about issues in the system and will not hesitate to write about them

english teachers love her

can write an essay in 20 minutes

very intrigued by Sarah and her argument methods (this just turns into gay feelings once they’re friends)

Albert

aromantic asexual

always in detention

mostly only liked by foods teachers because that’s where he applies himself the most

cooking is one of the few things that actually bring him joy

on the soccer team and dances sometimes

pretty good at math

fell asleep in english while his class was reading Romeo and Juliet because he thought it was dumb

tired and angry

gets in fights pretty regularly

steals stuff from his friends for fun

(if you wanna know any more, please please please send me asks)

[more-sonorous]

Hey! Hope everything is alright, we lost power lol- but uhh... Race head cannons? (I am sososo normal 😚) Good morning/day/night! 💜

hi, katz! thankfully the dorms still have power so i'm grateful to be bored out of my mind with internet access loll

race headcanons, let's do it!

his name is edward anthony higgins (which is partially real life canon and partially a nod to fanon) and he despises being called ed or any version of his first name (father's name). he's okay with tony or anthony, though.

i base my race off of livesies and 92sies (with a bit of uksies). his looks lean more towards ben cook and his personality is a mix of mostly max casella and a bit of josh barnett. sarcastic. fast-talking. impish little prankster. sorta mean and rough around the edges. big joker. ugh i just adore tough guy race and will always write him as such.

strong. (you've all seen ben cook's incredible biceps, need i explain?)

i adore the smart race headcanon. dk where it came from but i lovingly adopted it in both canon and modern

albert's his best friend in every universe

he and crutchie and jack are thick as thieves in every universe, caught somewhere between brothers and best friends

specifically canon era

got his nickname from selling out at the tracks in brooklyn, which i think is just plain canon but you can never be sure in this fandom

part irish (father) part english (mother), but he's born on u.s soil.

father is almost definitely 100% involved in gangs like the dead rabbits and the whyos

mother is dead oops

four older half-siblings (oops i think dad got around), two brothers two sisters, doesn't keep in touch with most of them but contacts occasionally as a last resort

manhattan's official second in command, takes over in jack's place when jack ages out. probably is not the next president of the newsboy union, but the next treasurer

related to the last one, the boy is excellent with numbers. very smart but just never had the opportunity to develop those skills. when davey starts school again, he offers to give race arithmetic lessons. when he realizes that race is better at arithmetic than he is, it turns into race helping davey do math homework.

two years younger than jack

became a newsie when he was around ten

misses his mom

knows he's smarter than most of these schmucks, so he's constantly running and winning card games/poker games/betting rings to trick people out of money. it's how he gets his mental stimulation, much to jack's annoyance (how else is he supposed to get extra cash for his expensive habits, jack?)

tobacco addiction oops

specifically modern era

got his nickname from being good at running, unironically. either he did track and field or he picked up the nickname from foster home shenanigans-- i pick my poison based on the au

absolute vape demon to the chagrin of all his friends.

foster system kid! mother is still dead and father was definitely involved in seedy criminal activities, currently in prison

still has all of those older half-siblings but... they do not get along, so his lil ass ended up in foster care at ten years old

misses his mom

still a certified genius when it comes to math and science, but he could care less about whatever else there is. he and davey make great study buddies because they excel where the other falters. they also make good tutors for jack, who needs a little assistance in all subjects that don't involve art or pe

i love making him a dancer in universes where that is financially possible, because here you've got this fast-talking witty tough guy that can whip out ten pirouettes in a row and flip across the room and still get up in your face-- then he still says 'and what about it?' and will beat your ass if you answer wrong

biggest case of gifted kid burnout you ever saw

could compete for valedictorian if he wanted to but he only tries in the subjects he has fun learning about

chronic procrastinator

because of the above, addicted to energy drinks as well. will probably need a kidney stone removed at some point in his life.

chews on the silver part of his pencils like the goblin he is

when someone (probably davey) tries to put him onto mechanical pencils, he snaps off the little plastic pocket clip and chews on that instead

augh thank you so much for the ask! i had so much fun answering <3

[nyx-thedragon]

EVEN MORE NEWSIES THOUGHTS RAAHHHHH

noted down a bunch of things while watching again, so strap in for a bit of a long post!

1- reiterating that i love mr kloppman so much omg

2- mush has his fucking hat on before a shirt what's wrong with him /silly

3- "get the lead outta your pants" is such a fun phrase why don't we use it anymore

4- choreo for "carrying the banner" looks so fun

5- jack mocking davey's scoff i love them so bad

6- young christian bale as jack kelly is so charming

7- why is there just a boxing match going on?

8- medda complimenting les's acting skills <33

9- why is there a trolley on fire? why did they set one on fire?

10- "you can meet my folks" this is literally the first day you met him ???

11- esther jacobs is so pretty wow

12- second hand embarrassment/cringing when jack is telling sarah about what words make a headline good

13- les sleep singing and sounding good, i see you kid

14- "why don't you stay here tonight?" bro put the heart eyes away for a second my god

15- "when i dream on my own / i'm alone but i ain't lonely" <333333 love these lyrics

16- will forever be mad about livesies taking away jack's whole cowboy shtick it's so fun why would they take that away

17- how does jack just know how to ride a horse?? was he taught by someone when he was younger??

18- race & jack siblingism real !!

19- johnathon why do you work for pulitzer he doesn't appreciate you like he should

20- i love how natural the dialogue feels in the entire movie. it doesn't feel or sound like they memorized a script

21- "give him some room, let him think" les jacobs you precious little boy

22- jack and davey just make a great team to lead the strike. davey has the words and jack has the confidence and loud voice

23- "no! we can't beat up kids in the street, it'll give us a bad name!" "can't get any worse"

24- davey going from "i was joking" about the strike to helping organize and getting so into it i love him

25- davey wandering through the other newsies during "the world will know" love him (i have no clue why this stood out to me enough that i felt i had to note it down)

26- davey, again with the heart eyes. you're staring longingly at jack. please have some decorum

27- shoutout to denton for helping the boys. love our man denton

28- boots putting his ear up to the door trying to hear something i love him that's so silly

29- the look jack gives davey when he laughs at jack and les being kicked out of The World building

30- "no pictures" "sure" and then there ends up being a picture

31- spot conlon calling jack "jackie boy" oh i feel like they have some history. like friends when they were younger or something. or they've just known each other for a long time

32- mush and race little dance moment during "sieze the day" <3

now would be a great time to take a breather, drink some water, look somewhere other than the screen for a bit to give your eyes a rest

33- jack and davey are always so touchy with each other my god boys can you keep your hands to yourselves for five seconds please (/affectionate)

34- jack already trusts davey enough to let him hold the rope while he dangles like 50 feet in the air. they've barely known each other for two days these boys are lowkey down bad

35- jack and crutchy are brothers for real !!! i love them !!!!

36- snyder hitting the side of the bed to get that one kid to take his hat off why did he do that why did the hat need to be off ??

37- love how the brooklyn newsies' thing is slingshots it's so fun and cool

38- where did these boys learn how to tap dance

39- crutchy you gotta get better at lying, man

40- dude kloppman really is like these boys' father i just love him so much he seems so sweet

41- sarah jacobs why do you not find it a little weird for jack to sleep right outside your window all night?? i know you know him, but that's still a bit odd

42- "this rabble he's roused" pulitzer that's a great line, i gotta hand it to ya

43- love spot conlon's little walking stick/cane

44- the way the boys all love medda and hype her up <333

45- i need warden snyder dead and i need to be the one to do it oh my god i hate him so much!!!!

46- dutchy and specs are always around each other, as far as i remember seeing. they are a pair, do not separate

47- are davey and sarah twins? i've seen people online and in fics say that they are but it's not said in the movie and i am very curious if this is canon or a fanon thing that everyone has agreed on?

48- pulitzer gesticulates a lot. he's a hand-talker

49- "i don't understand" "i don't understand either but just get outta here!"

50- haven't said this before but i love davey's curly hair

51- weasel actually says "tisk tisk" (tsk tsk) he's such a weirdo for that

52- i also need weasel and the delanceys dead and i need to be the one to do it

53- roosevelt calling denton "denty" they're besties bro that's so fun

54- kloppman taking over weasel's job (edit: upon rewatching the movie again, i have realized that it is, in fact, not kloppman who takes over weasel’s job at the end of the movie. my apologies)

whoo. okay. less than the last one. that's good. i hope y'all enjoyed reading my thoughts and getting a little glimpse into my brain. and if someone could tell me the answer to my "are sarah and davey twins" question i will love you forever please i am very curious.

anyway, drink water, get some rest, and i will see you all later. stay cool

[just-pot-over-here]

How old were Race and Crutchie when they first met? Were they kids? What did they think of each other then?

MY NEWSIES HEADCANONS ONCE MORE!!!!! 

thank god you sent me this ask anon i need to talk about them THANK YOU

(please send me more asks anyone and everyone i am going to single handedly bring back ask culture)

I think that crutchie and race definitely met when crutchie first came into the lodging. In my little headspace, race has been there longer than most people, longer even than jack by a month or so. He was ten when he first arrived in the lodging, and two years later a couple of days into January, jack walks in with a kid who's so short that race thinks he couldn’t be older than seven. Jack stuffs the new kid into the room that race and albert previously had to themselves, and race isn’t suuuper happy about sharing their room with a little kid, but he can suck it up. However, when he introduces himself, the kid just glares at his hand from under his frock of dirty hair and spits a “I ain’t a kid.” race is taken aback, but recovers quickly and goes “well, if you’re youngern’ ten, yer’ a kid here. The kid glares harder, spits out an “I’m twelve.” (race’s age!!!), and shoves past race towards the washroom. he also DEFINITELY intentionally stomps on race's foot. (i live for a prickly crutchie sorry guys it's everything to me)

They don’t get along well at all for at least the first year they know each other, race being too coddling and crutchie being too prickly and reeeallly good at getting race riled up. Albert hates sharing a room with them, and moves in with finch as soon as possible to get away from them trying to tear each other’s hair out. They def smooth things out as they get older, but man that first year or so was ROUGH. 

I live for them as childhood enemies to friends to best friends and partners they are everything to me

(send another ask if the people crave the details of their making up and becoming friends because i am just ACHING for an excuse to write it. fuck yeah)

[ur-local-theatre-obsessed-menace]

~𝐼 - 𝐴 𝑊𝐻𝑂𝐿𝐸 𝑁𝐸𝑊 𝐵𝐸𝐺𝐼𝑁𝐼𝑁𝐺~

“Seriously,” Davey started, putting more food into his mouth. “What does Santa Fe have that we don’t?”

Katherine laughed, awaiting Jack’s response.

Truthfully, Jack didn’t know. All he knew was that he originally wanted to leave New York. To get out of the smoke ridden city, where all he had to pass the time was manual labor. But now, Jack realized that if he went through with it, took Crutchie with him, and got away for good, he’d be leaving his family behind. He would be leaving kids he’d been protecting for oh-so-long, and he knows, it sucks being on your own.

“To be honest, now that I’s lookin’ at it, Santa Fe ain’t like it here. Sure there ain’t no horses n’ clean air in New York, but it’s home. This silly little town is where I grew up and met my family. I’s wouldn’t change not one bit.”

Jack spoke, taking a sip of water.

“Though, I would like to take some people with me to get a little slice a’ what life out there would be.”

Crutchie walked into Jacobi's Deli, sitting next to Jack, Katherine, Davey, and Les.

“Like who?”

Jack smiled at crutchie, nodding in his direction.

“Didn’t I make you’s a promise?”

Cructhie laughed, taking a glass of water from Jacobi when he came by.

“But, on that note, I’d be bringing you, Kathy, Davey, and Les. You’s deserve it after all.”

Les’ jaw dropped, then he quickly smiled.

“You’d really do that for us Jack? You’ll take us to the place you painted?”

Jack laughed, taking the boy’s hat off his head playfully.

“A’course I will. You all deserve it afta’ all. Cause, we’s all a family.”

Les took his hat back and stuck a tongue out at Jack, making him laugh.

“Cowboy Jack. Not something I ever thought I’d actually see.”

Katherine mused, causing Jack to roll his eyes, while the others laughed.

“Oh c'mon Jack, don’t forget that you told me to ‘just hop a palomino! You’s be ridin’ in style!’.”

Crutchie repeated, smirking.

“Really man?! You’s was supposed to be my best friend..”

Jack feigned a hurt expression, putting a hand over his chest as the others laughed.

Crutchie stuck his tongue out jokingly and Jack rolled his eyes at his action.

“But seriously, you’d take us with you? We- As in me, Les and Katherine- Haven’t even known you for long!”

Jack waved a dismissive hand, taking another sip of water.

“Like I said, you’s is family. Thanks to you, I was able to stand up for the otha’ boy’s.”

Davey smiled, putting a hand on Jack’s shoulder.

“And, we have extra money with my help!”

Katherine chimed in, showing her earnings that week, which had been a crisp $12.

“Kathy, I can’t take you’s dough like that. You work hard for it”

Katherine rolled her eyes, shoving the money in the shirt pocket on his chest.

“You work hard too, and it will be much quicker this way, as you only make approximately $1.92 a week, so with my aid, we should be able to afford 5 train tickets, which would cost $194.3 all together within two years! Which the exact date is… Unknown, but it would be about a year and 10 months!”

Jack groaned, leaning his head back.

“At this rate all of us would hav’ta start selling 100 papes daily!”

Katherine took out a pen and notepad, writing something down

“Actually, if you go through with that and sell out each day, then that would raise the numbers to $7.68 with all of you combined, and with my 12, it would raise that to $19.68, meaning it would only take 11 months! Cutting our estimated time almost in half!”

Katherine turns her pen and points it at the boys.

“You guys don’t have spare money you're willing to put aside for this, do you?”

Les raised his hand, practically jumping out of his seat.

“I have $5 from my birthday last year!”

Davey chimed in, clearing his throat.

“I have an extra ten lying around back at my parents house.”

Katherine nodded, writing all of this down.

“So now, taking 15 off of our total, would be $179.3, so we’d only have to work for 9 months! Boom! We just cut a year off of our original time!”

Jack smiles at Katherine, kissing her on the head.

“Thanks for all the help Kathy”

Katherine smiles, finishing her glass of water.

“Let's all get to bed. That way, we can be up and first in line for papes tomorrow!”

Crutchie chimes in, gathering all of the empty cups and putting them at the edge of the table.

The group all said goodnight, retreating to their respective places, Jack and Crutchie up in the ‘penthouse’, Davey and Les, back with their parents, and Katherine in her father’s home.

“Hey Crutchie?”

Crutchie looked at Jack, who was leaning on the metal railing of the rooftop.

“You think we can actually do this?”

Crutchie laughs and smiles.

“Of course we can! We're all working crazy hard for this!”

Jack smiles, sitting down against the railing.

“Thanks man. Let’s get some rest now, yeah?”

Crutchie nods, laying down.

“Night Jack”

“Night Crutchie"

~To Be continued…~

[jack-kellys]

would u change anything about the jack and crutchie dynamic? how would u portray C? i would love to see a production where hes a little less sunshine and a little more realist (which i think uksies did well) buttttt i know thats your man so gimme some thoughts

- @we-are-inevitable ✨

how ~i~ would direct crutchie. ooough. major. hi again jac

give me some newsies issues and ill. i'll-

so i would cast him a year older than jack, or like. he turns 18 a few months before jack or smth. he just seems to understand things already that jack's whole arc brings him to at the end of the show. "I don't need folks. I got friends." takes jack two hours and a fifteen minute intermission to figure that one out. brotha.

i think making crutchie the only guy in the play who really knows what and how things are going to happen is really... just. makes him interesting. his sense of self-awareness, his personal knowledge of who he is and what he stands for- the wild thing abt him is he already. knows. crutchie stands for his friends. it's why initially he isn't for striking ("let's hit the streets while we still can") bc he knows any other action is going to get his friends hurt... but it's also why he's good with it pretty soon after- well, if they are gonna do this, he's not letting his family do it alone/without him... even if he knows what's probably going to happen to him afterward. give me a crutchie with foresight who doesn't ignore it, per se, but whose moral backbone refuses to make him a coward. (its why he and davey r like🤞🏼 to me.)

i would also let him fight. in the fight choreo. he's winning to morris delancey i do not CARE. i'm having the reason he gets caught be him shoving the jacobs out and away. because crutchie already knewwww. from the moment of "you mean like a strike?" what was goin down.

(i would also make the "romeo! finch!" not be a reaching out, but a "get the fuck out of here" wild gesture. as long as crutchie takes center, no one else is getting hauled through downtown in a police wagon.)

i also think that whenever race makes his little comments to davey crutchie is the one gesturing for him to back off, bc i think it's fun when racer and crutchie butt heads and i rly adore crutchie seeing davey and knowing his potential like. immediately. i think i'd have them be talking a lot in staging it- uksies does this already if ur looking for it, but it's so key to me.

tl;dr, crutchie is the most experienced person at the lodge, and i think it should show. and also like. u can debate me on that? that jack's more experienced or is portrayed to be since he's the leader, but... tell me why jack learns friends are equivilent to family when crutchie knew that shit at 00:00:00 in the musical. lmk. crutchie has almost prophetic knowledge in his brain ok he knows newsies the musical as well as us. i think that's fascinating.

also this is unrelated but the way matthew duckett uses the crutch as a true extension of himself is unlike any crutchie we might ever have again. go watch the boot again and just watch him. he points with it, gestures with it, sits in interesting ways, like. his comfortability with his body is smth crutchie needs to have bc he knows himself, more than the rest know themselves. im so serious.