#crutchie x finch

[mostlybroadway]

i’ve been thinking a lot about crutchie recently.

charles morris. charlie. crutchie. born to a “loving” single mother who abandoned him when he first got sick. the convent was better equipped to handle the polio virus anyhow, and that’s just where he stayed. the fever subsided fairly quickly, but his leg never worked right again. at the age of five he has to learn to walk with a third leg, without a family by his side.

the nuns were nice enough. they gave him food, helped him learn how to live after his paralysis hit. but they weren’t family. the solace he didn’t find in the nuns, he found in God. he prayed nightly, hoping for someone to come along and save him. a family to take him from the convent and show him what truly living was really like. and then he met jack kelly.

crutchie was convinced that jack was a literal godsend. they were both thirteen and too scrappy for their own good. jack and his expert persuasion convinced the sisters that crutchie was ready to be off on his own, beginning a life as a newsboy. crutchie was over the moon. his disability suddenly became a goldmine, and he had the closest thing he’d ever had to a family. he had a brother, hell, many of them, and he was happy.

his leg never got better. not that he had expected it to. not that it mattered.

it was him and jack for years in their penthouse above kloppman’s boarding house, until the strike. until david jacobs. and suddenly jack had a new right-hand man, a new protege. and crutchie found himself in the refuge.

he had a lot of time to think there. he realized that he’d likely been in love with jack as long as he’d known him. it was impossible not to be. jack kelly oozed charisma, and his smile could melt anyone’s cold heart. crutchie fell instantly. but he also realized that they would never be more than friends. crutchie saw how he looked at davey, like his eyes held all the stars in the sky, and it didn’t hurt him. not like he thought it would. he still wrote to jack, but as brothers. and just as soon as he realized his crush, it was gone.

strike settled, snyder imprisoned, and crutchie is back to selling. jack sells with davey and les now, which doesn’t bother crutchie as much as it should. they’re still best friends—jack still stays in their penthouse when he isn’t at the jacobs house. and besides, crutchie has finch now. finch who wouldn’t leave his side after he got back from the refuge, who bandaged all his scabs and listened to his sobs when he got a particularly bad reminder of his time in the refuge. they sold together now almost every day, and crutchie had honestly never been happier.

charles morris had lived more, lost more, and loved more at eighteen than most people did in their entire lives. and he did it all on one good leg.

[athousandboxjumps]

pic creds: yourany_14 on instagram

What a great day to be a BirdCrutch fan am I right?

[military-newsboys]

Race: *gazing at Spot* Gods above he’s hot…

Jack: *gazing at Davey* Isn’t he, though?

Oscar Dalency: *overhearing them* Who’s so hot?

Jack and Race in unison without looking away from their crushes: Your mom.

[faefox9s-incorrect-quotes]

[kitswritingantics]

Pleeeeease newsies fantasy AU I beggggg

HEHEHAHAHAHAHH I'VE BEEN WAITING MY ENTIRE LIFE TO YAP ABOUT THIS

now just hear me out. think of like. super mario. evil king (pulitzer) has princess katherine locked away. prince jack (forced to marry her in like a month) has to go save her, don't wanna, blah blah blah. get's sent with his servant/partner in crime/best friend charlie (aka crutchie) and knight david. (they're gay. in case you can't tell. i'm a javid truther but i can also be a jatherine truther. jack has two hands.)

on the way the goobers find travelling minstrels (race and spot), bounty hunters/thieves (buttons, finch, and elmer. the guys ever), and all of them tag along to help them fight the king and his dragon (the dragon's probaby snyder now that i think really deeply about it. that's honestly so funny). also more homosexuality, elmer's down BAD for charlie who's an oblivious (and equally down bad) little loser.

you know the drill, fairy tales have happy endings, they save princess katherine and jack decides "hey! i don't wanna marry her!" and goes and kisses davey instead. davey sets up kath with his older sister sarah and they fall in love. charlie and elmer are really bashful and adorable i'm obsessed with them. also LESBIAN SPRACE. BECAUSE I CAN.

anyways there's my yap hope you enjoy!!! i might end up writing this later only time will tell!!

[knockoff-conlon]

80's newsies!!

and it's your typical shitty coming of age story. it follows jack and his group of friends (race, albert, crutchie, finch, tommy boy, and katherine) in high school. they get a new kid at their school and race immediately asks him to go to the arcade with their friend group. race introduces him to everyone.

davey meets jack. is a little enamored by him. tries to hide it because being gay in the 80s in high school was interesting. jack doesn't understand that he's allowed to be gay/bi and doesn't realize that's what he feels for davey. they fall in love through the course of the story. but they have a huge falling out when davey kisses him for the first time cause jack freaks the fuck out and shoves him away, yelling that's he's not a fag. they get back together though after race punches jack in the face and makes him go after davey again. then they're gay together.

race meanwhile meets a jock, spot, who looks all bitchy and mean but is really nice and doesn't mind the fact that race shoves a camera in everyone's face, no matter who they are. race hangs out with spot a lot and learns all about him and his life. race will sometimes blow off his friends to go to spot's house. they fall in love too but they only get together at the very end when race invites spot to his and his friends' grad party they're holding for themselves. they kiss there and the story is pretty much over at that point.

albert is already with finch at the beginning of the story. that's a large part of the reason jack realizes he's gay. they're publicly out at school and albert has multiple times beat the shit out of people for going after him or finch.

katherine is a year older than everyone and already in uni. she gets an open ending. she moves in with sarah as friends for her second year of university and sarah's third. they have lots of tension but they don't get together during the course of the story itself.

crutchie stays the ho we all know bro is and he goes to uni as a fuck boy. he's very respectful toward women, he just likes sex. (get it crutchie, living his best life out there, isn't he???)

tommy boy moves away for university at the end and gives crutchie a little kiss on the cheek as he leaves. crutchie has a gay awakening but he does not in fact make a move on tommy boy before the story ends.

[bigmack2go]

When people ask what ships i have in newsies im always like

BRO??? I can maybe tell you the ships i dont have that’ll go faster. There are like three.

[daveyfvckingjacobs]

how to get better at acknowledge and being okay with saying you’re disabled via projection, a guide by me

[emmedoesntdomath]

So anyway do you have any new newsie thoughts for me while I got put my blorbos in the pathetic little man tournament?

um um um

jack mumbling in spanish and davey not understanding a fucking word, but hugging him from behind anyway

I’ve firmly latched on to the idea of romeo being aro, you cannot take this from me (he’s probably somewhere on the ace spectrum, too, but I haven’t thought too much about that)

I might try making fanart in my pursuit of being less shitty at drawing on an ipad. suggestions as to who?

even if race had straighter hair like max casella’s, it probably gets curlier when it gets really hot.

tommy boy tried giving les lessons on how to better flirt. it didn’t work. les’ techniques are questionable at best.

finch is still from brooklyn in my mind. spot has known this entire time, and nodded at finch once as he passed. finch was terrified.

smalls is the best, and I love them. also, I feel like they would really be into movies they could pick apart, plot wise.

crutchie’s single, and the one tossing popcorn at everyone else while watching movies

spralbert could possibly have substance in uksies, but I’m never going to see it, so I have no idea

[incorrectuksies]

specs: admit it! you like crutchie!

finch: oh, come on. i mean, am i attracted to him? sure. do my days feel better when i'm around him? yeah. does he understand me in ways no one else ever has? indubitably. do i fantasise about him? yes, every night. but do i like him? the answer is no.

[we-were-both-born-today]

The sequel to Papers, Post-It Notes, and Protests is here and completed!

This is a sequel to the Newsies College AU and here is the summary for this story:

It's senior year! David's nervous about taking his art credit, Jack is struggling with his internship, Race and Spot have growing pains while Spot starts grad school, and Specs has decided he's going to say something to Romeo about his crush; all while the threat of real life and graduation looms over them.

This has 12 chapters (11 full chapters and an epilogue) and is around 35K words! Every chapter is up on ao3 so you don't have to wait for the next chapter to be uploaded! I hope that if you read Papers, Post-it Notes, and Protests before you'll check this out and if you haven't ready either, please take a gander at my Newsies College AU series on ao3!

[thehermitcardix]

Cat Ears and Crutches: Plot

Evangeline “Crutchie” Morris is ready to face the new year! After coming out to her girlfriend and family as a demi-girl they are ready to let the school know. But after a diagnosis from her youth comes true, can she finish the school year and still be true to herself when her whole world gets turned upside down?

TWs: Abelism, Self Harm, Bullimia

(More TW to be added along the way)

[athousandboxjumps]

“Mother loves you, god save my son”

So it’s been established that Finch is Patrick Cortes, and it’s his mother that’s singing during 92sies Carrying the Banner. But consider:

Finch never planned on running away forever. Sure he had a lot of problems with his family, but at the end of the day he always went back home because he loves them. But then one day, he runs out to clear his head because his family is driving him up the wall. And he makes one wrong turn at the wrong time and is picked up by Snyder. He’s sent to the Refuge and the by the time he’s released, his family has moved and he can’t find them again and he thinks that because of his mistake his family abandoned him.

Cut to Finch now who’s so terrified of the Refuge, not only because the horrors of what’s inside, but the fear that his newsies family will disappear once he gets out again. It’s why he refuses to leave Crutchie behind until he has to be dragged away — he will not abandon the one he loves the way he (thinks he) was abandoned.

[military-newsboys]

Jack: I was afraid you’d stop thinking I was cool. Davey: Jackie, I have never once thought you were cool.

[knockoff-conlon]

albert who's the oldest of like seven or eight and his whole family is a fucking mess. his parents are barely around so albert takes care of them and tries to keep them in check. race and jack and crutchie are around at his house a lot, too, and help with all his siblings.

it's kinda like a shameless situation- all the kids help out with money so they can pay bills and the neighborhood is all in a similar state of mess but they're all helped by the others. race and jack and crutchie are like an extra set of siblings- they give albert money, help him take kids places, give them clothes, get them food. it is a weird family they created.

when albert meets finch, they're about 24. albert has seven little siblings, the other oldest only being seventeen. so he's still taking care of then. finch is always a little annoyed that albert cancels plans last second or just never really has time and albert refuses to let finch in on the whole family thing he has going on.

one of the big points of this story comes when albert and finch finally get a night to go on a date. jack offered to keep watch on the kids. the date night is going great, it's awesome. up until albert gets a call from jack saying one of his siblings got injured and is in the hospital. finch drives albert there and then comes in with him- the first time finch has ever met everyone.

the whole family is posted up in his sibling's room, all seven siblings plus jack, crutchie, and race. finch looks out of place and uncomfortable. all the siblings flock to albert and start talking and freaking out. finch asks where their parents are and doesn't really get why everyone laughs at him. race, crutchie, and jack introduce themselves and the kids as albert checks on the injured one.

finch tries to help out with the kids but albert quickly gets annoyed at him. crutchie explains the whole family situation to finch, who looks a little more uncomfy. albert breaks up with him pretty quick because he doesn't wanna burden finch with his whole family thing. the kids liked finch a lot though so he has to stay around and they eventually get back together after a lot of pushing from the kids and his friends.

[youaintnothinbuta]

begging for anything jack kelly 🙏🙏

“Oh, come on, Jack, help the girl out." — Jack Kelly x reader

Summary: Drabble where it is a freezing winters night and everyone was piled into the one room to sleep. You and Jack may as well have been in a relationship with the way you two acted, but he still would often get embarrassed or shy around the others newsies, and sometimes he just needed a bit of a nudge from them.

Pairing: Jack Kelly x fem!reader

Word count: 500

Warnings: fluff, she/her reader, probably typos <3

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It was winter, and on particularly cold nights like this, everyone liked to pile into the same room to sleep, trying to use everyone’s body heat to warm up the room a bit. It wasn’t allowed, of course, especially not for the girls and boys to sleep in the same room, but when it was this cold, everyone usually collectively decided they’d rather face the consequences and not freeze.

You and Jack laid side by side, in his small bed. Despite the exhaustion that hung heavy over your body, you couldn't seem to find a comfortable position. You tossed and turned, your movements growing more restless by the minute. Your pillow felt too lumpy, the mattress too hard, and being cramped next to him only seemed to exacerbate your discomfort. You let out a frustrated sigh, your eyes flickering open as you shifted once again. From across the room, Race's eyes blinked open, and he glanced at you with a sympathetic smile. He nudged Spot, who was lying next to him, and nodded toward you. Spot raised an eyebrow, his lips curling into a knowing smirk.

“Hey, Jack,” Race called out in a whisper, his voice carrying through the quiet space.

“You seeing this? Your girl ain’t getting a wink of sleep, it’s disturbing the rest of us.” Jack stirred, blinking groggily as he turned his attention to you. Even though you were literally lying in bed with him, you and Jack had always denied all dating accusations, despite how hard the other boys would try.

His heart softened at the sight of your restlessness, and he propped himself up on one elbow. Your gaze met Jack's, and you offered a sheepish smile. “Sorry, Jack.” The newsies exchanged knowing nudges.

“Oh, come on, Jack, help the girl out." One of the boys quietly yelled.

Jack's cheeks turned a faint shade of pink, but he couldn't help but smile. He shuffled closer to you, his arm sliding around your waist as he pulled you gently against his chest. You sighed in relief, the tension in your body easing as you nestled against Jack's warmth. "Thank you."

The newsies exchanged satisfied grins, their hushed laughter filling the air. Crutchie leaned over to Finch, whispering with a chuckle, "He was never asleep."

As Jack and you settled into a more comfortable position, the room grew quiet once again. Your breathing steadied, your eyes drifting closed as the steady rhythm of Jack's heartbeat lulled you into a peaceful sleep. Jack pressed a gentle kiss to the top of your head, his voice a soft murmur. "Night, y/n." The newsies exchanged satisfied glances, their mission accomplished. Race winked at Spot, whispering, “See? He just needs a little push.”

You and Jack slept soundly, wrapped in each other's arms. The boys were bound to give him shit the next day for it, but it was always worth it.