#newsies mike and ike

[riding-palominos-every-day]

[whistlingstarlight]

[onmebackmush]

for anyone who has trouble figuring out background newsies...

here are my cheat sheets! :3

[wekiaam]

Exploring background manhattan newsie looks!! I want to give them all a cohesive colour scheme and all slightly different outfits, also more variety in ages, lengths and nationalities. Also they're just so fun to draw

[racetrackmybeloved]

have come to the conclusion that the newsies brainrot is real and i need a life. why can i identify each of these boys by their blurry backs, why do i know every lyric, why am i on page 58 of the spot conlon tag on ao3 when i have finals in two weeks

so yeah. this musical is dangerous.

[spot-conlons-pimp-cane]

here is me figuring out the set up for the one scene in carrying the banner where they are all on the scafolding

top left : tommy boy and elmer

top middle: Jojo and race

top right: kid blink and specs

middle left: Albert and buttons

direct middle/middle middle: crutchie and jack

middle right: smalls and finch

bottom left: Ike and mike

bottom middle: sniper and romeo

bottom right: Henry and mush

now for what they are doing (this is the hard part)

tommy boy is tying his shoe while Elmer is putting his hat on

jojo is adjusting his hat and suspenders and race is putting his vest on

blink is putting on his hat and specs is putting on his suspenders

albert is doing something (wiggling???) with his vest and buttons is combing his hair

crutchie is kinda just there, adjusts his vest, while jack (very aggressively) ruffles his own hair

smalls puts their vest on and finch plays with his rag(??)

mike and Ike both put their vests on then realize they took the wrong hat, so Ike playfully flips mike's to him while mike shoves Ike's hat to his chest

sniper adjusts his clothes and romeo puts his hat on

henry puts his vest on, grabs both him and mush's hats and puts his on then wips mush's around before tossing it in the air and mush catches it

(I have rewatched this specific scene over 25 times in a row to figure this out)

[jackmkelly]

oh wow :((

[violetmcdonnell]

guys i have a confession to make… i know how to find mike and ike

but which ones mike and which ones ike

[bigmack2go]

Happy birthday racetrack Higgins

[kid-blinks-eyepatch]

Newsies Hc list:

Ace

Albert DaSilva

Barney Peanuts

Bart

Blink Balletti

Buttons Davenport

Bumlets

Crow (OC!!!)

Crutchie Morris

David (Davey) Jacobs

Dice

Dutchy

Elmer Kazprak

Finch Cortez

Graves

Henry Butler

Hotshot

Ike

Jack Kelly

Jojo de la Guerra 

Katherine Plumber-Pulitzer

Knobs

Les Jacobs

Lucky

Mike

Morris Delancey

Mush Meyers

Myron

Oscar Delancey

Pie eater

Racetrack Higgins

Sarah Jacobs

Skittery

Smalls

Smokes

Snoddy

Sniper

Spot

Swifty

Tommy boy

Tumbler

York

Other:

Brooklyn boys & baseball

Names will become links if my lazy butt ever gets around to making them!

I know a lot of them are background newsies/names i gave brooklyn newsies b/c i wanted to give Brooklyn more ✨fLeSh✨ i feel cheated that we hardly got to see any of them >:(

Let me know about any background newsies I should look into!

[hexmari]

Headcanon that David, Sarah, Mike, and Ike consistently convince the more gullible newsies (Racetrack) that twin telepathy is real. But not just that pairs of twins can communicate telepathically but that anyone whose a twin can communicate with anyone else whose a twin. That it's just a mental network of twins communicating and they have full conversations.

[undescribed1mage]

Ahem. Here is my (hopefully coherent) list of what every Newsie in uksies does during that one bit of carrying the banner & who they do it with !!!

Splasher, JoJo, & Elmer jump rope !!! Except Splasher is the only one actually jumping & he does flips why he does so because Ross Dorrington is just Like That ig ?

Romeo & Ike play what LOOKS like baseball but I don't think they actually have a ball so they spin around, Ike winds up to throw the ball (that doesn't exist), and then when Romeo swings the back Ike reels back & falls down like he's been hit! So that's going well. (Update: I'm pretty sure he either hits Ike with the baseball bat or he hits someone in the distance with a baseball. Either way. Not going well.)

Henry & Mike play cards !! Henry wins, so he stands up on the box he was sitting on, & goes 2 celebrate I think but Finch shoves him off the box for 'waiting make me antsy, I likes living chancy!'

Finch dances with Jack, for a bit, before walking around and shouting something to Splasher, JoJo, and Elmer, and then he gets ? really excited ? it looks like ? & that's when he shoves Henry (see above).

Buttons & Mush play with a slingshot !! Buttons kinda rolls around while Mush tries 2 hit him with it :)

Crutchie swings his crutch at the set???? (He may be using it as a baseball bat but. not 100% on that)

Jack just kinda hangs around one side of the stage, interacting with a few different people, & then Specs punches him in the arm at the beginning of 'waiting makes me antsy!'

Speaking of Specs !! Albert, Race, & him clean up around the lodging house (specifically inside the set), & at the end of that bit, Race puts on his vest <33

Tommy Boy pulls a paper ball out of the stage & kicks it around for a bit, before kicking it into the audience.

[whistlingstarlight]

Based on experiences at my job

[brooklynbadboys]

Livesies & Uksies characters 💗

Part 1. Identifying the characters can be tough so here’s a helpful guide. Spoiler alert for uksies

Jack Kelly

Katherine Plumer

Davey Jacobs

Crutchie Morris

Spot Conlon

Racetrack Higgins

Jojo

Elmer

Mike

Ike

Specs

Henry

Romeo

[aceofspades-sml]

Not to project on the blorbos but Tommy boy actually has big anger issues. If you even care.

[spot-conlons-pimp-cane]

superpower newsies au: each newsies powers

some of these were inspired by other ppl but I'm sorry I forgot the @'s for them, so sorry!

anyways, enjoy!

Jack: he is a master with his lasso, and always has it on him. He can do almost any trick with it, and often uses this fact to impress people (cough david cough)

Davey: he can use words to get whatever he wants, he can persuade people, deter people, and make anything he says sound any way he wants. If he wants to sell a headline, make it sound true, if he wants to mess with people, make it sound fake.

Racetrack: along with buttons, race has 2 abilities. He has superspeed, and he is a human lie detector. This helps win him card games, and also helped get him banned from the lodgings weekly poker night, because he already knew everyones tells.

Albert: he can camouflage himself both physically and socially. He can blend into the background, literally and figuratively. He is also banned from hide and seek because of this. 

Finch: Albert equates him to a disney princess, seeing as he can talk to birds, and mimic any bird call in the world. 

Bumlets: he can convince you to do anything, and you won't even realize you've done it. He can convince anyone of anything, and he makes it seem like it was your idea! He wants a cigarette from you? Oh, thanks for offering it to him!

Specs: he can shapeshift into anyone he's made physical contact with, but unlike almost everyone else, his powers derive from an item. He has to be wearing his glasses, or else his powers wont work. 

Skittery: due to being anxious, he is very shaky, but if he wants to, he can affect things around him, causing mini earthquakes to items, sometimes even furniture and likes to use his ability to mess with people.

Kid blink: he shares a power with Racetrack, being super fast. He uses this to his advantage to get ahead of all the other newsies. He sometimes uses his ability to help others, but also abuses it as a way to escape the bulls and angry shop owners he steals from.

Hotshot: his ability is being good at everything. There is not much more to it, just that everything he tries he's good at, he's a hotshot.

Snitch: he has amazing hearing, though sometimes it gets too much. On the bright side, he is definitely the person you want to go to for a gossip session! He knows all the drama, and he is, as the name implies, a snitch. 

Mush: he is a human furnace. He has abnormally hot body temperature, and makes a great cuddle mate ("back off, he's mine!" - blink). He can also focas his power in his hands and shoot sparks, and sometimes, if he tries hard enough, he can start fires.

Spot: he can turn invisible, almost like a ghost. That's why race has dubbed his power "ghost mode" he can go invisible, and when he does, you can't hear him, or even touch him. Its like he just disappears.

Tumbler: durability. He can take lots of tumbles and get up just fine.

Sniper: perfect aim. That's how he got the name. He physically can't miss a target. He could literally shoot his slingshot in the opposite direction and still hit what he was intending to hit. 

Buttons: he, like race, has 2 powers. 1st, he can repair almost any object, and sometimes walls if he tries hard enough. 2nd, has an infinite supply of buttons. This caused Sniper to call dibs on the bunk on top of his, for infinite projectiles, and buttons, in turn, gets free protection, and gets spared from being used as Snipers target practice.

Dutchy: he can understand any language. He didnt even realize he could at first, but its almost as if every language is translated to english in his mind.

Swifty: he can contort his body into unnatural shapes. Scaring some of the newsies who were unfortunate enough to see him while he stretches.

Elmer: he can control plants, make them grow, generate them out of thin air, manipulate them in any way he sees fit. This also helps when he wants to get buttons a gift and makes him a bouquet. 

Smalls: can change their size, usually to be smaller. But if they try hard enough, they can get taller/bigger. 

Mike and Ike: these two can communicate telepathically with each other, but no one else. Most people suspect its due to the whole twin thing, they even decided to call it twin telepathy. It is one of the many things that affect the twin-bond they have. They are almost like a hive mind.