#paul the outsiders

[closetnerd62]

outsiders characters as things my campers have done from a 3 year camp counselor

disclaimer: i work primarily with early elementary ages kids and these are just meant to be silly i love all of these kids they are amazing tiny humans they are just also very silly sometimes

ponyboy: ask me everyday to look at my phone so that she could look at my backgrounds and ask me questions about every person in a picture

johnny: consistently beat the crap out of me at cards (he’s 8 and i was 17)

soda: had his counselor waterfall syrup straight from the bottle into his mouth when he won a game in celebration

steve: ran around with his backpack on the front, tripping and falling on top of the backpack, causing the bug spray in his backpack to explode (i had to dump at least 3 cups of bug spray out of his backpack)

two-bit: has the soundtrack to every descendants movie memorized and rapped it for me every day

dally: punch a kid in the balls in front of me for kicking over the stick house he made for rolly pollies and then immediately denying it

darry: insisted on carrying my two backpacks as well as his own and when i asked him if i could help him when he got tired carrying them up the hill, replied with “IM A REAL MAN AND A REAL MAN CARRIES A LADIES BAGS”

ace: ran an illegal gymnastics ring, teaching other kids gymnastics in the farthest corners of playing areas so as to not get caught.

cherry: inexplicably got covered in chocolate, cheeto dust, and glitter, we still have no idea where the glitter came from

marcia: sat me down every day during playground time, braided my hair, and would beef with me if i had to take it out at any point in the day

bev: got the entire camp organized to hold a wedding for two counselors (this has happened 3 years in a row)

bob: cried (loudly) for two hours straight and then stopped on a dime and just said “i’m done now”

chet: when his two friends suggested that they get out of the pool so they had time to get dressed, gave a very confused look before mumbling to himself “i don’t even know if i have a dress”

brill: sneezed in my hair. (he has the vibe of an allergy king)

trip: stood no more than a foot away from me at all i times. i would take a step back, he would take a step forward. this went on for a full month.

paul: bit me.

[trevination]

the outsiders musical + text posts part 2! (rbs are appreciated!)

(accepting requests for certain characters, pairs, etc! also feel free to submit a text post u think is funny/fits a character!) (also -- would u guys like character themed posts like this? like a whole post of just a certain characters/pair + text posts?)

[the-greaserhood]

“darry x paul!” how about darry x therapy.

[dallasgallant]

To give credit to Paul I’d also loose it if I fumbled my homoerotic situationship with Darry Curtis

[crow2222]

[sunsbrightside]

Miss Valance 🍒

[greasegotahold]

Literally just realized that in Justice for Tulsa, Paul tries twice to falsely implicate Cherry. The obvious one is accusing her of, horror of horrors, holding hands with Pony at the concession stand when she didn't. But in the live performance he tries to make her testify to the Cop abt who killed Bob before he does when she wasn't a witness at the scene, and probably didn't even know it was happening until after the fact bc her break up with Bob stuck and presumably she went home with Marcia.

[not-actually-human]

I’ll do anything for a parry doodle plssss <3 (specially dan berrys paul & brent comers darry!!!)

guys what if nothing bad ever happened

[theemosiders]

(2/2) the socs on bway!! i gave these drawings to the actors on bway when i watched them!! 10/10 show would recommend

[foottoe101001]

bro darry THATS the enemy dawg what r you doing 😭? Anyway for @crow2222

@gr3ase-g0t-h0ld @cheryyy-valancce @cyaniashine @pookiepiss69 I’m too lazy to tag other people it’s late for me 😭

[lizzi3]

The middle school adjacent to my highschool had a dress up day for the eight graders as the outsiders I did it in eighth grade too but I overheard the kids hating on the movie like I would kill to be back in eighth grade reading the book guys I was Steve it was great they need to be grateful for what they have 😔

[made-my-peace-with-all-the-bad]

And would you look at that! Back to the Paul Holden hyper fixation. In todays essay I will be providing a list of Paul HCs and why I am so certain they are correct (/hj)

Paul grew up basically by himself. He was an only child and his parents were basically never there. It reached a point where he doesn’t even call them mom and dad anymore. He just calls them by their first names because when he was little, he called them mom and dad once and they basically just stared at him.

Paul is obsessed with strawberry flavored things. He loves them. Strawberries? Greatest fruit ever. Strawberry flavored candy? Amazing, he’ll take 18 more. That man even likes strawberry soda.

Paul wears his yellow sweater because when Bob gave it to him for his 13th birthday. It was way too big for 13 year old Paul but Bob got it for him because he thinks Paul is like the color yellow. And Paul looked at this kid that he loves so much, who trails after him everywhere and thought it was adorable (he claimed it was embarrassing) (it kinda was but now every time he wears it Bob gets embarrassed and thinks Paul does it to mess with him) (Paul wears it because he loves thinking back to ten year old Bob picking out a sweater that’s 3 sizes too big and giving it to him, embarrassing him is just an added benefit).

Paul has major anxiety and I will die on this hill. Paul gets so nervous about doing almost anything and absolutely has really specific physically coping mechanisms. They’re small because he was always taught to be quiet and make himself small. So he will tap his middle finger and thumb together when he’s feeling especially anxious. Only two people know about this. Bob because of how long he’s known Paul. And Darrel because he used to always help Paul when he was anxious.

After Bob died, Paul swore he wouldn’t drink again. He made one exception for during Bob’s funeral when he and the other socs passed around a flask. But doing that made them feel so sick that they ended up dumping most of it. But after this, Paul didn’t drink again. He became the designated driver of their group because of this. And he’s okay with that because he doesn’t want to be near the thing that he knows is at least partially to blame for his friend’s death.

Paul is a dog person. And he somehow ends up with a dog with the most separation anxiety. Like his dog will cry if Paul leaves for more than 40 minutes. And it’s really funny because his dog looks super scary. Paul’s dog is this scary looking Rottweiler that’s really an absolute sweetheart. And Paul’s dog will know when Paul needs him. If Paul is upset about whatever, that dog will literally lay down on top of Paul and just look at him.

[trevination]

the outsiders (musical) + text posts part 3!!

(again, feel free to request any character, ship, pairing, group, etc!!! i’m so open to anything and i don’t wanna run out of ideas haha. i might start doing specific character/ship/pairing themed posts!)

[the-greaserhood]

i’ve never needed something as much as i’ve needed audio of rj singing justice for tulsa. never.

[dallasgallant]

I know it’s been a second since my last rewatch but I’ve always confused the soc in the white shirt for Paul and it’s not, this is Paul:

So like what’s the white shirt guys deal then because he like absolutely one hits pony the second the fights on

[wassupmygays]

yap about ur headcanons about the socs pls!!

heheeh okay some misc things about the soc guys that have popped into my head throughout the week (im sorry this is so long)

EDIT: ok ive put it all under the cut bc it got so long but i do yap a little bit about each soc guy so please read hehe :)

Chet

chet and his family moved from california when he was in 3rd grade. his first friend in town was one sodapop curtis on his little league baseball team

his dad is a cop and wants to advance up the ranks, and his mom wants to make sure they keep up their good social standing, so chet was not friends with soda for long

you know those boys in like 5th grade that crack all the dumb jokes, hit all the door frames, and tease every girl "because he likes her"? thats chet and trip

this is inspired by @/sky4cherry iirc but chet does Nawt get attention at home man. his dad is always busy with work and a little mean (yknow how dads are in the 60s) and his mom is always working on the next social function or trying to appease his dad. anyways he is just always at another soc guy's house just to have someone Talk to him

i think he picks up drinking and smoking, and fighting, for a similar reason to bob: he just wants his parents to fucking notice he's doing something wrong. but theyre high enough now in the social and job spaces that they can just wipe any misdemeanors under the rug

i cant decide if chet is an only child, or if he has like 2 siblings that are way older than him. idk

Trip

terrance dipp is The Exasperated older brother ever. bro did Nawt want a little brother sorry melvin.

anyways unfortunately i do think trip is very much a guy's guy. that boy is Not a good boyfriend to marcia unfortunately :(((((( at least by the time we get to their sophomore year/the show

him and chet can not be sat together in class. they will never shut up or stop hitting each other.

chet broke his arm one time in like 6th grade. trip threatens to break it again at least once a month

ive said this before but ill say it again: trip and melvin are just soc steve and ponyboy. trip is so tired of his kid brother being in all his sports and trying to tag along to everything

that being said, he was looking out for melvin so much during the rumble. he knew their mom would kill him if he brought his brother home all beat up, but also he really really didn't want him to get too hurt.

he Always goes to marcia to patch him up after hes been in a fight. (after the rumble though, him and marcia are on the rocks, and hes got melvin to worry about. so he just sneaks melvin home and tries to clean him up before their mom sees. its actually a sweet bonding moment between them i think)

trip lovesssss verbally poking fun at any greaser in school, especially two-bit. after he realizes two-bit likes marcia, his mean jokes become a lot more threatening

(i do love trip i promise i just also think hes kinda a mean guy. you know the kind of rowdy douche bags in high school im talking about. im so sorry ksco and sean jones i promise i love trip kdjfkdjf)

Brill

clark brillstein i'll be so incredibly honest i dont have much in my brain for him :((( i gotta sit and think more

i do think he has one of the better home lives out of the bunch, and hes got his lovely perfect girlfriend, and hes good at sports, and honestly i think he just. gets tired of everyone thinking hes got it so perfect all of the time. i think maybe thats why he likes all the fighting so much

while he is relatively happy with his life rn, hes tired of being doted on like hes perfect. and also sometimes he sees everyone else's lives being so shitty, he feels likes hes got to pick fights to justify him feeling bad about his lot.

Paul

ohhh im gonna have to hold myself back from talking about him forever. he will get his own post at some point aDKFJDKFJK

anyways. paul holden. the messiest and most scared gay kid in the town of tulsa

i think he and bob literally grew up together. like their parents are Old old friends, so paul and bob have always basically been brothers despite a 2/3 ish year age difference (i dont feel like doing the exact math). i think bev's parents are also in this old friend group, so pauls known her forever too

anyways. he was probably the bob of his friend group in his class, which is why nobody really really protested darry being in their group. but i also think that when he was with darry, paul didnt really care about the whole social friend group of things too much.

contrary to popular belief i dont think paul is the friend-group-leader type. idk if that makes sense and i can yap about it more but.

anyways post-darry breakup paul is a fucking mess. hes sad and angry and those fights that darry was always trying to stop feel so damn good. maybe bob and his buddies are on to something, and bob's dad always has a full liquor cabinet

Bob

obviously we know the most about bob and his home life and inner psyche and reasons for fighting and honestly all of it really resonates in my brain. like yea im keeping all of that

bro has charisma to the max. like he has always been the ringleader of the friend group, even in like 4th grade when all the boys started becoming best buddies

he used to be such a mommas boy. before her praise just became so meaningless.

oh ive just had a revelation. he is an angrier and more resigned buddy aldridge from rotpl. his dad is pulling the strings to make sure his precious son is climbing all the right ladders.

the difference here tho is bob realized this earlier, and that started his spiral into fights and drinking and causing problems. he wanted to see what would finally make his dad stop covering and fixing everything for him. he never found that limit

he knows cherry cant stand the drinking, and i do think he does feel bad about ignoring her feelings about it. but his urge to push back against everything and spit in the face of anyone who tries to tell him how he should be just overpowers. and god everything is more fun when hes boozed up