#paul the outsiders

[broadwaysidegig]

Bows from 11/21/24!

[staygoldpbj]

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?)

[dallasgallant]

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

[crow2222]

[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.

[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 😔

[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

[offbrandhandymanny]

The Argument

Here is pt 4 the argument between Darrel and Soda

Darrel knows caring for another human is one of the most stressful things in existence

He's scared that Soda's not gonna understand how much effort goes into caring for a child

Darrel isn't making enough money to support a baby and neither is Soda

Soda comes out of his room after Cherry falls asleep and goes back to the living room where Darrel is

Darrel explains to Soda that he doesn’t want to takeover for them if Cherry or Soda decide to dip

Darrel thinks about his next words really carefully

“Maybe Cherry’s dad was right about her getting an abortion?” 

Soda’s face dropped. “WHAT?!”

“Im sorry but even if Cherry wants to go through with the pregnancy, there's adoption”

Soda absolutely loses it

He begins screaming at Darrel about how dare he say that to him

The argument is loud and big

They don't argue often but when they do, it’s BAD

Soda explains how they can’t give her up, that's his flesh and blood 

But Darry is so adamant that this is the best option

Soda eventually just gets so fed up and says if he wants to put his daughter in a foster home then he can put him there too

Darry ofc does NOT want this but it only makes him angrier tbh. So then he is yelling at soda and reminding him that he is a high school dropout

Soda brings up the fact that a greaser kid would get treated worse in foster care than they would in a greaser home 

Darrel is adamant whoever took the baby in would never know they were a greaser to which soda bites back with “Bullshit, you of all people should know that being a greaser hangs on you like a stain”

Soda just leaves and goes back to his room and just watches Cherry sleep 

They don't talk to each other for a hot minute

[ponyboysponycake]

ponyboy: so uh .... paul?

Darry: paul?

Ponyboy: paul.

Darry: why?

Ponyboy: you now why.

Sodapop: Darry and paul had i thing going on.

Darry:soda!!!!

[too-damn-good-for-growing-old]

Hello hello HELLO my dear Outsiders community!

I’m Allison! I’m a Huge fan of this incredible story in all it’s mediums ☀️

Some quick fun facts about me:

I saw the musical at La Jolla Playhouse in 2023 and have seen it 8 times on Broadway! (Latest viewing: 11/16/2024) I try to go to the show at least once a month.

I directed the stage adaptation of the story (a straight play, not the musical) when I was in college! It was one of the greatest joys of my life.

I have seen the movie and read the book more times than I can count!

I have a beagle named Tulsa and I believe he should be the official Outsiders mascot

My current goal is to sit in the front row on Broadway and get that gosh 😤 darn 😤 book 😤

My asks and DMs are quite literally always open for anything and everything Outsiders! Or just anything theatre related at all, I’m not picky.

And it goes without saying, but….stay gold 💛

[staygoldpbj]

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!)

[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

[rileyh20]

I should make a Darry x Paul fic...

[outsidersheadcanons]

is there any paul x darry headcanons you have?

Yes!! (so this isn't so much shippy as it is unrequited love, but tbh it fits the characters more (hope u don't mind anon))

Darry met Paul in high school during football tryouts. They started talking and quickly became friends (despite Darry being a greaser and Paul being a soc they had a lot in common personality wise)

Paul always liked Darry. Ever since they first met. But he never told him (or anyone for that matter) his feelings, though Darry could kinda tell?? that Paul liked him. He didn't like him back but he was OK with it and still didn't mind hanging out.

In the musical Ponyboy mentions that Darry used to spend the night at Paul's house, which I thought was interesting (given their different social standings. It was even mentioned that Paul had bought Darry a madras shirt. I think he bought it for him bc he liked him). When Darry would stay over they'd just sit on Paul's couch and talk for hours. Paul's pretty quiet so Darry was surprised that he was so talkative when it was just them.

They were really close until senior year, when the socs figured out that it was Paul who gave Darry the madras shirt (he had been wearing it to school pretty regularly cause it was one of the nicer shirts he had) and Paul told them he only gave it to him because he felt sorry and because Darry was "obsessed with him". Darry was really hurt by this and got into a huge fight with Paul the last week of school (no one really talks abt it but it was so bad Darry almost wasn't allowed to walk at graduation).

They didn't talk after that for like. a good decade 💀 until one day Paul reached out to Darry and told him everything that had happened over the years (his parents had written him off for being gay) and he even apologized for humiliating him. I like to think after that Paul had a nice life and him and Darry became friends again (the latter even attending his weddings in the 2010's.)