#pinoysies

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HAHAHAH THEMMMM ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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as a Filipino seeing this blog seeing your Filipino Newsies hcs, yes. Also I think Romeo would bring Jolibee for his friends tbh- pineapple juice and all 😭👏

One of the first things I’ve imagined with Romeo was him running back to Jack screaming about roasted pig and being forced to bring leftovers back to the lodge after being at a filipino get together. Also pineapple juice?!?! WE ARE CALAMANSI JUICE FANS IN MY HOUSEHOLD, FROM ONE PINOY TO ANOTHER WE WILL FIGHT RN.

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Pinoy Newsie Headcanons!

Includes: Patrick “Finch” Cortez, Romeo, and Smalls

Summary: They’re Filipino guys, they’ve got jollybees and red ribbon in their veins. Trust me guys trust.

Characters: Patrick “Finch” Cortez, Romeo, Smalls

A/N: WE WON GUYS!!! PINOYS FOR THE WIN RAHHHHHHH!!!!

Art of the Pinoysies (By Me Ofc)

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Patrick “Finch” Cortez is wasian, half Filipino half white. Personally? I want it to be a Germanic country.

Finch’s mama is Filipino so everyone thank Ms. Cortez right now I’m so for real.

She spoke to him in Tagalog sometimes and did cook some Filipino dishes but he can’t remember it all in detail. He misses it, he just doesn’t know where to get it.

Finch can’t speak Tagalog. He’s too embarrassed to learn and he’s kind of got some kind of internal racism going on which sucks because Filipinos 🔛🔝!!!

Compared to Romeo and Smalls, I think he’s actively hiding the fact he’s Filipino. He really doesn’t have because I don’t believe newsies ask about it often but Finch avoids the topic altogether.

His slingshot reminds me of the Filipino homemade shakers made out of a stick and bottle caps.

I feel like when he joined the newsies he abandoned that part of himself until Romeo showed interest in his own Filipino culture and Smalls was there to teach both of them.

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Romeo is 100% Filipino. Mom and Pops are Pinoy as hell and so is he.

He’s sort of like Finch and he doesn’t know much about his culture since he lived with the Manhattanites almost his entire life.

He’s not fluent in Tagalog but is trying his best once he starts learning.

Romeo is overall an excited little bug and likes his culture because to him it just gives him another connection, another reason to feel like he belongs somewhere after being in limbo for so long.

He loses it when he finds out about the food. To me? Romeo is an entire hungry little munchkin and he absolutely loses it when he finds out what lechon is.

I feel like he’d be really good at Tinikling and really enjoy it.

When Smalls offers to teach him about his culture, Romeo is so friendly with Smalls, he’s so excited and happy to learn and make a new friend through that.

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Smalls is also 100% Filipino, but only lived with his dad, older brother, and little brother before his dad kicked him out.

He’s fluent in Tagalog and is an active participant with being able to cook Filipino dishes as well as having a baro’t saya in his past (He’s aiming to get himself a barong one day.)

After he was kicked out and went to Manhattan for refuge in the midst of becoming the new leader of the Bronx newsies, being able to find Romeo and Finch was a massive comfort to him.

Smalls in my head is ftm (Sorry girlsies! I just y’know with Julian DeGuzman.) and because I struggle with this, Smalls struggles to changing his pronouns when referring to himself in Tagalog. He’s so used to being referred to and having to refer to himself as she/her it’s hard. (I specifically struggle with this when speaking French)

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New Pinoysies Oc!!

A nomadic newsie wanderer! How cool!

(More information below)

Flint spends a lot of time wandering around the city, only selling when it needs to. Many newsies aren’t sure it really exists from how little they ever see it. Flint sleeps closest to the distribution center and is always the first to get in and out with it’s papers. They often use the money they get for matches and flammable items, causing many random garbage fires and firepits to appear out of seemingly nowhere.

Flint was born in Suffolk County, running away from home at a very early age and hitching a ride on a train into the city. It can’t remember much about it’s family and chooses not to remember them. Flint is completely nonverbal (Choosing to remain mute) and speaks only in morse code and FSL (Filipino Sign Language). It does understand English but will feign ignorance to the point some people rumor it to even be deaf (If they know it at all).

Flint is a pyromaniac, often setting their paper’s ablaze and tossing them into a bin or in harsh cases, a carriage of hay passing by. They have extreme temperatures tolerance and constantly have first degree burns on their hands.