#the outsiders melvin

[specific-dreamer]

mmmm thinking about the socs not being able to move on from bob’s death because that’s the first time their actions have had consequences and bob subsequently not being able to move on in death so he’s tethered to tulsa still. bob not knowing what else to do with his afterlife so he follows his friends.

he watches bev and brill who somehow are still tough skinned and thriving. he follows brill to his grave sometimes and listens as brill talks to him and pours one out for him. on the rare occasion bev goes to visit his grave he listens to her call him a stupid idiot through sobs and he longs to comfort her

he watches marcia and his heart aches for her when she starts pulling away from trip because he knows how much they liked each other. he use to think they were a (better) version of him and cherry

he watches chet who goes looking for more fights a lot more often. he watches chet a lot if only because he sees himself a lot in him and he’s scared chet is going to join him real soon.

he watches melvin and sergei a lot too. he hardly knew them but they were the same age as ponyboy curtis and kinda just wants to make sure no one goes after them like he did the curtis kid

most of all, he watches cherry. they broke up and that was probably the scariest moment in his life, including when he got stabbed. not doing right by cherry is probably his biggest regret. he regrets bringing the liquor to the drive in that night, he regrets even going to the nightly double drive in period.

but he watches cherry go through the motions after he died. he watches their friends blame cherry for his death wishing he could say something because it was never cherrys fault. he was blindsided by rage and liquor that night but there wasn’t a single part of bob that blamed cherry. because the thing is he knew he was being irrational, he knew it was absurd to get angry at cherry for talking to a little kid but bobs always been jealous when it came to cherry and he’s always been quick to fly off the handle even when he’s sober. so no, his getting angry and going after those kids and getting himself killed was never cherrys fault and it pissed him off when everyone accused cherry.

(i got besides myself cough cough)

bob watches cherry and how she goes through the motions. he watches her through herself back into her school and volunteer work. he watches her when she goes in her backyard to watch the sun rise every morning. he watches her take away their beach boys albums and put them in a shelf in her closet.

most importantly he watches cherry when she finally learns to let go of him. he watches in real time as cherry stops blaming herself and allows herself to start dating other people again. and he’s not real fond of the guy, dr pepper or something he doesn’t really care, but if the guy makes cherry happy (and he does, he hasn’t seen cherry smile so bright and for so long since way before he died) then he’s alright with a cherry dating a greaser of all things- sorry, of all people.

[aforeffective]

melvin dipp headcanon:

his middle name is curtis (named after like a great grandfather or something) and so when he was young, trip convinced him that he had been born to the curtis family but they didn’t want him so they gave him up for adoption and that's how he ended up in the dipp family but with the middle name curtis ("i can't have been a curtis, it's my middle name, not my last name" "well we just like bumped it up and added dipp after it" "WHAT")

trip thought this was really funny at first but then melvin got really upset and starting crying at the idea that he wasn't wanted by his original family so trip admitted to him that it was a prank

they now both vehemently deny this happening (trip because he still feels bad, melvin because he can't let people know he cried, even as a kid)

[creepyoldguy33]

trip and chet laying together in trip's bed, holding each other for dear life while sleeping until melvin bursts into the room at like 5 am yelling about sour gummy worms. chet & trip looking at the other and quickly untangling themselves while melvin gives them the dirtiest of looks.

it would go a little smth like this!!

"TRIP I WANT SOUR GUMMY WORMS PLEASE DUDE"

"...Melvin. Get out."

"Trip?"

"EW, are you two gay?!"

"What! No!"

yeppp thank youuuuu

[a-drewid]

I showed my friend The Outsiders musical and got to explain Sergei and Melvin to them, so basically it’s been a great day.

[stewdoesthings]

Ok now I go to sleep

[r0seb100d]

Dare I say my favourite genre of man

[sondheim-girly]

what id get the characters from the outsiders for Christmas:

ponyboy- therapy and a really nice journal

Johnny- a chocolate cupcake and I’d wash his jacket

Sodapop- brownies where I add too much cocoa powder and add frosting on top as well. And a girlfriend who doesn’t leave him.

Darry- a really good hug and a professional massage

two bit- marcia

ace- a pretty dress

Marcia- two bit

Cherry- a good nights sleep and a really good hug

Chet- a kick in the face (lovingly)

Paul- a gay flag

trip- a punch in the face

Bev- more cigarettes!!

Melvin- aces number

Sergei- a kiss with his best friend

[cherrydipp]

melvin and sergei grown UP

[yourmusicmuse]

Okay so I found this picture of Pinterest and highkey. It has me CRYING. And let me tell you why!!!

Both Soda and Darry are compared to their dad in the book, and while I can't really recall at the moment if any of them were compared to their mother, I'm gonna go at the personal headcanon that Ponyboy was compared to her quite a lol in a similar way to Soda and Darry being compared to their dad. But see here- their mom is blonde. Soda in the book is blond, but I feel like it's an entirely different ballgame when Ponyboy bleaches his hair. When Darry and Soda reunite with him and after the pure joy and relief that he was alive...I just imagine a sense of unease. Seeing him with the blond hair- the comparisons to their mother hadn't completely clicked until then. It makes them feel...a lot of things. But above all, there is a harsh mixture of grief and love. For both their mother and Ponyboy.

[wendybird-c]

thinking about the moment in the books during the rumble where someone goes “hey curtis!” and all the curtis brothers turn their heads…but with melvin and trip

[wassupmygays]

this pic of melvin and sergei will never not make me cackle

two idiots who were NAWT ready to rumble

[ghostface-knight]

insane comment on a melvin post

[tera-ixie]

“Who’s your favorite outsiders character?”

“Melvin.”

“Whos Melvin?”

“Melvin.”

[closetnerd62]

melvin has the type of internalized homophobia that makes him inclined to date tons of girls, possibly even marrying one.

sergei has the type of internalized homophobia that makes him inclined to never get into relationships and live on his own forever wistfully thinking

[sheriievalance]

my boysssss

[penguinstuff]

Every day i wish more and more that i lived closer to New York