#the outsiders modern headcanons

[4-ustin]

Modern!The Outisders playing Just Dance

Ponyboy

-His favourite songs are; Happy, Dynamite (Tiao Cruz), and What Makes You Beautiful because I damn said so

-If he likes the song, he dances his heart out, if not? All that's required is his arms

-Usually he'll just sit back with Johnny anyways

-He'll cheer on Soda and Two-Bit and that's it

-Jeers at Darry for not playing and says he "needs to exercise those old man bones!"

-He also forces Johnny to play Timber and I Gotta Feeling with him

Johnnycake

-He doesn't actually play a lot, mostly because he thinks it's embarrassing.

-although, he will record all the others dancing for keepsake

-He only dances to Timber, I Gotta Feeling, and Footloose

-if he does do it he's nervously giggling and laughing the entire time cause he's embarrassed

-He is genuinely so good at footloose it is fucking crazy, bro can do everything with his feet (except run from those socs 😔)

Dally

-He'll play, but he only uses his arms like the lazy, cheating fuck he is (Im literally in love with this man!! Dallas Slander y'all!!)

-UNLESS it's Rasputin.

-He likes to flex the fact that he can do the Prisyadka as low as the Just Dance dancer does

-Everyone cheers him on when he does it, too

-Begs Johnny to send him the videos, especially of Two-Bit when he does it when he's drunk

Two-Bit

-He's always drunk when he plays, sometimes tipsy, sometimes hammered

-Also loves Rasputin, but he cant do the Prisyadka as well as Dallas does

-His favs are; Rasputin, Chiwawa, and Call Me Maybe

-Sometimes he passes out in the middle of dancing, Dallas finds it hilarious but whoever laughs first has to Carry Two-Bit up onto the couch

Darry

-He doesn't play because of his old man bones (he's just sore from work!!)

Sodapop

-He and Steve play Timber with all the passion in the damn world

-Sometimes its genuinely homoerotic

-He loves ALL the songs, he is so good at them and puts his whole damn body into it

-If he knows the song, he's singing along.

-Asks Johnny to send him all the videos of himself because he thinks he's so damn cool, he feels like a backup dancer preforming for people

Steve

-He only dances with Sodapop, he will not dance with anybody else

-Photobomb's Johnny's videos

-Stares at Soda's ass and gets teased about it, spesifically By Dallas and Two-bit (STEVEPOP.)

-Sometimes when he's not dancing he'll just pace around the couch to keep himself busy

[decentishoutsidersthoughts]

Modern Ponyboy would be a MACHINE at blooket

[clarity2electricboogaloo]

Outsiders as things me, friends, and family have said

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Darry: Close your door while you’re changing man, gosh darn!

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*waiting at a drivethrough and it’s taking forever*

Darry: good lord, are they raising the chickens in there or something?

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Ponyboy in blue

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Pony and soda

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Average two bit and his mom interaction

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Johnny and pony

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Johnny: guys, let’s pretend we’re parrots

Johnny: Polly want a cracker!

Dally: yeah you want a cracker, his name is ponyboy (not original name from convo lmao)

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Darry: you will eat and leave no crumbs (the context is my dad said this)

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Steve: Stop locking the other bathroom door

Ponyboy: but the dEMONS ARE GONNA GET Mee

Steve: I’m gonna be the demon that gets you if you don’t stop

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Dally: I have never touched a bible because if I did I would disintegrate and die

Ponyboy: so coquette

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Pony: It’s pie day

Soda: What?

Pony: It’s 3.14

Soda: No it Thursday

Pony: *wheeeezeee*

Pony: N-no Soda it’s march 14thhh

Soda: NO it’s Thursday!

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Soda: the jour…the—

Pony: Geneva Convention????

Soda: journey—WHAT

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Steve: “what if we just made out in the bathroom during 6th period”

Soda: “wHAT??”

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Johnny: “The bangs are not banging today”

Johnny: “Wait”

Pony: “BAHHHAHAHAHJAJAJAJAH”

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Darry: don’t eat plastic bags guys

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Cherry: are you gaslight gatekeep girlbossing right now

Ponyboy: what’s the boyfailure version of that

Cherry: you

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Twobit: I will go against capitalism and steal.

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Johnny: you’re gay

Pony: REALLY??

Johnny: yeah

Pony: I THOUGHT I WAS STRAIGHT

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That’s all I’m willing to do, I have been scrolling through my quotes on discord for a very long time.

I really wanna label which quotes I said just to show how absolutely hilarious I am (in denial of my own terrible comedy)

A lot of the ponyboy quotes were me 🧍🏽‍♂️

[claritys-silly-things]

Greaser gang hcs I have:

- (modern) The entire gang would SOOO watch South Park you can't convince me otherwise

- (sorta modern ig I don't remember the context to this) *scene kids your outsiders*

- Everyone has a stuffed animal or two or ten they just won't admit it (inspiration from kotlc)

- Ponyboy can't handle horror movies, Johnny LOVESSSS them. He just sits there like :D

- Soda Steve and dally get very squeamish during horror movies but try to hide it

- Darry likes horror movies

- Twobit could care less what's on (can handle horror movies, doesn't like them) (he wants to watch Mickey Mouse 😟😟)

[m4sonn]

✧*̥˚ The outsiders Modern AU Headcanons *̥˚✧

- Credits to @stevelovbot on Tumblr for the inspo for this post! And also credits to my friend @peachyponyboyy who I collaborate with for these!! :3

ᴺᴼᵂ ᴾᴸᴬᵞᴵᴺᴳ : Ponyboy

• Is a big fan of the Simpsons and can quote almost any episode word by word.

• Says that The Godfather is his favorite movie ever but it’s actually Mamma Mia. He secretly loves musicals.

• Is the only one with a Tumblr account and he’s pretty active in there.

• Definitely writes fan fiction or character studies in AO3.

•The only person that knows about that and gets to read them is Johnny.

• His pfp always matches Johnny’s in any social media platform.

• When he feels annoyed/pissed by his brothers, he likes signing them up for random ass newsletters and whatnot, making sure they get spammed constantly.

• He loves digital books and owns a Kindle but he feels like nothing compares to real books.

• His bi awakening was watching hunger games with dally and seeing peeta, made things worse when he saw the fnaf movie, he’s just a wh0re for josh hutcherson. (He would’ve made the whistle baby edit /j 😣😣🔥🔥)

ᴺᴼᵂ ᴾᴸᴬᵞᴵᴺᴳ : Sodapop

• Is the only one who can actually use TikTok and he’s pretty popular. He loves doing trends with the gang, probably forcing them to do the cinnamon challenge. (they agree bc they're all stupid)

• Loves avocados a lot and gets teased for posting pictures of his meals.

• His favorite game is Assassins Creed but isn’t a big fan of the community and fandom around the game. He just wants to play it and have fun.

•Facetimes the rest of the group whenever he wants, specially Ponyboy and Darry.

ᴺᴼᵂ ᴾᴸᴬᵞᴵᴺᴳ : Darry

•He’s the owner of the only Netflix and/or any other streaming accounts of the group and is the one who pays for it. The rest of the gang add their own profiles and watch everything they want. (Or they share one account, there is no inbetween)

• Likes to keep up with the news and current affairs, so he follows a lot of reporters and activists on Twitter and Facebook. He’s subscribed to lots of newsletters for sure.

• Was the biggest football star of his school and got a scholarship thanks to it. He went to college but had to stop playing football eventually due to a freak accident on the field. However, this didn’t sadden him, since he got his diploma and works in things related to football anyways, he works as a coach for the local youth football team.

• His phone password is Ponyboy and soda’s birthdays mixed together.

• He is a big fan of No Doubt, when he found out that they were performing at Coachella, he absolutely lost it and started saving for a ticket immediately. When he went and saw them in the front row he cried, absolutely WEEPED.

• Constant listener of destiny’s child and connects with survivor on a personal level and he’s not scared to admit, you’ll sometimes hear him singing it while he’s doing stuff around the house while listening to music

ᴺᴼᵂ ᴾᴸᴬᵞᴵᴺᴳ : Dally

•Has been blocked by multiple celebrities on Twitter AND instagram, on various occasions.

•Is a very big fan of The Hunger Games and one of his favorite characters is Peeta.

•Makes sure to be the first one to text Johnny on his birthday, even if they’re standing next to each other.

•Loves crime/serial killer podcasts and has good knowledge about these topics.

•Hates going to the dentist. There is a very embarrassing video of him being out of it after getting one of his wisdom teeth removed that Johnny recorded (Dally forced Johnny to take him since he was scared).

•Is always listening to music and doesn’t like sharing his earphones unless it’s Johnny.

•Has practiced a lot of sports during his life and his favorite one so far is boxing.

•Got drunk one New Year’s Eve and confessed that Darry was like the brother he wished he had had, and that his New Years Resolution was to make it up to Darry (He never did, since he had forgotten). and nobody has ever let him live it down.

•Secret fanboy of the neighborhood, one time he thought nobody was home and started singing daddy issues at the top of his lungs, two-bit has it on video and never lets him hear the end of it about it.

• Still enjoys stealing and robbing old ladies and young children and still enjoys annoying random pretty girls on the street (so basically still and ahole)

ᴺᴼᵂ ᴾᴸᴬᵞᴵᴺᴳ : Johnny

• Wears denim overalls with cute sweaters and loves jackets with lots of pockets.

• Loves spicy food and is the only one in the group who can actually eat it without any problem.

• Has always wanted a puppy or any kind of pet but his situation at home always made it impossible. Because of this, Pony gifted him a goldfish one Christmas and they set the fish tank at the Curtis’ so Johnny could visit it as much as he wanted without risking getting his parents angry.

• He gets really attached to that fish pretty fast and treasures the gesture behind it. Pony and him name is Frost.

• Pony and him use Twitter DM’s just to send memes to each other and store them.

• He has a private Twitter account that only Pony gets to follow.

• Can speak Spanish and French.

•Owns a leather jacket that had been Dally’s a couple of years ago and takes care of it as if it was made of gold.

ᴺᴼᵂ ᴾᴸᴬᵞᴵᴺᴳ : Two-Bit

• He’s the reason why Darry had to get a Disney+ account.

• Knows all the songs from Frozen I.

• Wanted to have a mouse as a pet (since…mickey mouse, duh.) for a while but Darry refused.

• He doesn’t admit it, but he loves sweet drinks made of fruits and cocktails more than beer.

• His socks never match and they all have at least one hole in them.

• Is the one that gets the most excited about Christmas. He’s not particularly religious but he loves the decorations, and the lights, and the whole mood in general. He’s the one that always makes sure the rest of the boys have presents, even if it’s something small.

• His first time going to disney world he bawled his eyes out, like full on mental breakdown inside the park, Ponyboy and Sodapop saved up all their birthday money, allowance, and paycheck money for about a year and a half to buy the tickets. (they wanted to get a fast pass and like the entire deluxe trip for him, that's why it took so long.) Ponyboy was SO embarrassed from two-bits crying, “You’re 22, Stop. Crying. Over. Mickey.” but still was happy for him.

ᴺᴼᵂ ᴾᴸᴬᵞᴵᴺᴳ : Steve

• He tells everyone his top artist is Limp Bizkit but it's actually Queen, his top song was good old fashioned lover boy.

• Wakes up early to watch the F1 races and has never missed a season of Top Gear since he was little. His favorite was Hamilton, but ever since he saw that race with verstappen vs hamilton, his opinions have changed…

• He’s the best at playing video games, and he especially likes horror ones like Resident Evil. (absolute wh0re for Leon Kennedy, i am too tho so no shame)

• Sodapop and him are always playing online together and they sometimes let Ponyboy join them. Him and Sodapop gave ponyboy an unplugged controller once and said it was wireless (for the shitz and giggles and to see how long it took for him to notice), he realized half way through the game and told Darry who then yelled at them for 5 minutes.

• Doesn’t like TikTok and is always going about how Vine was just much better. (He’s stuck in 2014..)

• Gets angry when his texts go unanswered in the group chat (they do it on purpose since they know it pisses him off.)

• He listens to cotton eye joe on repeat, change my mind.

[golden-rolling-hills]

Ponyboy headcanons???

oh ABSOLUTELY i have so many in my notes app it’s kind of a problem

- he’s the kind of guy to take really long showers and just stand under the water and think until someone starts banging on the door

- it takes him a while to finish growing but when he does, he ends up taller than soda and never shuts up about it. like, he’ll hold something over sodas head and say something obnoxious like “who’s the little brother now?”

- modern pony is one of those teenagers who literally never takes his headphones off

- he’s a terrible nail biter. ik this is canon but he like absolutely destroys his nails and once he can’t bite them anymore then he chews on the skin around them

- when he was little he was the kind of kid who sat alone in the grass and picked dandelions

- he’s obsessed with christmas. he just loves the vibes so much and he loves sitting on the couch by the light of the christmas tree and reading a christmas carol and just soaking up the vibes

- he’s so gay that’s not up for debate

- he’s also autistic and that’s not up for debate either

- i feel like modern pony was a percy jackson kid and never really got into harry potter

- modern pony’s camera roll is full of sunset pictures

[outsidersheadcanons]

Could you pls do the gangs fav modern AU movies/shows?

Darry: Young Sheldon (and before u say anything hear me out. Young Sheldon is unironically a good show. And when it was on the Curtises would always watch the new episodes together. They were VERY invested in the Young Sheldon lore).

Sodapop: He watches whatever's trending tbh 😭 (bro probably watched Wednesday) but he would looveeee 80's romcoms. Think Pretty in Pink, Can't Buy Me Love, Dirty Dancing, the goofier the better ❤️ (he had an insane fixation on Footloose for like. a week)

Ponyboy: Anything Darry tells him not to watch tbh 😒 once he watched Paranormal Caught on Camera and couldn't sleep for a whole week (he won't admit it but he likes watching animated movies too. Esp the lego movies because those are good asf)

Two-bit: Bro literally anything on Disney+. Idk why but I feel like he'd fw Space Jam heavily (or any of those movies where it's live action AND cartoon). He'd also like the Family Vacation movies.

Dally: Skibidi Toilet He likes crime dramas, esp Sopranos and Breaking bad + Better call Saul. He'd be into those true crime special documentaries they have on Netflix and Amazon sometimes too. Has a soft spot for trash TV on TLC too

Johnny: He doesn't really watch TV except for when the Curtises have it on (but he does like animated shows and cartoons a lot even if they're "childish")

Steve: Top Gun and literally anything on Motor Trend

[fortheunsungheros]

I just encountered a modern day Dallas. There’s a woman just smoking in the middle of my aunts pool. That’s the most Dallas Tucker Winston coded thing I’ve ever seen. 😭

[rileyh20]

Modern AU Ponyboy would fucking end you if you kill his Minecraft animals

[clarityroses]

Crappy things I never posted grlajelsjekmd

It’s all johnnyboy except for the last one

[macnmooore]

If the Outsiders were modern and in cali Darry tried reapplying his two kid brothers for medical in the office and as he was working on that the lady helping him also mentioned Johnny and he was confused for a bit. Until the worker told him he can’t reapply Ponyboy since he was part of someone else insurance. Which also didn’t answer any questions only created more since he already moved his brothers from their parents’ insurance to his own after they passed. So he’s questioning the lady and he finds out that somehow Mrs. Cade added Ponyboy to her and Johnny’s insurance so he couldn’t renew his brother in the insurance and some awful women gets food stamps and welfare from his kid brother. Darry got pissed, who wouldn’t? So afterwards he has to call and meet up with Mrs. Cade to get his brother removed from her insurance. Obviously there is more major beef between her and the gang.



[dykedvonte]

I dislike takes that Danse would be just as conservative in modernized aus when it's clearly shown his staunch views of things come from his time in the Brotherhood and his deep-rooted desire to belong to something with a greater purpose.

Not to mention lines that show much more open-mindedness that get overlooked for his harsher sentiments when you first meet him. Like the oppurtunity to be a part of something is why Danse fell so far into Brotherhood dogma and it doesn't negate the offense things he does but I feel like it's just lazy to be like "hmmm he'd def be racist" just so it aligns to his BoS beliefs.

[decentishoutsidersthoughts]

Ponyboy (and possibly Darry) would be in the gifted program growing up. That’s it. That’s my story. Thank you.

[clarity2electricboogaloo]

Outsiders shit. Some modern some not idfk

These are all like. The most crack-filled hcs ever, please excuse my brain 🙏🏽🙏🏽 if these don’t make sense to you, tell me

- dally is so headstrong that the moment someone bets he can’t do something, he does it

- the gang takes advantage of this

- (this is a method I use on my younger siblings 😭😭)

- dally can walk in heels

- also two bit. Like scarily well. His sister is amazed.

- pony calls people whore

- Johnny calls people thot

- they say these to each other on a regular basis.

- also hoe

- uhhh where was I

- something something gay something something 70s 80s smth pony and Johnny because Johnny never died frfr no cap

- Johnny: “I can’t believe yall vape smh”

- also Johnny: *pulls out a cigarette for each hand*

- pony does the same thing

- twobit and Marcia are either gay-lesbian solidarity or they’re dating, no in between

- if they’re gay, they’re a beard couple just like “we pretend to date, they can’t catch on” “I like the way you think, woman”

- ily twobit matthews. That’s all.

- twobit and Marcia are actually both Hispanic, its canon trust I was there

- dally types “women ☕️” in instagram comment sections

- also “it’s bc I’m a man isn’t it”

- (ty V on discord for that second one 🙏🏽🙏🏽)

- cherry and dally argue on twitter

- a lot

- dally spams cherry and then she absolutely COOKS this pathetic rat man

- dally blocks cherry, doesn’t talk to her for a while, then eventually forgets and unblocks her to harass the poor girl again

- cherry doesn’t realize blocking is a thing, but she complains to marcia and marcia shows her how to block Dallas

- dally, two bit, and Steve are all hopelessly addicted to twitter

- like it’s really fucking bad

- someone get these mfs off the internet

- dally therapy

- now

- right fucking now

- cherry valance and ponyboy bisexual man/bisexual woman solidarity

- they are besties

- nothing more nothing less

- change my mind

- (you cant)

- marcia “good luck babe” by Chappell roan

- pony autism

- Johnny audhd

- Darry autism

- soda audhd or just adhd

- I saw someone say dally ocd once and I like it so

- dally ocd

- twobit adhd

- Steve adhd

- everyone trauma :D

- when johnny actually lived after the fire bc thats what actually happened actually fr, he left his parents because he realized they didn’t love him (pulling from the “I don’t wanna see her” scene for this)

- he stays with the curtis boys most of if not all the time

- if soda and Darry are gone, pony will grab Johnny and they’ll sleep together

- not in a weird way you freaks

- pony just genuinely cannot sleep

- I may or may not be influenced by fics I’ve read…

- soda saw them one night when he got home late and was like “…queers?”

- he stays out a bit later than usual now, often found sleeping in another room

- Darry actually supports more than pony thought, when he comes out, Darry is like a pride parade mom frfr

- kinda lowkey overbearing with it

- ily Darrel curtis

- soda is the typa guy to genuinely not understand lgbtq+ but supports anyways

- sodas the typa guy to be asked what his pronouns are and say “just he/him. Wish I had smth more interesting, but I’m just a guy :D”

- on the other end of that, soda and Steve are gay

- everyone is gay

- all of them

- so very fucking gay

Im done yapping for now, im so sorry for anyone that sees this

[claritys-silly-things]

Ponyboy hcs I have in my ramblings:

- (modern) Everyone except for Johnny (mostly) and Darry makes fun of ponyboy for vaping (flavoured air smh)

- pony is scarily good at coming up with poems or lyrics within like 5 minutes (let him cook)

- Ponyboy is so goddamn clingy it’s insane. Not even a foot of space between him and the person he’s with

- Ponyboy wakes up in the morning and writes down whatever he can remember from his dreams. He was encouraged to start doing this because of his nightmares (which he still never remembered) and it just became habit. It’s usually a bunch of nonsense he can’t explain to soda and Darry when they ask, but he remembers what he meant by it when he wrote it down

- Ponyboy is so autistic *ahem* I mean he’s such a picky eater. Darry and soda will try making something new and he’ll just stare at the plate. It’s gotten a little better as he’s grown up, but a lot of the time soda and Darry don’t bother and will just make him something else to eat (chicken nuggets and Mac & cheese 😔😔) when they have a fancier meal so they don’t waste food

[sparklingcid3r]

wut was the last conversation between darry and paul like do u think? how low did they go?

Lmfao here I am putting a content warning just in case bc I’m about to tell u EXACTLY how low they went

Before we get dirty yk I gotta yap first so here’s what I’m gonna say. I know I make throw away comments about them drifting apart, and I know other people have those same headcanons, but both interactions from the book and the musical just feel so personal that I can’t bring myself to accept their falling out wasn’t nasty asl. These are two guys who get off seeing the other miserable and would have listened to My Kink is Karma on repeat🙏

Like I’m such a truther for them having had a real friendship where they respected each other, just not where they were from, and cared about each other as if they were brothers (or yk the more accurate term: 🏳️‍🌈). It makes their falling out way more realistic when considering their pre-rumble confrontation imo, like Paul calling Darry “Darrel” and Darry winding Paul up with the comment about the madras shirt he gave him. Also “I remember you looking real good in it” oh i KNOW pony was watching that like 👁️👄👁️☝️ just completely recontextualized some core memories abt paul and his brother

So anyway yeah the shit they said to each other was pure FILTH. Ikkk the devil was down in hell like Spongebob with the “write that down, write that down!”

These are two gay men in the 60s in the middle of the most evil breakup of all time. Of course they’re gonna use it against each other and try to make the other feel as disgusting and perverted as possible, so long as they’re behind closed doors

Catch Darry telling Paul to go back to rubbing one out for his daddy with one hand and counting the dollars he just handed to Paul with the other

Catch Paul telling Darry he knows he must be pretty good with his mouth for their football coach to keep letting him make the cut every year

When I’m at the nastiest homophobe competition and my opponents are Darry and Paul during their last fight: 😰

Shit like THAT was being flung at each other, it’s a miracle no one was killed that night. They both had a lottt of repressed anger regarding each other, Darry at Paul for yk being a Soc who constantly joined in on greaser beat downs, and Paul at Darry for not being able to let go of his East side roots and just let himself be who they both know he could be