#two-bit mathews

[aroace-ryland-grace]

he's so smitten and then there's Johnny serving face right next to them

[specific-dreamer]

hey guys five tornado warnings and shelter in places and i have produced these headcanons for you (ppl are so fucking stupid omg)

darrel curtis loves tornado season bc he gets the best sleep of his life but when the tornado is actually on the ground he hates it bc steve and pony act like they don’t have the sense god gave a flee

they start panicking and acting dinky

pony: why do we have to go to the cellar it ain’t comin near us can’t we just sit in the tub

steve: well at school they just have us lay in front of the walls with our heads to the ground can’t we do that

pony: no wait dar, i need my books. yes all five what if i finish them and get bored

steve: can’t we just wait five more minutes i wanna see it move

(mandatory disclaimer: if ur looking at a tornado and it’s “not moving” it’s coming towards you)

anyways point being darry hates them both

he threatens to beat the shit out of steve and that gets him moving

but pony’s #stubborn and the youngest so darry has to leave him and walk three feet away from the house before pony starts scrambling bc he doesn’t want to be alone

two-bit and johnny like to sit on the porch and watch the tornado for as long as they can but as soon as darry starts “yeahhhh alright yall” they’re racing to the storm cellar

they’re usually the first ones down there two they Zont play about the storm i swear

once steve convinced dally to go storm chasing and mrs curtis whooped they ass so bad dallas has never watched a storm since

soon has someone says “tornado sposed to be blowin through” he’s immediately walking to the cellar

soda bless his heart is knocked out soon as the first wind touches

someone’s always carried him down to the cellar and 8/10 times it was darry carrying him

[tending-the-hearth]

Ponyboy: Johnny’s the gang’s pet, he’s everyone’s kid brother, they just put up with my because I’m Darry and Soda’s little brother :( The gang: *fighting for their lives against their Mother Hen™️ instincts the second Ponyboy is out of their immediate vision*

[icedteaandoldlace]

How the gang reacts after walking into a chair

Darrel: Says, "Ope!" and does a kind of hop. Looks around to make sure no one saw it. Glares when he sees the other boys laughing.

Sodapop: Stumbles a long way and almost falls. Finally regains his balance, straightens up, looks around, makes eye contact with someone else in the room, then points at the chair and says, "There's a chair there."

Ponyboy: Apologizes to the chair.

Steve: Stumbles a short distance, cusses, and demands to know what idiot put a chair right there (the chair is in the same place it always is).

Johnny: Almost has a nasty fall but catches himself in time. Keeps looking straight ahead and continues walking like nothing happened. Hopes no one can tell he's blushing.

Two-Bit: Didn't actually bump into it but narrowly missed. Turns around and starts over. Crashes into the chair on purpose and falls dramatically, hollering to beat the band that this is the end.

Dallas: Punches the chair to get even. Hurts his hand punching it so he kicks it over. Shakes his head and mutters, "Asshole," as he's walking away.

[johnnyvalance]

HIM STARING AT THE TV LIKE A 4 YEAR OLD WHEN MICKEY'S ON TV I HAVE TO LAUGH

[generic-enthusiast]

i wonder how dally's memory will be distorted over time in each member of the gang's mind. whether steve will try to pretend dally was worse than he actually was to not have to grieve him. whether ponyboy will ever be convinced dally loved the rest of them too. whether soda will try to forget the bad parts because he can't stand his friend having died just another young, violent hood. whether two-bit will ever stop trying to forget it all.

[starcraftt]

BTW I'VE SEEN THE DELETED SCENES IN THE CHURCH ( i've seen most the deleted scenes, the library's copy of the outsiders hAS IT ALL IM NOT KIDDING ) AND JOHNNY WINS POKER IN ALL OF THEM

HEADCANON THAT JOHNNY RULES IN ALL CARD GAMES AND THE NEXT PERSON WHO BEATS HIM IN A CARD GAME WILL RUE THE DAY THEY PLAY HIM NEXT.

[saraluvsu]

ponyboy likes to make snide little comments and give out backhanded compliments about people's appearances while his hair is literally DRIPPING with oil. he does NOT wash that shit 💀

ponyboy slander

[not-actually-human]

okay okay marcia. or. mayhaps marbit (marcia/two bit) specifically from the musical bc like look at them they make me so i’ll they’re so cute

they are so cute omigod its ridiculous

[mickies-musical-madness]

i love two-bit.

humor is his coping mechanism, but he can time it so poorly. hes funny as hell, yeah, but he cant always lift a mood. sometimes it just isnt the time to joke but he doesnt know what else to say.

sometimes he takes it too far, on accident, too. he forgets that he shouldnt scare johnny so bad after he got jumped. he forgets that there are just some things you. cant joke about.

[darryceo]

two-bit and bob used to be friends. back when the words soc and greaser didn’t exist to them, when being the fastest kid on the grade was the most important thing in the world to them. bob would even sometimes go as far to say that they were best friends.

two-bit would go over to bobs house almost everyday after school—it always surprised him how soulless the house was despite the expensive furniture and abstract art on the walls. he’d always be there when bobs dad got home, always late, saying ‘hello robert’ in a cool, detached tone that didn’t belong in a fathers voice—not that two-bit would really know.

two-bit didn’t like bob coming over often, but bob was a convincing kid who got basically everything he wanted. two-bit would always feel embarrassed whenever he would get home and his mom would start staying stuff like ‘hi sugarbush’ in front of his best friend, but bob never made fun of him. just smiled sadly and said that it was nice.

like most childhood friendships, theirs didn’t last. once they understood the town’s invisible lines, there was no point pretending they'd be the ones to cross them. bob slipped easily into the world of other rich kids. two-bit found his place with the greasers. but sometimes he still thought about bob—the boy in the quiet house who just wanted to be called sugarbush.

and now, standing in between bob and ponyboy at the drive-in, two-bit still saw that boy. an angrier version, sure, but he was still just a kid. one that, despite being a soc, would never really get what he wanted.

[l0stfoster]

Local greaser annoyed about cigarette burn, more at 6

Now me, personally, if I were Two-Bit, I'd be holding the FATTEST grudge. Daryl Tofa I love you, but your tattoo….. I’m too tired for it

Also I like to imagine that after getting jumped Two-Bit went straight to the Curtis’ (he didn’t want his mom to see him)

[specific-dreamer]

adlibs i remember from ggah

when soda was giving pony the cig, darry said (or mouthed idk i was far away) “i just really wish you would stop giving him cigarettes” then soda offered it to darry and darry smacked it away with a face that said “i don’t want the fucking cigarettes”

during sodas verse ace was on the tire gagging the whole time 😭😭

two-bit: i may not be the sharpest tack in the box

soda: youre not !!

two-bit: i’m a latchkey kid

steve: yeah you are !

omg during darry verse when he first started, johnny kinda shrunk and got sally’s attention and was like “get him” “fuck you want me to do” “idk do something”

ALSO ??? why am i just now noticing how friendly musical steve and pony are ?? they’re like actually friends. steve was hugging and hanging on ponyboy almost the whole song :(

ok this is all i remember rn but im pretty sure there were more so if i remember them ill def be back

[itonlyhastobetruetoday]

two-bit: i know you can be overwhelmed and you can be underwhelmed, but can you just be whelmed?

darry (sick of this shit): you can in europe

[asexual-juliet]

saw the outsiders musical last night (7/20/24) and thought i would make a little post about some of my favorite parts!! brody, sky & daryl were out so i saw trevor wayne as pony, josh strobl as johnny & henry julián gendron as two-bit!

there’s a bit after pony gets jumped by the socs where darry and soda are cleaning the blood off his face and when they’re done and have gotten up johnny comes and sits next to him and takes out a rag and starts also cleaning pony’s face <3 it’s so so sweet

henry does a couple little opt-ups as two-bit in both grease got a hold and hoods turned heroes where i was like “ooh!” i adore daryl tofa so i was a little disappointed when i found out i wouldn’t be able to see him but henry was SO fantastic!! such a talented dancer and you could tell he was having so much fun with the character! such a standout for me.

was deeply impressed by how many items were successfully thrown and caught in grease got a hold like holy shit dude

the LIGHTING in great expectations has pony pointing his flashlight at darrel on “darrel was on his way up in the world” & johnny on “johnny has no kind of chance in this world” and then as the verse goes on he points it at all of the greasers standing all over the stage and the light lingers on them for the rest of the song it’s so fucking cool-looking! and during the chorus the stage starts to look like a starry sky which is a choice they bring back for the little great expectations reprise at the end of far away from tulsa. 

the moment where pony & johnny do their little cool guy walks over to cherry and marcia at the drive-in with their popped collars was so precious to me

i ADORE cherry valance and i ADORE emma’s take on her!! her little convo with pony at the drive-in was really sweet and i loved that they chose not to make the dynamic feel like a crush on ponyboy’s part it was such a nice moment of two people finding and genuinely understanding each other so deeply <3

lighting sound & everything was so next-level during the fountain scene-bob’s death like i don’t even think i can describe it it was so much and so crisp and so visceral in the absolute best way

staging for run run brother was SO cool — there’s a part at the end where they use the tires and boards from the set to make two platforms that the other actors can roll them back and forth while johnny is on one and pony on the other and they roll them away from each other and they are both reaching out so desperately towards each other its so fantastic

i also really liked the part in run run brother where dally gives pony his jacket like he just wordlessly put it on for him it’s so nice

lighting & subsequent blackout at the end of run run brother as pb&j are in the air after jumping off the “train” was ELITE

pony is holding johnny’s switchblade during death’s at my door and at the end of the song johnny reaches out to take it from him but he doesn’t pull away so he’s just holding pony’s hand and then he puts his other hand over pony’s too and they sit there like that until the lights go down <3

LOVED what they’ve done with darry’s character here!! i know people have some nitpicky things with it but he is such a fascinating character and i’m so glad that the musical theater medium was able to do so much with him that the limited pov of the novel couldn’t — brent comer plays darry so so well and my heart aches for him like fuck dude he cares about his brothers so fucking much and he’s doing his best and he’s so so tired :((( give him a break!!

jason schmidt’s voice is SO fantastic holy fuck throwing in the towel was GORGEOUS!! and the little bit at the end where soda hugs darry and it looks like he maybe kisses him on the head a little is so darling <3

the entire “do i look like julie andrews?” scene is so fucking good… genuinely made me laugh out loud. “fine, paul newman, then!” “…no shit?” is so fantastic and johnny’s little “she is pretty as hell :)” about cherry is adorable. and ofc the “goldilocks and her ugly sister” line is fucking great

the way that johnny perks up when he hears “say hey to johnny for us :)” in soda’s letter is so cute

the church fire scene is perhaps the coolest shit i have ever seen onstage

ponyboy is crying so hard after johnny dies that has to sit down on the floor of the hospital room and soda sits behind him and just holds him <3

ponyboy is like actively crying as he narrates dally’s death its so fucking heartbreaking. i liked that they drew the parallels between the train crashes in order to make dally’s death meaningful despite its departure from the book. and the detail about the train derailing when it hit him was wonderfully written. 

there is a scene where ponyboy is like inconsolable sitting on the living room floor with his head in his arms after johnny and dally die and cherry comes by the house because she has been volunteering at the hospital and no one came to pick up johnny’s clothes after he died and she thought ponyboy should have them and she tells him there’s a letter in the pocket addressed to him and after she leaves he just sits there for a while and when he finally moves he picks up johnny’s jean jacket and fucking like hugs it and buries his face in it and it’s so so so heartbreaking and soda has to come over and start reading the letter to him before johnny appears and starts singing stay gold <3

johnny starts SR at the beginning of stay gold while pony is sitting on the car at SL but he is slowly moving closer to pony as the song goes on and right before they start singing in harmony johnny sits down next to him <3 <3 <3

josh’s stay gold made me CRY!! especially him and trevor singing “i have known a love that many never know / and that love lives on no matter where i go” holy shit. their voices blend together so beautifully

overall i fucking ADORED trevor’s ponyboy!! he embodies the role so so well and has such a fourteen-year-old boy vibe when he’s onstage that i definitely did not expect from an actor in his twenties! i’ve heard that his pony is a little more emotional than brody’s & josh’s and that was a choice i really really vibed with!! and his voice was like jaw-dropping, what a talent!!

stagedoor afterwards was so so wonderful! i made drawings for the entire cast and everyone was so so nice and seemed to really like them! the ensemble & understudies especially seemed really thrilled that i had made something for them

henry in particular was so so sweet and seemed like he couldn’t believe that i had drawn him! he was like “is this me for real?” and someone (i think it was trevor) told him to look at the back where i had written his name and a little note and he was really excited about it!! he actually was like “this is awesome i have to go inside and give this to my mom right now so i don’t lose it” and his family was right inside the stagedoor and he pointed me out to them and they were so excited! he gave me a hug too it was really nice :)

trevor was also really excited and was like “this is a drawing of me for real? not brody?” and he was so happy when he turned it around and saw his name <3

i gave melody and sarahgrace copies of the same drawing of both of them and as soon as i gave it to melody she immediately looked around to find sarahgrace and show it to her (she was still inside but it was very cute) and then she told me they were going to put it on the wall in their dressing room!!

sarahgrace was like “omg you even drew my bracelet!” and was excited when i pointed out the detail i put in for the pattern on her dress!

trevor yelled across the sidewalk to tell josh to stop talking to his (trevor’s) mom as a joke lmfao

everyone except jason & kevin c came out to stagedoor and they were all so so sweet!! got photos with most of them and they all signed my copy of the book!! overall such a fucking fantastic experience! the drawings were a lot of work but it was so nice to see the looks on the cast’s faces when they saw them!!

[2knightt]

not necessarily a request but who (out of the greasers/curtis gang) do you think handles spice the best

i’ve never gotten an ask like this omg i think i’ve reached peak fame !!!! <3

—we’re going from best to worst on who can handle spice!

1. two-bit mathews

i feel like he can HANDLE spice. he’s the one guy on tiktok that shoves all the hot things he can get his hands on to eat it all at once. GIVE THIS MAN PLUTONIUM 9 AND HE’LL DRINK IT LIKE WATERRRR!!! spice connoisseur, dare i say.

2. steve randle

i believe he grew up in a household that had a cupboard of pure spices. steve’s the type of guy to eat those chicken burgers people sign forms for and come out fine. but sometimes he cannot handle spice. but that’s only like once every 6 months.

3. johnny cade

johnny cade has a higher tolerance but still can’t handle like those sandwiches you have to sign a waiver to eat. like he’ll eat something that most people are dying after one bite and only his eyes will water with the occasional cough.

4. sodapop curtis

him and steve used to eat hot things for fun, so i imagine it built his tolerance!! but not by much. he eats hot takis without a reaction but anything higher than it—he’s coughing so hard

5. darry curtis

i imagine he COULD handle it well in theory, but in practice? HELL NO!! darry could build his tolerance quickly if he tried, but he doesn’t bother. i don’t think darry would even likes hot things tbh

6. ponyboy curtis

coughs and immediately starts crying after biting into a hot cheeto. peak white boy teenage behaviour. curly downs spicy things like it’s nothing, so he tries to convince ponyboy to eat some. tried it once, and he swears he seen heaven.

7. dallas winston

don’t even bring pepper in his vicinity. he’s the guy that needs milk on standby whenever he eats anything other than salt. WILL NEVER EAT ANYTHING HOT.