I Forget Which One Of You Said That Ponyboy Was A Premature Baby But Hear Me Out.

i forget which one of you said that ponyboy was a premature baby but hear me out.

darry being a stone faced kid, literally never crying as a baby even IF he was hungry, and fooling the curtis parents into thinking parenting was gonna be really easy until they had soda, who was a screecher and squealer and the world’s most reactive baby (but that’s besides the point)

when ponyboy wasnt born yet, darry was one of those kids to place his head onto their mom’s baby bump and talk to their sibling. soda did it as well don’t get me wrong, but would probably get distracted when steve comes over and starts hollering over toy cars and one he took apart out on the front porch (darry shushes them both, using the excuse that he was ‘trying to hear the baby’)

soda definitely was the cause of the name “ponyboy” due to his love for ponies (that and he genuinely thought his newest sibling would just be an actual pony), but i feel like darry was the one to (unknowingly) pick ponyboy’s middle name. he kept bugging his parents to name ponyboy ‘michael’ and they gave in, just not in the way he expected

ANYWAY.. when ponyboy comes a little earlier than expected and they all clammer into the curtis family’s beat down truck, darry hasn’t ever seen his father so stressed in his life as he bounds down the streets.

and, as they sit in the hospital lobby and darry overhears some of the risks the doctors list to mr. curtis, who tries to get them away from the conversation— he cries. for the first time in his life, he actually starts bawling. it’s not like darry was forced to bottle up his emotions or anything, he just never felt a reason to actually cry— unlike soda, who cried over every small inconvenience at the time (which darry doesn’t dislike, he just doesn’t relate to it)

so when he hears that his mom, arguably his most favorite person in the world— is in critical condition alongside his new brother, who was definitely going to be one of his favorite people… he literally can’t stop crying about it. soda has to comfort him this time and just hugs him.

tl;dr darry curtis loves ponyboy and sodapop but they’ve been scaring him to death even before they were born

more outsiders au headcanons but it's pony being a musician

(if you wanna see more and you havent already read it i have a oneshot under the same name on ao3)

pony is def the most musical in the family.

like their parents tried to get them all into piano and stuff and other than darry no one else really cared except for pony

i imagine hes a choir kid

and just loves music with all his heart

like out of nowhere he would start singing something thats stuck in his head

all loud and obnoxious

they could all be in the living room chilling and stuff, doing nothing much in particular and pony would just be all like

"R-E-S-P-E-C-T! FIND OUT WHAT IT MEANS TO ME"

and he would rock it too

steady vibrato and them runs and riffs

like he's insanely talented

and everyone would just sigh

cause they've given up on getting him to stop

or when he's practicing at the piano and something happens or someone does something dumb

he just plays the circus theme song thing

and he'd get smacked upside the head

or if he's sad he can usually relate it to a song lyric and he'd be caught singing it since it would end up getting stuck in his head and everyone would just be like

"you good homie??"

and when he's feeling things

he WILL write a gutwrenching, heartstring-tugging poem that he may or may not adapt into a song

he would also randomly belt something from a musical

and then darry would randomly start singing (sometimes in harmony) to throw pony off and darry would be all like

"i aint tryna be mean but before you there was meeee"

darry would also try to help him out with piano and they'd argue because darry thinks it's this note and pony disagrees or smth

darry fr be like

"pony it says piano so here's a tip: you have to play it softly"

and pony would be like

"I AM PLAYING IT SOFTLY"

(he says as he slams down on the keys)

and the others are just watching, eating popcorn because it's always entertaining to watch darry try to get pony to listen or vice versa cause they're both stubborn af

being on my period makes me feel like a wounded forest animal trying to find a warm dark small place to die

your aaron is absolutely amazing! would you ever draw melissa? ☺️

AAAA THANK YOU!! I have never drawn Melissa before, so here's my design of her!

I firmly believe she has curly hair/tail

[bonus doodle of the siblings together}

why is being alive so expensive. i’m not even having a good time