Ponyboy is a sleepwalker.
He doesn't do it as much as he did when he was a kid, but it still happens maybe like once or twice a month.
He's not a super bad sleepwalker. Most of the time he just mumbles random shit while pacing around the house before making his way back to his room. Occasionally he'll do something weird like make a bowl of cereal or do a load of laundry, but that's it.
It's usually not a problem. His brothers are pretty used to it and if they catch him doing it, they just gently guide him back to bed (like you're supposed to) and that's the end of it.
However, one fateful night Tim Shepard decided to crash on the Curtis couch after a long night of drinking, only to awake in the middle of the night and find Ponyboy standing on the coffee table staring directly down at him with dead eyes.
It scares the shit out of him, and he yells for Soda and Darry because he's low-key convinced Ponyboy's possessed by a demon and is going to murder him any second.
They both come out into the living room and quickly figure out what happened. Soda gets Ponyboy off the coffee table and back to bed, and Darry tries to reassure Tim that Ponyboy was not possessed and that he was only sleepwalking.
It went something like this:
Darry: He does it a lot. The doctor said it's because he needs more sleep.
Tim: What he needs is a fucking exorcism!
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I'd give anything to hear you say it one more time: that the universe was made just to be seen by my eyes.
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Unfortunately if I love a character, I WILL put them through hell and back
I will never fully be able to get over the fact that you have the same name as my older sister T-T
we love that. it may be a sign 🤔
I’m also an older sister (im so darry core) tis must be a canon event.
surprise surprise! seven brothers content! first chap is short but this is just something chill i can update to show y'all first hand what the dynamic is...except in a modern texting era.
also if yall wanna see anything specific you can ask and i can deliverrr because i love exploring thiss!!
i was ab to be named harlowe guys and now im emo cause its such a good name AND it's related to TAS AND its giving *aura*
don't you think i loved you too much to be used and discarded? don't you think i loved you too much to think i deserve nothing?
Yk what hell yea
Honestly, I'm tired of this
BIG MWAH ( sick of me yet? :3 )
BIGGER MWAH (never pookie let’s run away together :3)
love these questions!
yes, they're personalities change because they were raised differently in this au. and yes since johnny isn't in the same situation with his parents, he is more outward with his personality. way better self-esteem since he has practically a fanclub with his family in this au. very sassy. i'd also like to say he's kinda good when it comes to dating. similarly to soda. but not as obvious since he's all respectful. but he does get shy and quiet at times too. it's like a mix. depending on the day, the circumstance, and the people he's with. for dallas, he is less of a meanie since he actually has people to care about and knows that people care about him so he is softer, but he still lives and engages in the wrong stuff in town and everything with other gangs which probably leads to his seemingly/slightly cold demeanor. it does start early though, in his early teenager years. their parents just do whatever they can to help him and guide him. also side hc, their uncle (i mentioned him in another post) would sometimes babysit them. and when it was only darry, two, and dally, the older two would hang out and so their uncle would often read to dally. their uncle grew up in nyc so i like to think that dal sometimes has that accent when saying certain words because of hearing them for the first time from his uncle.
as for the book events, i think they can still happen, just differently. thats an aspect i plan on going into further in my full fic of the au (in the works 😉) and seeing how it could unfold if things were different like this (i wont kill anyone off i promise)
financially, they start off rocky since they're struggling to keep up a house of seven, but as they go and advance to new jobs they might earn enough to not be considered lower class. maybe eventually it gets to the point where they're upper middle class, but it's def an uphill battle that won't happen instantly.
o.m.g. i can assure you the johnny-pony-dally dynamic is chaotic. imagine having two great, dependable, loyal friends...then throw all that down the drain cause you actually have to live with them /j | they're very silly but also very supportive, and i can see as time goes on, the seven of them just sleep wherever there's a bed to the point it doesn't matter whose room is whose as long as they get enough sleep to not be insanely cranky in the morning
surprisingly, ive never heard that before, but it makes sense, but throughout reading the outsiders (and i know a few of my friends have this problem too) i couldn't imagine or picture a face or a person to go along with dally's description (or any of them really) seeing the movie rlly saved me there so i only really see the actors when i think of them and portrayals which makes sense in my head since they all have similar hair colors. but they prolly do have some mexican/native or whatever genes down the line or maybe in their parents so it makes sense for their looks to not stray insanely far.
ty for coming to my tedtalk! i hope my yapping wasnt too confusing but if ya wanna know anything else or wanna see anything else lmk! i srsly need more motivation lol. you'll certainly be seeing more from this au in the near future :)
ok so im gonna need all y'all to tell me if you'd be interested in an outsiders fanfic but everyone in the gang is actually related like they all grow up together. like they're the curtis gang cause they're curtises.
i wouldnt change much about them personality wise (or looks) but it'd be an interesting dynamic to explore within them all and how they're relationships would be similar or different if they're LITERAL brothers
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