#dally in nyc

[lizzi3]

Soo I wrote my first fic!! It’s only the prologue but I’m super excited about it already. It’s about Dally as younger teen in NYC pre-canon. I’m still tryna figure out how to format everything but here it is :))

[dancingthroughlif3]

Hi guys I know some people are confused on the reason why they changed Dally’s death. All I ask is please do your research before asking that question. This is also on the outsiders musical website but I decided to save yall from going to look for it because it took me a few minutes to find it.

[anthonys237thfreckle]

he could fix me

[brainscrambl3r]

THE OUTSIDERS MUSICAL IS OUT ON BROADWAY TODAT !!

I'm gonna beg to buy a playbill for it or

[trevination]

thinking about steve. sigh

[thiamblogger]

matt dillion is in the fairytale of new york?!

[cherryflavouredvoid]

this just got me thinking of a world where jack kelly was singing about tulsa instead of santa fe

this is like my 2016 and 2025 self’s super bowl

[socgf]

hc that dally gets so pissed when someone makes fun of his nyc accent or even points it out, but then it gets even stronger when he's mad. like 'whudduya tawkin bout i don't have an ack sent man". the gang's laughing at him and he's like "what's fawkin funny???🤬"

[bluemirrorangel]

Dallas Winston HC Masterpost

all of my Dallas hc's :)

Dally was the Johnny of his gang in NYC.

Darry and Dally were secretly terrified of each other. 

Dallas met Ponyboy and Sodapop first and then two-bit so when he goes to a drag race with the gang, meets Johnny Cade, and mishears his name as Johnnycake he doesn't even question it. 

although he spent all day at the Curtis household Dallas actually never really stayed the night. the gang just assumed that he was with Buck or sofa surfing but in reality, Dallas spent so many nights at the shepherds that he basically lived there. 

despite having a room there Dallas only slept at Bucks if there was a party because he couldn’t handle the quiet. 

he spends most nights at the shepherds. 

Dallas wanted tattoos. 

the reason dally spiralled so fast after Johnny's death is because Johnny was the only good thing in his life, like a symbol of hope because if someone that's been through so much but is still able to have some semblance of hope in the world to still trust people and have morals then maybe there was a chance for him too but shit went south and now we're here sooo. 

Dallas had an obvious soft spot for Johnny. he also had one for Ponyboy, but it was barely noticeable. 

Dallas owned like six shirts (all bloodstained to some degree) and three pairs of jeans all of which had holes, but he made it work. 

Sylvia was his only serious relationship. 

he wore a LOT of rings but only two necklaces; one is one of Sylvia's chains. 

When he got beat up real bad, he used to go to Mrs Curtis because she was the only person he deemed it 'safe' to cry in front of. 

after she died, he started going to Sylvia. 

Was a very emotional drunk. 

As a kid, he went to the country with his parents once, and they took him to the ranch where they met in Dallas, Texas.  

It was the last time they were happy as a family. 

that's originally where he was going when he came to Tulsa, he started crashing at Bucks and was planning on leaving after a week but, but he got thrown into reform, Buck lied about being his older brother to get him released and Dally wasn't allowed to leave after that. 

genuinely did love Sylvia, that's why they always got back together in the end. 

Dallas suffered with insomnia due to nightmares of the things he went through in New York. 

really wanted to be a cowboy when he was little. 

got angry as a defence mechanism. 

actually, really enjoyed reading but hid it because he thought it was embarrassing. 

Stole and read a lot of Ponyboy's books. 

cried reading little women, but didn't get that book from Ponyboy, he got it from Sylvia, who only had it because Kathy left it. 

allergic to peanuts. 

secretly liked some country music, specifically Johnny Cash. 

left New York after fatally shooting a rival gang member by accident. 

The gun wasn’t his, they were wrestling with it and someone pulled the trigger by mistake.

he was only thirteen when it happened. 

vomited in a back alley after he did it. 

used to see the boy's face whenever he closed his eyes. 

Didn't fight children they're technically pre-teens. 

his mother was pretty religious; she used to wear a rosary she gave it to him before she died. 

that's the second necklace he wore. 

he was thinking of giving it to Sylvia if they ever got married. 

the only people he truly trusted were Tim, Sylvia, Mrs Curtis and Darry. 

used to work things out with people by fighting them. 

whether it's arguments with Sylvia or an actual fight with Tim, that's how he processes shit. 

all of his fights with Tim were sexually charged at least a little bit. 

Dally calls Soda pretty boy. 

Met Soda first. 

Dally had Soda’s attention ever since they met, he just found him so interesting. 

Dallas would've lost it if someone told him Bisexuality was a thing. 

Modern HC's 

Dally basically lives part-time with the shepherd’s he shares a room with Curly. 

Dally and Curly both have piercings, dally has an an ear piercing and eyebrow piercing, Curly has multiple ear piercings( he wears fake ear stretchers he stole from Claire’s) snakebites, an eyebrow piercing, a septum piercing all of which they gave each other while drunk the piercings were done with safety pins and needles sterilised with vodka (that somehow didn’t get infected), they also have stick and poke tattoos. 

Dally’s platinum blonde but dyes it black. No one knows except curly who caught him trying to dye it black with the hair dye he supposedly stole for Sylvia, and Sylvia who dyes it for him. 

has multiple burner phones. 

someone said his dating profile pic is his mugshot, you're soooo real and to add to that it's his profile pic on alllll his socials. 

works night shifts at the dairy queen drive thru when he's not working at Bucks. 

ok that's all of them for now :)

leave a ship or fandom suggestions for headcanons, fics or just questions in general and I'll do them if you want :)

[lizzi3]

Here is chapter 1 of my young Dally in NYC fic!

[notbillyshears]

HE DOING IT GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THIS IS MY ROMAN EMPIRE THIS IS EVERYTHING TO ME

[pumpkinsy0]

twobit: hey ur from nyc right

dally: yea why

twobit: whats going on here???

dally: dw bout him hes chillin

[isolate-ignore-ibuprofen]

 ｡𖦹°‧the outsiders—character analyses and hcs in modern day

best viewed in dark modeᝰ.ᐟ

rundown: just general character analyses of the greasers and maybe the socs. the hcs will be modern day and in the 1960s. hcs a mix of movie, book, and both—each one will be categorized for it.

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ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 .ᐟ — book

𝟏𝟏:𝟏𝟏 — movie

𐙚⋆°. — both/general

☆  — modern day

★ — 1960s/whenever the book was set in

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tldr: the top base and indicators at the first of the symbol will be combined. if there is no indicator, it is an applicable to anytime headcanon.

𐙚 𓏵𓏵𓏵 𐙚

★ ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 .ᐟ dally sneaks, not really, the door’s always open there, into the curtis household to use their mom’s hair curler for his hair. speaking of his hair, i’m pretty sure it’s to the equivalent of deep fried. he bleaches it regularly but misses his roots so it sticks out. 𐙚⋆°. he also used to call ponyboy “little curtis” when he was younger.  ★ 𐙚⋆°. ponyboy still has trauma from being drowned in the fountain. he doesn’t go anywhere near water anymore. not like he knew how to swim in the first place. he likes the countryside more after that. well, not really. it reminds him of the church. two deaths, two places.  𐙚⋆°. ponyboy has never fully healed from his concussion. he still runs into things, forgets a lot, and struggles with his basic motor skills. it’s gotten slightly better over the years with the help around him. but it remains there. he has a bunch of scars from his fuck ups. ☆𐙚⋆°. cherry it would 100% listen to lana del ray. she is THE nyc girlie. she’d be addicted to pinterest too. 

☆ 𐙚⋆°. rip dallas winston, you would’ve loved blasting eminem in your headphones and even more pissing people off when they try to ask you something and you ignore it multiple times to then finally respond with “huh?”

ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 .ᐟ i’m sorry, but cherry would kind of hate two bit. two bit’s an alcoholic, just like bob, but also a sweet person, just like bob. two bit’s alcoholism doesn’t affect him the same way bob does. still, cherry wouldn’t like him. she’d tolerate two bit. but she’d continue to hold her hate against the vice. 

★ ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 .ᐟ ponyboy once had a dream of an out of body experience where 7th graders were reading his life story. he saw truly what god was until he woke up. he told soda about the dream, he always tells soda about his dreams, and soda just shrugged him off. pony always had wild dreams anyway.

𐙚⋆°. marcia kept waiting for the call from two-bit. she waited for a few days until she heard what had happened w all the greasers. she still waits for the him.

𐙚⋆°. two bit kept looking for the piece of paper with marcia’s phone number. he gave up, because he knew he could ask cherry anyway. he didn’t keep her waiting anymore. 

★ ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 .ᐟ lets be honest, guys, ponyboy definitely has acne. like, he’s fourteen. his genes better be blessed if he doesn’t. run that back, he’d wash his face with dish soap and have clear, perfect skin. i’m pretty sure they didn’t have anything to deal with that kinda skin care back then. i mean, canonically, the curtis brothers are the only ones to be considered attractive in the whole group of greasers. maybe pony’s just a hater. 

☆ ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 .ᐟ ponyboy would get absolutely DEVOURED if he was in modern day school. not to mention how much of a hater he fucking is based on first impressions. he can’t even come up with good comebacks. don’t even use the time period as an excuse. ponyboy watched as two bit dropped the killer line of “then pity the back seat” on the socs. what did pony say when the socs insulted him? “white trash with mustangs and madras.” it’s over for him if he used that on a middle schooler nowadays. he’s getting butchered into minced fucking meat. he’d use youtube insults but get bullied even more. 

☆ 𐙚⋆°. dallas would go actually crazy with all the modern drugs. lean, coke, ecstasy, green, pot, blunts, meth. he would have his own dealer that he would lowk fall in love with because that’s all he has. the drugs aren’t his salvation. his dealer is. (omfgg waittt fic idea???)

☆ 𝟏𝟏:𝟏𝟏 dally went through the canon event of buzzing his hair off like every other teenage boy. i hc that he had long hair but got a buzz cut then grew it back to his current style. 

𐙚⋆°. at the dx, steve and soda split up the work during their shifts. steve handles cars, soda the register. soda doesn’t know shit about cars, and steve doesn’t know how to even count money.

☆ 𝟏𝟏:𝟏𝟏 steve hates the cars movies because he thinks they’re inaccurate to actual cars. but he still watches them because lightning mcqueen reminds him of soda. two bit once pointed out steve is like mater. he got pissed off as hell. he’s not that ugly.

☆ 𝟏𝟏:𝟏𝟏 steve and soda unironically flirt with each other. like they are the exact type of boys during middle school who slap each others’ asses and say some shit like “good boy” or “good girl.” it’s only excusable whenever soda does it because he’s hot.  don’t get me wrong, they’re straight. but what they do is some of the gayest shit ever. it’s not even zesty. it is and looks genuine. they kiss the homies goodnight.

☆ 𐙚⋆°. dally watches fight club religiously. he likes heathers too - steve showed him it - but he won’t admit it. 

ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 .ᐟ dally really wanted to die. he really wanted to commit suicide after johnny’s death. and when he hit the ground, he was glad. ponyboy knew it too. honestly, that was the better outcome compared to the movie. dally would’ve cared as much for pony just as he did for johnny if time gave it to him. but he forgot about that. he was blinded by grief and was put out of his misery. it was better. dally didn’t die seeing what else he could’ve lived for in front of him, even if he did start to genuinely care for pony. and pony didn’t have the knowledge of dally dying before realizing he could still live with him as the reason.

𝟏𝟏:𝟏𝟏 dally messed up when he died. in his last moments, he saw pony. he saw why he should’ve went on. he saw what he had to live for. johnny was dead. was dying just like him going to fix anything? he knew it wouldn’t. he knew the whole thing was a mistake. in his last moments, he wished he could’ve reverse all he did. he died wishing he was alive. he wished he could’ve said sorry to ponyboy at least for dying. 

𐙚⋆°. it was kind of ironic, wasn’t it? johnny spent his last few moments writing to ponyboy hoping to make dally’s life better. as if he was going to be alive to be able to hear it. it was for the better that johnny died without knowing how much dally truly loved and cared for him, so much to the point his death drove him to insanity.

☆ ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 .ᐟ pony blasted “like him” by tyler the creator after realizing the resemblance to dally in their hair after bleaching it. he keeps his blonde hair cause it’s one of the only physical things reminding him of dally and johnny.

ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 .ᐟ steve is the most realistic brother to pony. he doesn’t let him do anything, doesn’t let him tag a long. that’s what a true brother does. pony and steve’s relationship is purely one sided from pony. he only hates him because he isn’t as lenient as his brothers are. take it as this, darry and soda let pony do mostly whatever he wants, which is what they do, because he grows up faster that way. but steve cares for pony in a brotherly way because steve doesn’t want him to end up like his father, and steve doesn’t want to end up like him either. he pushes him away because that’s the way he was taught. he pushes him away because that’s the only way he knows how to show he cares.

𐙚⋆°. johnny’s only jean jacket is steve’s old jacket. 

☆ 𝟏𝟏:𝟏𝟏 soda would try to get up an onlyfans when he got older to try to get more money to support the family. like brother, like brother or whatever they say. popping it out like his stripper older brother/j

𝟏𝟏:𝟏𝟏 dallas says he hates kids but somehow they kinda gravitate towards him. he doesn’t actually hate them, he’s just trying to keep up that cover. dallas has the energy of the cool uncle and rodrick heffley but nicer combined. he tolerates, more like protects, them because he reminds him of the childhood he never had.

𐙚⋆°. johnny did track with pony. trust me, that kid can RUN.

𐙚⋆°. two bit quotes/references obscure media around the gang, and he looks around to see if anyone got it before he just laughs it off.

☆ 𝟏𝟏:𝟏𝟏 two bit would watch tawog.

𐙚⋆°. darry wears a necklace that holds his parents’ rings after they died under his shirt that he wears 24/7. that necklace is never off him. it’s his reminder to be the best mother and father he can be to pony and soda. 

☆ 𐙚⋆°. ponyboy and johnny had the sickest handshake together. they’d also be the type of mfs you’d see practicing dap ups to get that loud ass sound that reverberating in the school hallways. and sometimes they just randomly dap up and you hear that heavenly clap. pause.

☆ 𐙚⋆°. dally teaches gang signs that he picked up from those sagging fake ass gangsters at school to little kids. 

☆ 𐙚⋆°. they all recorded a ‘we listen and we don’t judge” vid and throughout the whole thing, darry would be have his arms crossed and give whoever was talking the NASTIEST side eye. some of the loudest judging w that. 

☆ 𐙚⋆°. same concept, they did the same thing with a hmo cake. steve and soda put each other on the cake. two bit had the most down bad hmos, like genuinely peculiar hmos like mama coco, ifyky. dally is the guy just putting conventionally attractive women. ponyboy and johnny weren’t contributing but they were definitely judging hard and gossiping about their weird hmos. 

𐙚⋆°. ponyboy went from liking sunsets to sunrises. sunsets were the last glimpse of gold before it went black, childhood becoming adulthood. he liked them because he was finally growing up, finally leaving his childhood behind. it was easier and for the best to grow up anyway. but after johnny’s death, he liked sunrises a little bit more. sunrises are the dawn, the start of gold. it’s unrealistic. pony knows he can’t stay a kid forever. sunrises are an escape. he still favors sunsets, and he wishes he could really show dally a sunset. he was on the brink of becoming an adult, and maybe a sunset would’ve showed him that last glimpse of gold, of childhood that would keep him going. sunrise or sunset, pony tries to stay golden, no matter what.

𐙚 𓏵𓏵𓏵 𐙚

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damn, this took WAY too long to post. i was going on and off with it. some of it kinda feels ooc, but idgaf. should i make the dally x reader fic or nah??? i honestly wanna write a dally x male reader oneshot,, anywayyyyy might make a part two.

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@roseraris for the divider

@icons80s for the header

tyyy.˳˳✧.⋅ॱ   

[nexternalknowsthingz]

HIYA POOKIE!!! WHAT ARE SOME OF YOUR FAVOURITE RANDOM OUTSIDERS HCS? :>

IM SO GLAD YOU ASKED!! 🩵

• one time Pony was so tired after a track practice that he sat down on Twobits lap thinking it was the couch, Pony fell asleep but Twobit didn’t mind. He just continued watching Mickey Mouse. Darry offered to carry him to bed but Twobit was like “The kid barely sleeps anyhow, if he’s comfy then just leave ‘im.” (Then when Darry woke up the next day they were both asleep and STILL there and he was like “Alright then.”)

• So Darry has a little journal of little entries for his feelings because he’s to insecure about them because in the 60’s it was a sign of weakness when men actually showed emotion so… he just vents to it! It’s also where he writes the numbers for the bills so one page is a fully loaded page of his thoughts then the next is.. math.. Soda finds it and has a talk with Darry, just them two but they didn’t know that Pony was outside ducking under the kitchen window near the sink.. listening.. They didn’t know he was home from track.

• when Pony runs the gang says “Hey Pony, where are ya trotting off too? Mostly Twobit says that but..

• Ponyboy has a baby face until he’s 16, When he’s 16 he gets a mix of Darry’s face and Sodapops face

• Dallas was protective over his Mum because his Dad was a drunk, so when he uhm.. hurt her really bad to the point where she passed away THATS when he got cold and hard

• Johnny is great at photography while Pony is great at writing and drawing (painting) ((Johnny gifts his photos to the gang for their birthdays and Christmas ))

• Johnny has a HUGE sweet tooth

• Steve loves wearing leather biker gloves and so does Sodapop

• Steve has a scar over his left eye from his father throwing a bottle at him when he was 12, so now he’s blind in that eye

• Dally is missing his pinkie finger on his right hand from a fight in NYC

• Also Johnny has a birthmark that looks like a heart on his stomach

• Steve with fluffy curled hair, Sodapop with slightly wavy hair, Pony when he doesn’t grease it has slightly curled hair, Darry with slightly curled hair but it’s not visible because he cuts it to short, Johnny with wavy hair, Twobit with straight hair, Dally with a man bun (book description)

LET ME KNOW IF Y’ALL WANNA HEAR MORE!! 🩵

[trevination]

i love researching random ass things all for fanfic purposes

[outsidersheadcanons]

Dallas Winston is a Cat Dad. He named a feral kitty that followed him around “NYC” and that little shit legitimately thinks Dally is his mother.

Yes this is canon.