#tommy boy newsies

[wekiaam]

Exploring background manhattan newsie looks!! I want to give them all a cohesive colour scheme and all slightly different outfits, also more variety in ages, lengths and nationalities. Also they're just so fun to draw

[athousandboxjumps]

Just need y’all to know that Tommy Boy (Jack Bromage) kissed Henry (Matt Trevorrow) square on the mouth during Carrying the Banner.

New ship unlocked: Henrommy Boy? Tommry?

[oscar-delancey]

Newsies 2023 Trailer!

[incorrectuksies]

jack: okay, yeah, i have feelings for davey. but does that mean i’m in love with him? no -

jack: oh my god...i’m in love with davey.

jack, to the newsies: why didn’t you guys tell me?!

tommy boy: we thought you knew!

[jack-kellys]

vacation doodles

[fansiesmemes]

Tommy Boy: Why would anyone want to hurt Splasher?

Crutchie: Because they met him? He’s a little shit

[orangesand-lemons-234]

Jack was shouting when JoJo ran back to the Lodge House. He was confused. Jack never shouted unless he was in pain or disappointed, which hadn't happened in a while.

JoJo ran up to David, who seemed to have a blank expression on his face. "Aye, Davey? What's goin' on, why's he shouting?"

David looked back at him, eyes suddenly going wide at the sight of him. He stood in front of JoJo, almost trying to cover him before Jack pointed in their direction.

"JoJo de La Guerra-Larkin, you get the fuck over here, now." Jack growled, JoJo running over quickly, still extremely confused at what was happening.

"Jack, why are you shou-"

"JoJo, when were you sent to the refuge?"

JoJo's thoughts stopped dead in their tracks. The refuge. How did they find out? Who told them?

"Jack, I never went to the refuge." JoJo laughed, trying to cover up how nervous he'd suddenly gotten.

"Josephine Casley Smith. That was you, wasn't it?" Jack shouted. "You're Josephine Casley Smith."

JoJo's immediate silence was proof enough of his answer. Thoughts and memories of his time in the Refuge wracked his mind, over and over, the same scenes again and again.

"Jo..." Jack relaxed his voice, the truth setting in. "Jo, why'd you never say nothin'?"

"Same reason you never told us 'bout your real name, Cowboy." JoJo snarled. "I ain't gonna be known as the kid who's screams could be heard all around the house."

Racetrack walked up to JoJo, a mix of fear and anger in his eyes. "I thought we promised all that would stay out in the air? That we'd tell each other about that stuff? You now mean to tell me that you're Crazy Josie?"

"I'm not crazy!" JoJo screamed, causing Race to flinch back. He cut himself off at that, fearful that he'd scared him forever. His shirt was suddenly scratchy, and everything around him seemed much too loud. "I am not crazy. We- No, I was never Crazy Josie. Josie is gone. Josie is dead and gone, and I do not miss him."

"That's what a crazy person would say." Albert murmured from behind them. JoJo spun on his heels to face him afterwards. Tears were now forming in the corner of his eyes as memories of being shoved into those tight wardrobes in Snyders office flashing in his brain.

"None of you know what I went through. You never will. Wanna know why? Cause I'm never telling ye." He announced. He pointed around at everybody around him, who looked scared and disturbed at the scene. "This is why."

JoJo ran away from the scene, stomping up the staircase with his fists squeezed as tight as they could be.

He slammed the door shut on the dormitory, allowing himself to break down as he needed.

He collapsed to his knees, grasping at his shirt and yanking at it, while a loud and scragly scream left his throat. He tried to stop it, knowing the kids' reaction to them at the refuge, but he couldn't stop it. All those years of building up a wall and trying to forget his past just crumbled around him, and it hurt.

He stayed there for a while, screaming and crying to himself, beating himself up over his past. Beating himself up for how he scared those kids. Beating himself up for never telling anybody. Beating himself up for how he reacted to Snyders punishments to him.

His throat was burning and sore from screaming and sobbing, but it didn't stop. His screams tore through the Lodge House, slightly disturbing the members within. One of the younger newsies, Ike, started crying at the sound.

Jack, Race, and Albert were close to tears. Guilt shuddered through their bodies at every yell and shout, wishing they could somehow turn back time and stop themselves from even bringing it up in the first place.

JoJo felt alone in the world, slamming his fists against his head as he cried.

It was when somebody grabbed onto his hands and held them in their own that his screams stopped.

Through blurry eyes, Tommy Boy was now in front of him and holding his hands tightly to stop him from hurting himself.

No words needed to be said as the two made eye-contact. Somehow, without communicating through speech, Tommy was able to tell him that he was safe and that he wasn't there to judge.

Just like that, JoJo threw himself into Tommy Boys' arms, wrapping his arms tightly around his shoulders and lowering his head onto his shoulder.

Shivers shook through JoJo's frame as Tommy held him gently, brushing fingers through his sweaty and slightly greasy hair.

A weak and distressed sob could be heard from JoJo, shallow gasps pulled in and out afterwards.

"I'm not crazy." JoJo said quietly. "I was screaming for a reason. Snyder shoved me in wardrobes, tight and small wardrobes. I was hit and hurt by a grown man. All of you's would scream too."

"I know, I know." Tommy whispered back. "But you're safe now. The boys didn't mean it, Jo. They were just scared about what happened to you in the past. You're safe here, kid."

JoJo nodded, his body losing the tension it had originally and slowly relaxing into Tommy Boys' arms. His limbs felt heavy as his eyes slowly began to shut.

Tommy held JoJo closer to him as he fell asleep, cradling the boy and carrying him to his bunk.

Crazy Josie was never crazy. Crazy Josie was a terrified kid who was trying to drown out the sound of his own brain. Josie was gone now, being left behind at the refuge.

JoJo, however, was also a kid. A kid who's learning slowly how to block out the noise of his brain in better ways. A kid who's learning to let his emotions out instead of bottling it up.

A kid who finally has the family he always wanted. Always needed.

[jackmkelly]

They look So good.

[undescribed1mage]

Ahem. Here is my (hopefully coherent) list of what every Newsie in uksies does during that one bit of carrying the banner & who they do it with !!!

Splasher, JoJo, & Elmer jump rope !!! Except Splasher is the only one actually jumping & he does flips why he does so because Ross Dorrington is just Like That ig ?

Romeo & Ike play what LOOKS like baseball but I don't think they actually have a ball so they spin around, Ike winds up to throw the ball (that doesn't exist), and then when Romeo swings the back Ike reels back & falls down like he's been hit! So that's going well. (Update: I'm pretty sure he either hits Ike with the baseball bat or he hits someone in the distance with a baseball. Either way. Not going well.)

Henry & Mike play cards !! Henry wins, so he stands up on the box he was sitting on, & goes 2 celebrate I think but Finch shoves him off the box for 'waiting make me antsy, I likes living chancy!'

Finch dances with Jack, for a bit, before walking around and shouting something to Splasher, JoJo, and Elmer, and then he gets ? really excited ? it looks like ? & that's when he shoves Henry (see above).

Buttons & Mush play with a slingshot !! Buttons kinda rolls around while Mush tries 2 hit him with it :)

Crutchie swings his crutch at the set???? (He may be using it as a baseball bat but. not 100% on that)

Jack just kinda hangs around one side of the stage, interacting with a few different people, & then Specs punches him in the arm at the beginning of 'waiting makes me antsy!'

Speaking of Specs !! Albert, Race, & him clean up around the lodging house (specifically inside the set), & at the end of that bit, Race puts on his vest <33

Tommy Boy pulls a paper ball out of the stage & kicks it around for a bit, before kicking it into the audience.

[aceofspades-sml]

Not to project on the blorbos but Tommy boy actually has big anger issues. If you even care.

[snap-my-kneecaps]

Henry : Guys, I’ve been meaning to tell you… Tommy Boy and I are dating. Tommy Boy, Buttons, Davey, and Specs: *gasp* Henry : Tommy Boy, why are you surprised?!

[just-pot-over-here]

man. my problem is that i’ve been obsessive over newsies for years now, but i’ve only recently gotten into the Newsies Fanwork Sphere, and so the side newsies i’ve built in my head are so insanely different than the accepted fanon versions. for example, here are some ideas that i’m Pretty Sure are not in the general newsies canon? but also i wouldn’t know:

wdym mike and ike are teenagers? they are twins who are 9-10 max.

crutchie race and finch are all the same age (17ish)

sniper is a girl (and/or afab nonbinary depending on how silly i’m feeling)

tommy boy and jojo are german w/ heavy accents

mush is a heavier smoker than race

henry is aromantic (but not ace!)

there’s some romantic tension between elmer tommy boy and jojo. nobody knows what that’s about

race is a pseudo caretaker for the littles. (cooking for them, getting them through wash day, making sure they’re all inside for the night, etc.)

the age order goes jack > henry > mush > crutchie > race > finch > elmer > tommy boy > jojo > romeo > sniper > specs > buttons > mike/ike. where’s kid blink? don’t ask me that i dont know

i cannot see anything else as canon bc i’ve built this little world up in my head for YEARS. help.

[athousandboxjumps]

Me: I feel like Henry and Tommy Boy sort of exist in different circles, you know? Like they get along but aren’t particularly close.

Tommy Boy and Henry: *kiss during the closing night’s Carrying the Banner*

Me:

Me:

Me: So actually they’re boyfriends and they have been for years—

[iloveplayrehersal]

My head trying to figure out physics:

[incorrectuksies]

elmer: but it hurts my elmer's apple.

tommy boy: it's not named after every individual person, elmer.

[fell-outta-my-chair]

@orangesand-lemons-234 wrote something about Splasher’s death after the Seize the Day fight (here it is if you want to read it, it’s amazing). And because I’m me and my brain must associate songs with writing or vice versa,

funeral by Phoebe Bridgers

It’s not really like my other ‘songs I associate with newsies’ cause it’s more general

I’m singing at a funeral tomorrow/for a kid a year older than me/and I’ve been talking to his dad/it makes me so sad/when I think to much about it I can’t breathe is Les’s thoughts on the fact that someone who’s his same age died

and I have this dream where I’m screaming underwater/while my friends are waving from the shore/and I don’t need you to tell me what that means/cause I don’t believe in that stuff anymore is Tommy Boy’s grief turned anger

Jesus Christ Im so blue all the time/and that’s just how I feel/always have and I always will/I always have and I always will is the older newsies dealing with the fact that they lost their little brother, don’t know where their leader is, ect.

I have more is anyone is actually interested, I just wanted to share :) Edit: part 2