hi! can i get headcannons about each of the boys you have?

Hi! Of course you can. I totally didn't think of these right now and then fell in love with them, haha totally had them prepared.

Sodapop believes in paranormal stuff and is careful not to mess with any of it. Dally suggested they do a ouija board once and he freaked out and went on a rant about not fucking with that shit.

Johnny will always have multiple packs of cigarettes on him and most of the time the gang will end up asking him for some. It’s mainly Dally and Ponyboy because they never bring spare packs and always run out. They are communal cigarettes

When Dally can’t find anywhere else to go for the night, and he can’t be bothered to walk over to the Curtis house, he would go to a spot under a bridge where the gang used to hang out before they got told off by Mr and Mrs Curtis for going there, because they could get hurt.

Steve also believes in the paranormal and is also careful with it, but less so than Soda because he still wants to act cool, especially around Pony, because he needs to assert dominance.

Sometimes when Pony’s reading he will go into random positions and be too invested in the book to care if it hurts or not. His brothers would sometimes come home and see him half hanging off the couches or chairs reading or he would be lying underneath the table. Darry and Soda don’t even question it anymore.

Two-Bit likes to balance random objects on top of each other just to amuse himself (in the movie he balanced a shoe on a can). He’s gotten really good at balancing things. One time he was so concentrated on balancing really hard objects that he didn’t notice that someone had fallen off the roof and broke their arm. That person was Steve.

Sometimes Darry would come home slightly later from one of his jobs and he would be really tired so he would lock himself in his room and sleep for about 10-15 minutes just to recharge before getting up to make dinner.

At one point or another, each one of the gang have tried to draw like Ponyboy weather in secret or not. Johnny was the best because he spent more time with Pony and he gave him some tips on techniques.

Hope you like them. I have more but I figured I can save those for another time, a be secretive about them.

Sometimes I forget that the gang except for dally all have a really deep souther accent. Like I completely forget and the it just hits me out of nowhere

Could you imagine if the gang did deaf mute and blind challenge? I kind of wanna write about it tbh lemme know if you guys want it

i love these guys they’re so cool!

me, cowering in fear if i ever saw him within 20 ft of me:

we love a short king who lifts

stronk bug! :P

Twobit on his way to get Pony and Johnny from Texas (he doesn’t have a license)

Ponyboy learning ASL and trying to practice.

Sodapop (trying to be supportive): Hey honey, I think it’s great you’re learning gang signs. Just be careful because that one means you want to jump the old man down the street.

Darry: Soda… we’ve been through this. Five times.

° •𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑶𝒖𝒕𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒏𝒔•°

☆𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚘𝚖 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙾𝚞𝚝𝚜𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚌𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚗𝚜☆

•𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚌𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝙼𝚛. 𝙲𝚞𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚜 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝙳𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚜 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚌𝚕𝚘𝚜�� 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝙼𝚛𝚜. 𝙲𝚞𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚜.

• 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝙼𝚛. 𝙲𝚞𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚜 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚊 𝚏𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚏𝚒𝚐𝚞𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚍𝚊𝚍 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚊𝚋𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚑𝚎'𝚍 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝙼𝚛. 𝙲𝚞𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚜 𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚕𝚎 𝚍𝚞𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚂𝚘𝚍𝚊𝚙𝚘𝚙

•𝚄𝚗𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚏𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚜 𝚂𝚘𝚍𝚊𝚙𝚘𝚙 𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚕𝚢 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚜 𝚝𝚘 '𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙱𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚕𝚎𝚜' 𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚙𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚋𝚎𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚛𝚒𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚍 𝚘𝚗 𝚋𝚢 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚏𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚜 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌𝚜 𝚚𝚞𝚘𝚝𝚎 𝚘𝚗 𝚚𝚞𝚘𝚝𝚎 𝚂𝚘𝚌 𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚎.

• 𝙷𝚒𝚜 𝚏𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚜 𝚋𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖 𝚒𝚜 '𝙸 𝚆𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚊 𝙷𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝚈𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝙷𝚊𝚗𝚍' 𝚊𝚗𝚍 '𝚈𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚘𝚠 𝚂𝚞𝚋𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚎'.

•𝚃𝚠𝚘-𝚋𝚒𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚐𝚎𝚝 𝙳𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚢 𝚝𝚘 𝚊𝚌𝚝 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚐𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚜𝚎𝚗 𝚞𝚙 𝚍𝚞𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚓𝚘𝚔𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚝𝚞𝚏𝚏..

•𝙹𝚘𝚑𝚗𝚗𝚢 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚐𝚘𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚗 𝚍𝚛𝚞𝚗𝚔 𝚋𝚎𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚟𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚏𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚍𝚘𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚊𝚋𝚞𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚑𝚒𝚖 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚑𝚎'𝚜 𝚍𝚛𝚞𝚗𝚔.

• 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚘𝚜𝚝 𝚊𝚕𝚌𝚘𝚑𝚘𝚕 𝙹𝚘𝚑𝚗𝚗𝚢 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚑𝚊𝚍 𝚒𝚜 𝚊 𝚜𝚒𝚙 𝚘𝚏 𝚋𝚎𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚏𝚏 𝙳𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚘𝚛 𝚃𝚠𝚘-𝚋𝚒𝚝.

•𝙹𝚘𝚑𝚗𝚗𝚢 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙳𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚢 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚁𝙴𝙰𝙻𝙻𝚈 𝚐𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝚊𝚝 𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚑 𝚠𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚎 𝚒𝚝'𝚜 𝙿𝚘𝚗𝚢𝚜 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚜𝚝 𝚜𝚞𝚋𝚓𝚎𝚌𝚝. 𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚙 𝚑𝚒𝚖 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚑 𝚑𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔 𝚕𝚘𝚕

•𝙸 𝚏𝚎𝚎𝚕 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝙿𝚘𝚗𝚢𝚋𝚘𝚢 𝙳𝙴𝙵𝙸𝙽𝙸𝚃𝙴𝙻𝚈 𝚑𝚊𝚍 𝚊𝚗 𝚎𝚖𝚘 𝚙𝚑𝚊𝚜𝚎.. 𝙻𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝟷𝟷 - 𝟷𝟸 𝚑𝚎 𝚔𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚎𝚍𝚐𝚢 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚎𝚖𝚘 𝚠𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚙𝚘𝚎𝚖𝚜 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 / 𝚜𝚊𝚢𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚜𝚝𝚞𝚏𝚏 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚑𝚘𝚠 '𝚕𝚒𝚏𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚖𝚎𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜'. 𝙷𝚎 𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚋𝚕𝚊��𝚔 𝚝𝚘 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚐𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚖𝚢.

•𝙿𝚘𝚗𝚢 𝚜𝚗𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚍 𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚒𝚝 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚕 𝚚𝚞𝚒𝚌𝚔 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝚊𝚏𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚐𝚊𝚗𝚐 / 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚜 𝚔𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚑𝚒𝚖 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚙.

•𝙿𝚘𝚗𝚢 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎 𝚏𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚜 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚊 𝚐𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝚊𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚋𝚘𝚢𝚜 𝚘𝚗 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝚝𝚎𝚊𝚖. 𝙷𝚎𝚜 𝚐𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝚊𝚝 𝚒𝚝 𝚝𝚘, 𝙿𝚘𝚗𝚢𝚜 𝚠𝚘𝚗 𝚊 𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚏𝚞𝚕 𝚘𝚏 𝚖𝚎𝚍𝚊𝚕𝚜 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚒𝚝.

•𝙳𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚢 𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚖𝚎𝚍𝚊𝚕𝚜 𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚕𝚕

•𝙳𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢𝚜 𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚢 𝚗𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚘𝚝 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝙹𝚘𝚑𝚗𝚗𝚢 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚑𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝙹𝚘𝚑𝚗𝚗𝚢 𝚊𝚜𝚕𝚎𝚎𝚙 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚍𝚒𝚍𝚗'𝚝 𝚠𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚑𝚒𝚖

Anyways, thank you all for reading this!! Hope you liked it.

You know who’s the most underrated character in the Outsiders? Two-Bit’s mom.

Normally I'd agree many Final Fantasy games have rather young protagonists. It's because they're usually single-player JRPGs made with the assumption of younger players, and like most Young Adult media, create characters that cater to that, even if it ends up with teens running the world and fighting in wars. And for many players, the first time playing these games is in childhood/adolescence/very young adulthood. So it's YA anime.

Final Fantasy XIV does not fall into that same mold, despite the "Teen" rating for legal and distribution purposes.

The majority of the FF14 cast, including the bulk of the main characters, are between 20 and 40 years old (the Scion Archons, Ishgard Elf Husbands). Many other characters are between 40 and 80 (Ishgard's Counts are all late middle aged to elder dads/grandpas, Gaius is mid 50s, Jehantel and Ran'jit are elderly, all still active). The younger characters (especially with any authority or special position) like the Leveilleur twins, are actually outliers. And the youth of the characters between 16 and 20 years old tends to be plot relevant, where that inexperience and naivety causes problems and drives story (Nanamo's arc at the end of ARR into HW, Alphinaud and the Crystal Braves, Ryne's determination of self in ShB, etc).

Characters have a variety of appearances; some characters in the same age ranges look very different. Varis is only 4 years older than X'rhun but Varis's model shows the stress and disagreeableness of his life a lot more than the RDM trainer's. Cid's in his mid-30s but with the beard looks older--and without it he has a baby face (hair color doesn't matter, cuz they do keep the anime trope of "everyone's got white or silver hair"). Lalafell are designed to be anime-cute halflings so it's hard to tell their adult ages even if they've got facial hair like grandfatherly Papashan. The pad'jal of course look like kids, but the youngest main pad'jal is A-Ruhn in his late teens; all the others are adults stuck in adolescent bodies. E-Sumi is a few hundred years old. Kan-E uses various methods to look older so other leaders and people from outside Gridania will take her seriously as an adult. The padjal introduced in the StB WHM quests is a child, and that's the plot; she's not in charge of anything, or has any particularly advanced-for-her-age skills. She's just a kid having a really rough time.

This inability to determine age by looking and assuming isn't just due to limits of the game engine and character creation options; it reflects real life. I met my work team for the first time in person recently; one person looked older than I know them to be, thanks to months of stress and health issues. While all of them were shocked to remember I'm in my 40s as according to them, I "look much younger". Most people are actually pretty bad at guesstimating ages based on appearance, due to the variety of folks' lives.

Speaking of kid characters, many of the children we interact with, like the Doman Adventurers, are between 12 and 14 and act much younger. Khloe has this going on too, with her age "corrected" to 13 (when previously listed as 10), but she acts way younger to me. Most of the actual child characters are treated like children, and it's not until they get to 14-16 (Honoroit, Leveva) that we start to see them treated like maturing adolescents and having some rsponsibilities, but still young and prone to the kind of choices one expects of less experienced and more emotional youth.

As a MMO, FF14's primary audience is actually adults; teens do play the game, but also age up with it if they keep playing. If a 15 year old began playing with ARR's release, they're in their mid-20s now. Having a primarily adult cast, and treating child characters like children, and adolescents like young people figuring out how young adulthood works, makes sense for this game.

FF14's time bubble is also part of the issue; a developer tool to keep it so they don't have to worry too much about character ages, new models so often, or how long things take in game. Timelines are then intentionally left malleable for the players' benefits, to create our own stories and determine how long things take for our WoLs and their tales. Some folks have their stories pass in real time, some compress it to a year per expac, some expand it out even longer. So the ages the characters have listed in the lorebooks and rarely in game (which is then reflected in online resources), is a starting baseline. Personal headcanons as always should be applied (including changing around some character ages to fit one's own story if necessary).

Also, FF16, made by the same team, has a brief prologue/tutorial section where the main trio is between 10 and 15, guided/trained by adult characters, experience the inciting incident trauma--and then we spend the majority of the game with the main cast in their 20s and 30s. The game also has a mature rating, featuring some sexual situations, lots of violence, and stronger language than other FF games. It's made for adults, and its cast reflects that.

So it is a matter of audience expectations; for a MMO, you're going to have an older and aging player base, and the varied ages of the cast reflect that, as do their varied appearances and experiences as adults. The young characters are treated closer to how their youth should be; still with respect for those in positions like Nanamo, but also prone to errors due to inexperience that drive story. In other FF titles, which were made to be more YA-focused, a teen and young 20s cast were treated much differently. But even in the single-player FF titles, if they are made with adult players in mind, their cast and stories likewise reflect that.

Ponyboy: Do you wanna watch a sunset with me?

The gang: We're good

Ponyboy: Why does no one want to watch the sunset with me? :(

Also Ponyboy when he watches a sunset: Nature's first green is gold-

Dally is so Cindy Lou Who by Sabrina carpenter coded like imagine Johnny moving on and just leaving dally weather that’s in like a friend way or romantic way

I just want to know what dally would give up for Johnny like I know he died but what would he actually give up if he didn’t die I feel like we just say “oh he died for him” but is that it like it doesn’t feel like enough idk maybe I’m just greedy

Based on a scene from The Outsiders TV show. I like it as its own show but it's also like- would the characters do that? It was fun watching tho.

The Outsiders but filmed like Modern Family. Thank you Goodnight

How was he a part of the school curriculum???

Could you please do like showering and getting ready for the day at bucks with dally 💗

Thank youuuyyy

Your wish is my command👩🏾‍💻👩🏾‍💻

Let’s just say you had a TIME last night.

Anyways

He probably wakes up first, pushing you off him

You wake up and try to cuddle with him

After a while, you decided to get ready for the day

You drag him the bathroom and hop in the shower together since you were alr undressed

He gets a little cocky in the shower

Pulls a move on you

“Cut it out, I want to shower!”

You scrub each others backs

After your shower, you brush your teeth together at the sink

“Gag for me” 😭 “Shut up Dal!”

You either put on what you wore last night or wear some of his clothes.

If you two had been goin steady for while, he gives you his chain or ring to wear.

Get him some coffee or liquor from Buck, cuz he’ll be a little grumpy.

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