Give me Newsies who developed or were born with disabilities over their time in the refuge and growing up in the streets of New York.
We obviously have Crutchie, who crushed his leg in a trolley accident during the trolley strikes, but how about the others?
Kid Blink, who's eye was cut badly during a fight and totally lost all vision in that eye, leaving a nasty scar where he was sliced. He jokes that he's secretly a pirate to the younger kids because he wears an eyepatch, but the real reason he has it is to hide the scar because he is embarrassed and ashamed of his scaring and how scary it can look.
JoJo, who was born with a vision impairment that makes everything extremely blurry through his perspective. Somebody always needs to read the headline to him in the morning, and he sometimes needs a selling partner to lead him in the correct direction without getting run over by a carriage.
Splint, who's broken her arm so many times and in so many different ways that it's practically unusable. It's covered in nasty scars and bruises and is swollen and bumpy from where the bone never fully set back properly.
Elmer, who deals with chronic fatigue and sometimes having to be dragged away from selling for at least a little bit because Spot can see that if he doesn't sit down soon, he will pass out from ache and exhaustion.
Albert, who lost most of his hearing in a fight at the refuge and has Katherine teach him and a few of the others some sign language so he can finally communicate as well as he can with the other newsies.
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Davey, walking into his house: Hello people who don’t live here
Elmer: Hey
Finch: Hi
Romeo: Hello
Splasher: Hey!
Jack: We gave you a key for emergencies only
Mush: We were out of doritos
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Elmer has an ugly kitten that he found in a dumpster and Davey has the oldest hairless cat you've ever seen and they have organized play dates do you see the vision
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the uksies versions of the newsies would so easily defeat the livesies versions in a fight and i firmly believe this.
the only exception to this rule is elmer. neither of the elmers can hurt a fly. they’re off playing dice.
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elmer: but it hurts my elmer's apple.
tommy boy: it's not named after every individual person, elmer.
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Elmer: Jaaaaacckk! Albert's ugly!
Jack, not paying attention: Albert, knock it off.
Albert: what the fuck-
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Give me Newsiee Theatre-AU
Give me Stressed-Out Stage Manager Albert and Best Friend-Character Racetrack, who won't stop talking backstage and driving Albert mad.
Give me Set Designer Jack and Love Interest David, who always practices his ballad in the theatre while Jack works on a background, though Jack's really only focusing on him.
Give me Costume Designer Buttons and Chorus Member Elmer, who's constantly accidentally tearing his costume while doing tricks and having to go into Buttons to get it fixed.
Give me Techie Specs and Crutchie, who only signed up to watch their friends perform every night for free, but end up actually enjoying each other's company each show.
Give me Bully Character Spot, who has to slap the lead, Katherine, but has started to apologise afterwards every time they do the scene because they feel bad afterwards.
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so you like newsies? you like stickers??? perfect i have newsies stickers up on redbubble!!!
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Jack: HYDRATE OR DIE-DRATE!
Jack: *Aggressively throws water bottles*
Davey: Um… what’s wrong with Jack?
Crutchie: Oh don’t worry about it, every so often he tries to yell good mental health and wellbeing into us
Elmer: *Tearing up* It’s working
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I don't talk about Elmer Kasprzak nearly enough on here when my keyboard literally auto suggests his name as the next words whenever I type "I love"
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