Spot, trying to pull Denton up from the side of a cliff: I can't hold on Denton, you're too heavy!
Denton: pretend I'm a Newsie, Spot
*Spot's grip loosens*
Denton: NOT JACK, NOT JACK!
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I see your ADHD Race, your ODC Davey, your autistic Albert. And I raise you OCD Race.
Due to misrepresentation and the stereotypes of OCD I haven't seen this ever, but I need to.
Race who always needs things to be even, who used to have concerning fits of 'violence' as a kid where he would slam himself again walls, kick things, punch stuff until both sides of his body felt even. Who had to go to hospital with a broken nose because he just had to keep punching it.
Race who has rules revolving around keeping people safe (OCD is having a bad scary thought and doing an action to make it go away as a base summary) and cries whenever Jack pulls him away from drumming his fingers against the table or running laps around the room because he's being annoying or scaring people and screaming that he doesn't want everyone to get sick and die
Race who swings like a pendulum between thinking that he's insane and being convinced that everyone thinks this way -he's the one who can't take it and struggles
Race who doesn't give a shit about how clean his room is and is very rarely afraid of dirty things because that isn't what OCD is
Race who lies in his bed for hours in the morning and bawls because he wants to get up but he can't because he wants his friends to live
bonus points for Dasher crawling in with him and Race holding his son close as he sobs because he is so breakable he can't risk it
Race who only ran because when he was walking anywhere he would get the thought that something was chasing him or that the world was ending and he wouldn't be safe until he got home and was able to stop.
Race who got his name because of it because he was running through manhattan as fast as he could because he wanted to be safe but the world was ending
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no no no you don't understand I've had an epiphany this is my new favourite hc:
Spot Conlon who got the newsie nickname because they have vitiligo!
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My boy. Chaotic gremlin. If you can't tell I love 92!Spot Conlon because he's such a little guy and still everyone is afraid of him (not that you can't tell my favouritism looking at my fics on ao3)
Close-ups under here:
Also thanks for everyone who reacted on the Race post, got really motivated to post this too due to it. Also did it in August last year and it has been rotating in the back of my mind since then :)
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Teenage Gabriel Damon playing Spot Conlon like a tiny sparkplug demagogue and influencing GENERATIONS of fanon, then calmly leaving acting behind forever? Such a mic drop.
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Spot: There ain’t no crime in being a thief!
Davey: …What a thief does is take someone’s property without their permission. Which is a crime.
Jack: Not when I do it. I’ll steal your heart and you wouldn’t mind :)
Davey:
Davey: That was very smooth.
Spot: I will steal both your organs and money.
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I need a Sprace fic where one of them is a ghost, I will get on my knees and beg if I have to. I don’t even care which one is which.
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Whenever I remember being in Newsies, I remember how much fun being a Brooklyn Newsie was. There was only like 5 of us, including spot but holy shit was it fun
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