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  Fandoms: Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken  

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  04 Jan 2020

  Tags

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  • Spot Conlon & Racetrack Higgins
  • Spot Conlon
  • Spot's Mother
  • Racetrack Higgins
  • Hot Shot (Newsies)
  • Sickness
  • Blood
  • Weapons
  • mention of murder
  • Suicide
  • Descriptive Death
  • Gender Roles
  • Smoking
  • Swearing
  • Drinking
  • fa- slur
  • Violence
  • Drowning
  • Poaching
  • look y'all it's not as bad as it sounds
  • spot's mother said FUCK gender roles
  • there's a huge excerpt from the little mermaid
  • if you don't know about the original little mermaid it's brutal
  • the excerpt is where most of the trigger warnings come in
  • y'all let me know if the time jumps are too confusing
  • i love my lil mermaid boi y'all
  • mermaid au
  • there might be a bit of historical inaccuracy when it comes to words and phrases
  • there's A LOT of sailor terms and references
  • there's implied sprace if you squint
  • MMMEEERRRMMMAAAIIIDDDSSS
  • if y'all follow my mythical newsies series this is a standalone
  • race alternates between italian and english when he is drunk
  • but he is also really chill when he's drunk
  • i did minimal research on drowning im so sorry
  • did an assload of research on sailor talk and traditional folk songs tho

  Summary

  After catastrophe strikes, a young Spot Conlon befriends a young mermaid named Nello who likes to hang around the Brooklyn docks.

  Series

  • Part 4 of Mythical Newsies

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  5,301

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Kudos:

  26

  Bookmarks:

  3

  Hits:

  247