catbrains
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angstober 2025 by catbrains
Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies - All Media Types
09 Oct 2025
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Angstober 2025, alternatively titled "I'm putting Newsies characters through the horrors again".
...But mostly the Delanceys. Again.Oscar jerks away.
"Fuck," he croaks, and it's almost a bitter laugh. "Christ. Course it's you."
Jack sits back on his knees, letting his hands fall from Oscar's arms.
"You alright?" he asks, just as lowly. There's something gentle in his voice, and Oscar hates it, hates those dark eyes looking at him like that. "Found you like this. An' I…I know—"
Oscar forces himself to his feet and grabs the fence beside him when he staggers. His legs are dead. His knees hurt. His head is pounding.
"Yeah, yeah," he says. "You got your laughs. You gonna fuck off now? Or I gotta make you?"
Jack stands slowly, hands raised in mock defense, still looking at Oscar like he's checking him over. "I ain't laugh," he says quietly, earnestly. -
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AI-Less Whumptober 2024, alternatively titled 'I put Newsies characters through the wringer'.
But mainly the Delanceys.The first hit cracks across Jack's face hard enough to make the whole room flinch. The watching boys grimace or avert their gazes, and amongst them Oscar feels a ripple of opposing feelings. Amusement, grief. Gratitude it isn't them at the end of Snyder's ire. Not this time, at least.
Jack inhales shakily. His cheek is immediately swelling, dark skin flushing a brutal red where the hit had landed. It'll be a vicious bruise.
"I ain't afraid of you," he breathes.
"What a pity," Snyder responds. "We'll see if we can't fix that yet." -
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A place to collect my shorter-form, Delancey-centric writing, largely from Tumblr.
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Oscar flexes his hand and winces as he sits down heavily in one of the rickety old dining chairs occupying Wiesel’s kitchen.
He’s used to the feeling of bruised knuckles, that soreness that runs up his hand when he moves in just the wrong way - or moves at all, when it’s bad. His knuckles are rarely not bruised, what with the life that he leads, whether he’s punching people or walls - and there’s a familiarity to the ache. Something grounding to the pain. It feels like too much to say he likes it - feels too much like Morris and his habits - but Oscar appreciates it, maybe. Appreciates the ability to just flex his hand and be brought back down to earth with a thrum of soreness through those fragile joints and tendons.
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cassiopeia (worse fates) by catbrains for enter_plot_holes_here
Fandoms: Newsies - All Media Types
05 Jan 2024
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'“Y’ain’t lookin’ at the stars, Dave. Thought that was the point.”
If it was Jack, he’d say something cheesy then. Something too earnest for him to be able to say without making it a joke - ‘You’re prettier,’ maybe, complete with a wink for good measure. But it’s Davey, so he only nods sincerely and shifts his gaze to the sky surrounding them, wordless.'Manhattan's hardly the best place for stargazing. Davey spends more time explaining what should be there than what is. But Jack doesn't mind one bit, even if it's late and cold and he's spent the day working his ass off only to be late getting to Davey's anyway.
So long as he ends up with Davey by the end of it, he can imagine worse fates. -
now we don’t sing so loud by catbrains for orphaned_acccount
Fandoms: Newsies - All Media Types
02 Aug 2023
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Tommy Boy deals with his guilt upon returning to the lodging house with his injured brothers after scabbing. Particularly for Splasher, who’s taken a hard knock to his trust and fears that maybe everything’s his fault, for not being able to do something like Mike told him to.
Oscar deals with his own guilt, returning to their bedroom with his younger brother who’s overwrought and raw with a meltdown in the wake of the fight.
They both want to make it better. They try in their own ways.