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More stuff about Top Gun! Steve Randel

So I know in the movie Tom Curise’s character’s call sign is Maverick and his real name is Pete, but Maverick in my opinion doesn’t fit Steve so I made it his middle name instead because I can. Call signs in the Navy and other branches come from inside jokes or characteristics of someone that the whole team agrees on. So, I’m making his call sign Wildcard mostly because all the ones I could think of didn’t sound good the more I said them out loud, plus I feel like it fits both Steve and Mav’s characters.

Doing more research while also rewatching Top Gun, the youngest you can be to start flight school to be a Navy pilot is 19 and you go through flight school for a minimum of 6 years. Now in Top Gun, Mav is 24 meaning he would have only gone for around four years unless he started flight school at a younger age. We also can assume he got into school because of his dad, so for the AU I’m making both Steve’s dad and uncle Navy pilots, his father MIA like in the movie and his uncle retired. He started flying at a young age going through flight school while also being a greaser. He never really felt a connection to flying until around the events of the rumble. He mostly worked on cars because it took his mind off of what happened to his dad until on day at the ripe age of 17 in a half, he decided to actually go to boot camp and become and actual Navy pilot in honor of his dad. Then the AU continues like the movie except for the whole him and Charlie thing, and instead him play flirting with her because he can.

I’m also scraping the idea of him leaving due to diabetes and instead making the reason he left being Goose’s death because he couldn’t stand the idea of another close friend of his dying. Then we go into him living a normal life back with the Curtis’s and Two-bit, then to the events of Top Gun Maverick.

Made some art for my Outsiders-Warrior cats at lol

(Yeah, I used a photo for the bg, I'm lazy)

This is Dallys death lol, yeah, my au is basically just a re-write of the outsiders

I did some au designs!!

The outsiders warrior cats Au.

Greasers are rouges/loners - stick together in small gangs and live outside but near houses and other buildings. some are ex-kittypets/clan cats.

Socs are kittypets - live in houses with two-legs, don't live in gangs but will often roam in groups

Middle class (Not that important just mentioning for clarity) are clan cats - live in large groups in the countryside, usually don't interact with kittypets or rouges

The main story is basically the same lol. Just something I came up with during art :3

Would anyone want this? (Please say yes)

The outsiders zombie au where ponyboy is the last human

First Johnny comes back as a zombie, than Dallas, and slowly, the rest of the greasers get turned and the rest of the story is just ponyboy going on adventures with a non hostile/peaceful zombie Johnny

this is such a cool au guys !! >0<

Stevepop drag racing / illegal street racing au mood board!!!!

Ok but like imagine if you will: disabled veteran Sodapop and Two-bit becomes a part time caretaker for him... yes...yes..

ok but consider this. horse!pet regressor Ponyboy and handler!Sodapop.

Sodapop brushes Pony's pretty blonde mane and braids it the best he can and feeds him cut up apples from his hand. He gives Ponyboy sponge baths cause he's afraid to be submerged in water. and that's how you groom a horse, anyhow. When Ponyboy gets spooked or triggered Soda just scratches his cheek and whispers all soft til his breathing slows down. Darry can't wrap his head around it, but he plays into it cause he just wants his baby to be ok.

au where darry and soda are adults when their parents die n ponyboy is still a little kid... (hc under the cut)

All of Pony's fifth grade classmates ate lunch with their parents at one time or another. They'd skip to the lunch room holding Mama and Daddy's hands and Ponyboy would bury his face in his tray so no one would see him cry. Snot nosed ten year olds would ask him why his parents never showed up. He didn't know how to tell them that his Mama and Daddy were sleeping under cold dirt.

One night Ponyboy comes home from school, teary eyed and deflated like a birthday balloon that's been kept too long. Soda rushes to help put away his backpack and take off his shoes, (which he was much too old for now, really) and sees his wet ruddy cheeks and scoops him up like he's still a little fawn.

"Pone, what's wrong baby?"

Pony sniffles all pitiful. "All the other kids get to each lunch with their parents. And I-" He wails.

"I have to eat all alone!"

Soda's pretty brows scrunch and he coos and sways his baby side to side. Darry appeared like an answered prayer, leaning over Soda's shoulder to wipe the salty tears from their little brother's cheeks. Darry makes a promise right then that he'll make it to lunch with Ponyboy no matter what.

"I'll be there tomorrow honey, I swear it." Darry says with staunch absolution.

The next day, Ponyboys sitting in the lunchroom on the squeaky little chairs, playing with his green beans and feeling just awful. He glances to the doorway like clockwork every minute, waiting for Darry to show up. Probably five minutes pass, and Pony's heart is smarting fiercely and he's losing hope when the double doors fly open. Darry rushes in, all sweaty and dusty from work, smiling in a way that's reserved only for his brothers. Ponyboy flies out of his seat and shoots to Darry's chest like a bullet.

"Told ya i'd make it." Darry whispered into his slick hair.

The other kids are staring frog -eyed now.

"Is that yer Dad, Pony?" Some yellow haired girl shouts.

He preens pink under his big brother's arm, puffing his chest out. "Yup. Sure is."

WOAHHH IS THIS MY SIGN TO START WATCHING STRANGER THINGS??? (yes I haven’t seen it 😔💔) and HARRY POTTER AHHAHSHDJEJD

reblog if you’re okay with people writing fanfics of your fanfics and/or fanfics inspired by your fanfics

someone PLS I would LOVE to see content not generated from my own wonky ahh brain with the Curtis brothers au like I’ve heard takes on it and I wanna see it in ACTION consider this a CHALLENGE RAAAHHHHHHH— 🦅💥

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UPDATEEE

I'm writing the stuff for my latest collection of oneshots (sicktember) if like anyone is reading and im sorry for the wait but ive got class and stuff so it might take a little while but IT IS IN THE WORKS :)))

since the writers block is writers blocking y'all can send in your requests 😭

how ab a little teaser for my au fic since im feeling like it yall.

Excerpt:

And Ponyboy just took another bite out of his apple, the taste seemingly more rotten. He looked down at it, and saw that it’s perfectly fine. He took another bite, although more aggressive. He couldn’t help but wonder that maybe his brothers didn’t want to be around him because of his mind and the rotten thoughts it brings.

Pony breathed and then checked the time. He and Johnny had to be at school within thirty minutes, but the ride there only took ten, so he decided not to worry about it too much before just finishing his breakfast in the form of an apple.

The boy got up from the chair as if he had the time and the power to mosey around all day as he walked to the kitchen to throw out the core. Pony always wondered what the deal with some fruits were. It’s always encouraged to eat fruits and vegetables, something they all learned as little kids in preschool. But only some of it. The strawberry, but not the leaves. The watermelon, but not the rind. The apple, but not the core.

Maybe Ponyboy is an overthinker, or maybe he just brought symbolism into everything, but it made him think. Why did people use earth’s resources so much, only to take what they want and leave what they can’t use? Why did people only want someone for what they can do to benefit them, but not everything when it comes down to it?

His wild thoughts were interrupted by his oldest brother handing him one of the paper bags he was putting together just minutes earlier.

“Take this Ponyboy. I decided last minute to make everyone some lunch today because someone forgot to do it last night,” Darry looked accusingly at Two-Bit who just shrugged and checked the clock before grabbing one of the bags and running, giving everyone a rushed goodbye.

Darry sighed and shook his head slightly, before giving Ponyboy his full attention. His eyes became stern as he spoke, opening Ponyboy’s backpack and putting his lunch in there before zipping it back up, “Ponyboy, you best try today, ya hear? No excuses. Now, I know you don’t want to go but you have no choice. School is required. Clear?”

As the younger met his stone cold eyes again, he tried to give a reassuring smile, but it didn’t reach his eyes. He had hoped that Darry would talk to him about something else. Maybe instead of the fact that he should try, Darry could have brought up how much he did try, and how much Darry should’ve seen it through his last straight A’s report card.

“Crystal.”

surprise surprise! seven brothers content! first chap is short but this is just something chill i can update to show y'all first hand what the dynamic is...except in a modern texting era.

also if yall wanna see anything specific you can ask and i can deliverrr because i love exploring thiss!!

so im in the process of writing the fic for this idea and i have a decent outline so far for it too, but since i havent ever seen it done, i wanna know what i should zoom in on particularly character or plot wise that maybe i didn't already think of that would be good for this au

i would like to be able to tell as much of a story that i can and reach as many plot points and explore many facets of the au so i like gen need some feedback yall

ok so im gonna need all y'all to tell me if you'd be interested in an outsiders fanfic but everyone in the gang is actually related like they all grow up together. like they're the curtis gang cause they're curtises.

i wouldnt change much about them personality wise (or looks) but it'd be an interesting dynamic to explore within them all and how they're relationships would be similar or different if they're LITERAL brothers

i think even if dally grew up a curtis, he definitely spent some time in nyc. here are my thoughts.

i take back any possible comments that say they never ended up in nyc because here's what i think happened

mrs curtis grew up in tulsa but mr curtis grew up in chicago, so when they got married, they ended up there until about a year after ponyboy was born

thennn they moved all the way to nyc to live with their uncle and stuff in which dally started getting into city stuff as a young teen

their parents didn't know because dally was good at hiding things

it was only til the older guys that dallas was dealing with found dally and pony together out at a park and tried to take pony, that dal got scared and told his parents which led to them just deciding to move to tulsa entirely (they've been there before to see their relatives) with uncle jeff (who ended up staying with his parents and their grandparents for a while before moving back to the city)

living in the south for the younger kids, influenced their accents, unlike the three eldest who drift back and forth from ny to southern.

(lets pretend all of that makes sense)

seven curtis brothers au but it's their family dynamics hcs

for @wannabe-goth-babe who commented and i just couldn't resist making another list of hcs

since two bit is all goofy, friendly as a kid growing up to present day, he's always been close with his siblings but ever since their parents passed, he had to slow some of his bad habits to help provide for his brothers as the only other newly legal adult in his family

so while he helps (or at least tries to) darry manage all the stuff he's responsible for, he also spends his time keeping morale up while darry is busy

but steve and soda would usually already be doing something cause they're nerds (probably a whole ahhh championship for arm wrestling)

and johnny would usually be with pony since dally is often out

but when he wasn't he would sometimes be in the middle of losing to johnny in some card game

so pony would just sit somewhere and read or be at the piano, playing around with some melodies and two-bit couldnt tell if pony was lonely or just in the zone

but two still would walk over and look at his sheet music and ask him what he was playing because he would usually recognize it because a lot of the sheet music was put together by their mother who would always play it to them

and while everyone else is minding their own business, two would sit down at the piano next to pony

and pony would teach him the things their mother taught him, since two had never wanted to learn, something he he regretted after losing their parents. passing up on chances to spend time together

and two didn't wanna make that mistake again

he learned how to identify the keys and play a few chords

and two played the lower harmonies with those chords while pony played the higher melody

(guys im picturing the scene from the princess switch if you know what i mean except platonic)

(therefore lets pretend its christmas time or smth for a moment and they're playing carol of the bells :D)

and their brothers would hear and turn around and look on in amazement because respectfully, its hard to get two-bit to sit down for extended periods of time. especially at the piano.

and after they finished the song, two would ruffle at pony's hair, pull him close into a side hug and thank him for being so patient with him

and pony feels all happy since no one really had time for something like that because no one else likes music as much except darry and he always has something to do

but two-bit was always good at making him feel seen

like two bit has common sense but he's still techncially a teen so sometimes he and pony would sneak out and do silly dumb things and go to the playground and joke around before sneaking back home as if nothing happened

mostly cause two knows that pony hasn't had as many opportunities to be a real teen since he was freshly a teenager when their parents passed so two just wants to make it feel real for him

and while two is technically still enrolled in school, he doesn't have to go. so when ponyboy or someone else is sick or smth he stays home to take care of them and cheer them up so darry doesn't have to miss work

and like brother, like brother, two and pony are both insanely stubborn when they're sick and stubborn in trying to help each other so it's chaos but they make it work in the end

unlike steve and pony when they were home alone together after catching the same cold

if they weren't so fatigued and sick they would've really went at each others throats

instead it's steve laying on the couch and pony across darry's arm chair trying to figure out how the other is responsible for the cold going through their family

(they've always had a rocky relationship)

if you were to ask steve why he "hates" ponyboy

he would say it's because the kid is a brat who has it better than the rest of them since he doesn't need to get a job and get in the stuff that mostly dally gets into

but if you were to ask him on a deeper level

he would say he's jealous. because for a while he and soda were closer than pages in a book and of course after johnny was born, they were all fussing over him, but with pony it was even more since he was the littlest of the littles

and pony always had to be included and as time went on, steve not only lost attention from his brothers, but also his parents

(and steve isn't the only one who feels like this)

(cough cough two bit cough cough dally)

dally practically got over it when he got older and two bit just ignored it for so long that he just doesn't think about it.

(it was real hard for two because he and darry had been so close but he knows that everyone else is more important)

if you were to ask ponyboy why he thinks steve hates him

he would say its because steves a dumbass who focuses all his willpower into making his life too difficult.

but if you were to ask him on a deeper level

he would say it's because he thinks hes annoying and holding everyone down

that he's too sentimental and stupid for wanting something beyond a greaser in tulsa

pony genuinely thinks that darry, steve, and dally only put up with him since johnny, soda, and two-bit do

they're working on it

or at least they're going to

youngest bro of seven on the east side of tulsa vibes

like they do NOT let him do anything out of the ordinary or potentially risky

enter ponyboy's rebellious era

(this will be dived deeper into in the fic)

darry is the same except for being more cautious and protective over his brothers

soda's the same mostly with extra love warming his heart and everyone else around him

johnny still is more of a listener than a talker but he's more confident and like soda and darry when it comes to being a curtis bro

dally still has that tough exterior from his time participating in rough gangs but it's the mildest it's been in tulsa

(the curtises have lived in other places, i'll write ab more of this in a post soon)

keith daniel curtis is still a doofus

pony is mostly the same with the trials and tribulations with darry but multiplied by 6

steve is pretty chill. no daddy issues. except for the fact he's dead. just ponyboy issues. everyone else is alright tho.

back when it was only darry, two, and dally, two was playing major middle child because hes always been an outgoing kid, but dally used to be really shy so darry would always cheer him up and two would just sit there like o_o

so basically darry would always make sure dally was alright

but growing up, it became the opposite

dally usually checks in on him and stuff to make sure stuff is going well, offers to take stuff off of him like taking up more shifts at bucks so darry doesnt have to do an overwhelming amount of work

even tho darry was older by a few years, he was always more optimistic and dally hated that their parents just had to die and all of the pieces had to be picked up by darry. he was too young to have all of that on him.

so dally takes matters into his own hands sometimes just so darry gets some rest.

just to return the favor of darry always taking care of them.

love these questions!

yes, they're personalities change because they were raised differently in this au. and yes since johnny isn't in the same situation with his parents, he is more outward with his personality. way better self-esteem since he has practically a fanclub with his family in this au. very sassy. i'd also like to say he's kinda good when it comes to dating. similarly to soda. but not as obvious since he's all respectful. but he does get shy and quiet at times too. it's like a mix. depending on the day, the circumstance, and the people he's with. for dallas, he is less of a meanie since he actually has people to care about and knows that people care about him so he is softer, but he still lives and engages in the wrong stuff in town and everything with other gangs which probably leads to his seemingly/slightly cold demeanor. it does start early though, in his early teenager years. their parents just do whatever they can to help him and guide him. also side hc, their uncle (i mentioned him in another post) would sometimes babysit them. and when it was only darry, two, and dally, the older two would hang out and so their uncle would often read to dally. their uncle grew up in nyc so i like to think that dal sometimes has that accent when saying certain words because of hearing them for the first time from his uncle.

as for the book events, i think they can still happen, just differently. thats an aspect i plan on going into further in my full fic of the au (in the works 😉) and seeing how it could unfold if things were different like this (i wont kill anyone off i promise)

financially, they start off rocky since they're struggling to keep up a house of seven, but as they go and advance to new jobs they might earn enough to not be considered lower class. maybe eventually it gets to the point where they're upper middle class, but it's def an uphill battle that won't happen instantly.

o.m.g. i can assure you the johnny-pony-dally dynamic is chaotic. imagine having two great, dependable, loyal friends...then throw all that down the drain cause you actually have to live with them /j | they're very silly but also very supportive, and i can see as time goes on, the seven of them just sleep wherever there's a bed to the point it doesn't matter whose room is whose as long as they get enough sleep to not be insanely cranky in the morning

surprisingly, ive never heard that before, but it makes sense, but throughout reading the outsiders (and i know a few of my friends have this problem too) i couldn't imagine or picture a face or a person to go along with dally's description (or any of them really) seeing the movie rlly saved me there so i only really see the actors when i think of them and portrayals which makes sense in my head since they all have similar hair colors. but they prolly do have some mexican/native or whatever genes down the line or maybe in their parents so it makes sense for their looks to not stray insanely far.

ty for coming to my tedtalk! i hope my yapping wasnt too confusing but if ya wanna know anything else or wanna see anything else lmk! i srsly need more motivation lol. you'll certainly be seeing more from this au in the near future :)

ok so im gonna need all y'all to tell me if you'd be interested in an outsiders fanfic but everyone in the gang is actually related like they all grow up together. like they're the curtis gang cause they're curtises.

i wouldnt change much about them personality wise (or looks) but it'd be an interesting dynamic to explore within them all and how they're relationships would be similar or different if they're LITERAL brothers

im really glad you like it because i was worried about executing it right since it's a whole new concept that changes a lot about most of the characters.

anything in particular you'd like to see? i need more ideas to write about ofr it and the full fic that ill be writing to explore the concept in totality. i would appreciate any input!

ok so im gonna need all y'all to tell me if you'd be interested in an outsiders fanfic but everyone in the gang is actually related like they all grow up together. like they're the curtis gang cause they're curtises.

i wouldnt change much about them personality wise (or looks) but it'd be an interesting dynamic to explore within them all and how they're relationships would be similar or different if they're LITERAL brothers

curtis brothers au hcs but it's when pony was born

darry was six years old and already had five little brothers so he knew he was ready for a sixth

at first he didn't like it, but he grew to love his brother and being an older brother when his first baby brother, keith, was born.

so you can imagine the excitement for dally

and then the extreme excitement for twins

and then another one

darry practically had a mini army

but the army wasn't very useful when the three youngest were in a stroller, dally was all shy, and keith was always bored so he always made it darrys problem

just like when he was sitting in the waiting room with his siblings and his uncle as they waited for their dad to come get them

keith was poking him and trying to get him to play

dally was in the seat on the other side of keith, also waiting quietly which was really good for a kid his age.

and their uncle was trying to entertain steve, soda, and johnny in the stroller so they wouldn't start crying again

which really was starting to annoy little darry

he loved them but the kid was stressing cause theres gonna be another onee

once their dad came out, darry practically jumped out of his seat and grabbed the hands of his two younger brothers to walk to their mama

and uncle jeff pushed the stroller

darry didn't have a hold on dally for too long before the latter ran to their dad for "uppies"

grabby arms and all

keith however was running his toy car up and down darry's arm

darry let it slide

what darry didn't let slide was the extra babbling from sodapop

the kid was overdoing it

so yk what darry did?

he side eyed him

yeah thats right

but eventually they made it to their mama's room

they went closer

darry peaked over and saw his mama smiling

and in her arms was the smallest baby he had ever seen

he hadn't remembered even lil johnny being that small

dally was still being held by their dad before peaking over and then hiding back in his dad's chest

eventually little dally looked back and smiled

"baby!"

keith was overjoyed as he held out the car to the baby, who was still asleep in their mama's arms, seemingly rejected when the boy hadn't woke up and suddenly started playing with him

their mama had to explain

"haven't seen last of me, baby!"

their mama had smiled at the boys, the ones that weren't now asleep in the stroller

their parents steadied them as they held their littlest brother for the first time

their parents watched as they saw the joy in their eyes at the small baby

once the baby went back to their mama and their dad, they had questions to ask

darry looked up to his beaming mama. she looked tired but also as happy as she was everytime she got to hold one of her precious children for the first time.

"what's his name, mama?"

little darry had asked

"his name is ponyboy"

if you saw my other posts about my fic/headcanons for my au about the gang being all LEGIT brothers, can y'all tell me what you what like to see me write in that au? just as one-shots or what you'd like to see in the actual fic (in the works)?

i wanna write something and i have like no ideas so lemme know if there's any dynamics y'all wanna see into for the au or any specific events or ideas :)

more outsiders au headcanons but it's pony being a musician

(if you wanna see more and you havent already read it i have a oneshot under the same name on ao3)

pony is def the most musical in the family.

like their parents tried to get them all into piano and stuff and other than darry no one else really cared except for pony

i imagine hes a choir kid

and just loves music with all his heart

like out of nowhere he would start singing something thats stuck in his head

all loud and obnoxious

they could all be in the living room chilling and stuff, doing nothing much in particular and pony would just be all like

"R-E-S-P-E-C-T! FIND OUT WHAT IT MEANS TO ME"

and he would rock it too

steady vibrato and them runs and riffs

like he's insanely talented

and everyone would just sigh

cause they've given up on getting him to stop

or when he's practicing at the piano and something happens or someone does something dumb

he just plays the circus theme song thing

and he'd get smacked upside the head

or if he's sad he can usually relate it to a song lyric and he'd be caught singing it since it would end up getting stuck in his head and everyone would just be like

"you good homie??"

and when he's feeling things

he WILL write a gutwrenching, heartstring-tugging poem that he may or may not adapt into a song

he would also randomly belt something from a musical

and then darry would randomly start singing (sometimes in harmony) to throw pony off and darry would be all like

"i aint tryna be mean but before you there was meeee"

darry would also try to help him out with piano and they'd argue because darry thinks it's this note and pony disagrees or smth

darry fr be like

"pony it says piano so here's a tip: you have to play it softly"

and pony would be like

"I AM PLAYING IT SOFTLY"

(he says as he slams down on the keys)

and the others are just watching, eating popcorn because it's always entertaining to watch darry try to get pony to listen or vice versa cause they're both stubborn af

some silly little headcanons i have specifically for my au of the outsiders that i felt the need to write down all in one place.

after their parents died, darry made a deal with the state that he could keep his brothers as long as they're able to support themselves

so darry got three jobs, roofer, contractor, and uh...yk what.

two-bit who was almost 18 started working at a grocery store cause i said so

dally managed to get a job as a bartender at bucks

and ofc soda and steve work at the dx

johnny and pony don't have jobs yet cause the others don't want them to because they're "too young"

(when really they're 14 and 15 and are in fact old enough)

when everyone else is at work, johnny and pony stay home and watch movies. like binge watch.

they once thought they could handle horror movies.

they couldnt.

they were latching on to darry when he got home.

dinner at their house is chaotic.

they're yapping over each other and darry's trying to get them to settle down so that people don't report a noise complaint on them.

how to bribe the curtises?

not money.

not gold.

these big backs only listen when there's dessert involved.

even after a 12 course meal, if they're hungry in the middle of the night and sneak out to the kitchen, there will most likely already be someone there

steve and soda used to share a room.

keyword: used to

they would stay up all night giggling and shi

same thing with pony and johnny.

so steve and pony swapped rooms.

darry regrets it cause now soda and pony cant stop giggling, but he can't stop it so he just gave up

so therefore dally and two bit share a room.

dally isn't thrilled

two bit yaps

dally needs sleep or he'll be grumpy in the morning

but two-bit contradicts him saying that dally is gonna be grumpy either way.

and then dally comes at him about still living in the house as an adult and then teases him for his lack of ability to pull

dally would try to find a way to get darry to let him sleep in his room if darry weren't such a heavy snorer

(dally snores too)

(but he refuses to accept it)

darrys the type to need his morning coffee before speaking to anyone

dal just doesnt want to speak to anyone

ponys a night owl.

they'll tell him to go to sleep and pony will be like "just one more chapter"

but he keeps reading and suddenly the birds are chirping

johnny tried to protest this once back when they shared a room

to say he'll stay awake too unless pony goes to sleep

he fails and ends up falling asleep.

pony gives him a pat on the head and continues to stay awake until the sun shined through the window.

pony then proceeds to sleep the day away

(same)