#javid headcanons

[make-friends-with-the-rats]

sure Jack Kelly is a real charmer and a flirt, but David Jacobs(particularly 1992sies David) is the biggest f—ing tease on the entire f—ing planet

#enough with this blushing virgin david jacobs propaganda #I will no longer stand for it #he may be a virgin but he’s got a mouth on him that one #javid headcanons #javid newsies #1992sies #newsies 1992 #92sies #david jacobs #jack kelly

[pigeonwit]

Tipsy Davey is a lovely Davey, easy to blush and fluster – it doesn’t take much more than a smile to send him giggling into his glass, and it drives Jack’s own ego to dangerous heights. He could spend whole nights murmuring compliments in Davey’s ear, tracing his knuckle against Davey’s thigh, listening to him giggle against Jack’s own temple, feebly nudging him away (and letting him come right back) and mumbling "Jackie, stop…" without meaning a word of it.

And then there’s Drunk Davey, when his flush settles high on his cheeks and his bashfulness settles with it. He loses that nervousness he keeps underneath his skin that’s always pulling him back just a little, telling him not to come on too strong. He touches freely, whispers the pads of his fingertips over Jack’s wrists enough to drive him insane, sweeps over the bridge of Jack’s freckled nose and murmurs, “Glory be to God for dappled things…”. The bitter little middle-schooler that still lives in Jack’s mind has always thought that poetry was something just too dorky to be attractive, but that bitter little middle-schooler sure shuts the hell up when Davey whispers pretty things in Jack’s ear on a dark corner of the dance floor. Jack’s not complaining at all.

And then there’s Jack’s favourite – Truly Shitfaced Davey. He’s a rare gift, reserved only for New Years, birthdays and Halloween parties, if his costume is slutty enough. Jack can recount every single Truly Shitfaced Davey encounter he’s ever had, and while they’re nowhere near as suave as Drunk Davey, they are by all means his favourites.

“Face,” Davey mumbles, poking Jack’s cheek and marvelling at the squish of it. Jack has to bite his lip not to laugh.

“Yeah, babe?” He asks sweetly, because he is a wonderful boyfriend, thank you very much.

“Your face… It – you…” Davey’s face pinches as he tries to find his words underneath the drunk haze that’s blanketing his brain. He promptly gives up and groans, waving an arm dismissively as he burrows into Jack’s side. “S’good.”

Jack grins, pressing a kiss to the curls tickling his face. He gives up on trying to stifle his smile – Davey’s too drunk to care, and far too drunk to notice the way he’s staring inquisitvely at Jack’s lips the way he usually stares at a good book.

“Thanks, Davey-mine. Your face is good, too.”

Davey stares at him for a moment, mouth squared and silent for a little too long, until he makes a strangled little squeak and ducks his face into Jack’s neck.

“Shuddup!” He orders as Jack laughs, but he can’t help it. As much as he loves Davey when he’s reciting sonnets from memory, he especially loves him speechless, if only for the novelty of it.

#i stand by this. forever. davey can improvise full sonnets when he's drunk but get him shitfaced and he loses all capacity for speech #(also that line is from 'pied beauty' by gerard manley hopkins. because unlike davey i cannot improvise full sonnets) #(and since i'm essentially god here that means davey can't do that when i'm writing him. but in headcanon world he can) #newsies #uksies #MAL jack w freckles supremacy #javid #javey #davey jacobs #david jacobs #jack kelly #pigeon scribbles #cw substance use #tw alcohol mention #cw alcohol #cw drinking

[shsl-fander]

Awful newsies head canon for you all:

Modern au Jack Kelly is an AVID country music enjoyer, and it's so painful for his boyfriend, David 'folklore evermore' Jacobs.

#davey is a Swiftie #This is correct #No one can argue with me #Jack....we'll fix him #newsies #javey #javid #javid newsies #javey newsies #livesies #92sies #headcanons #headcanon #david jacobs #davey jacobs #jack kelly

[ashloveschaos]

92sies Davey wearing Jack's bandana canon.

It's a symbol that he's Jack's lover :)

Livesies Jack doodles on Davey's arms canon.

When he's too restless and needs to draw something but doesn't have any paper on him Davey offers his arms up.

#headcanons that have been cooking up in my brain #headcanons #totally not based on events that happened today with my bf #newsies #david jacobs #jack kelly #newsies 1992 #javey newsies #javid newsies #If anyone wants to draw this I will literally bow down on my knees

[we-are-inevitable]

btw in the restaurant au. if you even care. jack goes to culinary school because growing up, his dad always made incredible food, and he started puttering around the kitchen with him when he was like 5 years old. he always wanted to try better recipes and newer things, and his dad- though they didnt have much money- would always save up for good ingredients so jack could cook whatever his little heart desired. cooking was their time; i imagine his dad was a line cook or something, not at a fancy restaurant or anything but at a little diner, and cooking was Their thing. jack would spend all day with his mom, and as soon as his dad came home- no matter how tired he was of cooking, no matter how much he wanted to just go lay down- they would go to the kitchen and he would supervise jack as jack made dinner for everyone.

when jack’s mom gets sick, he’s 10 years old, and his dad has to cut back his time at the diner to take care of her, since jack is in school and can’t be there. this means they bring in less money, so they can’t really afford to pay for the fresh ingredients now; most of their meals at home are dollar store staples. hanburger helper, microwavable TV dinners, sandwiches- they genuinely don’t have the money to spend on fresh produce anymore, and even buying ground beef and chicken breasts is splurging that they can’t often afford.

they live on a shoestring budget until jack can get his first job at age 14. his mom beats cancer the first time, but they’re drowning in medical debt, so jack finds a job that will actually hire him despite not being 15 yet, and his first real job is working as a dishwasher at a restaurant down the street. he works nearly every day, and all of his money is given to his father, despite his father insisting that he doesn’t need a job, he shouldn’t have a job, he’s just a kid and his money should be going toward kid stuff and not paying his parent’s medical bills.

but jack refuses, so they keep it up. i think the only non-mom-related expenses jack has are food related,, sometimes he’ll stop in the little grocery store he would go to with his dad when they were younger and buy fresh vegetables and a little two pound roll of hamburger meat, just so they can at least have one meal that isn’t ready from a box. jack continues this until he’s fifteen, and by the time he turns 15, his mother’s cancer is back, even after only been beaten for a year, and it’s a lot worse.

jack drops out at 15, after having long conversations with his father, and though it breaks his father’s heart to see jack doing this, it’s unfortunately what needs to be done. jack drops out and gets another job on top of the dishwashing, and he ends up as a line cook at a fast food place. they’re able to pay the bills on jack’s paychecks, and get groceries with the little that jack’s dad makes from the days he’s able to work.

jack’s mom passes when he’s 16, leaving jack and his dad to cover both funeral and medical expenses. they’re drowning after that, both grieving in their own ways. jack’s father can barely get out of bed for weeks, but jack is back at work the day after his mother’s funeral because he knows they can’t risk falling behind on bills.

jack’s dad loved his mom so much. they were such a happy family before she got sick, which wasn’t her fault, none of this was ever her fault, but after she passes he’s completely out of commission. he can’t keep a job, he barely talks anymore, he drinks and drinks until jack can’t recognize him. it’s terrifying to watch, but jack gives him his time- he knows that eventually, his father is going to get back on his feet, and he’s going to be okay, and he’s going to go back to work and they’re going to get to relax and things will be fine again.

jack’s dad dies a few days after jack’s 18th birthday. they didn’t see it coming. the paramedics say it was a heart attack. jack likes to think of it as his mom needing his dad. it’s easier to stomach that way.

but that’s fine. everything is fine. jack, freshly 18, plans his second funeral and again, he’s back at work the day after putting his dad in the ground. he sells most of the furniture to have some extra cash. he finds a cheaper apartment in the bad part of town because he can’t afford a two bedroom when he’s just one kid. he has a bed, he has photos of his parents, and he has a kitchen. that’s all he needs.

the next few years pass with jack climbing the ranks in whatever restaurants he can get his hands on. he’s finally in a place where he can save for school, culinary school, and he has more restaurant experience under his belt by the time he’s 21 than most of his older coworkers do. he busts his ass and works so hard to put himself through school, and when he finally gets his certificate after everything, he can rest. he starts applying to different high end restaurants, and he works as a cook in a nice steakhouse for a while, but he doesn’t like his coworkers and knows he deserves more than being miserable.

when he hears about a new restaurant opening in the area, some “high end” burger joint called Pulitzer’s, he throws his hat in the ring with an application and is hired on as the lead chef at the age of 25.

he’s 26 when a new server named David Jacobs is hired, and things start looking up.

#this is why jack is so fiercely defensive of his cooking #and why david getting pissed at him makes him so angry #jack also is able to get his GED before going to culinary school and he just wishes he could tell his dad he finally finished high school #this is so much longer than i meant it to be but fuckkk bro jack loves his dad so much #jack kelly #newsies #davey jacobs #david jacobs #livesies #newsies musical #jac txt. #jac’s headcanons #restaurant au #javid

[sky-neverending]

thinking about writing a newsies au where Jack and the newsies are vampires who took residence in an old hotel, and everyone knows about the rumors of the vampires there but no one believes it. and then college student Davey gets bit by one of the Delancey brothers and the only place he can think to go is the hotel, because if vampires are real then maybe the rumors about that place are too. and there he meets Jack, the leader of the Newsies, a boy who’s been there since 1889. and he takes him in and helps him cope with his new change and stuff and it’s all cute.

basically newsies but vampires.

#sky’s stardust #newsies #newsies headcanons #newsies 1992 #newsies fanfiction #javid newsies #davey jacobs #david jacobs #jack kelly #javid #javey #vampire au

[zoeyslament]

Livesies Jack being so pissed that Davey is taller than him. “I don’t want to have to get on my tiptoes to kiss you!”

“You aren’t even that much shorter!”

“But what if you grow???”

“Jackie, I’m like an INCH taller than you! Are you really that bitter?”

#newsies #jack kelly #headcanon #davey jacobs #ships #david jacobs #livesies #headcanons #au #oneshot #javey #javid

[athousandboxjumps]

“My very own bed and an indoor terlet.”

Consider: Davey and Les share a bed. They have to, their apartment is tiny and Sarah is the oldest so she gets her own place to sleep. Les has the tendency to steal the covers (he likes to be in a cocoon). In the summers that’s not so bad. Davey tends to overheat anyway so it doesn’t bother him.

Winter is a different story. Their apartment is freezing all the time and there’s nothing Davey wants to do more than crawl under the covers and try to get warm. But Les is so small and he could get sick so easily. So Davey puts on all his extra socks and shirts and let’s Les take the blankets if it means his baby brother can be somewhat comfortable.

Now Les isn’t an idiot. He knows what Davey is doing. So he gets Jack and Race and the boys to help pool some money to buy a blanket that’s just for Davey. Buttons even embroiders Davey’s name in the corner so everyone knows that it’s his. No matter how cold it gets at night, Les refuses to take Davey’s blanket from him. No one else touches Davey’s blanket.

Except on some nights, when Jack comes in and they sit, entwined in each other, feeling the warmth of a loved one against the bitter cold.

#I’m back again with headcanons that will eventually become fics oops #this was really for my friend Luke so have fun love :) #newsies #david jacobs #davey jacobs #les jacobs #jack kelly #javid #javey #stars speaks #stars writes stuff

[pinkniz]

Javid mane headcanon

Javid actively avoids going to places with high levels of humidity, because one time in his marshal days he had to go to a mission in a place with humid weather. Little did Javid know that when lion manes are exposed to humidity their hair falls because there isnt any air flowing through their hair.

Which looks like this:

During the mission Javid felt suffocated until out of nowhere he started feeling fresher and thats when he notices that patches of his mane were falling. He gave priority to the mission of course but it was clear to everyone that he was trying to get it done so he could go back to a dryer place

Bonus:

Sometimes you can see Javid lifting up his chin for no apparent reason, this is something male lions dbto refresh themselves because their manes tend to be too hot for them. You can even see Javid closing his eyes when he does this

#dislyte #javid dislyte #dislyte headcanons #im crazy

[ftm-megamind]

how do you think jack and david apologize to each other after having quarrels (besides words because of course sometimes they just say it out loud but i mean little things that mean just as much as "i'm sorry"). personally i like to imagine david giving jack a little kiss on the forehead and jack hugging david real tight and nuzzling into his neck

#to elaborate a little i guess #i think david chooses forehead kisses because he picked it up from esther? like maybe if her and mayer ever fought he just witnessed her-- #--kissing his forehead. and same with him and his siblings too. so he sees it as a sweet signs that tells a lot of words at once #and jack hugs really tight because he's just a scared teenager after all. and he's afraid that if one time he's too mean and says too much-- #--david will leave. and so by hugging him he also silently says please don't go #<- jack has abandonment issues i think i hint that a lot with my headcanons #SO SORRY FOR THE LONG ASS TAGS #feel free to leave your thoughts ofc #newsies #newsies 1992 #92sies #newsies live #livesies #newsies uk #uksies #javid #javey

[baura-bear]

what pet names do you guys think Jack and David use for each other? leave it in the tags plzz

#jack kelly #david jacobs #newsies #newsies headcanons #javid #javey

[make-friends-with-the-rats]

if Jack Kelly is a top he's a submissive top and if David Jacobs is a bottom he's a bossy bottom send post

#prove me wrong #oh wait #you cant #like come on #david is an assertive little shit do you really think he isn’t? #he’s called the walking mouth for a reason #don’t cross him #meanwhile you just know that jack melts at any sign of affection #javid headcanons #javid newsies #1992sies #newsies 1992 #newsies #92sies #david jacobs #jack kelly #shitposting #javid

[noxexistant]

Please I beg of you good hcs 😭😭😭 I Need feel goods 😭😭😭

everyone in the manhattan lodging house knows there’s an open invitation to the penthouse.

it’s jack and crutchie’s place, sure, they’re the only ones who sleep up there every night - mostly because nobody else is crazy enough to - but specs has taught them all how to get up there, and jack always leaves the one window to the fire escape cracked open. every time he heads up there at night, he tosses, “‘m’in the penthouse ‘f’you need me,” over his shoulder, before he helps crutchie up the ladder - an invitation that anyone can go up there and seek him and crutchie out. that it’s not private.

the newsies take him up on it when they need it. race most frequently, because, okay, he misses his brothers and sometimes gets jealous that they’ve got their own private little place that doesn’t include him - which, yes, they only do because he’s refused every offer to join them, insisting he’d much rather sleep under a roof in a bed if there’s both going, thank you very much - but it’s the principle of it all. so, some nights he’ll clamber up the steps after his brothers and make them drag their beds together so he can clamber into the middle, and they can all spend the night like they did when they all first met. just kids tucked up together, safe in their trio, talking endlessly and learning everything about each other. there isn’t much to learn anymore, they know each other backwards and forwards, but that just means race has to come up with stupider questions to cover - like whether they’d rather fight a hundred tarantulas or a hundred rats, and if they heard the latest gossip fresh out of brooklyn, and if they wanna hear how he swindled some asshole outside the races.

the younger newsies climb up there pretty frequently too. splasher especially - he’s restless, and he likes to climb, though once he’s up there he gets in trouble with jack for clambering too close to the edges. he ends up all but pinned in jack’s arms, and only ever manages to giggle and fight for a few minutes before he’s out like a light. jojo likes to stand at the ledge and seek out the light of the churches, finding comfort in the fact that they’re there.

finch likes to sit and whistle out to the night, an endless wandering lilt of tunes and songs all blending into one another, hazy and soothing. he often can’t sleep indoors, needs the familiarity of the fresh air and the chill. albert likes to shoot finch or crutchie’s slingshot out at passers-by trying to get home in the dark, and loves that he doesn’t even have to hide because there’s no light on the edge of the roof for them to see him in. specs will sit at the edge of crutchie and jack’s beds and just talk, the types of talks that they don’t often get to have with all the kids around - honest and more serious. grown-up talks. which usually dissolve into hushed laughter and gossiping anyway, cracking jokes and sharing rumours they’d never get away with in front of the kids.

les begs davey and their parents for weeks to be allowed to have their first sleepover on the roof too. he’s enthralled by jack’s penthouse right from the first moment he sees it, where davey thinks jack is insane. davey’s never slept outside in his life, can’t imagine the appeal, but then it’s a warm evening and les is still begging and jack’s got that warm, amused look on his face, and davey finally says that, yes, okay, sure, they can go home and ask their folks and then, if they’re allowed, come back for a sleepover.

les and davey’s blankets that they bring are a lot softer and cleaner than jack’s and crutchie’s, but they’re added to the pile on the floor without hesitation. all four of them - the two pairs of brothers - all lay together in the mess, les and crutchie whispering amongst themselves, so it’s just jack and davey on the other side. and davey maybe finally understands the appeal, feeling the warm summer breeze on his face as he just looks at jack, silhouetted in the darkness but lit hazily on the one side in weak golden lamplight. he’s in just his trousers and undershirt, and his hair is untidy, and he looks as in his element as he does when he’s selling or painting. he looks peaceful.

davey forgets to sleep for a long while. he’s more interested in staring at jack. but then jack, half-stirring, makes a sound and opens his deep brown eyes just the slightest sliver, and reaches out discontentedly to where davey is sat at what he’d hoped was a respectable distance, a little too anxious to lay down. half afraid that it’d break the spell of jack like this. jack’s warm hand finds his forearm and pulls him closer none too gently, and suddenly davey finds himself lay on the confusing feeling of soft duvet on hard concrete, feeling jack’s hair tickle his cheek and smelling his skin, and jack makes another sound - a much more content one this time.

he and les have a lot more sleepovers at the lodging house after that. les is always delighted to get to spend the night chattering with crutchie until they fall asleep in a chaotic tangle.

#answered #sparkedblaze #newsies #jack kelly #crutchie morris #david jacobs #les jacobs #javid #albert dasilva #finch cortes #jojo de la guerra #splasher newsies #my headcanons

[loving-jack-kelly]

as we know i'm obsessed w outsider pov I think it's so fun to think abt how other people perceive my favorite characters so for your consideration. outsider pov javid where people are like wow we're watching a cheesy romcom play out in real life these two idiots would have been married four years ago if they'd have a normal conversation instead of speaking in innuendo and acting like nobody can tell how infatuated they are. and then the other side of the coin is outsider pov sprace where people are like wow. wtf is going on with these two what do you mean they've been together for a decade I have never seen them not arguing what do you mean the goofy one thinks the scary one is hilarious and the scary one writes sappy poetry for the goofy one I don't believe you. i don't believe you.

#one headcanon i have never let go of in like. six years #is that spot has exactly one close friend at work and everyone is always asking her how to deal w him and she's like idk he's nice #and spot is like yeah. i'm nice >:( but none of his other coworkers believe him so they just think clio is some kind of spot whisperer #and when they all meet race they're all like. wtf. how are these two a couple. bc none of them have picked up on spot's deadpan humor #even tho he's very funny. spot conlon is hilarious he's just very very hard to get a read on #newsies #jack kelly #davey jacobs #javid #spot conlon #racetrack higgins #sprace

[raggedy-albert]

give the public (me) thine Kathy thoughts

my one and only kathy 😌

she’s such an intersting character i love her so much. she’s basically sarah but so much more fleshed out. also she replaced denton which is great and it makes so much more sense. like she’s the daughter of the main “villain” and she goes against him not because she’s forced to, but because she knows it’s the right thing to do. she’s thrown into a new world and a new side of things she’s never seen before, and she easily adjusts and does so well and becomes upset when she learns about how unfair the world is after being hidden from it for so long. her character develops so much and she’s happy with jack at the end and it’s great (then they break up because she’s a lesbian and she gets with sarah and jack gets with davey and they all live happily ever after).

oh! and her name. she is such a strong and independent person that she completely rejected her fathers name and all the privileges that would have come with it. instead she takes a name that’s commonly associated with the lower class, one that she chose herself. she rejects the lifestyle she was born into and she works so hard in a world that doesn’t accept women, especially as workers, AND succeeds.

girlboss

#newsies #livesies #newsies headcanons #javid #javey #newsbians #katherine plumber #davey jacobs #jack kelly #sarah jacobs #jack newsies #katherine newsies #92sies #sarah newsies #davey newsies #joseph pulitzer

[we-are-inevitable]

shitty newsies au where jack is a certified Normal Dude (TM) and davey is a vampire who REALLY doesn’t like jack comparing him to a weird little victorian boy bc davey isn’t a little victorian boy anymore, thank you very much

#ideally this is before jack finds out davey is a vamp #filing this under ‘thoughts jac has in the walmart parking lot’ #jack kelly #davey jacobs #newsies #david jacobs #livesies #javid #jac txt. #jac’s headcanons