19 Works in Dead Ponyboy Curtis
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There’s Death at my Door and I Swear that it's Following Me by sgt_F_Pepper
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
19 Jan 2026
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Johnny couldn't save him that night. Ponyboy Curtis drowned in the park after running from his house in the dead of night. Now the two Curtis brothers left have to pick up the pieces of their small family.
Trigger Warnings are listed last in the tags. Please check them and read cautiously.
(Now completed!)
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Lovely Bones by BiLeafed_Clover
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
12 Jan 2026
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“4/16/02”
"My name is Ponyboy Curtis. I'm fifteen years old, and I'm going to be murdered."
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Or, where Ponyboy is sent to an abusive foster home and killed not long after. Years later, the audio recordings he took during his time there resurface. Revealing secrets and terror unbeknownst to the rest of the world.
Or, an Outsider’s AU based on The Lovely Bones
(Updates Mondays)
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So many people, yet so alone by kittysunriser
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, That was Then This is Now - S. E. Hinton
05 Dec 2025
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Ponyboy Curtis
A name almost every one knows
smart enough to skip a grade, on the track team, baby of the Curtis gang you get the point
So yeah he was well known
people saw him as a cocky popular bastard with enough backing to be cocky
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But if you met him? Whole different story
He was so full of love but him bending a teenager would try to hide it to look tuff
Ponyboy was someone who gave love without expecting it back
He would remember the little things people would ignore
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But being the youngest in his grade,Friends group and even his gang comes with it cons
And he will have to deal with it
Alone?
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How will his friends and family react to the new him? -
The reason I'm livin' is you by VincentTheAwesomest
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
04 Dec 2025
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When a “life-changing” event happens to the youngest Curtis brother, his friends and family deal with the consequences of their actions.
the outsiders (insanity au)
This is my first fic so I’m sorry if it’s bad!!
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What happened? by Scully_sand
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
13 Nov 2025
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What if a soc brought something they weren’t supposed too to the rumble? And how would that end for our good old ponyboy. This takes place why Johnny is in the hospital, during the rumble.
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Stay Gold by 1_IrisFan
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
25 Sep 2025
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What if Johnny hadn’t been able to stop Bob from drowning Ponyboy?
(POV of Sodapop)
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What if Ponyboy Died in the Fountain Scene? by wasabiimei
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
13 Jul 2025
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Ponyboy doesnt understand Darrel. That was obvious. But what if he never came to his senses earlier? A dead boy in the fountain. Johnny must do all he can to hide this murder, because after all, no one cares about Poor Greasers. They can die in the Cooler for all they care. Timid boys can’t live ‘round here.
Ponyboy Curtis and Johnny Cade hang out with some soc (upper class) girls in a movie theatre at night. Little did they know, those girls had some overprotective Boyfriends, who were out for blood.
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Now It’s Just the Two of Us by aceoffaspaid
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
11 Jun 2025
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Living life without family proves a challenge. Especially when he knows it’s all his fault.
Soda don’t see it that way.
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stars fell on tulsa by arigdw
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
15 May 2025
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He'd be fifteen today. I miss you, little buddy.
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Jumping off of the Edge, Oversleeping Your Head; Everything's Turning Dark to you. by DrawingWolf03
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
10 May 2025
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Addition to an alternate universe to my Soc!Curtis setting.
The Shepard Gang goes back for Soc Ponyboy. They're too late.
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I Have Hands for Building Altars, Lips to Pray to Reckless Gods. by DrawingWolf03
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
11 Apr 2025
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Alternate universe to my Soc!Curtis setting.
Soc Ponyboy and Curly both die at the fountain.
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We'll be waiting for you by par_zi_val
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
09 Apr 2025
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Takes place after the book. Ponyboy commits suicide. This is the aftermath a week or two later.
Rewrite of "You're the greatest thing we lost"
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- Part 7 of Parzivals favorite written works
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And in the end, I'll do it all Again, I Think You're my Best Friend. by DrawingWolf03
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
03 Mar 2025
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Johnny dies before he can stop Bob.
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- Part 6 of The Story of us Looks a lot Like a Tragedy now.
- Part 13 of It's Crawling Under my Skin.
- Part 5 of I try to Show Emotion but my Eyes Won't Seem to wet.
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An AU where it's Ponyboy who is injured instead of Johnny.
"Then I realized that Frost was telling the truth: nothing that’s gold can ever stay, and Ponyboy was true gold."
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Software Instability by evergreenstringbean
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp, Detroit: Become Human (Video Game)
28 Dec 2024
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In 2038, a so-called "freak accident" claimed the life of Ponyboy Curtis. Two weeks later, "Ponyboy" listens to Darry and Soda talk about what to do with him.
Detroit: Become Human AU in which Bob drowns Ponyboy in the fountain and is replaced with an android.
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- Part 1 of Software Instability (Ponydroid AU)
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17 hours by Wtfemile
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983), The Outsiders: The Musical - Jamestown Revival & Levine/Rapp
29 Sep 2024
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After his life is filled with despair, ponyboy has only one solution.
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I sleep so I can see you, and I hate to wait so long. by that_one_ambivert
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
01 Sep 2024
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He thinks of Johnny and he chokes. Chokes on the sound of his laughter, on the never-ending fear in his eyes, on his greasy black hair, on his soft-spoken voice. He chokes on the ugly desperation for him. "Please, God, let me see him, just once more," he says, praying and begging that whatever and whoever hears, and listens.
They listened, but in a way Ponyboy felt was utterly cruel. Ponyboy could see Johnny again, he could hear his laughter and see his fearful eyes, but only in his dreams.
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A Song For the Ages by Anonymous
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
31 Jul 2024
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It’s the song, or maybe it’s the guilt, that keeps him from moving on. The same song Ponyboy raved about until the end.
The song for the ages. Something Johnny hated. -
The Fix-It for Melancholy (Maybe it Kills Us) by orphan_account
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton
19 Jul 2024
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This is inspired by two people on tumblr and my own take on it! @rileyH20 and @gr3aserzzz-gang, thank you!