Albert Dasilva - Blog Posts

“haha wdym newsies has fish symbolism and it’s important” LISTEN. when Jacobi says “who says water isn’t important? just ask a fish… in the desert.” what does a desert notoriously lack? water. what does a fish notoriously need? WATER. but where do the newsies come in, you ask? these kids are being made to survive in an environment that isn’t giving them what they need to survive. doesn’t that sound familiar? ALSO, in CTB when buttons goes “we’s as free as fishes”— this enforces the fish metaphor. fish also travel in schools- similarly to how the newsies rely on each other to survive.

that’s pretty much it, thank you for listening to my rant

yo u just got newsied 🙀🙀

never understood gender dysphoria until i watched newsies😔✊

this is somewhat strange but I built a lot of the newsies in the sims and I had to download a separate mod because sim albert kept getting expelled and I couldn't keep him in school

deeply in character I fear

redfinch is so special to me bc when i say “that’s a cool guy and his loser boyfriend” i really could be talking about either one

working on a redfinch fic where albert skateboards and he meets finch by fucking running directly into him by accident

i really think my favorite newsies dynamic is sprace and redfinch. childhood/school besties Race and Albert with absolutely no self preservation, always up to something. Spot and Finch who reluctantly become very close friends as they struggle to keep their disaster boyfriends alive. the four of them are my favs tbh, like ugh what a wonderful combination

a little ralbert for the soul

here’s the pinterest reference image (which i color dropped from bc i refuse to learn color theory sorry)

and below is the timelapse bc I love when ppl share them. it’s cropped weird pls ignore lol

Whichever cameraman in the livesies proshot that decided to focus so much on Sky Flaherty is my favorite person ever thank you for your service

Also whichever choreographer put him in the front so much.

blush is the og redfinch

excitable/antsy but also hesitant bf x RBF bf

don’t ask me to explain any more in depth i don’t think i can i just feel it

everything sucks (i've read the whole redfinch tag on ao3)

does anyone have an explanation for the last names of newsies side characters? like ik some are historical and some are in the script, but what abt like Albert and Finch? Or Buttons? Like DaSilva, Cortez, and Davenport all feel widely accepted in fanon.

just wondering if anyone knows. thank youuu!!!

random modern newsies head cannons (with absolutely no evidence or reason) pt. 2

more bc i can!!

Race:

The most aggressive, reckless driver, but is dangerously good at it. Will cut across multiple lanes but has never even scratched a car.

Lied to everyone in his first week of college about his entire life (different lie per person) just for fun. He finally started telling the truth but nobody believes him.

Started a school poker club and promptly got kicked out of it for betting too much, and then winning it every time. (He just wanted a way to make money. The school did not like that).

STEM major. His work is impossible but he never complains about it. Also a dancer (not my hc). He complains about that a lot.

Has worked almost every retail job under the sun. Also complains about that.

Carries around cigarettes for the vibe but rarely smokes them. Just in case anyone else wants one. Has made friends with many random people this way.

Spot:

Brooklyn baby. Cannot drive. Is terrified of it but, when Race tried to teach him, he yelled at everyone and blamed other people for what was definitely his fault. Refuses to admit that.

Played football but seriously injured his knee (explanation for the cane) but doesn't talk about it much. Always comes up with a new reason for the injury that is entirely ridiculous, but since he delivers it with a straight face everybody believes him.

Absolutely no rhythm. Never goes to parties, even though he is in a fraternity (a very chill one, thank you very much). If he's ever at a party, it's because he's a sober contact, and he is the most unsympathetic person when it comes to taking care of drunk people unless it's Race.

Insists on sitting alone in the back of the lecture hall, even if he has friends in his class.

Crutchie:

Also an incredibly reckless driver but HAS gotten into accidents before. (Only twice, both times because he was racing a friend on the highway. Never serious but always stupid).

Very fidgety and usually making noises under his breath/drumming on shit. Drives everybody around him crazy.

The kind of guy to argue with a professor in a lecture, but only when he's sure he's right (which is always).

So many illegal things in his dorm: candles, toaster, air fryer, multiple animals.

Double majoring in a STEM and humanities field, always references one when in classes for the other and confuses everybody, but he sees a connection between them.

I like the idea that he goes to the gym with Albert a lot. (U wld never catch me taking away his disability so in my head he loveeees to bench and is so buff).

Albert:

(a lot of driving hcs. i wrote this in a car). gets so violently carsick. everyone thought he was saying that so he could ride shotgun; they made him ride in the back once and he made them pull over after ten minutes cause he almost hurled. safe to say he is now always shotgun and always playing the worst music.

Played too many sports, got too many concussions, and now is a crazy gym bro.

Peanut allergy. Would rather die than admit this. Has almost died because he forgets to tell servers at restaurants.

Finch:

his shoes are never tied. he never trips over them and refuses to tie them.

has a million weird, artsy minors that sound and should be fake.

floor sitter. is never in a chair.

JoJo:

his shoes are also never tied. he ALWAYS trips over them.

drank coffee, had a panic attack, thought it was a heart attack, and spent an hour in the ER.

also had the same reaction when trying weed for the first time.

Mush:

RIPPING up the dance floor at a party, fully sober too

Everybody's favorite frat bro; super great energy and incredibly respectful

Volunteers at local elementary schools; talks to young children like they're frat bros too.

Blink:

Dorm recluse. His suite mates have called Mush many times just to check that he's still alive in there.

Has no license and hates public transit, so he walks literally everywhere.

somebody else said this first (@make-friends-with-the-rats) but im thinking about race’s character being split across him and albert in the stage version.

but i think that explains so much about the twinkification of race (which so many people have so eloquently critiqued). all his anger and traditional masculinity is placed into albert, who’s only identifier in the script is ‘tough guy’. (again, somebody posted these character descriptions but unfortunately I can’t find that either, pls correct me if i’m wrong about this).

I love Albert and Race and their stage dynamic (particularly in livesies with sky and ben) so i’m not upset about this choice, but I do think it explains a lot of what bugs me about fandom interpretation of Race.

anyways, maybe that’s why i’m such a ralbert truther, because it brings these seperate halves back together. who knows.

little ralbert drawing i did. I need you all to understand how much I love these two (either platonically or romantically I am so not picky)

(featuring the reference image which i found on pinterest)

gave him colors!! love this guy

A couple Albert doodles to make it through the day

I’ve unearthed a newfound Albert DaSilva appreciation so have some of the boy

Albert DaSilva is brasilian

DaSilva/ da Silva/ Silva is THE MOST popular brazilian last name

It was a last name given to our native population when they were baptized into catholicism by the portuguese colonizers and conquerors. It means "from the wild/forest"

And because i'm brazilian and i said so

This is my definitive newsies headcanon, you can take it from my dead body hands

Race, Albert, and Finch have gotten Monopoly, Uno, and Spoons banned from group game nights.

Newsies as group costumes cause I'm waiting for Halloween

Albert, Finch, and Race as the Heather's

Manhattan and Brooklyn Newsies as Teen Beach Movie

Race and Spot as Solangelo

Jack and Davey as Hamilton and Laurens (Jack had a Hamilton phase 100%)

Blink and Mush as gay pirates

Newsbians as Luz and Amity

Bumlets as a Disney Princess (idk which one just of them)

Buttons and Elmer as Coraline and Wybie

Race and Albert 100% quote Lego Batman normally.

I NEED MORE REDFINCH FANART😭😭😭😭😭

My art isn't arting currently.

i had a Redfinch headcanons/fanart idea but, I am shit at art

So Albert skateboards and Finch rollerskates, and when they go do that together they hold hands and with Albert's skateboard it levels out their height difference.