#characters mark

so usually i’m not a huge fan of “tag the oc” posts (if only because they’re rarely relatable to my idiots) but i seen this one today and i dislike it for a whole other reason. how am i going to fit my character’s first kiss in the tags???? and then to just do ONE?!?!?! are you mad??? I want to do everyone and tumblr will stop my wordy ass. i mean, it won’t, it’ll let me write a bunch but only show some lol. 

SOOOOO under the cut? I will “ describe your OC’s first kiss “ as many times as i have inspo for. this will be very long and rambly and i’m doing so unapologetically :)

PUNKS KINDA DEAD(mains)

Mark - he’s like eleven, going on twelve, (and we’re ruling out silly little eight year old kisses on the playground things here, just fyi) and has spent summer vacation with these kids from the neighborhood, including this bossy fourteen year old girl from up the street who coordinates their hang outs like a dictator. it was past “curfew” (the sun was almost down, street lights were on) and they were walking home, Mark walked her to hers because that’s who he is. A gentleman and not scared to walk past the seven houses to get to his own. Plus no one was in his house to yell at him for being home late so he could be home the latest. 

she tells him he’s more annoying than a kid brother as he kicks the football into her yard rather than giving it to her. mark can’t fathom anything more annoying than his kid brother so he knows she’s lying. he’s too busy thinking about that to see what comes next, not that he could have expected it. She kisses him and it’s more than peck or a kiss on the cheek kind of thing. There’s still a childish instinct to gag afterward. She walks into the house before Mark can ask questions. They kind of never speak of it again? until the end of summer, she tries it once more explaining she thought there was something between them but she just doesn’t feel that spark when they kiss. 

Mark didn’t know what he felt, it took years to process that. However, it’s now used as evidence that he was always into bossy people who insult him rather than compliment him. His type has been the same since before he had a type. 

((this was sort of a “new” story for me that just fell out??? like i’ve know the story of the first time mark kissed a guy because it was a whole thing but his first kiss? i guess i didn’t know this story and this just happened so here’s what i learnt today))

Bex - Kind of surprisingly, Bex’s first kiss in Mark. She was kind of a “late bloomer” especially in the face of overly-confident Mark who by the time they were 15 had done far more than kiss and was learning he wasn’t just into girls. Bex, on the other hand, was also learning who she was but that seemed to hold her back, especially because she wasn’t really living authentically yet. 

Bex had never felt an attraction to those who identified as male but everyone always joked about her and Mark being “too close” and with Mark now hooking up with one their team mates, Bex thought maybe??? Those maybe feelings were made worse by the whole transgender realization. Living her truth and living as a woman? surely she had to be into guys. So one day they decided to see if things were “more” between them. Mark really gave the kiss his all, Bex did not. Their lips were barely touching before she knew this was all wrong. So wrong. 

She did still have to figure out her sexuality some more, Mark didn’t like make her realize how gay she was or anything like that. It was just very wrong for her and Mark to be romantic. They knew it. They both said it afterwards and have never tried since. They’re the best of friends and there’s not a romantic feeling between them, even if they act like husband and wife from time to time (they love it). Still, this awkward and horrible kiss has to go down as Bex’s first real kiss and she kind of hates that, often lies about it. 

Dahey - Despite all the things currently to say otherwise, Dahey was a nerd. No. No, they are still it’s just more of like one aspect of their personality rather than the defining aspect. In school, Dahey pretty much cared about two things. His brother and studying. 

Also going against the sort of expected, he’s the one that got the sort of storybook first kiss. Not that anything is wrong with any of the others but there was this other boy always in the science labs at the same time (Dahey did go to an all boy’s school so the gender part wasn’t surprising…even if Dahey makes jokes constantly about going there and not exactly being a “boy”). It was months of just sort of nothing, asking for an extra set of hands to do this, you’ve got this thing I need so give it to me, all that just existing in the same space sort of thing. Dahey was unaware of anything they were feeling like the adorable nerd they were until the day his brother needed to hang out for some reason and Dahey wouldn’t let him come in the room, he had to wait in the hall. There was this weird territorial feeling Dahey hadn’t ever felt, this area, this interaction, all of it was HIS and not Davin’s. They shared everything but they weren’t sharing this. 

All night Dahey stewed on this because it wasn’t like them, Davin voiced his complaints both in the moment and on the walk home. It led Dahey to only one conclusion, a hypothesis they immediately tested. The next day, everything went like it was supposed to, they were in the lab with the same person they had been for months. Dahey walked over and asked if they could kiss. A far cry from their usual conversation that was barely above small talk and usually science related. However the other boy was like too excited about it and they ended up not working on their projects that day as they sort of learned to kiss instead. It was a little awkward, a little messy at first, but they both got the hang of it after a while. Dahey thoroughly enjoyed the afternoon and they’d occasionally do it again summer break happened and things weren’t the same the next year. 

((wooo that got long fast))

Scout - Scout feels like her story is boring (especially in comparison to the lie Bex told her for her story) but her first kiss was with her first girlfriend. They’d done all the cute little date-y things. Three proper dates, lots of secret hand holding at school, everything everyone thinks of, and at the end of their third date (dinner and a movie) they had a kiss. It was as magical as all things led Scout to believe it would be. They dated through most of the rest of their school career, university ended up splitting them up. 

HANK AND THE FLORIST 

Hank - It was outside Hebrew school. It was a dare of all things. Hank was hanging out with like four other boys as they waited to be picked up for the day. One knew Hank had a little crush on one of the others and in the least supportive of ways, dared them to kiss. Because what else do a group of kids do in a parking lot in Seattle in the pouring rain but dare each other to do “humiliating” things. 

Hank cannot remember a time he’s felt so mortified (and he’s far too familiar with feeling that way, this is still the top of the list decades later). The other guy didn’t protest, thankfully, it was just very “gotta do the dares so i’m not mocked” sort of vibes. It was quick but it had Hank’s stomach dropping to the floor. Nothing came of it, except for a bit more awkwardness on Hank’s part, and a more and more magical retelling of it each time he was asked. Hank has romanticized the shit out of it now that he’s an adult. It almost drowns out the mortifying parts. 

Max - He was on one of those not-dates. Max was unaware it was a date, he was clueless to the crush this girl harbored because he didn’t see her as anything more than a friend. It was a class field trip to a museum, a boring exhibit and Max was rambling on and on about something barely related. he was excited, animated, enjoying himself with a friend, and she leaned in and kissed him mid-sentence. She tasted like sugar because she’d been eating rock candy from the gift shop all day. 

Max didn’t want the kiss though and he pulled away, confused as to what he’d done to make her think that was the right moment. Putting him in the awkward place of having to explain that they were better as friends and having to come out. They were partnered together so they had to spend the rest of the day together in silence and rejection. It ate Max up and he ended up agreeing to be her boyfriend on the bus ride back to school. Unfortunately for both of them he was still gay and it didn’t work out but Max sure tried.(it’s a pattern in Max’s life too, he ends up engaged to woman in his twenties)

PLEASE DON’T FEED THE BIGFOOTS 

Elliot - His is another “proper” situation. He’d taken a girl out on a few dates and walked her to her door and all that jazz. Knowing what was expected, the boxes he had to tick in this whole ruse, this game that he was sort of forced to play. 

He was sixteen, she was the daughter of one of his dad’s friends, The whole thing felt more like a business transaction than anything with feeling. The actual kiss itself was brief, very chaste, they were both just religious enough to feel guilt if they’d tried for anything more. However, by the next day Elliot’s sisters were telling him they’d heard the news and he’d done well so it was nice. He wasn’t sure what to do with all of it really. HIs mom was practically planning their wedding and it led to several very uncomfortable conversations with people about what happens next. And honestly the meddling family stuff ended up being their demise and they only went on two more dates, the latter of which was purely to break up. 

Andy - Not that he’s the only one with a story of a “first kiss” that happened really young but this is the story Andy tells. Most gloss over this and like spin the bottle and so it’s just as telling as anything else but he was six, in kindergarten, and he’d made fast friends with the girl in his class. They played everything together. Recess, choice time, after school, it was all the time and of course you know the adults handled that normally. All the way up to Andy’s step-dad harassing him to get some friends that were boys (little did they all know then….)

So they’re at school and they’re playing house, raising their stuffed animal kids and everything, and she has Andy “come home from work” and then she’d show him how to make another baby. Which involved them laying side by side on the floor and then she kissed him sort of like how one would eat an ice cream cone, it was messy and allowed to happen for far too long before the teacher separated them. They both got in big trouble. She was told she couldn’t hang out with Andy anymore, Andy was congratulated, and their parents had a screaming match on Andy’s front lawn. He didn’t want to kiss anyone for a very, very, very long time after that. 

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(( wooooooooow that ended up being so much!!! but like i could say so so much more. i left out so many characters from punks kinda dead too, though some were because i don’t know the answers to their first kiss story but that’s okay, ya know? like i don’t need to know tomas or lin’s first kiss to write them in their supporting cast roles in the story. 

BUT if anyone reads this far, thank you first off, and wants to know more, i probably know it. i could have written for days on this ))

i was thinking about work, in ways i legally can’t elaborate on, as i did my hair and like thinking about Mark for some weird reason??? (it’s been either all hank and the florirst or the dahey show in my head lately) and like the stuff he endured growing up and how he’s so dumb and pure and so just him he doesn’t see it as a hardship. he sees the good. (so, it isn’t dad abandoned us at our grandparents to go fuck half of england for years. it’s WE GOT LIVE WITH GRANDDAD AND MAMIE FOR YEARS!!! how lucky are we?!?!?! I love them!)

but it presents so different in his brothers. i don’t know why this is catching me like it is right now. I’ve had this characters for forever but I don’t think I think about Walter much is the deal? Anyway. He took all of it so much harder. Not because Mark could be an asshole to him but because of who he is as a person. So he was all the anger and fight that Mark wasn’t. He was the practical and the brainy and he is livid that fell to him. Walter has this huge chip on his shoulder for both the cards he was dealt and the fact that his brother doesn’t seem bothered.

Of course Mark is incredibly bothered. He has no idea how to voice or have those feelings and they just show in a lot of awful ways a lot of the time but he does truly believe he was lucky (a lot in that “others had it so much worse” way though)

This probably isn’t communicated as well as I want and I don’t have time to dive into the youngest brother but I having feelings about how the Hopkins boys handled their trauma this morning.