FIC: Forever Home - Chapter 97 of 100

[shadowc44]

Title: Forever Home - Chapter 97 of 100
Author: Shadowc44
Fandom: Glee
Pairing: Kadam (Kurt Hummel/Adam Crawford)
Rating: R
Spoilers: AU. If you’ve seen Kurt and Adam interact, you’re good.
Summary:  Adam is bored, and realizes he needs a companion. He decides to adopt a hybrid human/cat.
Warning: Mention of past abuse (non-sexual) from other

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ODNT though I wanted to share w/u

[silentlyreading]

[hope you don't mind this method; feel free to blog this if you want] There has been a lot of very good commentary on and analysis of ODNT, but I have seen no mention of the theme that I found most striking in the episode that aired just before Mother's Day: THE IMPORTANCE OF MOTHERS AND THE MOTHER/CHILD RELATIONSHIP.

Kurt, the boy whose mother died when he was very young and who, he says here, "spent the rest of his life wishing I had one," plays Peter Pan, a boy who is also searching for a mother-figure. He does so at a time when is he feeling somewhat "lost" and in need of comfort - and he finds it in Maggie, a mother who has lost her child and is so ashamed of their lack of relationship that she tries to hide it by buying herself flowers and presenting them as from her daughter.

Her daughter is named Clara. This gave me Doctor Who feels - anyone else connect the name to Clara, the Companion who lost her own mother at a young age? Alternatively, I thought of Clara in Porgy and Bess, who sings "Summertime," an adaptation of "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child," the spiritual which ended the original play version of Porgy.

And who else is having major problems in this episode? - Why, Rachel "I-have-two-gay-dads," of course.

On the flip side, what characters seem most emotionally stable in this episode? - The ones whom we know have good, relationships with their mothers, i.e. Santana (whose stability in this ep is somewhat surprising)and Artie (and who is shown confronting mobility problems, which made me think back to the only conversation we have ever seen between Artie and his mother).

Re: ODNT though I wanted to share w/u

[shadowc44]

Interesting insights! I hadn't thought that much about the episode airing shortly before Mother's Day. I think you have some good points about the name Clara and possible connections. We know Chris is a Doctor Who fan. I've never seen Porgy and Bess, but I'm very familiar with Summertime, and I've heard Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, but I never made a connection.

I was thinking mainly the mother-daughter stuff paralleled Rachel and Kurt, and how she's sort of abandoning him and getting lost in her own dream. I just wish Rachel didn't have to learn the same lesson over and over, that her friends also have hopes and dreams, and she sould try to value the things that are important to them. Kurt has always been supportive, and she just expects it, but is rarely there for him. Maybe that's from missing the nurturing she might have gotten from a mother.

I thought it was interesting the Chris put in the line, "All my life I've pretended to have one." I can't think of any instances in canon where we've seen that, but it's obviously part of his head canon for Kurt. He's laid down on the floor surrounded by the smell of her perfume, but it seems like he just transferred the tea parties to Burt.

I'm sure there are some people who grow up emotionally stable if they don't have a mother, or two parents, but a lot do have various struggles that they can't seem to talk to anyone about. The type of thing you might talk to a mother about, if you had one. I wonder if having a mother in her life might have tempered Rachel's ambition with some other goals, and maybe made her more compassionate? But as Kurt pointed out, her bedroom was kind of overkill in the "girly" department, so she or her dads were maybe trying to make up for that lack of female influence in the home.