Fic: I Don't Want Your Sympathy (I Just Need A Little Therapy) (5/?)

[brididgid]

Media: Fanfic
Title: I Don't Want Your Sympathy (I Just Need A Little Therapy)
Rating: Eventual NC-17 if I don't entirely chicken out. R in general. (I'll change the adult content filter thingy when we get there.)
Pairing: Kurt/Blaine.
Spoilers: Up to 'Sexy', AU after that.
Warnings: Eventual sexytimes, swearing, the inner workings of my fucked up

Comments

[sparklegemstone]

Hi!

Just wanted to say that I have really, really enjoyed this so far and am most certainly looking forward to an update if/whenever it comes.

I'm really picky about body swap fic, but this pushes all the right buttons for me, both for the trope and as a Klaine fanfiction. The initial accident/reactions were just perfect. I love the little character moments that really ground it in the Glee universe: Friday night dinners, Rachel's comment about being a little psychic, etc. I really do feel like I'm reading about Blaine, Kurt, and Rachel. And in particular, I LOVE that you embraced and are developing Kurt's aversion to imtimacy as seen in Sexy. It just feels really true to character, and I loved this paragraph in particular when all of a sudden Blaine, who was first a mentor and now a best friend and unrequited crush, put him on very uncomfortable grounds and severely stepped on his sensibilities:

Kurt bites his lip and nods. He hadn’t meant to freak out, or make such a big deal out of it, but he couldn’t help but be scared. It was worse because it was Blaine who scared him

I feel like there are so many authors that, in any situation with the potential to become smutty, automatically make Kurt assertive with regards to intimacy because, I don't know, off-screen three episodes later he found out that he LOVED SEX or something. That's one of the big issues that I had with the fic that you linked to at the beginning of this. But so, anyway, I really appreciate how true your characterization is and the conflict he feels about being infatuated with Blaine and yet uncomfortable with going there is really well done.

[brididgid]

Ahh, thank you so much! This review made me super happy, I'm glad people are still enjoying this even though I've been awful about updating. It might not be for a while, but I do plan on updating. Probably sometime in December (I have NaNoWriMo this month so no time for fanfic for a bit.) Thank you and everyone else who's waiting for being so patient!