It's Not So Pleasant, and it's Not So Conventional [chang^2 w. genderswapped!mike and pseudoincest]
Title: It's Not So Pleasant, and it's Not So Conventional
Rating: PG.
Fandom/Pairing: Glee. Tina / genderswapped!Mike, called Michelle, in a creepy way.
Spoilers: Mike's dad is kind of a dick; Tina's parents support her dreams.
Warnings: AU wherein Tina's mother married Mike's father and they are therefore stepsisters; pseudoincestuousness; aforementioned genderswapping; generally worthy of side-eyeing. Also it helps if you don't believe in the validity of the Westermarck effect.
Summary: It's different from when they were children, but maybe it's just the same.
Words: 248.
Disclaimer: I do not own Glee, or whatever Panic! at the Disco song this title is from.
a/n: For the fairytale prompt of "Cinderella." I have another piece with this general universe/idea that I might get around to posting soon.
The way that Michelle used to look at Tina will always make things uncomfortable. Even when she and Michelle are dating (to their half-shared parents’ uncomfortable but technically invalid chagrin), and Michelle has her father’s blessing to pursue her chosen path with her life, Tina still remembers those looks from their childhood.
She remembers how Michelle, just a year older than Tina - though always wiser and more mature (more resigned) - would bite her lip to stay silent when Tina was dropped off at dance rehearsals, and Michelle was carted away to soccer practices or chess clubs. She remembers how Michelle would shoot Tina subtly resentful looks at the dinner table, when Tina could chatter on and on about show choir, while Michelle kept up the façade that she only for the sake of sisterly bonding.
Tina knows the way that Michael was always content to let Tina’s mother allow her to consider seriously becoming a dancer someday, and the way that Michael was conversely dead-set against the same path for Michelle, will always be in the back of Michelle’s mind, along with psychological taunts of never good enough.
And no matter how Michelle looks at Tina now - like Tina is her absolute favorite everything; like she loves Tina in a way that Westermarck would hate - it’s always tainted by those memories of how she used to look at Tina. And it makes Tina think, time and time again, that maybe dating a stepsibling really is a bad idea.
Rating: PG.
Fandom/Pairing: Glee. Tina / genderswapped!Mike, called Michelle, in a creepy way.
Spoilers: Mike's dad is kind of a dick; Tina's parents support her dreams.
Warnings: AU wherein Tina's mother married Mike's father and they are therefore stepsisters; pseudoincestuousness; aforementioned genderswapping; generally worthy of side-eyeing. Also it helps if you don't believe in the validity of the Westermarck effect.
Summary: It's different from when they were children, but maybe it's just the same.
Words: 248.
Disclaimer: I do not own Glee, or whatever Panic! at the Disco song this title is from.
a/n: For the fairytale prompt of "Cinderella." I have another piece with this general universe/idea that I might get around to posting soon.
The way that Michelle used to look at Tina will always make things uncomfortable. Even when she and Michelle are dating (to their half-shared parents’ uncomfortable but technically invalid chagrin), and Michelle has her father’s blessing to pursue her chosen path with her life, Tina still remembers those looks from their childhood.
She remembers how Michelle, just a year older than Tina - though always wiser and more mature (more resigned) - would bite her lip to stay silent when Tina was dropped off at dance rehearsals, and Michelle was carted away to soccer practices or chess clubs. She remembers how Michelle would shoot Tina subtly resentful looks at the dinner table, when Tina could chatter on and on about show choir, while Michelle kept up the façade that she only for the sake of sisterly bonding.
Tina knows the way that Michael was always content to let Tina’s mother allow her to consider seriously becoming a dancer someday, and the way that Michael was conversely dead-set against the same path for Michelle, will always be in the back of Michelle’s mind, along with psychological taunts of never good enough.
And no matter how Michelle looks at Tina now - like Tina is her absolute favorite everything; like she loves Tina in a way that Westermarck would hate - it’s always tainted by those memories of how she used to look at Tina. And it makes Tina think, time and time again, that maybe dating a stepsibling really is a bad idea.