It's almost funny because what they are now - which you have so eloquently stated here - is what I write for them. Throughout "Vows", "Try The Swing", "Collision" et al, they thought a lot and said very little and it kept a divide between them. It was only when, towards the end of the fic, they opened up and trusted each other with their deep and dark secrets, issues and problems, that they found their way towards each other. I always felt like I was writing them on their way to being what they were during S2 & 3.
And now that I'm seeing it on my screen? I'm understanding more and more why people were yelling at me...!
Oh, yeah, I wrote them not communicating openly through much of "Near Misses," and it was so different to write at the time. The whole shift in the middle where they slowly become friends and do open up to each other and enjoy each other is in many ways the most important part of the story for me.
But I feel a bit bad for my readers, now, for having made them live in the limbo for a month last summer when I was posting, since the limbo and disconnect in the show is so painful to watch. (At least with me, they could be sure of a happy ending!)
Oh, as much as it hurts to watch, I think that they needed to go through this process. I might have written it differently, but if I'd been in charge of the season their journeys would have been basically the same. Blaine needs learn to stand on his own two feet and sort himself out on his own, and Kurt needs to feel desired and strong without Blaine and wanted for being himself. This is, ultimately, good for them both, even though it is so painful for them. I was so relieved for them when they started to reconnect as friends; the loss of each other in that regard is the biggest one of all of them both
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I could meta about the fact that we put Blaine's name second, thereby relegating him to suffix status, the purpose of which is to change the root word for a specific reason, rather than having a reason and purpose of its own to any real linguistical sense. Blaine literally needs Kurt for Klaine to make sense. Of course Kurt needs Blaine for Klaine to make sense, but K works fine by itself, we have all signed texts and emails with just our initial and I leave comments on kids' work, signing it "Miss R". So Kurt without Blaine is better than Blaine without Kurt and I seem to have meta'd about it anyway. Whoops.
O_O *w* I have never thought about it this way, thank you for sharing this thought, I absolutely love it!
And now that I'm seeing it on my screen? I'm understanding more and more why people were yelling at me...!
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But I feel a bit bad for my readers, now, for having made them live in the limbo for a month last summer when I was posting, since the limbo and disconnect in the show is so painful to watch. (At least with me, they could be sure of a happy ending!)
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O_O *w* I have never thought about it this way, thank you for sharing this thought, I absolutely love it!
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