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From an ask on tumblr:
gettinglostinneverland asked: Hi! So, thanks to nadiacreek who was reading it a few days ago, I also went to reread Near Misses and remembered about something I always wanted to ask you about but always forgot to. I got very curious when Kurt and Blaine first met, and I'm not talking about the party but the very first scene in the story, when Blaine signs up for the Review. Part of me waited the whole story for one of them to mention that meeting, but none came, so I'm wondering what made you choose to write it? :)
Ooh, good question! :)
There were a couple of reasons I chose to do it that way. For one, I thought it would be a massive contrast to the first meeting of Kurt and Blaine in canon, which came with theme music and slow-mo running and life-changing eye contact. In the fic, their first meeting is a miss, not a hit. I thought it would be kind of a splash of water to the reader to indicate that we are not in canon, that it’s not going to follow the same path.
I also liked the idea that you don’t always know when you meet someone important. Kurt and Blaine are endgame in the NM-‘verse, but they meet not with a bang but a whimper. Life doesn’t always make it clear just how important someone will be when you first lay eyes on them.
Both of them are also wrapped up in their own lives, goals, and preconceptions that they’re not in a place to notice each other at that first meeting, too. They’re not open to each other. I thought them not connecting then and not even remembering it would help to illustrate that concept.
I also wanted NM to run a bit more like real life than fanfic usually does, which means that not every loose end is tied up in a bow by the end of the fic. We don’t see Sebastian, for example. They don’t say “I love you” in the main fic. Blaine doesn’t discover his dream career. And they didn’t remember their first meeting.
I do think that they will remember it, probably at the end of the next summer when they’re planning their table at the new student fair and it comes out that Kurt was there. Blaine will remember that he thought the boy was pretty; Kurt will remember that there was some cute, too-confident freshman. And they’ll laugh. :)
I did plant a little hint of them possibly remembering, though, when Blaine sort of recognizes the same crossed-rapier brooch Kurt was wearing that first day on the quad. I can’t remember if I did that in NM or in “Twenty-three Firsts,” actually, but I did lay a bit of groundwork there.
Thanks for asking! :)
gettinglostinneverland asked: Hi! So, thanks to nadiacreek who was reading it a few days ago, I also went to reread Near Misses and remembered about something I always wanted to ask you about but always forgot to. I got very curious when Kurt and Blaine first met, and I'm not talking about the party but the very first scene in the story, when Blaine signs up for the Review. Part of me waited the whole story for one of them to mention that meeting, but none came, so I'm wondering what made you choose to write it? :)
Ooh, good question! :)
There were a couple of reasons I chose to do it that way. For one, I thought it would be a massive contrast to the first meeting of Kurt and Blaine in canon, which came with theme music and slow-mo running and life-changing eye contact. In the fic, their first meeting is a miss, not a hit. I thought it would be kind of a splash of water to the reader to indicate that we are not in canon, that it’s not going to follow the same path.
I also liked the idea that you don’t always know when you meet someone important. Kurt and Blaine are endgame in the NM-‘verse, but they meet not with a bang but a whimper. Life doesn’t always make it clear just how important someone will be when you first lay eyes on them.
Both of them are also wrapped up in their own lives, goals, and preconceptions that they’re not in a place to notice each other at that first meeting, too. They’re not open to each other. I thought them not connecting then and not even remembering it would help to illustrate that concept.
I also wanted NM to run a bit more like real life than fanfic usually does, which means that not every loose end is tied up in a bow by the end of the fic. We don’t see Sebastian, for example. They don’t say “I love you” in the main fic. Blaine doesn’t discover his dream career. And they didn’t remember their first meeting.
I do think that they will remember it, probably at the end of the next summer when they’re planning their table at the new student fair and it comes out that Kurt was there. Blaine will remember that he thought the boy was pretty; Kurt will remember that there was some cute, too-confident freshman. And they’ll laugh. :)
I did plant a little hint of them possibly remembering, though, when Blaine sort of recognizes the same crossed-rapier brooch Kurt was wearing that first day on the quad. I can’t remember if I did that in NM or in “Twenty-three Firsts,” actually, but I did lay a bit of groundwork there.
Thanks for asking! :)