Fanon Bible

[tawg]

I was thinking the other day how there are some traits that I always give Finn and Will when I write them, despite them having minimal basis in the show, and it made me wonder about the rest of you. What's your personal head canon for our boys? (Or any of the characters?) Does Will have a favourite band? Does Finn have a specific star sign? Have

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[momoda6]

I've always felt like Winn lends itself to serious relationships or longer fics. Maybe it's because of the age gap, and because in most fics they have to get over the teacher/student hurdle first, but a lot of fics seem to follow a relationship rather than just a porny one-shot or something. It would seem weird to me for Will and Finn to just be fuckbuddies and not really have any feelings for each other. Maybe that's just me though.

On a less serious level, there's a couple of things I've sort of associated with this pairing to the point of it being almost canon for me. Will's ties being misused, Will being perved on by the entire club (and Finn being smug because he's tapped that), Finn seeing Will messed up or looking different from how he is at school (stubbly, in Finn's football jersey the morning after, in jeans and a tshirt, stuff like that).

Plus, I don't have a set of idea of who would be top or bottom, which doesn't often happen in pairings I think.

(...It's clear I think about sex way too much.)

[tawg]

In your defense, zomg those boys - how could you not think about sex?

I agree with the longer relationship concept. The first 13 really set Will up as a friend and mentor to Finn, and Will just doesn't seem like the kind of person to intentionally abuse someone's trust (unintentionally... well, he makes some bad decisions). I can't see Will pushing that relationship further because he'd see it as a violation of the trust, which means that they need time for him to deal with his emo 'I'm your teacher'-ness. They couldn't just be fuck buddies because, well, whether they're romantic or not, Will does have feelings for Finn, and Finn does use Will as his rock at times

[momoda6]

Maybe I just like the idea that nobody thinks of him as sexy because he's a teacher, but then suddenly he's shirtless and he totally is sexy and Finn knew it all along.

Maybe it's just because I never have any sexy topless teachers so I want to make up for it. D:

I think it works on a less specific level though, I mean how often have people written about Will in jeans and a tshirt and it blowing Finn's mind?

...idk, I'm not making my point very well, maybe I just like perving. xD

[tawg]

It's okay, Will likes perving too :p

[alicebluegown16]

Okay, beyond my head canon of Will and Finn eventually ending up in Chicago happily married and with a kid...

Yeah, I imagine much mutual dancing around of their feelings and a bit of a long drawn out (and slightly) angsty courtship for our boys. As much as I might love the porn potential of them just falling into bed, the teacher/student angle can't be ignored. And I think Finn has to make the first move because there's no way Will would be able to and not feel like he's taking advantage.

Also--BRYAN RYAN AND WILL HAD A THANG IN HIGH SCHOOL!!!

It ended badly and Will spent the next fifteen years repressing and denying until Finn came along.

That's not fanon for me, that's mother effing canon.

[tawg]

Haha, YES. I see Will/Bryan as this thing that happened that Will never really understood at the time, and just repressed when he was out of high school and living a normal life (well, as normal as a like with Terri can be). Is it canon that Bryan dated all of the girls that Will liked? Because I honestly see Puck dating Rachel and Quinn as his twisted way of being close to Finn, and the possible parallel between generations pleases me.

[alicebluegown16]

I believe the canon is that Bryan dated all of the girls Will liked except for the one that got away, the elusive Terri DelMonico. And that's supposed to be the big source of rivalry between them. Yeah. Uh huh. Sure.

Oh, Bryan being the frenemy parallel to Puck is so awesome. Especially since I seem to recall an interview that Jessalyn Gilsig did where she basically said that Quinn is Terri fifteen years ago.

I thought of some other fanon stuff for me:

Finn gets out of Lima, but I see him staying somewhat close to home--possibly Toledo, Cleveland or Columbus. Or maybe Chicago. Bigger cities and more opportunities, but he's a sweet earnest Midwest boy at heart.

And I imagine him always enjoying music as hobby but not a career. Like doing some community theater stuff or college musicals but having a 'real job.'

I've kind of become enamored with the idea of him becoming a physical therapist since then he'd have excuses to practice his massage technique on Will.

[tawg]

I kind of see Finn as getting dragged to the bigger cities by his friends, like maybe Kurt and Rachel push him to apply for universities in New York, and Puck wants to go to Florida etc, but yeah, I can see Finn wanting to be close to his mom and liking the relaxed lifestyle that comes from smaller cities.

I don't think that Finn is really motivated enough to pursue a career in performance, I don't know that he'd have the confidence to go to auditions, and he'd prefer to just have fun with music than stress about being good enough.

I really don't know what I see Finn doing after high school. Part of me thinks he could be quite happy working at a video store and playing in a band, but he'd also want to make him mom happy and go for some kind of a profession. Hmm, I may have to think about future!Finn some more...

Orientation

[alicebluegown16]

Okay, so in my head Will is gay and in denial.

What say everyone on Finn?

Gay and just reaaaaaalllly repressing it? Bi? Just gay for Will?

I kind of see him as bi. Like maybe he had a crush/hero worship for some other guy/athlete/celebrity and just brushed it off as admiration (I'm willing to bet there was at least one kind of weird dream about Puck that he's totally convinced himself never happened) And since he wasn't totally flaming like Kurt he thought that meant he wasn't 'that way'.

And then he meets Will and there are...feelings.

Re: Orientation

[tawg]

I see Will as being bi and in denial - I can see him staying with Terri through all of her crazy because she was safe, and because he wanted a certain life and she fit in with that, but there are also his crushes on April, Emma, and Rachel's mom. I think he'd put his interest in guys into the "too hard" basket and try to ignore it. It's also part of my head canon that yes, Will did get shit for being in glee, he's just had over a decade to repress and forget about that

Re: Orientation

[alicebluegown16]

Yeah, I guess I can be talked into Will as bi as oppossed to out and out gay although I think that most of his female relationships have seemed to be more of a matter of him being lonely/seeking out some sort of connection rather than out and out physical attraction. I very think that his Emma crush is complete cop out. I mean, how safe is it to fall for a woman who you really can't be physically intimate with or risk a total panic attack? I think it's doomed to failure and that's kind of what appeals to him

Re: Orientation

[tawg]

Re Will: hmmm. I don't know, this is getting into that head-hurty issue of defining sexuality. In a nutshell, I think a (romantic) relationship has three aspects - the mental, the emotional, and the physical. Like, if you have feelings for someone, and think they're hot, but you just don't get their interests or what's going on in their head, well, that's not going to last long. And if you love someone and love their brain but don't have any attraction to them at all, well, that's called being best friends. And if you're all about the physical and don't care about the other person's feelings or personality, well, you're a sex-shark.

I think that Will definitely clicked with Emma, he definitely had feelings for her, and I think that he thought she was hot. I guess that last one is a bit of YMMV... I can see how Will was really just falling back into a familiar pattern with his relationship with Emma. But Emma is just so darn cute. I think she's hot, anyway XD

Hobbies/Personality

[tawg]

What character traits do you add to our boys

Re: Hobbies/Personality

[alicebluegown16]

Oh, yes to Will cooking. I see him as finding it not only neccessary due to Terri just sucking at it, but also I think Will would truly honestly enjoy it. The challenge of trying out new recipes and he finds chopping things very zen. And Will Schuester is so totally a stress baker. His brownies are a thing of beauty

Re: Hobbies/Personality

[tawg]

Finn as JD? YES! That is exactly how I see his brain working.

Finn's capableness changes according to where I put Carole. For a while I saw her as working multiple part time jobs, so Finn lived on instant food when she wasn't home and just left a lot of stuff to her. At the moment I like her being a nurse, which means a rotating roster, which means that some weeks Finn would have to cook dinner for himself (and leave a plate for her) and he'd be alright at some things. It's the same with Kurt - sometimes I see Burt as really focused on the business to Kurt plays the housewife, other times I can see him as wanting to do the best he can and so he does the cooking and cleaning and is a very manly, awesome Mr Mom. But Finn struggling to explain technical things fits him perfectly. Now I want fic where he has to talk Kurt through changing a washer or something

Re: Hobbies/Personality

[alicebluegown16]

There are a whole host of nonverbal learning disorders that can affect ones ability to comprehend spatial reasoning/coordination which would be an awesome explanation for why Finn's such a sucky dancer. That could be really, really awesome, if it turned out it's not a matter of lack of coordination, but that he honestly just cannot make his brain work that way

[eighthoctave]

in my head Will and finn always name their kid jacob, don't ask why they just do.
Will tops most of the time :P
Finn sleeps on the right.
Will plays the guitar....serenading Finn is too good a mental image to miss.
I also can never ever get over the idea of Rachel being Finn's complete and utter crazy ass Fag Hag.

Oh yeah also i completely think they have joint showers every morning. Soapy bubble massages for the winn (see what i did with the winn, too cool)

[eighthoctave]

also i presume Will to be 31 even though that's never mentioned in the show (unless i've missed it) because Matt is 31

[tawg]

Matt has said in interviews that Will and Terri have been together for fifteen years, and in the first 13 (somewhere) Will says they got together at 17, though Terri later says that he was 16 (leading to my head canon that she's a year older), so that works out about right.

But then, I also picked up somewhere (I don't know if I made this up, or if I don't understand the American school system at all, which is possible), but Will was a junior in '91, making him a senior in 92, which is... a lot more than 15 years ago. So I try to ignore that :p

[laeathearcher]

That's only an extra 3 years and in TV there's always missing years that no one understands in which nothing happens and no one grows.