[Fic] To Understand a Character

[firstbreathsfic]

To Understand a Character
Glee; Blaine + Rachel; PG13+; ~2100 words; spoilers for 3x05
It’s a funny kind of friendship they’ve got going, born out of trying to play romantic leads, but Blaine would be lying if he said he didn’t like the irony of it all, at least a little.

So, I finished this just before “Mash Off” aired, but then I had to run off to

Comments

[xsaturated]

omfg it's like you are determined to write every single one of my OTFs and write them flawlessly. Anderberry is so lovely. I just want to snuggle this fic. also, also, I feel like I should expect you to write Sebastian+Thad broship now, because you magically anticipate everything that my brain desires somehow and I've been failing miserably at trying to write it.

Basically, stop being perfect. Ta.

also, if you haven't caught it already, you've got a broken italics tag starting from: 'nothing to do with my decision. I couldn’t have gone through with it if it did.”

[firstbreaths]

do not encourage me, because you know i will. I feel like Sebastian made that sex on a stick thing up himself.

Thank you! ♥

psst you saw nothing

[xsaturated]

loooool, I will forever maintain that Thad accidentally let it slip one day and Sebastian's been lording it over him ever since.

♥

[firstbreaths]

I could also be down with this scenario, especially if it involves Sebastian being as subtle as as a hammer and suggesting that the Warblers do Lady Gaga just so he can watch Thad flush at the line "take a ride on your disco stick".

[missgoalie75]

There’s something a little off in her voice, her smile goes too wide to hide it, and Blaine just sighs, because he gets it, how it’s so possible to be so optimistic and yet so full of self-doubt that it becomes another form of acting itself, trying to balance these emotions Fuck you for putting that into words - that's exactly why I love Anderberry alskfjlsdfkj

This was really nice <3

[pancakesnsyrup]

Seconding this comment, that part is absolutely wonderful.

[firstbreaths]

Aww, thank you! ♥

[firstbreaths]

You're really nice. <3

[specialj67]

I read this and I wanted to just, like, loll around in bed with a basket full of puppies shooting hearts and rainbows out of their eyes because of all of the warm and fuzzy feelings it gave me.

PERFECTION.

[firstbreaths]

If you ever find a way to make this happen, let me in on the secret because that sounds amazing. Thank you! ♥

[thankyesoulmate]

this was amazing. AMAZING. I ship blainchel like whoa, and so I'll take what I can get with them, but this friendship fic was f a n t a s t i c l y wonderful. You're amazing.

[firstbreaths]

I will always be a Kurt/Blaine OTPer, but these two are so wonderfully flawless together that I am totally with you on just wanting them to hang out together all the time. Because: epic.

Thank you! ♥

[flaming_muse]

Oh, I really liked this! You had some great insights into both Blaine and Rachel.

This I liked especially:

he likes to think this is something, him acting opposite Rachel Berry and being convincing enough that even his parents had believed it, his mother’s smile just loose enough that Blaine could believe that they’d genuinely been impressed, hadn’t just wanted to be. He thinks Rachel might understand, but he doesn’t go there, can’t - it means too much to him that she enjoyed his performance without any of the caveats; he’s a little too humbled by the fact that he lived up to her expectations, of all peoples, and even more so by the fact that she so rarely put any on him at all.

I just want to roll around in all of that and think, think, think. (That's a good thing coming from me!)

(But... is something broken/unfinished at the end?)

[firstbreaths]

Thank you so much! ♥ I definitely get what you mean, some of the best fic I've found in this fandom has me thinking thinky thoughts for days, even if I never actually do anything with it except end up with more headcanon than I'll probably ever use in a fic.

(There was an italics tag I didn't need, and apparently I removed only half of it, oops. Maybe next time I won't post fic at stupid hours of the night.)