Meta: Blaine and Success

[with_etoiles]

Title: Blaine and Success
Summary: Blaine's idea of success in life is determined by prestige and his people pleasing nature.
Word Count: 1,871
A/N: Blaine's comment about wanting to go to NYADA in Glee, Actually didn't seem authentic to me, and that got me thinking about what type of decision Blaine is going to make at the end of this year

Comments

[annaryder]

My meta for Blaine is actually somewhat similar in some ways, but I think Blaine does not think in terms of long-term goals, prestige, or success. I think that he hasn't defined what 'success' means to him very much at all. I think he's very much an in-the-moment person and doesn't really have long-term goals except in the vaguest sense. He wants to be a good person, he wants to help people, but he hasn't thought much about how to do that in the long term. I think that he inadvertently achieves what others consider 'success' without much effort or forethought, and this is one of the reasons he is resented both on screen and by some viewers. He's extremely magnetic and attractive and flirtatious, and gets a lot of attention for it, but doesn't seem to care much about his attractiveness or even be all that aware of it. Finn and even Kurt were jealous of that about him, and I honestly don't think it even occurs to him half the time. He looked completely bewildered by Kurt throwing it in his face that he was the 'alpha gay' that

[with_etoiles]

I would agree that Blaine isn't aware about how other people view him most of the time, except for the things the writers have given us about his past. What with the bullying at his old school, from the extremes of being taunted to being beaten in a school parking lot for going to a dance with a boy, I don't think he could go from something so drastic like that where everything about him is being scrutinized and criticized (and let's not forget how his parents view him too) to having it so easy again and not noticing.Thus the concept of him putting up a facade during his entire time during Dalton. And so maybe while he didn't look so upset about losing regionals in original song, he may have been playing the part for Kurt so that Kurt wouldn't be so upset about losing regionals either. It performing is his everything, he must've been pretty upset about it. It's just that having just gotten Kurt and needing to be there for Kurt overshadowed that. And I can see what you're saying, but to me, it didn't look like he was enjoying the

[annaryder]

Funny, I think of Blaine’s ‘in-the-moment’ and impulsive nature, along with his basic good intentions/ kindness/ desire to help others, as the few things that have carried over from season two Blaine all the way through season four. The first thing we saw him do was grab a strange boy by the hand and run down the hall with him, sing a flirtatious song directly at him, listen intently to his problem, strike up a mentorship/friendship, and go to the boy’s school to confront a bully twice his size. Later we see him “in love” with an older guy who probably sat with him for coffee a couple times, and getting his whole club to serenade the guy in public; then later, one kiss with Rachel has him deciding to explore bisexuality as a possibility and then as quickly abandoning the idea. Then he “sees” Kurt for the first time and immediately makes his move and is “all-in” from that point on. All this is about Blaine seizing and running with the emotion of the moment he’s in. He’s extremely visceral and impulsive and here-and-now, IMO.