((slidingmoments)) Character Bios & Backstories

[rockstarwarbler.livejournal.com]

Life is full of those little game-changing what-if moments...



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[justbeingaqueen.livejournal.com]

Name: Kurt Hummel
Journal: justbeingaqueen
Occupation and/or college major: Hair Stylist, studying Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fashion Design at Miami International University of Art & Design
Marital status: Single
Current or pending significant other: rockstarwarbler
Their sliding doors moment: Kurt missed Blaine on the Dalton staircase by just a few seconds and never met him
Significant character connections: Quinn Fabray and Mercedes Jones as room mates and fag hags, Holly Holliday as honourary big sister and mentor, Finn Hudson as stepbrother

Outline of character bio and backstory as their life played out from that moment on:

Kurt had been so sure his junior year at William McKinley High would be a wonderful one. But he couldn't have gotten it more wrong. The optimism soon died when the knocks to his emotions kept coming. First he managed to find himself with slushie facials on a daily basis, he seemed to be getting picked on more and more by members of the football team, and then it was like he suddenly didn't exist in Glee Club. All his ideas got shot down and he ended up in Principal Figgens office for snapping at Mr Schue when he got frustrated for being fobbed off. And that was only just the beginning. The biggest blow came when his beloved father and only parent, Burt, had a massive heart attack and aneurysm and nearly died. If Kurt was honest with himself, that was when everything really started on a slippery and miserable decent for him. The bullying got worse with Kurt on the nasty side of footballer, Dave Karofsky, and the it increased in frequency. Kurt's self-esteem and trust in his friends dropped, especially when duets week forced him into "vocal masturbation" of singing with himself when the new guy bumped him for popular head cheerleader to gain grounding on the school's social ladder. To Kurt, it just felt like one thing after another.

When jewhawk suggested Kurt go to Dalton Academy to spy on the "Garglers", aka, the Warblers and their soon-to-be-rivals at Sectionals, Kurt went but not to spy. He went to see if Dalton was a school he could find a place to belong. But as he scaled down the ornate spiral staircase searching for anything to anchor onto to convince him, he found nothing. Boys in uniforms rushed on all around him, but he just left and went home to Lima and told Puck to do the dirty work himself, never even revealing that he had walked the Dalton halls to anyone. He never saw the Warblers, and barely even stopped to see the views...

After that, Kurt started to turn further and further into himself. He isolated himself, pushing his friends away and suffered through the daily bullying from Karofsky, getting smashed into lockers, shoved, called horrible names, had his car egged, slushied, head flushed down toilets, locked in janitor's closets, attempts to be shoved down the stairs. The list just went on. He got called fag, poof, fruit and homo so many times, he was starting to wonder if he should change his name by deed poll. Kurt felt so miserable, lonely and lost that he stopped eating but turned to binging on the days the bullying was the worst or he felt particularly invisible in Glee Club and his himself and his body behind more and more layers of outlandish fashion. The twisting and turning between starving himself and binging just became a norm and gave him some sort of sense of control that he didn't recognise in himself what was in every sense an eating disorder and once it had it's claws into him, there was no going back.

[justbeingaqueen.livejournal.com]

Then one day usedtohaveabs caught Kurt purging his cafeteria lunch into the mostly-unused bathrooms at the back of the bleachers and knew immediately what was going down. This came only days after Kurt had witnessed her and footballer, justwants2dance, making out in the back of his car at Breadstix and at the time, Quinn had tried to blackmail him into not telling his brother, and her boyfriend, finninator. It hadn't worked at the time, but this new development gave Quinn more bargaining power and Kurt was used to being overpowered by bullies. Quinn told him she wouldn't tell his dirty little secret if he didn't tell hers, and then went on to add the disclaimer that he re-join the Cheerios so they would win Nationals again that year. Of course, Kurt submitted, not wanting anyone to know any of his private business. What he never anticipated after that was Quinn becoming his partner in crime and confidante, and enjoying the fact she never judged him for his issues because she had just as many herself. They soon because Co-Captains of the Cheerios and Kurt's interest in Glee Club waned to him just swaying in the background and barely opening his mouth in meetings. He and Quinn become top dogs and HBICs of McKinley, unstoppable together, but Kurt continued to harbour his secret and continued to get more and more bullied out of the public eye by Karofsky to the point where one day when he was pinned up against a locker with Karofsky's elbow in his face, Finn appeared (who had picked up a bit of a temper after Puck knocked up Rachel, the chick he had lost in sophomore when he went back to Quinn) and punched Karofksy hard enough in the face to knock him out... and landed himself in juvie, much to his mom's dismay.

The glimmer of hope and light at the end of the tunnel in an otherwise mostly miserable life for Kurt came in substitute teacher, breaksniceguys. When Mr Schue ran off to New York to join a Broadway stage show and dumped his job as Glee coach at the end of Junior year, Holly was offered the job and happily stepped up. Kurt started to get more involved and even scored a solo at Nationals, but when he passed out on stage during the performance and came-to in a room alone with Miss Holliday, she blatantly told him she had heard him sticking his fingers down his throat before the show, and that it was all going to stop then because she had been watching him, and she knew. And she kept her word. She was there for him as his mentor and support, working with his dad to find a good therapist for his eating disorder and coaxing him to look at college options he never considered. The became close and she was like the big sister he never had, and when he got accepted into Miami International University of Art & Design to study Fine Arts in Fashion Design, she offered to move there too so he wasn't alone.

But Kurt's fight was far from over. The therapy wasn't successful and he kept slipping. He ended up dropping out of college once he got there when it all got too much and started a traineeship as a hairstylist with a trendy hair salon on Miami Beach. He loved the job but the next year decided to re-enrol in college whilst still working to become a fully qualified Stylist with extremely well-paying clients, earning an excellent reputation for his work throughout Miami. Still to this day, he battles the eating disorder and issues of self-image, and is in and out of therapy as he tries his hardest with it. Kurt lives in a beach apartment with beloved fag hags, Quinn and gotstarpower, both now studying at Miami colleges. He is content with his life, but far from happy and finds himself very lonely and yearning for love and romance, which he has never experienced. One day, he dreams of finding a Prince Charming all of his own, but as time ticks away, he's more and more giving up hope, just going about life from one day to another and hoping that his career after college will give him something worth waking up each morning for.

[jewhawk.livejournal.com]

Name: Noah Puckerman
Journal: jewhawk
Occupation and/or college major: Police officer
Marital status: Single
Current or pending significant other: usedtohaveabs
Their sliding doors moment: He got tasteslikepnk pregnant instead of Quinn
Significant character connections: rockstarwarbler is his BFF and roommate, tasteslikepnk is a friend, and the mother of his baby (whom they gave up for adoption), Friend of nickthewarbler

Outline of character bio and backstory as their life played out from that moment on:

Puck had a pretty bad reputation for most of his junior high and early high school years. That was until he knocked up Rachel Berry, fellow hot Jew, and girlfriend of his then-best friend finninator, during their sophomore year. At the end of the year, Rachel gave birth to a healthy baby girl, whom they gave up for adoption to Rachel's own birth mother, Shelby Corcoran.

The pain of unexpected fatherhood and subsequently giving his daughter up for adoption was hard on Puck, but it had the effect of scaring the shit out of him and forcing him to reevaluate his life and the way he was living it. When all was said and done, he quickly got himself on the straight and narrow, staying out of trouble, making good grades, and becoming a religious user of condoms when he had sex.

Before Sectionals his junior year, Puck sent classmate and fellow glee club member justbeingaqueen to spy on their competitors, the Dalton Academy Warblers. Kurt returned without any further information, and told Puck to do his own dirty work, so the mohawk-sporting boy took it on himself to figure out what was going on with these private school kids. In a twist of fate, he ran into Warbler rockstarwarbler, and after the initial interrogation, the pair hit it off. They became best friends, and have remained so ever since. Blaine was exactly the kind of friend that Puck needed, and the two of them finished high school and moved to Miami together. Puck made good grades, but he wasn't interested in college. He wanted to become a cop and help people. An uncle of his was a retired cop in Miami, who put in the good word for him and got his foot in the door, and the rest was history.

Puck has done very well as a police officer for Miami-Dade Police Department, and is hoping to be promoted to corporal soon. In the meantime, he's working hard, and loving life in Miami.

[rockstarwarbler.livejournal.com]

Name: Blaine Anderson
Journal: rockstarwarbler
Occupation and/or college major: Studying Musical Therapy at University of Miami, part time kids' piano teacher
Marital status: Single
Current or pending significant other: justbeingaqueen
Their sliding doors moment: Missed Kurt on the staircase and they never met.
Significant character connections: Noah Puckerman as BFF and room mate, Nick Matheson as close friend.

Outline of character bio and backstory as their life played out from that moment on:

In the days at his old public high school in Cleveland, Ohio, Blaine was a quiet and unassuming kid from a well-off family and spent his time shared between studying a lot to keep his grades on top to please his father, and being involved in sports his father chose for him of polo and fencing. Blaine's musical talents were honed by way of singing lessons, piano lessons, violin lessons and guitar lessons, but he was taught to not let hobbies get in the way of his studies so he could follow in his father's footsteps and become a lawyer. Dalton Academy was always an option of high schools for Blaine, but begged his parents to let him go to the local public high school and his father only agreed to it with sheer reluctance after Blaine's grandmother went into bat for her only grandson.

It was when Blaine came out in his sophomore year that everything went down the toilet for him. It took a lot of guts for him to tell his parents he was gay, and his father wasn't happy with the prospect at all, and started to pull Blaine into more "masculine" activities under the guise of father-son bonding such as sports and refurbishing. Blaine went along with it, but he always knew his father disapproved of him being gay, and things just got more and more difficult for Blaine as the months passed. Coming out got him badly bullied on a daily basis and he stuck close to his friend who was also recently out. It peaked at the Sadie Hawkins dance in November that year when they decided to go together. Leaving the dance together when it was all said and done, Blaine and his friend were viciously attacked by homophobes and Blaine suffered terrible injuries that landed him in hospital for many weeks, including a skull fracture he was kept in a coma for whilst the swelling on his brain reduced.

Blaine missed a lot of school, and he was left with a fear of returning in case it happened all over again. He started to have panic attacks in the wake of the attack and fell into a depression over the mere thought of returning to school where the bullies attending. In his darkest hour after it all happened when he couldn't see a way out of the mess, he took an overdose of his grandmother's pain medication in her bathroom and tried to take his own life. Luckily she knew to check on him, and when she found him, she forced her fingers down his throat to get him to throw the pills back up. He spent a few more days in hospital after that and that was where the decision was made for him to go to Dalton Academy as a safehaven where they had zero-tolerance on bullying of any sort. With the amount of school Blaine missed, he had to repeat his sophomore year, but it was the best decision he ever made.

CONTINUED...

[rockstarwarbler.livejournal.com]

He enjoyed Dalton, and after using music to help him through his recovery, decided he wanted to become a Musical Therapist when he finished high school and started to work towards that goal. He joined the Warblers and was soon elected head singer with them, and took a summer job at King's Island performing in various shows there. He threw himself 100% into his music talents and started to thrive and accept himself and his sexuality, hoping one day to find someone he could share everything with... and maybe fall in love. Someone who just got him.

In a strange turn of events, in junior year, Blaine met jewhawk one day at Dalton and with the lack of uniform, Blaine intercepted him and interrogated him about who he was and where he was from. Reluctantly, Puck confessed he was from McKinley High, the school the Warblers were to be up against at Sectionals and in a way Blaine couldn't quite explain, they became friends. From there, the friendship just grew and they hung out a lot, soon becoming the epitome of BFFs and it was a relationship Blaine cherished. He had never had a best friend before, and even though Puck was very, very straight, they just clicked and remained close throughout the rest of their school days.

After that, Blaine got accepted into two different Musical Therapy programs, one in Boston and one at the University of Miami. Puck, with a yearning to become a cop, talked Blaine into picking Miami because he "knew people there", so the choice was made and they got a place together near the beach in Miami. Blaine started college and is now in his final year but also teaching kids piano in his spare time for cash. He is content, but still searching... never quite managing to feel complete. Something is missing, he has just never been able to put his finger on exactly what.

[tasteslikepnk.livejournal.com]

Name: Rachel Berry
Journal: tasteslikepnk
Occupation and/or college major: Administrative Assistant, taking online classes for a business degree
Marital status: Single
Current or pending significant other: n/a for now?
Their sliding doors moment: Was the one that got pregnant by Puck
Significant character connections: jewhawk and rockstarwarbler

Outline of character bio and backstory as their life played out from that moment on:

Rachel Berry’s sophomore year of high school started out great. She had just about everything she could want except for a boyfriend but that came shortly after finninator and usedtohaveabs broke up, which Rachel jumped at the chance to be the girlfriend of a popular boy. From that point on, things were going great until one afternoon when studying at the house of Finn’s best friend and a boy she knew only from temple, jewhawk, her world was turned upside down. Noah had offered her a wine cooler and though she initially turned it down, she changed her mind and accepted it, using this to blame her following actions. After that wine cooler, Rachel and Puck had sex, Rachel under the premise that Puck had it covered and nothing could go wrong. Until it did. After about a month of unrelenting vomitting, Rachel decided that it would probably be a good idea to make sure that all she had was some sort pesky stomach virus and not what she was dreading, After the test proved positive, Rachel came up with some cock and bull story on how the baby was Finn’s, while pushing Noah away so he didn’t ruin everything. Which he did. After coming clean, Rachel and Puck attempted a relationship for the sake of their unborn child, still unsure of whether or not they should keep it or give it up for adoption. The decision came in the hospital when Rachel, deciding that she didn’t want to be another episode of Teen Mom, gave the baby up for adoption to a woman, whom she would later find out is her biological mother.

After giving the baby up Rachel thought her life would return back to normal and began the next year with her head held high and pushing all thoughts of last year and her mistakes into the back of her mind. Forgetting was much easier said than done, as her year became more and more mundane, her thoughts went back to the child she gave up at the end of previous school year. By the end of her junior year, Rachel was over her current look and began to look at things from a new perspective. During her summer vacation Rachel began a rebellious streak, causing her dads to send her to Jew camp in an attempt to get their daughter back. Once she came back from camp, Rachel began to hang out with the Skanks. One day, while ditching class, a head of brown caught her attention, followed by the sight of her mother. After an unwanted D&M, Rachel decided that she wanted her baby back and formulated a plan to get her back. After realizing that she wasn't fit to be this mother (meaning the kid hated her), Rachel moved onto something better.

After leaving Ohio in an attempt to make something of herself, she got an opportunity to be a roommate on MTV's the Real World: Miami. Over the course of the taping Rachel fought, drank, partied and had sex with the best of them, which she would later admit in the confessionals that she didn't really remember too much of her time there. After the show ended, Rachel decided to stay in Miami, convincing her dads to front her the money to stay and live there. Finding an apartment and a job with a skeezy businessman who was more preoccupied with trying to get into her pants than any of her actual administrative assistant skills. While working at this job, Rachel and Noah reconnected, becoming better friends and meeting his roommate Blaine and becoming his fag hag.

[usedtohaveabs.livejournal.com]

Name: Quinn Fabray
Journal: usedtohaveabs
Occupation and/or college major: Bachelor of Humanities at Yale as Pre-Law (completed), Law School at University of Miami (in progress)
Marital status: Single (recently broken engagement to justwants2dance)
Current or pending significant other: jewhawk
Their sliding doors moment: She never cheated on Finn with Puck, but rather Mike Chang whom she lost her virginity to in sophomore year
Significant character connections: Room mate to Kurt and Mercedes, fag hag to Kurt, ex fiancée but now good friend to Mike

Outline of character bio and backstory as their life played out from that moment on:

Quinn was always the Queen Bitch of McKinley High until the time came that she was willing to share the crown with justbeingaqueen. She was the Captain of the Cheerios and dating the quarterback, finninator. She was popular and loving it, and even though she was the picture of perfect little Christian virgin, she was far from that. In sophomore year, she started to see Finn's football team mate, Mike Chang, behind his back but she figured it was payback for him making gooey eyes constantly at tasteslikepnk. She never regretted anything and she continued to see Mike in secret for many months moonlighting on her relationship with Finn, and eventually gave up her V-card to Mike one night when his parents were out at a business dinner. She fell hard for Mike and eventually dumped Finn for him early in Junior year when Finn turned into the resident douchebag after Rachel apparently got herself stupidly knocked up by resident dickhead and self-professed BAMF, jewhawk. She and Mike hooked up and became the school's power couple whilst Finn turned bad-boy and ended up in juvie for decking Karofsky when he was bullying Kurt... something Quinn actually admired him for, because how dare anyone hurt the fag to her hag!

Which was a whole other story in itself. Quinn knew that her friendship with Kurt was founded on deceit and blackmail, but once they got close, she discovered that instead of picking on him, she wanted to be his friend and he was an amazing person. She hadn't understood the concept of being homosexual, which is why she slotted into the mindset of those around her, driven by the influence of her pristinely Christian parents. He helped open her eyes and soon she would defend his honour to anyone who tried to hurt him because of his sexuality. She never knew how badly the bully got, though. Kurt was always good at hiding things and being unreadable, but she did know about his eating disorder. She was aware she should try to help him with it, but she also know what it was like to have secrets. She resolved to keep his if he kept hers, and still protected them with her life even after she and Mike went public.

When breaksniceguys came into the picture, Quinn couldn't be more relieved as she witnessed Kurt's problem peak and he started to look more and more ill with it. Holly's intervention was perfectly timed, even if her fellow Cheerios Co-Captain still continued to battle with it.

CONTINUED BELOW...

[usedtohaveabs.livejournal.com]

Quinn found herself torn when Kurt got accepted to a college in Miami and planned to move there with Holly. By that time, Quinn wasn't sure if she could live without the guy who had fast become her best friend. She got accepted into Yale's Humanities program as pre-law and nearly threw it in to chase Kurt to Miami, but when Mike also got accepted into Yale with pre-med, Kurt convinced her to follow her heart so he could live vicariously through her and she did. A year later on the completion of their first year at college, Mike popped the question and Quinn happily accepted. They found, though, that when they both kept putting off their wedding plans that maybe they weren't as ready as they thought.

Quinn applied to Law School at the University of Miami when she dearly missed Kurt, and was accepted there. Mike's choice to follow her was easy and he got accepted to Med School at the same college, but once they got to Miami and thrown into their respective college courses, their relationship started to wane. They fought as much as they could, but decided mutually to call it quits to save their friendship rather than have it crash and burn. They're now close friends, and even though they miss the intimacy, they know they made the right choice at the end of the day.

[nickthewarbler.livejournal.com]

Name: Nick Matheson
Journal: nickthewarbler
Occupation and/or college major: Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Language (French) at University of Florence in Italy, now works as a Court Translator in French and Italian and sells his art at a popular gallery in Miami
Marital status: Single and a bit of a player ;)
Current or pending significant other: warble_on_jeff
Their sliding doors moment: Meeting Jeff at Dalton, they didn't hit it off and become friends... they clashed and became rivals
Significant character connections: Good friends with Blaine Anderson and Noah Puckerman, recent friends with benefits with Mike Chang

Outline of character bio and backstory as their life played out from that moment on:

Nick's time at Dalton Academy was pretty predictable as it turned out. He enjoyed being at boarding school and it was an awesome school with many great guys. The only blight on the whole experience was when Nick met warble_on_jeff the first day he arrived at Dalton. Nick still wasn't sure exactly what caused it, but they managed to completely rub each other up the wrong way and clashed spectacularly. By the end of the first week at the prestigious private all-boys school, they ended up in a fist-fight when they got allocated as room mates together which caused the Room Coordinator to have to split them up and put them on different floors of the dorms. No matter what they did, though, they ended up in the same classes, in the same places at the same time and forever just crossed each other's paths which led to the entirety of their high school years at each other's throats.

When it came time for them to audition for the Warblers, it became a cutthroat race over who would win the coverted spots first and fought it out until they both made it at the same time. When Nick had less auditions for solos than Jeff (3 versus 6), Nick took that as a sweet victory just for the hell of it. Nothing ever changed, and just to sweeten the whole deal, they ended up in another fight at Dalton's graduation ceremony and being pulled apart was the last thing Nick remembered about his high school nemesis before he left for Italy after scoring a place at the University of Florence to study a double degree in Arts and Language to study Visual Art and French. He lived in Italy the whole time, travelling around Europe during semester breaks and seeing the world just like he had always yearned.

Nick had come out as bi during his junior year at Dalton, and from there on became a bit of a known player. The dark and handsome half Irish, half Italian artist surfer from Florida seemed to attract a lot of attention, including dating a couple of Cheerios from McKinley after rockstarwarbler met jewhawk, and then dated Sugar Motta for a few months over the summer between junior and senior years, but she ended up doing his head in and he dumped her. Nick thrived on his travels but after he completed college, became extremely homesick for Florida and went home to Jacksonville. He started completing pieces of his work to a gallery in Miami and soon picked up a big demand for his pieces and took on consignments. A year after returning home, Nick applied for a job as a Court Translator to work at various jurisdictions in Florida with his bi-linguistics of Italian and French. He loves the job, and now spends his time focused on his job, his art, and his beloved surfing, now living with justwants2dance in a little apartment near Mike's college after they bumped into each other one night at a pulsing Miami Beach bar and probably getting into way more mischief than he should for a well-travelled college graduate.

[gotstarpower.livejournal.com]

Name: Mercedes Jones
Journal: gotstarpower
Occupation and/or college major: Bachelor of Nursing with Miami Dade College (complete), Registered Nurse in Pediatrics at Jackson Memorial Hospital
Marital status: Single
Current or pending significant other: Hopefully Daniel Radcliffe or Dean Winchester
Their sliding doors moment: Mercedes never left the Cheerios again after joining
Significant character connections: Roomie and BFF to Kurt and Quinn, fag hag to Kurt, workmate to Cameron, ex to Jeff

Outline of character bio and backstory as their life played out from that moment on:

Mercedes never had the best self-esteem. She was never destined to be size six, always had struggles with her weight, and was often too loud and mouthy for many people to stop and make friends with. She was determined once upon a time to always be a fabulous woman and never change herself for anyone, but the pressures of high school to confirm got their clutches into her and after she joined the Cheerios with Kurt to get more chances to shine, she found herself locked into the cheerleader mindset of body issues and being perfect. She fit into the whole popular-girl cheerleader persona like a square peg in a round hole, however, but she still stayed with it because it gave her some sort of purpose that Glee Club continued to fail to offer.

She knew she lost herself being a Cheerio, but when Quinn convinced Kurt to come back, Mercedes just stayed for the hell of it. Glee Club became boring and nothing but a fight against Rachel and Finn for top dog position. Mercedes certainly didn't want no damn race to be a fabulous diva. She would make it there herself somehow, even if she had to have a pit stop in the realm of cheerleader with little love for the "sport". She found herself just going from day to day and lacking passion for anything. Kurt slipped away from her a little into his own world, only peeking out into the line to get up and do his thing as Co-Captain, but Mercedes never even managed to realise anything was wrong with him until he was fainting on the Nationals stage at the end of junior year. That was when she realised it was damn time to pull her head out of her ass and truly become the fabulous diva she wanted to be.

It just wasn't as easy as that. It was never going to be, and she had to learn the hard way. She stayed in Cheerios just to be near Kurt and Quinn, but it became a chore. Her grades slipped when she kept getting distracted, and Glee Club nearly fell apart when Mr Schue dumped them all in favour of Broadway. Mercedes did find a spark of happiness, though, when she met Dalton Academy Warbler, warble_on_jeff and they started a sweet little romance together. Jeff was Mercedes first love, and they had fun together while it lasted, and although she had her first kiss with him just before Regionals that year, something was just missing. They lasted into senior year before the whole thing met a natural end and they called it quits. They stayed friends, and Mercedes is still frequently in touch with Jeff, but she knows they both have to have a One True Love out there waiting for them somewhere.

Mercedes really started feeling the pinch of her poor choices in school when she applied for music colleges and didn't get into any of them. Her applications didn't have enough support in them to be adequate and for something she always wanted to do professionally one day, her choices soon felt like they had all bitten the dust. With no options, Mercedes followed Kurt to Miami and got a place with him, and the only job she managed to score was a Nursing Assistant at a local hospital... only to discover she loved it. Thrived on it, even. It took her by surprise, but with a bit of coaxing from Kurt and some confused tears about her life course changing, Mercedes was accepted into a bridging course at the community college, Miami Dade for a Bachelor of Nursing and is now a fully qualified Registered Nurse having just started her first job in Pediatrics at Jackson Memorial Hospital. Finally, the diva can be content, even if it's not behind a mic or storming up the Top 40 charts.

[finninator.livejournal.com]

Name: Finn Hudson
Journal: finninator
Occupation and/or college major: Tattooist and drummer in a rock band
Marital status: Manwhore
Current or pending significant other: He doesn't want a ball and chain
Their sliding doors moment: Rachel getting knocked up by Puck and getting dumped by Quinn for Mike
Significant character connections: Stepbrother to Kurt, friends with Mike, Quinn and Mercedes

Outline of character bio and backstory as their life played out from that moment on:

Finn never really knew what he was destined for, let alone what it wanted, so when it all went to pot, he didn't really care anyway. High school started out okay, but his battle for popularity never really picked up steam and he was constantly struggling between what he should be doing and what he thought he should be doing to stay popular. In sophomore year, he was QB for the McKinley Titans and dating head Cheerio, Quinn Fabray, but that all sort of started to screw up when he found Rachel Berry fighting for his affections and she turned out to be a pretty cool chick too and nowhere near as up herself as Quinn. He and Quinn ended up splitting up when they kept fighting all the time, and Finn had no idea it was because she was cheating on him with Mike. It didn't matter all that much anyway, because he really liked Rachel and then when he asked her out, she said yes which was cool... at the time. It was cool until she cheated on him with Noah Puckerman and only went and got knocked up with him. Completely and understandably pissed off, Finn washed his hands of anything to do with Rachel and went back to dating Quinn so they could be the token QB and head cheerleader again. It seemed like a good idea at the time, and anything to make Rachel hurt as much as he was anyway.

Finn spent the rest of his sophomore year completely ignoring Rachel and Puck, blissfully unaware that Quinn was cheating on him too, and trying not to hate the fact his mom started dating again, and Kurt's dad of all people. But that turned out okay, and it turned out that Kurt was a pretty cool dude too once Finn realised there was more to him than just the gay. Junior year was the worst, though. Finn's mom and Kurt's dad went on to get married, which was okay and about the only good thing to happen for Finn that year. It was awesome to get a dad-type figure in his life, and Burt was awesome. Then everything started going even more wrong. First Burt had a heart attack and nearly dropped dead and it was right before Quinn decided she was going to dump him for a second time, so he found himself abruptly single. Glee Club was pretty cool, but all they seemed to do was fight, so Finn stopped caring too.

[finninator.livejournal.com]

He stopped caring and started to dabble in more bad-boyish ways, getting drunk on the weekends, took up smoking, lost his spot on the football team because his fitness levels dropped, and he got his first tattoo without his mom's permission, ending up getting grounded for a month because of it. Which only made him want to sneak out and get drunk even more. So, he did. He sold his car without permission too and bough a motorcycle and his regular hang-out became a shoddy snooker bar on the outskirts of Lima Heights who didn't care whether he was 21 or 201.

His biggest downfall came when he was at school one day (a rare occurrence by that point) and encountered Dave-fucking-Karosfky with his brother shoved up into a locker and looking close to crapping himself. Finn just snapped and saw red, and the next thing anyone knew, Karofsky was out cold on the floor and Finn found himself in the cop shop after Karofsky's father pressed charges for assault. Finn got sentenced to a month in juvie and months of probation after that. All he wanted was to be done with high school, and he saw out the end, but flunked all his classes. With college completely out of the picture by then, Finn went to Florida with Kurt and sweet-talked his way into a job at a tattoo parlour (or rather, had dirty hot sweaty sex with the owner of it on the counter of the store). She trained him up and he thought it was awesome, especially considering he didn't need school for it. That led to connections at a local bar where he joined a rock band as drummer that played around bars in Miami. As far as Finn was concerned, this was THE fucking life, and he isn't ready yet to change it for anyone.

[warble-on-jeff.livejournal.com]

Name: Jeff Hinton
Journal: warble_on_jeff
Occupation and/or college major: Graduated with a degree in communications from Ohio State, trying to break into sportscasting
Marital status: Single
Current or pending significant other: nickthewarbler
Their sliding doors moment: He and Nick clashed at Dalton instead of becoming best friends.
Significant character connections: Knows Blaine Anderson from school. Ex-boyfriend and good friend of Mercedes Jones. Good friend of Quinn Fabray and Kurt Hummel

Outline of character bio and backstory as their life played out from that moment on:

Jeff was an average student at Dalton. His grades weren't spectacular, but he managed to pass his classes and have a great time doing it. Well, all except for the fact that, in every single one of them, he had to stare at the back of nickthewarbler's head. Jeff was too tall to sit on the front row, so he had no choice but to park his ass behind the short kid, who drove him absolutely crazy in all the wrong ways. Neither of them could really remember what it was that had bugged them about each other, but from day 1, they were at each other's throats. They were both members of Dalton Academy's Fight Club started by fellow Warbler rockstarwarbler and his BFF jewhawk, and frequently ended up in fist fights that had to be broken up by other members, until the day came that Blaine and Puck actually made it a Fight Club rule that Nick and Jeff couldn't fight each other.

Despite the drama and dislike between the two boys, Jeff enjoyed his time at Dalton, especially when, through Blaine and Puck's friendship, he met gotstarpower, and the two of them ended up dating most of Junior year, and into Senior before they ended things. They remained great friends, and when Jeff came out as bisexual his freshman year of college, Mercedes was the first person he told. She was amazing about it, and she's been his confidante in many situations over the years.

Finishing school left Jeff with a degree that would only do him good if the right chance showed up, and he's been working strings of dead end jobs over the past year or so as he tries to get his name into the right places to land him his dream gig as a sports announcer.

[growingfeminism.livejournal.com]

Name: Tina Cohen-Chang
Journal: growingfeminism
Occupation and/or college major: Police Officer, aiming for detective hopefully in the near future
Marital status: Divorced
Current or pending significant other: None, ex-husband is Artie Abrams
Their sliding doors moment: She stayed with Artie
Significant character connections: Best friend (despite distance) to rockstarwarbler and jewhawk, brief marital fling with theundapperone

Outline of character bio and backstory as their life played out from that moment on:
Probably not in one of Tina's finest moments, she decided to give Artie a second chance after ignored her in favour of computer games the first summer after they started dating. It was against her better judgement, but her insecurities as a shy person had her settling and they continued to date throughout the rest of high school. Tina was never really happy, and found herself yearning for more. She used to watch Mike Chang and Quinn Fabray enviously once they came out as a dating, wishing she had what they had but never knowing how to find it. Instead, she felt stuck with Artie and just went along with it, even if it was clear they really had nothing in common. Before she knew it, school was over and she was unhappy. It only compounded when she applied for dance and performing arts colleges, but didn't get one audition or acceptance. She was beyond bummed and didn't know what to do with her life. All options seemed to be dried up, so when Artie proposed to her before he went off to film college in New York, she accepted and they got married in a little family only ceremony in the park in Lima and the only friends she invited were her "bridesmaids", Blaine and Puck, much to the chagrin of Artie's family.

It was that disapproval which really rang the warning bells. Not to mention when they got to New York and the marriage barely in the honeymoon phase before they were fighting. Tina was miserable and in a fit of feminist independence to prove to Artie she didn't need him to survive, she enrolled in a Criminal Justice course and joined the Police Academy. It scared her shitless, but it turned out that she thrived on it. It was almost like she was made to be a cop. She and Puck helped each other through the theory side of becoming a cop using the internet and Skype, while she kept in touch with both her friends as much as she could. It was when Blaine came to New York one weekend to visit his mom and stepfather that she finally got to meet his stepbrothers... twins, Sebastian and Jeremy Smyth. She and Jeremy hit it off, and she found herself getting drunk with him one night after a hectic day at the Academy, spilling her guts to him about how horrible her marriage was, and she ended up cheating on Artie with him. Jeremy felt terrible, but they promised to keep it a secret and never speak of it. Tina, however, was so wracked with guilt, she confessed to Blaine, who promised to keep their secret. Still, the marriage irreperable and Tina ended up filing for divorce from Artie, and they went their separate ways.

She is now a fully-qualified cop, and after working with the NYPD for a couple of years, now yearns to be a detective. But upon hearing the ordeal Blaine has gone through with his first love and her old school mate, Kurt Hummel, she's desperate to get to Miami. She has put in for a transfer via reference from Puck to go to Miami Police Department, and has been offered a chance to sit the detective exam there. But with Jeremy also in Miami, things could be interesting, or even awkward. But not enough for her not to move to the sunny shores of Miami, and to be closer to the friends she has dearly missed, one of which clearly needs all the friends he can get right now.

[sassygaywarbler]

Name: Trent Nixon
Journal: sassygaywarbler
Occupation and/or college major: Grade School Teacher, Bachelor of Early Childhood Education at Vanderbilt
Marital status: Single
Current or pending significant other: Tommy Kennedy
Their sliding doors moment: Trent never had the confidence to try out for the Warblers, so he never joined, but he was friends with the other Warbler boys
Significant character connections: Brother to Tasha Nixon, friends with the ex-Warblers

Outline of character bio and backstory as their life played out from that moment on:
Trent never joined the Dalton Academy Warblers. As much as he wanted to and loved singing, he choked on his first ever audition and was so mortified, he never gained the confidence to try it again. From there on, life was just a bit of a downward spiral. He had never had much self-confidence, always one of those kids who was considered "chubby" and got picked on incessantly because of it. Not by his Dalton friends, of course, but by other people and it never not stung. In fact, at times when he suffered from taunts and teasing, he would go home and lock himself in his room and cry for hours on end. He started to withdraw and hate school, and by the time he hit fifteen, he was on the destructive path of dangerous eating disorder territory. All he wanted to do was lose weight so he could fit in. He tried strict dieting at first, but it never seemed to work. From there, it went to eating very little to rarely eating at all. He found this way, he began to lose weight and it was like a drug that he could stop. It was easy to hide it at first, but soon, his family began to couple his weight loss with the way he was pulling away from them, getting moody, angry, snappish... and that was far from the Trent they knew and loved.

His parents and his big sister, Tasha, knew something was wrong and when Trent got to a weight where his clothes were literally hanging off him, he thought he was happy, but really he was nothing like himself at all. They staged an intervention, and Trent found himself in therapy where he managed to realise what he had fallen into, and began to work towards getting over the condition. It was only when he was just back on his feet with it and back to a much healthy weight that he fell ill. At first, his family thought he was relapsing. He lost his appetite, started losing weight at a rapid pace, and always felt tired. He thought he just had the flu, and ended up having a massive fight with his family one night when they kept telling him he needed to go back to therapy. He exploded, broke down, and then passed out right in front of them ending up with him being rushed to hospital. Two days later, he was diagnosed with leukaemia and it was the first steps on a long and hard battle for both Trent and his family, who became riddled with guilt... but also deeply concerned that his eating disorder had contributed to the cancer.

It was touch and go for a few months, but soon Trent fought the disease and went into remission, the good news of which came a week before his 18th birthday. He swore that if he recovered and survived, he wanted to be a school teacher, because even though he was sick himself, he was touched by the kids in the hospital much, much younger than him fighting the same illness. He got into Vanderbilt University and completed a degree in Early Childhood Education, and applied for jobs in Miami where his sister was now working as a therapist with a speciality in severe eating disorders. He scored his first job teaching second graders in a Miami school, and he has never looked back, wanting to live life to the fullest after staring death in the face. He is currently single, but had a serious relationship with a guy in college that came to a natural end when they graduated. He gets lonely, but hopes one day he might find The One and be able to settle down, maybe get married and have kids of his own some day.

[blowmywhistle]

Name: Hunter Clarington
Journal: blowmywhistle
Occupation and/or college major: Ex Sergeant with the US Army in Artillery Tactics
Marital status: Single
Current or pending significant other: Sebastian Smyth
Their sliding doors moment: Hunter never transferred to Dalton, he stayed in Military school in Colorado Springs and after graduation, enlisted in the Army
Significant character connections: Patient of Santana Lopez

Outline of character bio and backstory as their life played out from that moment on:
Hunter Clarington did get his Colorado Springs military school Glee Club to a Regionals win with Presidential Honours, but he never transferred to Dalton Academy following it. Dalton pitched him their offer, but he turned it down, deciding instead to graduate where he was so he could enlist in the Army upon graduation just like his father had. His first month as a qualified Sergeant after working his way up the ranks in his Artillery Tactics battalion and deployed to Afghanistan, and before the calendar had even turned pages, he was in the midst of a battle with the enemy forces where he had to shoot a man dead or be killed himself. It had affected him more than he thought possible... especially when he saved a guy in his troop from death by getting shot through the back into the hip himself during the same battle, only to have the same soldier blown up by a landmine two days later. It left Hunter without the use of his leg and he thought he would be crippled for life. He was given an honourable medical discharge from the forces, but left in a wheelchair and with psychological post-traumatic stress disorder. That was over six months ago now, and it had been a fantastic physical therapist, just newly qualified at the time, by the name of Santana Lopez who had helped him out of the wheelchair and able to walk short distances with the use of a stick now. But it was still very much a work in progress, though Hunter's psychological treatment had began to wane and he fell into a depression, which began to affect his physical development too.

It was when his therapist suggested a move or a change of scenery with a fresh start away from the drab post-service world he had gotten himself into in Washington. He was bemoaning the suggestion to his physical therapist one day when he was being really uncooperative even with her, and it was Santana who suggested Miami for a seachange. She had been considering moving there to start her own business away from the large clinic she had trained with because she had friends there, and suggested that if he made that his new location, she could continue his treatment and it wouldn't be a completely new everything for him. He thought about it for all of a week before he was selling his awful boring bachelor pad he had shoved himself into during his recuperation when he didn't want to go home to Colorado Springs, and with his mother's help, found a bright, airy and sunny beachside apartment that he signed for without even thinking about it. He had been here a month now, and Santana had continued his treatment as promised, though his mood continued on a low and flat keel.

Upon arriving in Miami, Hunter had just reached the six month anniversary of his physical treatment following the bad turn of events he had faced in Afghanistan. A few weeks into his new life in Florida, and he still couldn't decide whether he liked it or not. It was a seachange, and yes, there was a sea there with a beach, and heat, and seagulls that shat on things. He had an apartment within walking distance of the beach, but that was something he couldn't utilise yet. He still had more work to do before leisurely walks on the beach could be on his agenda. He wasn't going to serve in the Army again and even if his dad was still one of the highest ranking soldiers these days, Hunter felt like he had failed. A lot. It was a lot of what he was trying to work through with his therapy and the psychologist had been trying to coax him to thinking about taking up hobbies or studying something new, but so far it was a hurdle Hunter wasn't ready to face while he was still relatively on the disabled side with a lot of things.

[getyourmotorrunning]

Name: Tasha Nixon
Journal: getyourmotorrunning
Occupation and/or college major: Therapist specializing in severe eating disorders
Marital status: Single
Current or pending significant other: Finn Hudson
Their sliding doors moment: Going to college instead of remaining a mechanic
Significant character connections: Sister of Trent Nixon, Kurt Hummel's outpatient therapist, knows the ex-Warblers through Trent

Outline of character bio and backstory as their life played out from that moment on:
Trent's battles with his eating disorder definitely stuck with Tasha, and she was forever grateful for the great counselors who made all the difference in his recovery process. After graduation, she went to work at a garage, following her lifelong dream of being a mechanic, and everything seemed much better, until Trent fell ill with leukemia. The knowledge that her brother was so sick was devastating to Tasha, and even when Trent got better, she never stopped believing that, had he been able to get treatment for his eating disorder sooner, his body would never have fallen prey to something as awful as chemo, and she was inspired to train for a new job where she could help prevent other people from the same suffering that she'd watched her brother go through.

So instead of continuing on in what she thought was her dream career, Tasha found a new dream, attending the University of North Carolina. She scored her job by a freak accident of technology, having been looking for jobs in Tennessee, near Trent. Somehow she'd been linked to a clinic in Miami with outpatient connections to an intensive therapy center, and despite plans to move near Trent, she applied for the job anyway, and it turned out to be the best offer she got. She took the job and fell in love with it to the point that she begged Trent to move down to Miami when he graduated -- not that she really needed to. It was already his plan.

Tasha's love for all things with engines never quiet went away, and she owns a 1968 Camaro that is her pride and joy, and does all the work on it herself. But despite her closeness to her brother, her busy job, and her car hobby, there's something missing. Trent says she needs to find herself a man, though Tasha insists very much the same could be said of him.

[tommyboyk]

Name: Tommy Kennedy
Journal: tommyboyk
Occupation and/or college major: Guitarist in Finn Hudson's band
Marital status: Single
Current or pending significant other: Trent Nixon
Their sliding doors moment: Tommy didn't run away from Blaine when they got bashed
Significant character connections: Friend to Blaine and most of his normal crew, plays in Finn's band

Outline of character bio and backstory as their life played out from that moment on:
That awful night, outside their high school in Cleveland, Tommy stayed right by Blaine as they waited for ambulances to arrive. When a particularly hard kick to Blaine's head had put him out cold, the fuckers who did this to them ran away, leaving Tommy, with broken bones of his own, but no damage to any vital organs, holding his friend's lifeless body and not being sure whether or not Blaine was going to live. Ambulances arrived about the same time as Tommy's father, and both boys were transported to the local hospital to be checked out and treated.

While Tommy recovered quickly, and was able to give a full description of the guys to the police, Blaine remained in a coma for what seemed like an eternity. The attackers were captured, but most got off on probation, and the one who kicked Blaine's head went to jail for a short time on a greatly reduced sentence after taking a plea bargain. That wasn't enough for Tommy, and while he was smaller than the guy, he had a few ideas of his own. That fucker had cost Blaine his abilities to do almost everything he ordinarily would do, and while his best friend was still in rehab, learning to do simple things like talk plainly and walk again, this guy had already done his time, and was back on the streets. So Tommy had no qualms and no regrets about taking a baseball bat and following the fucker to his car from wrestling practice one day. The other wrestlers had parked closer to the school, and were all pulling off to leave by the time Tommy's target was getting ready to climb into his car. All the anger and hatred over what his best friend was going through took over, and Tommy beat the guy, blinded by his rage, until he felt himself being pulled away by what turned out to be Cleveland City Police. The wrestling coach had stayed behind, and ended up seeing what was going on and calling 911.

Tommy found himself spending a few months in juvie, where he bonded with Finn Hudson, who was there for protecting his gay brother. Finding in him a kindred spirit of sorts, Tommy kept in contact with Finn after their release, and joined a band with him soon after. He remains very close friends with Blaine as well, and through Blaine, with the rest of his closest crew along the way.