Fandom Specific Plot / Glee

• For the Glee fandom, Blaine-centric stories that transplant the characters to a Film Noir setting are common. Blaine is overwhelmingly the sharp-dressed, jaded Private Detective, the New Directions and the Cheerios are rival nightclubs, and Kurt will either be the person seeking help or connected to them in some way. The Kurt/Blaine fics often end very badly. It's hard to tell how much of it is just faithfulness to the film-noir style, and how much is a reflection of real-life Values Dissonance.
• The badboy!Klaine trend. Blaine or Kurt is Troubled, but Cute, and the other is usually very close to their canon persona. Sometimes, especially when Blaine is the bad boy, Dalton is some sort of reform school.
• A good number of Kurt/Blaine fic reference or incorporate "Baby It's Cold Outside", even before the actual duet was released.
• An interesting trend is several stories where Rory and Sugar sleep together, and she becomes pregnant shortly before he returns to Ireland.
• Many future fics involve characters performing together on Broadway. This is particularly common with Rachel/Jesse fics.
• Sugar being Brittany and Santana's Kid from the Future travelling back in time to visit her mothers (and often to get them together). This eventually caught on with other ships, by having Rory as Kurt and Blaine's son (which is technically implausible considering he's, well, Irish), minor character Harmony as Rachel and Quinn's daughter, and occasionally, Sebastian as Kurt and Karofsky's son.
• Many Sam/Rory fics take place either during Christmas (when the ship was first introduced) or Valentine's day (in the Christmas episode Sam promised to be Rory's sponsor and help him get a girlfriend for valentine's day).
• There is a tendency to write future fics or AU fics where one or several characters are famous actors or singers. This is especially common in Kurt/Blaine fics, and quite often only one of them is famous and the other is a fan, and they somehow meet and fall in love. These types of fics also usually include parts where the famous character's fans freak out on Tumblr in reaction to various events in the fic.
• After Cory Monteith passed away, many fics explored what would have happened if Finn had lived on rather than dying with the actor.
  • In a similar vein, some explore how he died since it was never stated in the show.
• Another fairly common trope for anti-Klaine fics is for Kurt to re-unite with Sebastian Smythe, who has changed for the better and reveals his behavior was the result of a complicated or traumatic childhood. Accompanied usually with depictions of Blaine as controlling or downright abusive, Sebastian as the hero who helps Kurt realize or leave the situation, and ends with Sebastian and Kurt getting together. Oh, usually with a side dash of Rachel or the entire Glee Club being pretty terrible friends.
• Due to Grant Gustin's role on The Flash (2014), Crossover fics like to make Sebastian The Flash, or have Sebastian related to Barry Allen in some way.

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