#berrymen

I’ve imagined them in a few different careers through several of my own universes; teacher, accountant, lawyer, doctor, anthropologist. I’ve never explicitly named a profession for either of them in DB, but I mostly imagine Hiram was a lawyer and Leroy an investment banker (and a big reason Rachel makes some good investments with her own money).    

texts sent to quinn post mini-prank on hiram.

She told them over the phone, and they were understandably surprised, seeing that Rachel had never mentioned any inclinations towards women before. But once they got over the shock of their daughter coming out to them via phone call, they both realized that the Quinn part of it had really been a long time coming. Of course, they were on the first thing smoking to New York to interrogate (re)meet Quinn as their daughter’s romantic partner.  

In those early years, it was mostly grudging acceptance on Judy’s side and cautious respect on Rachel’s. But Judy and Rachel eventually get to a place where their civil relationship leans more toward friendly. I wouldn’t say it ever gets close to a true mother/daughter relationship but it certainly gets comfortably familial by the time the second fababy comes to be. 

And then Quinn and Rachel show up with Callie and Celeste/Rena/Melody, and the neighbors completely freak out that the nice elderly couple is apparently down with the incest. But then they realize that their daughters are Rachel Berry and Quinn Fabray, aka Lucy Quinn, and they freak out for an entirely different reason. 

I’m sure he did initially have some concerns about Quinn thanks to their past, but they’d been friends for years before they became more, so he had the benefit of hearing from Rachel about how wonderful Quinn was during those friendship years to kind of get over that before Rachel eventually announced that she was in love with Quinn. And once he saw for himself how loving Quinn was with Rachel, he felt fairly confident his daughter would be taken care of. So he feels perfectly within his rights to keep checking to make sure his assessment was correct. 

That being said, there are certainly going to be times when the inlaws overstep and it causes some friction. Quinn would absolutely go head to head with Leroy or Hiram if she felt strongly about something that concerns Rachel and her family, and the same goes with Rachel and Judy. 

Will & Grace probably would be a more apt comparison. But I’m thinking Hiram would have to be Oscar. Judy would obviously be conditioned to be a neat freak after life with Russell, and Leroy strikes me as the fastidious one in the Berry marriage. We know Rachel had to get her sloppy bathroom habits from someone. ;)