#donutverseoc

In the Donutverse, while at Dalton (in the story To Touch is to Heal, to Hurt is to Steal, which takes place during season 2 between episodes 2x08 Furt and 2x18 Born This Way), Kurt provides discipline to five different boys. 

Ellison Rowley (he/him) is a senior who will attend Dartmouth for political science in the fall. His roommate Ingram is one of the only other people at Dalton he has told about being trans. While for years he’s been convinced he would have to remain stealth to get through high school, Ellison suddenly finds himself dating Teague. 

In the Donutverse, while at Dalton (in the story To Touch is to Heal, to Hurt is to Steal, which takes place during season 2 between episodes 2x08 Furt and 2x18 Born This Way), Kurt provides discipline to five different boys. 

Palmer Watkins (he/him) 

Brad Ellis, played on Glee by... Brad Ellis, is not exactly the joke non-character who hates kids, as presented on the show. He’s certainly not an attempt at RPF. Brad is my own creation, mine and knittycat’s. 

In the Donutverse, Brad and Will have been friends since elementary school, along with their friends Andi and Toby, who they met at Baldwin-Wallace music camp. Later in high school they also meet Laurie there. 

Brad ends up marrying Andi and Laurie and they have two kids together, Duncan and Coraline (Cory). 

Brad’s a selective mute (as is Roderick), but he does talk occasionally. 

He teaches Kurt piano lessons, and later does the same for Blaine when Kurt is in New York.  

Brad is a regular character in the Donutverse beginning in chapter 32 of Waking Dreams, when he first approaches Finn and Kurt to offer them support in managing their polyamorous relationship. You can also read Brad, Andi, and Laurie’s backstory in Just That Side of True. 

Laurie Ellis, in the Donutverse, is played by Agyness Deyn. 

Andi Ellis, in the Donutverse, is played by Janeane Garofalo. 

In the Donutverse, while at Dalton (in the story To Touch is to Heal, to Hurt is to Steal, which takes place during season 2 between episodes 2x08 Furt and 2x18 Born This Way), Kurt provides discipline to five different boys. 

Ingram Albers (he/him) is the first client Teague finds for "Porcelain” at Dalton. He’s a junior and has three sisters. Ingram loves parties, but doesn’t always know what to say. He wants to fit in, and is generally regarded as a nice guy, but he’s often afraid to speak up for others. He identifies as straight.

Ingram’s father is an oil magnate in Columbus, where his family’s been in oil for several generations. They have more power and connections than most Dalton families. Ingram is expected to go Ivy League, just like the rest of his father’s friends’ sons. His father’s starting to come down on him hard to make a decision about where he’ll be after graduation.

As Teague tells Kurt, “He can barely decide what color tie to put on in the morning without somebody holding his hand.” With a little stern encouragement and direction from Porcelain, Ingram discovers he is more capable of making decisions than he ever expected, and his gratitude knows no bounds. 

Blaine Darren Anderson in the Donutverse is canon Blaine with a lot of mental and emotional instability. His authoritarian father and fragile mother fought a lot when he was a child. Luckily, his emotional connections to his housekeeper, Maribel Lopez, and her daughter Santana, along with bookish Davey Karofsky, helped sustain him through a turbulent childhood. 

Blaine is submissive with all of his boyfriends, and although he has plenty of experience putting on his “perfect Blaine” face at school and on stage, he is happiest when he can lay down the demands of the world and fully surrender to someone he trusts. When he does not get the support he needs, he becomes reckless, disjointed, irritable, and sometimes resorts to cocaine to get by. 

Blaine sings lead and plays guitar and piano in the band Labyrinth with Finn and Carl. 

Originally, Blaine was not a major character in our story, but as the show went on and we were planning and writing, we felt we had to come up with a suitable reason for Blaine’s erratic behavior. Then, when we wrote Blaine’s backstory with Santana and Dave in Terrific, Radiant, Humble, he became much more interesting, and it was easier to find a place for him in the larger arc. Also, we wrote Dying in America before envisioning Blaine’s involvement with Finn in Breathing Room, which required us to go back and entirely rewrite the first story. 

Here’s a chronological summary of all of Blaine’s appearances in the Donutverse as of 2019:

Terrific, Radiant, Humble - Blaine’s backstory begins when he is in kindergarten and his mother hires Santana’s mother to be their housekeeper. Blaine also develops a lasting, turbulent friendship with Davey Karofsky.

Bending in the Archer’s Hand, chapter 16 - during Kurt and Puck’s date in Dayton to the dance club Masque, Puck meets and dances with Blaine. They discover a mutual attraction, as Puck uncharacteristically takes the dominant role. This encounter stays with them for months until they meet again the following summer.

Bending in the Archer’s Hand, chapter 25 - while Puck is coping with the sudden death of his mother, Santana is talking on the phone to Blaine at Dalton.

Archer’s Hand, chapter 29 - during the Glee Christmas song exchange at Brad’s house, Santana receives a call from Blaine, and Finn hears him singing “Carol of the Bells” with the Warblers.

Archer’s Hand, chapter 45 - while Finn is searching for Puck, Blaine is eating salad with Britt and Santana. In the same chapter, Dave reflects on his friendship with Blaine.

How Much You Pierce My Spirit, chapter 9 - after Kurt returns from California, Dave notices his confidence, and reflects on his past with Blaine.

There’s An Awful Lot of Breathing Room, But I Can Hardly Move - Blaine has a weekend identity as “Patrick” at the open mic at a coffeehouse in Columbus. He meets Finn (“Christopher”) and Carl (“Derek”) and Finn recognizes that Blaine needs discipline. They begin an intense nonsexual relationship which soon becomes complicated.

Breathing Room overlaps with the stories that encompass the second half of season one. The chapters involving Blaine are:

chapter 4 of There’s Not Enough Room (and chapter 5)

chapter 2 of Dark and Dangerous Like A Secret

chapter 1 of The Silence That I Keep

chapter 4 of Shadowing My Dreams

chapter 1 of Of All My Demon Spirits, I Need You the Most (and chapter 4)

chapter 3 of Bring Your Heart Back to My Island (and chapter 5)

chapter 2 of Time Passed Makes It Plain (and chapter 4)

Dying In America (To Come Into Our Own) - Blaine and Kurt both audition for RENT in Cleveland during the summer after sophomore year, and they realize Blaine already knows both Puck and Finn. Their relationships merge and shift over the course of the summer, ending eventually in a foursome.

Any Minute Now (WIP) - as the boys attempt to continue their relationship into junior year, Blaine’s father realizes what he’s doing with Finn and Puck and forbids them to see him. Blaine’s fragile mental state collapses, and he enters a fugue state in which he refuses to acknowledge his prior relationships with the boys. Kurt transfers to Dalton to attempt to get him back.

Dance on a Narrow Ledge, chapter 6 - while Kurt and Finn are at Baldwin-Wallace music camp after junior year, they unexpectedly begin a relationship with Mike Chang. Blaine drives down with Tina to visit them and discuss the development.

I am having a complete blast writing Kurt at Dalton in season 2. Now I’m wondering if I should make that an entirely separate side story, as we did with the Finn/Blaine story and the Adam/Kurt/Puck in California, or just embed it into AMN. There’s not a lot of material to work with in regard to Dalton, unless I lean on others’ fanon creations. I could keep the most plotty bits in AMN and put the additional side stories about each of the five boys Kurt handles in the Kinky Ways series, but that might fragment the story too much. Arrgh. I really didn’t need to write MORE words. 

Poor Blaine. He’s not having a good time of it. It will get better, though.