a real-life, honest to god sorcerer!

pov it’s kate bush week in glee club (aka stranger things characters if they lived in the glee universe) (alternatively titled hellfire vs new directions)

dustin: was born to be in glee club. the broadway of it all. the never ending story. he would be best friends with blaine/sam/mike c. and beef artie & tina for valedictorian.

lucas: struggling to balance popular star athlete arc vs his nerdy loser club and friends? i’ve heard that one before. that’s literally finn hudson that’s the new wmhs it boy (also the broadway of it all)

el: would LOVE brittany. thats her mentor. they’re cohosting fondue for two. she also believes in santa claus and the mayan apocalypse. breaks up with mike w. dramatically when she leaves new directions to join troubletones and learn about girl power.

will: both him and jonathan have too pretentious of music tastes to be in glee club. there would be an episode where kurt calls him a self-hating gay man for refusing to join and then will would admit that he has a little shop poster in his room (canon) and join so they had enough people for regionals (he would probably mysteriously quit again at the beginning of the next season but mike w. would convince him to come back).

jonathan: see above. he would hangout with the skanks. i just don’t think he would fare well in the glee universe.

max: thinks glee club is stupid and would not join until lucas begged her to. even then she would be a lauren zizes type and only show up for a bit. she would love the thriller episode when the girls played football. she would kill it. joined troubletones with el but didn’t rejoin new directions after. admires sue sylvesters sarcasm and taste in adidas track jackets.

erica: would be a cheerio. she would get along with becky & sue soooo well i can see it so vividly. she would be on a mission to take down glee club but then she would single-handedly save glee club by getting secret intel from being the mole on the cheerios and she would join for nationals.

nancy: lowkey a quinn fabray parallel but with less repressed homosexuality. she would be a cheerio, in celibacy club until she starts dating steve. would not join glee club she thinks she’s above that. editor-in-chief of the mckinley muckraker & beefs jbi bc he’s not a serious journalist and she thinks it’s insulting to the mckinley name.

robin: canonically a band kid so glee club adjacent but i think she would probably stay a band kid and get annoyed when the glee kids expect her to know a song at the drop of a hat. maybe friends with tina. rachel, kurt, santana and mercedes all bribe her to play their demos on the radio. she plays santana’s the most because she has a crush. would maybe join glee club for nationals.

steve: would be friends with karofsky and azimio but then he would have a big change of heart and become a sam evans type. this is literally a standard arc in both shows. he would be the star of bruce springsteen week.

It’s not perfect, it probably never will be, and he’ll fight like hell to stop this progress from being taken away, but it’s so much more than he let himself hope for as a child. A pipedream is now his reality. He’s seen so much change. He fought for it. He earned it. He shouldn’t have had to, but it was worth it. It’s beautiful, it’s better than he could’ve imagined. His own little slice of heaven. He’ll protect it with his life.