#gleefulblaine

[gleefulhq]

character name. blaine anderson

age & date of birth. 29, january 31st

gender identity & pronouns. cis man, he/him

occupation. music teacher/musician/writer

personality traits. loyal, artistic, genuine, influential, caring, articulate, flexible, dramatic, anxious, insecure, impetuous, idiosyncratic, self-destructive

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after graduation he headed to New York City with his fiance and friends.  however, things didn't go exactly to plan and nothing was quite how he imagined it would be.  his insecurities from the year before reared again- even though he was sharing a living space with his fiance and they tried not living together for a bit which made things worse for him.  it wasn't long until they called off the engagement and ended their relationship.  blaine also had a bit of a late bloomer growth spurt between graduating from McKinley, and his second year at Berklee.

things didn't improve for blaine at this time.  he struggled and ended up leaving school and returning to Ohio.  there, he offered to work with the warblers (attempting to fix what he saw as a karmic wrong) and gained back a bit more of his spark.  the next year blaine returned to school, this time at Berklee in Boston.  

things began to click again for blaine, at least academically, professionally.  over the next almost a decade blaine completed a bachelor of music education and began teaching at a prestigious private school in Lowell, MASS.  in the summer, and on weekends, blaine even began performing again himself at open mics, festivals, and busking in the subway.  he credits to helping him bring a show choir to nationals for the last three years, placing at least top five all three years- winning the competition the last two years.

this past summer, blaine returned to Berklee to get his masters in music composition and is continuing in the program part time while teaching part-time this year as well.  secretly, blaine has this idea of writing his own musical.  his modest nature says in likelihood it will be just for his school to perhaps put on, but sometimes he likes to daydream about taking it to broadway; or off-off broadway. this part time teaching is what has allowed him to return to Ohio for the holidays.  teaching, and his students, helps to fill the void of a family he thought he'd have by now. 

 romantically, blaine has not been so successful.  he's had a series of really not nice boyfriends who have taken advantage of his genuine, generous nature, among other things.  even when he managed to date a couple of good men, his insecurities returned in full force and he self-sabotaged relationships with potential.  ever the romantic, baine isn't ready to give up on love, but with his 30th birthday approaching after the holidays, blaine can't help but wonder what is says about him as a man that his most serious relationship was in high school.  maybe he's running away from facing that, and returning to where his one real relationship started and all the good of it transpired.     

the role of blaine anderson is portrayed by tommy martinez, and will be written by bee.