Hi.I'm basically just here because of Glee. My ship is Kurtofsky, I'm starting to like Seblaine and I think the only interesting thing about Klaine will be their break up.
Baby steps
“I think the thing to remember is that he was so suppressed. He was unable to be himself and there was nobody to talk to. I think as human beings, you need to express yourself. It truly does get better. There is a future, and there are people that do accept you for who you are, and what you want to say, and what you want to feel. It’s much more universal than just being gay.”
This is the feeling I’ve always had with Dave’s storyline and I think it’s why he struck so many of us so potently, even those who’ve never had a struggle with sexuality. Before TSSS when more of what he was dealing with became evident, I had such a hard time relating to him and seeing where he was coming from, but after that episode it became not so much about being secretly gay, but about being closeted in every possible connotation of the word and being so scared people might find out who you really are. I think a lot of us have had to grapple with that kind of an issue. Isn’t that the heart of adolescence, essentially?
And I think maybe that’s why younger viewers don’t get him as easily, particularly those who are in their teens and would rather latch on to Blaine or other characters. Dave’s character is really deep and really affecting and you’ve really got to have been from one end of that struggle to the other, or at least acknowledge that it’s what you’re going through, to really be able to let him affect you.
Dave is a character whose emotional support is so incredibly lacking that wrong turns become grave matters. This puts him in a dramatic sphere separate from the rest of the characters. No matter what problems they’ve encountered they could rely on someone. Quinn had Mercedes to take her in when she was kicked out of the house, Kurt has Burt who’s fiercely protective of him, and Mike has Tina who got him into dance academies when his father expressly forbade him to go. As imperfect as it is the glee club served as a system for its various members.
Dave doesn’t have that. He had his sports team, which turned on him, and his last place of refuge- a gay bar, an already problematic haven for a minor-where he was taunted for not measuring up to a rigid standard of beauty. The results of this can never be pretty or anything short of near tragic. In general tween/teens who don’t have much life experience and are sheltered can’t relate to those who have very little.
Some of that is Dave can be somewhat opaque as a character. He’s portrayed as being tightly wound, inscrutable, and mysterious. That’s partly a result of survival kills when navigating an extremely hostile environment. Some is the fault of RIB who let him disappear for so long and then progress him in huge leaps. While I’m more satisfied with his arc than most of the characters there’s still those question of what gave him the courage to walk into a gay bar and become a regular? What gave him the strength to ask Kurt out and to have their first date in front of people they know?
Sigh. So many articulate people in this fandom.
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Fanart: Chris Colfer as The Amazing Spider-Man.
Happy Birthday, Chris! :D that was fun
p.s. please don’t steal/repost.
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