Rachel Berry plot bunny?
(alright anon you're getting three plot bunnies but chances are only one of them will actually be a Rachel ship!)
1 – Hadley Roth
Hadley Roth had no interest in McKinley's new glee club, she really didn't. She didn't care that it existed, and she definitely didn't care about joining. All she cared about was bringing the school paper back from the dead and doing a good enough job that she could get an internship with a local newspaper or tv station, and getting a scholarship to a journalism program. But when Sue Sylvester approaches her with an offer, Hadley listens. An internship with WOHN News 8, all the funding a school paper she could ever want, and she only had to do one thing: get Sue the scoop on the Glee club. In exchange for everything she ever wanted on a silver platter, Hadley can find it in herself to care about the New Directions.
2 – Cole Manning*
All that Cole Manning really wanted from his sophomore year of high school was a football team that didn't suck. A coach that actually gave a shit, teammates who weren't the worst people and players he'd ever met, and an actual shot at being something more than a Lima Loser. It wasn't that much to ask for, right? Except that apparently it was. His team cared more about fighting over a fucking Glee Club than winning a game, and Cole was sick of it. If the Glee Club being for losers was the problem, then the obvious solution was that Cole had to find a way to make it cool.
*Cole was originally conceptualized as a possible Rachel plot bunny but now he's Quinn's boyfriend instead
3 – Tegan Wright
Unfortunately, Tegan Wright did know Rachel Berry. Not by choice, mind you, but it was hard not to when Rachel had to join every single fucking club that Tegan was in. Tegan actually cared about her clubs, thank you. She was passionate about debate, about Model UN. She loved the renaissance club and student council. Rachel only did them to get her picture in the yearbook, and Tegan hated her for it. But then McKinley gets a new glee club, and Tegan has no plans to join the Rachel Berry show. Until Rachel approaches her, asking for help. The glee club needs more members, otherwise it'll be shut down. Tegan might not like Rachel, but she likes music, and she loves the look of "founded a nationally ranked glee club" on her transcript, and so the New Directions find their newest member.
