random blaine headcanons
Blaine made friends with all of the band members when he first joined the New Directions. They were all really confused at first and all like ‘why are you talking to us?’ and Blaine was like ‘aren’t you guys technically a part of glee club too? since you guys are here every day to play instruments’. After that they started warming up to him and Blaine sometimes hung out with the band kids to play instruments with them and just to talk. Also if he wanted to sing a song he would give the band + Brad the sheet music as many days in advance as he could and he would always be open to helping them. He thought everyone did that at first until the band kids said the other glee clubbers just expected them to know what to do (minus Artie; I can see him also being more sympathetic and friendly with the band). Blaine felt really bad and he tried to get the other members to prepare things ahead of time for the band’s sake but they didn’t listen for three reasons: 1) Most of them didn’t trust Blaine yet. 2) That’s how they’d always been doing it. 3) They thought the band members didn’t care. The (season 4) newbies on the other hand tended to interact and be kinder to the band.
Blaine was Brad’s favorite because: he always tried to give them plenty of time to work on the arrangements for his songs, he made one-sided conversations with Brad (Brad didn’t feel like talking), Blaine sometimes played the piano with Brad, and he gave Brad days off from the glee club by taking over the piano. Brad did find Blaine sort of annoying and scary with his obsessive perfectionism and tendency to have very long and excessive rambles about things he’s passionate about (Brad really did not care). After the events of Puppet Master, Blaine also apologized to Brad but Brad didn’t fully accept it (and was still convinced Blaine had lost his mind) until Blaine came in with a full tray of desserts to further apologize to the glee club and he even saved one for Brad which happened to be one of his favorite kinds of dessert. It also helped that Blaine spent the rest of the year trying to get back onto Brad’s good side (which Blaine did not know if he ever did or if it was even a thing since Brad was not expressive or outwardly reactive). Brad ended up deciding he actually liked Blaine a little bit.
Blaine was friends with Tina and Mike during season 3 and not just because they were Kurt’s friends which meant him by proxy. They sort of knew each other already (“the asian community is very tight”). They were the only people (except for Kurt and maybe Rachel + Brittany a bit) that made an effort to include Blaine. They had classes together and would sit by each other and stuff but their friendship never got deeper than casual friendliness until Tina and Blaine got close in season 4.
Blaine talked to Sebastian and kept up their friendship (before the slushie incident of course) because he was never close with any of the Warblers and they all didn’t really know what to do with him since he moved to Mckinley and Blaine just wanted to feel a connection with the people he considered his best friends (even though they weren’t. He was just trying to hold on to Dalton and feel like he made a difference there other than with his talent). Blaine just wanted to feel like that he, as a person and not a singing voice, meant something to somebody there as they all meant a lot to him in shaping who he could pretend/want to be. He looked up to the upperclassmen there that all seemed so confident and mature and in control. How he was in season 2 was him modeling how he appeared to be like them. When he was like that he could pretend he was 100% healed with no scars from his old school and he could pretend his home life wasn’t as fucked up as it was. He hoped that the persona he had did something to help someone there as he helped Kurt since all he ever wanted to do was not be an inconvenience and to help people. He wanted his legacy to be more meaningful than “sex on a stick and sings like a dream” but alas we can’t always get what we want.
Blaine spent his time at the Berry household when he wasn’t at the Hudson-Hummel’s. It wasn’t to hang out with Rachel though, she was his good friend but she would always be Kurt’s best friend first. It was to spend time with Hiram and Leroy Berry. They were his parent role models (along with Burt and Carole). Blaine absolutely adored them. They were gay, Jewish, and loved musical theatre. He loved the fact that two gay men were together after so many years and raising a child. He went to them for advice about his relationship with Kurt and he asked questions he had about other gay stuff like sex or what they faced. The Jewish part reminds him of his grandparents who were his favorite people growing up. His mother wasn’t around much and didn’t follow Judaism strictly at all, so being with the Berry’s reminded him of the good days of his childhood. He also loved the musical family they had and was always happy to talk Broadway or sing with them. Blaine envied Rachel for her parents and upbringing. Blaine continued to visit them during his senior year and kept them entertained during their first year being empty-nesters. Blaine heard about their divorice through Rachel and was very upset. He of course was worried about Rachel first and foremost, but he was allowed to be sad about it too considering how much time he spent with them.
All throughout middle school and high school Blaine had a show choir blog on tumblr. He always kept his followers up to date with the latest Ohio show choir news, talked about some show choir topics, and always answered asks the best he could without being an official. He made his last post after his senior year nationals where he talked about how much show choir meant to him and how he spent a lot of time running the blog and “it’s been an amazing journey but it's time to say goodbye. I won’t deactivate my account so you can still see all the old news and everything I’ve talked about. This will be my last post and I will no longer be active. Remember, glee is about opening yourself up to joy. Have fun singing and don’t be so saddened by the times you lose. Signing off, BA”. He also has another tumblr account he’s had for years and is still active on. He started off in the Harry Potter fandom and has been present in lots of other ones like various Broadway musicals, Star Wars, MCU, etc. Blaine had always enjoyed spending his time writing/reading fanfiction, making edits, and other fandom-y stuff.
