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Hi :) so while your stories are fun and fluffy to read, I can't say I always agree with the way you characterize Kurt. Your interpretation of him seems much weaker, more needy than in canon (where he seems much sassier and independent and prideful) and I was wondering what made you begin to write him like that? (please don't take this as hate I just want to get some insight into your characterization of him and didn't know how else to word it)

This is a very interesting question!! I'll do my best to answer it properly.

First of all, for the most part I love canon!Kurt (when they're not trying to write him as saint!Kurt, which ugh, cannot stand). I love his sassiness and his attitude and his extrovertedness. He's such a fun character.

But at the same time, he's a very complicated character. On the surface he's very strong and assertive and almost flippant sometimes, but there's such a heavy undercurrent of vulnerability that we rarely get to see, outside of the occasional glimpse. And especially when you take his backstory into account- a very lonely kid who didn't have any friends to speak of until his sophomore year of high school, who's been the brunt of supposedly funny "pranks," who didn't reveal his sexuality to his father because he was scared of what would happen and even tried to change himself to keep his father's attention and love, who lost his mother as a very young child and admits to missing her so much that as a teenager he still breathes in the scent of her perfume to comfort himself.

So when I write Kurt, I like to...well, deconstruct him, in a way. I like to see how far he needs to be pushed before he cracks, to see which people he can be vulnerable around and which people he still strives to maintain his mask. I like to push his buttons to see how he reacts to things, how deeply his emotions run. And then I like to write the fallout and see how it unfolds- what he expects, what actually happens, how he grows from the experience.

I also like to go back and write about the things that shaped him into the person he is now, as well as writing what would happen if things had gone differently. For instance, I believe that if his mother had lived, he would be a different person- less highstrung, more effortlessly confident, more open. I also think he would have come out a lot earlier than he did.

I don't know. I feel like I'm just pontificating and being annoying. But I really like playing around with Kurt's character.

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