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Out of Character Information

Player Name: Mel
Player Journal:

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Playing Here: Simon Lewis (

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Where did you find us? Momo directed me.
Are you 16 years of age or older? Yes.

In Character Information

Character Name: Blaine Anderson
Canon: Glee
Timeline: Season 4 Finale, "All or Nothing"
Character's Age: 18

Powers, Skills, Pets and Equipment: Blaine is a just a kind from Ohio with no supernatural or magical powers to speak of in his canon. He is an extremely talented young man though. He has amazing stage presence and knows how to sing. For examples of what I mean check some songs from the show: Baby It’s Cold Outside, Don't Stop Me Now, and Cough Syrup. Please be aware that the last one, while an amazing performance, has some scenes in it that deal with suicide and may be triggering. In canon, Blaine’s room also has trophies for fencing and polo so he has some kind of talent there, but those skills will be a little rusty when he comes to Anatole.

For purposes of the game, I'd like to say that Blaine develops powers centered around his voice. Specifically Sound Manipulation with the sub power Voice Manipulation. Basically, he'll develop the ability to manipulate his voice enough to create power waves and sonic blasts with it, but it will be slow going in its development and will start off by him realizing he can mimic the sounds around him. Basically, he'll start off with Voice Manipulation and that can be fostered and grown into Sound Manipulation.

No pets or equipment to speak of, though Blaine still will have a wedding ring in his pocket.

Canon History: Here is his page on the Glee Wiki.

Personality: Blaine Anderson has done a very good job at building an armor around himself that protects the ball of insecurity nestled inside of him. His armor of choice happens to be the face of a confident and charismatic--and dapper--young boy. He really does care about people and what they think of him and because of that he goes out of his way to be helpful and charming. He puts a lot of work into his appearance and behavior as he wants to be someone that people think well of.

When it comes to his interactions with people he tends to be a very easy going kind of guy because he likes it when people are at ease around him. This even extends to taking a certain amount of abuse if it's for the better harmony of the group. For example, when he first changes schools and joins the New Directions, the leader of that team Finn reacts by being very mean towards him by doing things like telling him to sit down and shut up every time he tries to give input about what the team should do. Blaine takes this for a while, allowing Finn to be angry at him until it finally gets to be too much for him. Blaine likes listening to people and offering advice when it's needed. When he senses that there's something someone wants to get off their chest he wants to be there to help them out. Sometimes his advice can be pretty bad consequences but he wants to give the image of someone who knows what he's talking about. Sometimes his words can be rather inspiring, especially when he's trying to rally his team or help out his best friend. He makes mistakes like any other kid but that doesn't mean that his advice is always wrong.

While Blaine tries to be accepting of all people, he can't stand to be around someone doing something hateful or who is bullying someone weaker than they are. He can't tolerate any sort of injustice or bigotry. He'll always stand up for things that he thinks are right and will let people know when he disapproves of what they are doing. It usually has to be something extreme though, he doesn't like preaching so much as standing up for people--any kind of bullying will make him stand up, for example, but he won’t be lecturing people for just having a different opinion than he does. This urge can sometimes mean that he puts his foot in his mouth or that he gets himself into situations that are dangerous for him, but not standing up for the right thing will make him feel guilty and depressed.

One thing he does where he really, really shines is performing on stage. When he's giving a performance he lets everything go. His carefully maintained appearance melts away a bit as he lets music and art over take him. He has amusing and heartfelt stage faces and can jump around and just let go. Performing and music have become important parts of his life because the release he feels when he's singing and when he's on stage.

Blaine has his own sense of humor, which he uses to try to defuse tense situations or to make people smile ("Well, he's not coming out anytime soon" in reaction to a closeted bully attacking him and Kurt when they confront him with his sexuality). He also uses it to make fun of himself when he really needs to be made fun of (including a comment about there being tons of GAPs for him to perform in, despite a really humiliating and public performance). He also uses humor when needed to help people feel comfortable or to offer criticism to people without being mean ("Oh God no. No more candles" in response to Kurt's elaborate sets).

Blaine's interests range from politics to fashion to football. He went to a private school for a bit and has a pretty decent education. His friend Sam comments that he "kicks ass at school" hinting that he gets excellent grades. He's able to maintain those grades while being active in several extracurricular activities, the most notable of which are his Superhero club and, of course, Glee. He also is known to do research online for topics that aren't taught in school. He took up boxing to deal with his anger over his bullying and has fencing and polo trophies in his room. He knows a good deal about music and art. He wants his life to be dedicated to art and to helping people. He tends to have an optimistic outlook about the world. For example, he really believes that marriage equality will be a thing in his life time.

Blaine is very good at trying to put people at ease, but he's also a very talented young man who knows that he is that talented. This means that sometimes he'll bask in the attention of his peers without realizing that he's putting others in the shadow. When it gets pointed out to him, he manages to feel guilty about it but he also knows that the life of a performer is one that is filled with competition. Blaine tends to let himself get caught up in his own emotion and talent, even forgetting lessons he's already learned or accidentally over stepping his boundaries in a desire to be someone important.

Recently Blaine has made a massive mistake that spiraled him into a bout of depression. He ended up cheating on the boy he's certain is the love of his life, and only had himself to blame for the destruction of his relationship. While he's been working on being friends with Kurt again, their relationship has suffered serious damage. He and Kurt slept together during a wedding and even managed to hang out afterwards but Kurt's instance that they are "just friends" means that his relationship hasn't been completely repaired yet. Still, for the first time since he cheated, Blaine has started to feel hope again. After he had started to repair his friendship he became convinced that in order to win Kurt back he'd have to do some grand, romantic gesture and that lead him to planning to ask Kurt to marry him, another rash choice made by a boy who tends to leap before looking.

A lot about Blaine can be summed up by taking into consideration that deep down he’s really just a teenager with all the same issues and concerns as other teenagers. It's just he's really very good at pretending that he's not. His carefully constructed dapper personality is a way to cover up his own anger issues and insecurities.

While Blaine tires to be hyper aware of others so that he can put them at ease there are times where he can be completely oblivious about how they feel. The prime example of this is how he treated Kurt when Kurt started developing a massive crush on him. Unaware of his friend's feelings for him, Blaine kept doing things to make Kurt think they were becoming a couple. It wasn't until Kurt admitted that he thought there was more than friendship that Blaine finally exposed some of the truth of who he is--a scared, insecure teenager who has a bad habit of throwing himself so completely into things that he messes them up without meaning to.

Blaine wants to be there for people, to be what they need him to be, to the point of putting his own needs second. At the same time he can be completely clueless as to what they really want from him. He tends to do things without thinking them through and knows that if he doesn't watch it he can get carried away. It's a lot like how he is on stage. If he doesn't control himself, if he doesn't keep a tight leash on his emotions and actions, then he'll jump around all over the place. The only problem is that when it comes to his life that means people will get hurt. At least on stage his biggest problem is that some of his stage faces are ridiculous.

Basically, this means that with most people he's reserved with the appearance of being friendly, open and relaxed. He doesn't want them to catch on to how he's really second-guessing himself. That's not to say that he's insincere in his desire to help them though. He is just as earnest about other people's emotions as he seems to be. He wants the people around him to be happy and comfortable, it's just that he's not always that way with himself.

Blaine's insecurities may also stem from a less than perfect relationship with his father, who tends to spend his summers doing manly things in an attempt to "straighten him out" and his strained relationship with his older brother, Cooper, who always criticized everything he did growing up. His relationship with Cooper has recently started to be repaired, but there's still some self-conscious damage there.

Underneath all of this is someone who can be very angry. Blaine admits to being very frustrated and pissed off over how things went at his school before Dalton. Blaine really doesn't like injustice, or how unfair the world can be at times and his anger over it can come in waves. He usually does a good job of keeping his frustration especially when he's in his element and anger hidden and at bay and he can cool off quickly if given the right circumstance. His temper is still something that could be exploited if put in the right hands.

Darren Criss once said that Blaine was "kind of an angry guy". Blaine keeps it hidden under his calm exterior but there is a real anger under the surface that he feels about his family and his circumstances. He's a young gay male who knows how difficult his world is on people in his community. He knows there are people out there who literally hate him just for being who he is and that reality just seems so unfair. When he was bullied at his old school the teachers there made him feel like it was something that he would just have to put up with. "You're gay, of course you're going to be bullied." It would piss him off so much to know that there were people out there who will always reduce him to this one aspect of his personality and always judge him for it. It’s even worse because his own dad can’t really embrace that part of him. At least that's one thing this new world will give him, complete equality between straight and gay couples is a huge plus in his book.

The bullies that attacked him also left a huge scar in Blaine’s mind. From things that Blaine has said and the fact that he left schools it seems that those bullies didn’t really get very punished, despite the fact that they "beat the crap" out of Blaine and his friend. Instead, Blaine was forced from his school, forced to run just to get away from those kinds of attacks. After he went to Dalton, Blaine picked up boxing and started his own little fight club to help work off that steam and to protect himself from that ever happening again. He used that and the stage to work out his aggression, but the sense that the world is just sort of a messed up place never really left him. In the episode "Night of Neglect", we see the first real example of this when Blaine physically lashes out at Kurt’s bully for threatening them. Later, after he transfers to McKinley and is treated unfairly by Kurt’s step-brother Finn he lashes out at Sam for implying they should get more seductive on the stage. After the outburst, he is seen punching a punching bag and admits that he’s picturing Finn's face on the bag. This is important because these are people who don't have a problem with his sexuality. It proves that Blaine feels angry about any sort of unfair treatment and reacts very poorly toward repeat offenses.

He really wants to be optimistic, to say that things will get better. During his optimistic times he does see all the ways it's getting better and he can even be hopeful about his future, but that doesn’t completely chase away all of the hurt and outrage over how he has been treated. This doesn’t mean that he loses his temper at the drop of the hat though. He tries to push his frustration into productivity before falling into violence, but sometimes that tense string snaps and his frustration expresses itself in violent action.

When it comes to his insecurity, Blaine knows that he's talented and that he's good at what he does. When he's on stage, he doesn't doubt that for a moment, but that doesn't mean that he isn't constantly wondering if he's good enough in every other way. When he finally admits to Kurt that he's really not as put together has he seems he says "I don't know what I'm doing. I pretend like I do and I know how to act it out in song...” in the same episode Blaine admits that he has trouble expressing himself outside of a performance. During "Big Brother", we find out that some of this comes from the constant criticism he faced growing up. When you’re told over and over again that you aren’t good enough, you start to believe it. He doubts that what he thinks will be good enough, that his feelings are valid, and that people will respond well to him being honest without the song and dance. It’s so much easier for him to put himself out there through music because it’s so theatrical and expressive. He doesn’t have to worry about rejection hurting as much.

In "Blame it on the Alcohol", Blaine also expresses uncertainty about who he is. While he is out and proud, he is easily effected by a drunk kiss with a girl and questions his sexuality (never "am I straight?" though, instead he questions the possibility of being bi). The fight between him and Kurt after that includes a line that implies that Blaine sometimes has doubts and concerns about his identity. Maybe not always his sexuality but Blaine is still trying to figure out who he is. He’s a young man, after all, and part of that growing up experience is figuring those things out. Finding out that he's the type of person to cheat has made him question himself even more, though through some help from his friends (notably Tina and Sam) he's been figuring himself out again.

Blaine just constantly worries about being good enough on top of that. His demeanor is carefully crafted in part to seem like a well put together and sure because he doesn’t want people to catch onto how uncertain he is and judge him for it. He even worries about his appearance because of that, and expresses real fear when he is banned from hair gel, too afraid to show his untamed hair in public. He doesn’t like being exposed, and instead wants to control what people see of him.

That doesn’t mean that he’s nothing but a ball of neuroticism, even though he has those doubts and fears he does also have moments of confidence. He just feels like he has to compensate for those doubts by always appearing perfect.

Why do you feel this character would be appropriate to the setting? While Blaine is just a kid from Ohio, I really enjoy seeing him in settings that challenge him as a person. He's definitely the kind of character that adapts well, even to situations that he isn't sure he'll survive. He's a friendly sort, and manages to usually make cross-canon relationships easily enough. I also tend to play with whatever culture he's in because he's so invested in things like music. With Simon, I have someone who likes to observe, while Blaine is more of a doer when he's motivated enough. He isn't entirely used to the insanity that comes from RP games, but he manages to find the good in things.

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