While these ones are written in the spirit of empathy, there’s a level of assumed intimacy that’s uncomfortable, and even creepy. Most of the stories stick within the fictional realm, but some smash the fourth wall right down, and tell stories from the perspective of Monteith’s friends and co-stars. Both stories feature the kind of sweetly sappy plot developments that Glee itself could well pull off in the fairly near future. Usually, Blaine let him go alone, but this time he wanted Blaine there, along with their son, Finn.”Īww. Every time Kurt returned to Lima, he stopped by the cemetery to leave flowers. “Kurt and Blaine were standing beside Finn’s grave. One reveals that Rachel is pregnant with Finn’s child, while the other, well… The grieving is set at a pretty high pitch, but both end on notes of wish fulfilment. In ‘Goodbye, Farewell’, Kurt musters up “all his self-control not to smash his phone against the wall”, while in ‘Forever Yours Faithfully’, Rachel sinks to her knees, sobbing, as grave dirt runs through her fingers. Remember when Marissa Cooper met a similar demise on The OC?īoth stories are packed with high drama.
Both authors chose to kill him off in car accidents, a proven method for dispatching TV teens. They deal with Kurt and Rachel - Finn Hudson’s step brother and his occasional girlfriend, respectively - as they deal with the aftermath of his passing. ‘Goodbye, Farewell’ and ‘Forever Yours Faithfully’ were two of the earliest stories to appear, mere hours after the news broke. Some are maudlin, some are strangely poignant, but together, they offer a fascinating insight into the ways that people process their grief for a beloved character and a person they’ve likely never met. Numerous stories appeared on FanFiction.Net overnight, some of them are set within the world of the show, as Finn’s friends and relatives deal with the news of his death, and some are about the actors themselves. Of course, Glee’s fan fiction community was quick to react.
Monteith was found dead in a Vancouver hotel room, after ongoing struggles with substance abuse, and while few other details are known at this point, his name is still trending on Twitter, as fans offer condolences to his co-stars and to one another, and squabble over who is the MOST grief-stricken. When news broke yesterday of the untimely death of young Glee star Cory Monteith (who played Finn Hudson on the show), fans took to the internet in a mass outpouring of grief. (Burt Hummel gets me seriously hot under the collar, but that’s a whole other thing for a whole other time.) Especially that last thing - the archives of FanFiction.Net feature 9090 ‘Mature’ rated stories about gay kid Kurt, and a further 62 about his husky mechanic dad. The characters pair off, develop eating disorders, crash their cars, have children, and have sex. The angsty high-school sing-along Glee has one of the most devoted fan fiction communities on the internet, and its devotees write lengthy, sometimes multi-part narratives that pick at hidden plot threads and invent entirely new ones.