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Feb 01, 2012 09:29

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Tina quits ND. Kind of spoilers for 3x12 and vague for 3x14 anonymous February 13 2012, 14:52:46 UTC
Reason why Tina wasn't in 3x12? She decided to quit the Glee club. What's the point of being in Glee if you only get to sing if all the other girls are out of comission?

Bonus points: If more people stop showing up (I'm thinking Quinn, Kurt, Puck and/or Mike but go with whatever). Because with Rachel/Santana as female lead, Blaine/Finn as male and the TroubleTones getting a song at every competition it's pretty apparent that the rest is just background singers from now on.

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Re: Tina quits ND. Kind of spoilers for 3x12 and vague for 3x14 shizocow February 13 2012, 17:05:10 UTC
Yes PLEASE! Especially the bonus stuff. I'm so incredibly pissed off that certain characters are singing all the songs now and others (especially Tina!) are simply left off.

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Re: Tina quits ND. Kind of spoilers for 3x12 and vague for 3x14 anonymous February 13 2012, 19:28:28 UTC
Thirded with the power of a thousand suns. Especially the bonus part, with Quinn, Kurt and Puck! Perhaps Kuinnucktina friendship? (lol) I don't think Mike would stop showing up, because he's there for the dancing, though. Well, unless he stops showing up out of solidarity for Tina. :)

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Re: Tina quits ND. Kind of spoilers for 3x12 and vague for 3x14 rydia94 February 15 2012, 05:09:30 UTC
yes! A thousand times yes! Holy crap this needs to happen. Especially the bonus! Mike probably would continue to go unless he felt like a loyal boyfriend but Tina, Puck, Kurt and Quinn helped win sectionals and now they will never get to lead again!

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Re: Tina quits ND. Kind of spoilers for 3x12 and vague for 3x14 anonymous February 16 2012, 02:49:20 UTC
Awesome! The Troubletones-guarantee was a travesty and thoroughly unfair to anyone who stayed loyal and was on the winning team. And that Tina and Puck have never really been featured in competition (unless with a depleated crew) is ridiculous: Tina certainly has a better voice than Quinn's very thin one and the only guy-voice better than Puck's is Artie's...

And writing. Might be a few days though since I'm still filling up two other prompts.

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Re: Walkout 1 - Tina quits ND 3x12 Tina, Puck, Mike-friendship catahoula_fic February 22 2012, 21:44:04 UTC
A/N:
- Tina’s ethnicity: she looks Korean to me and researching the actress confirms it. However her character is listed as Chinese American, just as Mike (who clearly looks of Cantonese descent to me so it fits in his case). The surname Chang can be Chinese as well as Korean so that isn’t any help either. Argh, I hate when Western productions exchange different East Asian ethnicities as if they look all alike: they don’t! Most of the time it’s really obvious whether someone is Japanese, Korean or Han-Chinese! Sadly, it seems too hard for Hollywood to figure out: thus we end with typical-Cantonese looking Harry Shum having a just as typically Korean looking father and a mother who seems Japanese plus something else... I’ve decided to go with their stated ethnicity, making Tina American Chinese and Jewish, given her other surname.

- Boni: I don’t have Quinn among the walk-outs: I really don’t see how she could be among them, realistically. She was the one who brokered the deal with the Troubletones! And she offered it all straight ( ... )

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Re: Walkout 2 - Tina quits ND 3x12 Tina, Puck, Mike-friendship catahoula_fic February 22 2012, 21:46:16 UTC
When she’s finally approached about her absence from Glee practices (yes, she’s a bit bitter: nobody sent out a delegation to offer her over the top bribes she didn’t even demand for a comeback. Or actually noticed that she, you know, was missing in the first place…) Tina is rather surprised by whom. As she switches books out at her locker there’s a thud next to her and she looks up to see Puck leaning with a shoulder on the neighboring locker, staring down at her with interest ( ... )

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Re: Walkout 3 - Tina quits ND 3x12 Tina, Puck, Mike-friendship catahoula_fic February 22 2012, 21:51:22 UTC
She automatically looks around for listeners - other glee members or creepy Jacob - then feels like a paranoid person. Puck of course picks up on it immediately; having the talent to be super-observant when he shouldn’t be and completely oblivious if you want him to pay attention. Like, in classes he finds boring. Now he looks even more interested to hear her out.

Well, nothing for it. It’s not as if she can keep it a secret forever. She doesn’t even really want to. It’s just that she’s not looking forward to the inevitable accusations. She’s not good with confrontations ( ... )

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Re: Walkout 3 - Tina quits ND 3x12 Tina, Puck, Mike-friendship anonymous February 23 2012, 04:39:46 UTC
OP here and I love the start. Seriously, resentful Tina is awesome (or delicious as Sue would say)

And to comment on your notes. Don't really care if Quinn is part of the quitters or not and you made a really strong point to why she shouldn't be.

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Re: Walkout 3 - Tina quits ND 3x12 Tina, Puck, Mike-friendship catahoula_fic February 23 2012, 14:15:44 UTC
Thanks, good to hear!

I think we've seen that while Tina isn't big on confrontation or asserting herself she can be very ferocious if she's reached her boiling point: like when she was struggling with Figgins over her look. And Tina had a lot of time to quietly resent ND's way of featuring singers and ignoring others - the Troubletones-deal was the last straw here...

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Re: Walkout 4 - Tina quits ND 3x12 Tina, Puck, Mike-friendship catahoula_fic February 23 2012, 14:42:57 UTC
“I mean it's not as if I ever expected to be the star vocalist or anything ego-maniac like that! I've never been unrealistic or entitled. Am I a better singer than Rachel? No, I’m not and I know it. But then Rachel isn’t exactly flawless at performing anything but power-ballads where she can cry-sing, and show tunes. And I am a better dancer than her! Mercedes is for sure better at R n’ B and wailing impressive end notes than me. But other than that I can keep up by now with her and Santana. Because I worked really hard for the last two years: I took classes over summer, I have a private voice lesson every week I pay for myself, I dance at least three times a week with Mike and we do everything from Standards to Contemporary to Tap. And I’m definitely a whole lot better than Britt, Quinn and Sugar in the voice department ( ... )

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Re: Walkout 5 - Tina quits ND 3x12 Tina, Puck, Mike-friendship catahoula_fic February 24 2012, 16:24:44 UTC
Tina continues, "But mostly, it’s just not fun anymore. You know when I had the most fun this year? Doing West Side Story! Yes, I didn’t have a really big role there either, not as big as you or Santana or the leads. But it was still meatier than anything I was allowed in two years in Glee club! And the atmosphere was a lot better somehow, despite it being mostly the same people! Maybe it's really about who is in charge and Mr. Schue doesn't work, I don't know. I do know the only way I get anything in Glee is by holding out until next year when nearly everyone is gone. By default. Until we get some great freshmen or sophomores of course, or there's someone that Schue identifies with as his new Finn-ersatz. And that’s just pathetic. I’m done waiting around, hoping! Wondering if I’m not even good enough to be recognized in a high school club ( ... )

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Re: Walkout 5 - Tina quits ND 3x12 Tina, Puck, Mike-friendship anonymous February 24 2012, 17:28:44 UTC
Poor Tina. D:

Schue is such a douchebag... I just wish she had her rant in front of all of ND. (like how Artie did)

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Re: Walkout 6 - Tina quits ND 3x12 Tina, Puck, Mike-friendship catahoula_fic February 25 2012, 04:35:08 UTC
In his office Mr. Schue had been looking at her with his trademark "I sympathize with you"-expression. But if there's one thing all the ND-dramas have taught her, thankfully as an observer mostly, it's that Schue is so busy looking sympathetic that he somehow never gets around to the actual helping and active support part.
She's seen it with Kurt, multiple times. With Puck - and God, did that boy need it after giving his child away! She's still ashamed how they all - her too - reacted when his obvious grief over Beth and channeling it into destruction had landed him in juvenile detention. If only Schue invested a tenth in Puck of what he did as Finn's mentor, Finn who'd had Burt Hummel for a while now for that. Never mind Rachel's mother apparently having taken advantage of him and his love for his daughter now. They make quips about it, as if it's been Puck's normal cougar-hunt, but mainly she thinks because they all feel uncomfortable and helpless: Puck refuses to talk, at least with her or Mike. She doesn't know who else has tried ( ... )

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Re: Walkout 7 - Tina quits ND 3x12 Tina, Puck, Mike-friendship catahoula_fic February 25 2012, 04:41:45 UTC
“So why is the Changster still in Glee? He abandon you or is he your shinobi?”

“My what?!”

“Your spy, like a ninja.”

“Oh. No, no spying. Why would I need one? It’s not as if I plan to establish a rival glee club or anything. ... I told Mike he should decide for his own, not leave for me or anything. His situation is different anyway: he’s gone this summer and he only joined Glee for the opportunity to finally dance - and because you made him and Matt, Mr. ‘I Need Back-up And That’s You Asshats, Complain to the Fist’! And he gets to dance, is even featured in competition. He’s still deliberating, I think. I’m not going to force or emotionally blackmail him. If he wants to stay, that’s fine. As long as he doesn’t slushy or dump me for leaving. We don't have to do everything together as a couple. He didn't try to force me to join the decathlon-team just because we became boyfriend and girlfriend ( ... )

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Re: Walkout 8 - Tina quits ND 3x12 Tina, Puck, Mike-friendship catahoula_fic February 29 2012, 17:19:08 UTC
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Puck lets the bomb go off mid-way through next practice.

"So, are we ever gonna talk about Tina leaving, Mr. Schue? Or do we pretend she doesn't like exist? 'Cause I imagine that could be kind of difficult for her boyfriend..."

There's a moment of silence as everyone processes his words (and unbelievably a few idiots need to look around to verify that Tina really isn't there. They're barely over a dozen people, how can they not notice?! He's actually kinda pissed on her behalf. She's been here since the very beginning!) before the storm breaks loose. Everyone talks at once.

Schue looks uncomfortable. But mainly surprised. Did the guy really think he wouldn’t have to address Tina’s absence?! Like, ever? Sometimes Puck seriously thinks you have to prove you’re mentally unstable or a total fucktard to be allowed to teach at this school. It would explain so much shit. Schue also looks helpless ( ... )

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