A/N: Once again, I am in Italics, pupofstuff is in bold, each new paragraph is a new text, and the line breaks means a sudden change in the general subject.
That sounds like a plan. XD
Can Dani's foreign language be French? I don't know why, but want that to happen. :D Like, even if she's Latina, she's been speaking French with Mikayla?
You know, never do learn where she's from. Maybe she's from New Orleans, and speaks Creole?
That would be AMAZING. Except she doesn't have a 'Nawlans' accent. I just wasn't sure if we would do any other language than Spanish, as Demi's Latina, but now that I think about it, that's not really fair as she wouldn't necessarily, automatically speak Spanish, if English wasn't her only language.
Well we're not sure how long she's been in NY. If she's 21, left home at 15, and then tried her hardest to lose the accent. Maybe Portuguese?
It's hard for me because I've only heard Dani speak in Love, Love, Love, and half of that she was singing. So… I do like the idea of her doing her best to get rid of her accent, so I'm totally up for Creole! Do you know it?
Yeah, that could be a challenge, because I don't know the language at all.
I know it's similar to French, but that's it.
Well, we could always do the, "...she rattled off something in a language both realized they couldn't understand most, if not all of it," and then have Dani translate, and when Dani speaks, have it in English but with italics, though I've always found that lazy. Try to find someone or an online translator? Isn't it like, and I'm totally guessing her, French-Haitian-other?
I also want to guess Spanish/Cuban, but that's only because of geography.
Yeah it's something like that. I know its official name is French Creole but I can't remember where the other influence comes from.
I'm sure we can research it. As well as my brother probably has a better idea. I like this. Dani and New Orleans just seems to fit. Just don't ask to see her bead collection. XD
Oh that would be an EXCELLENT one shot.
How would you want to write it? Someone finds her collection and asks about it, or once they find out she's from New Orleans, then they ask about it?
Well I think they should be joking around (established Dantanchel) and maybe they're watching TV and it's set in New Orleans and then Santana makes a joke about collecting beads if they ever go down on vacation all together. They already know Dani is from there at that point. When Dani blushes heavily, Santana and Rachel tag team where one of them keeps Dani on the couch and the other goes to find the beads in Dani's room.
Yes. I have to say that the more I think about Dani being French Creole, the more I like it. Or, at least growing up around it. Her best friends spoke it, and she spent a long time with them and started picking it up, the girl her parents caught her with was...
Well she would have had to have more than just a friend influence for it to be so ingrained that she reverts back in times of stress. Maybe Latina mother, Creole speaking father?
I like that. (Stereotypically) Catholic mother, so not very accepting to go along with it being her walking away, but Dani's still religious in her own way.
Maybe she switched over from Catholic to Unitarian Universalist? I know a girl in GSA that is.
I like that. I still would like her to have her cross tattoo, which would work, yes?
Mmhm. She goes to church every Sunday she can, and while she would never ask her girlfriends to join if they don't want to, but she does say grace.
So angry Glee covered that tattoo up. I like this. Santana eventually picks up some religious tendencies from her girlfriends that she doesn't do already from her upbringing, and it's really not difficult as some people would think. Ooh, headcanon: on Easter evening, after church and brunch, Santana always dressed up as a sexy bunny. :D
ANOTHER ONE SHOT. Oh god. Santana's parents were religious, but when Santana started realizing she was gay, she left the church because she was terrified of everyone's (parents') reaction. Then when her parents did accept her, she just never went back. So it ends up with them going to temple with Rachel, and then together to church on Sunday.
But her parents did support her? Just her grandmother did not?
Mmhm. But she still was nervous about church. While mom and dad were okay, what about everyone else? She was terrified, and while at home she participated in prayer with her parents, she stopped going to service.
Oh! Okay. I read your text wrong. Yes. She's confident in her gayness, but she can't help still feeling awkward and out of place. She'll worship God in her own way, though likes to think most of what she does is because of herself and not a higher power. Of course, when Dani had her accident of falling after being pushed down the Subway stairs and was in a coma for a couple of days, she lit a candle at the hospital chapel and barely ever stopped praying (she even prayed to Jewish God and Buddha and Krishna and Apollo and everyone else she could think of, too).
D:
Don't worry. All she got from it was a broken arm, massive headache, and numerous bruises. She was lucky. Her replacement guitar helped cushion her fall, though she had to buy a new one. It was completely by accident, and luckily Rachel and Santana had been there to do first aid and keep people from walking on her.
And then they spoil their girl like crazy. She may be fine, but the others insist that they must shower with her everyone to prevent her cast from getting wet.
Rachel has a tendency to overwork herself, and when this happens, she always ends up tired and sick. When she was in high school she would push through it, no matter what, but now Dani and Santana refuse to let her do that. The second they notice, Rachel is forced into bed, under a pile of blankets, a stack of movie musicals, and cuddles from her girls.
There was a time when Santana freaked out and had a crisis of faith half a year into their relationship. Things were going too well, for the circumstances, and she was left waiting for the other shoe to drop. Because it had to, right? She kept her thoughts between herself and her therapist, but Daniberry knew something was up because Santana was edgy and snippy all the time.
Santana may think she is good at hiding her feelings, but honestly she wears her heart on her sleeve. Her girls know when she isn't feeling right.
They're also well acquainted with Santana's tendency to self destruct herself and her relationships, and though they want to let her work out whatever it is for herself, Daniberry still can't help but worry and stress over it, too, but don't quite confide in each other, and for a while there, it almost seems like they are all going to crash and burn. But it was the simplest thing that brought everything into the fore: Santana slipping and falling into the same fountain New Directions had danced along.
And while Daniberry panics for a minute, when Santana comes to the surface sputtering and blushing profusely, they all end up laughing and hugging and all getting wet in the process.
And when they're all piled into their bed, giant mugs of hot chocolate for Dani, tea for Rachel, and heated eggnog for Santana (she found a place that sold it all year around, booyah!), still laughing and shivering with Santana in the middle, Santana quietly starts admitting what she'd been feeling, seamlessly transitioning from bravado about how she even made slipping into a fountain badass.
We should address how their "coming out" goes. With Kurt, Quinn, Rachel's dads. Santana's parents, and possibly down the road, Dani's as well.
I see Kurt not being very accepting, if anything confrontational. Quinn is shocked, and not perfect about it, but overall accepts that her friends are happy.
It helps that Quinn had suspected things, while Kurt had been completely oblivious. After all, Rachel was straight, and you know he doesn't believe in bisexuals. *rolls her eyes* And maybe he'd been thinking Abs had been Rachel's stereotypical college experience girlfriend.
Quinn is definitely more observant. For some reason, I don't see Rachel's dads being very accepting to it.
I can see them thinking Santana "corrupted" her. Not into being gay, but in being delinquent and "leading their little girl on". After all, Santana's never been one of their favorite people for most of Rachel's high school career.
Mhm. Though I always got the feeling that Rachel didn't really tell her fathers about who was bullying, or even that she was being bullied.
If they had been as really invested in Rachel's life like they supposedly had been (seriously, they go to all of her shows, how come they weren't there for Night of Neglect? I have SO many issues about that damn "nobody showing up'. None of their parents? NO ONE? *growls*), then they'd be cognizant of their daughter's emotions and involved and can easily read between the lines because they know their daughter.
It's things like that that make me think that Rachel's parents aren't as involved as she makes them out to be.
My headcanon is that once she got old enough to become her own person, they started slowly giving her more space. Not neglectfully, but more like they trusted her, and if she ever really needed them, they'd be there.
Maybe. Though things that make me think Rachel didn't really talk about who her bullies were is that her dads were okay with her dating Finn, who was one of the perpetrators.
It would not surprise me if Rachel kept all of that to herself. She hits me as one of those people who brushes off everything that she can to keep herself focused on her goal, though it builds up with time. Honestly, I think she's deeply depressed but doesn't realize it because she thinks it's not worth addressing.
That makes more sense to me. So Dani and Santana would be seen as corruptors, distracting Rachel from her goals.
Yes. And Papas Berry haven't seen a trio work before, and it's just not something they're comfortable wrapping their heads around yet. I think they'd probably be stuck seeing Rachel as barely a young adult, still, even if they sent her off to live in New York and trusts that she'll keep herself on point. I think it shouldn't help that their first taste of Santana and Dani didn't go so great.
Surprise visit when they walk in on the girls? Or too cliché?
I think they had a surprise visit right in the middle of one of Dantanchel's super fights. All have strong personalities, and with the stress of Rachel's dads coming up to visit (to which they showed up a day earlier than expected without telling her), it just made everything more strained. So Rachel's teary and frustrated, Santana had gone off on a rant, and Dani had passive aggressively been blank and harshly unconcerned. Also, Rachel hadn't told her dads yet, so when they came upon the scene of Santana yelling at their daughter, Rachel yelling back, with Dani not helping by sliding in bitchy comments of her own, ending with Santana packing a bag and storming off to crash somewhere else, Rachel running into the bathroom, and Dani making no move to comfort her as she had to go to work… Yeah, not best impression. (Or is that too cliché?)
I think it depends on the kind of feel we want. Kind of funny and oh damn, we should go with dads walking in on two girls having their mouths attached to their baby girl's neck, or down the route of angst and make it a fight.
I think angst, because it's not like the dads even just walk in. They will have to knock, and I think it's more likely they'd be stressing, because Rachel's worrying about telling them. Besides, I don't think I've ever read it this way.
Alright, angst it is. And yeah, it's not the even a little common.
Besides, I can see Rachel getting upset that Santana's pausing to answer the door, that it's more important than talking this out. Petty, but realistic.
Definitely something Rachel would stress about. And then her fathers showing up would only make it worse.
Of course, it's their fault for showing up without telling her, but it's not like Rachel can tell them that. I think Dani should get off work after Papas Berry have gone to sleep, so she can do her best to apologize without feeling watched, and both know Santana's at Mikayla's. Kurt, thankfully, had opted to spend that weekend in Lima.
Only, it turns out that Mikayla can't keep Santana, so Santana ends up slinking back home at around three AM, when their restaurant closes.
Santana's also kicking herself because what a way to meet the parents. Even if they only think she's their daughter's roommate and Dani's girlfriend, it still doesn't bode well. That just makes her eventual slinkage back to the apartment take even longer. Honestly, she hadn't even stayed mad for that long. She's also worrying that she'll wake the dads up when she gets back into the apartment, and she really doesn't want that happening.
Don't think it won't stop her from calling out the Papas Berry if they to front on her, though.
When she steps into the apartment, it's pitch black, but at least Santana knows enough that the Papas Berry have been given Kurt's partition. Tiptoeing into the kitchen, she grabs a glass of water before trying Rachel's bed. It isn't until she's already pushed the sheet aside that she realizes both girls are up: Dani, wearing glasses, is playing a game on her phone, and Rachel's reading a book with help of her head-lamp.
(I can't stop laughing at the mental image of Rachel with a head lamp.) No one says a thing when Santana comes in. They know a proper discussion needs to be held, but it's late, Papas Berry are asleep, and they just want to sleep. So the other two pull the blankets aside and Santana quickly snuggles in with her girls. They'll hash it all out in the morning, but for now, bed.
Rachel inherited her love of early rising from her fathers. They wake up before the girls do, and in true dad fashion, let themselves into Rachel's room without asking. They then walk in to see the three of them are curled into each other, legs intertwined.
I don't know of any dad who never at least knocks. Where's the personal space I believe they've had given her her whole life? I don't want this to be so cliché! No, please no. I can see them hanging out in the kitchen and deciding to cook breakfast while they expect Rachel up soon or going out to explore their little girl's neighborhood.
Honestly, I want Rachel telling them, out of the blue, as they never expected it.
