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PROOF other ships work beside Finchel and Quick

• "I see Puckleberry and Fuinn shippers all over the place. Hard core ones too. But I guess I just don't get it. We all know that Finn and Rachel are the core relationship and they love each other so much. And there is no way Puck is going to end up with anyone besides Quinn, cause she is the only one he openly admitted to loving, and she never cheated on him, while they were together. I like the relationship that Puck and Rachel have but it's clearly just friendship, cause Rachel already said that she didn't care about Puck. So I'm just asking how you guys can ship these couple so much, knowing that they won't even be together?"
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• Okay, well, I apologize in advance if this gets wordy or comes out sounding all angry and rage-y. I HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS OKAY.
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• First of all, I do NOT understand the Quick thing, at all. He got her pregnant, and the ENTIRE TIME the only thing you ever heard from Quinn was how desperately she wanted it to be FINN'S baby because she had less-than-zero respect for Puck at all. This was not helped by the fact that when she DID agree to give things with Puck a shot, he cheated on her the entire time. How on EARTH is this the basis of some everlasting love? Did I miss something? Yes, he said he loved her -- right after she had a baby. That is a very emotional time. If they were meant to be some epic, wonderful romance, then I would think that they would have had SOME KIND of interaction this season, but there has been close to none. Puck got Quinn pregnant, and they gave the baby up. The storyline was really good, but I just don't see it being more than that. I don't feel their chemistry, and the 'ship does nothing for me. If they're meant to be "endgame" -- whatever. It doesn't make me care about the 'ship more. "Endgame" means jack shit to me, to be frank.
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• Now. Finchel. Do I even have to? *grumbles* Finn and Rachel, to put it bluntly, bring out the ABSOLUTE WORST TRAITS in each other. When they're together, Finn becomes this douchey douchelord who apparently has no idea how to deal with women, and because he doesn't understand the needs of a girl like Rachel, he comes across as insensitive and, let's call it what it is here, an ass. Rachel, in turn, becomes this clingy, needy shadow of herself, because the guy who is claiming to "love" her is failing to stick up for her or be there for her at all. You can say what you want about Rachel, and I'm not going to argue that she is demanding and controlling ... but she's also lonely, and EVERYONE in glee club is constantly putting her down and making her feel like complete garbage, even though without her, they'd be fucked. And you'd think that someone who is TELLING HER, in private, that he loves her and believes in her and is there for her, would, oh, I don't know SHOW THAT WHEN THEY'RE IN FRONT OF EVERYONE. The number of times Finn has actually stood up for her is miniscule. The number of times he's either joined in on the ridicule (laughing at her when Santana made fun of her clothes, anyone?), or just flat-out neglected to say anything in her defense is a lot larger. And that's worrisome to me. As is the fact that he flat-out admits to not listening to her when she talks. Um? Again, "endgame" means nothing here, because I find the two of them together to be an absolute trainwreck, and I feel like it would be doing them both a disservice to put them together.
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• Now, let's move onto the positive side, shall we? Fuinn. Why do they work? Because in the beginning, it was THEM. And Quinn has ALWAYS been kind of "it" for Finn, and vice-versa. The pregnancy messed him up bad, but let's face it, with Quinn? Finn is the good guy everyone claims him to be. You don't see that when he's with Rachel, but with Quinn, it's like he's the guy he was always meant to be. I can see them, after high school, being perfectly content to live the small-town life. Babies and dogs and kids, and Finn maybe coaching football at the high school or something. They're SUITED for that life, it makes sense to me in a way that Finchel just DOESN'T. Finn wouldn't make it in New York, and I don't want to see Rachel giving up her dreams for him, which she WOULD do, and that's the saddest part of it all for me. With Finn, Quinn can let down her guard and just BE HERSELF. She doesn't have to pretend with Finn, because he knows her, and he accepts her, all of her, even and especially Lucy. Finn is the one who makes Quinn come to terms with who she really is and what it is she really loves. With Finn, she's softer, and she's kinder, and she's HAPPIER.
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• I've saved Puckleberry for last here, because I believe in saving the best for last. Here's the thing. Rachel is a strong, independently-minded girl. She's said it herself -- her dreams and ambitions are THE MOST IMPORTANT THING to her, bar none. She needs an EQUALLY strong, independent soul, someone who GETS that. Someone who isn't going to be easily threatened by her dreams and hopes and wishes for something bigger. Someone who wants to be something bigger, himself. Noah Puckerman is not, and will not ever be, another Lima Loser. Nor will he ever make Rachel feel like she's a freak for going after what she wants. Regardless of what you might believe, Noah actually RESPECTS Rachel, and he has from the get-go. "Sure, that Rachel chick makes me want to light myself on fire, but she can sing" -- that was in the beginning. And I'm pretty sure that at that point, he was the ONLY ONE OF THEM who had acknowledged that, yeah, she can be annoying, but without her, THEY'D BE FUCKED.
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• And from there, it just ... grew. He apologized to her, sincerely, and to this day I'm pretty sure that's the only time we've heard the like from Noah Puckerman. He quit football for her -- McKinley High Badass Number Wha gave up FOOTBALL to prove to her that he could be her leading man. She got him to sing. Before anyone else, Rachel Berry is the one who got Noah to sing. When the rest of the club gets on her case or makes fun of her, HE DOESN'T JOIN IN. Does he tell her she sucks now and again, you bet. But I've always seen that as more of a playful "God, you could be AWESOME if you'd just lighten up!" kinda thing, and not really a vindictive thing. Because actions speak louder than words, and Noah's actions toward Rachel are SCREAMING.
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• He paid enough attention to her to know that her favorite Slushie flavor was grape. He might've been being a jerk back in those days, but he was CLEARLY STILL PAYING ATTENTION TO HER, and not just because she was a ~loser~. The G-List? Who's the one who took it off Rachel's locker? NOAH. Why? Because he was being a man for her. When she got egged by Jesse and Vocal Adrenaline, he was THE FIRST ONE to leap to her defense.
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• He notices when she's looking sad about Finn, and he walks arm and arm with her through the hallway at school, and he doesn't care what people might say about them. He breaks things off with Rachel before they go too far, not because he doesn't care about her, but because he's trying to be a better person and he doesn't want to hurt Finn again. He's GROWING and CHANGING into someone awesome.
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• Everyone in Glee club only pretends to like her? Not true - he kinda likes her (and his body language in that scene -- watch it, it's more than just "kind of"), and that scene is absolutely STUNNING to me, because here he is, when there's NOTHING in it for him, sticking up for this girl when EVERYONE, even her BOYFRIEND doesn't say jack shit to negate Santana. THAT IS HUGE. She wants him to sing a duet with her and he looks like Christmastime has come early. During said duet, he can't keep his eyes off of her. The only time he looks anywhere else is when he's making angry faces at the jocks, and then he looks at her, and his face just ... you can SEE his expression soften when he looks at her, and he smiles this really soft little smile -- I've watched the scene a lot, and there is no denying the emotions there.
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• And in the most recent episode -- everyone might TRY to talk Rachel out of her ill-advised idea to get a nosejob, but Noah is the only one who actively DOES something about it. And I'm reminded of Schue telling her that someday, she was going to find a guy that would like everything about her, even the things she hates; that those would be the things he likes the MOST. In my opinion, she's found him. And I think that once she stops pining for Finn, she's going to realize that she's got a good guy who is turning into a good man, who cares about her and likes her JUST AS SHE IS. And THAT is why I 'ship Puckleberry, and that is why "endgame" means absolutely NOTHING to me, as far as this is concerned, because I know that if the were given a chance, Puckleberry has the potential to be the best relationship not only on Glee, but maybe even on TV, period.
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