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Question of the day thread number 2!
mare:
--- Quote from: Pengi on July 11, 2012, 12:52:44 PM ---I have a question... Has anyone ever written a story - or thought about writing a story - where one of the Boys is actually the "bad guy"?
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YAY! And this can serve as our question of the day today! :)
The only time i've ever written a boy as a 'bad' guy was Howie in the 5 BSB's story and that was just to have a little fun with him being annoyed he never really had the leads. I don't think I would do this mainly because of the dicsussion we had before about out of character things. I have seen summaries where one of the boys is a rapist or murderer or something and I just am not interested to see them in those roles. Not to say there's anything wrong with someone's creativity taking them in that way, just doesn't interest me to want to read or write about it, unless they were framed or something.
Pengi:
lol Not quite THAT bad. I just mean we have a lot of 3-way Love Triangles on AC with original characters playing the exboyfriend that's jealous of a BSB (I'm thinking of Hunter-Olivia-Nick in the Coaster Series actually as I say this), but what about ones where the Backstreet Boy was actually the one people were rooting AGAINST? It's not really a "bad guy" role, but you know. Not the romantic hero role that everyone is used to seeing them in.
mare:
Oh, I definitely would never read or write one of those. I think I'd probably read one of the guys as a murderer before I read a love triangle story lol but I'm Wednesday Addams so...
RokofAges75:
You'd definitely have an easier time making a BSB a villain in a love triangle type story, although personally, I think the best love triangles are the ones where there isn't a clear "bad guy," but where alll the points on the triangle are sympathetic characters. Like in The Notebook... sure, I think everyone rooted for Allie to go back to Noah, but I didn't hate James Marsden's character; he seemed like a good guy. And in Pearl Harbor, who didn't like Josh Hartnett's character? Choosing between Josh Hartnett and Ben Affleck back in 2001 would have been a hard choice! LOL
Carter-Orange:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on July 11, 2012, 02:01:16 PM ---You'd definitely have an easier time making a BSB a villain in a love triangle type story, although personally, I think the best love triangles are the ones where there isn't a clear "bad guy," but where alll the points on the triangle are sympathetic characters. Like in The Notebook... sure, I think everyone rooted for Allie to go back to Noah, but I didn't hate James Marsden's character; he seemed like a good guy. And in Pearl Harbor, who didn't like Josh Hartnett's character? Choosing between Josh Hartnett and Ben Affleck back in 2001 would have been a hard choice! LOL
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Yes, that would've been a hard choice!
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