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Sakabelle:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on May 15, 2017, 06:06:08 PM ---What is your favorite BSB era?
What is your favorite version of each Boy (according to era... for example, Ghetto-Fab Nick from the "Cocaine Solo Tour"/The Hollow/Punk'd era, ca. 2003)?
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My favourite BSB era is probably Never Gone. I was huge into them at that point, maybe more than I was when I was a teenager in the crazy days of BSB. I also got to see them in concert during that era, and I hadn't since 1998 when I was 11 and we were in the nosebleeds. For Never Gone we were in the 5th row, I'd gone through this phase of really enjoying live music and seeing a lot of indie shows, so getting to see BSB was amazing that year for me. I guess a close second would have to be the Backstreet's Back portion of their crazy days. That was when I first became a fan, my friends were all fans and we were just learning everything we could about them. That was really fun too.
My favourite era for each of the boys is tough. But I'd probably have to say it's right now for all of them, with the exception of Brian. For the other four, they all look so happy and like the best versions of themselves. Especially Nick... I was watching some old (1997/1998) footage of BSB a couple weeks ago and I was just cringing at Nick. I don't understand what my 13 year old self saw in him...? He really does sound and look a lot better now. For Brian... I still like him, that'll never change, but some of the things he's done/said recently have me going "...Really?" I feel like maybe it was better when I knew a bit less about him. Regardless, I'm going to go with Unbreakable Brian as my favourite era for him. Because he was more accessible but he wasn't as in your face about some of his opinions as he is now. Or at least, I wasn't aware of them.
RokofAges75:
I feel the same way about Nick and Brian. Nick never did it for me back in the 90s; I was all about Brian back then. I will always be a Brian girl, but he and I will just have to agree to disagree on some things LOL. Nick has grown on me, as have Kevin and Howie. I think those three just get better with age.
RokofAges75:
For the Nick girls, has the fact that Nick is now married with a kid changed anything about your writing?
I know for me, as a Brian girl, I started writing less about Brian after Baylee was born. Before that, it was easy enough to write off Leighanne - I could kill her or have them break up/divorce if I wanted to write Brian romance (which I wrote a lot of back in the day). But once they had a family, it was harder for me to do that, so I started writing more about Nick instead because he had less "baggage." I haven't started a new story since Nick became a member of the "married with kids" club, but I wonder how that will affect my future stories.
Sakabelle:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on May 28, 2017, 10:24:50 PM ---Nick has grown on me, as have Kevin and Howie. I think those three just get better with age.
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So much this.
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on May 28, 2017, 10:24:50 PM ---For the Nick girls, has the fact that Nick is now married with a kid changed anything about your writing?
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The current story I am working on takes place in 1997/1998, so there's no need to worry about kids and wives there (though Leighanne is in the story). That just happened to work out nicely since the setting of the story required BSB to be up and coming rather than in the crazy days or any present time period. The boys themselves had to be a bit younger too.
If I were to go and write another Nick romance story, I'd probably set it before Odin was born. I guess the nice thing about that is there's a lot of time to play with where Nick wasn't married or had a kid yet. The story could easily be set in 2013 before any of those things happened and BSB's situation was largely the same as it is now. I'm not really sure what I'd do if I wanted to write a story and work the Vegas residency or something current into it. I guess it would depend on where I was going with the plot - the last Nick romance I wrote was in 2012 and to get around Lauren I just had her leave him six months prior to the story starting. Which worked because Nick needed to be bitter and cranky when the story started out, lol.
RokofAges75:
I think that's a good solution - just set it in the past. I personally like that better than AU.
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