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RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on March 07, 2021, 01:17:19 AM ---Would you say that all of your Nicks are really different from each other or mostly those two in particular?
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Not necessarily. Curtain Call is the only time I can remember making a conscious effort to make him different from a previous characterizati on of him, mostly just because there were some obvious similarities between the two stories, but I didn't want them to feel too similar. I hope both characters still seem like the Nick Carter we all "know" and love, but different versions of him. Broken Nick was definitely emo, early-twenties "Do I Have to Cry for You?" Nick, whereas Curtain Call Nick is a more mature and subdued thirty-year-old Nick.
One of the neat things about writing real person fanfic is that you're writing about, well, real people who grow and change themselves over time. So the way I write Nick may be slightly different from story to story depending on the time period it takes place in and what kind of situation I put him into. But at the end of the day, he will always have certain character traits that I see in the real Nick and hopefully be recognizable as him.
This is a good question for anyone else to answer about whichever boy(s) you've written multiple stories about. Is your characterizati on pretty much the same across different stories, or do you make them different from each other?
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: FrickingKaos on March 07, 2021, 01:37:54 AM ---I loved Curtain Call so I was really happy to see some fun stuff about that story Julie :)
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Thanks, Tracy! :) I know it's been a long time, but do you remember preferring to read one POV over the other?
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: FrickingKaos on March 07, 2021, 01:39:53 AM ---I'm also laughing that Dee caught my tag line of writing fanfic by moonlight because that is definitely a sailor moon thing. I'm a massive fan of that anime. During my cosplay days I used to dress as Super Sailor Moon. I also had the schoolgirl uniform too and a princess Serenity costume.
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Oh, I caught it a long time ago, but it was not relevant to bring up! ;) I was Sailor Moon once for Halloween, but it was lazily put together with things I already owned. The blonde wig I bought was not great quality and it showed! I'm always impressed with the people who put such care and time into their costuming.
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on March 07, 2021, 10:43:53 AM ---Not necessarily. Curtain Call is the only time I can remember making a conscious effort to make him different from a previous characterizati on of him, mostly just because there were some obvious similarities between the two stories, but I didn't want them to feel too similar. I hope both characters still seem like the Nick Carter we all "know" and love, but different versions of him. Broken Nick was definitely emo, early-twenties "Do I Have to Cry for You?" Nick, whereas Curtain Call Nick is a more mature and subdued thirty-year-old Nick.
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That's true, you did spend so much time writing Broken/BMS that by the end of it, it wasn't "real time" and Nick was able to grow as a person during that time period and provide some new/different aspects of himself for the next story. It's good that Broken Nick was emo and not ghetto fab, haha.
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on March 07, 2021, 10:43:53 AM ---One of the neat things about writing real person fanfic is that you're writing about, well, real people who grow and change themselves over time. So the way I write Nick may be slightly different from story to story depending on the time period it takes place in and what kind of situation I put him into. But at the end of the day, he will always have certain character traits that I see in the real Nick and hopefully be recognizable as him.
This is a good question for anyone else to answer about whichever boy(s) you've written multiple stories about. Is your characterizati on pretty much the same across different stories, or do you make them different from each other?
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I think the situation makes a big difference on what characteristic s get played up. Obviously Nicks in stressful situations will do different things than Nicks in day-to-day whatevering.
I think my Nicks tend to stand out to me as being from their works, that what's going on around them determines what comes out more. I've talked about PBox Nick ad naseum, but he's got all that masked vulnerability, "get back upness," and pluckiness. Whereas Gobosei Nick would be defined by his "stoked as hell" and "roll with the punches" attitude. For a stark contrast, let's call Beta Sigma Beta Nick "lost" and "a bitter ahole," haha. Even though they're not all finished, I feel like characterizati on was fleshed out enough in these to list them. Please ignore any romances I started and never finished.
To be fair, though, I'm sure those latter two Nicks had some other things going on, they just didn't get a chance to be as solid in who they were; contrast PBox Nick who has 64 written chapters (let's estimate about 192,000 words at bare minimum) of character development to his name plus however many more chapters he ends up with as time goes on... I'm sure it will surpass the hundreds. I only say 64 (as opposed to 78) since he didn't appear in every chapter of PBox.
But they all still felt like Nick to me.
This might be the follow-up question to that. What has to be there for it to feel like each of the Boys. Like if something isn't there, do they just feel off? Whether that's a big thing or a little thing?
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on March 06, 2021, 09:21:48 PM ---He has a very cute laugh! Did you see the video he shared of him reacting to old videos of himself? https://youtu.be/6QawjXmEeRU So cute!!!
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While my husband is at the gym, haha. I didn't realize it was only from a couple of days ago. Not sure how I missed it.
Aw, so cute! I like the "No Goodbyes" version too, but he's right, it's just not quite the same. And him tearing up about his wedding, aww. That's my one regret about not hiring a videographer is not having our ceremony to watch my husband tear up.
I laughed so hard at the 8 Simple Rules portion (also his 1992 pants). I remember laughing so hard watching it back in the day. "Hey! I won a hat!" I'd argue that other than the exaggerated facial expression, the delivery of that felt genuinely spot on. "I am not an actor. At least I can sing?" lmao
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