Age definitely seems to be a big factor in how we all portray Nick. Is it the same with the other Boys, or do we mainly do this with Nick because he seems to have changed the most as a person over the course of the Boys' careers?
I said this yesterday with portraying Kevin as "the only sane man" among the others, but that seems more like 90's BSB than current BSB. I definitely think age affects Nick the most just because we've seen him at so many different ages and a sixteen year-old is vastly different than an early twenty-something who is vastly different from a early thirty-something (Or at least in my personal experience, I cannot speak on what it's like to be forty, but I'm happy to take another hiatus and let you all know when the time comes.
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). And by the time we really got a Kevin in the states, he was already mid-late twenties, so the difference probably seems so much smaller than if we'd been following them since 1993. I bet everyone watching them in Germany in 1995 would have a slightly different opinion about Kevin back then, haha. I'm sure a 90's era AJ would seem pretty different from a present day AJ too. And a 90's era Brian would likely lack some of the political undertones he gets now. If anything, Howie gets some secret sass and well-roundedness added as time goes on.
Realistically though, most of us tend to lean "Group featuring Nick," so we have the most varied character archetypes with major character development to draw from and speak on for Nick, regardless of what age he happens to be in the story. So maybe it's age compounded with that.
Howie is all of us. LOL
lmao The more time goes, the more I also think this is true. Maybe that's why I keep pushing for a Howie trend, I just want us all to feel represented in a BSB fanfic and still have it be about BSB, haha.