characterizing boyz: how I like to write the boyz

you could call this a primer... if primers were just heavily opinionated posts with barely any sources to speak of ✌️😎

instead, this is an excuse for me to consider how I've come to characterize tbz in fic, especially in light of how I think I've already changed parts of my characterization since I started writing them, and how that will probably continue to change as the years wear on. it's as if I'm taking a snapshot of how I write (or try to write) them in late 2023 not only to compare to how I've written them in the past, but to how I might write them in the future as well.



for that to work, though, a few important disclaimers:

➔ this is all conjecture. your usual rpf disclaimer that we don't actually know who these people are and my interpretation of their on-screen personalities doesn't mean I claim to know them personally or better than anyone. we're talking personas here! I'll talk about habits, and zodiac signs, and overall impressions but none of that necessarily holds water. no need to take it seriously, especially if you're not into the kind of rpf that draws conclusions from on-screen personas, which is how I do rpf.

➔ also important to note that this is my interpretation and the way I choose to write them. no one needs to agree, and it's perfectly healthy to have different fanon headcanons. I'm trying not to add "to me", "in my opinion", "personally" to every single sentence here but keep in mind that this is how I like my boyz - you can like your boyz in a totally different way, that's fine!

➔ a good chunk of this comes from reading/listening to what tbz themselves have said over time. if anything sounds familiar, it's probably because a member said it at some point in the last 6 years and I took it as a gospel. tbz has released so much self-reflecting content and they were/are so candid on vlive/welive, that of course most of the #lore comes straight from them.

cool? cool, let's dive in.

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